We're NOT Doomed: Feb 10, 2026

Find a UNIQUE way to fight back

Yesterday I made a post about how big an issue it is that people just believed that Lincoln Fox, representing Bad Bunny as a child, was Liam Ramos.

And the most repeated comment I got was “well, people needed hope so they just believed it.”

That’s not an excuse. And I bring this up cause it’s not the first piece of disinformation I’ve seen that that’s the reason people spread it.

There ARE things happening that can and should give you hope. That’s what my entire We’re NOT Doomed series is all about.

But when you take fiction and treat it as fact, cause it makes you feel good, that’s dangerous.

Real life is complicated. The things that give us hope are rarely things that couldn’t also make us spiral, but that’s what it means to live in this reality.

We can’t fight against fascism by making up successes that aren’t happening.

And that goes for something like the halftime show to random social media account posting about a win from 10 years go. It may have happened, but it doesn’t inform anything happening now.

There was this post that still stays with me of Holocaust survivor at a city council meeting, shouting at Tom Homan for his work as head of ICE. And it was inspiring and hopeful, but it happened in 2017.

We can’t make up things to make ourselves feel better. We can’t take stories from the past and pretend they’re current. We can’t misrepresent things happening to make them sound better.

Like yesterday, Oklahoma is a heavy lift, but we did have a solid overperformance in State House District 35, nowhere near big enough to win though. But we did win in a single precinct. A precinct that Trump carried by 60 points. But the way this post was worded, made it sound like we won the election. And that was by design.

When we start making up reasons to have hope, it makes the real reasons feels less important, less impactful, less hopeful.

So no, Bad Bunny did not give Liam Ramos his grammy, but he did give it to his younger self, a boy from Puerto Rico who never thought any of this would be possible. You too can do amazing things. That gives me hope.

A Holocaust survivor did not humiliate Tom Homan this year, but have you SEEN Minnesota? He’s being humiliated every single day. That gives me hope.

We did not flip OK HD 35, but we DID overperform by 14 points. And we were at 21 points, so 14 points doesn’t feel like a lot, but it still matters SO much. That gives me hope.

Our wins are not as flashy as the lies. They never will be. But they’re REAL and that matters.

Watch what you post, what you repost, what you like and what you share. Fantasy might make you feel better, but it’s not reality. It won’t actually change anything.

North Carolina

Thu, Jan 27 - Republicans will always do everything in their power to stop folks on the left from voting. In NC, that came in the form of removing three universities, one being North Carolina A&T State University, the largest HBCU in the country, as voting centers.

While Democrats have control of the executive branch, legislative Republicans took away their power over the state election board. This decision is a consequence of that.

But the student’s aren’t just accepting the outcome. Four students, as well as the College Democrats of North Carolina, have filed a lawsuit.

Now, they don’t expect the lawsuit to be successful, they’ve already hit their first snag. A Bush appointee, Judge William Osteen Jr., has already ruled against them, but there are many more steps they can take.

Besides it’s possible, if the story gets enough attention, that they can win a different way, like the SBOE gets so much pressure that they reverse their decision. It’s not unheard of, they did just that in this same situation in 2014.

And yeah, this story sucks, but, every single time we fight back reminds me that We’re NOT Doomed. They can only win when we give up, and we’re not giving up.

Utah

Thu, Feb 5 - BYU had a career fair where Boarder Patrol had a booth. There was a massive protest lining the sidewalk.

And an alum, his wife and a faculty member managed to protest within the event itself. They wore shirts saying “Immigrants make America great,” “I stand with immigrants,” and “The kingdom of God has no borders.”

And the alum told Salt Lake Tribune that the shirts started conversations with several students

It took 30 minutes for security to kick them out.

We don’t back down, and we don’t shut up. That’s how we keep from being Doomed.

They win when we stop from fighting back, and even in Utah at BYU, we’re fighting back.

St Louis Park, Minnesota

Mon Feb 9 - A yarn shop called Needle and Skein is embodying the concept of using your unique talents to fight back.

For them, it’s through red hats…no, not those, beanies.

They explain on the website for the pattern:

In the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal and punishable by law to wear, make, or distribute. As purveyors of traditional craft, we felt it appropriate to revisit this design.

On Feb 26, 1942, wearing these red hats as a form of protest was banned. So, Feb 26, 2026 will be red hat day.

If you use Needle and Skein’s pattern, as many already have, the proceeds will split between Immigrant Rapid Response Fund and STEP St Louis Park Emergency Assistance. They’ve already donated $125k.

THIS is resistance. THIS is why We’re NOT Doomed and this is why you never have an excuse not to do SOMETHING. Every single one of us has a unique talent we can use to helps save the world

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So I hope this gave you some good ideas for how YOU can fight back.

Remember, our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!