Porch Talk Grit #12: The 19th Amendment, Wear Orange, and No Kings Protest
Seen and Unshaken The Power of Showing Up for the No Kings Protest and to Wear Orange Porch Talk Grit – Liberty Lane & Ezra Stone | June 5, 2025 “Freedom means nothing if we only fight for it when it’s fashionable.” — Liberty“Constitutional courage requires presence, not platitudes.” — Ezra 🧡 Liberty: This Friday […]
Gun Violence Awareness Week: When the Oath Breaks, The Silence Before the Storm
When the Oath Breaks: The Silence Before the Storm Understanding Gun Violence Awareness Week and the Second Amendment by Colonel Ezra Stone (Ret.) “The Constitution is not a suicide pact. But ignoring it? That might be.” There are moments in the life of a nation when silence doesn’t mean peace. It means decay.That’s where we […]
Malcom X Day and Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail
The Letter from a Birmingham Jail, The Fire, and The Lie We Still Tell on Malcom X Day By Walden Wright & Joe Bob JusticeMay 19, 2025 Part I: The Letter That Could Still Get You Locked Up by Walden Wright On April 16, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. penned one of the most […]
College Perspective. This Is Not Just a Protest. It’s a Pattern Break.
Protest, Protest, Protest. The 50501 Movement. By Daisy Justice – the College Perspective | Texas State Student, Justice-in-Progress Let’s get one thing straight up front: I don’t show up to protests for the aesthetic. I don’t scream in the street for TikTok likes. And I damn sure don’t wave signs because I think it changes […]
Walden’s Weekly Recap #2: When Silence Becomes Complicity – Protests, Power, and the Courts
The Real Cost of Quiet: Protests, Judges, and the Fight for Our Future in Federal Courts This week the system said the quiet part out loud. This week, I found myself staring at three headlines and a TikTok clip of the Secretary of Education mistaking “AI” for “A1 steak sauce.” I wish I could say […]