It’s time to celebrate 100 days. Not 100 days of Donald Trump—there’s nothing about that worthy of celebrating, not even for Trump supporters.
No, it’s time to celebrate 100 days of accomplishment and rebirth. Of growing energy, building hope, fighting back, rising up. One hundred days of marching. One hundred days of protesting. One hundred days of organizing. One hundred days of looking to the future. One hundred days of learning from the past. One hundred days of keeping hope alive. One hundred days of never giving up.
One hundred days of resistance to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump lost the popular vote. His electoral victory came with fewer people than can be seated in many stadiums. And yet the whole idea of Trump, the idea that someone could run for president on the basis of overt racism and sexism. That someone could make an appeal to the nation based on the most extreme form of xenophobia. That someone would seek the nation’s top office in a muddle of ugly threats and blatant ignorance. That someone like that might win … it might have been expected to rip the heart from the whole progressive movement. To send the American left down in despair. Surely the white nationalist forces that supported Donald Trump must have looked forward to that.
It didn’t happen that way. What happened was the Women’s March. What happened was airport protests over Donald Trump’s ban on travel from Muslim countries. What happened was an energy that ran from the National Mall to the sixth district of Georgia—a rising wind that’s still rising.
Here is why the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s regime are legitimately worth a celebration.
Jan. 20:
Jan. 21: Women’s March turns into largest protest in history of the nation
Jan. 28—Airport protests over Trump’s first Muslim ban
Jan. 30: Sally Yates orders Justice Department not to defend Trump’s Muslim ban.
Jan. 31: Protests over Trump selection of Gorsuch for Supreme Court
Jan. 31: Statehouse rallies to protest Trump’s immigration policies
Feb. 2: 314 Action formed to promote science and scientists in politics
Feb. 4: Judge issues national injunction against first Trump Muslim ban
Feb. 7: Elizabeth Warren “persists”
Feb. 7: Mike Pence forced to break tie on nomination of Betsy DeVos, first time in history this has been required
Feb. 7: Jason Kander launches “Let America Vote.”
Feb. 9: Protest against Andy Pudzer’s nomination as secretary of labor
Feb. 10: Rally for reproductive rights
Feb. 13: Michael Flynn resigns as national security advisor.
Feb. 15: Andy Puzder withdraws as nominee for labor secretary.
Feb. 15: Immigrants stay home for “Day without Immigrants” protest.
Feb. 17: EPA employees put their jobs on the line to protest Scott Pruitt.
Feb. 22: Voters send millions of faxes to congressional offices in support of Affordable Care Act.
Feb. 25: Protests to support transgender rights
Feb. 25: Protests across the nation to support the Affordable Care Act
Feb. 25: Protest to support a free press (yes, all three protests on the same day)
Feb. 27: Democrat wins special state senate election in Delaware.
Feb. 28: Democrats win two of three special elections in Connecticut.
March 2: Jefferson Sessions III recuses himself from investigation of Trump–Russia connections.
March 2: March in protest of Jefferson Sessions as attorney general
March 15: Second Muslim ban blocked in court.
March 21: David Trott just one of many Republican congressmen running in fear from his own “town hall” event
April 5: Steve Bannon removed from the National Security Council.
April 6: Democrats filibuster the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, while Republicans go “nuclear”
April 6: Devin Nunes recuses himself from House investigation into Trump–Russia connections.
April 11: Kansas special election shows Democrats closing in one of the reddest districts in the nation.
April 12: Another GOP congressman retreats from his town hall.
April 13: Vulnerable GOP congressman gets slammed at town hall
April 13: Children and Youth “Stand up to Trump” rally at White House
April 17: Tax day protesters call for Donald Trump to release his tax returns.
April 18: Democratic candidate forces runoff and comes within two points of winning outright in Georgia special election
April 18: Another Republican congressmen gets schooled at a town hall event.
April 18: Protesters calling for removal of Bill O’Reilly
April 19: O’Reilly officially gets the boot
Let’s hope the next 100 days are even better. What events would you add to this list?