Thousands of you stood up, marched out, and said, “Hands off!”

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The Cary Harrison Files:

Coming up—across America, the silent are getting noisy. From dusty diners to city streets, people are waking up, smelling what they feel is injustice, and deciding they’re not gonna take it lying down. Turns out, when you poke enough sleeping giants, they don’t hit snooze—they hit back.

Well now—across this battered republic, something curious is happening. Americans—you, me, the neighbors who still think fluoride is mind control—are waking up. Not from the American Dream, mind you, but from the hangover it's left behind. And instead of reaching for aspirin, they're grabbing protest signs.

In Lowndes County, Alabama, where raw sewage runs freer than campaign donations, a civil rights settlement meant to stop decades of neglect got flushed by the Trump administration—because, apparently, fixing sewage is now a woke plot. You’d think the EPA stood for “Eradicate People Altogether.”

But here's the kicker—people didn’t just grumble and go back to their Netflix queue. No, they hit the streets. From Manhattan to Mobile, over 700 protests just this past week. Something called the 50501 movement—it sounds like a zip code but moves like a freight train. Thousands of you stood up, marched out, and said, “Hands off!” to whoever's currently pawing at what's left of democracy.

Meanwhile, David Hogg, the Parkland survivor turned political firebrand, is taking on the old guard—his own Democratic party's old guard. He’s rolling out a $20 million campaign to back progressive challengers in safe Democratic districts—basically saying, "Thanks for your service, now make way for someone under 70."

But not everyone's clapping. DNC Vice Chair Ken Martin isn’t amused. He’s pushing a rule to keep party brass neutral during primaries. Translation: either Hogg shuts down his crusade, or he walks away from being vice chair of the DNC. No double-dipping in revolution and regulation.

What do you think—reform or rebellion? It’s your democracy and this show is your stage. I want to hear your thoughts, so pick up your Harrison Hotlines at 818-985-5735, 818-985-KPFK.

Here's an email, just-in from listner Luis Salazar that says:

I think we do need a reset and have for a while. It could have been executed better on Hoggs behalf, and he should’ve known the old guard would try to shut him down. Congress looks like a nursing home and has for a while. We need young people to step up, and we need for some of these old farts that are just rusted in like Supreme Court justices waiting for Jesus to take them home to move on to retirement. They should have been mentoring a replacement and put them in place years ago, that’s usually how it works, but greed is a powerful thing and they just stay growing their stock portfolios they put in relatives names, amassing wealth. After the first year of being in congress the AOC the Maxwell Frost write their first book and get their first million, start charging huge fees for appearances, that’s when you know they learned how to play the game and no longer have constituents needs as a priority. Now they play a game to see how long they can keep it going and stay there to compete to be the star of the show. I get Hoggs frustration, who would not be when the senate sits on a stacks of bills that could fundamentally change peoples lives instantly like gun control, social security, equality act, and child care. The art of compromise and working to make the lives of average people somewhat bearable is stagnant. Now the geriatrics that run the show see the wolves coming so they have retreated into there dooms day bomb shelters that they have been preparing for years to ride out the fallout in, while the people go at each others throats for scraps lik