Empowering Ourselves & Protest Well-Received Subjects At Indivisible Fort Bend

​Yesterday, 10/15, I was the speaker at the Indivisible Fort Bend meeting in Missouri City. I spoke about empowering ourselves and the No Kings protests this upcoming Saturday. Those two subjects are fully connected.

They had a good crowd and an additional audience on social media. Below is me speaking & the audience.
Fort Bend Indivisible is taking a lead role in organizing a No Kings event in Richmond. That event is noon to 2, Old Richmond Courthouse, 401 Jackson. Here are all 50501 Texas events. 

Here is a summation what I said yesterday:

1. These protests are organized by people just like us. They will get millions of people out on October 18 across Texas & the nation without big money, and with minimal connection to establishment politics and elected officials.

2. All communities are central to this fight. No place and no person is on the periphery. There are 93 No Kings protests planned across Texas. The time and money to put these events together is coming from us.

3. We are confronting an authoritarian, white supremacist opponent. It will not be inherently safe. A future under an authoritarian, white supremacist government that can’t be removed will also not be safe.

4. Rank & file leaders are meeting the challenge.

* In Katy, Marsha Kamish has/is organizing multiple successful protests.
* In Kingwood, Cindi Hendrickson organizes protests and well-attended forums for Harris County Democratic Judges.
* Egberto Willies is a great source of independent information with his Politics Done Right program.
* In Fort Bend County, Sarah Roberts is suing County Judge George for her wrongful/anti 1st Amendment removal from the Commissioner’s Court chamber.
* In Conroe, citizens rallied to successfully oppose an ordinance restricting protest.
* In Sunnyside, Travis McGee engages in relentless neighborhood empowerment that directly challenges local elected officials.

We can all provide this-type leadership.

5. The next action is when you organize it.

6. The First Amendment is your permit.

7. Act even if you don’t feel self-confident. Don’t wait for someone else.

8. The millions of people who show up Saturday will be the ones who show up when habeas corpus is suspended, ICE commits a massacre and 2026 elections are not free and fair.

​I'd be happy to speak at your club or organization. I'm speaking at the Greater Heights Democratic Club this Saturday, at the Downtown No Kings protest on Saturday and at the November Humble Area Democrats meeting.

I'm on the Egberto Willies Politics Done Right Show every Thursday from 6 AM to 7 AM for the Houston Democracy Project segment. You can hear the show on the radio, stream it on KPFT or watch later Egberto's YouTube channel.​​​​​