First: Viktor Orban is out. After 16 years of dismantling Hungarian democracy, building the blueprint that the global far right copied, and making it genuinely dangerous to vote against him, the people of Hungary showed up in record numbers. The Titsa party pulled 53 percent. Orban got 38. More than 3.3 million Hungarians voted for Peter Magyar, the highest vote total in that country's history, with turnout approaching 80 percent. Orban conceded. This is what collective power actually looks like.

Second: Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet this weekend that JD Vance reports to him in detail every single day about the Iran negotiations. Not coordinates. Reports. Meanwhile we are six weeks into an unauthorized war, spending a billion dollars a day, and the military is circulating a propaganda story so absurd it lifted the plot of a 1989 Scott Bakula TV show to explain how they found a downed pilot. The USS Gerald Ford, a $13.1 billion aircraft carrier, had to retreat from the region. The military industrial complex is a fraud, and the receipts are piling up.

Third: The president attacked Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, on social media. Called him weak on crime. The Pope said he will not set foot in the United States while this president is in office. And then the president posted an AI image of himself as Jesus Christ, deleted it, and claimed he thought it was him as a doctor.

The courts are not saving us. The politicians are not saving us. Feet on the street and communities holding the line. That is what is working.

Stay lit.