A candidate for City Council recently left a handwritten note at my door saying that they are talking with voters “about how we can stand up to the Trump administration and support the folks coming under federal attack.”

Here is my response.

Many Cambridge residents want to find ways to stand up to the Trump administration, and elected officials obviously have more powers and resources than others to do this. No question: this is an important issue.

If you are elected to the Council, I urge you to bear in mind that you will be a steward of local democracy and that the national authoritarian emergency does not excuse trends that emerged in Cambridge during Trump’s first term as president and continued during the pandemic and Biden’s presidency.

Our local politics are now dominated by hy

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