As you’ve likely seen, Maryland governor Wes Moore is in a fracas with Trump. Moore invited Trump to walk the streets of Baltimore with him, to see how real public safety work is done. Baltimore’s crime rate is at a 50-year low. Trump’s reaction was predictably hysterical, lie-filled, and over the top — and he threatens sending in the National Guard as well as withholding funding for repair of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Here’s the Washington Post on this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/24/trump-baltimore-troops-wes-moore/

So, in sources of hope, I include Wes Moore. Maybe a little competition among blue state governors for the 2028 Dem pres nomination will help galvanize the movement!?!