250 Years Later: The Shot Heard ’Round the World Still Echoes Today— As Trump Seems To Try to Crown Himself King

250 years ago today — April 19, 1775 — the Battle of Lexington marked the start of the American Revolution. The shot heard ’round the world was fired by everyday people who refused to be ruled by a king.

And now?

Trump is trying to be one.

Disregarding court rulings. Deporting people without due process. Cutting education funding and attacking academic freedom. Shuttering key government agencies and departments. The list goes on and on. Every day Trump is bringing us closer to authoritarianism.

This isn’t what they fought for.

Time to channel some of that 1775 energy, right?

This is projected at the North End Church in Boston. It’s a reference to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, Paul Revere’s Ride.

Boston tonight

Here’s an excerpt from the poem:

Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is now alive

Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, “If the British march

By land or sea from the town to-night,

Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch

Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,—

One if by land, and two if by sea;

And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm

Through every Middlesex village and farm,

For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”

#NoKings 🔥