{"id":3170,"date":"2026-01-21T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:00:21","slug":"one-year-of-darkness-cruelty-and-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3170","title":{"rendered":"One Year of Darkness, Cruelty \u2014 and Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today marks one year since Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public Citizen co-presidents Robert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert<\/strong> issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn just one year, Donald Trump and his administration passed legislation slashing health care for millions, unleashed violent white nationalism against immigrants, cozied up to predatory corporations and billionaires, engaged in reckless foreign policy that sacrifices stability and safety for military bravado, dismantled key government agencies protecting consumers, and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t sugarcoat it: It\u2019s been a devastating and overwhelming year. But those of us standing up against the lawlessness and corruption of this administration cannot give up. All we need to do is look at what we have accomplished in the past year to know that our hard work is paying off \u2014 and that, if we keep up the fight, we can win this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking closely with allied organizations, we mobilized over 7 million Americans to participate in the October No Kings Day \u2014 the largest single day of protest in American history \u2014 and millions more on other major days of action. We kept tabs on the corporations and billionaires enabling and lobbying for many of the administration\u2019s worst abuses. And, in just one year, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/article\/trump-administration-2-0-lawsuit-tracker\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/article\/trump-administration-2-0-lawsuit-tracker\/\">sued the administration<\/a> 30 times, achieving significant results including keeping the national hunger hotline open and restoring critical health and climate research to government websites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext year will be just as challenging \u2014 if not more so \u2014 than this first year of Trump 2.0. But we are more prepared, more united, and more fired up than ever to fight back against authoritarianism and save our democracy. We will never back down.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks one year since Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. Public Citizen co-presidents Robert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert issued the following statement: \u201cIn just one year, Donald Trump and his administration passed legislation slashing health care for millions, unleashed violent white nationalism against immigrants, cozied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}