1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

Donald Trump has demonstrated, in his own words and actions, that he holds this country and its people in contempt. He lied to the American public more than 30,000 times in his first term alone, according to The Washington Post Fact Checker. He called for "the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution" in a December 2022 Truth Social post. That is not the language of a patriot. That is the language of someone who despises what America stands for. The record is not ambiguous. He called the free press "the enemy of the American people." He publicly demanded that people be removed from the country with "no Judges or Court Cases." He attempted to overturn a free and fair election. These are not policy disagreements — they are attacks on the foundations of democratic governance that every elected official swore an oath to defend. Your constituents are watching how you respond to this moment. Standing silent while these attacks on the Constitution continue is not neutrality — it is complicity. Speak out. Use your platform and your vote to defend the institutions Trump has spent years trying to destroy.