Legal Insurrection went live on October 12, 2008. We’re over a month late in celebrating our 16th Anniversary.
You can view all our prior Legal Insurrection Anniversary posts.
Why so late this year? No good excuses.
October 12, 2024, was Yom Kippur, and the following week I traveled to NYC (always stressful for me) for the press event and rally opposing NY Prop. 1. But the reality is that I didn’t remember the anniversary date, for the first time ever.
How could I forget?
It’s a reflection of how many different directions I’m being pulled, in part because of our success at the Legal Insurrection Foundation and its CriticalRace.org and EqualProtect.org projects, in part because of the election season, and in part because my “job job” has been unusually busy.
We are severely understaffed for the amount of work we do, and everyone here is feeling it, not just me. This is a team effort, and the team is stretched to the max.
Maybe that will change someday. Maybe someday all that “right wing dark money” will finally find us and we’ll have layers and layers of people. For now, we remain a very horizontal organization where everyone is expected to carry their load – and many carry extra loads.
Perhaps it’s better that I missed the anniversary date, and am writing this after the election, after our nation gained a second chance. Had I written this before, I might have given another one of my filled with dread anniversary rants.
October 7, 2023, still is hanging over everything. We deliberately held off on the October 12, 2023, anniversary celebration because celebrating just didn’t seem right in the moment. But at least I remembered Legal Insurrection’s 15th Anniversary and we rolled out our 15th Anniversary video.
Looking back on our 16 years, I can say that the past four years, in particular, have been our finest hours.
We fought a difficult holding action against CRT, DEI, intersectionality, antisemitism and anti-Americanism, and many other governmental, campus, and societal pathologies hoping beyond hope that the cavalry would arrive. We were not alone, we were part of a movement, but I’m proud of the prominent leadership role we played.
The cavalry arrived on November 5.
There are no guarantees of victory, because the barbarians are inside the gates. Now it’s up to us to help drive them out. That’s our mission now.
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