This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout.

Happy New Year, and welcome back to another year of The Fallout! Let’s get into it.

Even though the administration hasn’t officially changed hands, we are without a doubt already in the second Donald Trump era. And as much as it pains me to write those words, I don’t intend to spend the next four years focused on each indignity, humiliation, and act of violence the administration inflicts on this country and abroad. What’s on my mind as we stare down the fascism that’s already here is one deceptively simple phrase that got us through the first Trump administration: We save ourselves.

Community is the antidote to fascism. Ask anyone staffing abortion fund hotlines, getting reproductive health care—including abortion—to folks in banned states, and supporting and defending patients and providers long before Roe v. Wade fell. As is so often the case, authoritarianism soft launches via attacks on bodily autonomy, and this current wave is no different. Fascism rules by division, and the incoming Trump administration and Republican leadership will try and do the same.

The response must be to deepen our roots into community in all its forms. For me, that includes the Rewire News Group community. Mainstream media has already shown it is not fit to handle the moment at hand. The same is true for much of the Democratic leadership.

But we are.

I don’t know exactly what the next four years will bring, but I can promise you our coverage will not shy away from calling it as it is. And just like we did through the first Trump administration, and with the overturning of Roe and its aftermath, we will continue to make joyful defiance a key part of how we approach our work during the messy days ahead.