Dear Editor,
Democracy does not vanish overnight. It erodes—memo by memo, purge by purge, contradiction by contradiction.
Attorney General Pam Bondi pledged to depoliticize the Department of Justice. Yet within days of her confirmation, she reversed longstanding DOJ policies, created a “Weaponization Working Group” to investigate Trump’s prosecutors, and aligned the department with the president’s personal agenda. These actions are not reforms, they are retributions.
Bondi’s DOJ has fired career officials, dropped corruption cases against political allies, and dismantled Watergate-era guardrails meant to protect impartial justice. When prosecutors resign rather than comply with political directives, we should all be alarmed.
And as I reflect on Luke 6:35— “love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back”—I am reminded that peaceful resistance is not passive. It is active love. It is choosing integrity over indignation, dialogue over destruction. When we hold our leaders accountable with truth and grace, we model the democracy we seek to preserve.
This is not about left or right. It is about whether the truth still matters. Whether institutions like PBS, the DOJ, and the FBI serve the public—or serve power.
Arizona knows the value of resilience. We know what it means to stand firm when the ground shifts. Let us not wait until the foundations crack. Let us speak now—for transparency, for accountability, for democracy. Your Voice is Your Power! Please use it!
Susan Stone
