Saturday morning started quietly as organizers and rally goers set up tables, chairs and tents inside Burnett Park for the “March of Dissent” and “No Kings” rally.
The “March of Dissent,” which kicked off the day’s events, was organized by Sabrina Ball from Indivisible 12. Ball said that the country is undergoing an authoritarian shift.
“Texas is supporting it. The Texas MAGA GOP and the Texas Legislature is supporting that, and they’re focused,” Ball said. “They’re taking over our higher public education institutions, causing a brain drain, and delegitimizing those institutions. It’s going to hurt Texas. Christian nationalism in schools, they’re force-feeding the Ten Commandments down our kids’ throats while simultaneously pulling back food assistance to those kids.”…