With chants of “Flip the House,” “We won’t back down,” “F-ck Ice,” and “We are One” from the hundreds of people that attended the Move On.org sponsored Won’t Back Down-F****Around and Flip the House Event at The Van Buren on August 3, 2025, Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari, Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett, and Connecticut Senator Christopher Murphy, spoke and rallied the Democratic Party faithful who yearned to hear solutions and a fighting spirit from speakers that Medias Touch moderator Adam Mockler called leaders of the “Next Era of the Democratic Party.”
For Representative Ansari, this was the last of a four city Arizona state wide Accountability Tour which started in Scottsdale on July 26, continued into Flagstaff on July 29, converged on Tucson on August 2, and ended in Phoenix yesterday.
Representative Ansari Speaks to the Crowd First
With the Arizona primaries a year away, Representative Ansari declared that “Phoenix is Ground Zero for the fight for our future,” stressing to the attendees that it was vital to rise up to defend the American Ideal, stating that the current Trump-MAGA-Project 2025 “gangster regime” was “like a dystopian episode of Black Mirror” and “Democracy can be lost if you don’t defend it. And don’t be naive. It can happen here.”
Calling out the corruption and cruelty of the Trump regime that is “kidnapping people off of the streets…consolidating power for just a few people” while being aided and “fueled by immense amounts of money and disinformation” and “cowardly Republicans who will literally do whatever” Trump wants, including “every single Arizona Republican (who) betrayed their constituents by voting for Trump’s disgusting, horrendous bill…the most unprecedented transfer of wealth from the working class and the poor to billionaires in this country’s history,” Ansari challenged the people to “seize” the moment and prove that Arizonans were “not complacent,” reminding them that “one decision” like turning out to vote in an off year election or “mobilizing people to get involved…”can change everything” and “have (positive) ripple effects outward” in the fight to push back against the MAGA-Project 2025-Authoritarian Movement.
Representative Crockett Wows the Crowd
Appearing after Ansari, Texas House Representative (and potential 2028 Presidential/Vice Presidential Candidate) Jasmine Crockett wowed the crowd with the prose delivery she learned from both her pastor father and years of experience as a lawyer and legislator.
Saying “Too many people think they are kings and queens and do not understand that we serve you,” Crockett drew cheers when she pointed out that the people “Deserve to be heard.”
Getting laughs from the crowd when she told them that Donald Trump “gets annoyed” with her, Crocket equated the Felon in Chief and his MAGA Republican faithful as the walking definition of “the domestic enemies” public servants are sworn to protect the American People from.
Echoing Ansari a little, Crockett said it was vital to speak with everyone to quell the MAGA-Project 2025-Fascist-Authoritarian Movement including disillusioned Republicans, Independents, and Democrats “who have lost hope and faith” and bring everyone together “as one” and vote for “real people that care and love this country. Real people that you have never met, and they will never meet you, but they will fight for you.”
Senator Murphy Gets Laughs and Exposes Trump as the Liar in Chief.
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy came after Representative Crocket and immediately brought laughter from the audience saying he would talk to his scheduler about putting him after the charismatic Crockett.
More laughter followed when he said “I want two things for my birthday: more house seats and the Epstein files.”
Murphy then addressed many of the times Donald Trump has lied to and deceived the American People with the crowd responding “NO” each time the Senator asked “Did he tell the truth?”
He also blasted Trump and his MAGA apostates for their attempts to silence the opposition whether it be the universities, law firms, journalists, and political opponents, saying “We are not going to be quiet.”
Telling the audience that “We need to keep our eye on the ball” and avoid Trump’s famed distractions, Murphy reminded the people that when prescription prices goes up, it is not because of illegal immigrants. When a person gets denied for health insurance, it is not because of a transgender athlete. When a person can not get a small business loan, it is not because of a Palestinian. All the pain people are feeling are because of Trump-MAGA policies and the billionaire oligarch donors that he rewards with his reverse Robin Hood policies that take from the poor and middle class and give to the rich, saying “The truth about the real threats this country: the real threat isn’t Immigrants. It is not transgender kids. It is not teachers. It’s not union members. It’s not Imans. It’s billionaires, corporations, and their Enabler in Chief Donald J, Trump.“
Commenting that the United States is the first multi cultural, multi ethnic, and multi religious Democracy in History, Murphy called on Democrats to do better at expanding the tent, stating:
“We have to be in a conversation with people to give them a place in the Democratic party to give them a place In a group of people in a movement that is going to support sharing prosperity and a stronger cleaner Democracy. But listen. You also know you also know that we can’t just be against Donald Trump, Right? We gotta give people a vision of something different. And if you want to ask me what the Democratic party should stand for and should stand for two things: Unrigging our government and unrigging our economy? If you work hard in this country. If you play by the rules, you should be able to make a living wage… Healthcare should not be just a privilege…health should be a human right.”
Questions Center Around Immigration, Achieving the American Dream, a Forward Vision, and Protecting Democracy.
During the question and answer portion of the event from the moderator and the audience, Immigration came up first.
Representative Ansari addressed that right away, telling the audience that the situation “may get worse before it gets better” largely because Trump has granted billions of dollars to his private prison donors to build new detention centers-concentration camps and access to see what the conditions are like in these facilities like the one in Eloy are being blocked.
Representative Crockett quipped that MAGA’S ICE Agents now “loved masks” when during the Coronavirus, they hated them. She also blasted Trump for offering $40,000 bonuses for ICE Agents to meet detention quotas and Republicans for their historic obstruction of border security and bipartisan immigration proposals in the past because they wanted the broken immigration issue (with years to decide on asylum claims) to run on.
Crockett closed with saying that the only potentially good thing about Trump and MAGA tearing everything down is when Democrats take back control, “We get to build it all up.“
On achieving the American Dream, embracing a forward vision for the country and the people, and protecting Democracy, Ansari praised former Vice President Kamala Harris for proposing an affordability housing assistance agenda that did not get the attention it deserved in the 2024 campaign.
The Arizona Representative advanced the parameters of a Democratic Affordability Agenda that included housing assistance, reduced energy utility costs, and affordable childcare.
On protecting Democracy, Ansari called on Arizonans to help with massive voter registration drives because Democrats were currently “bleeding Democratic registration” and a course correction is needed. She also said that knocking on doors and reaching out was essential because “We have to make sure we turn out in the same way (in 2026) as if it is a Presidential year.”
Murphy and Crockett called on reigning in the “nuclear grade corruption” from Trump, Republicans, Corporate Interests, and the Supreme Court, advancing political and campaign finance reforms including:
- Putting ethical guardrails in place on the Supreme Court.
- A Campaign Finance Reform Amendment.
- No stock trading for elected officials.
- Closing the revolving door between Congress and the Lobbying industry.
- Ensuring there are no barriers to voting.
In this session, Crocket remarked about the American People after Republicans destroy the economy that “Everytime there is a cleanup on aisle nine, they always get a Democrats to clean it and get amnesia.” Saying “People power is a real thing,” to stop Republicans from trying to gerrymander their way to power, she also said that education was key for both upward mobility and keeping people informed because “Don’t take it for granted that the people around you are as informed as you are” so they could organize in battleground districts (even when they do not live there) and make the right call on who to vote for on Election Day.
Murphy closed by saying “This Democracy is broke. This Democacy is hurting. This Democracy is worth saving.”
Indeed it is.
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