Our children are watching. The next generation is depending on us. We cannot, we will not, let them down.

Whether you’re a parent, a grandparent, an aunt, an uncle, or anyone who loves a child, we have a responsibility to call this out. The health of the American people is not something to gamble with. It is time to rid HHS of the rot at the top before more damage is done.

The rot has spread too far. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must resign, not just for the sake of policy, but for the sake of every child who deserves leaders guided by truth rather than trapped by conspiracy.

I’ve tucked my children into bed every night since they were born. I’ve kissed scraped knees, checked for monsters under beds, and promised them they were safe. How can I keep that promise when the very institutions meant to protect them have been hijacked by dangerous delusions?.

This isn’t about politics. This isn’t about party lines or campaign promises. This is about the sacred covenant we make as parents and grandparents, to protect the defenseless, to shield the innocent, to ensure that our children inherit a world safer than the one we found.

Bernie Sanders spoke truth when he warned that this trajectory will scar America for generations. But let me be even more direct: every day RFK Jr. remains in that office, more families move closer to an unthinkable tragedy that could have been prevented with a simple shot.

The ghosts of diseases we conquered are stirring. Polio could once again twist young spines. Measles once again, claims young lives. All because one man has chosen to gamble with the most precious thing we have, our children’s futures.

Internet myths whispered in dark corners, conspiracy theories elevated to gospel, and the sacred trust between families and medicine shattered on the altar of ideology.

Entire generations have grown up free from these ancient terrors because we trusted science over superstition. But under Secretary Kennedy’s reckless leadership, that armor is being stripped away, piece by piece. In its place?.

For decades, vaccines have been our children’s invisible armor, shields forged by brilliant minds and tested by rigorous science. They’ve stood sentinel against polio’s cruel paralysis, measles’ deadly fever, and the gasping terror of whooping cough.

Imagine watching helplessly as measles, a disease your own parents thought they’d banished forever, steals the light from those innocent eyes. This isn’t fear-mongering. This is the terrifying reality we’re careening toward.

Picture this: your grandchild’s first steps across your living room floor. Their first day of kindergarten, backpack bouncing, eyes bright with possibility. Now imagine that same child gasping for breath because whooping cough has returned to ravage tiny lungs.

I cannot stay silent while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. transforms the Department of Health and Human Services into a dangerous playground for conspiracy theories that treat our babies, our toddlers, our grandchildren like test subjects in some twisted experiment.

In this moment of pure childhood joy, surrounded by the laughter of innocence, I cannot stay silent about the threat looming over every family gathering like ours.

This Labor Day weekend, I write to you not from the halls of the state capitol, but from the Carolina coast, watching my two young children, Jack and Charlotte, building sandcastles and chasing waves with two new friends they made just this weekend.

Bench press numbers are somehow the measure of governing ability? . Most women already figured this out, but for everyone else: when a man obsesses over numbers like this, he’s usually overcompensating. America needs leaders, not gym bros.

I guess he meant to say, thank you President @BillClinton…

Today it’s Texas Democrats. Tomorrow it’s YOUR voice. YOUR children’s future. This is our test. Will we defend democracy or take the easy path?.

What kind of America are we leaving them? . One where we debate our differences? . Or one where we ARREST representatives who won’t submit to state surveillance?. In America, we don’t silence voters by caging the people they elected.

Our children are WATCHING. They’ll ask us someday: When they came for elected officials, did you have the courage to speak up? Or did you shrug and scroll past?.