The greatest threat to our planet is not a foreign army or a crashing market or even the rising water lapping at the edges of our coastal cities. It is quieter than those things, and more insidious.

It's not even President Donald Trump and his dangerous acolytes, Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth.

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will fix it. Someone in Washington. Someone with a better title and a larger staff. Someone younger, smarter, or more connected. Someone who will show up, eventually, and do the work that you are too busy or too tired or too discouraged to do yourself.

That belief has done more damage than any single policy or politician. Because it is a lie, and we have been telling ourselves it for a very long time, but there are no heroes on the way like Superman or other fictional Justice League characters.

The United States is a great country. That is not nostalgia. That is fact.

American science, American engineering, American industrial innovation have shaped the modern world in ways that are easy to forget because we are swimming in the results. Thomas Edison did not just invent the light bulb. He invented the entire electric utility system that powers your home, your hospital, your factory, your phone. We split the atom. We put a man on the moon. We built the interstate highway system, the internet, and the vaccine that ended polio. Life got better for the whole world because of American leadership. That is not boasting. That is the historical record.

But here is the truth that does not make it into the speeches: America is not working very well right now for many of us who work for a living.

The cost of energy is too high. The cost of housing is out of reach. The cost of food eats up more of the paycheck every month. And decent jobs with real prospects—jobs that let you raise a family, buy a home, send a kid to college without a lifetime of debt—those jobs are harder to find than they used to be. You know this. You do not need a poll to tell you. You live it.

Our political establishment has lost its way. It has become a thing that manages decline rather than a thing that builds the future. It argues about the edges while the center crumbles. It asks you to choose between two flavors of the same disappointment. And too many of us have responded by tuning out, turning off, and letting someone else worry about it.

That is the opening. That is the gap. And into that gap has walked a man who understands one thing better than almost anyone: how to exploit the exhaustion of good people. Donald Trump did not create the brokenness. He inherited it. But he has spent years pouring salt into the wounds, dividing Americans against each other, and convincing you that the only choice is between a corrupt system and a strongman who will burn it down. He is wrong. But he wins every time you stay home. He wins every time you tell yourself that politics is dirty and your vote does not matter and someone else will figure it out.

Someone else will not figure it out. That is the point. That is the call. This land is your land, so it is up to you to clean it up.

Democrats for Change is a campaign that rejects the false belief that someone else will stop Trump, fix our economy, or save the world. Democrats for Change believes we must do it.

We can build the modern infrastructure our country needs—roads and bridges, broadband, and a power grid that does not collapse in the first heat wave. We can restore the American spirit that never leaves anyone behind, the spirit that built the land-grant colleges and the G.I. Bill and the national parks. We can create a government that is both responsible and efficient, not because government is the answer to everything, but because a country this big cannot run on vibes and prayers.

We are proposing practical ideas. Not fantasies. Not manifestos. Ideas that have worked before and can work again.

We are recruiting candidates who are worthy of your support—people who have done the hard work of showing up, listening, and leading.

And we are putting you at the center of everything we do. Not because it is good marketing. Because it is true.

The only way out of this mess is for millions of ordinary Americans to decide that they are not ordinary at all. They are the heroes of the story. The hero of this story is not just someone like you; it is you.

That story does not write itself. You have to pick up the pen.

So here is the ask, plain and direct: Join Democrats for Change. Not next week. Not after the holidays. Not when the race gets closer, and it feels safer to climb aboard. Now.

Join now, because the moment you decide that someone else will fix it is the moment you become part of the problem. And the moment you decide that you are someone else—that you have a role, a voice, a responsibility—is the moment everything changes.

We can stop Trump. We can fix the economy. We can save the world. Those are not three separate tasks. They are the same task, seen from different angles. You cannot have a stable economy without a stable democracy. You cannot save the planet without a government that believes in science and planning and the common good. And you cannot do any of it if you are sitting on your couch waiting for a hero who is never coming. That hero is supposed to be you.

This is not a drill. The water is rising. The prices are climbing. The democracy is fraying. And the only question that matters is whether you will act or wait. Whether you will join or watch. Whether you will be the hero or leave the seat empty.

You know the answer. You have always known it. The only thing left is to do it. Join Democrats for Change. Be the one who fixes it. Because if not you, who? And if not now, when?