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Pressure works! This happened because Disney executives -- including CEO Bob Iger and Entertainment Co-Chair Dana Walden -- felt the heat:

 

• Tens of thousands of Disney fans moved to cancel their streaming services, Disney trips, and more until Kimmel was reinstated. At one point, so many people were cancelling their Disney+ subscriptions that the page crashed.

 

• They were joined by Disney stars who announced their own account cancellations and skewered their employer for capitulating.

 

• Responding to popular outrage, enough people in power spoke up. FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez sounded the alarm about the illegality of threats by her colleague, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, and congressional Democrats called for Carr to be subpoenaed.

 

By all accounts, ABC/Disney caved to Trump because they thought it’d be the easier thing to do, but they were not in any way prepared for the blowback that followed. They bought into the image of Trump as all powerful -- but found out pretty fast that everyday people hold a lot of power, too.

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The regime wants to look all powerful -- we shouldn’t let it. On Friday, Indivisible leader Ezra Levin talked to Jen Psaki on MSNBC about the Disney pressure campaign and the regime’s escalation. His main point: The best way to fight back against Trump’s attacks on our rights is to exercise those rights.

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We did that over the last few days by pushing Disney to reverse course. Now, we’ve got to do it again -- by making No Kings on October 18 an enormous, historic demonstration of people peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.