2.5 million

According to one source, over 2.5 million people around the world joined the protest today.

This is the brightest light, the best sign, the most promising news I have seen in a very long time.

It proves that ignorance, greed and gross bigotry have not won anything more than a single election at this point.

I suspect if we held another election tomorrow the results might be very different. People who thought "it" could never happen. People who thought their vote didn't matter. People who wanted to rub our noses in their anger and people who simply didn't think -- might have more to think about this time.

Every election is vitally important now. Every single Democrat governor, senator, and representative elected puts us one step closer to some semblance of sanity.

I'm not saying we aren't about to step back into the shadows of our past shame, but I do believe today had to raise the awareness of many more people and those people can help hold down the damage.