Skip Trump's Inauguration

On Friday, civil rights hero and longtime congressman John Lewis—an original Freedom Rider who was one of the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington as a student, and whose skull was fractured by police as he led the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery across the Edmund Pettus Bridge—said Trump's election was "not legitimate" and that he would not attend the inauguration.

Predictably, Donald Trump attacked Rep. Lewis, calling a leader who helped end segregation "all talk, talk, talk - no action or results."

And since then, in the past 24 hours, the number of Congress members who have said they'd skip the inauguration has grown to two dozen.

"It will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress," Lewis said. "You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong."

Rep. Lewis has said that he cannot see Trump as a "legitimate president" because of the now widely understood effort of Russia to influence November's election on behalf of Trump.

Every member of Congress has a choice: stand with Rep. Lewis or stand with Trump.

Rep. Lewis has shown yet again that when a leader takes a courageous action, others follow. If more members of Congress join Rep. Lewis and skip the inauguration, we can strengthen the power of the opposition.

Our friends at CREDO Action have said this is no time for decorum and have called on all Democrats to skip Trump's inauguration. Let's join them and show the power of the opposition movement.

Current and past Democratic lawmakers must skip Trump's inauguration lest they normalize and legitimize an unhinged demagogue who's an abject threat to our nation.