he coup attempt that Donald Trump facilitated on January 6, 2021, was rooted in two threats to the fair functioning of democracy in the United States: Trump’s refusal to accept his defeat at the hands of the American electorate.

Delia Ramirez walks toward the microphone determined to make her message heard. “It is time – it is past time that we deliver on the promise that we have made to our Dreamers,” she says.