{"id":5888,"date":"2025-08-03T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politica.themeslr.com\/index.php\/template_about_us\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:52:13","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/surge4democracy.com\/?page_id=5888","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Surge 4 Democracy<\/strong> was born out of a quiet realization\u2014and a powerful awakening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many years, like millions of Americans, our founder believed politics happened somewhere else. That it was something other people dealt with, something that didn\u2019t affect her daily life. Like the majority of Americans, she grew up in a working-class household. She believed in hard work, fairness, and staying out of the political fray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> was overturned, something shifted. For the first time, it felt personal. It felt like the ground had moved\u2014and the rights and freedoms she\u2019d taken for granted were suddenly up for grabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She realized that if we wait for someone else to fix things, nothing changes. That democracy doesn\u2019t just defend itself. And that silence\u2014especially in the face of injustice\u2014isn\u2019t neutrality. It\u2019s surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why <strong>Surge 4 Democracy<\/strong> was created. It\u2019s not just a political organization. It\u2019s a call to action for ordinary people who\u2019ve had enough. For those who\u2019ve stayed on the sidelines but know, deep down, that the time to act is now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are mothers and fathers. Workers and students. Veterans and small business owners. We are people who never thought we\u2019d be \u201cpolitical\u201d\u2014until we saw what happens when we\u2019re not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is our moment to surge. To organize. To speak out. To build a better future\u2014together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surge 4 Democracy was born out of a quiet realization\u2014and a powerful awakening. For many years, like millions of Americans, our founder believed politics happened somewhere else. That it was something other people dealt with, something that didn\u2019t affect her daily life. Like the majority of Americans, she grew up in a working-class household. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5888","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surge4democracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surge4democracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surge4democracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surge4democracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surge4democracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/surge4democracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7248,"href":"https:\/\/surge4democracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5888\/revisions\/7248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surge4democracy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}