nermeen shaikh spoke to them on friday at howard law school at an event organized by the rising majorityrmeen: your very presence constitutes a form of resistance and of protest. and that is one of the most remarkable things about your injury in a congress -- entry into congress. it is a transformative moment in american politics because suddenly, the social justice activism and the resistance that you all represent moved from outside the corridors of power to the very center of state power. so if you could talk a little about how you think that movement has altered the effects.e and also its i'm afraid i will begin with you again. >> do we not choose who goes first? [laughter] 2016 wasor many of us, an election year where we were going to decide what kind of country we were going to be. that on o oneear side, there was someone running presented a anho only to ourdanger not democracy, but to the very lives of the american people. rununning for the firstst time state,te rep in my home and i remember on election night stayed a little too long after my results came in and we unfortunately l