For Halloween 2026: a REAL horror movie moment from Springsteen... Scared? VOTE, and stay involved!
October 31, 2026
As seen and heard in Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour (Philadelphia Freedom Cut) [part 3 of 4]:
"We are currently living through troubled and troubling times. Our young men and young women's lives are at risk in an incompetent, unwise, and illegal war. This is happening now.
"The Supreme Court has gutted The Voting Rights Act, and that's set back our historically hard-fought-for Civil Rights Movement, a movement for which people marched, fought, and gave their lives. This is happening now.
"There are immigrants being held in for-profit detention centers around the country, such as Delaney Hall in my home state of New Jersey, where our own governor has been refused access to meet with detainees about the conditions there. This is happening now.
"Our Justice Department has completely abdicated its independence, and it takes its marching orders directly from a corrupt White House. This is happening now.
"The richest men in America have abandoned the world's poorest children to death and disease through the dismantling of USAID. This is no longer on the front page, but this is happening now.
"We are undermining NATO and the world order that kept us safe in a global peace for eighty years. Our museums are being told to whitewash American history of any unpleasant or inconvenient facts like the full history of the brutality of slavery. You want to talk about 'snowflakes?!' We have a president who can't handle the truth!
"We have a president who wants to create a $1.8 billion fund to compensate and reward people who attacked our nation's capital, our democracy, and assaulted our police officers on January 6th. This is an American outrage, and this is happening now.
"This White House is destroying the American idea and our reputation around the world. We stood as a beacon for hope, liberty, and freedom, an imperfect but strong defender of democracy, standing for the global good. And to many, now we are America the reckless, unpredictable, predatory, untrustworthy rogue nation. That is this administration and this president's legacy, and this is happening now.
"Honesty, honor, humility, character, integrity, truth, compassion, humanity, thoughtfulness, morality, true strength, and decency... Don't let anybody tell you that these things don't matter anymore, because they do! They do! They are at the heart of the kind of men and women we are, the kind of citizens we want to be, and the kind of country we want to leave for our children.
"So many of our elected leaders have failed us that this American tragedy can only be stopped by the American people... you! There is no one coming to save us; we've got to do it ourselves. So join us, and let's fight for the America that we love!"
