It's up to Marylanders to hold their leaders accountable

This past weekend, across Maryland, across the nation and even in places as far as France and Ireland, people gathered under one resonant banner: “No Kings.” It was a phrase painted on cardboard and cloth, shouted from courthouse steps and public squares, chanted not in anger but in remembrance of an idea, an idea that power in a democracy is borrowed, never owned.

But slogans, like fireworks, flare brightly and fade fast. What matters is what lingers after the echo. The truest defense of liberty is not the rallying cry itself, but the discipline to live by its meaning long after the crowd has dispersed. That is where our democracy either strengthens or slips.

Corruption and apathy thrive not because we lack laws, but because we lack the courage to enforce them equally. Marylanders under