One man threw a sandwich—and in doing so, reminded a nation what defiance looks like.

When Sean Dunn hurled his lunch at a federal officer in Washington, it wasn’t exactly the Boston Tea Party. But civil disobedience rarely begins with fireworks. It starts with a single act of refusal—one person deciding that submission is no longer an option.

A grand jury refused to indict Dunn on felony charges, leading the Department of Justice to downgrade the case to a misdemeanor assault—a charge a trial jury later rejected with a not guilty verdict. In both cases, citizens—not politicians or pundits—made a moral judgment: this was not an assault, it was a statement. An act of conscience.

We might laugh at the absurdity of a sandwich becoming a symbol of resistance, yet in dark times, symbols matt

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