As voters across the United States head to the polls on Election Day, many face a choice between two unsatisfactory candidates," says Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez. This choice is especially excruciating" for those who are outraged by our government's continued support for Israel's yearlong genocidal assault on Gaza." He says the 2024 election has echoes of 1968, when many progressives sat out the election because of anger over Vietnam, but Richard Nixon's victory and ultimate expansion of the war proved to be disastrous. It would take many years for some of us to realize we had made a big mistake in sitting out that election. ... Making these decisions at the time of election may be difficult but sometimes necessary to do to open up the way for possible change in the future.