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OpCritical Not Alone: A Total Rally Cry Against King Trump’s Army

today24/02/2026

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How did we end up here? Watching uniforms flood the streets like it’s a nearly normal Tuesday, while the loudest “sovereigns” swear the world’s flat and the pigs are keep flying on schedule? And the real question is: do we ever stitch ourselves back together again, or do we just learn to live with the rip?

That’s the nerve OpCritical hits on Not Alone – their first single and video, released February 13, 2026. They come in swinging with a protest track built to make the sugar jump in the cup, then leave a wound you keep licking. Now I get nervous. It’s domestic chaos. Plainly political. Kitchen-table revolution.

Tin Soldiers and the Drumline of Fear

The lyrics frame the threat as King Trump’s army, with tin soldiers moving in. ICE, Border Patrol, National Guard, all rolled into one blunt symbol. The hook keeps pounding back like a daily dose for the nervous system: Together we’re not alone.

OpCritical writes from the street-level angle, for those people feeling boxed in, people sensing the boots before they see them. Lines like “This summer we hear them coming” and “Nowhere to run cause we know” inject that supplement for backbone – no poetry class required. Take with water. Swallow hard.

OpCritical Not Alone

A Modern Echo of “Ohio,” With Teeth

OpCritical riffs off the DNA of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s “Ohio,” the song that followed the Kent State killings and helped turn public emotion into pressure. Not Alone grabs that same idea – music as a flare in the dark – then rewrites it for a moment obsessed with force, spectacle, and obedience.

When I listen to it, the last thing I see is a tidy debate stage. I picture a crowd deciding they won’t scatter today. The track commands, dares, and calls the bluff.

OpCritical Not Alone

The Video: A Child, a Balloon, and a Vanishing Bully

The video opens with a young girl watching cartoons, balloon in hand – simple, safe, almost boring. Then the channel flips into a wall of screens showing attacks in the streets. She tries to control it, can’t, and the dread grows.

That’s when I remember what I’ve watched on the news, and I get nervous again. Then the figure appears – an ominous presence in an ICE uniform, telling her to keep quiet. Near the end, he draws a gun. However, the story swerves: hundreds of red, white, and blue balloons rise into the sky, and the threat disintegrates.

OpCritical Not Alone

That’s the whole point in one image. Fear looks solid until people move together, right? OpCritical formed in 2026 to keep releasing songs and videos for as long as it takes. Fine by me. Because some days call for lullabies, and other days call for a fist on the table. Watch the video on YouTube. Turn it up. Decide where you stand.


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Written by: Flav


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