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\n\tIf you ask Bette Midler<\/a>, her whole career has been about spreading enough joy to distract from \u201cthe grimness of everyday life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBut that mission hasn\u2019t kept her from growing increasingly upset at the second Trump administration\u2019s rapid-fire escalation of war profiteering, anti-trans rhetoric, and extrajudicial ICE raids \u2014\u00a0including those that resulted in the deaths of Minnesota residents Alex Pretti<\/a> and Renee Good<\/a>. \u201cThe insanity that\u2019s happening, this unprecedented destruction of all of normal behavior, has affected me very badly,\u201d Midler tells Rolling Stone<\/em> from her home in Los Angeles. \u201cI was talking to Jane Fonda the other day, and she said, \u2018We need an anthem.\u2019 So I looked back at [some] catalogs and an old Woody Guthrie<\/a> song stuck in my head.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe World War II-era song in question, \u201cAll You Fascists,\u201d released in 1940, decried the poll tax, Jim Crow, and race hatred in the U.S. Now, Midler is debuting a 2026 revamp, which she co-wrote with producer Eric Kornfeld, targeting Trump policies and the need for voter turnout in the midterm elections. In the music video, out today, Midler is joined by her Beaches <\/em>co-star Barbara Hershey and familiar faces including actor David Hyde Pierce, singer and actress Jenifer Lewis, and Broadway star Shoshana Bean.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe\u2019ll battle ICE together\/Until they cut and run\/Just like in Minneapolis\/And when the midterms come,\u201d Midler sings, \u201cYou\u2019re bound to lose\/You fascists, bound to lose.\u201d Another verse includes the lyrics: \u201cTrying to distract us from the Epstein files\/You gas and beat and murder us, protecting pedophiles\/Let\u2019s turn the screws\/You pervs are bound to lose.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n