“Protest is the heartbeat of a functioning democracy,” Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, told HuffPost. Protests in America are older than America itself. Three years before the U.S. declared independence, fed-up settlers in Massachusetts spent three hours dumping tea in the harbor — a rebellion Americans now fondly know as the Boston Tea Party. “Protest is the heartbeat of a functioning democracy. America was born not only from a rejection of monarchy, but from