ATLANTA -- In her keynote address to the opening plenary of Netroots Nation, an annual gathering of progressives, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., said the first seven months of the Trump administration represented an "all-out assault on our fundamental civil and human rights."

President Trump, she told the audience, has "wasted no time in implementing the hateful agenda that he ran on." Lee pointed to the so-called Muslim ban, transgender military ban, healthcare reform efforts, and Commission on Election Integrity among other recent Republican actions to illustrate her argument.

Like Jason Kander, who addressed the crowd only moments earlier, Lee encouraged activists to go bolder and resist calls to dilute their message. "Coming from the Bay Area, of course, as a community leader with the Black Panther Party, I just have to say progressives understand the power of the people," she said. "We must be bold and not back down on who we are as progressives in the era of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon."

"Progressives understand the need for resistance more than ever before," Lee asserted.

Pivoting to reflect on the Left's efforts to fight back in the early months of Trump's presidency, she told conference goers, "We've really reached a crucial turning point in our history. At one point during her remarks, the California congresswoman contended, "It's because of the resistance that millions of Americans still have healthcare."

Lee also used her time at the podium to give a full-throated endorsement of "intersectionality," a radical philosophy favored by professors and liberal academics. "I'm so glad that Kimberlé Crenshaw is here during these days," she noted, referring to the feminist scholar credited with introducing the theory, "because it's so important to discuss intersectionality."

Lee defined the principle as an expression of "the common threads that bind us in the struggle for social and economic justice."

In a refrain she repeated more than once throughout the address, Lee asked the crowd to remember "that an attack against one of us is an attack against all of us."

"I have no doubt that we're going to save this country from this agenda," she declared, "and that will only happen if we stick together."

Emily Jashinsky is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.