It was sometime in the fall of 2022 when Milad Tabesch said to himself: „We have to do something now!“ The 27-year-old from Bochum was doing his Master’s in New York at the time, but was following political developments in Germany very closely. „It was crass to see how popular the AfD was becoming, how right-wing extremism and anti-democratic sentiment were growing.“ Even among young people, who were able to cast their vote for the first time in the summer.