We made this for the people who do not wait to be invited. You know the ones. The friend who texts you the meetup point, then hands you water, then stands between a stranger and a line of cops like it is normal. Strange Gang made a St. Louis Rebel Alliance baby tee for that exact energy.

The emblem is a cardinal inside our rebel circle. Not cute. Not decorative. It is a city signal. A redbird with its wings up like it is calling the block to wake up. If you grew up here, you already know why that bird hits. It is the same bird that has been the mascot of St. Louis baseball forever, the stadium redbird everyone recognizes, dragged out of sports and dropped into the street where it actually belongs.

This tee is for anti-fascists, for immigrant rights, for anyone who has watched ICE tear through communities and decided that silence is collaboration. It is for people who keep their head on a swivel and their morals on the front of their chest. It is for the ones who protect their neighbors, even when the neighbors do not speak the same language.

Picture it in Tower Grove after a long walk, sweat and flyer ink on your fingers. On Cherokee Street when the noise spills out of a basement show and you take that momentum outside. In the Loop when you are tired of polite conversations that go nowhere. In Soulard when you are dodging tourist nonsense and looking for your people. Central West End when you are taking the train home and still buzzing from the chant.

Style it like the early 2000s never ended, because it did not. Baby tee, messy hair, chain belt, beat-up sneakers, cargo pockets full of receipts and sharpies. Or throw it under a jacket and let it peek out like a warning label. Either way, it reads the same: I am from here, I am with them, and I am not moving.

If St. Louis is your home base or your chosen city, wear the redbird as a protest symbol. Not for nostalgia. For presence.