In a nation still carrying the weight of prolonged armed conflict, six Ethiopian opposition groups have chosen to speak with a single voice, forming a coalition against a prime minister they accuse of authoritarian rule. This convergence of previously independent actors signals that resistance to the current government has crossed a threshold — from scattered dissent into coordinated challenge. Whether this coalition endures or dissolves will say much about the deeper question Ethiopia has long been wrestling with: who holds power, and on whose terms.