In addition to showing your true colors by sporting your Resistance gear, you can get involved with many organizations that are enabling the Resistance against the destructive and dangerous policies of the 47th administration. Of course, you can take action yourself.

Volunteer & Donate

  • ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union - with offices in all US States, ACLU regularly fights legal battles for human rights, women’s rights, free speech, voting rights, religious freedom among many other issues. ACLU is engaged in many legal fights to counter Trump policies

  • Indivisible - a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda

  • Mobilize - Find local events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more

  • FFRF - Freedom from Religion Foundation - focused on promoting the constitutional principle of separation of state and church

  • Planned Parenthood - works to protect and expand access to sexual and reproductive health care and education

  • Human Rights Campaign - focused on creating a world where every member of the LGBTQ+ family has the freedom to live their truth without fear, and with equality under the law

  • Demcast - network of thousands of digital volunteers to publish and amplify progressive messages across all social media platforms. Provide library of media content that can be readily used to spread progressive points of view.

Make Purchases that Align with your Politics

  • Goods Unite Us - App that lets you see where company political donations are going. The U.S. Supreme Court has said that corporations have a constitutional right to political speech. Goods Unite Us allows you to hear what they’re saying.

Dig Deeper

  • Timothy Snyder - the Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Author of important books such as On Freedom and On Tyranny which connect the dots between historical anti-democratic movements and modern events. He publishes his thoughts on current events at his Substack. Snyder is also the source of a few of the sayings on this site. Bookmark this for future reference -> Twenty Lessons On Tyranny - by Timothy Snyder

  • The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake - by Steven Novella. Provides a guide to thinking skeptically and logically, so that we can combat sloppy reasoning, bad arguments and superstitious thinking in a world overflowing with misinformation, deceptive disinformation, bias and myths.

  • The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan - Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.

  • How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them - by Jason F. Stanley - Fascist politics are running rampant in America today and spreading around the world. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history

  • It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump - by Stuart Stevens - Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. When a party stands for nothing, he argues, it is only natural that it will be taken over by the loudest and angriest voices in the room.

  • The Brain Washing of my Dad - great documentary, examining the history of modern right-wing media and it’s impact on millions of Americans.

  • From Dictatorship to Democracy - by Dr. Gene Sharp - is an introduction to the use of nonviolent action to topple dictatorships. Based on over forty years of study, the book, now in its 4th edition, was originally published in 1993 in Thailand for distribution among Burmese dissidents, & has to date been translated into 31 languages.

  • 198 methods of nonviolent action - also by Gene Sharp, details non-violent ways to protest and how to promote change. These “nonviolent weapons” are classified into three broad categories: 1) nonviolent protest and persuasion, 2) noncooperation (social, economic, and political), & 3) nonviolent intervention.

Get involved in Politics and Elections

  • 5Calls - the easiest and most effective way for U.S. constituents to make a political impact - by calling your representatives about critical issues

  • ResistBot - a very simple chatbot that turns your texts into faxes, postal mail, or emails to your representatives in minutes. Send the word RESIST to Resistbot on Apple Messages, Messenger, Instagram, Telegram, or by text to 50409 and answer the questions texted back. In minutes, you’ll have contacted Congress or your other elected officials.

  • Emily’s List - Works to recruit, train, and support Democratic pro-choice women running for office up and down the ballot. Because in office, these women can change the world

  • Ballotpedia - a rich information resource with neutral, accurate, and verifiable information on government officials and the offices they hold, political issues and public policy, elections, and candidates

  • Tech for Campaigns - Volunteer to apply your tech skills to leverage the expanding reach of technology and digital communications to build electoral power for progressives and moderates throughout the United States.

  • Sister District - Working to support candidates and expanding Democratic power at the state level in 2025 and 2026

  • Request your info from DOGE - using this Privacy Act Request Form created by Rep Jamie Raskin. Doing this will hopefully distract them and slow them down from all the indiscriminate slashing & burning. Anything to gum up the works a bit.

  • File Complaint to a US Agency - not sure how much current agency heads will care - but might be good to blast them with complaints just to let them know how unpopular their actions are

Stay Informed

  • Ground News - News aggregator with sources across the political spectrum - highlighting both right and left leaning bias in news. Helps you get a balanced perspective on current events.

  • ProPublica - independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. They dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.

  • Crooked Media - home of very popular progressive podcasts such as Pod Save America, Lovett or Leave It, Pod Save the People and Hysteria

  • Meidas Touch Network - pro-democracy progressive podcast network

  • Lincoln Project - anti-MAGA, former Republicans that started a leading pro-democracy organization in the United States — dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy

  • The Bulwark - anti-MAGA, former Republicans providing analysis and reporting in defense of America’s liberal democracy

  • Project 2025 Tracker - awesome online tool to track how closely this felonious administration’s actions match Project 2025.

Other

  • How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid - If you’re planning on hitting the streets, here’s what you need to know. Originally published during the 2020 George Floyd protests but highly applicable today.

  • Preparing for, Protecting Against, and Treating Tear Gas and Other Chemical Irritant Exposure: A Protestor’s Guide - Physicians for Human Rights has worked extensively on the health impacts of “less-lethal” weapons and has issued the following guidance to help people seeking to exercise their right to protest prepare for, protect against, and treat tear gas and other chemical irritant (e.g., pepper spray) exposure.

  • Simple Sabotage Field Manual - Written during WW2 by the US Office of Strategic Services. This manual acts as a guide for ordinary civilians to conduct simple acts of sabotage without the need for specialized training or equipment. The manual emphasizes the power of many individuals acting independently to contribute to a larger campaign of disruption.

  • Tesla Takedown - website dedicated to cratering Tesla stock to punish the illegal immigrant Elon Musk. Text MUSK to 51905 to join the fight! You can enter your zip code and they will let you know how to get involved with events in your area. Also have letter and call campaigns you can participate in.

  • Leaving MAGA - Group focused on empowering people to leave MAGA and tell their stories. Foster reconciliation with their friends and family. Develop movement leaders to help others leave.

Take Action