Taking Action
Choose Democracy: What can I do to fight this coup?
Daniel Hunter: 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won.
Tim Murphy: Longtime Activist Cleve Jones: “Find a Way to Fight Back That Brings You Joy.”
Side With Love: Responding and Organizing In Authoritarian Times.
Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
Charting the Resistance
Just Security: Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions.
Christina Pagel: How to fight back: charting opposition to the actions of the Trump administration.
Ongoing Acts of Resistance
Resources for Resistance
Books Every Organizer Should Read.
Resources on Far Right Extremism.
Chronology of Resistance
January, 2025. American Association of University Professors. Against Anticipatory Obedience.
January 21. Washington National Cathedral: Sermon by Reverend Mariann Budde.
January 27. Cayden Mak: Organizing Federal Workers to Protect Democracy.
January 29. Alexander Hall: Meta employees ‘protest’ removal of tampons from men’s rooms by bringing their own: ‘Subtle resistance’.
January 30: National Council of Churches Urges ICE to Refrain from Entering Churches and Other Sensitive Locations.
February 1. It’s Going Down. Students Shut Down Pro-ICE Neo-Nazi Demonstration on ASU Campus.
February 3. Monica Sager: National ’50 States’ Anti-Trump Protest Planned for Feb 5: What to Know.
February 3. AP News: Marchers protesting planned deportations block major freeway in Los Angeles.
February 5. Morgan Lee: Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump’s policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk.
February 10. Lana Leonard: Thousands “Rise Up for Trans Youth” in New York City, Leading National Conversation on Denial of Healthcare Across Major Hospital Systems.
February 11. Christopher White: Pope decries ‘major crisis’ of Trump’s mass deportation plans, rejects Vance’s theology.
February 11. Dan Lamothe: Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout.
February 12. Robin Opsahl: Bernie Sanders returns to Iowa as part of ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour.
February 13. Maya Yang: ‘No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan.
February 14. Adrian Horton and Benjamin Lee: Stars pull out of shows and positions at Kennedy Center after Trump takeover.
February 14. Jason Koebler: Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website: “These ‘Experts Left Their Database Open.”
February 20. Anthony Vidal Torres: This youth-led group wants to spark mass refusals to MAGA’s white supremacist agenda:Inspired by the abolitionist and civil rights movements, Get Free is mobilizing young people to turn campuses and communities into freedom beacons that defy Trump-Musk’s authoritarian power grabs.
February 20. Praveena Somasundaram: Ex-NFL player arrested after protesting MAGA during city council meeting.
February 20. Edward Hasbrouck: ‘Tesla Takedown’ underscores the importance of moving from protest to resistance.
February 22. New York Times: How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk.
February 24. PBS News: Federal workers sue over Elon Musk’s threat to fire them if they don’t explain their accomplishments.
February 25. AP News: Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE.
February 25. Gavin Feek: How the Yosemite Climbing Community Is Reacting to DOGE Layoffs: El Cap’s upside-down flag, the park’s fired lone locksmith, and the safety of Yosemite climbing this.
February 25. AP News: Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE.
February 25. Scientific American: ‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies Will Protest Trump Attacks on Research.
February 25. Victoria Valenzuela: Los Angeles is leading the way in resisting Trump’s mass deportations: Since Trump’s inauguration, Latinos and their allies in LA have organized walkouts and near daily protests against ICE and in support of the undocumented community.
February 27. Daniel Hunter: We’re seeing the beginnings of mass noncompliance: Over a million federal workers refused to comply with Musk’s email ultimatum last week, offering a glimpse of what mass noncooperation can look like.
February 27. AP News: Former defense chiefs call for congressional hearings on Trump’s firing of senior military leaders.
February 27. Kylie Mohr: A rogue ranger is documenting every National Park Service firing.
February 28: Boycott Central: Boycotts can be a powerful tool to make companies stop doing bad things. Boycotts are people power. Let us know if you’re part of that power!
February 28. S. Baum: University of Cincinnati Protests Lead to “Biological” Bathroom Signs Reversal.
February 28. Media Matters: People are calling into right-wing radio shows to voice frustrations with the Trump administration.
March 1. Forbes: People Protest Near Vermont Ski Resort Where Vice President JD Vance Is Vacationing.
March 1. Isabel Spartz: Hundreds gather at Yellowstone National Park to protest job layoffs.
March 6. The Washington Post. Small federal agency blocks DOGE employees from entering its building: The U.S. African Development Foundation denied several DOGE employees access to its offices Wednesday, as DOGE makes sweeping eliminations across federal agencies.
March 6. Erin Reed: Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana.
March 6. Hafiz Rashid: Federal Judge Slaps Down Trump, Says U.S. Constitution Has No Kings: A court has just dealt a major blow to legal Trump’s attempted takeover of the NLRB.
March 8. Pranshu Verma & Trisha Thadani: Anger at Elon Musk turns violent with molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla lots.