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Info Network (We are linked to each other!):

• Hold the Line: Options for Resistance Big list of things you can do. Covers from protesting, to boycotting and eliminating big tech, to recruitment and community.

Other lists:

• https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39549401
• https://www.buildtheresistance.org/resources 's table
• We the People Dissent In the archives tab, there is lists on upcoming protests, where to find them, and other things you can do.
• AgentFlounder's Take Action (Github list) Another list of things you can do.
• A Guide to Guides: Over 30 Activist Guides You Might Find Helpful When Opposing the Far Right
• Do Not Turn On Us (Linktree) "Organizing civilians, veterans and active duty military to refuse fascist orders." Has resources for those who is/been in the army, such as disobedience and oath, flyers, and insurrection act info.

Organizing:

• 50501 (Linktree) Protest in every state capitol! Find actions/virtual actions, Flyer templates so you can edit to include details, and some other resources.
• Indivisible Find local groups and find actions to take here. Founded in response to Trump's election. Sign up with your Email and Zip code to receive actions you can take locally. You can also file a form to start organizing in your own area.
• Hands Off! Website for the April 5th DC protest led by multiple protest organizations. Don't know if this is a one-off website.
• Build The Resistance Find actions, resources, and a hub of content you can contribute to anonymously. /resources contains links to training, mutual aid, know your rights, and a table of user submitted links just like this one.
• Mobilize Events/Actions, Petitions, Volunteering, Virtual events, Organizations, and Groups, in one page. It has a map of protests.
• Political revolution
• Women’s March An organization by feminists. There is an action hub where you can find protests, digital actions, and a People's Toolkit, where you fill out a survey of issues you care about so they can find stuff for you.
• Stand Up for Science Find protests, local rallies, and local events, to stand up for science. Contains a link to protest safety too, and in the FAQs is a Google Drive for flyers and square images.
• Tesla Takedown Protest at Tesla dealerships to hurt Musk's gravy train.
• Americans United Dedicated to the separation of church and state, which means they have to fight Project 2025, which they have a page on. Click on the "GET INVOLVED" button to find events and volunteer.

Transport/Protest Tools:

• Rally.co Book bus rides to reach your protests! Search and book.
• Block Posters Useful for making bigger signs by using multiple pieces of printed paper and combining them to form one big image.

Protesting Areas:

• The Big List of Protests Straight to the point, protest flyers submitted by users, in the main page. You can add your own flyer and be able to sort by state and date.
• https://drive.proton.me/urls/Z4TPY0BBQW#oM5YOv3h7oEJ List of DC protests.
• r/OperationEchoStrike's Town Hall Bulletin List of upcoming town halls.
• NoVoiceUnheard Click on a state to find protests near you. Also contains information for attendees and organizers.
• Mayday Movement USA (Linktree) Occupy the national mall in DC!

Protestor Guides:

• State Protest Rights Find out your protestor rights in your state.
• ALCU's Know Your Rights Know your rights! This website contains a lot of things to read!
• Activist Handbook "The Wikipedia for activists." Contains a wealth of knowledge for campaigning, from becoming an activist to starting your own movement.
• EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense Project A bunch of guides on how to protect yourself from surveillance.
• Stand Up for Science's Protest Safety Guide Small advice on protesting.
• The Hong Kong Protestor’s Kit: A Packing Guide for Anyone Resisting Police in the Streets The kit used by Hong Kong protestors, should you have to resist violent police forces.

Striking/Unionization:

• The General Strike If 3.5% of America's population signs up to this, we can call a general strike and stop the economy if demands aren't met.
• Industrial Workers of the World A grassroots general union that you can join from any job or trade. This union will also help you with forming a union and has resources on how to do so, or you can sign their Red Card for membership. They would be the first to start or join a general strike, and if you want it to happen faster, then start unionizing your workplace.
• Strike For Our Rights A nonprofit that promotes strikes. You can sign a strike card here.
• SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS Slow down productivity by doing simple mischief to your workplace or possibly any relevant place. Contains advice for the saboteur. Click to get a card.
• National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Hold off on paying your taxes. Has some resources, including on motivation and consequences.

Boycotting:

• Goods Unite Us Website and App that lets you search a brand and find out it's political contributions.
• Progressive Shopper Website and extension (Firefox) that lets you search up products and brands by search or category, and it will show how much they donated to what party, the issues progressives would have such as donating to anti abortion or being a tax dodger, and possible alternatives.
• MAGA Trash Search for companies that are MAGA.
• Boycott MAGA Has names of brands and celebrities that are MAGA.
• PublicSquare MAGA website where it has an interactable map full of MAGA companies that have self reported their location to. You even had to sign up to get on this map. You can search with your ZIP code to find MAGA businesses around you. (Note, this is a MAGA website, and someone should archive this.)
• Bankrupt Trump Find alternatives to products made in the US or Russia. You can search, and pick your location to show local options.
• Shop Blue (Google Doc) Regularly updated list of brands that have donated to Democrats. You want to buy from the blue and gray backgrounds, or even green.
• Buy Beaver Website and App where you can search and Buy Canadian. Rates each product by how Canadian it is (Manufacturing, Ingredients, Brand) alongside some pictures. Even includes a scanner.
• Buy European Buy European. Can search, or browse by category, or look for an alternative.
• Go European Switch to European products and services. Also available as a browser extension. Use filters or categories to find physical or digital alternatives to American companies, or even search for a specific country.
• European Alternatives "European alternatives for digital products." Search by category or by alternatives.

Home Actions:

• 5 Calls Helpful website and App that finds your representatives and gives you a script so you can call them on an issue that matters to you.
• Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Lets you find your representatives by state and you can choose one to call.
• FaxZero Send free faxes to people, especially your representatives if they are ignoring your calls, which on the home page is links to a list of representatives you can fax to.
• Democracy.io Email your representatives. Put your address, city, and ZIP, and it will find your representatives and you can email more than one at the same time.
• Resistbot Bot you can text to via phone. Can mass email/text/fax representatives. I don't completely understand it's paid content coins and premium stuff.

Privacy/INFOSEC/OPSEC/OSINT:

• Hitchhiker’s Guide Huge guide by many people on how to be anonymous online, or even offline/IRL. Covers many things. If you want to participate anonymously, or do any kind of activist or whistleblower work, this is worth a read.
• OSINT Framework Big tree of resources for searching and gathering public data for intelligence. Also includes some privacy stuff.
• Intelligence X OSINT search engine. /tools is also worth a try.
• OSINT? WTF?? What is open-source intelligence? Explains what OSINT is.
• EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense Project A bunch of guides on how to protect yourself from surveillance.
• Tails OS The portable Operating System that forgets. Designed specifically for privacy and activists.
• The Privacy Raccoon Privacy software list that I recommend. It has most of the stuff I would recommend to anyone for privacy.
• PRISM Break Another privacy software list that I recommend second.
• Awesome Privacy (1) (2) Cut away from big tech's control and selling of your data with this awesome privacy list.
• Privacy Guides Another privacy list.
• Digital Defense Your own interactable privacy checklist.
• Practical Privacy Choose your privacy goal path, and follow the card's instructions. Each card has resources.
• Digital security for activists Part of the Activist Handbook. Explains why you need security, and how to do it.
• Data Broker Remover Tool Put your email on there, and this tool will tell many data brokers to stop selling your data and remove it.
• IntelTechniques Has some free PDFs in the Resources section, and some Tools.

Trackers:

• https://www.project2025.observer/ A website tracking the progress of the Project 2025 agenda, something Trump said he had no involvement with, yet, many of these policies are being implemented right now.
• https://translegislation.com/ A website tracking anti-trans bills in 2025.
• https://trumpgolftrack.com/ Your tax dollars at work! Trump spends a big portion of his presidency playing golf rather than working.
• Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes A timeline of 2.0 Trump's offenses.
• https://www.realtimefascism.com/ A collection of news articles sorted by the 14 characteristics of fascism. (Performance heavy website for some reason.)
• OpenSecrets "Your home for money in politics." Check a politician's donors, lobbyists, and read about dark money.
• List of people detained by ICE (Google Sheets) (Dashboard) Includes where they are held and information about them.

Anti-ICE

• StopICE.net Website to quickly view and report ICE sightings.
• NNiRR's Immigration Hotline list
• Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts Report ICE sightings or volunteer for ICE watch.

Communities/Social Medias:

• 50501 (Linktree) (Reddit) (Lemmy) (Discord) (Bluesky) (Mastodon) (Facebook) (Instagram) (Threads) (TikTok) (Youtube)
• r/ProtestFinderUSA Find protests on Reddit.
• r/CANUSHelp Canadians and Americans work together against Trump.
• r/CANZUK
• Buy European (r/BuyFromEU)

Media:

• https://50501.chat/post/23737 List of Anti-Trump media so you can feed the algorithm your attention.
• Stop Project 20205 Comic Comics that educate you on the policies on Project 2025 and how it will negatively affect us all. Available as a PDF. Hell, "it’s more than fifty times as long as the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution…combined."
• Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Green card holder tortured by border patrol in attempt to get him to give up their green card.

Advice/Writeups:

• The Protest Playbook: How to Win Real Change, Not Just Headlines Small writing on protest strategy.
• Choose Democracy Contains a list of what you can do to stop the Administrative Coup. Tells you to organize, pressure, and devote to a long term plan by picking 1 of 4 paths, by that order.
• Tinker's post on how to find and build community
• The "Do Not Associate" List A small writeup on how to properly counter MAGA's word association game.
• Protests Won't Cut It - The Forgotten Art of Direct Action Examples of direct and escalating action.
• Conservative Archetypes (Google Drive) 4 types of conservative archetypes, and how to reach out and understand them, and encourage reflection. Document by u/Brief_Head4611, who studies human behavior.
• Project 50501 (Google Doc) Agenda/list of demands by the users of r/50501. I don't agree with the name but the policies are good.
• Project 2029 Think they are in collaboration with Project 50501. Progressive anti corruption policies.

Turnout:

• Wikimedia Send your images to Wikipedia! There is a ton in there.
• u/Winkinsburst's Protest Megathread List of links to turnout for 3/14 and 3/15.

Other:

• https://50501.chat/post/25853 Proof that Trump is doing what Hitler did to gain power and detain minorities to concentration camps.
• Accusation in a mirror AKA "Every accusation is a confession." One of the tactics the GOP is using.
• Election Truth Alliance A non-profit researching the 2024 election results, which they say they have found concerning patterns. You can volunteer to sign up, and there are resources for flyers, actions, and others.
• Cliff Cash's Nazi/White Supremacist militia database (Facebook) A stand-up comedian is asking for volunteers for a database. Link pulled from this Reddit post. Keep an eye on it and update me on what happens next.
• The Billionaire Plan to End America Incriminating quotes by the billionaires in our government right now.
• https://www.donaldstwitterwonderland.net/ (Performance heavy.)
• Run For Something Supports progressive candidates. You can look up progressive candidates that are running in your state. You can sign up if you are thinking of running for office and they will help you.
• Rise For Freedom Activist trainings.
• Congressional Recall Amendment Pressure congress by telling your state legislators to introduce recall elections for congress members, in the constitution.