Tools of Resistance

Resources and tools that people can use to organize, resist, and advocate for change.

Intervening to Stop Everyday Injustices

For information on responding to and reporting hate crimes, see our Crisis Resources page.

• Active Bystander Strategies from NYU
• Anti-Racist Bystander Intervention guidelines
• Intervention and Deescalation Resources
• Roundup on #YouOKSis
• Street Harassment: A Bystander's Guide by Hollaback
• Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks by the Barnard Center for Research on Women
• What to do if you are witnessing Islamophobic harassment
• How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry, by the Southern Poverty Law Center

Getting Started

Find resources here to help you get started in the resistance movement.

• Americans of Conscience Action Worksheet: make a plan for your activism

Volunteering

• ATN Works: Find volunteer opportunities in the movement and find volunteers for your movement organization
• DoSomething.org
• Togetherlist
• VolunteerMatch
• StayWoke

See also Organizations Looking for Volunteers.

Contacting Elected Officials

Tips

• Call the Halls: Contacting Your Representative the Smart Way
• Congressional committee maps, so you can easily see who to contact about what issues
• Congressional Management Foundation: Citizen Resource Center and Communicating with Congress guide
• Indivisible, A Guide for Advocating to Congress
• Congressional Cheat Sheet from Indivisible
• House members considering voting against the AHCA
• How to call your reps when you have social anxiety
• Political How: a how-to site that demystifies civic engagement for first-timers [Weblink No Longer Active]
• Resistance in Your Pocket: from the Center for American Progress, some tips for resisting at town halls and at home

Senators and Representatives

• Check out this guide to every member of the 115th Congress.
• Contacting Congress includes information on each rep, as well as committee assignments and contact info.

Phone

• Call US Senators and Representatives: tel:(844)872-0234, or through CallGov, a web interface.
• 5 Calls: a website and mobile app with a constantly updated list of issues, including explanations and call scripts. The app uses your zip code to show you who to call.
• Agitatr: an app that dials your reps and provides call scripts all in one place.
• Call Your Reps, a free iPhone app
• Dial Congress: a Chrome app that displays reps' and senators' phone numbers when you hover over their names in articles online
• Legi-Share: a Google Chrome extension that instantly displays your congressional members' contact information and lets you comment and share information with them quickly
• The Loyal Opposition provides all the local phone numbers of your representatives.
• The Payback Project is a tool for, among other things, helping you contact the reps who voted to approve the AHCA.
• The 65 offers scripts for more than a dozen issues in the progressive agenda. They suggest a weekly call-to-action.

Fax/Mail

• FaxZero is a service that allows you to send free faxes to your senator or representative.
• IStandUpFor.Us: Site that makes it easy to send your senators and representatives a postcard or fax.
• Message in a Pill Bottle—send a message in a pill bottle to your members of Congress
• My Card, My Voice: send postcards to Congress—and the site's profits go to progressive causes
• Postcards for America (more info here)
• Resistbot: an easy way to get messages to your reps. Text "resist" to 50409.
• Snail Mail Congress: service for sending your reps letters in the mail
• Stamps Licked: write your reps a postcard—and the team at Stamps Licked will hand-deliver it
• Town Hall Project, a listing of representatives' upcoming town hall meetings. See also Upcoming Events/Opportunities.

Online

• Find out what to do if your member of Congress has blocked you online.

In Person See Upcoming Events and Opportunities for information on upcoming town halls and other events featuring your members of Congress.

• Herd on the Hill: DC residents will get your message to Congress in person

White House

• White House Comment Line: 202-246-1111
• Fallada Project, send postcards for the resistance
• Hands Off: sharing stories to fight Trump’s and Congress’s budget cuts
• Yes Gov Works, tell Trump and his budget chief that government programs work (from the Center for American Progress Action Fund

Tracking Trump and Congress

• Always Forward tracks members of the House and Senate on their positions on the issues.
• FactBase, a searchable database of everything Trump says
• 538 tracks how often reps agree with Trump.
• Is Trump At Mar-a-Lago?
• Moscow Project
• Track Trump, a group that tracks Trump's promises compared to his actions
• Trump Tracker, a group that tracks Trump's promises compared to his actions
• Trump Tracker—The Guardian
• Trump Truth Hiders gives House Republicans a scorecard based on how often their statements favor Trump over facts
• Trump Twitter Archive (searchable)
• White House's official list of executive orders
• Trump Inaugural Donors Crowdsourced Research—contribute what you know about donors to Trump's inauguration

Scripts and Alerts

• Acts of Conscience: aggregates alerts from a range of websites—and they're sortable by issue, type, time frame, and state
• Action Hub from What Do I Do About Trump has action alerts, mainly legislative-oriented, from 80+ groups
• Action Alliance, an alliance of 80+ call-to-action sites/organizations
• Alder, an iPhone app that gives you one relevant political action every day.
• CallsForChange provides a weekly text and/or email with background on issues, a sample script, and the phone numbers for your members of Congress for one-tap calling from your smartphone.
• re:act newsletter: calls to action and important political updates
• Rogan's List, a daily action list sent via email that includes ways to get in touch with your state senators and representatives
• The Sixty-Five, weekly advocacy calls to action
• Try Voices, an app for advocacy alerts and help calling reps

Other Officials

• Campaign Zero's tool for contacting your state representatives
• Comment on the FCC's proposal to revoke net neutrality—see also Consumer Protections / Workers' Rights.
• See Rules and Regulations for information on how to comment on possible rules changes.

Organizing

Guides for Organizing

See also Resources For Organizers, organizations offering activism training, and readings on building movements and organizing.

• Beyond the Moment has a variety of toolkits and resources
• The Citizen's Campaign
• Friends Committee on National Legislation—a variety of toolkits and resources
• Get Your Pack to Act: form a mini advocacy group
• Indivisible, a guide to contacting your legislators—and much more
• Organizing for Action Step-By-Step Guides
• Our Next Four Years: partnering to create animated progressive PSAs
• Our States, focused on state-level advocacy
• Political Research's Associates, Guide on Challenging the Right and Advancing Social Justice
• Resistance School
• Resistance Toolkit for Americans Abroad and Global Citizens
• Tips and Tools for Offline Action, National Women's Law Center
• Tools for Effective Advocacy and other toolkits from Bolder Advocacy
• Unite Guide
• WriteaWinningCampaignPlan is a 7-hour self-led course in campaigning & organizing based on a course taught at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, free with coupon code "democracy"

Issue Guides

See also the How You Can Resist sections in the policy pages for specific actions related to the issues. Social Justice/General

• Anti-Oppression Guide from PAGE
• Beyond the Moment: Policy and Advocacy Toolkit
• National Action Program from the National Organization for Women
• Practicing Sanctuary: guide to "radical welcoming" and sanctuary and solidarity
• Revolution of Values, focusing on arts and activism and Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide from the SPLC

Disability Justice

• Civic Engagement Toolkit for Self-Advocates, from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network
• We Can’t Breathe: The Deaf & Disabled Margin of Brutality Toolkit

Environmental Justice

• Mayors for 100% Clean Energy Organizing Guide, from the Sierra Club
• People's Climate Movement: March for Climate, Jobs and Justice Organizing Toolkit
• People's Climate Movement Political Action Toolkit
• U.S. Climate Resiliency Toolkit

Healthcare

• Stop TrumpCare, everything you need to stop Trumpcare from Indivisible
• TrumpCare Ten, information on the ten senators whose votes are most needed to stop Trumpcare
• TrumpCare Toolkit
• Our Amendments: submit an amendment to Trumpcare, which could slow down the process of passing the bill
• See how your senator is planning to vote here.
• Find contact information for your senators' healthcare staffers and information on the bill's impact in your state here.

Immigrant Rights

• Immigrant Ally Toolkit, from Indivisible
• Immigrant Defense Project, Toolkit to Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests
• Mijente, Guide to expanding sanctuary policies
• National Institutions Coming Out Day, Institutional policies and programs with & for undocumented students (from United We Dream

LGBTQ+ Issues

• Supporting the Transgender People in Your Life: A Guide to Being a Good Ally

Reproductive Justice

• Emergency Guide for standing with Planned Parenthood—includes weekly actions
• Keep Birth Control Free
• Black Mamas Matter: A Toolkit for Advancing the Human Right to Safe and Respectful Maternal Health Care

Racial Justice See also Intervening to Stop Everyday Injustices, above. Syllabi and book lists for understanding the history of racism in American be found in Essential Readings.

• Policy Link Equity Tools: Tools for advocacy, equitable development, and advancing community policing.
• Racial Equality Resource Guide: a huge set of guides and workshops for racial equality
• Racial Equity Tools: Tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for promoting racial justice in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large
• Threads of Solidarity: Women of Color Against Racism—weekly themes with actions for racial justice that center people of color, especially women

Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence

• Breakthrough Campus Organizing Guide, focused on ending gender-based violence on campus
• End the Rape Statute of Limitations—information on starting a campaign in your state

Policing

• Mapping and Analyzing the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track: a comprehensive action kit for communities to collect and analyze school discipline policies and practices, and to create caring learning environments that push students toward colleges and careers, rather than prison
• A Troublemaker's Guide: Principles for Racial Justice Activists in the Face of State Repression—a guide to the history of state suppression of racial justice movements and to resisting it.

Town Hall Guides (meeting your reps in person)

• Congressional Recess Toolkit, from Organizing for America
• Guide to Attending a Congressperson's Event or Town Hall, from the National Women's Law Center
• Indivisible's complete Recess Toolkit—see also their toolkit just for the May 2017 recess
• Resistance in Your Pocket: from the Center for American Progress, some tips for resisting at town halls and at home

Communications

Talking to Others About the Issues

• 100 Days, 100 Dinners—self-organized structures for community-building
• A Better Way to Argue About Politics, The Atlantic (video)
• Changing Minds on a Changing Climate
• The Civil Conversations Project
• Communicating for Racial Justice
• Digital Advocacy 101: A Guide to Showing Up, Speaking Out, and Connecting on Twitter and Facebook
• Fact-checking the gun lobby's arguments
• Guide for Talking to White People in the Moment of Trump
• How I Lost Faith in the Pro-Life Movement: a personal account
• How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
• How to Talk to Your Loved Ones About a Donald Trump Presidency
• How to have better political conversations
• Talk Trump Out
• Talk About Trayvon: A Toolkit for White People

Hearing the Other Side

• Blue Feed, Red Feed: see the difference between conservative and liberal Facebook/Twitter feeds
• Escape Your Bubble
• Flipfeed, see a Twitter feed from someone of the opposite political ideology
• How to Escape Your Political Bubble
• Polar News: pairs articles on various sides of the issues
• Read Across the Aisle
• Right and Left: Partisan Writing You Shouldn't Miss—the New York Times compiles a weekly list of articles from both sides of the aisle
• This Is My Oath: Step 3, Beyond the Bubble (scroll down)
• Unbubble

Secure Ways of Leaking to the Press

• Freedom of the Press Foundation's guide to sharing sensitive leaks with the press
• The Associated Press (AP)
• The Center for Public Integrity, 910 18th St., NW, Ste 700, Washington DC 20006 USA
• The Guardian
• The Intercept
• The Nation
• The New York Times
• ProPublica
• ProPublica—for reporting climate change information removed from the federal government's website
• Tell On Trump—for federal government employees
• TrumpiLeaks—allowing people to safely release information on Trump to Michael Moore's team
• The Washington Post

Communications Platforms

See Digital Security for more information.

• Cell 411, an app for issuing mobile alerts—iOS and Google
• Dust, an app for disappearing text messages and photos that is similar in some ways to Snapchat
• Guerrilla Mail, disposable temporary e-mail addresses
• WDTM Platform: An organizing, communication, and project management tool for action groups
• Wire, fully encrypted end-to-end alternative to Skype for every platform (desktop & mobile)
• Whisper Systems, secure messaging
• FreedomBox,is designed to be the free, inexpensive, and easy to use server for those who are "not techy". Instead of storing your data with other service providers (e.g. Dropbox, Gmail, Skype etc), Freedombox provides a secure, decentralized replacement with your data right at your own home. It can be used for group chats and audio/video calls from any device, or as a VPN server to protect your browsing session when on untrusted networks. Host your own calendar service to keep collaboration and organizing private or simply use it as a free and private alternative to dropbox.

Working with the Media

• Guide to Writing Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor, including specific information for almost 100 specific newspapers across the US
• Guide to writing letters to the editor about voter ID laws
• How to Get Media Attention, MoveOn
• How to Give a Media Interview, from Indivisible
• Media Training: how to get the press to cover your event, from Indivisible
• Who's covering federal agencies at the Washington Post

Media Literacy

• Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: how to sort good information from bad
• BS Detector, a browser plugin that tells you whether the news source you're looking at is, well, BS
• Center for News Literacy: Teaching news literacy
• Defending Free Expression: A Toolkit for Writers and Readers
• Design Solutions for Fake News
• How to Spot Fake News, Fact Check
• List of Fake News Sites
• Michael Spikes's series of articles on media literacy
• News Literacy course from Coursera
• News Literacy Project
• Quick Ways to Spot Fake News, Snopes
• PolitiFact
• School Library Journal's news literacy toolkit
• Teaching and Learning about Fake News, New York Times

Also check out Digital Security and Media Normalization

Resistance News

This section includes news sources just on the resistance—this is not meant to be a list of nonbiased or endorsed general news sources!

• How to Help: News You Can Do Something About
• The Progress Report from the Center for American Progress Action Fund
• United States of Resistance newsletter from RISE Stronger
• What the F*** Just Happened Today

Events, Direct Actions, and Protests

See Upcoming Events/Opportunities and your state page for protest listings.

How to Protest

• Methods of Nonviolent Direct Action
• Witness's Tips for Livestreaming Protests

Protest Tools

• Protest signs/art
• Collection of Protest Demands (Including Campus Demands)
• MiniVAN app: collect contact information and donations at protests on your smartphone
• Puppet Trump
• Pussy Hat Project
• Raise That Flag
• Resist symbol
• ResistX, daily text and email updates
• What Makes America Great, designs that highlight what really makes America great

Protester Safety

• The ACLU has a great guide to protestor safety. Links on the website include things like what to do if you get stopped by law enforcement, regardless of your citizenship status, the rights of photographers, and more.
• My Civic Workout also has a guide to protesting.
• Partnership for Civil Justice Fund: know your rights when protesting
• Witness's Tips for Livestreaming Protests
• The New York City Democratic Socialists of America have drafted a primer to demonstrations titled, Know Your Rights, Risks & Responibilities. While some of what is written pertains to New York City Laws, there is information and advice that is applicable to everyone, regardless of where they live. This includes advice on what to carry or not carry when you are protesting, in the event you are arrested, as well as social media etiquette should you or anyone around you be arrested.

Tracking Legislation and Court Cases

• Cabinet Votes, track senators' votes on Trump's cabinet]
• Countable, follow legislators and issues
• Gov Track, track Congressional legislation
• Issue Voter, keep track of how your reps have voted
• LegiScan, track state legislation
• Open States, track state legislation
• Progressive Map, see what states have which progressive policies (beta)
• SCOTUS Blog, track Supreme Court cases
• FastDemocracy, track state legislation
• Kill the Bill, tracking and explaining state legislation in North Carolina

Advocating to Businesses and Banks

Boycotts

• AdStrike, advocate for corporations to stop advertising on hate/fake news sites
• AFL-CIO endorsed boycotts
• BoycottTrump, an app to help you boycott Trump
• Buycott's boycott of Trump products
• The Donald J. Trump Resistance, mainly a boycott
• Don't Pay Trump. an extension that tells you if you're shopping at a website that stocks Trump products:
• Grab Your Wallet, boycott companies selling Trump family products or otherwise financially benefitting Trump
• Injustice Boycott, working currently in NYC, San Francisco, and Standing Rock
• Sleeping Giants, getting companies to blacklist Breitbart in their ads
• Swich, an app that tells you how socially responsibly you're spending your money
• White House, Inc., call one of Trump's business properties
• No Maiz Gringo

Banking

• A list of banks that support DAPL that you may want to divest from
• A Smarter Choice, how to find a credit union, should you want to divest from your big bank
• Blackout Coalition has a list of black-owned banks to support instead:
• Backing Black Business and Support Black Owned have maps of black-owned businesses to support

Elections and Campaigning

General

• Ballotpedia, information on Upcoming Elections and Candidates
• Ballot Ready, information on local elections and ballot measures
• My Time to Vote, a voting empowerment organization
• Swing Left: find the Congressional district nearest to you that might be able to swing left in 2018
• League of Women Voters Voter Guide
• VoteRiders, get the info you need about voting and IDs

Get Involved with Campaigns

• Adopt a State
• Code Blue
• Every Election: an app to keep track of elections happening near you (iPhone)
• Flippable
• Justice Democrats
• Knock Every Door
• Road to 2018
• Resurgent Left
• Swing Left
• Unrig the Map
• #WeWillReplaceYou

Campaign and Election Tools

• Campaign Greenhouse, Coaching, tools & resources for small, down-ballot or low-budget campaigns.
• Carpool Vote, getting people to the polls
• Crowd Pac, campaign crowdfunding platform
• Inclusiv, linking people of color with jobs in campaigns and politics
• NationBuilder, online organizing/campaign platform builder
• EveryAction Resistance Toolkit, advocacy, organizing & fundraising tools
• Thunderclap, amplifying a message on social media
• Advice for women candidates from the Barbara Lee Family Foundation

See also Elections

Political Training

Training to Run for Office

• 314, helping elect STEM-trained candidates
• The Arena Summit
• Barbara Lee Family Foundation, working to increase women's representation in politics
• Emerge America (many state chapters)
• Emily's List and Run to Win, Emily's List's political recruitment campaign
• National Democratic Training Committee Free online campaign training for any Democrat running for office.
• New American Leaders Project
• New Leaders Council
• New Politics
• Only if You Run (funding for seats in the most gerrymandered states)
• Run for Office (find the offices you are eligible to run for)
• Run For Something (specializes in progressives younger than 35)
• Running Start
• She Should Run
• Victory Fund, helping elect LGBTQ+ candidates
• Vote Run Lead

See also the Bustle article How to Run for Office for the First Time.

Political/Leadership Training

• Center for Third-World Organizing, a racial justice organization dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color
• DCCC-U, a political training program from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
• Front Line Leaders Academy
• People's Action Leadership Development
• Project South
• Rockwood Leadership Institute
• Seeds of Peace
• Social Venture Network
• Standing in Our Power, leadership development for women of color
• Wellstone Action

Self-Care Tools

• Americans of Conscience Action Worksheet: guide to creating your own activism plan, including self care
• Finding Steady Ground
• Healing Justice Podcast: conversations & free audio practices for activists for your own self care and collective care in your team. Listen on iTunes, Stitcher, or GooglePlay
• How To Avoid Being Psychologically Destroyed By Your Newsfeed by Ann Douglas. January 30, 2017
• How to Stay Outraged Without Losing Your Mind by Mirah Curzer. January 16, 2017.
• Introverts' guide to activism—there are more related articles at the end of the post
• Productivity in Terrible Times by Eileen Webb. January 5, 2017.
• Revel Reflect Recharge by Annette Kraus: Motivation and methods to keep resisting for the long haul. See in particular the Recharge Toolkit and Review of the Concept of Self Care
• Self Care Club
• Self-Care Sundays, a podcast interviewing a variety of people about their self-care practices*Small Victories, a newsletter from Peace Is Loud
• Vicarious Trauma Toolkit

For Professionals

For Federal Employees

• Activism Resources for Federal Employees
• Dissenting from Within the Trump Administration, by Just Security
• Guide to Sharing Key Information with the Public
• Tell on Trump—whistleblowing for government employees
• See also Secure Ways of Leaking to the Press, above.

For Journalists and Writers

Guides to Bias-Free Language

• Bias-free language guide, University of New Hampshire
• Disability Language Style Guide, National Center on Disability and Journalism
• GLAAD Media Reference Guide
• Guide to Avoiding Ableist Language
• Identity-First Language, Autistic Self Advocacy Center
• Guide to Covering Asian America, Asian American Journalists Association
• National Association of Black Journalists Style Guide
• People-First Language
• Race Forward, Race Reporting Guide
• Race Forward, Best Practices for Journalists Reporting on Police Killings of Black and Brown People
• Solution Not Punishment’s Media Style Guide for Reporters Covering Trans, Gender Non-Conforming and/or Non-Binary People and Our Issues

Coverage and Journalism Tips

• Covering Immigration Under Trump, Media Matters for America
• Defending Free Expression: A Toolkit for Writers and Readers
• Digital Journalist's Legal Guide
• Several takes on covering Trump's tweets: [1], [2], [3]
• Journalists' Toolbox for covering election/politics
• Postmatic Press, services for independent news organizations
• Resistanc, a resistance news site looking for contributors
• Tools to Enhance Your Trump Coverage, from the Columbia Journalism Review

For Lawyers

• Challenging Government Hacking in Criminal Cases: a guide from the ACLU, EFF, and NACDL
• Pro Bono Work and Malpractice Coverage: A Guide for the Pro Bono Attorney, American Bar Association
• Help the Lawyers, connecting people to lawyers

Pro Bono Opportunities See Crisis Resources and Organizations Working for Justice and Equity for more organizations that may be looking for pro bono help.

• Advocates for Human Rights
• Brennan Center
• Immigration Equality
• Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative: lawyers in the southeast US can sign up to provide pro bono legal support to immigrants
• Water Protector Legal Collective: legal support for the DAP resistance
• CLINIC Legal: Defending Vulnerable Populations Project
• Lawyers for Good Government
• Immigration Justice
• International Refugee Assistance Project chapters at law schools

For Librarians

• Advocate from Anywhere
• Bibliography for the Librarian Resistance
• Libraries Resist Resource List
• Library Freedom Project workshops for librarians
• Save the NEA advocacy for NEA/NEH
• NEH Impact find NEH projects by zip code

For Organizers

See also Guides for Organizing, above.

• Action Alliance: join for help with organizing
• Capitol Call: power your grassroots political action campaign—keeping your volunteers and cause followers informed of how they can get involved
• Democracy Partners
• Ground Game, organizing tools for progressive campaigns, unions, and advocacy groups
• Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing
• Lumen, Create free videos for social media
• Media training from Indivisible
• Resistance Tweet Sheets: harnessing Twitter for the resistance
• Rhize, an organization providing movement support
• WDTM Platform: an organizing, communication, and project management tool for action groups
• We Tweet

For Religious Leaders

• Tools for Sanctuary and Solidarity, Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice
• Matthew 25 Movement
• Information on Rapid Response Teams to shelter undocumented immigrants
• Revolutionary Love
• Sanctuary Not Deportation has a Raids Rapid Response Toolkit for faith allies
• Sojourners
• Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism: resources for rabbis
• Repairers of the Breach: the organizing home of Rev. William Barber, founder of the Moral Mondays movement

For Teachers

• ACE Space: teaching about climate change
• Center for News Literacy: Teaching news literacy
• Facing History: Educator Resources
• Schools in Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools
• First Amendment Schools: Lesson plans
• GLSEN: Educator Resources and Safe Space Kit
• How Schools Can Support Transgender Students, from Lambda Legal
• National Institutions Coming Out Day, Institutional policies and programs with & for undocumented students (from United We Dream
• NYT: Civics lesson plan
• NYT: Teaching and learning about fake news
• PBS: How to teach your students about fake news
• PBS: The price of a free press
• Radical Teacher, resource guides for educators (and more)
• Supporting Immigrant Students, New York Immigration Coalition
• Teach Human Rights
• Teach Progress, strengthening our democracy one school at a time
• Teaching Tolerance, from the Southern Poverty Law Center
• Trans Student Educational Resource
• Volunteering with Refugees, an online class from the Refugee Center
• Zinn Education Project: Teaching a People's History

For syllabi generally, see Essential Readings .

For Tech/Data People

• Affinity.Works: coders making tools to help grassroots organizers
• Code for America, and their Brigades
• Data for Democracy
• Data Refuge, preserving climate-related data from the federal government
• Debug Politics, hosting events aimed at converting the tech community's frustration with politics into meaningful action
• Geometry of Redistricting: Summer School, a summer course from Tufts to teach mathematicians to be expert witnesses in gerrymandering cases
• Equality Labs
• Netroots Nation, an organization and conference on increasing effectiveness in using technology to influence the public debate
• Organizing 2.0, a collective of communicators and online organizers working for unions and social justice activists
• Personal Democracy, conference exploring and analyzing technology's impact on politics, government, and society; a project of Civic Hall
• Progressive Coders Network
• Ragtag: tech-generation volunteers and activists
• RedadAlertas, an app being developed through GitHub to warn people of ICE raids—help with coding!
• Tech Forward
• Technical Majority, aggregation of tech/activism groups
• Tech Resistance
• Web of Change, an annual conference that brings together the foremost thinkers and doers in social media, digital strategy and social change

Data Sources

• Open Street Map, an open source repository of geographic data
• Civil Rights Data Collection, data on educational inequities
• Data for Democracy
• Data Refuge, preserving climate-related data from the federal government
• Fatal Encounters, police violence database
• FollowTheMoney.org, a database to track state campaign contributions, independent spending, and lobbying expenditures (from the National Institute on Money in State Politics)
• Global Nonviolent Action Database
• Indivisible Data, infographics and easy-to-understand data on current issues
• Internet Archive (WayBack Machine)
• Mapping Police Violence, police violence data and analysis
• National Equity Atlas, find data on racial and socioeconomic inequities
• Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project, data for evaluating resistance campaigns
• OpenSecrets, database to track federal campaign contributions from lobbyists and other contributors, by the Center for Responsive Politics
• Southern Poverty Law Center, data on hate crimes and activity
• USA Facts, "our nation in numbers"—federal, state, and local data from more than 70 government sources

Donating

While there are tons of ways to get involved in the resistance without donating money, if you do want to donate or are willing to pay for resistance-related resources, the links below may be useful. See also Organizations Working for Justice and Equity for organizations that may be accepting donations.

Helping Others

• Remember Trans Power—Fight for Trans Lives Passport Fund
• Trans Relief: helping trans people get updated ID documents
• Donate to organizations in Charlottesville, Virginia, to fight white supremacy:
  • Solidarity Charlottesville—lists more organizations to donate to
  • Black Lives Matter Charlottesville
  • Legal Aid Justice Center
  • What to Do About Charlottesville, by Sara Benincasa (includes many links for donations)

Political Donations

• It Starts Today: subscribe to contribute monthly to Democratic candidates' campaign funds
• Swing Left District Funds: donate to candidates who are running against reps who voted for AHCA

Resistance Resources and Services

• Safety Pin Box: a monthly subscription box for white people striving to be allies in the fight for Black Liberation

Learning Tools

See also Essential Readings and Resources for Teachers.

Podcasts

• The Axe Files
• Can He Do That
• Code Switch
• The Ezra Klein Show
• The FourFiftyOne
• Great Battlefield, a podcast about how the resistance is mobilizing
• Hellbent, "a feminist podcast for those who resist and persist"
• Home of the Brave, Scott Carrier's original stories from This American Life and reporting on current events
• Indivisible from WNYC (not related to the Indivisible Guide)
• Intelligence Squared
• Interracial Jawn
• Move to Amend: guests who specialize in movement building, grassroots organizing, amending the Constitution, and issues related to corporate rule and participatory democracy
• Off Kilter, about poverty and inequality
• Pod Save America
• Polidicks
• The Q2 Podcast
• Resistance Radio
• Reveal
• The Trump Scorecard
• The Weeds

Videos

• Appropriately Ambitious, discussion of the Supreme Court decision on learning opportunities for students with disabilities
• Civil Liberties Teach-In
• Explanation of FISA/FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act/Court)
• Immigration Rights Teach-In and Know Your Rights Presentations—see also Immigration Crisis Resources
• The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives, TED Talk
• Obamacare repeal/replace explanation, from John Oliver
• Resisting Muslim Registries Teach-In
• The Science of Federal Budgets
• Trump and the Constitution (NYU Law)
• Trump's Budget, Explained