National Indivisible

"Our democracy is under threat. But we will not yield to fascism. We will stand together and we'll fight back in defense of our rights, our communities, and our values."

Indivisible: A practical guide to democracy on the brink

Strategies, Tactics, & Tips For How Everyday Americans Can Fight Back Together Wherever We Live.

Each Thursday: Calls with Indivisible’s co-founders

Several of us attend the weekly “What’s the plan?” Zoom calls with Indivisible’s co-founders Leah and Ezra each Thursday afternoon at 2 pm Central Time.

The calls are great for keeping you connected with current resistance efforts and strategy nationwide.

Indivisible Twin Cities

"Indivisible Twin Cities, a local chapter of national Indivisible, is a grassroots group of volunteers dedicated to increasing civic engagement and education on progressive policies at the city, state and national level."

The Twin Cities chapter of Indivisible has links to a treasure trove of resources.

5 Calls

"5 Calls makes it easy for you to reach your members of Congress and make your voice heard.

We research issues, write scripts that clearly articulate a progressive position, figure out the most influential decision-makers, and collect phone numbers for their offices.

All you have to do is call."

Mobilize

Clearinghouse: Events, Petitions, and Volunteer Opportunities

MoveOn

Whether it’s supporting a candidate, passing legislation, or changing our culture, MoveOn members are committed to an inclusive and progressive future. We envision a world marked by equality, sustainability, justice, and love. And we mobilize together to achieve it.

50501

50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement.

MIRAC: MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee

MIRAC is an all-volunteer, grassroots, multiracial, and multinational immigrant rights mass-movement organization. MIRAC fights for legalization for all, an end to immigration raids and deportations, an end to all anti-immigrant laws, and full equality in all areas of life.

Outfront MN

Working with constituents, public institutions, and elected officials, including members of Minnesota’s Legislature, OutFront Minnesota promotes the human rights of LGBTQ Minnesotans. Our work shaping public policy—while always directed toward gaining recognition of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Minnesotans—takes many different forms.

Vote Run Lead

Vote Run Lead trains women to run for office and win, reaching over 55,000 women across America. Our alumni serve on city councils, county boards, state houses, supreme courts, and Congress. We unleash the political power of women as voters, candidates, and leaders to create and sustain an equitable democracy.

Run for Something

Since launching in January 2017, Run for Something has recruited nearly 100,000 people across all 50 states to run for state or local office.

We provide a safety net for new and exciting progressive leaders — at all stages of their journey — helping them run efficient, strategic, grassroots, driven campaigns while feeling supported throughout the process.

Who represents me?

Legislative Coordinating Commission: a deep dive into House & Senate voting information

Swing Left

Swing Left helps win elections for Democrats by making it as easy as possible for anyone to have maximum impact on the elections that determine the balance of power in our country.

Truth Brigade

Disinformation disruption starts here. Grassroots-powered lie-stopping. ... Independent studies prove that we can persuade a lot of people to stop spreading lies with just one strategic message or conversation.

New Messaging Guidance on Reconciliation

from House Majority Forward

...findings suggest the value of an argument focused on Trump and Republicans’ agenda prioritizing tax cuts for the wealthy at the expense of basic services that working families rely on and fits a pattern of making everyday life less affordable for working people.

Say 'regime,' not 'administration':
Messaging guidance about fascism

"Politics and the English Language" is a 1946 essay by George Orwell that criticised the written English of his time. In it, Orwell wrote about the connection between bad prose and oppressive ideology.

In a nod to Orwell’s work, political messaging expert Anat Shenker-Osorio recently released a two-page guide titled Fascism and the English Language.

One of our core tasks, the guide argues, is to communicate that we are beyond the point of any type of normalcy. The current political period is a break from anything we’ve experienced in the US in recent history.

For example, instead of using language like government or the administration, which makes the situation more benign and lends legitimacy, we should talk about the regime. Instead of using the word deportation, which refers to specific legal procedure that uses due process, we should talk about abductions, or disappearing people, without trials, to foreign concentration camps.

• See the fascism messaging guide here.
• Watch the conversation with the author of the messaging guide.

The Authoritarian Playbook

7 characteristics

The press has a foundational role to play in how democratic systems hold leaders accountable, and doing so requires clarity about the gravity and implications of their actions. Understanding and recognizing the authoritarian playbook as a whole can help journalists not only decide what to cover as threats to democracy, but can also help enrich and contextualize coverage about how the individual components of the playbook fit together. Americans suspect that their democracy is at risk. But by identifying and connecting individual threats to democracy to the global whole, reporting can help inform voters about more than just what is happening — it can tell them what the news means.

Breaking the Fourth Wall

In order to resist effectively, we must get our message out widely. That means talking to as many people as possible, both inside and outside of our personal networks.

FrameLab

FrameLab is a newsletter about politics, language and your brain. It was founded by Dr. George Lakoff and Gil Duran in 2017 (as the FrameLab podcast).

The goal of FrameLab is to help our readers understand how political language works, and to illuminate the key frames in our political discourse – ideological structures that are often hiding in plain sight. They also analyze and deconstruct propaganda tactics which, unfortunately, are accelerating in the digital age.

ISAIAH MN

We are a multi-racial, state-wide, nonpartisan coalition of faith communities, Black barbershops, childcare centers, and other community based constituencies fighting for racial and economic justice in Minnesota.

Breach Repairers

Bishop William J. Barber II & Moral Mondays

Repairers of the Breach is a national organization that trains moral leaders and builds social justice movements that are rooted in a framework that uplifts our deepest moral and constitutional values.

We are committed to supporting moral movements for social change and training fusion leaders, including activists, artists, and people of faith, who organize and mobilize around a moral agenda that lifts from the bottom so that everybody rises.

ACLU protest safety resources

Safety, Security, and Digital Preparedness

for a Second Trump Administration

This includes event planning and physical safety, digital security and online privacy, & a rich set of links to other resources.

Safety While Protesting

NRDC Protestors’ Guide

Wired: Safety While Protesting

Protesting Tips: What to Bring, How to Act, How to Stay Safe | WIRED

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

We are a nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone — regardless of income, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ZIP code, immigration status, or disability status — has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity.

We combine rigorous research and analysis, strategic communications, and effective advocacy to shape debates and affect policy, both nationally and in states.

United States Disappeared Tracker

by Danielle Harlow

Grabbed by men in masks? Was that ICE? Check the United States Disappeared Tracker.

Goods Unite Us

"The U.S. Supreme Court has said that corporations have a constitutional right to political speech. We want everyone to hear what they’re saying!"

Search For A Brand --> See Its Politics!

"Goods Unite Us has spent thousands of hours vetting companies' political expenditures in federal elections."