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Reporting on the unfolding resistance to Project 2025 and field lessons of fighting autocracy and Trump 2.0, by […] πŸŒ‰ bridged from https://resistingproject2025.substack.com/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/resistingproject2025.substack.com

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How progressives can reclaim political power: Strategic advice from Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry. The secret sauce combines focused analysis of voters’ concerns and where they get their information, plus a tested formula of hope, clarity, and tenacity. Interview by Sally O'Driscoll.
14.11.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What a wild week: a headline round-up of major news, from Supreme Court decisions, to ICE impersonators, to more damning Epstein fallout. After a Democratic knockout at the polls, we’re seeing big Supreme Court action related to the Trump agenda, from trans issues to tariffs. MAGAland is also at war with itself. Fasten your seatbelts.
07.11.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Blue Waves of Hope Day everyone! Happy Mamdani victory day! Thank you all! Let's take a minute to celebrate all the bold new mayoral leaders and others who have provided a stiff rebuttal to Trump's autocratic moves and a powerful defense of our democracy. Rock on!
06.11.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Fight a Dictator (Argentina): a reporter's visual diary, from the streets and cafes, to protests, and late-night tango bars. (Updated) In Buenos Aires, the local portenos have mastered the art of living, even amid economic crisis, and unfolding autocracy. The city offers a visual feast of culture, history, art, and grit.
29.10.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Works to Stop a Dictator? In Argentina, decentralization, debate, and learning to listen are needed steps to revisioning democracy (Pt 2 of 2) A spotlight on the transfeminist activist group Columna Mostri and its goal: β€œto reconsider how we want to live”. It's also modeling a great way to confront cancel culture.
24.10.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Works to Stop a Dictator? In Argentina, decentralization, debate, and learning to listen are first steps in reclaiming democracy .(Pt 1 of 2) A spotlight on the transfeminist activist group Columna Mostri in Buenos Aires and its goal: β€œto reconsider how we want to live”. They're also modeling a great way to confront cancel culture.
24.10.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What’s Next? A resistance round-up of follow-up actions, ideas, and fall priorities. The No Kings Day protests showed we’re closer to a critical mass of needed people power to reverse Trump’s assault on our democracy. A future national strike and other strategies could get us there.
21.10.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The newest Christian nationalist battlefront: civics education. By Sally O'Driscoll US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and her former employer, America First Policy Institute, launch a far-right effort to rewrite and teach a conservative view of US history and democracy.
17.10.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet the Enemy: Project 2025 is bad enough – but wait till you see what the shadow groups behind it want to do. Behind the Mask lays it all bare. Longtime LGBTQIA+ journalist and activist Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out releases a huge Who’s Who list of Christian right groups and leaders – to help progressives fight back.
08.10.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Housing, Not Handcuffs: An interview with housing advocate Maria Foscarinis about Trump’s criminalization of the homeless Sally O'Driscoll talks to Maria Foscarinis of the National Homelessness Law Center about Trump's forced removal of the homeless in Washington, DC, and the responses of housing advocates.
07.10.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Works to Stop a Dictator – Argentina: Spotlight on Juan Luis GonzΓ‘lez, journalist and author of Milei biography "El Loco" (The Madman) [Pt. 2 of 2] Milei calls himself Argentina’s messiah while championing β€œnegative solidarity” and hate, blaming elites for its economic crisis. But corruption scandals and his wild beliefs are denting his support.
03.10.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Works to Stop a Dictator – Argentina: Spotlight on Juan Luis GonzΓ‘lez, author of Milei biography "El Loco" (The Madman). [Pt 1 of 2] Milei calls himself Argentina’s messiah and champions β€œnegative solidarity” and hate, blaming elites for its economic crisis. But corruption scandals and his wild beliefs are denting his popularity.
03.10.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Works to Stop A Dictator: Argentina and trans activism against Milei (Pt 2 of 2). In the Spotlight: Paula Arraigada, a Peronist politician and transgender activist discusses essential responses including mutual aid and cultivating joy as part of resistance and survival to Milei.
26.09.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Works to Stop A Dictator: Argentina and trans activism against Milei (Pt 1 of 2). In the Spotlight: Paula Arraigada, a Peronist politician and transgender activist who sees economic issues as a priority to coalition-building against autocrat Milei.
26.09.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Works to Stop A Dictator: Global Lessons for America. Argentina [2] β€œThere are only two genders: fascists and anti-fascists.” A spotlight conversation with journalist Estefania Pozzo on countering Milei's war on women's lives and gender and false narratives.
19.09.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Works to Stop a Dictator: Global Lessons for America. Argentina (Intro). For bad boy libertarian leader Javier Milei, image is everything -- and is rooted in a childhood marked by abuse. He channels God and his dead dog Conan to guide him as Argentina's great disruptor.
18.09.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Works to Stop a Dictator: Global Lessons for America. Introduction We know a lot about the problem, but less about possible solutions and strategies. This 10-country series examines effective approaches, voices, and lessons of resistance to autocracy.
18.09.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New series launch! What Works to Stop a Dictator: Global Lessons for America I'm launching an inspiring, 10-country global series of field interviews and country case studies of resistance to autocracy. I'm inviting you to help support this work and amplify the lessons.
18.09.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Defending Higher Ed: The Fight Back An interview with Rutgers professors David Salas de la Cruz and Paul Boxer on campus resistance. By Sally O’Driscoll.
08.09.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What happened next: Foreign Scholars and Student Visa Revocations. An Update. (Part 3 of 4) Many students detained by ICE this spring are now out -- but not all. Scholars have been deported; students have had visas revoked. But they're fighting back, too. Continued from Part Two.
26.08.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who’s Free, Who's Not, Who Left: Foreign Students and Scholars in ICE Detention. An Update. Mahmoud Khalil is free and speaking out again – for now. So are other foreign students and scholars, but not all. Some fled; some were deported. But resistance has worked. Part 2 of a 4-part series.
25.08.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our Duty to Remember: Deaths in ICE Detention. An Update. (Pt 1 in a series) Since January, 11 people have died in, enroute to, or after being transferred to hospitals from ICE detention. An update on the circumstances of their tragic deaths.
21.08.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Acts of Autocracy – and Resistance: Trump’s military takeover of Washington, DC and the leaked Pentagon plan reveal the building of a police state. There’s also the Texas gerrymandering battle, and the SCOTUS petition to end marriage equality. But it’s not doing what Trump hopes, which is to divert public attention from the Epstein files.
15.08.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Resistance to Cruelty: Immigration Updates and Trump Policy Expansion Flush with Big Beautiful Bill billions, Trump's team is funneling money to no-bid private contractors and red states to build more ICE prisons. But neighborhood resistance is also fierce.
09.08.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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At the 180-Day mark, Project 2025 keeps unfolding with a new cash infusion of the Big Beautiful Bill and terrible SCOTUS decisions, despite widespread public disapproval of Trump’s shredding policies. While the media and public gossip are distracted by the resurfacing Epstein scandal tearing MAGA apart, Project 2025’s architects with the Trump team stay the course to advance their autocracy agenda.
22.07.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Building a Police State: Using Deportation to Speed Up the Militarization of Domestic Law Enforcement How Trump's deportation plan mirrors Project 2025's proposal for an uber-Department of Homeland Security that uses immigration and national security threats to silence dissent, a la McCarthy.
15.07.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Modeling Good and Necessary Trouble: A Resisting Project 2025 Campaign Update Coming up: more summer street protests, planned fall campaigns, more spotlight on Haiti, and some reflection on the Mamdani model of active listening to voters.
11.07.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Say Her Name: Marie Ange Blaise (Sidebar) The April death of Marie Ange Blaise has reignited Haitian community demands for a full, transparent, investigation into the deaths of detainees in ICE facilities.
10.07.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What fresh hell is this? A spotlight on Haiti, deportation, violence, and failing US policy As allied gangs expand their control of Haiti’s countryside, Trump officials push ICE deportation, imported mercenaries, and a failing US foreign policy – while Haitian asylees seek safety.
10.07.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The end of Medicaid as we know it. Resisting Project 2025 interview series: Susan Walter, discussing Trump's Big Beautiful Bill and its impact on the poorest. Congress just approved Trump’s awful Big Beautiful Bill to gut Medicaid, SNAP, and affordable health insurance for millions. We talk with Susan Walter to put a human face on this historic GOP attack.
03.07.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0