States at the Core

1 day to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
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working with communities most directly targeted by these threats. They offer trainings and helpful resources on how to identify and combat threats from right-wing organizing:
politicalresearch.org/strategy/mov...
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2 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
For years, @praeyesright.bsky.social has been informing resistance strategies by taking the long-view and “focusing on interrelated anti-democratic movements, trends, and leaders”...
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Why Shooting Hoops Is Such a Good Idea for Adults Hucking endless J's reminds us of the importance of play

8 days to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
The Importance of Play: “If you’ve got a body and a brain, you should use both to run around, take risks and maybe get a little better along the way.“
www.insidehook.com/wellness/sho...

How the ACLU Will Fight Four More Years of Trump During the first Donald Trump administration, the ACLU fought his unlawful policies more than 400 times. We’re even more prepared now.

9 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
The ACLU has been on the front lines defending civil liberties for decades and is working to build a “firewall for freedom to protect everyone’s rights” against looming threats. More info and resources here: www.aclu.org/news/civil-l...

How Project 2025 Would Devastate Public Education | NEA The 900-page blueprint for a second Trump presidency would gut federal education funding, sanction discrimination against LGBTQ+ students, divert taxpayer funds to private schools, and codify book ban...

providing community resources and services that ensure people can participate fully in our communities. Read more about how Project 2025 will devastate public education: www.nea.org/nea-today/al...
#InfrastructureAttacks #AuthoritarianPlaybook
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How Project 2025 Would Devastate Public Education | NEA The 900-page blueprint for a second Trump presidency would gut federal education funding, sanction discrimination against LGBTQ+ students, divert taxpayer funds to private schools, and codify book ban...

10 days to January 20: Another authoritarian strategy is to undermine or attack physical or social infrastructure. Public schools are core to our collective social infrastructure...
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How Concerned Citizens Drove a Neo-Nazi Out of Rural Maine - Longreads Christopher Pohlhaus wanted to build a fascist training compound in America's whitest state. His neighbors had other plans.

11 days to January 20: Incursion is an authoritarian strategy where outside agitators make harmful inroads into places where they have no personal stake. Read about how citizens in Maine drove a neo-nazi out of their town: longreads.com/2024/10/31/h...
#Incursion #AuthoritarianPlaybook

How Trump Brought ‘Networked Incitement’ To The Capitol This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. The shocking events of Jan. 6, 2021, signaled a major break from the…

Networked incitement involves dehumanizing marginalized groups, naming a target, and encouraging your audience to troll or investigate the target. Read more here: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-tru...
#Incitement #AuthoritarianPlaybook
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12 days to January 20: Both the attempted coup of Jan. 6th and the disinformation campaign in Springfield, MO were examples of Networked Incitement: influential figures inciting large-scale attacks via social media.
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8 Ways To Protect American Democracy To safeguard American democracy, it is important to both protect elections in 2024 and address systemic issues to protect those in the future.

13 days to January 20: Yesterday we marked 4 years since a Trump-incited mob violently attacked the capitol and democracy at large. Think about what you can do in your own sphere of influence to protect democracy: www.americanprogress.org/article/8-wa...
#Insurrection #AuthoritarianPlaybook

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Jan. 6 committee shows new footage of Capitol attack

14 days to January 20:
“It’s important to remember exactly what took place.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_O...

Check out this interactive self-care check-in with questions and solutions that relate to your mental and physical well being, created by Jace Harr:
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15 days to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
“Self-care is really a process: it needs to be ongoing; it needs to be thoughtful; it needs to be intentional. You’re working for liberation. You’re working for joy.” -Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens
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YouTube video by Detroit Historical Society Detroit History Heroes Episode 6 - Grace Lee Boggs

We must soak up the lessons from such inspiring organizing trailblazers.
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YouTube video by Detroit Historical Society Detroit History Heroes Episode 6 - Grace Lee Boggs

16 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
Grace Lee Boggs maintained throughout her life the core belief that if people worked together, they could accomplish positive social change. “If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.”
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How we can meet the challenges of authoritarianism This is not our first rodeo with authoritarianism. Americans have collectively risen to seemingly impossible challenges in the past, and we can again.

18 days to January 20: “Successful movements organize campaigns based on realistic yet audacious assessments of what is possible.”
wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/how-...

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The Overthrow of Democracy in Chile — A Timeline Article. Timeline by Bill Bigelow. 2023. A timeline of the overthrow of democracy in Chile — the fall of Salvador Allende and the rise of Augusto Pinochet.

21 days to January 20: There is inspiration for us in how the Chilean people heroically reclaimed their democracy…and lessons about what a corrupt American administration is capable of.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ch...

22 days to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
Mental, social, emotional, physical, professional, spiritual - there are so many different aspects of our lives we should be sure to nurture in fraught times. Try adding one activity from each category to your self-care routine!

23 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
Mijente lifts up the voices of vulnerable communities through campaigns, connecting across a wide network and serving as a hub for culture, learning, and advocacy-connect with them in the fight for justice.
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Actions you can take NOW in your community List adapted from Mariame Kaba (aka Prisonculture) Volunteer your art, technology, design, legal skills to local efforts, organizations, groups Organize fundraisers for local groups Attend community board and other local meetings Cook and bake for community group meetings Establish ongoing study and book groups Offer and/or participate in skill-sharing and trainings Learn about creating rapid response networks Help with disaster relief Organize or participate in community clean-ups Monitor court cases (courtwatching and participatory defense hubs) Run for or seek appointment to your local library board

24 days to January 20: “How do I take action where I am?”
There are so many ways to deepen your community ties, but you don’t have to do them all on your own! Don’t underestimate the power of your voice when it joins in harmony with others.
prisonculture.substack.com/p/how-do-i-t...