How to Resist

💌 Good News from the Resistance, July 27 - August 2, 2025 Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

There were two nationwide protests in the last 7 days. Congress might be in recess, but the resistance is keeping up the pressure!

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💌 Good News from the Resistance, July 20-26, 2025 Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

This week, we’re starting off in Scotland, where the beef with Trump is decades deep. Let’s see how the Scots welcome the President! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The 'Wall of Shame' and Public Memory as a Tool of Resistance Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

Today, we’re looking at the ‘Wall of Shame’, an incredible art installation by Phil Beuhler that tells the stories of 1,575 individuals implicated in the Jan 6th attacks on the Capitol, and talking about how public memory can serve as a powerful tool of resistance.

💌 Good News from the Resistance, June 29 -July 5, 2025 Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

It was a brutal week, but there was still good news to be had!

💌 Good News from the Resistance: June 22-28, 2025 Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

💌 This week’s good news comes with a message from Fredrick Douglass and the youth protests of Kenya: silence is submission, and we need to use our voices while we still have them.

This week’s news round-up offers hope and inspiration from folks who are finding creative ways to save democracy.

💌 Good News from the Resistance: June 15-21, 2025 Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

💌 Good News from the Resistance: June 15-21, 2025

Things are getting awfully scary, but there is still good news for people who refuse to give up.

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📌 We made history, now what? Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

Now it's time to harness this momentum and turn it into action.

Join me on June 14

We are getting ready over here at How to Resist HQ to join the mass day of protest on Saturday! There are over 2,100 planned protests for that day-- Where will you be joining from?! app.sosha.ai/s/YXdj5Wsz

📌 Los Angeles: A time for resistance, not violence Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

Despite what it may look like, L.A. is setting an example of how to keep things peaceful in a tense, militarized situation.

What are some tactics we can learn from those in LA and in other nonviolent movements that can help us stay on track so we can get to where we want to go? Let’s take a look!

❤️ Good News from the Resistance, June 1-7, 2025 Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

This week was packed with actions from people just like you, doing whatever they can to slow the machinery of authoritarianism and cruelty. It was a really tough week, but we know what’s important and we aren’t giving up!! ❤️ ✊🏻

[Audio] Resistance is in the Air: Balloons as tools of defiance I hear someone has a birthday coming up...

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Resistance is in the Air: Balloons as tools of defiance I hear someone has a birthday coming up...

If Trump wants a party, then we’ll bring the balloons 🎈

Today, we’re talking about inflatables as tools of resistance, just in time for someone’s big day.

[Audio] Good News from the Resistance, May 24-31st, 2025 Listen now | Audio recording of Good News from the Resistance, May 24- 31st, 2025

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Good News from the Resistance, May 25-31st, 2025 Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.

It was one of those weeks that makes me proud to be a part of what’s happening here. Massive wins in the courts and real people—students, veterans, cancer survivors, librarians —showing up for each other and the America we want to live in. 🥺 ❤️ ✊🏻

[Audio] Taking Action Against ICE Detention Centers, Part 2 This is an audio recording of Taking Action Against ICE Detention Centers, Part 2

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📌 Taking Action Against ICE Detention Centers, Part 2 Because no one is illegal

ICE detention centers CAN be shut down.

In Part 1, we examined the blueprint left behind by a successful grassroots campaign.

In Part 2, we’re following that blueprint across the country—spotlighting the organizers, communities, and coalitions putting it into action RIGHT NOW.

Good News from the Resistance, May 18-24th, 2025 Resistance is everywhere.

It’s Sunday morning! Time for some good news.

This week, the resistance tried some new tactics: a die-in, banner drop, student walkout, and a nearly 30-mile-long human chain. Sometimes, you don’t need a huge crowd to get attention; you just need to do something different— Keep it up!!

📌 Taking Action Against ICE Detention Centers Because no one is illegal.

ICE detention centers CAN be shut down.

Not by politicians, but by people like me and you. Today, we’re learning how a grassroots movement in Berks County, PA made it happen—and how we can, too.

May 17th (Saturday) TRUMP MUST GO!- This is a nationwide protest.
May 25th (Sunday, day before memorial day)-Vet protest
June 6th (Friday)- @fiftyfifty.one nationwide protest
June 6th -10th General strike
June 14th (Saturday)- Trump's bday/ military parade #protest
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Good News from the Resistance, May 11-17th, 2025 Rooted, rising, and refusing to yield.

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❤️ Good News from the Resistance, May 11-17th, 2025 Rooted, rising, and refusing to yield.

It’s Sunday morning! Time for Good News from the Resistance!

These stories aren’t just headlines—they’re reminders that we’re part of something bigger than ourselves. If you’re looking for hope, this is where you’ll find it. ⬇️

📌 The People's Billboard: Wheatpasting as a Tool of Resistance Like papier-mâché, but for walls.

📌 Wheatpasting is a form of protest that’s as accessible as it is subversive. Whether you're amplifying a cause, honoring a movement, or making a statement, it's a way to make your message stick (literally).

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❤️ Good News from the Resistance: May 4-10, 2025 The ink is still wet on history—we’re writing it now.

📣 This Week in Resistance: May 4–10, 2025

From high schoolers and veterans to faith leaders and mayors, everyday people are rising up to defend democracy. This week’s edition of Good News from the Resistance is packed with powerful stories of protest, legal pushback, and solidarity.

📌 Helping people leave MAGA How to Have Better Political Conversations, Part 4

Can die-hard MAGA folks ever change? Yes, they can. And we can help them ⬇️

Police arrest clergy in U.S. Capitol rotunda.

Police arrest clergy in U.S. Capitol rotunda.

Police arrest clergy in U.S. Capitol rotunda.

Police arrest clergy in U.S. Capitol rotunda.

BREAKING: For the second time in two weeks, clergy and faith leaders have been arrested while praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, part of a larger protest against the GOP-led budget.