Don’t overthink: just click something!
Help others vote
Voting is confusing, until you know how to do it. Help a first-time voter research issues and candidates, or offer rides to the polls for people who struggle with transportation.
Once a person votes, they are far more likely to vote again. Find your starfish, and help them vote!
Watch CECOT
Hours before airing, 60-minutes redacted its coverage of U.S. treatment of “detained” immigrants. They forgot to cancel it on streaming services to Canada though, and some quick-thinking Canadian filmed his TV and posted it online. Within an hour it was popping up — then getting redacted — across the internet. Watch what they try to hide.
Commission art
Are you looking for a unique gift that supports resistance and the local community? Find a small-time artist who accepts commissions for bespoke work, and have something created for someone you love—or yourself!
Commissioning art takes some faith and flexibility, but it creates a truly meaningful gift or memory. From tattoo flash to a mural on…
Good Neighbors
Create relationships in your neighborhood. Do it formally through a neighborhood project, or take the next step with someone. Wave, borrow a cup of sugar and take back cookies, or invite them to dinner. Start slow and build.
This is especially easy to do over the holiday season when dropping by with cookies or inviting folks…
Get Certified Documents
Get certified copies of your birth certificate and any documents that track name changes since that point. This includes ALL marriage and divorce certificates for many women. If you need any federal papers (passports, etc.) or to file changes to services like Social Security, put in your requests now. Another government shutdown is likely in…
Audit your TV
Write down every radio, TV and cable source you get news or programming from. When you have a complete list, look up who owns them. If you don’t like the answers, or you don’t have much diversity, replace some of your sources.
Committee for the First Amendment
The Committee for the First Amendment was a McCarthy era resistance group out of Hollywood. Jane Fonda’s father was a founder, and she has re-launched the group. They’re starting with a bang, with an interview with Filipino-American journalist, social media researcher, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa. We highly recommend watching it!
Local Gift Certificates
It’s panic-buying time! I know…we weren’t going to, but we are, aren’t we? Remember this: you can buy gift certificates to local businesses, restaurants or even “chamber of commerce” gift certificates good for multiple places. Skip Starbucks and Amazon, and support small businesses with your last-minute purchases.
Activist Training
WAISN is holding a bilingual Rapid Response Training. It will address how to document ICE actions, and discuss ways to support affected families. The latter will include regionally specific information. bit.ly/decrr
https://www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/873155
Resolutions
If making NYE resolutions is your tradition, include resistance! There are hundreds of ways to focus on resistance, or to sneak it into things you already wanted to do. From “call Congress once a week” to looking for a better job, make resistance part of your thinking. Click through for inspiration.
Snack stop
Do you run a mutual-aid or community-building space? Set up a temporary snack stop. Just clear a bookshelf or table and put out a bowl of healthy snacks for anyone who is hungry. It’s an easy way to help feed people who aren’t used to needing help.
Or convert a little free library into a pantry…
Thrift Better
Goodwill is convenient, but commercial, and religious charities may discriminate in distribution efforts. What to do? Most areas have at least a few thrift stores designed to benefit a specific target cause: DV victims or immigrants or animals. Specialty thrifts may also focus on a particular kind of goods that other stores reject. ReStore specializes…
Resist Unlawful Orders
Enlisted members of the military can’t just quit, or refuse orders. They can refuse illegal orders, but it’s risky: get it wrong, and you’ll go to military prison. Stand with veterans in Congress who just issued a PSA about this responsibility. Click to learn how.
Map ICE
Gestapo-like abductions are happening wherever you are. Bring attention to this fact with signs documenting where people have been snatched. Use chalk, stencils, yellow flowers or other markers to let passers-by know an atrocity occurred here, where they live.
Schedule Resistance
During the busy holiday season it’s hard to find time for everything. Pick some simple, realistic things you can do to keep resistance in mind, and schedule them. Important things go on the calendar! If you really don’t think you have time, browse our Holiday Resistance Guide: https://simpleresistance.us/tag/holidays/
Armed Allies
Do you have family or friends in the military? Reach out today, especially if they’re deployed or can’t get home. If you’re estranged, click through for tips and how to reconnect. MAGA is quiet-quitting. Outreach can help. The first step is to crack the door.
Patron of Protest
Are you a tired older person with art skills, an introvert with more money than energy, or just…protests aren’t your thing?
Support someone who has more energy than money, more messages than artistic talent, or just needs a ride.
End pot prohibition
The modern drug war was invented in the early 70s to target counter-culture resistance. Alcohol and tobacco, both more dangerous to individuals and society than marijuana is, were exempted based on politics, not science.
The continuing resolution passed in November 2025 has a sleeper clause that will outlaw products containing CDB in one year. This is…
Starve Amazon
If you still have an Amazon account or use a Kindle or Ring (and lets face it, millions of people do) there are more ways than boycott to protest Amazon. Today we turn off tracking. It’s a win-win for you: targeted ads are designed to appeal to your impulses, not your needs, and they fuel…
Buy Bling
Get a t-shirt, jewelry, lanyard, pin, button, sticker…something that lets people know where you stand. I recently complimented a rainbow-flag peeking out from a doctor’s busy lanyard. She said she wasn’t sure anyone noticed. I told her the people who need it, see it.
Small Spectacles
It’s hard to bring tens of thousands together if the roads turn to ice, so protests have shifted smaller in the winter months. That doesn’t mean they aren’t happening: there are protests organizing around January 6th (the insurrection) and January 20th (the inauguration.) Find a local protest and join, even if it’s just for an…
Cultural Calendaring
Put other communities’ holidays on your calendar, and post culturally appropriate greetings. Attend events or shop at craft fairs. Expose yourself to other traditions through the holiday season!
HANUKKAH STARTS TONIGHT: DEC14-22
Protest Safety
if you (or your partner) are worried about protest safety Oct18th, start small. Find a corner or overpass event today and drive past, honking encouragingly. If it looks fine, park and walk by to get a feel for it. Stop for fifteen minutes, or say hello and make new friends. Click through for much more.
Carry Cash
Get cash-back at the grocery and spend it with a small vendor this weekend. Buy a pastry and tip cash, or pick up a gift at a craft fair, using cash. Small businesses are hit extra hard by credit card fees, so carry cash and use it wherever vendors prefer it.
Show Up
Movies teach us resistance is about complicated plots and brave attacks, but mostly, it isn’t. Resistance is about sticking together and refusing to give up. Yesterday I felt blue, and first a friend mentioned getting a good idea on this site, then another friend showed up to laugh and eat at a public Chanukiah lighting….
Small Businesses Resist!
Minocqua Brewing is leading an online organization of small businesses fighting back. The Minocqua Marketplace is an online “mall” of small businesses dedicated to resisting the Trump regime. Each business is vetted, and most donate a portion of proceeds to the fight. (See each product for details.) Shop by the 12th for Christmas delivery. …
Trevor Project
The Trevor Project’s purpose is to end suicide among LGBTQ+ youth. They maintain a help line, engage in advocacy work, do research and much more.
This week, in honor of Transgender Awareness Week, we encourage you to make a donation to the Trevor Project.
Boycott Fatigue
There are numerous Thanksgiving boycotts being proposed, but we endorse the “We Ain’t Buying It” call from Black Voters Matter. The gist: avoid big box stores and especially Target, Home Depot and Amazon. Delete shopping apps and support small businesses, particularly minority owned ones. Click through for links and details.
Feed People
Food insecurity is only going to get worse in America. Between rising grocery prices, crops lost due to climate change and deportation, and new, draconian SNAP requirements, people are going to be hungry. In February funding is back on the table, and while SNAP can’t be held hostage this time (thanks Democrats!) furloughed and unpaid…
Sign of the Times
We’ve all seen great protest signs. Some go viral, getting picked up around the nation, while others make us think or laugh. Here are some tips for creating memorable, resistant signs.
Believe Victims
Read a statement by one or more of Epstein’s trafficking survivors or one of the many witnesses corroborating their stories. Share a summary of what you learned.
While attention is once again on “the Epstein files” the victims have told us who the clients were many times.
Postcards to Voters
Write postcards to voters in Tennessee District 7. Speaker Johnson has refused to seat Adelita Grijalva (AZ, 7th) for more than a month. He’s hoping Republicans win this Tennessee race, neutralizing Adelita’s vote to open the Epstein files. Deny Johnson the satisfaction! Write postcards to voters!
“Did it” Diary
Instead of a resolution, could we suggest a recollection? Pause to remember everything you’ve done to resist! If you’re just getting started or always draw a blank, then start a “did-it diary” for the coming year!
Scouting America
Remember all the boy scout controversy, from pedophile coverups to gender wars? They’ve been working to tackle those issues…and are now under attack on the right for “going woke.”
Many troops operate Christmas Tree lots, or have pick-up services. If you stopped going because they were problematic, look again!
Splurge!
Splurge on a small treat for yourself. If money is tight, it can be practical, so long as it feels like a reward. New shoes, food you only indulge in occasionally, art supplies…
If money is tight, take items you know you’ll need and wrap them up so they feel special during this season. Find a…
Elevated Access
Elevated Access provides free flights on private planes for patients seeking politicized medical care including abortion and gender-affirming treatment. Donate to them, buy cool merchandise, or learn about the program and spread the word.
https://www.elevatedaccess.org/
Small Bookstores
Before the internet, bookstores were the commons for information and community. Today, like all local brick-and-mortar, they’re nearly extinct. We can’t fight oligarchs without addressing monopoly, so one of the ways we resist is through supporting local business. Buy your books locally when you can. Or buy from Bookshop.org, which shares a portion of every…
Have some fun!
Buy tickets for yourself (and a friend?) and attend a local entertainment event, especially if it’s a benefit for a cause you value! Musicians, spoken word poets, theater—joy is resistance!
Choose venues and artists who live in your region, and spend what you can to bolster the local community. The economic downturns hit artists hard.
Imagine Hope
Before fascism descended, we had real problems. Now we have all those problems, 99 new ones, and a cartoon gestapo. It’s easy to give up hope, but critical that we remember what we’re fighting for.
So what are you fighting for? Going back to 2015 is impossible—and kind of depressing at this point. So what do…
Leave Reviews
From restaurants to books, small businesses rely on word of mouth and reviews. As shipping windows close for the holidays, many people will turn to big box options. Boost local businesses online with reviews and by talking about them. Ask for recommendations on social media, and then shop there. There’s still time to minimize Big…