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Donate: Black Storytelling
As we head towards Juneteenth, donate to the National Association of Black Storytellers: “NABS promotes and perpetuates the art of Black storytelling—an art form which embodies the history, heritage, and culture of African Americans.” They host an annual conference, and offer free storytelling for qualifying institutions: nabsgriots.org
Data Center Dump
Data centers are the new arms race, being sold on the same existential risk: if we don’t beat China, we’re doomed! In reality, the U.S. already has ten times as many data centers as the next nation, China comes in fourth, and we can’t survive the water and power requirements of the centers already planned….
Entertainment Budget
Shift your spending from massive corporations to small artists, local venues, or better companies. Replace a Sinclair station with PBS Passport, buy from bookshop.org instead of Amazon or dump Spotify. Search local news for a concert, comedy show or art festival today!
Whistle Resistance
Alt Natl Parks says there is a nationwide ICE surge in the first week of July. If your community uses whistles to warn vulnerable people to the presence of ICE activity, pull them out of storage. If you need a refresher on the rules (don’t whistle over rapid responders!) click through.
Learn to deescalate
Deescalation isn’t just for protests—it might be useful at family gatherings or in a public restroom! Brush up on ways to reduce conflict and sooth confrontational individuals, whether it’s a MAGA counter-protester or good old Uncle Tim.
Hiding people
Today we build relationships and resources for targeted neighbors. Whether you have “a guy” who does the yard, or a roofing crew coming in, day-labor professions are being targeted and citizenship is ignored in ICE sweeps. Today we prepare: give some thought to your resources and connections and what you can do to be ready…
Trevor Project
LGBTQ teen suicide rates track with support: just one support person can reduce risk significantly. Amid an escalating war on transgender Americans the Trevor Project’s anti-suicide work is more important than ever. Please consider a donation.
NorCal Resist
NorCal Resist has some of the most comprehensive mutual aid plans we’ve seen. From legal help to clinics to fix taillights (a common excuse for pullovers) they’ve set the standard for resistance as community. If you aren’t sure where to help, help NorCal.
Elevated Access
Elevated Access provides free flights on private planes for patients seeking politicized medical care including abortion and gender-affirming treatment. Yesterday a court ruled that the safest form of abortion in America can’t be mailed or prescribed through telehealth, so donate to elevatedaccess.org today.
Protest Playlist
Are you puttering around the house, doing laundry and getting ready for another busy week? Put on a protest playlist to fire up your motivation and help you keep resistance on the chore list. Click through for starter lists on various platforms, or curate your own mix-tape of songs that fire you up.
Phone Bank
Did your candidate just win a primary! How exciting! As the winning team, it’s time to get to work! Whether your win was an upset or the same-old incumbent, your real work starts now: some of the voters didn’t love your pick, and you need to convince them.
If you were passionate enough to argue with…
Trans Rights
Before Pride month ends, commit to ongoing defense of our vulnerable neighbors. Use translegislation.com to check for anti-trans measures in your state. Take the time to learn about the measures — look for information from GLAAD or other queer-rights groups. If you’re uncomfortable or feel uninformed, they can help with that, or click through for…
Cultural Calendaring
Did Juneteenth sneak up on you? Spend some time today putting important cultural dates on your calendar and learning appropriate ways to recognize them through allyship, learning or when appropriate, celebration! One way to start: look for summer festivals tied to minority communities in your area. There will be groups tabling who are thrilled to…
Roadtrip
Got some vacation saved up and itching for a roadtrip? Like the idea of vacations with a greater purpose, but not into getting your hands literally dirty? Why not volunteer to door-knock for a candidate you admire, even if they aren’t local! Check out CommonPower.org
Travel
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness” – Mark Twain. Make a plan to spend time in another country if you can. Even a lunch trip to Canada can remind you that our nation didn’t always feel like this. If you can’t risk a border crossing, or can’t afford international travel, plan a trip…
Black History
For Juneteenth, spend some time learning about the American history you never learned. Click through for lists of books and movies to get you started, or search #blackhistorymonth (useful year-round!) and follow Black pages willing to educate. Black Americans fought for liberation with far less power than we have today. Don’t give up; get educated!
Prepare your household for emergencies
Weather is getting more extreme, and FEMA is disabled. Being self-sufficient has always been a good idea, but now it’s essential. Make a plan, then pick one task to do today. Schedule the next step for a week or a month out. Slow steady steps lead to success!
Witness Our Crimes
CONTENT WARNING : there’s nothing simple about reading a torture report, but we think it’s important for every American to know our taxes are being used to actively torture people into “self-deporting.” If you are able, be a witness and spread the word, call congress, and fund the ACLU.
“I can’t protest”
Can’t protest? Help boost the signal: watch the livestream, join the virtual protest, drive friends to the location, or counter online suppression by interacting and posting. Click through for more than two-dozen for ways to be supportive without attending.
Boycott Starbucks
The Starbucks strike began November 13th, and expanded to 2,500 baristas November 28th. In December they began camping outside headquarters, and still no negotiations. Don’t buy Starbucks! If you have gift cards, either hold them, or donate to unhoused neighbors.
Support Public Media
NRP and PBS are in our hands now. Federal funding is gone, but hey, that just means the regime has no influence! Step up and help preserve the most independent media we still have! Replace a problematic channel with PBS Passport, or just buy a cool tote bag.
Crack ICE
ICE is quieter under revised leadership, but no less brutal. It’s currently *refusing* to deport a woman to the country it deported her ill 2yo to. Sludge media has created an interactive map of ICE contractors around the nation, so we can pressure the businesses that make ICE possible. Contact someone near you today.
Search Options
As of Tuesday May 26th, 2026 Google Search is AI-first. In a nutshell they’re moving towards searches returning an AI-only experience, though it will not be a default at first. Try udm14, Duck Duck Go or Kagi as alternatives.
Subversive Snacks
Bring snacks in containers decorated with non-partisan constitutional messages, or with generic images now irrationally labelled progressive (like rainbows.) Joining mild triggers with positive rewards can counter reactivity. Associating treats with ideas works for humans, too.
Support local farming
It’s Farmer’s Market season! Take some cash and buy some flowers, fresh rhubarb, or just get a coffee and enjoy community! Go to an old favorite, or try a new location in a nearby city! Farmers need all the help they can get this year.
Whimsy
Fascism wants us scared and drawn out, and it gives us plenty of reasons to feel that way. Push back with whimsy : use your arts or crafts skills to put together joyful, humorous or entertaining resistance messages. Pictured: Kim’s adorable resistance gnomes. They make me happy every time I see them. What could you…
Food Banks need Cash
Food banks can stretch your dollar further by buying what they really need at wholesale. If the holiday season feels busy don’t grab a few sale cans to throw in a box — donate that money to the food bank directly. If you’re able, make it recurring.
Amazon tips
Amazon Tips Amazon’s Holiday tip program is underway!Type “Thank my driver” into the app or web site (while logged in) and your most recent delivery driver gets a $5 tip, paid by Amazon. It’s that simple! The program is capped at $10 million in tips, so let’s make sure they spend it all. There is…
Half-Ass It
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly! Go to the protest without a sign – you still count. Call your Senator and rant at the machine. Donate $5 when you can. Replace some of your Amazon purchases with local stores. If reading a history book is overwhelming, listen to inspiring fiction. Embrace the power…
FCC: People Belong!
The FCC wants to slap warning labels on people. This is pure fascism, and the comment period ends May 22nd! Visit GLAAD for information and a link to comment: https://glaad.org/fcc
Holiday Planning
It isn’t too late to de-commercialize your holidays! Shift away from flashy events and gifts, toward meaningful memories, or add some mutual aid days to the busy calendar now! If it feels too late to make changes this year, lay the groundwork for edits next year.
Mark 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, posters, or pop-up protests to let passers-by know an atrocity occurred right here, where they live.
Trump Pass
The 2026 America the Beautiful Park Pass features Trump’s face (alongside Washington’s.) There are lawsuits, but if you’d rather NOT stare at Trump’s face every time you access a National Park, go get one before the end of December. It’s good for twelve months and features 2025 designs.
Fight Lies
Truth matters, but it’s harder to identify than ever before. Learn tactics for vetting sources, and how to use a “truth sandwich” to debunk false information you encounter. Fascism tries to get you to give up on the truth, and it’s never had better tools…but objective reality exists!
Taxes
If you get a big refund April 15th, it means you loaned the government interest-free money. Adjust your W-2 withholding to withhold less. Aim for no refund, and a bill under $1000 next April. This is not a tax protest. It’s your legal right to adjust withholding.
Jury nullification
You’ve heard of jury nullification, but do you know what it is, or how to do it? This once-obscure move has already protected several citizens facing serious charges for trivial crimes like throwing a sandwich at ICE agents. Learn how it works and spread the word BEFORE you’re sequestered in a jury room.
Spread hope
Buy some fun post-it notes, stationery, or even a printer, and start leaving inspiring messages all around town and anywhere you travel for people to find, like tiny, any-time protest signs.
Imagine Hope
Before fascism descended, we had real problems. Now we have all those and more. It’s easy to give up hope, but critical that we remember what we’re fighting for. Imagine what you WANT, not just what you’re afraid of. Brainstorm steps to build what you want with a friend, or throw a Hope Party!
Characters
From Portland’s Fearless Frog to historic characters with a message, costumes add spectacle and defray the fear-based messaging of the right.
Create a persona for your protesting activities. Make it silly or pointed — it’s dress-up time!
Impeach Trump
The Overton Window is the set of ideas most people consider normal positions. We need to keep it at “impeachment is necessary, and we must do it as soon as we can.” We also need to start talking about impeaching corrupt SCOTUS judges — did you know that’s an option? Lay the groundwork now, for…