THE ACTIVIST RESOURCE LIST
Activism Guidebooks
Progressive Safety Alliance - comprehensive resource guide for progressive organizations with a focus on safety and security.
Activist Handbook - de-escalation tactics for protests and working together.
How to Lead Change without Burning Out - free book.
Breaking the Fourth Wall from Indivisible National about initiating political conversations with strangers.
Beautiful Trouble - stories, tactics, theories, ways of creatively creating action.
Immigration Resources & Support
Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition Coalición de Inmigración de Pensilvania - PIC Advocating for immigrants, migrants and refugees across the state of Pennsylvania. Abogando por inmigrantes, migrantes y refugiados en todo el estado de Pensilvania
CIC - Churches Improving Communities transforms lives through effective social justice and community service programming fueled by the passion and expertise of our staff and volunteers from faith communities of Central NJ.
CHIRLA - Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights - one of the largest and most effective advocates for immigrant rights, organizing, educating and defending immigrants and refugees in the streets, in the courts, and in the halls of power. Based in California.
ILRC - Immigrant Legal Resource Center is a national nonprofit resource center that provides immigration legal trainings, technical assistance, and educational materials, and engages in advocacy and immigrant civic engagement to advance immigrant rights.
Legal Council (National): https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/
Legal Council (Pennsylvania): https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=PA
Order or Print Red Cards: https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas
United We Dream - Since 2008, UWD’s members have been at the forefront advocating for immigrant rights. Together, we’ve won huge victories like DACA and, with you on our team, we are ready to win even more!
Information and Assistance Center for Mexicans (CIAM) - CIAM is a specialized call center that provides 24-hour assistance with a humane, professional, and timely response to the needs of Mexicans who contact them. En Espanol: Centro de Información y Asistencia a Personas Mexicanas CIAM El CIAM es un centro especializado de llamadas que brinda asistencia 24 horas al día con una respuesta humana, profesional y oportuna a las necesidades de las personas mexicanas que le consultan.
APPS:
ICE Block - this app allows users to anonymously report the location of ICE agents, including details like vehicle descriptions and uniforms. It then sends alerts to users within a five-mile radius of the reported sighting.
COQUI - Coquí is a live map-based community alert app. It allows you to mark what's happening near you... add a spot, check what others are seeing and stay connected in real time.
Security
*ALSO: see Podcasts below
How to Freeze Your Credit - Why do you need this? DOGE has likely compromised our personal data like our SSNs, freezing your credit is a way to safely protect yourself from fraud. It is free to do and needs to be done through all 3 credit bureaus. You can unfreeze it temporarily if you need to use your credit.
Link to FOIA form for DOGE - print, sign and mail in, you cannot email this document.
https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ak-raskin/images/Raskin_DOGE_Privacy_Request.pdf
Wired’s entire security section has up to date information on how to protect yourself and your data while living in the US and traveling abroad.
Wired: How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To - alternative digital services hosted abroad.
Non-U.S. Alternatives List for privacy, security, and digital sovereignty.
Surveillance Self Defense - very comprehensive guides to digital security, from basics to advanced.
Education and Training
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism Indivisible’s national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design.
CTC for Progress is an organization that trains volunteers to use “deep canvassing” —a highly personal, highly effective method—to stop Trumpist politics and help reconnect Americans with our democracy. Contact via email to attend a Story Workshop and learn deep canvassing.
https://ctc4progress.org/our-approach/info@ctc4progress.org.
The King Center has been a global champion of Dr. King’s philosophy and methodology of nonviolence. Our high-impact trainings and immersive programs help individuals and organizations drive transformational outcomes and reshape culture through the power of nonviolence. https://thekingcenter.org/nonviolence365-training/
The Resistance Lab is a series of trainings that are developed specifically for this moment & how non-violent movements around the world have responded to leaders who seize power in authoritarian ways and the most effective tools and tactics to utilize in these moments. Brought to you by Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
Freedom Trainers - Collective Noncooperation Training for these times
Purchase with Purpose
32 Amazon Alternatives
Goods Unite Us - Search for a brand - see its politics. Corporations earn profits off of your everyday purchases. And some of those profits are then donated to politicians and causes you might not agree with.
Don't Inflate Our Plates - real-time state-level grocery prices over the course of time. Their price calculation is based on historical trends, real-time supplier data, and market analysis to provide accurate pricing insights.
Websites that Track
Tracking Democratic Decline - comprehensive methodology that expands beyond the US to track where US democracy stands currently.
DOGE/Musk Tracker - a tracker that logs DOGE cuts and compares how much money they say they have saved versus how much they have actually saved.
Litigation Tracker - comprehensive litigation tracker following all legal challenges to the Trump administration.
https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/
Ad Fontes Media - media evaluation tracker for most accurate news reliability based on bias and fact check tracking, etc.
United States Disappear Tracker - tracking ICE movements throughout the US.
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map
ACA Sign Ups - tracking all ACA sign ups for all states, data can be accessed via pdf downloads based on state or district, useful for talking to representatives in areas that have high sign ups (they probably don’t know how many people are using ACA healthcare).
Impactivise - tracks corporations that maintain their DEI policy or update it.
Congressional Votes Database - tracks bills and how your representative voted.
Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis - Your trusted source for economic data since 1991, FRED is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources.
Action Oriented
Mobilize.us - Find events and volunteer opportunities by date, local, type or cause
Change.org - Change starts here. Start a petition or sign a petition.
Postcarding Campaigns https://cc4democracy.com/2025-cards
Postcards to Voters - write postcards to encourage people to vote.
Vote Forward - Vote Forward volunteers send heartfelt handwritten letters to unregistered and low-propensity voters encouraging them to participate in our democracy.
We the People Dissent - Bulletin board of protests, boycotts, call campaigns, etc.
50501 - 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement.
Find a Protest - Find protests and solidarity events near you — updated daily with actions in your community.
Allied Movements
The General Strike - our labor is our greatest STRENGTH and if we strike together we can make real change.
Unrig Our Economy is a campaign to fix the rules of our economy to make it work for working people. We’re fighting for working Americans and holding corporations, their wealthy executives, and the politicians who enable them accountable.
The People's Union USA - a movement of people, organizing to take back control of our economy, government and future of our country through the economic pressure of blackout boycotts.
Moonlight Movement - driving a four year strategy to stop democratic backsliding and reclaim and rebuild our democracy relying on strategies of creative constructive intervention.
Podcasts - Topic Specific
If you don’t have Spotify or a subscription to a podcast media group, Antenna Pod is an open source app that gives you access to all podcasts.
*Podcast: Uncanny Valley by Wired - up to date deep dives on tech, pay most attention to their personal security episodes.
https://open.spotify.com/show/11hUjoJv4FxFnw9r0mHIsC?si=c2e93c1887f44319
Podcast: Strict Scrutiny - three female professors and court scholars analyze Supreme Court rulings and writings, when court is not in session they highlight other scholars doing progressive work.
Podcast: The Anti Authoritarian Podcast - looks like they aren’t making new episodes, but a good resource for understanding our context.
*Episode: Protecting your phone, and your privacy, at the US border.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1fgFS5c7KEQq9OjIoCHVkA?si=5iRWsXE2QcKcF5-druBpHA
Episode: How Americans are surveilled during protests.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/50mqEYZHlSnFfek4zV79Dm?si=7Yj1IFIeQIyblwwRIffNEg
Episode: Protests, Political Violence and its Alternatives with Erica Chenoweth.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4gmaF8Wr5fNd7C3X29bEZY?si=324a9a66e0014772
Episode: Resisting Threats to Democracy with Rep. Robert Garcia.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/603ksqS9bpbTHEprF6CLfs?si=ad03a07f64fb476d
Recommended Media
We try to only post unpaywalled links, if it is paywalled you can search for the article at https://archive.ph/
How to Survive All This: A Disaster Survival Guide [focus on community and not lone survivor prep].
Turns Out You Can’t Brunch Through A Coup. Authoritarianism doesn’t survive on brutality alone. It needs our silence. Our compliance. Our polite head-nods. Our excuses. Our “I’m just not political” shoulder shrugs.
https://ladylibertie.substack.com/p/from-brunch-to-resistance-the-power
Fighting Back: A Citizen Guide to Resistance; Ordinary People Have More Power than they Know.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193193/fighting-back-citizen-guide-resistance
How to Be Kind in a World that is Monitoring You [digital security and privacy].
5 Ways to Stop Fascism with Paul Mason.
How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement: AOC, solidarity, people power
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-think-and-act-like-a-dissident-in-trumps-america
The Real Deep State: How the Right-Wing Captured America.
America’s Future is Hungary: MAGA Conservatives love Viktor Orban. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished. https://archive.ph/nGZ8D
I Should Have Seen This Coming by David Brooks.
17 Ways to Disrupt the Status Quo in Your Hometown
https://thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/17-ways-to-disrupt-the-status-quo
What to Do if the Insurrection Act is Invoked.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/what-to-do-if-the-insurrection-act-is-invoked/
The Revenue and Distributional Effects of IRS Funding.
https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/revenue-and-distributional-effects-irs-funding
‘They’ve Come to Collect’: Report Details Crisis of Billionaires Buying US Elections.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaires-election-americans-for-tax-fairness-musk
Why We Need a Strategic Global Boycott Against US Authoritarian Rule
Resistance is Alive and Well in the US - article mentioned by Erica Chenoweth in Resistance Lab.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resistance-alive-well-us/
Bucks County Local Organizations
Doylestown Action League
SURJ - Standing Up for Racial Justice. https://surj.org/chapter/surj
Democratic Socialists of America. https://dsalb.org/
Renew Democracy 250
One People
Red, Wine & Blue
Sunrise Movement - Princeton Hub
https://www.sunrisemovement.org/hubssunrisemvmtprinceton@gmail.com