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Democracy as Infrastructure
A Call to Action for Progressive Leaders
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The fight against authoritarianism IS the fight for economic justice, racial equity, gender liberation, and environmental survival.
We have to build broad coalitions *and* maintain clear democratic vision. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/building-e...
Building Effective Democratic Coalitions
A Strategic Guide
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We have to build broad coalitions *and* maintain clear democratic vision. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/building-e...
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Trump doesn't care that his deployment of the National Guard is dangerous — but the governors deploying these Guard members should.
We're calling on Governors Ivey, Kemp, Landry, Reeves, DeWine, Lee, and Morrisey to recall their Guard members from DC. Email all seven: bit.ly/seven-governors
We're calling on Governors Ivey, Kemp, Landry, Reeves, DeWine, Lee, and Morrisey to recall their Guard members from DC. Email all seven: bit.ly/seven-governors
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Trump doesn't care that his deployment of the National Guard is dangerous — but the governors deploying these Guard members should.
We're calling on Governors Ivey, Kemp, Landry, Reeves, DeWine, Lee, and Morrisey to recall their Guard members from DC. Email all seven: bit.ly/seven-governors
We're calling on Governors Ivey, Kemp, Landry, Reeves, DeWine, Lee, and Morrisey to recall their Guard members from DC. Email all seven: bit.ly/seven-governors
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People are actively building a more democratic and inclusive economy. Thanks to BRED in Baltimore, cooperative businesses are being established and supported, providing empowering and dignified jobs to working people.
There is an alternative to the status quo. It's called economic democracy.
There is an alternative to the status quo. It's called economic democracy.
BRED: Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy
A worker-led intervention to catalyze a more cooperative economy in Baltimore and beyond.
baltimoreroundtable.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
People are actively building a more democratic and inclusive economy. Thanks to BRED in Baltimore, cooperative businesses are being established and supported, providing empowering and dignified jobs to working people.
There is an alternative to the status quo. It's called economic democracy.
There is an alternative to the status quo. It's called economic democracy.
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Last Thursday, Speaker Destin Hall told a reporter “ICE and CBP have a difficult job… we just ask that they come back.” We just didn’t know he meant Thanksgiving week.
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Last Thursday, Speaker Destin Hall told a reporter “ICE and CBP have a difficult job… we just ask that they come back.” We just didn’t know he meant Thanksgiving week.
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The only way to fight massive global corporations like Amazon is with global resistance. Solidarity is our best weapon against fascism. #WeAintBuyingIt #PeoplePower
Global Black Friday Strikes Against Amazon Target 'Techno-Authoritarian' Assault on Workers | Common Dreams
"We are joining Make Amazon Pay to demand the most basic rights: safety, dignity, and the chance to go home alive," said one Amazon worker from India.
www.commondreams.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The only way to fight massive global corporations like Amazon is with global resistance. Solidarity is our best weapon against fascism. #WeAintBuyingIt #PeoplePower
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As part of this year's Cultural Week of Action, @ndncollective.bsky.social's activation at #JustNarratives showcased the power of screenprinting alongside narrative strategists, cultural workers, and movement builders who understand the power of authentic stories rooted in liberation.
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
As part of this year's Cultural Week of Action, @ndncollective.bsky.social's activation at #JustNarratives showcased the power of screenprinting alongside narrative strategists, cultural workers, and movement builders who understand the power of authentic stories rooted in liberation.
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Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
We’re entering a new phase of the resistance
Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
As we start #16Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence, remember: authoritarianism increases violence against women and children. Women-led anti-violence movements show us the way to the democracy that's possible.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
As we start #16Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence, remember: authoritarianism increases violence against women and children. Women-led anti-violence movements show us the way to the democracy that's possible.
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NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action - www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/... - tomorrow 11/25 at 5pm/PT 8pm ET
NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action · National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Join a national call to debrief this past weekend’s viral ICE Scraper action, strengthen our nonviolent strategy, and coordinate safe, visible actions nationwide.
Learn how communities are organizing ...
www.mobilize.us
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action - www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/... - tomorrow 11/25 at 5pm/PT 8pm ET
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Reports suggest that U.S. Customs and Border Protection operation known as “Charlotte’s Web” has officially ended after just 5 days.
Cheers to everyone in Charlotte who organized hard to protect communities and let ICE know they are not welcome!
Cheers to everyone in Charlotte who organized hard to protect communities and let ICE know they are not welcome!
ICE Operation "Charlotte's Web" is over: What we know
The CBP operation ended, but ICE will continue normal enforcement as Mecklenburg Sheriff McFadden pledges transparency and trust.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Reports suggest that U.S. Customs and Border Protection operation known as “Charlotte’s Web” has officially ended after just 5 days.
Cheers to everyone in Charlotte who organized hard to protect communities and let ICE know they are not welcome!
Cheers to everyone in Charlotte who organized hard to protect communities and let ICE know they are not welcome!
Authoritarianism systematically increases violence against women and children through state sanctioning of patriarchal authority.
Women-led anti-violence movements are powerful democratizing forces. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/authoritar...
Women-led anti-violence movements are powerful democratizing forces. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/authoritar...
Authoritarianism Increases Violence Against Women and Children
Institutional Mechanisms of State-Sanctioned Patriarchy
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Authoritarianism systematically increases violence against women and children through state sanctioning of patriarchal authority.
Women-led anti-violence movements are powerful democratizing forces. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/authoritar...
Women-led anti-violence movements are powerful democratizing forces. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/authoritar...
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For people who have to wade through the noise of mass media, it seems as there’s someone telling us what to do or think, writes columnist @williamcson.bsky.social in his latest “Another way out.” Facing a wave of misinformation & manipulated algorithms, resistance starts with choosing how we listen.
Another way out: Finding clarity for resistance
Facing a wave of misinformation and the manipulation of algorithms, resistance starts with choosing how we listen, not just how we speak
prismreports.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
For people who have to wade through the noise of mass media, it seems as there’s someone telling us what to do or think, writes columnist @williamcson.bsky.social in his latest “Another way out.” Facing a wave of misinformation & manipulated algorithms, resistance starts with choosing how we listen.
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Today marks Trans Day of Remembrance. This day is an opportunity to remember and mourn our trans siblings who have been lost to hate and violence.
As we honor their legacy and remember the past, we can seize their courage and use it to create a brighter and safer future for all of us.
As we honor their legacy and remember the past, we can seize their courage and use it to create a brighter and safer future for all of us.
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today marks Trans Day of Remembrance. This day is an opportunity to remember and mourn our trans siblings who have been lost to hate and violence.
As we honor their legacy and remember the past, we can seize their courage and use it to create a brighter and safer future for all of us.
As we honor their legacy and remember the past, we can seize their courage and use it to create a brighter and safer future for all of us.
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Love thy neighbor, no exceptions!
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf is one of the members of the clergy who was arrested over the weekend while praying and peacefully protesting the treatment of immigrants at the Broadview ICE facility near Chicago.
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf is one of the members of the clergy who was arrested over the weekend while praying and peacefully protesting the treatment of immigrants at the Broadview ICE facility near Chicago.
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Love thy neighbor, no exceptions!
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf is one of the members of the clergy who was arrested over the weekend while praying and peacefully protesting the treatment of immigrants at the Broadview ICE facility near Chicago.
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf is one of the members of the clergy who was arrested over the weekend while praying and peacefully protesting the treatment of immigrants at the Broadview ICE facility near Chicago.
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Shout out to @steadystatevets.bsky.social @npquarterly.bsky.social @22ci.bsky.social @pbs.org @legalafmtn.bsky.social and others for the insights and inspiration this month! Check out our November Vista. https://horizonsproject.us/the-vista-november-2025/
#Democracy
#Democracy
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Shout out to @steadystatevets.bsky.social @npquarterly.bsky.social @22ci.bsky.social @pbs.org @legalafmtn.bsky.social and others for the insights and inspiration this month! Check out our November Vista. https://horizonsproject.us/the-vista-november-2025/
#Democracy
#Democracy
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"Bovino is basically leading a rebel cavalry, a la Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who raided and terrorized communities in...the Civil War. That latter analogy holds up particularly well in one specific respect: Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war."
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"Bovino is basically leading a rebel cavalry, a la Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who raided and terrorized communities in...the Civil War. That latter analogy holds up particularly well in one specific respect: Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war."
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Community organizations are training volunteers to monitor federal immigration enforcement activities as operation “Charlotte’s Web” enters its third day in the Charlotte area.
Community groups train volunteers to monitor Border Patrol operations in Charlotte
Residents learned to document immigration enforcement activities as operation "Charlotte's Web" continues
www.wbtv.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Community organizations are training volunteers to monitor federal immigration enforcement activities as operation “Charlotte’s Web” enters its third day in the Charlotte area.
Disinformation is not about truth, it's about division.
The most strategic thing we can do is refuse to be divided from potential allies. We combat disinformation with organizing. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/how-author...
The most strategic thing we can do is refuse to be divided from potential allies. We combat disinformation with organizing. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/how-author...
How Authoritarian Disinformation Works
Divide, Exhaust, Paralyze
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Disinformation is not about truth, it's about division.
The most strategic thing we can do is refuse to be divided from potential allies. We combat disinformation with organizing. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/how-author...
The most strategic thing we can do is refuse to be divided from potential allies. We combat disinformation with organizing. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/how-author...
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Drawing inspiration from other Gen Z movements, Peruvians have removed one scandal-plagued president and are now mobilizing against her right-wing successor.
Youth-led protesters ousted Peru’s president, and they’re not done
Drawing inspiration from other Gen Z movements, Peruvians have removed one scandal-plagued president and are now mobilizing against her right-wing successor.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Drawing inspiration from other Gen Z movements, Peruvians have removed one scandal-plagued president and are now mobilizing against her right-wing successor.
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I cannot express how important it is for anyone going through a secured checkpoint like TSA to make sure thier phone is in BFU (Before First Unlock) mode. To enter this state: reboot your phone and don't unlock it.
In BFU mode all data is encrypted and your phone requires a passcode to unlock.
In BFU mode all data is encrypted and your phone requires a passcode to unlock.
I was just asked for my phone (to swipe the outside for whatever) for the 1st time during a “random” TSA extra screening for a domestic flight - i told them i didn’t consent to a search of the phone, made sure there were no notifications visible & it was locked and didn’t let it out of my sight…
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I cannot express how important it is for anyone going through a secured checkpoint like TSA to make sure thier phone is in BFU (Before First Unlock) mode. To enter this state: reboot your phone and don't unlock it.
In BFU mode all data is encrypted and your phone requires a passcode to unlock.
In BFU mode all data is encrypted and your phone requires a passcode to unlock.
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Today marked Day One of Customs and Border Patrol’s Charlotte Operation. And as we’ve come to expect from these operations, federal agents targeted workers throughout Charlotte and the surrounding areas.
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Today marked Day One of Customs and Border Patrol’s Charlotte Operation. And as we’ve come to expect from these operations, federal agents targeted workers throughout Charlotte and the surrounding areas.
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🧵*11/13/2025 noncooperation thread*
A daily-ish thread of acts of defiance by individuals, communities, & institutions.
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Across the country & in every constituency:
civil servants
religious leaders
electeds
the military
lawyers
judges
teachers
librarians
neighbors with whistles
We The People.
A daily-ish thread of acts of defiance by individuals, communities, & institutions.
*
Across the country & in every constituency:
civil servants
religious leaders
electeds
the military
lawyers
judges
teachers
librarians
neighbors with whistles
We The People.
In case you haven't read it yet - check out @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social wonderful look back on the resistant to Trump in this past year.
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🧵*11/13/2025 noncooperation thread*
A daily-ish thread of acts of defiance by individuals, communities, & institutions.
*
Across the country & in every constituency:
civil servants
religious leaders
electeds
the military
lawyers
judges
teachers
librarians
neighbors with whistles
We The People.
A daily-ish thread of acts of defiance by individuals, communities, & institutions.
*
Across the country & in every constituency:
civil servants
religious leaders
electeds
the military
lawyers
judges
teachers
librarians
neighbors with whistles
We The People.