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 whole roundup reads like a country waking up and remembering its spine. Every time Trump tries to rule by fear, people link arms in the snow, in the rain, in front of courthouses and airports, and say the same thing: no.
Authoritarianism keeps betting that Americans will get tired. But every raid blocked, every boycott launched, every kid in Maine who walked out of school to defend a friend says otherwise.
Blessed be the ones who refuse to let cruelty become normal.
Today, December 6, begins the next phase of REFUSE FASCISM'S sustained resistance - THE OCCUPY DC conversion has begun and it's not too late to join them:
This IS NOT a one day march or rally - it's a sustained celebration of the beginning of the end of the tRump's regime!
Updated: Call for Action from Robin Liberte:
Today begins the next phase of sustained resistance—seven days of organizing, escalating, and refusing to back down. It all culminates on Saturday, Dec 13, when we launch Surround the White House 2.0: The People’s Indictment of Donald J. Trump.
Show up at the White House at 2PM. Stand with the people. Help write the next chapter of this movement.
For those of you criticizing me for supporting the Blackouts and Strike because they hurt poor people and small businesses consider this -
"DC doesn’t feel the same as it did even a year ago. One night during my trip, I went back to a restaurant I’d visited last year. Back then, the place was buzzing, so packed that you had to put your name on a waiting list just to get in. This time, I arrived during peak dinner hours, and the dining room was almost empty. I asked the workers what had changed. They told me that ever since Donald Trump ordered the National Guard onto DC streets and increased ICE patrols, business has collapsed. People are scared, and if this keeps up, they don’t know how much longer they can ride this out for.
This is what happens when politicians use military presence and immigration crackdowns to score political points: local businesses collapse, workers lose their jobs, and entire communities are pushed into fear.” ~Carlos Eduardo Espina
The tRump's government shutdown also hurts the poor and millions more.
For those of you who are bitching that I comment too much. I don't write on behalf of myself. I write in support of the National Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance.
Many of the writers and broadcasters, their readers and I have a common goal - to bring down the tRump, his administration from hell, his ICE henchmen and the billionaire oligarchs that own and control them all!
I'm not a computer scientist but I do know that the more comments my favorite writers get the stronger their Substack's become. Our country's true leaders are telling us that - the People are the only ones with the power to end this nightmare. The writers/journalists know that spreading the word is the most powerful tool we have to support this new Civil Rights Movement! All of our resistance efforts have failed to bring down the tRump. They fail because the majority of Americans never hear about them.
Most of the organizers are volunteers, many are seniors. They are not professionals. They are not oligarchs with unlimited marketing funds. They don't have corporate sponsors. I found a way to support the organizers and broadcasters at the same time by listening to the broadcasts while using the comments to support the organizers. The writers, the journalist and the resistance organizers all benefit from my comments. United we stand, divided we fall.
I never ask for people to follow me but, my Substack continues to grow. People want to help. They appreciate having optional ways to defeat the tRump. I am already struggling to keep up with my readers I want to respond to them all but I don't have enough time anymore. Unfortunately, my notifications disappear if I can't get to them fast enough (apologies to those I don't get to reply back to). So I was happy to discover that I could save time using the comments while listening to my favorite broadcasters.
No one makes anyone read my comments or anyone else's. Bypass them if you don't like them. Block me if you don't want to see them. If you don't want to save our democracy and restore our civil liberties don't read anything I write.
Thanks for reading. Thanks for supporting the Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance!
Check your grocery receipts carefully. Kroger's got caught cheating customers. Watch America's Professor, Robert Reich video about this scam. He warns Americans to beware - other grocery stores may be cheating you too.
"On Thursday (November 13, 2025), more than a thousand Starbucks baristas walked off the job — demanding better hours, more pay, and better working conditions and threatening to escalate their protests if Starbucks didn’t deliver. (You can support them by boycotting Starbucks.)" ~America's Professor, Robert Reich
Stand with Professor Reich, Zohran Mamdani, New Yorkers and Starbucks employees across the country!
“Google is a machine — an infinity machine — designed to scale endlessly, consuming human behavior and spitting out wealth, compliance, surveillance, and control. A machine so deeply embedded in our lives that resisting it feels like cutting out an organ.” ~Notes from the Apocalypse
The Union of American Consumers has one simple goal. NOTHING BUT WATER until we have Universal Healthcare for all Americans!
You, the American consumer, are the single most powerful person in this country. American consumers spent 19 trillion dollars of their hard earned money in 2023. And YOU, the consumer can use that spending power to send this message to those in power: you work for me--I do not work for you.
The Union of American Consumers aims to focus consumer power to leverage corporations to lobby for working people instead of the their own interests. Our first initiative is simple: we only drink tap water until a single-payer universal healthcare system is passed in congress.
A universal single-payer healthcare system in the U.S. could be funded by modestly increasing taxes on the wealthiest individuals while reducing overall national healthcare spending through efficiency and price negotiation. Instead of paying premiums, deductibles, and copays to private insurers, everyone would contribute through taxes and receive comprehensive medical care free at the point of service. Studies show that this approach could save hundreds of billions annually in administrative costs and make healthcare more affordable for most families. Lower and middle-income households would pay less overall, while higher-income earners would contribute more, creating a fairer, simpler system that guarantees healthcare as a right for every American.
So join our movement. We can all go without alcohol, bottled beverages, coffee, soda, tea, etc. What we can't do is continue to support a broken healthcare system that primarily disadvantages the poor and working-class people of our country.
Learn more about The Union of American Consumers | We control our future:
The Whos down in Whoville taught us that we don't the gifts, decorations or a roast beast to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. Give the Gift of Freedom - Boycott Xmas the Economic Spending Season - not the true Christmas Holiday. For fifty days November 20 through January 8, 2026 buy life sustaining essentials only!
~ No Black Friday, Cyber Monday or store bought Holiday Gift Shopping
~ No Holiday Traveling or Entertainment
~ Considering donating the money you save to food banks or other organizations that service those in need.
The Boycott Xmas Economic Slow is another imperative step in the Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance. We must now go after the tRump's billionaire oligarch supporters. The Boycott Xmas puts the state of the economy in the hands of the shoppers as opposed to the workers. We must stop all unnecessary shopping at their national chain retail businesses and restaurants until the these billionaire business owners, call for the tRump's resignation themselves! Historically, economic inaction is the most effective way to bring down a dictator. All of our resistance efforts have failed because we are doing a terrible job at getting the word out and bringing in new supporters. We must support our resistance organizers. Take every opportunity to announce upcoming resistance events. The success or failure of these upcoming events are in your hands. Don't let them fail like all the others. Let this be our last attempt to Dump the tRump! Help us flood the media by promoting current events or starting new ones. Don't let the tRump defeat us!
This whole roundup reads like a country waking up and remembering its spine. Every time Trump tries to rule by fear, people link arms in the snow, in the rain, in front of courthouses and airports, and say the same thing: no.
Authoritarianism keeps betting that Americans will get tired. But every raid blocked, every boycott launched, every kid in Maine who walked out of school to defend a friend says otherwise.
Blessed be the ones who refuse to let cruelty become normal.
Share The 50501 Action Guide with everyone!
https://substack.com/@50501/note/p-176976015?r=113nff
Today, December 6, begins the next phase of REFUSE FASCISM'S sustained resistance - THE OCCUPY DC conversion has begun and it's not too late to join them:
This IS NOT a one day march or rally - it's a sustained celebration of the beginning of the end of the tRump's regime!
Updated: Call for Action from Robin Liberte:
Today begins the next phase of sustained resistance—seven days of organizing, escalating, and refusing to back down. It all culminates on Saturday, Dec 13, when we launch Surround the White House 2.0: The People’s Indictment of Donald J. Trump.
Show up at the White House at 2PM. Stand with the people. Help write the next chapter of this movement.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robinliberte/p/the-circle-becomes-visible?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff
Learn more here: https://onemommy.substack.com/p/occupy-dc-mass-movement-starting?r=113nff
Money saving tips for those who lost their SNAP BENEFITS and anyone looking for ways to save.
Here's how you can save on groceries, medical care and medications and what we can do to help! Some of these ideas you may not have heard before.
https://onemommy.substack.com/p/snap-benefits-end?r=113nff
LET'S GO VIRAL! Please screenshot the e-posters below and flood your social media with them!!!
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https://substack.com/@soulmamatalks/note/c-177953113?r=113nff
BLACKOUTS & STRIKES
For those of you criticizing me for supporting the Blackouts and Strike because they hurt poor people and small businesses consider this -
"DC doesn’t feel the same as it did even a year ago. One night during my trip, I went back to a restaurant I’d visited last year. Back then, the place was buzzing, so packed that you had to put your name on a waiting list just to get in. This time, I arrived during peak dinner hours, and the dining room was almost empty. I asked the workers what had changed. They told me that ever since Donald Trump ordered the National Guard onto DC streets and increased ICE patrols, business has collapsed. People are scared, and if this keeps up, they don’t know how much longer they can ride this out for.
This is what happens when politicians use military presence and immigration crackdowns to score political points: local businesses collapse, workers lose their jobs, and entire communities are pushed into fear.” ~Carlos Eduardo Espina
The tRump's government shutdown also hurts the poor and millions more.
For those of you who are bitching that I comment too much. I don't write on behalf of myself. I write in support of the National Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance.
Many of the writers and broadcasters, their readers and I have a common goal - to bring down the tRump, his administration from hell, his ICE henchmen and the billionaire oligarchs that own and control them all!
I'm not a computer scientist but I do know that the more comments my favorite writers get the stronger their Substack's become. Our country's true leaders are telling us that - the People are the only ones with the power to end this nightmare. The writers/journalists know that spreading the word is the most powerful tool we have to support this new Civil Rights Movement! All of our resistance efforts have failed to bring down the tRump. They fail because the majority of Americans never hear about them.
Most of the organizers are volunteers, many are seniors. They are not professionals. They are not oligarchs with unlimited marketing funds. They don't have corporate sponsors. I found a way to support the organizers and broadcasters at the same time by listening to the broadcasts while using the comments to support the organizers. The writers, the journalist and the resistance organizers all benefit from my comments. United we stand, divided we fall.
I never ask for people to follow me but, my Substack continues to grow. People want to help. They appreciate having optional ways to defeat the tRump. I am already struggling to keep up with my readers I want to respond to them all but I don't have enough time anymore. Unfortunately, my notifications disappear if I can't get to them fast enough (apologies to those I don't get to reply back to). So I was happy to discover that I could save time using the comments while listening to my favorite broadcasters.
No one makes anyone read my comments or anyone else's. Bypass them if you don't like them. Block me if you don't want to see them. If you don't want to save our democracy and restore our civil liberties don't read anything I write.
Thanks for reading. Thanks for supporting the Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance!
HANDS ACROSS AMERICA
40th Anniversary
Forty years, damn when did I get so old? This one is being planned by Blackout the System!
Join us in celebrating the 40th anniversary of
Hands Across America
on Memorial Day,
May 25, 2026.
Detailed are being planned now. Help them organize and spread the word as a coordinator in your state.
Check out: Blackoutthesystem.com
for Volunteers opportunities!
BUYER BEWARE!
Check your grocery receipts carefully. Kroger's got caught cheating customers. Watch America's Professor, Robert Reich video about this scam. He warns Americans to beware - other grocery stores may be cheating you too.
https://open.substack.com/pub/onemommy/p/kroger-got-caught-ripping-off-its?r=113nff&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Boycott DoorDash!
Let's do that, let's boycott DoorDash! Here's the disgusting reason why...
https://substack.com/@broadwaybabyto/note/c-177718928?r=113nff
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS!
"On Thursday (November 13, 2025), more than a thousand Starbucks baristas walked off the job — demanding better hours, more pay, and better working conditions and threatening to escalate their protests if Starbucks didn’t deliver. (You can support them by boycotting Starbucks.)" ~America's Professor, Robert Reich
Stand with Professor Reich, Zohran Mamdani, New Yorkers and Starbucks employees across the country!
https://substack.com/@soulmamatalks/note/c-176437615?r=113nff
Make this go viral!
BOYCOTT GOOGLE
“Google is a machine — an infinity machine — designed to scale endlessly, consuming human behavior and spitting out wealth, compliance, surveillance, and control. A machine so deeply embedded in our lives that resisting it feels like cutting out an organ.” ~Notes from the Apocalypse
https://open.substack.com/pub/psychopete1/p/the-infinity-machine?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=113nff
BOYCOTT THE MUSK RAT'S - Tesla, SpaceX, T-Mobile's Starlink, Delete X/Twitter
Here's why: https://substack.com/@soulmamatalks/note/c-177952899?r=113nff
THE TOP TEN COMPANIES SUPPORTING MAGA
Ortho Bug Eliminators
Swift Meat Company
C&H Sugar
Just Bare Meats
Certified Angus Beef
San Pellegrino Water
Intuit Quickbooks
Nescafe Coffee
Maxwell House Coffee
Dunkin Coffee
https://substack.com/@soulmamatalks/note/c-181298825?r=113nff
Shame on Mariah Carey! BOYCOTT ESTÈE LAUDER makeup companies!
Sephora
Mac Cosmetics
Too Faced
Clinique
Bobby Brown
Tom Ford
Jo Malone
Avida
more
Learn why here:
https://substack.com/@soulmamatalks/note/c-175872912?r=113nff
SPREAD THE WORD
THE NOTHING BUT WATER MOVEMENT
https://substack.com/@soulmamatalks/note/c-175297376?r=113nff
The Union of American Consumers has one simple goal. NOTHING BUT WATER until we have Universal Healthcare for all Americans!
You, the American consumer, are the single most powerful person in this country. American consumers spent 19 trillion dollars of their hard earned money in 2023. And YOU, the consumer can use that spending power to send this message to those in power: you work for me--I do not work for you.
The Union of American Consumers aims to focus consumer power to leverage corporations to lobby for working people instead of the their own interests. Our first initiative is simple: we only drink tap water until a single-payer universal healthcare system is passed in congress.
A universal single-payer healthcare system in the U.S. could be funded by modestly increasing taxes on the wealthiest individuals while reducing overall national healthcare spending through efficiency and price negotiation. Instead of paying premiums, deductibles, and copays to private insurers, everyone would contribute through taxes and receive comprehensive medical care free at the point of service. Studies show that this approach could save hundreds of billions annually in administrative costs and make healthcare more affordable for most families. Lower and middle-income households would pay less overall, while higher-income earners would contribute more, creating a fairer, simpler system that guarantees healthcare as a right for every American.
So join our movement. We can all go without alcohol, bottled beverages, coffee, soda, tea, etc. What we can't do is continue to support a broken healthcare system that primarily disadvantages the poor and working-class people of our country.
Learn more about The Union of American Consumers | We control our future:
https://share.google/q2cuEINnLx88DK0sk
BOYCOTT XMAS TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY!
The Whos down in Whoville taught us that we don't the gifts, decorations or a roast beast to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. Give the Gift of Freedom - Boycott Xmas the Economic Spending Season - not the true Christmas Holiday. For fifty days November 20 through January 8, 2026 buy life sustaining essentials only!
~ No Black Friday, Cyber Monday or store bought Holiday Gift Shopping
~ No Holiday Traveling or Entertainment
~ Considering donating the money you save to food banks or other organizations that service those in need.
The Boycott Xmas Economic Slow is another imperative step in the Anti-tRump / Fight the Oligarchs Resistance. We must now go after the tRump's billionaire oligarch supporters. The Boycott Xmas puts the state of the economy in the hands of the shoppers as opposed to the workers. We must stop all unnecessary shopping at their national chain retail businesses and restaurants until the these billionaire business owners, call for the tRump's resignation themselves! Historically, economic inaction is the most effective way to bring down a dictator. All of our resistance efforts have failed because we are doing a terrible job at getting the word out and bringing in new supporters. We must support our resistance organizers. Take every opportunity to announce upcoming resistance events. The success or failure of these upcoming events are in your hands. Don't let them fail like all the others. Let this be our last attempt to Dump the tRump! Help us flood the media by promoting current events or starting new ones. Don't let the tRump defeat us!
Read full article here:
https://onemommy.substack.com/p/boycott-xmas?r=113nff
Supporting this movement will support several other economic movements as well.
https://substack.com/@soulmamatalks/note/c-175872836?r=113nff