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.
M, what you’ve given here isn’t just a newsletter, it’s a map with real exits off the doom spiral. You hold space for awe without slipping into abstraction, and then calmly pivot to logistics like a resistance doula delivering us back into purpose.
This line, “Now is the time to sign up for your unit and meet your battle buddies,” hit like scripture. Not performative urgency, but grounded direction. We don’t need more inspiration. We need each other in motion, and you’ve made that feel not just possible, but irresistible.
In a world high on spectacle and low on strategy, this was medicine. Grateful for your stewardship.
I believe we must have another nationwide protest on July 4th -- we can't let Trump, his goons, idiots and maga claim that as their great patriotic day, and denouncing everyone else. Undoubtedly the Trump white house, the republicans, the military, fox news etc. are planning a big show for July 4th, marching around and screaming their phony patriotism. I say we up end that show the same way we rained on Trump's parade.
And more importantly we keep our momentum going and building -- No Kings on July 4th!
The next step in the Anti-tRump movement. Support the GeneralStrikeUS.com! FiftyFifty.One has reported that we won a major battle on June 14, 2025, at the International - No Kings - Anti-tRump protests! But the war against the tRump isn't over. We surpassed the eleven million protesters we need to end the reign of the Limp Dick Traitor, Führer DonOld tRump, his regime of Musk Rats, Nazi MAGAts, his Battalion of Rich Oligarchs , his ICE Gestapo and his administration from hell.
The No Kings protest was a major win towards our goal of getting the tRump out of our White House but it's time to make more good trouble! The next big battle is the Nationwide General Strike US. The General Strike organizers are also following the 3.5% rules. They can/will not write their demands or strike until they have eleven million Americans willing to commit to supporting the Strike. When they do write their demands, I am hoping that their number one demand, at the top of the list, will be to call for the Immediate Resignation of the tRump!
To reach this number they need everyone who is willing to stop working for the unknown duration of the strike. This strike is for everyone, even for workers without a union. They need organizations, businesses, unemployed workers, retired workers, students, family members, community, etc.- committed to supporting the Strikers during this potentially difficult time. Personally, I believe that if millions of Americans don't show up for work that the billionaire oligarchs will be calling for the immediate resignation of their king - themselves!
To learn more and determine when the time is right to strike, the organizers are asking everyone to sign the General Strike US strike card at GeneralStrikeUS.com. Stand Up America, sign the card and be counted so we can get that true homegrown demented criminal terror out of our lives and get on with the task of rebuilding our democracy and our government. Learn more about how to rebuild visit BernieSanders.com.
Please forward, share or talk about this message with your family, friends, colleagues, even strangers if given the opportunity. Post or repost it on your social media accounts! Substack protesters share this message outside of this political category and get it out to everyone. It's going to take ALL of us to bring down the tRump, the billionaire oligarchs (who hog the money you earn) and the Administration from Hell!
Boycott Amazon Prime Days! Boycott Amazon Every Day! Support local Businesses instead! Take the power away from the oligarchs and support your local economy instead!
Americans deserve a change. The one good thing the tRump has done is united the People to take their Power back! I am sick of the Democrats vs Republicans. We need a complete government overhaul and Senator Sanders has a plan.
If you want to earn more money and have access to affordable housing, education, medical, child and elder care watch Senator Sanders' YouTube videos and check out his website. Sanders has a plan that benefits every American and millions of others across the globe. Really listen to his ideals. Then abandon your political party and stand beside Bernie, our hope for the future, and help make America greater than it has ever been before.
They tell me it can't be done but since we must rise to bring down the administration from hell then we should also rise to build a whole new political party run “by representatives of the people, by the people and for the people!” - Abraham Lincoln.
There has never been a better time to get the billionaire oligarchs out of our government and return the power to the people! Sanders can't do it alone - he needs support from all of us. Show the world the Power of the American People to get the billionaires out of our government, restore our civil liberties and rebuild a democracy that benefit the people of the 21st century!
We must continue to resist and boycott to bring down Führer tRump, his lead Musk Rat, his administration from hell, his illegal battalion of Gestapo ICE Nazis terrors and his regime of White Supremacists and MAGAts.
It appears as if there is not a single person in the USA with the authority to slap a pair of handcuffs on this true homegrown treasonous criminal. Even our country's leaders haven't tried to team up to declare the demented tRump legally incompetent. The tRump is the number one threat against the USA. It's totally unbelievable that all of our sane leaders are calling on us, the citizens of the USA to rise together to end the tRump and Project 2025.
Project 2025 was planned by the billionaire oligarchs to end our democracy and turn it into a dictatorship so that they could steal all of our services. They plan to use money saved for those services - our tax money - to serve their greedy selves instead. They plan to continue to develop AI robots to replace humans at work, to send millionaires on ten minute space rides and colonize Mars. I don't know about you but none of that stuff is more important to me than higher wages, affordable housing, education, medical, child and elder care for everyone. Senator Sanders has been working on a plan to end the oligarchs and give the power back to the people. The oligarchs have used their power to hide Sanders' plans from us. The senator needs support from all of us!
Now we are learning that the Republicans and the Democrats have betrayed all of us. Most of our representatives are taking money from the rich to - pass laws and buy our political candidates - that best serve their own greedy needs.
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them them to end the Big Beautiful Bill and demand that they arrest the demented treasonous tRump, get him out of the White House and into an asylum for the criminally deranged.
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Use 5calls.org for the same reasons you are calling your senators but to also help you express your support for other issues that concern you the most.
Please forward, share or talk about this message with your family, friends, colleagues, even strangers if given the opportunity. Post or repost it on your social media accounts! Substack protesters share this message outside of this political category and get it out to everyone. It's going to take ALL of us to bring down the tRump, the billionaire oligarchs (who hog the money you earn) and the Administration from Hell!
Here are some e-posters to share and help you spread the word...
Well put. We will not defeat Trump by venting. We will not defeat Trump by making cute memes. We will not defeat Trump with yet another Substack that summarizes the daily news stories and nothing more. We will defeat Trump with action. That can be defensive action - legal action, gumming up the works, so to speak, and other ways of collectively slow walking whatever he tries to do. Or it can be offensive action - more of that will be needed around the midterms, though I always find ideas in Saul Alinsky's work (check it out). But we need to be doing things rather than simply talking about what we wish we were doing.
Might I add to your list of resources The Simple Sabotage Field Guide available for free through Project Gutenberg... https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
When the CIA wrote and distributed this during the early 40's to help citizens in Europe fight fascism I highly doubt they foresaw its later usefulness to help American citizens do the same thing... Hell, I doubt that the government which declassified it in 2008 realized either... A little dated but easy to modernize, it suggests ways that ordinary citizens can be a thorn in the side of an authoritarian regime...
This week if your in a red state your calls to reps and senate time to make calls or write emails. This bill they are trying to pass is disastourus to our country. My bluesky is @bearchicago.bsky.social I have pics of what to say to your Senator. These slides were from an indivisible zoom last week a 2 hour presentation on what’s in this bill. Please consider. Now most of the GOP are not answering the phones but I have got through to some. Since I don’t live in a red state they don’t care what I have to say.
I use the 5 Calls app to call my legislators. It's a free app that lists topics to call about (including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act), provides the phone numbers for your legislators, and gives information about each topic. There are even scripts if you want to use them when you call. It makes calling easy, and it's free.
M, what you’ve given here isn’t just a newsletter, it’s a map with real exits off the doom spiral. You hold space for awe without slipping into abstraction, and then calmly pivot to logistics like a resistance doula delivering us back into purpose.
This line, “Now is the time to sign up for your unit and meet your battle buddies,” hit like scripture. Not performative urgency, but grounded direction. We don’t need more inspiration. We need each other in motion, and you’ve made that feel not just possible, but irresistible.
In a world high on spectacle and low on strategy, this was medicine. Grateful for your stewardship.
I believe we must have another nationwide protest on July 4th -- we can't let Trump, his goons, idiots and maga claim that as their great patriotic day, and denouncing everyone else. Undoubtedly the Trump white house, the republicans, the military, fox news etc. are planning a big show for July 4th, marching around and screaming their phony patriotism. I say we up end that show the same way we rained on Trump's parade.
And more importantly we keep our momentum going and building -- No Kings on July 4th!
The next step in the Anti-tRump movement. Support the GeneralStrikeUS.com! FiftyFifty.One has reported that we won a major battle on June 14, 2025, at the International - No Kings - Anti-tRump protests! But the war against the tRump isn't over. We surpassed the eleven million protesters we need to end the reign of the Limp Dick Traitor, Führer DonOld tRump, his regime of Musk Rats, Nazi MAGAts, his Battalion of Rich Oligarchs , his ICE Gestapo and his administration from hell.
Studies show that 3.5% of the population (11 million in America) exhibit SUSTAINED RESISTANCE to effectively enact change. Learn more about the 3.5% rule here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=x4syl-hZ9_I&si=jAbBx2kcLf72MZD4)
The No Kings protest was a major win towards our goal of getting the tRump out of our White House but it's time to make more good trouble! The next big battle is the Nationwide General Strike US. The General Strike organizers are also following the 3.5% rules. They can/will not write their demands or strike until they have eleven million Americans willing to commit to supporting the Strike. When they do write their demands, I am hoping that their number one demand, at the top of the list, will be to call for the Immediate Resignation of the tRump!
To reach this number they need everyone who is willing to stop working for the unknown duration of the strike. This strike is for everyone, even for workers without a union. They need organizations, businesses, unemployed workers, retired workers, students, family members, community, etc.- committed to supporting the Strikers during this potentially difficult time. Personally, I believe that if millions of Americans don't show up for work that the billionaire oligarchs will be calling for the immediate resignation of their king - themselves!
To learn more and determine when the time is right to strike, the organizers are asking everyone to sign the General Strike US strike card at GeneralStrikeUS.com. Stand Up America, sign the card and be counted so we can get that true homegrown demented criminal terror out of our lives and get on with the task of rebuilding our democracy and our government. Learn more about how to rebuild visit BernieSanders.com.
Please forward, share or talk about this message with your family, friends, colleagues, even strangers if given the opportunity. Post or repost it on your social media accounts! Substack protesters share this message outside of this political category and get it out to everyone. It's going to take ALL of us to bring down the tRump, the billionaire oligarchs (who hog the money you earn) and the Administration from Hell!
Boycott Amazon Prime Days! Boycott Amazon Every Day! Support local Businesses instead! Take the power away from the oligarchs and support your local economy instead!
Support GeneralStrikeUS.com. Stand up at the next FiftyFifty.One protests too.
Americans deserve a change. The one good thing the tRump has done is united the People to take their Power back! I am sick of the Democrats vs Republicans. We need a complete government overhaul and Senator Sanders has a plan.
If you want to earn more money and have access to affordable housing, education, medical, child and elder care watch Senator Sanders' YouTube videos and check out his website. Sanders has a plan that benefits every American and millions of others across the globe. Really listen to his ideals. Then abandon your political party and stand beside Bernie, our hope for the future, and help make America greater than it has ever been before.
They tell me it can't be done but since we must rise to bring down the administration from hell then we should also rise to build a whole new political party run “by representatives of the people, by the people and for the people!” - Abraham Lincoln.
There has never been a better time to get the billionaire oligarchs out of our government and return the power to the people! Sanders can't do it alone - he needs support from all of us. Show the world the Power of the American People to get the billionaires out of our government, restore our civil liberties and rebuild a democracy that benefit the people of the 21st century!
Here's some e-posters for you to share…
Learn more at BernieSanders.com.
We must continue to resist and boycott to bring down Führer tRump, his lead Musk Rat, his administration from hell, his illegal battalion of Gestapo ICE Nazis terrors and his regime of White Supremacists and MAGAts.
It appears as if there is not a single person in the USA with the authority to slap a pair of handcuffs on this true homegrown treasonous criminal. Even our country's leaders haven't tried to team up to declare the demented tRump legally incompetent. The tRump is the number one threat against the USA. It's totally unbelievable that all of our sane leaders are calling on us, the citizens of the USA to rise together to end the tRump and Project 2025.
Project 2025 was planned by the billionaire oligarchs to end our democracy and turn it into a dictatorship so that they could steal all of our services. They plan to use money saved for those services - our tax money - to serve their greedy selves instead. They plan to continue to develop AI robots to replace humans at work, to send millionaires on ten minute space rides and colonize Mars. I don't know about you but none of that stuff is more important to me than higher wages, affordable housing, education, medical, child and elder care for everyone. Senator Sanders has been working on a plan to end the oligarchs and give the power back to the people. The oligarchs have used their power to hide Sanders' plans from us. The senator needs support from all of us!
Now we are learning that the Republicans and the Democrats have betrayed all of us. Most of our representatives are taking money from the rich to - pass laws and buy our political candidates - that best serve their own greedy needs.
______________________
Boycott Americans! Use this list to choose your causes! https://share.google/S6Q0QErXzb5GS21PI
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Strike Americans! Support GeneralStrikeUS.com.
______________________
Speak Up Americans!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them them to end the Big Beautiful Bill and demand that they arrest the demented treasonous tRump, get him out of the White House and into an asylum for the criminally deranged.
______________________
Use 5calls.org for the same reasons you are calling your senators but to also help you express your support for other issues that concern you the most.
______________________
Stand Up and Support the Resistance Americans!
Support BernieSanders.com
Protest Americans!
~ FiftyFifty.One
~ Indivisible.org
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Please forward, share or talk about this message with your family, friends, colleagues, even strangers if given the opportunity. Post or repost it on your social media accounts! Substack protesters share this message outside of this political category and get it out to everyone. It's going to take ALL of us to bring down the tRump, the billionaire oligarchs (who hog the money you earn) and the Administration from Hell!
Here are some e-posters to share and help you spread the word...
I think we should achieve supercritical mass.
Well put. We will not defeat Trump by venting. We will not defeat Trump by making cute memes. We will not defeat Trump with yet another Substack that summarizes the daily news stories and nothing more. We will defeat Trump with action. That can be defensive action - legal action, gumming up the works, so to speak, and other ways of collectively slow walking whatever he tries to do. Or it can be offensive action - more of that will be needed around the midterms, though I always find ideas in Saul Alinsky's work (check it out). But we need to be doing things rather than simply talking about what we wish we were doing.
Thank you for posting links to the references. I checked out the Beautiful Trouble website and it's great! I shared it with my Indivisible group.
Here's an additional opportunity: commit to participating in a General Strike if/when the time comes: generalstrikeus.com
Might I add to your list of resources The Simple Sabotage Field Guide available for free through Project Gutenberg... https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
When the CIA wrote and distributed this during the early 40's to help citizens in Europe fight fascism I highly doubt they foresaw its later usefulness to help American citizens do the same thing... Hell, I doubt that the government which declassified it in 2008 realized either... A little dated but easy to modernize, it suggests ways that ordinary citizens can be a thorn in the side of an authoritarian regime...
Use in good health to commit Good Trouble...
This week if your in a red state your calls to reps and senate time to make calls or write emails. This bill they are trying to pass is disastourus to our country. My bluesky is @bearchicago.bsky.social I have pics of what to say to your Senator. These slides were from an indivisible zoom last week a 2 hour presentation on what’s in this bill. Please consider. Now most of the GOP are not answering the phones but I have got through to some. Since I don’t live in a red state they don’t care what I have to say.
I use the 5 Calls app to call my legislators. It's a free app that lists topics to call about (including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act), provides the phone numbers for your legislators, and gives information about each topic. There are even scripts if you want to use them when you call. It makes calling easy, and it's free.