THE ACTIVIST RESOURCE LIST
Activism Guidebooks
The Politics of Nonviolent Action - Gene Sharp's 3 Part series
PART I https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/peace/73Sharp/
PART II https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/peace/73Sharp/Sharp73-ch3.pdf
PART III https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/peace/73Sharp/Sharp73-ch14.pdf
Progressive Safety Alliance - comprehensive resource guide for progressive organizations with a focus on safety and security.
https://visionchangewin.org/psa/
Activist Handbook - de-escalation tactics for protests and working together.
https://activisthandbook.org/wellbeing/deescalation
How to Lead Change without Burning Out - free book.
https://gaialeadershipproject.com/rei-action-guide
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
https://www.paimmigrant.org/rapid-response-information
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.
https://www.direlegal.org/services
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.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/CHIRLAtipsheet
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!
https://unitedwedream.org/resources/
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.
Welcoming the Stranger - Welcoming the Stranger is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing free classes in English as a Second Language (ESL), computer skills, and United States citizenship exam preparation to adult immigrants, and refugees.
https://www.welcomingthestranger.org
IceBreakers - At icebreakers.info, we stand firmly against the harmful practices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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.
Safety & Security
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.
https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze
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.
https://www.wired.com/category/security/
Wired: How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To - alternative digital services hosted abroad.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-era-digital-expat/
Non-U.S. Alternatives List for privacy, security, and digital sovereignty.
https://github.com/anitwek/alternatives-to-us
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.
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/803953/
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)
https://www.pramilaforcongress.com/the-resistance-lab
Freedom Trainers - Collective Noncooperation Training for these times. We are a loose network of trainers teaching folks about these powerful tools of collective noncompliance and mass noncooperation based on tried and true tactics used by movements from around the world fighting against authoritarianism.
The Peace Center - To educate, empower and support individuals and organizations in order to prevent violence, promote peaceful resolution of conflict and foster inclusive, equitable and safe communities locally, nationally and worldwide. The Peace Center is located in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. We have been working for community peace and social justice since 1982.
Follow the Money
Open Secrets - your home for money in politics. Find financial data on industries, elections, politicians, lobbying and more. The nation’s top resource for unbiased political finance data.
The Integrity Index - holding politicians to a higher standard. Launched by the Political Integrity PAC, PIP is not your average Super PAC. We don't burn money on wasteful ads or try to buy elections. We're building a grassroots political media apparatus to hold politicians accountable to the people instead of their pockets. Our first product is the Integrity Index, a political finance database that grades politicians on their financial and political integrity.
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.
Purchase with Purpose
32 Amazon Alternatives
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/alternatives-to-amazon
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.
Little Blue Cart Directory of progressive small businesses —including women-owned, BIPOC-owned, queer-owned, military spouse or veteran-led.
Little Blue Market E-commerce site / partner of Little Blue Cart. Every shop is vetted. Every purchase supports progress.
Shop How You Vote - Support Your Values: Do the places that you shop and the brands you buy uphold the same values that you vote for at the polls?
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.
https://dontinflateourplates.com
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.
https://thepeoplesunionusa.com/
Survivors Guide to Earth / Boycott List - Better Living Through Boycotts. What we have now is not an “economy“ at all. It’s a wealth-extraction machine for the .0001% — the kind that every wisdom tradition across the world, from Plato to Jesus to Confucius to Adam Smith, would all find abhorrent.
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.
Project 2025 Tracker - A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
https://www.project2025.observer/en
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.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes
Tariff Tracker
https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/05/05/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/
SCOTUS Blog - The premier source for Supreme Court news, analysis, and data since 2002. Independent and non-partisan.
Action Oriented
Find local canvasses, phone banks and events near you on MOBILIZE.US
Canvassing
https://swingleft.org/high-traffic-canvassing
https://swingleft.org/ground-truth
Event Search Engine
Mobilize.us - https://www.mobilize.us/
Petitions
Change.org - https://www.change.org/
MoveOn - https://front.moveon.org/petitions/
Voter Registration
Field Team 6 - https://www.fieldteam6.org/
Vote Blue - https://www.voteblue.win/home
Rock the Vote - https://www.rockthevote.org/
Headcount - https://www.headcount.org/
League of Women Voters - https://www.lwv.org/
VOTE 411 - https://www.vote411.org/
Vote.Org - https://www.vote.org/
Donate
Act Blue - https://secure.actblue.com/donate/
Protests
No Kings - https://www.nokings.org/
Find A Protest - https://www.findaprotest.info/
50501 - https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
The Women's March - https://www.womensmarch.com/initiatives
We the People Dissent - https://thepeopledissent.substack.com/
May Day Stong - https://maydaystrong.org/
The General Strike - our labor is our greatest STRENGTH and if we strike together we can make real change.
Allied Movements
Common Cause - fighting for the Democracy we deserve.
Red, Wine & Blue - a national community of over half a million diverse suburban women working together to defeat extremism, one friend at a time.
Swing Left - Together, we can beat MAGA at the ballot box. Let’s win back control of the country.
MoveOn - MoveOn is where millions mobilize for a better society—one where everyone can thrive.
https://front.moveon.org/about
The NAACP - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
The ACLU - The American Civil Liberties Union defends the rights of all people nationwide.
The Helpers
Moonlight Movement - driving a four year strategy to stop democratic backsliding and reclaim and rebuild our democracy relying on strategies of creative constructive intervention.
https://moonlightmovement.org/
The Rainbow Room - We believe that the ability to live our lives with pride, free from violence and discrimination is just basic. That's why we're open to people of all gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
Advocates for Homeless and Those in Need - a Bucks County interfaith nonprofit that serves the homeless and those in need by providing year-long access to emergency shelter, food and other life-sustaining services with dignity and compassion.
Morrisville Presbyterian Church - Morrisville Presbyterian Church takes seriously God’s call to serve our community and love our neighbor.
Interfaith Food Alliance - We are a faith-based organization fighting hunger in Lower Bucks County. We educate, advocate & feed.
https://interfaithfoodalliance.com/
TASK Trenton Area Soup Kitchen - Turning hunger into hope. Serving our community for over 40 years.
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].
https://lyz.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-all-this
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].
https://time.com/7273469/data-monitoring-kindness-essay/
5 Ways to Stop Fascism with Paul Mason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z55AEOPYlYc
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.
https://americanmanifesto.news/p/the-real-deep-state
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
https://substack.com/@loricorbetmann/p-162123073
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
INDIVISIBLES:
Indivisible Lambertville New Hope
Upper Bucks United Indivisible
Yardley-Morrisville Indivisible
SURJ - Standing Up for Racial Justice
Democratic Socialists of America
Renew Democracy 250
https://www.renewdemocracy250.com/
NAACP
Red, Wine & Blue
https://redwine.blue/pennsylvania/
Sunrise Movement - Princeton Hub
https://www.sunrisemovement.org/hubssunrisemvmtprinceton@gmail.com
Make the Road PA
Asian of Pacific Islander Political Alliance
https://www.apipennsylvania.org
Sierra Club PA
https://www.sierraclub.org/pennsylvania/southeastern/bucks-county
Bucks Environmental Action (BEA)
https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/bucks-environmental-action/
Delaware River Keeper
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