Protest from Home
- Privacy: 50501 INFOSEC and OPSEC Handbook and Infosec 101 for Activists
- Boost pro-democracy social media posts (upvote, comment, share).
- Boost pro-democracy websites and businesses by clicking on their link in the search results and not the ad. This will save them money and boost them in search results (you can also do the opposite with pro Trump websites and businesses).
- Boycott and/or protest the US in international competitions. The World Cup and the Olympics are good examples.
- Boycott local businesses and national businesses supporting MAGA. Also, leave online reviews for companies on the boycott list. For example, "I am afraid to buy a Tesla because of all the vandalism."
- Contact your government officials using 5calls.org, Resistbot, and Fax Congress. Use these resources to help you with your message: Guided Letter and Operation Sunshine.
- Create a Military Member Mail Campaign: Send in letters/flyers that remind military members to honor their oath of enlistment. "Just following orders" is not a defense in court.
- Create a Police Department Mail Campaign: Send in letters/flyers that remind police officers of the 4th Amendment and the 5th Amendment.
- Create local clubs for self defense (example from Chico).
- Create or participate in liberal gun clubs: Liberal Gun Club Directory and Socialist Rifle Association Directory.
- Divest from companies that support this administration. Move your investments into ethical or fossil-free funds (ie. Ethic Investing) or to democratic funds (ie. DEMZ Fund).
- "Don't" abuse the system and apply for GOP jobs. That could overwhelm their system and make it difficult to hire.
- Don’t give traditional media ad revenue. Use Firefox with an ad blocker like uBlock Origin when viewing media from news stories.
- File a complaint with the SEC regarding market manipulation (insider trading) through tariffs.
- File a complaint with your state Attorney General (post with more information). Here is the link for California.
- Fund state-level resistance infrastructure.
- Help ensure election integrity: volunteer as election workers, back up your vote, stay near voting sites after voting to counter anyone interfering with voters, reach out to the international community for election monitoring, and donate to organizations like Election Truth Alliance and the ACLU.
- Keep messaging items with you for when you are out in your community: sidewalk chalk, flyers, stickers, rock art, US currency (it's legal), washable window markers, etc.
- Learn about logical fallacies to help keep discussions productive (website and images of cards).
- Leverage international media and watchdogs. Feed the real stories to Al Jazeera, BBC, PBS, The Guardian, Reuters, etc.
- Participate in the General Strike.
- Participate in Lysistratic Nonaction or a Sex Strike.
- Provide tracking information on key politicians so that protesters can plan counter events.
- Reach out to your friends from marginalized communities for support and/or positive chats.
- Serve on jury duty and engage in jury nullification when appropriate. They can arrest us but they cannot convict us.
- Request the Supreme Court to revoke presidential immunity.
- Search online for “petitions against Donald Trump.” Some are listed below.
- Send mail to politicians. This benefits the USPS and the politicians' offices have to process the mail and is more difficult to ignore.
- Shop at boycotted stores and immediately return the item. It slows down their service and costs them money.
- Slow down ICE by being a decoy: Add international stickers and/or flags to your vehicles.
- Support pro-democracy groups through funding or volunteering.
- Use services that obfuscate browsing data and protect users from online surveillance and tracking by advertising networks (ie. AdNauseam and TrackMeNot).
- Use your platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics.
- Withhold/Delay Paying Taxes: Reduce your withholdings and delay paying taxes until the due date or beyond (request extension). See the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee and TaxStrike for more information.