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Know Your Rights – ACLU

• Explore a list of rights
• Protesters’ Rights
• Stopped by Police
• Immigrants’ Rights

Safety and Security for Protesters

• Resource Hub – Free to Speak Bill of Rights

Civil Resistance Tools and Articles

• “What can I do to fight this coup?” offers drop-down menus of resistance techniques arranged by level of difficulty. It also provides training agendas on everything from de-escalation to mutual aid.
• Civil Resistance Tactics in the 21st Century by Michael A. Beer
• 198 Methods of Non-violent Protest and Persuasion by Gene Sharp
• Choose Your Own Adventure interactive activity asks you to “guide us towards a better, more humane democracy.”
• The Faithful Fight: Toolkits for countering authoritarianism offers strategies to bring religious communities together, and helps us to act; Protect Democracy.
• Indivisible’s Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink, shares strategies for defending the democratic process against authoritarian creep and a list of tactics constituents can use to pressure their elected officials.
• Can nonviolent struggle defeat a dictator? This database emphatically says yes, by George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence, January 2025.
• We are stronger than we think,  by Maria J. Stephan, Waging Nonviolence, February 2025.
• Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations by Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks, October 2022; Faculty Research Working Paper Series
• Resistance is alive and well in the United States by Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, and Soha Hammam

Substack Daily Newsletters

• Heather Cox Richardson – Letters from an American
• Robert Reich – daily newsletter
• Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen – The Contrarian
• Joyce Vance – Civil Discourse 

Expert Analysis of Current Issues

• Just Security

Democracy Movement Partner Organizations

• UUSJ Democracy Action Team
• Side With Love – Democracy / UU the Vote
• Coalition of UU State Action Networks (CUUSAN)
• Brennan Center for Justice
• Common Cause
• Democracy 2025
• Indivisible
• League of Women Voters
• Poor People’s Campaign
• Protect Democracy
• Public Citizen
• The Workers Circle – Democracy Circles

Videos

• Democracy TED Talks – various lengths, perfect for watching followed by discussion
• Ava King, a 17-year-old, and John Trezise, a 101-year-old reflect on the right to vote and what might be at stake this coming election. Filmed and produced by Rev. Alex Jensen, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse
• David Pepper – Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual for Every American
• Steve Phillips – How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy
• Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt – Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
• Rev. Cecilia Kingman – Recognizing and Resisting Fascism as People of Faith
• Dale Anderson from UUSJ Democracy Action Team – Your Personal Plan to Help Save Our Democracy – Part i

Books

• Anne Applebaum:
  • Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
  • Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
• Ruth Ben-Ghiat – Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
• Mark Bray –  Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
• Erica Chenoweth:
  • Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
  • Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendation
• Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen – Daring Democracy:  Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want 
• Nancy MacLean – Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
• Rachel Maddow – Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
• David Pepper – Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual for Every American
• Steve Phillips – How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
• Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
  • Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
  • How Democracies Die
• Timothy Snyder
  • On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century
  • On Freedom
• Jason Stanley
  • How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
  • Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future 

Secure Communications

• USNF Security Study Team Report

Get Out the Vote Partner Organizations

• UUSJ Democracy Action Team
• Side With Love – Democracy / UU the Vote
• Center for Common Ground / Reclaim Our Vote – postcards
• Common Cause – election protection
• Environmental Voter Project – phone banking, postcards
• League of Women Voters
• MomsRising – postcards
• Movement Voter Project – invest in selected local voter organizations
• NextGen America – text and phone banking, social media
• Power the Polls – poll working
• The Civics Center – letters
• The Workers Circle – Democracy Circles
• Vote Forward – letters