Welcome to the resistance. Here are some handy links to help you exercise your civic might.
- MyCivicWorkout, a website dedicated to developing the stamina necessary for civic engagement
- Indivisible, a practical guide for resisting the Trump Agenda
- Find Your Representative here (Hint: Save your rep’s phone # as a contact in your phone! And then CALL THEM.)
- Countable, an app that makes it easy to pester your congressmember about how they vote
- A Shy Person’s Guide to Calling Your Representative
- Why you REALLY REALLY REALLY MUST CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE (emailing does not count. neither do facebook comments or tweets.)
- The Resistance Manual
- It’s Time To Fight gives a weekly list of “what to call your senator about” + phone scripts
- You can fax your representatives for free using faxzero.com
- You can find upcoming town hall meetings with your representatives at the Town Hall Project
- Track your congressperson’s voting habits with FiveThirtyEight’sTracking Congress in the Age of Trump
Here are some helpful resources for those days when you feel like screaming into the void:
- No President, by n+1
- Trump Changed Everything; Now Everything Counts, by Barbara Kingsolver
- We Have to Resist, by Rebecca Solnit
- How To Be Your Own Light, by Sarah Kendzior
- Harrisonburg Mennonites welcome their neighbors
- Self-care lessons for the resistance
- Meryl Streep’s speech at the Golden Globes
- Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention
- Krista Tippett & Vincent Harding’s wise voices (rebroadcast on OnBeing the day after the election)
- Take heart: How the electoral map actually looks when population adjusted
- More than 4,500 women have signed up to run for office since the election
- Scientists are also running for office!
- The Women’s March on Washington spread around the world
- Calling your representatives actually works sometimes!
- The President’s Hero
- An astronaut offers a list of amazing things that happened in 2016
- Rachel Held Evans talks about the beauty of 2016 and the risk of birth
- Tech workers are refusing to build the infrastructure for a database of Muslims
- John Lewis playing with his cats
- John Lewis met with standing ovation at the airport
- President Obama’s love of books
- The Rev. William J. Barber on Witnessing the Birth-pangs of a Third Reconstruction
- The Election is Over. Let’s Get Political from The Gospel Coalition