Tracking This Authoritarian Moment, and the Resistance To It is a project consisting of five resource collections:

1) Resources for Resistance: Everything today’s activists and organizers might need, from resources on mutual aid to narrative strategy, to nonviolent resistance and cultivating hope. Much more to come.

2) Charting the Resistance to the Second Trump Administration: These resources track the many forms of resistance to Trumpian authoritarianism, ranging from boycotts and grassroots organizing, to resistance from within institutions such as the military and faith-based communities, to resistance across a range of professions including journalists, scientists, and artists. Collectively and at scale, these many forms of resistance undermine the pillars of support authoritarian regimes rely on.

Making diverse examples of dissent visible is crucial for many reasons: it gives people hope (which is fuel for action), it broadens our collective understanding of the many roles to be played, and it normalizes opposition… which in turn helps more people join opposition efforts, and helps to shift institutions.

3) Tracking the Authoritarianism & Bigotry in the Second Trump Administration: Authoritarianism is a constellation. This resource tracks each and every point in the constellation of Trumpian authoritarianism, with pages on everything from flooding the zone to unitary executive theory, to weaponizing institutions ranging from the FBI to universities, to criminalizing dissent and attacking the free press.

4) Tracking the Far Right Ecosystem: These resources track the many dimensions of the broader far right ecosystem the Trump administration is a part of, from Christian nationalism to ecofascism, from youth radicalization to far right fight clubs.

5) Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration: These resources track the many dimensions of ICE, from mass surveillance and warrantless arrests, to deportations without due process to how ICE harms the economy, to ICE traumatizing children to medical neglect and death in ICE facilities.

There are over 100 resource pages between these five collections, each of which tracks a specific point in the constellations of authoritarianism and resistance. Most pages begin with a resource collection (such as overviews of the topic or organizations working on the subject), followed by a news roundup organized chronologically, with current news at the top. These pages will be of great benefit to activists and organizers, students and academics, journalists, and the general public. They will also create an important historical archive of this critical time we’re living through.

The funding goal of $60,000 is to pay someone $30,000 a year for the next two years to continuously improve the resources on these pages, keep them updated with current news, and create resources on new subjects as events unfold. If we hit that goal, we’ll try to fund year three as well, to ensure these are updated throughout the entirety of this administration. Funding will also allow for extensive outreach to progressive organizations, journalists, and academics, to ensure these resources are used far and wide.

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