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Hold the Line

Options for Resistance

Edition 10

Updated 4/11/2025

Distress Call for the U.S.

0.0

Table of Contents

0.1

Quick Start Guide

Step 1

Learn how to Resist

Export Hold the Line: Options to Resist. Updates are posted every Sunday.

Need motivation to resist? Watch this 9 minute video summary of this 41 minute video.

Then, donate.

## Step 2

Join 50501

Join 50501 / Follow r/50501 / Follow @50501Movement

## Step 3

Join Mobilize.us

The Mobilize.us app will let you know of protests and resistance movements.

Step 4

Stop Supporting MAGA Companies

To determine which companies are MAGA use the following 2 resources:

  1. The Goods Unite Us app (Free)
  2. [www.OpenSecrets.org](http://www.OpenSecrets.org “http://www.OpenSecrets.org”) (Free)

## Step 5

Limit Your Spending

Severely limit your spending.

Stop spending money as much as possible.

## Step 6

De-Big Tech Your Life

Signal / Element Phone calls & Messaging replacement

BlueSky Twitter replacement

New Pipe / PeerTube Youtube replacement

Pixelfed / Flashes Instagram replacement

LibreWolf Web Browser with Ad Blocking Free

LibreOffice Office 365 replacement

Proton / CryptPad / Etherpad Google Docs replacement

Tutamail E-mail replacement

GIMP Photoshop replacement

Immich / Cryptee Google Photos / iCloud replacement

NextCloud Google Cloud replacement

Jitsi Meet Google Meets / MS Teams / Zoom

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# 0.2 Introduction

What is this document? It is a collection of options, ideas, and strategies on how to resist the 2025 coup.

This document’s goals:

Goal 1 Urge people to protest in person.

Goal 2 Show how to resist at home.

What is my agenda? Resist the 47’s administration, resist a dark future for the USA, and to resist big tech’s influence.

Why is all of this happening? There is not a single reason, but a confluence of reasons:

  1. Billionaires want [private ](https://theplotagainstamerica.com/)city-states.
  2. Billionaires dislike democracy.
  3. Extremist Christians see God as authoritarian, and prefer that same governance structure.
  4. China and Russia dislike US hegemony, NATO, and post WWII world order.
  5. White supremacists want an all-white nation.
  6. Hate groups want “the groups they dislike” to be dealt with.

Russia has amplified the negative emotions of hate groups, Extremist Christians, and white supremacists. China has large influence over younger people because of TikTok. Billionaires have influence over each of us due to our reliance on Big Tech. The Extremist Christian groups, and the racist hate groups, are also being used to create chaos and fear within the USA.

But the main way to combat each of these entities is to protest and resist.

What will decide who wins? My speculation is simple. I believe these forces, and others, are fighting for control over natural resources, water, space, nuclear bombs, money, and work forces (indentured or cheap). Minimum wage workers, H1B, Prison Labor, Slave Labor, and even Robot Labor are likely expected to contribute to the tech bro fiefdoms they wish to create.

DT and EM want Greenland, Canada, Ukraine’s resources, and the Panama Canal because it aligns with the tech bro goals. The Gold Card Citizenship cards is a way for 47 to grift money, but also as a way to bring wealth in from outside of the country to potentially fund the tech bro cities.

# 0.3 URGENT ITEMS

  1. Watch this 41 minute video (9 minute summary) then donate here.
  2. Look at the Election Truth Alliance website.
  3. Here is an updated analysis with a petition.
  4. Here is an additional video regarding election interference.
  5. Here is video that describes the threat we face.
  6. This is how the world views DT, EM, JDV, etc…
  7. The SAVE Act will disenfranchise millions of voters (particularly women).
  8. Help with the Special Elections in Florida, New York, and elsewhere.
  9. Fired Federal Election Workers should watch this video.
  10. The 3.5% rule is why you need to attend protests regularly and general strike.
  11. Request your personal data from DOGE.
  12. If you have student loans, read this post, and then take action.
  13. Read this 2017 Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide  

    0.4

Edition 10 — 11

UPDATES

Version 11 — Goes live 4-13-2025

  1. 4/4 Added 2.7 - Proof of Protests
  2. 4/4 Added **2.8 - Disappeared People Tracker
  3. 4/4 Added **1.12 - Blur Faces Software
  4. 4/4 Added 1.13 - Canadian Protest Advice
  5. 4/5 Added large update to 2.7 - Proof of Protests
  6. 4/5 Added April 19th Protest video under 2.7
  7. 4/6 Added 5.28 - Flood the Media and 5.29 - Silent Protest
  8. 4/6 Added protest activity map to 2.7
  9. 4/6 Added 5.30 - Coretta Scott King’s Advice
  10. 4/6 Overhauled Section 13 - Demands with a Problem, Solution, Benefit flow
  11. 4/6 Added *5.31 - Fake Job Applications*
  12. 4/6 Added 2.9 - 10 Largest Stock Market Drops
  13. 4/6 Added r/anticonsumption and BuyNothing to 2.3
  14. 4/6 Added MayDayStrong to 2.3 as a joinable group
  15. 4/5 Added r/DIY to 4.15
  16. 4/6 Added Buy Nothing Project to 4.16
  17. 4/6 Added 6.6 - Phone Numbers
  18. 4/6 Added 2.10 - The Impact Map
  19. 4/6 Added Surveillance Self Defense Article 1 and Article 2 to Section 12
  20. 4/6 Massive update to successfully Debating MAGA in 3.2
  21. 4/6 Added OPCSEC & INFOSEC, and Surveillance Self Defense to Section 12
  22. 4/6 Added Constitution 101 to Section 12
  23. 4/6 Added a Make an Activism Plan booklet in 5.32
  24. 4/6 Removed all mentions of DT’s name and replaced with 47 (see 5.30 for why)
  25. 4/6 Added Bernie and AOC Tour dates to 1.1
  26. 4/6 Added Bernie and AOC’s donation page to 0.5 Donate Now
  27. 4/6 Added Operation Sunshine to 5.33
  28. 4/6 Added New York Times to the Boycott list in 4.5
  29. 4/7 Added 150 companies that suppport MAGA from the S&P 500 to 4.5
  30. 4/7 Added **5.34 - FaxZero.com
  31. 4/7 Added 5.35 - Call Local News Radio
  32. 4/7 Added an awesome Map Tool to 2.7 - Proof of Protests
  33. 4/7 Added this serious warning to 2.5 - What is Happening?
  34. 4/8 Added the best news story covering the protests to 2.7 - Proof Protests Work
  35. 4/8 Added [a Venezuelan example](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1ju9xaa/venezuelas_ruling_socialist_party_led_a_mass/) to 1.5 - Bring Friends
  36. 4/8 Added the best article covering the 4-5-2025 protests to 2.7 - Proof Protests Work
  37. 4/8 Changed 2.7 Proof of Protests to 2.7 - Proof Protests Work
  38. 4/8 Softened the Boycott Local and National News messaging in 2.3
  39. 4/9 Added this brief history of general strikes to 5.3
  40. 4/9 Added distress flag to title page
  41. 4/9 Added 2.10 - Interactive Maps with 3 very important maps.
  42. 4/10 Added 5.36 - Actionable Task Websites
  43. 4/10 Added 4.15 - DIY, 4.16 - Buy Nothing Project, and 4.17 - Tariff Calculator to TOC
  44. 4/10 Reversed stance on boycotting media in 2.4 because of this website.
  45. 4/10 Added [2017 Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide](https://verfassungsblog.de/the-authoritarian-regime-survival-guide/) to #1 on 2.5
  46. 4/10 Greatly expanded the 2.5 - What is Happening? conclusion
  47. 4/10 Added Realtime Fascism to #1 in 2.4, a website that links articles to lost rights in the USA
  48. 4/10 Big update to 3.2 - Debating MAGA

# 0.5

Donate Now

Donate to the people who are helping organize and save us. Undeserving politicians do not deserve our time or resources. Deserving politicians do (there are very few of these).

  1. Election Truth Alliance Watch this 41 minute video Watch this 9 minute summary if you don’t have 41 minutes Watch this 26 minute updated analysis and sign the a petition.

Then donate here.  

  1. Fight Oligarchy Bernie & AOC are helping with ending Oligarchy, and arguably have the largest platform (and they are not concerned with anything other than standing up to 47’s regime right now, which is good.

Donate to them on their website, if you wish.

Section 1

Protest

## 1.1 Attend Protests & Rallies

Attend protests! If we do not attend protests now, it will likely become illegal.

Safe Protesting Guide

Chemical Irritants Guide

Protests are Working

3/1 - Vance’s Ski Trip

Tesla Protests

GOP Town Halls

GOP Boo’ed at Town Halls

47 Tower Protest

3/14 - DC Protest

Protests in US

**3/21 - 34,000 people unite in Denver

**3/22 - 30,000 people in Arizona

Use DuckDuckGo to find footage of protests for motivation. The media isn’t covering the protests as they should, but the footage is out there.

Bernie & AOC Rally Rates Here is the website with their tour dates.

1.2

Protest Dates

50501 Protest Protests and protest guides.

Mobilize.us Local protests and events.

Hands Off Very useful map tool

Political Revolution Protests organized by date.

US Protests Map Connects protests to links.

50501 is the most reliable protest entity right now.

However, DuckDuckGo searches can help you find new groups to join.

1.3

Sick Outs

A sick out is when a lot of people within the same company or institution call in sick simultaneously specifically to disrupt the company, or an industry. There are 2 ways to do this:

  1. Get everyone to Sick Out
  2. Get enough people to sick out to cause disruption

Some people are going to prioritize their job over the collective action. Some people have also run out of sick days and have a harder time participating because they lose money or risk their job. Therefore, people who don’t participate might have a reason, so be careful in judgments.

Organize sick outs behind the scenes with vetted co-workers.

1.4

Civil Disobedience

The CIA’s short guide for conducting civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience can sometimes be petty. But to be effective, it must confer a message or ideal. Here are recent examples:

US Army Chorus

Yosemite National Park

Zion National Park

DT licking EM’s Toes

Anonymous Disobedience

Modern Examples

Civil Disobedience is sometimes petty, sometimes serious, and sometimes humorous. But it always makes a point.

1.5

Bring Friends

Bringing friends to protests can help you split costs, and it increases the number of people at the protest. Protesting with friends is also a way to build community, and become better friends with that person / people.

If you have acquaintances in other countries who are affected by 47’s policies, encourage them to protest in safe ways. Here is a Venezuelan example.

1.6

Universal Messaging

Hands Off !! Use this phrase for signs, and tell people what you want 47 and the republicans to get their hands off of.

Chant “Protect the Constitution” & put it on signs This is a simple idea that will resonate with many people. Yes, it is flawed, and this presidency shows it needs updating, something like the No Kings Act comes to mind.

American Flags Bring an American Flag to the protest.

Pledge of Allegiance Use the pledge of allegiance to disrupt lawmakers.

Overturn Citizens United Citizens united quiets the voices of the citizens and amplifies the speech of companies. It must go.

Resist Divisive Messaging It feels good, but pushes people away. Right now, we need anyone and everyone who turns on DT and his allies. Avoid divisive messaging when possible.

They Lied to Us! Make “They Lied to Us!” signs and shirts.

1.7

Join a Union

Join a union if you can. It is an instant community to help fight for your rights.

1.8

Do Not Be Silent

Silence empowers the oppressor. Silence isn’t voice. Silence is complicity.

1.9

Accept Your Role

We are the last line of defense. No one is going to save us but us. Internalize this mantra. Until democrats do what the people want, they won’t save us.

1.10

Make Signs

You do not NEED a sign, so if you don’t make one, that is ok. However, here are tips for creating effective protest signs:

  1. Large bold lettering
  2. Clear lettering
  3. Readable from a distance
  4. Use catchy phrases
  5. Use humor
  6. Use pop culture
  7. Consider “Would this sign be blurred out on the news?”
  8. Use bring colors for writing.
  9. Use a 2 or 3 color palette
  10. Pictures should match the message.
  11. Use symbols that associate with your movement or goals
  12. Make multiple signs, and give them to signless people
  13. Use universal messaging denoted in 1.6
  14. Use both the front and back of your sign / poster.
  15. Print this QR code and put it on your sign:

1.11

Be Observant

Here is an image that everyone should be familiar with:

## 1.12 Blur Faces

When posting anything on social media, pre-blur the faces of everyone in the same. Here is a tool that makes it easy.

## 1.13 Canadian Protest Advice

Here is the original post

BEFORE YOU GO:

  1. Tell someone where you’re going and when you’ll check in
  2. Full phone charge, backup charger, and no, a cracked screen doesn’t make you invincible
  3. Comfortable shoes. Closed toe. You’re walking, not modeling.
  4. Dress in layers, no flashy logos unless you want to be easy to track
  5. Mask up: not just for germs, but because cops have facial recognition and zero chill
  6. Bring a sign if you want. Just don’t bring one so big you can’t drop it and run

PHONE SAFETY:

  1. Use a passcode, not your face
  2. Airplane mode is peace of mind when you’re not filming
  3. Location OFF
  4. Back that phone up like your dignity depends on it
  5. Do not livestream unless you know what you’re doing. You’re not Spielberg.

MENTAL PREP:

  1. Breathe. Not because yoga’s going to stop a flashbang, but because panic gets you arrested faster than rage
  2. Know why you’re there. And no, “for the vibes” isn’t enough
  3. Stay chill. The guy frothing at the mouth next to you is probably a fed

DURING THE PROTEST:

  1. Stay with your crew
  2. Know your exits
  3. Don’t talk to provocateurs. Don’t film them. Don’t fucking engage
  4. If you’re filming, you better be documenting—not clout-chasing

IF YOU ARE UNDOCUMENTED OR A NON-CITIZEN:

  1. Do. Not. Go. This is America. They will deport your ass for sneezing sideways. Allow the citizens to fight this round. You fight by surviving.
  2. And listen, Americans: no amount of TikToks, hashtags, or lukewarm presidential statements are going to fix this. You are. But only if you show up like you mean it—and not like lambs to a livestream slaughter.
  3. Because you’re not just marching for justice. You’re marching for your lives. And we’re watching. We’re rooting. We’re hoping you don’t fuck it up.

Love, Canada

(P.S. Bring water. Not Pepsi. Unless you think you can bribe riot cops with carbonated sugar water and privilege. Spoiler: you can’t. Stay hydrated, not delusional.)

 

Section 2

Awareness

2.1

Share & Export

Share this document. Export / download this document. Updates come out every Sunday. Share the update with your network.

2.2

Resist Bot / 5Calls

Use Resist Bot and 5Calls to contact representatives everyday.

Check out this github Call Guide to gain confidence with your calls.

2.3

Join Groups

You have a choice:

  1. Join an organizing group
  2. Organize a group on your own

List of Active Groups

  1. Join 50501 Follow r/50501 Follow @50501Movement 50501 Linktree

  2. Join Hands Off 2025

  3. Join Indivisible

  4. Join May Day Strong

  5. Join the ACLU

  6. Join the FemmeCollective

  7. Join Shutdown315 Follow r/Shutdown315 Follow Shutdown315

  8. Join No Small Act

  9. Join Build the Resistance

  10. Join Donald Loves Vladimir

  11. Join See You In The Streets

  12. Join The Peoples’ Union

  13. Keep Katie Wild Here is a list of ways, with links, on how to help others who have what you don’t.

  14. Help document the damage to science

  15. Sign up for the General Strike

  16. Follow r/MarchAgainstNazis

  17. Follow r/WorkReform

  18. Join Buy Nothing

  19. Join r/AntiConsumption

There are many groups you can join that are not listed. You do not have to join every group. Just make sure you join a group that is organizing.

Organize on your Own

Use the Activist Handbook.

The Movement Building 101 spreadsheet is also under development from a different person - check it out.

Also check out section 5.32 for another useful tool.

Maximize Numbers When organizing your own group, maximize your group’s effectiveness by joining larger schedule protests. It is the massive collective that can implement grassroots changes.

2.4

Staying Updated

4-10-25 Update As our media becomes compromised, I am recommending outside-of-the-USA media outlets. We still need to fight for our media outlets. Authoritarian Regimes demonize them, and the profit motives controls what the media covers so they can stay afloat. To combat this, in the demands section, I recommend we have a national media outlet that is separate from the government (like PBS, NPR, or something similar).

Here are ways to remain up-to-date:

  1. Realtime Fascism This website links articles to rights being taken away, and rates the danger levels.

  2. Democracy Docket Independent News Organization

  3. The Contrarian Independent News Organization

  4. Keep_Track A lot of very good information with links to stay updated

  5. Its Going Down Independent News Organization

  6. BBC World Service External from US, more objective

  7. Reuters External from US, more objective

  8. The Guardian External from US, more objective

  9. Meidas Touch Fastest growing independent news

POTUS Tracker Do not use Truth Social. Instead, use POTUS Tracker.

List of Resources This list of resources is very helpful. I plan to go through the list and incorporate stuff that I do not have in this document.

 

2.5

What is Happening?

To understand what is happening, review the following materials:

  1. [2017 Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide](https://verfassungsblog.de/the-authoritarian-regime-survival-guide/) (it is prophetic)
  2. Read the Intro of this document.
  3. Watch this 41 minute video
  4. Visit the Election Truth Alliance
  5. Watch the this video
  6. Here is the threat we face

Additionally, Anonymous claims election interference has occurred, too.

Here is undercover work by The Guardian that demonstrates the election interference has a deeper layer, too.

Here is an example of the damage that has been done, and is on the horizon.

Conclusion The bottom line is simple: various groups believe they have enough power to destroy not just the USA, but democracy. My opinion is that not every group will win, and they do have conflicting long term goals. But they do have “overthrow the USA and democracy” synergy, which is why so many people and resources are backing them.

The key will be The People. We have three advantages that they can never replicate:

  1. Our collective labor
  2. Our massive numbers
  3. Everyone, everywhere, all the time, all at once

The answers to these three advantages are (1) Robot / Automated labor / Slave Labor, (2) Deportations / Mass Murder, (3) Mass surveillance. Our counter solutions are simple, too:

  1. General Strike
  2. Mass demonstrations, often (daily, even)
  3. Accountability

It is going to be an uphill battle. However, accountability matters in the end. We hold each of these people accountable, and not just 47. His cabinet, the republican party who stands idly by, and even the democratic leaders who stand idly by.

2.6

National Health

American Medical Association is making updates via their YouTube channel because the CDC is being muzzled and controlled.

Subscribe to their channel for health information.

## 2.7 Proof Protests Work

With the media blackout not covering all the protests across the country, I feel compelled to put links and images here to show people what is happening, when, and to document evidence that protests do work:

Here is an awesome Map Tool that shows proof of protests in every state for 4-5-2025.

Here is the best news story covering the 4-5-25 protests.

Here is the best article covering the 4-5-2025 protests.

March 2025 Protests & Rallies

Posted 3-21-25: 11,300 turn out in a town of 108,000

[Posted 3-22-25: Bernie & AOC get 34,000 in Denver, CO](https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/thousands-attend-bernie-sanders-aoc-rally-denver-push-progressive-change/) (here is another image)

[Posted 3-22-25: Bernie & AOC get 23,000](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jhk3cj/in_red_arizona_aoc_bernie_got_23k_at_their_rally/#lightbox) in Arizona (Another set of images)

Posted 3-23-25: Richmond, VA protest against the Governor

Posted 3-23-25: Large protest in Boston

April 5th, 2025 Protests

[4-5-2025: Massive Atlanta Protests](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js9sq7/atl_showing_up/) (20,000+)

[4-5-2025: Massive Boston Protest](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js6ckl/massive_crowd_of_protesters_gathered_in_boston/) (Here is an aerial view)

[4-5-2025: Super Massive NY Protest](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js9lok/anti_trump_protest_nyc/) (100,000+??)

[4-5-2025: 10,000 people in DC by noon](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js876z/dc_right_now_at_least_10000_immediately_around/) (100,000+ reported)

[4-5-2025: DC has a line just to get out of the metro!](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js6ayu/wow_having_to_wait_in_line_just_to_get_out_of_the/) (thousands)

[4-5-2025: Minnesota has a large protest](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/) (8,000+)

[4-5-2025: Minnesota protest grew a lot more compared to above](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jsameo/great_turnout_in_minnesota/) (thousands)

[4-5-2025: Massive Chicago Protests](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jsajb0/hands_off_chicago_represents/) (10,000+) (Possibly 30,000+)

[4-5-2025: Huge Phoenix, AZ protest](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js8gns/phxaz/) (thousands)

[4-5-2025: Large Cincinnati Protest](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js87kd/cincinnati_represent/) (thousands)

[4-5-2025: Large Alabama Protest](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jsai2q/alabama/) (thousands)

[4-5-2025: Portland Maine](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js96af/portland_maine_today/) (thousands)

[4-5-2025: Orlando, FL](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jsa3hh/were_out_here_in_orlando/) (thousands)

[4-5-2025: Topeka Kansas](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js8f88/live_from_topeka/) (Thousands are there)

[4-5-2025: Chapel Hill, NC](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js878p/chapel_hill_nc/) (thousands)

[4-5-2025: Albany, NY](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js8ji1/albany_ny/) (thousands)

[4-5-2025: Pasadena, CA](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jsb9y7/huge_protest_in_pasadena_ca/) (thousands)

[4-5-2025: Denver, CO](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1js9ug8/denver_protest_is_already_huge/) (thousands)

[4-5-2025: Salt Lake City, UT](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jsd6k7/salt_lake_city_organizers_said_the_crowd_was_over/) (10,000+)

[4-5-2025: Detroit, MI](https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jsaa2f/protest_starting_in_detroit/) (thousands)

On 4-5-2025, there are hundreds of small cities, towns, and communities that had 1 - 999 protest attendees. I cannot put them all here. The r/50501 subreddit has a lot of posts with them if you wish to go see them.

It is estimated 3 - 5 million people stood against 47, Musk, and Republicans on 4-5-25, with deep red states who usually don’t protest turning out their own numbers, too.

Here is a 4-5-2025 map of US protest locations:

April 19th, 2025 Protests

https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jsgybs/if_you_think_3_million_people_was_a_lot_just_wait/

## 2.8 Disappeared People Tracker

Here is a disappeared people tracker. This is an important tool for tracking people the government disappears. Be aware of it.

2.9

10 Biggest Stock Market Drops

Here is the source link (search for the dates in the image below):

## 2.10 Interactive Maps

This interactive map shows the impacts the current administration is having on our country.

This interactive map shows the amount of funding ICE has receiver in US districts, and lists that district’s representative.

This interactive map shows ICE detention centers, and can show immigration help centers. Unfortunately, very few immigration help centers exist when compared to ICE centers (that is because the government funds deportation efforts and not integration / emigration efforts).

Here is an awesome Map Tool that shows proof of protests in every state for 4-5-2025.

Here is a map tool that links protests to articles.

 

Section 3

Recruitment

3.1

Recruit

Recruiting Trusted People

Encourage them to attend protests with you, and to read this document.

A trusted person can also stand in opposition to you, like a family member. When making an appeal, make it personal. Share how things affect you.

For the LGBTQ+ community, if you are not out to this person, always be careful, and use your best judgment.

Recruiting Acquaintances

Here are tips on determining a person’s politics before recruiting:

  1. Observe their actions
  2. Do their actions and words align?
  3. Do they do the following:
    1. Complain about people?
    2. Complain about ideas?
    3. Complain about politics?

Complaining about people is usually critical, and not critical thinking. Complaining about ideas and concepts is a much higher form of critical thinking because it means they are trying to assess a larger issue. Complaining about politics gives huge hints into a person’s views.

Hot Button Issues You can also discuss topics that are akin to hot button issues to extract a person’s opinions.

Here are examples:

Be careful when speaking to people you do not know well.

Recruiting Opposition

Use the following tips for recruiting opposition:

The goal is to defeat authoritarianism, and we need all the help we can get. We can tackle individual differences later.

Simple Speech If you are indeed recruiting a full on MAGA, or trying to, use simple speech and ideas. Yes, this sounds insulting, but there is scientific evidence to back it up.

Pete Buttigieg gives an example here. He breaks DEI down in a very relatable way.

Racism & Recruiting

I believe calling people “Racist” is unhelpful when making progress toward a non-racist world. Every person exists on the racism spectrum (or racism scale).

This matters because when recruiting people to fight against authoritarianism, they are less likely to coalesce with the group if they are at a certain point on the racism scale.

Therefore, keep this in mind when recruiting people. Recruiting a stranger can be good, but it might be good to feel out how racist they might be.

When you recognize that racism is on a spectrum, you can begin to work on yourself, and you can work with others to lower their temperature towards another race. Rejection of this concept will mean you might not be ready to form coalitions, or be part of the wider community.

Know thyself, and be mindful.

3.2

Debating MAGA

You must prepare for debates with MAGA. The following section provides examples of how to do this, and good approaches. But above all things, keep the following goal in mind:

GOAL = Divert Authoritarianism

We aren’t trying to make or keep friends at this point. We’re trying to de-program people who are in a cult, and have been scammed.

Understanding MAGA

MAGA is a cult (Source, Backup Source).

Cults are difficult to get away from because cults require the ideology to become your identity. Therefore, leaving means admitting to yourself that you have

  1. Wasted time
  2. Wasted money and resources
  3. Harmed others
  4. Were made into a fool

Confronting this reality is one of the most difficult things to do, and it always creates an identity crisis. Rather than face that crisis, most people push away uncomfortable truths and embrace comfortable lies. Think of it like being in a hot tub in Antarctica: it keeps you warm, isolated, and unable to get out of Antarctica, and the cult leader slowly steals the clothes you do have to escape the situation - it is indeed that horrible.

Destroy Your Life for My Convenience!! Asking someone to leave the republican regime MAGA cult is the same thing as asking someone to destroy their life. Few will do this so willingly because of the backlash they will experience. Their identity is tied to their job, church, friends, and family, who all have also bought into MAGA. Rejecting it means to be pushed away from their entire world, and worldview.

MAGA is a Coward

Asking someone to destroy their own life is difficult. It is even more difficult when you don’t realize that is what you are asking them to do, and they do not realize that is what you are asking.

And yes, if destroying your life is what you must do to save the country, and you don’t do it, you are a coward. True bravery means doing the hard thing, the stupid thing, but doing it anyway, because it is necessary, and right.

MAGA is a coward because MAGA is taught not to be brave. MAGA isn’t brave because it doesn’t speak up for itself or stand up for itself: it has a leader who does the speaking and the standing up, and he tells MAGA what to think, who to hate, what to do, where to go, and what is ok and not ok.

MAGA is a coward because it relies on 47 for everything. They believe he will fix everything, solve all economic issues, solve all military issues, and that he could never be manipulated (because if he could be manipulated, it means his followers can be manipulated, too).

Confronting MAGA

If we accept the premise that cultists leave silently, then we must accept the premise that public debate with them won’t work, either. Therefore, here are my suggestions for debating MAGA effectively:

  1. Stop Publicly Arguing If we all stop arguing with MAGA online and in public, they will only have themselves to argue with. They will alienate one another for us.

  2. Argue Privately Debate with MAGA you know, away from others. One on one conversations, e-mails, phone calls, etc… This is important because it gets MAGA away from bots, trolls, AI, Fox News, echo chambers, and bad actors.

  3. Argue One Point, then Stop Drawing connections between topics confuses MAGA, because MAGA only talks about one thing at a time. Therefore, stick to one point, then shut the conversation down. The longer the conversation goes, the more likely MAGA will be angry and dig their heels in.

  4. Use Simple Words 47 does it, we should, too. MAGA demonizes education. Speak plainly, and be simple. Re-frame issues very simply. Pete Buttigieg does a very good job of that in this video.

  5. Make MAGA Feel MAGA is angry, which they view as an acceptable emotion, because they are told to. Think about it, 47 is always angry, and spewing hate, and so do they. MAGA emulates emotions, and they call us snowflakes because we have our own emotions, and not emotions on loan from a leader. When making arguments, make it personal: share how 47’s policies negatively affect yourself, MAGA, and mutual people you and MAGA both know.

  6. No Reaction As much as you possibly can, show now emotions to MAGA because they get dopamine hits off of it. They like angering and subverting us with strawman arguments. They light gaslighting us, and they never admit when they are wrong, and instead move the goal posts. Let them have all the reactions, and not you.

  7. No Insults Direct insults with curse words confirm to MAGA you are a horrible person. High brow insults, especially when they know they are being insulted but don’t understand it, anger them more because they have been trained to hate intellectuals. If you refuse to insult them, and stick to issues, then their criticisms will have to be based on issues, and not your insults. Another way to think of it is insults gives them something to confirm you’re the bad guy, but with no insults to point to, that justification is taken from them.

This includes not calling 47 Orange, and all that. Criticize his policies, and not him. If being in a cult means the cult is your identity, then insulting 47 is insulting them directly – don’t do it.

  1. Providing Research When online, if you are challenged to show evidence in a calm manner, oblige once. If challenged in a rude or aggressive way, don’t bother. Your time is valuable, and the chances of changing their mind online are low.

  2. MAGA is Uneducated (Mostly) There are 2 major areas MAGA is sensitive when it comes to being called uneducated: (1) True non-whitewashed history, and (2) big words. Big words are off-putting to MAGA, and make the rest of us sound like we are talking down to them (even when we are not intending to do that at all). But the worst part is the whitewashed history. This has been a long time grievance of the black community – that white people don’t really know history. Real history is uncomfortable to learn, and most of history has been whitewashed to make it comfortable for white people – that is wrong and needs to change.

7 Rules on Approaching Authoritarian Supporters

The following text is taken from the 2017 Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide:

Rule 1 - Do Not Patronize

Don’t look down on them, don’t patronize them, even if you know what they’re saying has no factual basis or you find it offensive. Don’t preach, ask questions. Try to understand them, where they are coming from, what their problems are and why they see solutions to them in the regime. Treat them as people, as equals. They believe what they’re saying is true and they might have valid reasons for their support.

Rule 2 - Don’t Get Emotional

Don’t get emotional, don’t get provoked into heated arguments. Fight the other side’s emotions with your calm, logical approach. The angrier they get, the calmer you should be. They’ll calm down eventually.

Rule 3 - Focus on Commonality

Focus on what you have in common. Do you live in the same neighborhood? Do you work in the same company or sector? The smaller the community, the easier it is. Give examples, like “we all need to get this done for all of us, if we don’t cooperate neither of us will have it”.

Rule 4 - Mirror Their Language

Use their language, don’t treat it as inferior or below you – don’t seem patronizing (see rule 1). If they curse, curse with them. If they approach you with humor, don’t get angry or uptight about it, reply with humor. Show them you’re actually not that different (see rule 3). As long as you communicate on two different planes, you will never meet.

Rule 5 - Expose Infotainment Lies, Calmly

Don’t block their news sources, don’t turn away from their leaders and authority figures. Treat them as an insight to their worldview and tactics. Use them to your advantage, to better prepare for their arguments. Whenever you don’t agree with something or detect a lie, voice it calmly, expose it with factual arguments.

Rule 6 - Focus on Negative Effects

Pinpoint the practical, negative effects of their side’s actions, ones that affect them directly. Find examples of how they, their families, children or friends will be personally impacted by their policies, or how it will affect your shared community.

Rule 7 - Don’t Push People Away

If all else fails, don’t turn away, don’t abandon your friends and family, don’t shun your neighbors. Remember, an authoritarian wants to divide you to control you. So invite them over to your BBQ, crack open a beer, and who knows, maybe they’ll realize you’re not so different after all.

Resources

LeavingMaga.Org

This article has excellent tips.

This article is also useful.

Online Debates

For unwanted online debates, use B.R.I.M.:

  1. Block
  2. Report
  3. Ignore
  4. Move on

## 3.3 Subscribe

Here is a verified list of streamers, podcasts, and other online groups that do not support 47.

I am putting this under recruitment because if we all follow each of these, their online numbers will grow and our voice will be amplified.

## 3.4 Unsubscribe

Unsubscribe from the following people, channels, or groups:

  1. People who support DT / MAGA
  2. People who avoid the discussion

If a person has a channel that talks about building bird houses, and there is no cause for politics discussion, you don’t have to unsubscribe from them.

However, the goal is to challenge authoritarianism. If a person is not calling out the regime for what it is, they likely don’t deserve support.

Silence emboldens the oppressor. There is no reason to support silent individuals. They are the individuals who will watch you get dragged away. They are the individuals who will turn you in to save themselves. They are the individuals who will rationalize heinous acts against people to keep their job.

Section 4

Limit Spending

## 4.1 Open Secrets & GUU

Use the following links to look up corporation political donations before making purchases:

  1. The** Goods Unite Us** app
  2. www.OpenSecrets.org
  3. All MAGA Supporting Stores

Option 3 is a website that shows stores that specifically share MAGA values. You can search it by zip code. Use their website as a catalog of where NOT to shop.

4.2

S.A.V.E.

Trim your expenses with SAVE:

Select Select products and services you must use, and keep using them.

Assess Determine whether a product or service can be purchased elsewhere.

Verify If you cannot buy the product elsewhere, is there an alternative?

Eliminate For all products and services, see if you can eliminate it from your life.

Shift all of your spending habits away from big corporations and toward local business, independent people, and smaller companies.

Spending Tips

Some of this is easier said than done, but try your best. If your spending grinds to a halt, you’ll save more money, and you will be increasing your resistance.

Saving Tips

No Buy November Organize a neighborhood-wide Swap Meet aimed at lowering purchases in November.

Neighborhood Sharing Agreements Ask neighbors to participate in a sharing agreement where everyone lists infrequently used objects that others can be used. Infrequently used items can include things like lawnmowers, snowblowers, power washers, camping gear.

Either each object comes with a maintenance cost that must be paid in advance, or the sharing agreement requires an upfront maintenance fee to be collected annually.

Homeowner’s Association One of the good things about homeowner’s associations is they collect money to pay for services such as street clearing, lawn care, etc… If done properly, the neighborhood association negotiates to get the best pricing. Year-to-year profits should roll over into an emergency fund, and a capital improvement fund for things like street paving.

Neighborhoods can also negotiate for bulk purchases for things like top soil, potting mix, mulch, and many other ideas.

Limit Overlapping Expenses Rotate subscriptions to streaming services.

Prioritize Experiences Over Purchases Organizing free activities, swap meets, neighborhood sharing agreements, and other similar ideas encourage community building and less wasteful spending.

S.A.V.E. Checklist

Shared Resources

Rotate & Limit Subscriptions

Group Buying Power

Reduce Convenience Spending

DIY & Skill Sharing

Transportation Savings

Mindful Purchasing

Free & Low-Cost Fun

Financial Accountability

4.3

Move Your Money

Credit Unions Credit Unions are owned by people, and not billionaires. Moving your money diminishes the profits billionaires can make by loaning out your money.

Local Banks Local banks are owned by local people, and not billionaires. They are an excellent option, especially if you cannot join a credit union.

4.4

Cash is King

Use cash and pre-paid debit cards. This makes your purchases un-trackable, and thus un-exploitable.

4.5

Boycotts

Permanent Boycotts

Tesla

Google

Target

Meta / Facebook & Amazon

Amazon / Whole Foods

McDonald’s

Walmart

Ford

Harley-Davidson

Brown-Forman

John Deere

The New York Times (they aren’t covering the 50501 / Hands Off protests)

Here is a list of 150 MAGA supporting companies

Upcoming Targeted Boycotts

Note that this document suggests spending as little as possible. However, participating in these targeted boycotts helps, too:

Source

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Citizen’s Embargo

A Citizen’s Embargo is when we boycott products made within the USA that other countries have levies against. This means those companies not only feel economic pain internationally, but also at home.

For example, Kentucky’s bourbon industry is feeling a lot of economic pain. Bourbon brings in nearly $10 billion annually to Kentucky.

Therefore, boycotting products you buy that other countries have tariffs against is a huge level of resistance, and moreso if you recruit others.

Limit Spending

Targeted boycotts work.

However, it cannot be emphasized enough that we must all limit spending as much as possible. Big tech and big businesses simply have too much money, and money is the only thing they understand. So, we must take it away, and reinvest into individuals, small businesses, and community.

4.6

Boycott Tesla

Keep Boycotting Tesla!! Here is a video that explains the financial technicalities of boycotting Tesla.

EM used Tesla as collateral when buying Twitter.

Therefore, if Tesla’s stock drops too low, the creditors who loaned EM money will make margin calls against EM, causing him to lose a lot of money, and Twitter, his main propaganda machine.

Stigmatize the Brand Here is how:

  1. Encourage others to sell their Teslas.
  2. Discourage others from buying Tesla.
  3. Share social media posts about people who sold their Teslas.
  4. Share social media posts about negativity toward Tesla / Teslas
  5. Like / Heart / Share / Upvote negative views and images of Tesla.
  6. Refer to Teslas as “Swasticars.”
  7. If your state requires front and back license plates, call the police when you see a Tesla or Cybertruck without a front plate.
  8. This video shows Tesla technology is not as safe as other self-driving cars.

4.7

Washington Post

Cancel your Washington Post subscription because JB directed the Washington Post to only cover right wing issues.

Supporting Journalism Reach out to the journalists who you like at WaPo, and ask them “What is the link for your substack?”

You can look it up without asking them, but this will send a message that we respect them, but not the paper they work for.

Then, follow them.

4.8

Buycotts

Support companies that have reasonable policies, and don’t flip flop based on election cycles:

  1. Costco
  2. Aldi
  3. Trader Joe’s

Each of these companies have good policies, and pay their workers appropriately.

4.9

Tithing

If your religious institution supports MAGA, consider tithing elsewhere (or attending church elsewhere).

4.10

Holidays

Make the holidays about food, family, and friends, and less about stuff. Here are ideas on how to limit holiday expenditures:

  1. Spending caps
  2. Potlucks
  3. Needs over Wants

Celebrate any and all holidays you want, and celebrate them with whom you want. But consider reducing your spending.

4.11

Fast Food

Fast Food prices are no longer wallet friendly, and most fast food chains support MAGA with political donations. Here are ways to resist:

30 Meals If you lean to cook 30 meals and you eat each meal twice, that covers 2 meals per day for about 1 month.

3 Meals per Week If you cook 3 bigger meals per week, like Chili, you can cook less.

Embrace Leftovers Don’t cook meals that taste worse as leftovers. Focus on meals you will eat more than once.

Rice and Spice Rice is cheap and spice is good – endless combinations are possible.

4.12

Streaming Platforms

Maintain 1 streaming platform at a time. This will save you money, and if enough of us do this, the platforms will lower their prices.

4.13

Sports

If your sports team is owned by a billionaire, stop supporting that team monetarily. Boycotting US Football, US Baseball, and US Basketball would have the largest impact.

I am excluding the WNBA and college sports from this suggestion… for now.

4.14

Repairmen

Anytime you must hire people to work on your home, consider the following advice:

  1. Don’t hire based on TV ads.
  2. Confirm if they have insurance.
  3. Confirm if they have a license.

If they don’t have a license, don’t hire them.

If they work on commissions, don’t hire them.

TV Hires Companies who advertise on TV very often pay commissions, which incentivizes tradespeople to charge more money, both for themselves and also so the company can label them a top earner (which means job security). A lot of companies that advertise on TV pay commissions, so this is the first sign.

Insurance If they don’t have insurance, and they get hurt in your home through something that is not your fault, you can get sued.

License If they are unlicensed working in your home, you can get sued if they get hurt and they will likely get in trouble, too. It is bad for everyone involved.

Commissions Some companies operate on commissions even if they don’t advertise on TV. So, always ask.

Best Practices

Here is a list of best practices:

  1. Find good repair people before you have a problem.
  2. Ask friends who they have used and how their experience has been.
  3. If possible, get 2 or 3 estimates before settling on a repair person.
    1. Either…
      1. …tell none of them about the estimates
      2. …or only tell the 3rd person.

4.15

DIY

Most things can be done by yourself with a little bit of education.

Join r/DIY

For nearly anything, you can post on there and ask if it is something you can do yourself, and how to go about it. Not every job is doable by yourself, but a whole lot can be.

## 4.16 Buy Nothing

Join the Buy Nothing Project. They have a lot of tips about not spending money, and have a large gifting network.

This is an excellent way to buy less.

4.17

Tariff Calculator

The simplest thing to do is not spend money right now on anything that isn’t essential. However, this tariff calculator can help you be strategic with spending, too.

 

Section 5

Take Action

## 5.1 Election Truth Alliance

Watch this 41 minute video

Then donate here.

Why is this in the document repeatedly? Their research and lawsuits will be extremely important in the future.

They may not have an immediate impact, but the work they are doing is important.

Option 5.2 — Special Elections

Several special elections are coming up that you need to support. If they win, the House of Representatives swings back to democrat control:

New York Blake Gendebian

Additional Republican Vulnerabilities Key legislators who are in trouble

Election Interference

If DT and EM are cheating, and it seems like they are, it is important to keep voting for a few reasons:

Because of the census, we know about how many people are in an area. To maintain a lead in votes, but not to be too obvious about it, votes must be deleted. If this happens on a large enough scale, it will be clear cheating occurred.

Deportations of non-voting immigrants will still be cited as evidence for why a county, or state, is suddenly red. “It was the illegals voting!” will be the line. However, the census accounts for this information, too.

 

5.3

General Strike

Sign up for the General Strike, and commit to striking when 11 million people sign up.

Unconvinced you should sign up? Watch this video for a brief history on General Strikes.

The r/WorkReform subreddit has had several posts regarding a General Strike happening on May 1st – May 5th.

Make Preparation Start making preparations for a general strike now: save money, stock food, etc

5.4

Whistleblowing

Democrats set up a Whistleblowing website.

The collected information can later be used in court or as evidence of the coup.

5.5

Red Cards

Learn how not to cooperate with ICE. Download, print, and review Red Cards. Here are other resources:

  1. ICE in your workplace
  2. ICE in your home
  3. ICE home visits
  4. Know your rights with ICE flyer
  5. Additional resources

Knowing your rights can save yourself, or someone you know.

5.6

Identification

Authoritarian regimes often require citizens to prove their citizenship, which can be difficult to do even if you are a legal citizen.

Birth Certificate Put your birth certificate in an easy-to-find location.

If you do not have your birth certificate, you can get a new one printed up at your state’s department of vital records or department of health.

You will need proof of ID, and mail with your name and address. Each state is different, so learn what else is needed.

Driver’s License Even if you do not drive, obtaining your driver’s license can help you identify yourself.

Get a Real ID.

I am not providing a link to the Homeland Security website on this topic because government websites are compromised. However, DHS enforces each state issue Real IDs.

The SAVE Act

Here is a non-partisan analysis of The SAVE Act.

Women If your name differs from the one on your birth certificate due to marriage, you will be ineligible to vote due to the SAVE Act. There are a few ways to combat this:

  1. Get your passport. Start now.
  2. Change your name back.
  3. Divorce while you can.

Any woman who divorces should change her name back to her birth name.

Immigrants If you do not have a birth certificate, or one that the government will accept, focus on your passport.

5.7

4b Movement

Project 2025 will remove many women’s rights, including the right to vote.

The 4b Movement is recognition that men are stripping women of their rights, and treat them poorly at all levels of society.

If you are a single woman, or a woman in a questionable / horrible / abusive relationship, consider joining the 4b Movement.

The 4b Movement Reddit page has more information for any women who are considering joining the movement. Men should stay out of that group as it is a space for women.

5.8

Town Halls

Attend GOP Town Halls, and voice your concerns.

Attend Democratic Town Halls, and voice your concerns.

MAGA has attended GOP town halls and they are angry. They are being removed by police, and the politicians are not comporting themselves well.

5.9

VOTE!!!

People who Always Vote Keep at it.

Only give rides to the polls to like-minded people.

People who Never Vote Please reconsider your values.

Silence supports the oppressor. For example, imagine you witness someone beating a dog. If you watch, and do nothing, you are allowing it to continue, yes?

Same thing with voting – your lack of voting makes you complicit. You have 3 major options with regard to voting:

People in the MAGA Camp You will lose your rights, like the rest of us, under an authoritarian regime. We need you to come over and vote against republicans. MAGA is hurting everyone, whether they intended it or not.

Please consider the danger we are in.

Cheating & Election Meddling As stated previously, we still need to vote even if there is a chance impropriety is occurring.

We must force them to cheat as much as we can so forensics teams can hold them accountable later.

5.10

Run for Office

Run for office, and develop a platform that helps everyday people.

EM is the perfect example of what happens when you have too much money. We need people who stand up to corporate interests and lobbyists.

To make this work, it means everyday citizens and local businesses will need to donate to political candidates. When those candidates take corporate money, we withdraw our funding and vote.

We need candidates who will overturn Citizens United.

Don’t run as a democrat.

5.11

Poll Workers

Volunteer to be a poll worker.

The more honest eyes there are at the polls, the more whistleblowers the country will have if things are improper.

5.12

Lawsuits

If you are capable, or have a legitimate grievance, file lawsuits.

47’s powers of immunity cover federal level offenses, but not civil offenses. Therefore, civil court may be a useful tool.

For fired federal workers, this video is worth a watch.

5.13

Taxes

Paying Taxes If you pay taxes, and do not get refunds, postmark your taxes for April 15th.

This denies the government your money for as long as legally possible.

Tax Refunds If you get a tax refund each year, pay your taxes as soon as possible to get money out of the government’s hands.

Tax Strike I am monitoring chatter about a tax strike – this likely wouldn’t matter until next year. Tax strikes are more effective when coordinated.

However, if enough people choose to not pay their taxes, it could be a huge blow to the administration.

Research Always do your own research, contact tax professionals, and weigh your options.

5.14

Option 365

Do one thing per day to resist between protests. Doing more is even better.

5.15

USPS

Use USPS when given an option. Avoid FedEx and UPS when possible.

5.16

Quiet Quitting

If you work for a MAGA supporting company, start quiet quitting while you look for a new job.

Also read this small pamphlet on Civil Disobedience.

5.17

Malicious Compliance

If you find yourself working for a MAGA supporting company, you can use malicious compliance.

Also read this small pamphlet on Civil Disobedience.

5.18

Vaccinations

Get vaccinations for yourself and your kids.

Subscribe to the American Medical Association’s YouTube channel for updates since the CDC is currently muzzled.

There are various disease outbreaks within the US that are not being handled well.

**2-24-25: Measles (90 cases reported on CBS This Morning)

**3-14-25: Measles (259 cases)

3-31-25: Measles (400 cases)

4-5-25: Measles (481 cases)

4/8/25: Measles (500+ cases)

It is difficult to resist fascism while sick. Get vaccinated, and stay as informed as you can. Mask up, and use hand sanitizer.

Stay Home When Sick

Try your best not to spread sicknesses to other people.

However, if forced to work while sick, consider taking precautions from spreading your sickness, especially around those forcing you to work, optional.

If you find this suggestion ridiculous, then consider adopting the belief that if you are sick, you should be allowed to remain at home.

5.19

Post-It Protest

Write well-reasoned, short , legible messages on post-it notes.

Leave them at gas stations, grocery stores, and on cars where people will see them.

Avoid insults. Make easy-to-research good points. Examples include the following:

This same idea can be done on sidewalks with sidewalk chalk.

5.20

Privacy Act

File formal demands for access to your personal data that has been collected by DOGE.

Jaime Raskin provided a form to do so here.

5.21

DoEd Form

Flood the Department of Education with forms reporting real issues schools face:

  1. School lunch debt issues
  2. Lack of education funding
  3. Low teacher salaries
  4. Standardized testing issues
  5. School shooting issues
  6. Etc…

5.22

Reply All

Many government organizations have a Reply All feature. Anyone can “accidentally” use this feature to gum up the works.

Protect Yourself Make sure you can prove it was an accident.

5.23

Pledge of Allegiance

If you are forced to say the pledge of allegiance, and don’t want to, you have 3 additional choices:

5.24

Sticker Protest

Create stickers, and post them in public on various surfaces:

Don’t vandalize anything, just find easy to clean surfaces where people will encounter the sticker.

5.25

Block Fox News

This reddit thread teaches people how to block Fox News. You can also block Fox News on any devices within your own home, too.

The purpose is to help prevent family members from being further degraded mentally. The post recommends doing this as a family decision.

Here is the text from the post, in case the post gets deleted (edited for brevity - if you want the full text go to the post’s link above):

Cable & Satellite TV

  1. Cancel / Downgrade
  1. Parental Controls / Channel Blocking This is a good option for households and retirement homes.

Streaming Services (YouTube TV, Hulu, etc.)

  1. Cancel or Change the Plan
  1. Create Custom Profiles WITHOUT Fox News
  1. Use Parental Controls / Channel Blocking

Roku, Firestick, Apple TV, and Smart TVs

If they use streaming devices, you can remove or block the Fox News app:

  1. Remove Fox News App Completely
  1. Set Up Parental Controls & Restrict App Downloads
  1. Block Fox News on Smart TVs

Remove Fox News from Retirement Homes & Care Facilities

If your relative is in a retirement home or care facility, you may need to take extra steps:

  1. Request Channel Blocking on Facility Cable Systems
  1. Provide Alternative Content

Why This Matters: The Psychological Impact of Fox News

Fox News preys on seniors by creating fear, paranoia, and anxiety. Many families have seen their loved ones:

Cutting off Fox News is not censorship—it’s protecting loved ones from corporate manipulation designed to exploit their fears.

SHARE THIS & HELP OTHERS

If you know someone struggling with a loved one addicted to Fox News, help them take action. The more people who block Fox, the weaker their influence becomes.

Let’s reclaim our loved ones’ mental health, peace, and happiness.

## 5.26 Student Loans

If you have student loans, read this post, and then take action.

5.27

Heritage Foundation Survey

Fill out this survey. Note that 5 means low priority, so vote everything 5. Don’t give them any real information.

5.28

Flood the Media

Demand news coverage of protests and resistance. Here is how:

  1. Write postcards to demand coverage.
  2. Send them to news outlets 2 weeks before planned protest dates!
  3. Post and share that you have done this.
  4. Use the #DemandCoverage

5.29

Silent Protest

Write the names of disappeared people, or victims, of this administration on n95 masks, and wear them.

NOTE: As someone who has done this, be sure to write it on the mask in advance of wearing it or you may accidentally harm yourself with pen fumes (marker fumes) etc… So, let it cure / dry out before you wear it.

Be creative, this is just one example. I will post more examples as I find them.

## 5.30 Coretta Scott King’s Advice

  1. Don’t use his name ever - 47 will do.
  2. Remember, this is a regime and he is not acting alone.
  3. Do not argue with those who support him – it doesn’t work.
  4. Focus on his POLICIES, not his orangeness and mental state.
  5. Keep your message positive. They want the country to be angry and fearful because this is the soil from which their darkest policies grow.
  6. No more helpless / hopeless talk.
  7. Support artists and the arts.
  8. Be careful not to spread fake news: check it!
  9. Take care of yourselves.
  10. Resist!
  11. When you post or talk about him, don’t assign his actions to him, assign them to the “Republican Administration” or “The Republicans.”

Number 11 is especially important because the republican legislators will either have to take responsibility for their association with him or stand up for what they dislike (this will take attention off of 47, and he doesn’t like that).

5.31

Fake Job Applications

Apply for a jobs you have no intent on taking. When you get a callback or email, inform them the salary is too low, and discontinue contact. This will help others who do land the job potentially get higher wages.

If you wish to be more detailed, you can also express concern over the job conditions and benefits, too.

## 5.32 Democracy is a Contact Sport

Operation Sunshine is about making sure people speak at local town halls, meetings, and any Open Mic Night. It contains basic resources for doing this - check out their site!

5.33

FaxZero.com

Use FaxZero.com to send faxes to congress (not all congressional leaders receive faxes, but many do). For the return number, pick a publicly available phone number that isn’t your own number.

## 5.34 Call Local News Radio

This post explains how calling local news radio stations after attending a protest might get you some air time to discuss what you saw. It is worth a shot if you are willing to try.

5.35

Actionable Task Websites

We need to resist not just at protests, but in between protests, too. Here is a list of website that have actionable ways to resist.

  1. WhatYouCanDoNow.org This website shows updates on an array of things you can do from home (and in person).

Section 6

Build Community

## 6.1

Offline Plans

Make offline plans with people. Here are reasons why:

Flood the Zone  FTZ is intended to make you feel powerless, isolated, overwhelmed, and sad. One major way to combat this is to make in-person plans with others.

Artificial Intelligence / Bots AI bots are draining people’s energy with negativity, downvotes, negative reactions, etc…

Infotainment News sources like Fox News engage in infotainment rather than facts, which is a major part of the disinformation and misinformation campaigns waged by right wing and authoritarian forces.

Trolls Trolls are willing and unwitting supporters of the powers that be, and they derive pleasure from your angst. You can never make them happy, and they are always negative.

Bad Actors These are people with an agenda, and orders. They are paid at the government level to spread disinformation, hatred, lies, and anything that will stoke fear.

DT, EM, JVD, and all of the other collaborators are truly afraid of massive in-person demonstrations. This is every authoritarian regime’s fear. They always capitulate when this happens — look up the thousands of examples.

Organize in person, commiserate in person, support one another, build a network, and start meeting up with people in-person more and more.

6.2

Shop Local

Shopping at Non-MAGA-supporting local businesses creates community.

6.3

Stock Up

Stock up on non-perishable items, and do some research.

If times get tough, you will be able to survive the expensive grocery bill longer if you have a cache of food.

Learn how to properly store food, and buy containers for that purpose.

6.4

Plant Food

Planting food saves on food costs.

For people who do not have a growing space, look into container gardening. Here are some tips:

Climate Zone Determine your climate zone. That tells you what you can grow.

Lettuce in the Winter Yes, you can grow lettuce in the winter. Look into it!

Potatoes in a Bag Learn about fabric grow bags, and growing potatoes.

Cherry Tomatoes Cherry tomatoes take space to grow, but you get a lot of them.

Crop Rotation Even in gardens, you must rotate crops year to year or disease occurs.

Compost Composting creates nurtient-rich soil. As fertilizer and potting soil become harder to come by, compost will become invaluable.

Here are some articles to help you get started on your garden:

Article 1 Basic Gardening

Article 2 Gardening 101

Article 3 Basic Composting

Article 4 Basics about rain barrels

Article 5 Basics about raised beds

## 6.5 Community Spending

A lot of the ideas in Section 4: Limit Spending could also be put in this section because of their community building potential.

## 6.6 Phone Numbers

Maintain a written list of important phone numbers. As republicans try to wrest control over communications systems, which does include phones of course, they will likely begin with the internet. If it becomes unreliable for communication, or communication is prevented, you will want to have phone numbers of key people in your life.

 

Section 7

De-Big Tech

## Why?

In addition to financing the coup, they do all of the following:

The only way to fight back is to deny the beast battle.

Incremental Removal

Step 1 Use competing platforms.

Step 2 Do 1 thing per day to escape Big Tech.

Sometimes this will be smaller ideas and other times it will be bigger ideas.

Step 3 Change your habits. For example:

  1. Don’t login in for X days at a time
  2. Stop making postss
  3. Stop liking things
  4. Stop scrolling, etc…

Three Big Tech Challenges

Privacy Data exploitation requires a lack of privacy. However, a lot of tech prioritizes privacy, and those services are shared further down. We must start denying big tech ourselves, and reclaim our privacy.

Blocking Advertisements Big Tech is addicted to ads like we are to big tech. Without advertisements, big tech crumbles. Therefore, when you cannot prioritize privacy, prioritize ad blocking. But doing both at once is best!

Confronting Addiction We’re addicted to big tech, and that is by design. However, worse addictions exist. Before quitting cold turkey, try going 1 day without social media. Then 2 days, etc… Wen you get to a week, delete your account.

Cold Turkey Tuesdays Quitting cold turkey is the best way to go.

If you cannot do it all at once, try Cold Turkey Tuesdays where you do not login to any social media on Tuesdays.

7.1

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is a search engine with privacy at its core. Use it instead of Google or Bing.

DDG has a few useful links:

You can incorporate DuckDuckGo into most web browsers by going to their homepage.

Controversy This DDG controversy is worth noting.

7.2

LibreWolf

LibreWolf is a free web browser that prioritizes privacy and ad blocking simultaneously.

LibreWolf is free, and will always be free. They still recommend using DuckDuckGo, but have listed alternatives.

7.3

Orion Web Browser

The Orion Web Browser is another browser you can use. They have a $150 lifetime fee for their plus features. It is an excellent alternative to Safari for Apple users.

Orion is specifically for MacOS and iOS.

7.4

Use Ad Blockers

If you do not wish to change web browsers, consider using ad blockers. Ad blockers help you in 2 ways:

Every online ad uses bandwidth you pay for, without permission.

Video ads are especially egregious.

Stolen bandwidth also puts extra “mileage” on your device’s hardware.

By denying ads, you recover bandwidth.

LibreWolf Special Note LibreWolf blocks ads automatically, you just have to keep it updated.

Do Not Use the Brace Browser Many people use this to block ads, but the owner is MAGA.

Here is an Open Secrets record search of the owner’s political contributions.

If the old dates on those contributions aren’t convincing, just do searches for Brendan Eich and 47.

7.5

Ad Nauseam

If you have a little know-how, Ad Nauseam is a way to fight back against ads as opposed to just blocking them. Here are the benefits:

Because the ads are clicked, it costs advertisers money without gaining any benefit because of the cost-per-click business model they all mostly use. Do your research, but here are some links to get started:

7.6

Tor

The Tor web browser it the best browser for privacy. Here are Tor’s benefits:

However, it does have some trade offs:

Tor is a highly useful web browser that can blind companies. If you don’t mind ads, and want to ramp up your privacy, Tor is an excellent choice.

7.7

Facebook / Instagram

MZ is supporting the coup, which is why deleting your Facebook account is a good idea. People love Facebook, and the connections it offers. Most people keep it for one or more of the following reasons:

If MZ is helping install authoritarianism, and is a billionaire, then it makes sense to separate from his platform entirely. Consider the follow questions:

White has brought you more joy in life:

It is trickier for businesses, because you need money to survive, and FB might be part of how you generate revenue. Let’s consider a few questions:

No one is asking you to suddenly shift from FB or IG if it means harming your business. But as millions of people leave their policies

Big Tip Offer a deal or sale on a new social media platform to increase your customer base. Link to that deal on Facebook. Do this until you see your metrics shift.

Tip Use Facebook and Instagram to drive traffic elsewhere instead.

Benefits of Deleting Facebook

Do a DuckDuckGo search on “The benefits of deleting Facebook.” You will see many articles on that subject, and they are nearly all encouraging.

Limit Facebook Usage If you cannot delete Facebook, consider these tips:

Doomscrolling

Meta spends billions of dollars learning how to hack your brain to get you to doomscroll. Trying to limit your Facebook usage is the same as saying “I alone can overcome their billions in research.” That is extremely unlikely when you consider it.

What is doomscrolling?

Doomscrolling is when you spend excessive amounts of time reading large quantities of new, particularly negative news, on the web or social media.

Why does Meta want us to doomscroll?

Because they have monetized all reactions to content, but negative content does better than positive content. They also have advertisers who want us to doomscroll. Therefore, Meta has turned us all into a service for advertisers.

What are examples of Meta’s brain hacks?

Hijacking “Friend” Meta makes you feel like you have more friends than you actually do.

They have also added a meaning to the word friend, and it falls very short of being an actual friend.

Subversion of Friendship It is amazing to me how you can call someone a “Friend” and “Hide” them so you don’t see their posts / comments as much.

Facebook encourages us to pretend to be friends with people we are not.

Facebook encourages us to lurk as people we know go through dramatic moments and post about it online.

While it is bad to air dirty laundry, it also seems weird that we call people “friends” that we don’t care about.

Annoyance When you load up your feed, the first post is half-way exposed.

This annoys the brain, so you scroll to see it. This activates your muscle memory for scrolling.

Fake Notifications Have you ever checked your notifications and realized “I have seen all this before?”

That is because you had no notifications to begin with, so Meta gives you some to activate your muscle memory to check things and begin engaging their site.

People also get minor dopamine hits when they have a message or various notifications. So, there is a physical reward they are exploiting.

Advertising Filters Every like, share, subscribe, follow, and reaction places you in an advertising category. Advertisers can then target you specifically with ads.

Data Mining & Selling Meta sells your data, which is essentially a collection of advertising filters and behaviors, to outside companies like Amazon.

This is done with your permission legally speaking, but most people would opt out of this if they knew or understood the amount of tracked data.

Distorting Community Groups exist on Facebook, and it is likely the best feature. People do get a sense of community from this; however, many people use online communities to supplant in-person communities.

Since the inception of Facebook, fewer and fewer community organizations exist, and most have shuttered. So, what happens when the main apparatus of your community is weaponized against you?

Messaging Your private messages are read, and exploited for data. That alone should be chilling to most people.** The gathered data is also sold off.

Likes, Shares, Reactions All of these make us feel good (ie: dopamine hits). Getting more and more of them is fun, too. However, what happens when your good opinion gets few reactions? Does it mean no one cares?

After this happens hundreds of times, it wares on you. What happens when a similar idea gets posted by someone else, and they get all the sunshine?

It is frustrating, and makes Facebook feel like the negative parts of school.

Final Plea

The entire website features big and small brain hacks. Almost all revolve around dopamine hits, which gets you to chase good feelings.

If your main reasons for staying on Facebook involve connections to family and friends, it isn’t Facebook you are craving, but connections to people. Consider connecting with people outside of Facebook, even if it is fewer people.

If I said to you…

“Do you want to join my platform? I basically advertise products to you and your family and friends while none of you are seeing one another?”

…would you do it?

Maybe not if I asked you in that way, but that is exactly what FB is doing.

All of the above applies to Instagram as well.

7.8

Delete Twitter

Twitter is a propaganda machine that manipulates people. Go to BlueSky – it is the perfect replacement, and has millions of users.

Abandoning Twitter de-values the platform. Since Musk used Tesla as collateral to pay for Twitter, as Tesla shares drop worldwide, Twitter is at risk:

7.9

Truth Social

Truth Social is a propaganda machine for 47. Leaving devalues the platform.

However, like it or not, 47 is president, and seeing presidential statements matters.

Therefore, use POTUS Tracker instead. This gives you 47’s schedule and doesn’t give his website added clicks etc…

7.10

Quit Amazon

Jeff Bezos is helping fund authoritarianism.

Therefore, quit using Amazon for anything other than a catalog. But why do people like Amazon so much? It comes down to 3 main things:

Here are ways to give up Amazon:

3 Free Shipping Solutions

3 solutions to free shipping:

Do we really want to allow authoritarianism to take over because we wanted free shipping?

Stop funding Jeff Bezos.

7.11

Other Social Media

All social media platforms come at a cost. The costs are simple to list:

All social media platforms exploit you, and turn you into their product / service.

For every social media platform, search

Also read the About pages regarding company philosophies before joining.

 

Section 8

Big Tech Alternatives

## 8.1 Signal Messenger

Signal makes your texts and calls private. It is free, but donations are appreciated.

Signal only works if both people have it, and it is a replacement for Facebook messenger, conventional text messaging, and other social media chat.

8.2

BlueSky

BlueSky has millions of users, and it is what Twitter used to be.

8.3

Mastodon

Mastodon is a de-centralized social media platform. It is growing in popularity, but needs work. It gets better everyday.

8.4

Reddit

Reddit is an excellent website, but the owner has been pushing negative policies.

There may be an upcoming mass exodus from Reddit.

For now, here are useful subreddits to join:

Federal Issues r/FedNews

r/FiredFeds

r/FedDiscussion

Politics r/WorldNews

r/news

Women’s Issues r/TwoXChromosomes

r/4bMovement

Organizing Groups r/50501

r/The99Society

r/Shutdown315

r/Defeat_Project_2025

Better Working Conditions r/WorkReform

r/Antiwork

Humor r/LeopardsAteMyFace

r/Project2025Awards

r/NotTheOnion

There are likely other subreddits. I’ll add more as I find more or people tell me.

Reddit Update 3-1-25

Reddit has some upcoming planned changes that may see people exit the website en masse. We’ll see if those unpopular plans get implemented.

Reddit Update 3-11-25

Reddit has been cracking down on upvotes and posts that contain certain language. It is getting a bit ridiculous, and backlash might be imminent.

Reddit Update 3-30-25

Reddit is being pressured by Elon Musk to delete things related to himself, Tesla, DOGE, etc…

Alternative to Reddit

The strongest alternative to Reddit is Lemmy. Here is a Guide on how to join the 50501 Lemmy.

It is a little harder to use, but it is fine, and works.

Many people are hoping BlueSky creates RedSky. Perhaps we need to use #RedSky over there a bunch to encourage it?

8.5

Proton

Proton is a free e-mail service, and offers other services, that prioritizes privacy.

Proton Controversy

It is now without controversy, however. I am including it because Proton, and its policies, are on the right side of internet privacy. However, their CEO certainly caused problems. Here are resources for you to make up your mind:

  1. Read this first
  2. Read this second
  3. Read this third
  4. Read this fourth
  5. Here is a timeline of events
  6. Here is a useful thread

This research was presented in this reddit thread as a comment.

Controversy Conclusion

I think Proton is a good service and people should use it skeptically. I think holding the Proton team to a standard not to use their platform to spy on people, sell data, and keep everything private is good.

8.6 — Tuta Mail

Tuta is an end-to-end encrypted email service. It is free for individual users.

8.7

Tech Alternatives List

Instagram [Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org/ “https://pixelfed.org/”) / Flashes (BlueSky)

YouTube **NewPipe / PeerTube

Office 365 LibreOffice

Reddit Lemmy

Netflix / Disney+ Stremio

Google Meet / Zoom Jitsi Meet

Google Docs **Proton / CryptPad / Etherpad

Google / Bing **DuckDuckGo / Ecosia

Google Drive NextCloud

Google Photos / iCloud **Immich / Cryptee

Google Chrome / Safari LibreWolf

All Messaging Apps [Signal](https://signal.org/download/ “https://signal.org/download/”) / Element (Matrix)

Google Home / Alexa Home Assistant

Play Store / App Store Droid-ify

Photoshop **GIMP / Affinity

Android / iOS [LineageOS](https://lineageos.org/ “https://lineageos.org/”) (Research this)

Windows / Mac [Linux](https://www.linux.org/pages/download/ “https://www.linux.org/pages/download/”) (Research this)

DuoLingo **+Babbel / LingQ / Drops / Mem Rise / Busuu

8.8

Reading Books

The party of “free speech” banning books, burning books, and banning words.

Reading is resistance, and always has been. Anytime a book is banned, read it.

Support your local library, buy books from authors directly when possible.

When buying books, buy from local sellers or use www.BookShop.org — purchases from there benefit your local bookstores.

8.9

Go European

The Go European website offers a lot of European based services that can replace many Big Tech apps and websites.

The r/BuyFromEU subreddit helps you acquaint yourself with European products.

8.10

Made in Canada

Try the Made in Canada website.

Use the website to identify some Canadian products near you, and buy them to support Canada, our best ally.

 

Section 9

Build Resilience

## 9.1 Protect Your Peace

Stop Arguing Online

Arguing online costs you time and energy. Learn to differentiate between civil debate and arguing. Never argue – just stop.

Reclaim your time, disengage from toxicity, and focus your time on resistance activities.

AI, Trolls, Bots, Etc…

The internet is now populated with AI, bots, trolls, bad actors, misinformation, disinformation, and infotainment. All of this exists to harm your psychological well-being. These things each have different goals, but here are some:

That’s pretty much it. Engage less by understanding toxicity versus civil discussion.

B.R.I.M

Give a person a sentence or two at most. Otherwise, use B.R.I.M.:

This is a strategy that is outlined in the Debating MAGA section in Section 3.

9.2

Unsecured Places

Do not discuss your resistance plans in unsecured areas at work or in public.

Resist all sensitive discussions in conventional messaging apps, websites, or with people who do you have net vetted.

These things can only be used against you later on.

9.3

NC, KC, LC, Gray Rock

There are 2 schools of thought on this:

(a) Remain in contact with MAGA (b) Remove MAGA from your life

Both ideas are valid for different reasons, and both ideas have problems. Let’s consider both ideas, and then you decide for yourself what to do:

No Contact (NC)

Cutting off all contact with a person means you regain your time, energy, and resources that were spent on that person. It frees you up of obligations to that person, and from striving for their approval.

The downside is whatever that person brought to your life is gone. Another downside is others may try to contact you on their behalf, and you may have to cut them out, too, if they cannot respect your set boundaries.

Going NC can be especially difficult when it is with family members. However, that is simultaneously when it is most effective, too, because people hate losing family. It does force those family members into introspection. Whether or not they can objectively introspect is another matter (that is up to you to determine).

Keeping Contact (KC)

Keeping Contact means you can always communicate with them, and you remain an open connection for that person to discuss their grievances with. The biggest benefit is you might, one day, be able to convince them of your way, and bring them into the resistance fold. More likely is they will “come into the fold” once they personally get hurt by the coup, as many MAGAs do not care about the suffering of others until they become “others.”

The downside to KC is arguments, stress, and spending your time, energy, and resources on a person who resists you, and might even be hostile toward you while gaslighting you that they are “just kidding.” Only you can determine if this risk is worth it.

Low Contact (LC)

Going low contact is a way to keep communication open, and it is a strategy for people who you cannot go NC with, like a co-worker. Low contact can take on a few different forms. For example, it can mean speaking less and less to a person, or it can mean only speaking to that person about very specific subjects, like work-related stuff.

The advantage to going LC is you limit the time, energy, and resources you spend on a person you don’t want in your life. You also keep the lines of communication open. The disadvantage is the person is still in your life when you don’t want them to be.

Gray Rocking

This is a social strategy where you interact with someone you do not want to interact with, but are forced to, by “becoming a gray rock.” Essentially, your responses and reactions are all flat. “How are you doing today” is met with “Fine” instead of a full explanation of how you’re doing.

Gray Rocking can be used alongside the Low Contact strategy. Its advantage is you protect your peace, which is a huge advantage. The disadvantage is people dislike it, and may approach you more to see what the problem is. In that scenario, you just deny it, state you’re just trying to do your work, etc…

Narcissism, Politicians, and their Followers These social strategies are used by victims of narcissism to deal with narcissists – they are field tested, and very effective. Considering the top politician in the country right now, and his right hand man Tonald Drump, are both huge narcissists, their behavior rubs off on their followers. Consider learning about narcissism more, and you will see the clear patterns.

Familiarize yourself with the terms Golden Child (loyal people who constantly seek approval from the narcissist) and Flying Monkeys (people who, knowingly or unknowingly, do the narcissist’s bidding). There are parallels currently at work that cannot be ignored.

Conclusion Therefore, it is up to you to determine whether to use this form of resistance or not. At its heart, it is about reclaiming your time, energy, and resources, and pushing toxic people out of your life. But if you are a person who can weather the storm of a person’s behavior to keep lines of communication open, then your goal should be recruitment away from the coup. If you decide to keep communication, that you have a goal: show them the coup is real, and is happening, and how it affects them.

9.4

The Joy of Life

You must find joy in life, otherwise your resistance has no meaning.

Find joy wherever you can, and always remember the reasons you are resisting.

9.5

Learn Real History

If you are comfortable learning history, then you are not learning real history. The powerful write flowery, dulled down, whitewashed, do-not-blame-me-I-am-the-hero history.

Here are examples:

This article has a comment that I find profound when thinking about learning real history uncomfortably versus learning whitewashed history comfortably:

“They were lied to…Harris/Walz and the Democrats *told them they were being lied to. What do you do when voters want to vote for the ‘comforting lie’ over the uncomfortable truth?”*

This comment points to the extreme danger of learning whitewashed history. History is uncomfortable, and if you are placated with a comfortable lie over an uncomfortable truth, then you become an enemy of democracy.

How do I learn real history?

Regarding BlackPeopleTwitter Do not go in there, especially as a non-black person, and start demanding people teach you real history.

Just read — links to real history are posted all the time.

Be receptive, and don’t invade black people’s spaces with your ignorance. Be quiet, be receptive, and learn.

9.6

S.E.R.E.

In the Marine Corps Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) School, resistance training includes handling mind games that captors might use to break your willpower. The training focuses on psychological resilience, maintaining discipline, and resisting manipulation. 

Considering the US government is intending to make people feel powerless, dejected, and push us all into actionless emotions, learning psychological resistance strategies is a good idea right now. Here are key strategies SERE teaches, according to a USMC SERE grad:

  1. Control Your Reactions Stay calm: Captors may try to provoke emotional outbursts. Responding impulsively can give them leverage over you. Avoid extremes: Neither appear defiant nor overly submissive. Balance is key.  
  2. Stick to a Cover Story Use the “Big Four”: Name, rank, service number, and date of birth—nothing more. Keep your lies simple: If given a cover story, memorize it and don’t add unnecessary details.  
  3. Recognize Psychological Tactics Isolation: Captors might try to make you feel alone. Remind yourself that your team and country are behind you. Misinformation: They may feed you false intel to make you question reality. Stay mentally disciplined.  
  4. Resist Guilt and Betrayal Traps Guilt manipulation: They may tell you your actions hurt others. Remember, their goal is to break your resistance.  
  5. Use Mental Strategies Compartmentalize stress: Focus on small, immediate goals (e.g., “Just get through today”). Mental rehearsals: Think about how you’ll handle different scenarios calmly. Personal motivations: Keep thoughts of loved ones or personal resilience mantras in mind.  
  6. Build Inner Strength Faith and morale: Whether through religion, personal beliefs, or sheer mental toughness, hold on to what motivates you. Camaraderie: If with fellow captives, find ways to subtly support one another. Avoid learned helplessness: Even in captivity, small acts of defiance (like keeping a strong posture) reinforce control over yourself.

 This information was taken from a top level comment in this thread on Reddit.

9.7

Flood the Zone

Steve Bannon created the Flood the Zone strategy and it is briefly outlined in Section 6. But how can we resist this strategy?

Resisting FTZ 

Cash, Crash, Commitment

I have noticed a trend in their strategies, and I call it Cash, Crash, Commitment:

Cash If it can be converted into cash, they convert it into cash.

Crash If it cannot be converted into cash, or prevents them from converting something into cash, they crash and destroy it.

Commitment If they cannot convert it into cash, and they cannot crash it, they install people who have commitment to 47 and no competence.

Therefore, anytime you see a new story regarding the 47 Adminstration, filter it through Cash, Crash, Commitment.

It always boils down into one or more of these three things, and makes simplifies the FTZ strategy so you can absorb, and move forward.   ***

Section 10

Untested Resistance Ideas

## 10.1 Shooting Sickouts

Every time there is a school shooting, every educator in the country should report being sick the next day:

No one wants to politicize school shootings, but something substantial needs to be done.

The only way it will ever get done is if continuous disruptions occur at all levels.

Sick Days Not every teacher will have enough sick days to do this long term.

However, each school district has rules for canceling school based on the number of educators and/or students who are absent.

This means teachers could rotate who calls in sick to preserve and stretch sick days.

Upside Down Flag Everyone should fly their flags upside down for 1 week after every school shooting.

10.2

General Strike Redux

The gold standard of disruption is a general strike.

However, getting to that point is very difficult. Therefore, we need to build up to that outcome. Here are some ideas:

Economic Blackouts These are already occurring, but we need more, and we need to tie them to the concept of a general strike.

Snowball General Strike General strike for a scheduled day. If demands are not met, then strike for 2 scheduled days. If demands are not met, then 4 days, etc…

10.3

Junk Protest

A highway in Florida got shutdown because a milk truck spilled 4,000+ gallons of milk.

It caused a huge hours long traffic jam. This gives rise to 2 ideas:

  1. The Same Object Get a large group of people to buy the same product to cause a shortage. Then, drop this product in the same location within a city as a protest.  
  2. Any Object A large group of people can bring different objects to drop.

This idea works best as a flash mob.

Another point is this protest will only work if there is a stated purpose. Writing notes on the objects turns this into a protest. For example, “Exercise Article 25” is a good message.

10.4

Sue the Republican Party

Is it possible to bring a lawsuit against the Republican party, and sue them for all assets?

They are doing irreparable damage to the country by surrendering their fiduciary duty to uphold things like controlling the power of the purse.

Is this possible?

10.5

End Starlink

The US Government needs to seize Starlink, and decommission it.

It has been weaponized, and Musk may have ways to use it even if it is taken from him.

I think US citizens need to demand its removal.

I think the UN should also demand its removal.

10.6

The Value of Money

What percentage of people must agree that money has no value before it has an impact?

I know if 99% of people ignore money, the 1% who has it all will lose a lot of power.

But, where is the line? Is it 51%, or 25%? Or is it going to be as high as 70%?

I know this is weird, and unlikely to occur. But it is a provocative thought.

10.7

QR Flag

I feel someone needs to make a USA Flag where each star is a QR code.

The QR code might even be able to be star-shaped, which would make it appear as if the USA is disintegrating.

Each QR code could lead to a useful cause.

Section 11

Coup Evidence

This section will compile links and documents that demonstrate a coup is happening.

Many people do not believe it is a coup, so this section will help people have some resources if it is necessary for any reason:

  1. This 41 minute video provides evidence of vote manipulation.
  2. This whistleblower provides detailed information about the tech-bro coup.
  3. Wealth is shifting to billionaires at unprecedented rates. Here is a report on the Senate Floor from Christ Murphy.
  4. If DOGE is about efficiency, cutting government waste, and saving money, why do Republicans want to raise the debt ceiling?
  5. BallotProof – This alone is not evidence, but keeping an eye on it is good.
  6. The Hill reports republicans are in the dark about how to make complaints about DOGE. This matters because it means 47 and friends are trying to rule the country, and exclude elected officials.
  7. How does allowing shell companies help the American people?
  8. How does putting temporary profit and natural resource gain over preservation and tourism serve the American people?
  9. How does giving Russia sanctions relief help the American people?
  10. How does denying truth serve the American people?
  11. The party of “Free Speech” banning words.

# S12 – Education

Here is a list of educational materials on various topics. This section could become massive over time. My goal here is to provide informative and accessible links to important information.

Fascism and Similar Ideas

12.1.1 Autocracy, Fascism, Authoritarianism, and Dictatorship Learn the differences between these terms, and the historic signs and tactics of these ruling styles.

12.1.2 From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framwork for Liberation This book has been translated into 30 languages, and has been relevant for decades.

12.1.3 How Fascism Works A guide to understanding how fascism works

12.1.4 Project 2025 Tracker & Resisting Project 2025 Website Learn what is in Project 2025, track its progress, and learn how to help resist it.

Economic Materials

12.2.1 Tesla’s Declining Stock Learn more about the implications of Tesla’s stocks declining.

12.2.2 The Cost of Insulin Overtime Learn about the cost of insulin overtime.

12.2.3 National Egg Prices, with graph! Learn about current and historic egg pricing.

12.2.4 Housing Prices Article Learn why Barrons, who writes articles for people to make decisions within the stock market, is concerned about housing prices.

12.2.5 TSA Union Contract & USA Safety This 11 minute video demonstrates the destructiveness of Project 2025, and how privatization is of government is not in the interests of the people.

12.2.6 Early Effects of Tariffs This is just the start. Tariffs are terrible, but to do them ‘correctly,’ requires time, and probably subsidies, for companies to get factories built first. But that isn’t happening, so the plan is for everyone to experience economic pain and to destroy small business all while massive corporations build factories that none of the rest of us can afford, and then they will hire us at rock bottom prices, use AI to replace us, and robots.

12.2.7 Bringing Lunch to Work is a Bad Economic Indicator More people are bringing their lunch to work to save money.

Resistance Information

12.3.1 198 Methods of Non-Violent Action by Gene Sharp Learn 198 ways to non-violently protest and resist.

12.3.2 Anonymous Video 1 and Video 2 Learn how Anonymous will help, but their help requires us to rise up.

12.3.3 Simple Sabotage Field Manual Released in the 1940s, and still relevant today.

12.3.4 Industrial Workers of the World Learn about why organizing against big businesses is important.

12.3.5 Resources from Tim Kaine for Federal Workers Tim Kaine is trying to help federal workers.

12.3.6 For probationary federal workers who were illegally fired Resources for probies who were illegally fired from the federal workforce.

12.3.7 Public Service Alliance Another useful link for public service workers.

12.3.8 Anti-Fascist Resources

12.3.9 April 20th, 2025 may be a point of no return for the USA

12.3.10 How to defend against Police Surveillance at Protests

12.3.11 Surveillance Self Defense

12.3.12 INFOSEC & OPSEC by 50501

Independent News

12.4.1 It’s Going Down Learn about relevant stories from around the country - it is a catchall zine that always uses the same link.

12.4.2 Meidas Touch Podcast Replaced Joe Rogan as #1 podcast recently.

12.4.3 Megathread of Printables This thread contains many free printable and downloadable items.

History

12.5.1 Constitution Course 101

Section 13

Demands

In this section, I will list out popular demands people are asking for.

I will also be listing ideas I think have merit to demand, but that I don’t see others talking about.

I will fill out this section as I go – there are many demands I could put here but doing it all at once will be tough.

Popular Demands

13.1.1

Overturn Citizens United

Problem Citizens United allows large corporations to use their money in politics. What do you think has more influence with elected officials? Your vote or 1 million dollars every few months?

Solution Unless you can give millions of dollars to a lobbyist, this legislation harms you. We need it overturned.

Benefits Your vote will re-gain lost value, and politicians will have to listen to people, and not lobbyists.

## 13.1.2 Nationalized Healthcare

Problem Expensive healthcare means all of the following, and more:

  1. Healthcare is tied to employment, which keeps people stuck when they want to leave.
  2. Many must choose between medical coverage, food, or rent.
  3. A single medical procedure can wipe out your retirement savings.
  4. Expensive coverage means when you can’t work, you should die, so someone can take your place.

Solution Nationalize the healthcare system. Doing so means the following:

  1. Tax dollars go to healthcare instead of insurance companies.
  2. Tax dollars support people instead of corporate executive payouts.
  3. Tax dollars support one another, instead of business entities.

Benefits When you are sick, you can go to the doctor. You will not have to call and ask for permission, and an insurance company cannot deny you coverage for a procedure.

## 13.1.3 Schumer Steps Aside

Problem

If you don’t notice, 47 is embracing him, and smiling. Do we really need to know more?

Solution Demand he step aside, and potentially not re-run for office. His political knowledge has expired, and his tactics antiquated. He is making deals at the wrong time, when he should be rallying people to protest. His main political weapons are silence, delay, postponing action, putting off action, and all kinds of do-nothing strategies. He has got to go.

Benefits Renew the party, get new ideas, and create better ways to fight against the republican party, who prizes hypocrisy over democracy.

## 13.1.4 Forgive Student Loan Debt

Problem People want to be educated, but college is mostly unaffordable. To afford it, people are forced to take out unbankruptable loans. Stagnant wages, increasing inflation, and automation are destroying people’s ability to pay the loans back.

Solution

  1. Forgive the student loan debt.
  2. Colleges and universities must be held accountable for the ever-increasing tuition costs.

Fun fact: more republicans have student loan debt than anyone else.

Education probably needs an overhaul in general, and it doesn’t need to be extremely expensive, either.

Solution We will unburden millions of students who are trapped in a system that has no escape. Then, we will not allow this to happen again.

13.1.5

Ranked-Choice Voting

Problem The way we currently vote means 3rd party candidates destroy the chances in tight races, and aren’t seen as viable alternatives, only people who can skew numbers in favor of the winner.

Solution Ranked choice voting allows preference to be measured, and third party candidates become more viable, which would potentially end the narrow-minded two party system.

## 13.1.6 Tax the Rich

Problem The rich no longer pay tax. Tax is only paid by the poor, and small businesses.

Solution Tax the rich. This country provides the infrastructure for them to be wealthy. When they achieve that status, they need to support the people with basic rights. No one is suggesting people who have done well for themselves should be bankrupted. We’re saying people who make billions of dollars need to be heavily contributing to people supporting programs.

Let’s turn money into seconds for a moment:

1 million seconds = 11 days and 13 hours 1 billion seconds = 31 years and 8 months 1 trillion seconds = 31,546 years

When you turn “seconds” back into “dollars,” you have a greater appreciation for the issue.

No one earns a billion dollars, they take a billion dollars. Taxing the wealthiest individuals means they remain billionaires, and the country gets services back, and can afford to pay down its debt.

If we’re going to continue to require money to drive our society, this is necessary.

Benefits People-facing programs will be funded, and the country will be much stronger.

## 13.1.7 Make Higher Education Free or Affordable

Problem Higher education is just too expensive for most people, and it doesn’t need to be.

Solution There are many advances in how we can educate people, and it doesn’t need to cost a lifetime of money, either. Education should also include the trades skills, so there can be more plumbers, electricians, roofers, etc…

Benefits Having an educated population benefits the people. More education means less crime, more jobs, more industries, and more security at all levels of society. More trades people means lower prices, too.

## 13.1.9 Legalize Marijuana & Expunge Records

Problem Marijuana is demonized and illegal in most places, yet it is arguably less problematic than alcohol, which is legal.

Solution Legalize it. Expunge records of people who had legal problems with it. Free people from jail who are there entirely due to marijuana charges.

Benefits We can allow people to use marijuana responsibly, and hold them accountable when they don’t. We can stop being hypocrites with alcohol, cigarettes, and e-cigarettes.

## 13.1.10 End Gerrymandering & Establish Fair Voting Districts

Problem Gerrymandering is the art of making the number 4 bear the number 10. For example, if 10 is divided up into 3, 3, and 4, now suddenly 4 wins! That really is how it works.

Gerrymandering is so ridiculous, various groups run races that trace the route of a gerrymandered district.

Solution End gerrymandering, and create neighborhood districts where the voting center is connected to the neighborhood, or as nearby as possible.

Benefits More people will vote, districts and candidates will represent actual people and not weird lines on a map, and your vote will be restored to its full power.

## 13.1.11 Strengthen Labor Unions

Problem Companies hate unions because they would prefer to divide and conquer. For example, they want to negotiate with you individually, and not with a lot of people. They don’t want you to know what reasonable compensation looks like, and want you to vote because your hungry or desperate.

Solution Support unions and force them to represent their workers.

Benefits Do you believe it is easier to win a fight alone, or with others? Do you believe it is easier to build a house by yourself, or with others? Can you police your neighborhood on your own, or do you need help?

Anytime there is a “one vs many” scenario, most of the time the answer is “The many.” The benefits of unions is the same: many people supporting one another to keep things fair.

We need stronger labor unions that function appropriately. The PRO Act is a start.

13.1.12

Enact Term Limits

Problem Career politicians and judges that bow to lobbyists and big money.

Solution Enact term limits to get rid of the staleness of stagnant political leaders and unfair judges.

Benefits Our society will be ever changing, and as times change, our elected leaders can, too.

13.1.13

Invest in High Speed Rail

Problem The dominant mode of transportation is cars, then planes. Both of which are inefficient when compared to trains. Trains are also more cost efficient, and give you more leg room!!!

Solution Build high speed rail so people and commerce may transport between cities more efficiently.

Benefits Everywhere will feel closer, people can connect, commerce thrives more under these conditions, and it will cut down on pollution (of all modes of transport, planes are the least efficient and most polluting).

My Demand Ideas

13.2.1

Job Offsets

There are carbon offsets, so why aren’t there job offsets?

Job Offsets If a company offshores X jobs, then the company must pay taxes per offshored job.

If a company automates X jobs, then the company must pay taxes per automated job.

The incentive here is to create jobs and keep jobs within the USA. Otherwise, the company must subsidize UBI so long as those jobs remain offshored or automated.

Job Elimination If a company permanently eliminates a job from the market, they should pay a tax for Y number of years.

The purpose here is to incentivize companies to create jobs, and keep them.

New Automated or Offshored Jobs When new jobs are created overseas, or when new jobs are automated, these should both be viewed as a stolen opportunity from the American people. Therefore, such jobs should still be taxed to fund UBI.

If a new job is so complex a human could not do it, it should still be taxed to fund UBI.

Efficiency If an automated job has a robot doing the job of 10 people, or whatever number, it should be taxed based on that many people minus 1 (as the robot will require maintenance).

Re-shoring and Re-humanizing Re-shoring jobs and re-humanizing jobs lowers the Job Offsets that must be paid.

Job Valuations for UBI The government values each offset based on the industry. This will help combat wage manipulation.

13.2.2

Universal Basic Income

UBI should be based on Job Offsets. The more job offsets we have, the higher the UBI.

If society still wishes to have money as a concept, then UBI becomes more necessary as more jobs become automated and offshored.

UBI does not mean people don’t work, but it does mean they don’t have to panic if they lose their job.

SNAP Benefits There would be no purpose in having SNAP benefits if UBI exists. Currently, SNAP benefits account for less than 1.5% of the total US annual budget. UBI could absorb this, and do away with SNAP.

Other Programs Other government programs could end as well, so long as UBI is properly funded. In the end, I believe this will save money, and because desperation would begin to dissolve in most communities, crime would lower, which would save the state money, too.

## 13.2.3 My Body My Choice

My Body My Choice All people should retain bodily autonomy in their healthcare decisions. Here are examples:

  1. Dislike abortions? Don’t have one.
  2. Dislike gender affirming surgery? Don’t have it.
  3. Dislike vasectomies? Don’t get one.
  4. Dislike birth control? Don’t use it.
  5. Don’t want your organs donated? No problem, but you cannot be a recipient.
  6. Don’t want your blood donated? No problem, but no one donates to you.
  7. Don’t like tattoos? Don’t get any.
  8. Don’t like piercings? Don’t get any.
  9. Don’t want to be resuscitated? No problem, you won’t be.

Vaccines Because vaccines require mass compliance to be effective at stopping disease spread, it remains a huge exception to the My Body My Choice concept.

Therefore, I believe we need bridge-legislation that brings us from now into a better future. That legislation could be something like this:

All people pay into the national healthcare system (NHS), just as the non-drivers support road building, and the anti-military must fund the military, the My Body My Choice crowd that refuses vaccines will pay into the NHS. Refusing vaccines will opt them out of services. Refusing to donate organs will opt them out of services.

We will also need to educate people about the benefits of vaccines, because the biggest problem of vaccines is they are so effective, people think there is no problem. We need museums of wax sculptures of people with diseases next to wax sculptures of people who were vaccinated. We need to show people the problems of an unvaccinated society.

13.2.4

End Planned Obsolescence

What is the purpose of buying American if it is extremely expensive, but intentionally flawed?

This idea does not mean things cannot break. But engineering objects to break after a predictable amount of time needs to end as a business practice. We need to insist upon quality products again.

 

Section 14

Final Plea

The world is looking at the US citizens, and most of us are sitting on the couch. The world needs us to protest. We must defeat the tech bro oligarchy, fascism, and authoritarianism. We need to hold billionaires accountable, just like we help people accountable in WWII.

If everything fails, I leave you with this song.