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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 27d
The choice before us is not between democracy and authoritarianism. It is between the democracy that never was and the democracy that could be. Between a world organized around domination and a world organized around love. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/beyond-res...
Beyond Resistance
Building the Democracy We've Never Had
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 1d
The indictment of NY Attorney General Letitia James is the latest high profile attack by the Trump administration against critics. Here’s why: https://protectdemocracy.org/work/retaliatory-action-tracker/
RETALIATION ALERT Letitia James New York Attorney General OCTOBER 9, 2025: Indicted for bank fraud and making false statements 
to a financial institution A career prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia determined there was not probable cause to file charges against Ms. James. Just days later, Lindsey Halligan, the new EDVA U.S. Attorney presented the case to the grand jury, which is outside of standard practice.
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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 1d
“Indigenous Peoples’ Day has never been just a celebration. It is a call to action against the ongoing assault on our sovereignty and existence — and an assertion that, despite these threats, we will not be erased, silenced, or eradicated.”
Native Survival Depends on Protecting Both Tribal and US Citizenship Rights
Trump’s attacks on Native sovereignty and citizenship are a deliberate effort to undermine the rights of tribal nations.
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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 2d
The current authoritarian takeover is a devastating attack on Indigenous rights.

Fighting for Indigenous sovereignty is a vital anti-authoritarian strategy. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/how-author...
How Authoritarianism is Destroying Native American Rights
What's Happening
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d
My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 2d
ICYMI: Greece is showing how it’s done—when labor rights get attacked, workers walk out. Strikes remind everyone where the real power lies: with the people who make everything run. https://seiu.co/3IOlwHx
Thousands march in Greece against labor law changes, disrupt services nationwide
Thousands of demonstrators have marched through Athens as part of a general strike protesting changes to Greece's labor laws.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 4d
Not only do the signs offer practical advice on one’s right and secure one’s sense of safety, they show solidarity against the illegal actions of the administration as it does away with due process and ignores our rights.

The full story: lataco.com/solidarity-signs-ilrc
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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 3d
From every sector, across issues, identities, and neighborhood, through every cycle of attack, the movement grows www.chicagomag.com/news/chicago...
Chicago Is Organizing for All
Everyday Chicagoans are proving to be the first line of defense against the federal incursion into their city.
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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · 4d
Following our episode on building alternative economic systems, we’ve compiled a list of resources to help you better understand and combat authoritarianism. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/09/b....
REsources: Building Alternative Economic Systems to Fight Authoritarianism with Hialy Gutierrez and Claudia Espinel Media Justice, mediajustice.org Corporate Media Is Capitulating to Trump, 2025 Qasim Rashid, Esq., Let’s Address This with Qasim Rashid Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians, 2024 Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, NYU Press What Is Movement Infrastructure? How Movements Sustain Us Amid Rising Authoritarianism, 2024 Cloee Cooper, The Public Eye
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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 4d
Authoritarians maintain the appearance of legality to prevent resistance. They use existing laws to dismantle democracy itself and gradually eliminate rights.

www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...
Where the Legal Fight Over Trump’s Military Deployments Stands
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
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Movement Law Lab @movementlawlab.bsky.social · 9d
Armed federal agents in Chicago. National Guard deployments in Portland and Memphis. These are not public safety measures, they are intimidation tactics.

Lawyers & communities, you need to know your rights. Here’s a resource on how you can prepare: www.movementlawlab.org/nationalguard
What You Need to Know if the National Guard Is Deployed to Your State by the Trump Regime — Movement Law Lab
Learn your rights when the National Guard is deployed to your city. This guide explains the law, including the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act, and provides critical information on…
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Kettering Foundation @kettering.org · 7d
The most powerful movements don’t rely on one tactic alone.
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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · 5d
PRA Deputy Research Director @hialy.bsky.social and Claudia Espinel explore the connections and contradictions among economic systems, political infrastructure, ideology, and authoritarianism in this episode of Inform Your Resistance. Tune in now: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/09/b....
Building Alternative Economic Systems to Fight Authoritarianism with Hialy Gutierrez and Claudia Espinel
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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 6d
The left's critiques aren't extremism - they're advanced warning systems about system breakdown. Including radical voices isn't dangerous - excluding them is what enables fascist alternatives. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/re-sociali...
Re-Socializing Liberals and The Left
We Need a Design and Solutions Oriented Politics to Defeat Authoritarianism
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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 7d
The persistence of authoritarian divide & conquer politics requires taking fandom organizing seriously.

@nataliegreen.bsky.social @levin.bsky.social & I shared some of the lessons we've learned bringing Andor fans into our movement for freedom from fascism & white supremacy.

"Remember this. Try."
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 8d
"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
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Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building
As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.
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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 9d
Scenario planning about what authoritarians might do helps us understand the stakes antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/authoritar...
Authoritarian Expansion Scenarios
A Strategic Thought Exercise
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 9d
BREAKING: Today, we're suing. Federal forces in the Chicago area are brutally suppressing free speech with tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash grenades. Journalists, clergy, and demonstrators have been attacked for peacefully protesting against the government. This is an unconstitutional assault.
BREAKING: Lawsuit challenges violent Illinois ICE enforcement. Press, clergy, and protesters sue DHS for violating First Amendment
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 9d
"How do you advance Black reparations when the federal government has fully embraced anti-Blackness and is hellbent on wiping out racial justice and Black history itself?

The answer? Just do it."

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Fixing the Future
Despite national headwinds of racism and authoritarianism, California’s Black legislators stay on task with reparations.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 9d
Chicago is our heartland, a center of art and architecture, theater and improv. It is a melding of people from across races & places, where the Great Migration drew the brave against all odds. Chicago rose from the ashes, re-routed the river & will always stand strong.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10d
I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.
Must-Reads and the War on Chicago
"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 10d
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 13d
🚨ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants

Please read, share, and sound the alarm
ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants
Trump is quietly building a surveillance state, and almost no one is paying attention.
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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · 12d
PRA's @fredclarkson.bsky.social speaks with @jodi-enda.bsky.social in @msmagazine.com about the New Apostolic Reformation movement's link to the killing of Melissa and Mark Hortman. Learn more in this four-part series on the rise in anti-abortion violence under Trump: msmagazine.com/2025/09/18/r....
'Dad Went to War': The Radical Faith Behind the Minnesota Assassinations
The killing of Melissa and Mark Hortman highlights the danger of radicalized religion and America’s escalating antiabortion violence.
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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · 15d
“You don’t necessarily need people doing things that are high-risk. You just need large numbers of people doing them,” says Hardy Merriman in an episode of @newyorker.com’s ‘The Political Scene’ discussing strategies of resistance in a backsliding democracy. Tune in now!
Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure
The comedian has returned to late-night TV. What can the response to his suspension teach us about countering Trump?
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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 12d
Authoritarians want us to think they're inevitable, invincible, and indispensable. They're not. To build power, we can refuse, resist, and ridicule. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/the-three-...
The Three R's Framework
Narrative and Cultural Strategies Against Autocracy
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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 13d
Visible, mass, sustained resistance is more important than ever right now - it's what stops authoritarian consolidation. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/yes-we-are...
Yes, We Are Afraid
But No, We Will Not Allow Fear To Paralyze Us
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