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Resistance Media — Resistance Media (03/24/2026)

An Urgent Message to Indivisible

Is the NO KINGS coalition prepared for the national emergency straight ahead of us?

Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Threat Management

Timothy Snyder — Thinking About

The Desire for Terror

And the defense of democracy

Environment • Global • Health • Science • Threat Management

Bill McKibben — The Crucial Years

An El Niño is Brewing

Take this as your first warning that not only the temperature but the politics of the planet are likely to change dramatically, and soon.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Technology • Threat Management

Dario Amodei — darioamodei.com

The Adolescence of Technology

Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake.

Corruption • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

The Last Election

The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.

Democracy • Executive Power • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Threat Management

Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons — The Guardian

The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding

The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government

Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Violence

Sonali Kolhatkar — Truthout

Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025

Given the increasing number of U.S. citizens caught in ICE’s dragnet, organizers are warning that attacks on immigrants are just the beginning.

Culture • Fascism • Health • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

Trump’s Christmas message: "Scum" wasn’t just offensive. It was a warning.

The future lays before us now, and if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered.

Corruption • Democracy • Executive Power • Legal • Resistance • Threat Management

Christopher Armitage — The Existentialist Republic

The 2026 Election Has Already Been Rigged and I Can Prove It

What would you do if watching an election be cancelled or stolen in real time?

Democracy • Fascism • Legal • Threat Management

W. A. Lawrence — Glass Empires By W. Lawrence

The Government Can Empty Your Bank Account Tomorrow. No Judge Required

How Miller's Legal Architecture Ensures Constitutional Protections Arrive After They Matter.

Cyber Security • Human Rights • Safety • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Gabriel Geiger, Crofton Black, Emmanuel Freudenthal and Riccardo Coluccini — Mother Jones

The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

Fascism • Human Rights • Social Media • Threat Management • White Supremacy

Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo — Politico

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Press Freedom • Social Media • Surveillance • Threat Management

Jeffrey Chester — techpolicy.press

Trump’s TikTok Deal Would Further Entrench Big Tech Surveillance

The proposal would allow Trump’s political allies to operate TikTok in the US without significant reforms and safeguards.

Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Fascism • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Dell Cameron — Wired

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Surveillance • Threat Management

Lev Parnas — Lev Remembers

Trump Used AI to Scan U.S. Generals’ Faces for Loyalty — and to Root Out Whistleblowers

Today, our country is facing a test that cannot be ignored. Donald Trump has weaponized fear, division, and hate. He thrives on vengeance, not forgiveness. He demands loyalty not to the Constitution, not to the people, but to himself.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Legal • Resistance • Threat Management

United in Advance

Statement on Political Violence and the Fundamental Freedom of Speech

"Organizations should not be attacked for carrying out their missions or expressing their values in support of the communities they serve. We reject attempts to exploit political violence to mischaracterize our good work or restrict our fundamental freedoms, like freedom of speech and the freedom to give."

Democracy • Economy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Chris Armitage — The Existential Republic

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Legal • Threat Management

Haddy Gassama — ACLU

New Detention Camp at Fort Bliss Marks Dangerous Expansion of Militarized Immigration Enforcement

An immigration detention site at Fort Bliss will hold thousands. It could be the largest immigration detention site in the country.

Democracy • Resistance • Safety • Surveillance • Threat Management

How to Resist

45 Acts of Non-Compliance for Ordinary People

One of the strengths of non-compliance is its accessibility. You don’t need a permit, a megaphone, or a lawyer. You simply need the courage and the conviction to say NO.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Threat Management

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

The Strongman’s Test Run, and Why the Next Deployment Will Be Bigger, Longer & Deadlier

Deploying troops without police training, defying the courts, and threatening the media, Trump is importing dictator tactics in plain sight and daring Americans to stop him...

Democracy • Democratic Party • Executive Power • Fascism • Resistance • Threat Management

Sam Rosenthal — Progressive Hub

Think Democrats Couldn’t Have Done Anything To Stop Trump’s DC Takeover? Think Again

Democrats could have protected DC by granting statehood when they had the chance.

Artificial Intelligence • Cryptocurrency • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Executive Power • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Resistance • Russia • Safety • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Ron Williams

The Resistance Will Be Reported (Updated November 12, 2025)

The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Reporters Without Borders

Six months of Trump’s war on the press

This exchange of ideas, tactics, and rhetorical techniques to attack the press has created an apparent authoritarian feedback loop.

Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Global • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Article 19

Spain: Huawei must not be allowed access to wiretap data in the EU

"Beyond immediate censorship and surveillance fears, Spain risks normalising Huawei tools and technologies in ways that are detrimental to human rights and fundamental freedoms in the EU and around the world."

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Legal • Safety • Threat Management

James B. Greenberg — James's Substack

The Architecture of Fear: How Detention Becomes a Template for Control

Once in place, the system doesn’t sit idle. It seeks new uses.

Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Freedom of the Press Foundation

LA Journalists Reflect on Protest Attacks

Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, shot with crowd-control munitions, and had their equipment searched — simply for doing their jobs.

Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management

Caitlin Vogus — Freedom of Press Foundation

ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it

While noncitizen journalists are the easiest targets for now, it’s abundantly clear that the government would like to criminalize journalists it doesn’t like, regardless of the journalists’ residency status.

Democracy • Fascism • Legal • Violence • White Supremacy

MIke Spies — The Trace

White, Legally Armed, and Primed for Political Violence

The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and glorifying combat — may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire.

Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Safety • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Anna Desmarais — euronews

Denmark Fights Back Against Deepfakes

Denmark will give people copyright over their own likenesses as a way to fight back against generated “deepfake” videos, as countries around the world grapple with the rapid rise of AI.

Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Threat Management

Kevin Gosztola — The Dissenter

Prosecution Against Journalist Endangers Right To Gather News

The “government’s interpretation of the Wiretap Act would unleash frivolous litigation and make the Act a magnet for arbitrary and harassing enforcement actions in the future.”

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom • Russia • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson — The New York Times

A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy

Content generated by AI has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.

Legal • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Pema Levy — Mother Jones

“Disaster Looms”: Justice Jackson’s Warning for the Country

“Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”

Human Rights • Legal • Safety • Violence • White Supremacy

Sherrilyn Ifill — Sherrilyn’s Newsletter

Masked Terror

We have every right to know the identity of those officers are who are abducting migrants and U.S. citizens from our streets, and under whose authority they are purporting to act.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Violence • White Supremacy

J Oliver Conroy — The Guardian

The US has entered a new phase of political violence

The political temperature is dangerously high – and shows few signs of cooling.

Digital Rights • Disinformation • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Gary Marcus — Marcus on AI

1984, but with LLM’s

“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” — 1984, George Orwell

Canada • Europe • Exile • Fascism • Global • Human Rights • Safety • Threat Management

Ron Williams

Out of Harm’s Way

As the United States descends more deeply into an authoritarian nightmare, individuals and families are considering the once unthinkable: stay and risk persecution or uproot their lives for another state or country.

Democracy • Human Rights • Safety • Surveillance • Violence

Garrett Graff — Doomsday Scenario

ICE Believes it will Never Face Accountability Again

The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.

Cyber Security • Human Rights • Safety • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Laura Bates — The Guardian

Online brothels, sex robots, simulated rape: AI is ushering in a new age of violence against women

When social media first exploded, we missed our chance to protect women and girls. Now history is repeating itself

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik — The New York Times

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics...

Cyber Security • Legal • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Jason Koebler, Joseph Cox — 404 Media

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network

Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

Canada • Exile • Safety • Threat Management

Ross Barkan — New York Magazine

The Case Against Leaving Trump’s America

Fleeing is a cheap, ego-flattering maneuver; it helps no one. This is not the late Weimar period or Nazi Germany.

Exile • Human Rights • Legal • Safety • Threat Management

Jenny List — https://transrescue.org/asylum-for-trans-brits-and-americans-we-need-to-talk

Asylum for Trans Brits and Americans: We Need to Talk

There are still plenty of options for leaving the USA or the UK which do not involve asylum, and we believe at the time of writing that they represent a far better choice.

Disinformation • Global • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Scot Nakagawa — The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

Digital Authoritarianism

Lessons from Duterte's Philippines for the United States.

Executive Power • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Threat Management

Margaret Sullivan — The Guardian

The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone

As with so many of the red alerts – lawsuits, threats, changes in long-held practices that protect the public’s right to know – the problem involves Donald Trump’s overweening desire to control the media.

Environment • Global • Safety • Science • Threat Management

Climate Action Campaign

Trump's Climate and Clean Energy Rollback Tracker

By cutting carbon pollution and accelerating the transition to clean energy, we will improve public health and create a more resilient economy and a more sustainable future for all.

Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Irene Khan — United Nations Human Rights Council

UN Human Rights Council Report: Journalists in exile

The security and safety of journalists in exile remain precarious, because of the failure of States to uphold their international obligations.

Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Threat Management

Ari Honarvar — Yes Magazine

To Resist the Trump Regime, Look to Iran

For more than four decades, Iranians have resisted through underground clubs, labor strikes, and other everyday acts of defiance.

Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management

Committee to Protect Journalists — CPJ

Journalist Safety Advisory: Traveling to the US

Educate yourself on border security protocols and learn about your rights when encountering law enforcement at border crossings.

Democracy • Fascism • Legal • Safety • Threat Management

Critical Resistance

Disposable People: We Are Not Safe

The Trump administration is quietly creating offshore detention, disappearance, and exile—and Americans could soon be next.

Canada • Democracy • Exile • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Threat Management

George Packer — The Atlantic

Be a Patriot

Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.