Activist Resources
for
the Trump Years
Find your elected representatives:
Immigrant Rights and Civil Rights organizations
- Immigration Support and Advocacy Groups. This is a Google Doc that will be updated continuously.
- American Civil Liberties Union: premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. With more than 1.7 million members, 500 staff attorneys, thousands of volunteer attorneys, and offices throughout the nation.
- Democracy Forward: a coalition of 280+ organizations representing millions of people, committed to disrupting any efforts by the Trump-Vance administration to attack our rights, our freedoms, and our democracy
- EveryLibrary supports local public and school libraries to ensure books remain on shelves, librarian's jobs are preserved and libraries are free from political interference.
- Governors Safeguarding Democracy: a nonpartisan alliance of governors that works together to uphold and fortify American democracy.
- Human Rights Campaign. We empower our members and supporters to movilize against attacks on the most marginalized people in our community.
- Jewish Family Service: Large range of social and legal services to ensure San Diego remains a welcoming place for those in search of a safer life.
- LGBTQ Resource List
- PEN America: works to ensure people everywhere have the freedom to create literature, express their views and convey information and ideas.
- Planned Parenthood: provides reproductive and sexual healthcare and sexual education, including abortions and birth control
- Courier Newsroom: one of the fastest-growing local news networks in the country, spreading factual journalism + culturally relevant content to audiences and communities who need it the most.
- Axios: digital news source with national and local newsrooms
- Bolts: Focus on criminal justice and policing, and voting rights and democracy
- iNewsSource: San Diego nonprofit digital newsroom
- Inside Climate News
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Substack: online platform for writers, journalists to publish newsletters and build subscription based audiences. Some key contributors include:
Dan Pfeiffer: The Message Box
Simon Rosenberg: Hopium Chronicles
Jessica Craven: Chop Wood, Carry Water
Robert Hubbell: Todays Edition
Anand Giridharadas: The Ink - Truthout: independent reporting on a diverse range of social justice issues
- Voice of San Diego: San Diego nonprofit digital newsroom
- An even longer list of pro–democracy news sources
- The Climate Action Now App keeps you informed on your phone about climate actions you can take.
- 350.org (national chapter), San Diego 350 (local chapter)
- Citizens Climate Lobby (national chapter)
- Earth Justice
Take Care of Yourself
- Election Stress Toolkit (pdf)
- 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won
- Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink. Strategies, tactics and tips for how everyday Americans can fight back together wherever we live.