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The Resistance Handbook: 45 Ways to Fight Trump
It’s time to fight back.
In November 2016, Donald Trump lost the national popular vote—by a lot!—yet managed to stumble into the White House. Trump’s presidency is not just an indictment of our political system—it’s an affront to our core values as a nation. How could such an ignorant autocratic buffoon claim to represent such a diverse, open, and free society?
A majority of Americans have been shocked, dismayed, and disgusted—for good reason—by Trump’s actions since he took office. But we aren’t taking it lying down. Across the United States, the Resistance is growing, as many thousands of patriotic Americans lead the charge against the corrupt and traitorous Trump regime—and the Republican Party that is enabling him.
This book is for all Americans who consider themselves part of the Resistance—people like us who wake up every day and think, “What more can I do to stop Trump?” The book offers 45 ways to stop the 45th president of the United States in his tracks, including ways to:
• Protect our culture from the degrading effects of Trump’s presidency, which rewarded bullying, sexism, racism, and xenophobia.
• Protect our communities from Trump’s personal attacks, which he and his Republican friends target at women, people of color, youth, immigrants, Jewish people, Muslims, and others.
• Fight for our values and the issues that define us—in the face of a four-year assault on racial justice, income equality, the environment, women’s rights, education, and worker’s rights.
• Build the infrastructure this movement needs (and sorely lacks), including the capacity to register and get out the vote for the 97 million Americans who didn’t cast a ballot in 2016; to find, train and promote tomorrow’s leaders; and to develop the media organizations that will report the facts and promote our values and candidates.
Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos, and Michael Huttner, founder of ProgressNow, have built two of the nation’s largest advocacy organizations. Now, in The Resistance Handbook: 45 Ways to Fight Trump, they offer a much-needed guide to fighting Trump and building a better, more just, and more equitable America.
In November 2016, Donald Trump lost the national popular vote—by a lot!—yet managed to stumble into the White House. Trump’s presidency is not just an indictment of our political system—it’s an affront to our core values as a nation. How could such an ignorant autocratic buffoon claim to represent such a diverse, open, and free society?
A majority of Americans have been shocked, dismayed, and disgusted—for good reason—by Trump’s actions since he took office. But we aren’t taking it lying down. Across the United States, the Resistance is growing, as many thousands of patriotic Americans lead the charge against the corrupt and traitorous Trump regime—and the Republican Party that is enabling him.
This book is for all Americans who consider themselves part of the Resistance—people like us who wake up every day and think, “What more can I do to stop Trump?” The book offers 45 ways to stop the 45th president of the United States in his tracks, including ways to:
• Protect our culture from the degrading effects of Trump’s presidency, which rewarded bullying, sexism, racism, and xenophobia.
• Protect our communities from Trump’s personal attacks, which he and his Republican friends target at women, people of color, youth, immigrants, Jewish people, Muslims, and others.
• Fight for our values and the issues that define us—in the face of a four-year assault on racial justice, income equality, the environment, women’s rights, education, and worker’s rights.
• Build the infrastructure this movement needs (and sorely lacks), including the capacity to register and get out the vote for the 97 million Americans who didn’t cast a ballot in 2016; to find, train and promote tomorrow’s leaders; and to develop the media organizations that will report the facts and promote our values and candidates.
Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos, and Michael Huttner, founder of ProgressNow, have built two of the nation’s largest advocacy organizations. Now, in The Resistance Handbook: 45 Ways to Fight Trump, they offer a much-needed guide to fighting Trump and building a better, more just, and more equitable America.
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245 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 20, 2017
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About the author
Markos Moulitsas
9 books1 followerFounder and publisher of Daily Kos, a blog focusing on liberal and Democratic Party politics in the United States.
He is also a weekly columnist at the Washington, D.C. newspaper, The Hill, and a contributing columnist at Newsweek.
He is also a weekly columnist at the Washington, D.C. newspaper, The Hill, and a contributing columnist at Newsweek.
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October 12, 2017
READ THIS BOOK!!!
If you loathe Donald Trump. If you dislike Donald Trump. If you're terrified of Donald Trump. If Donald Trump pisses you the hell off. If you have no idea what to do now that Donald Trump is occupying the White House. If you want more ideas of what to do now that Donald Trump is occupying the White House.
"The Resistance Handbook" is critical for all left-of-center people in the travesty of today's United States. It does not offer 45 ways to fight Trump; it offers many hundreds. Each short, easy-to-read chapter contains numerous concrete actions in which we can engage to combat the puerile, racist, rapist horror who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
You can find *something* to do in this book that speaks to you. And you'll likely find many avenues that seem appropriate to who you are and where you're at in life.
A note that this book is unabashedly Democratic (although far from uncritical of that party). That may be a challenge to those of us on the far left who find the Democrats to be mild-mannered, assimilationist accepters of the status quo. But that challenge is worth it -- and we far left radicals might learn something from it.
So read this book. AND THEN GET OUT THERE AND DO SOMETHING!!!
If you loathe Donald Trump. If you dislike Donald Trump. If you're terrified of Donald Trump. If Donald Trump pisses you the hell off. If you have no idea what to do now that Donald Trump is occupying the White House. If you want more ideas of what to do now that Donald Trump is occupying the White House.
"The Resistance Handbook" is critical for all left-of-center people in the travesty of today's United States. It does not offer 45 ways to fight Trump; it offers many hundreds. Each short, easy-to-read chapter contains numerous concrete actions in which we can engage to combat the puerile, racist, rapist horror who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
You can find *something* to do in this book that speaks to you. And you'll likely find many avenues that seem appropriate to who you are and where you're at in life.
A note that this book is unabashedly Democratic (although far from uncritical of that party). That may be a challenge to those of us on the far left who find the Democrats to be mild-mannered, assimilationist accepters of the status quo. But that challenge is worth it -- and we far left radicals might learn something from it.
So read this book. AND THEN GET OUT THERE AND DO SOMETHING!!!
July 5, 2017
This book provides an honest look at the electoral and practical failures of the left and provides concrete solutions that everyday individuals can do to fight the Trump Administration and the Republican Party. If you're feeling angry at Trump's juvenile Twitter behavior or his horrible policies, read this book.
This book urges people to roll up their sleeves and get involved with local politics. They provide lots of references and websites as resources (including many that I hadn't heard of). It's one thing to be angry and complain about Republicans and Trump on social media. This book provides strategies that will help win elections and put good people in charge.
It's a quick read. Buy a copy for yourself and then pass it along. ..
This book urges people to roll up their sleeves and get involved with local politics. They provide lots of references and websites as resources (including many that I hadn't heard of). It's one thing to be angry and complain about Republicans and Trump on social media. This book provides strategies that will help win elections and put good people in charge.
It's a quick read. Buy a copy for yourself and then pass it along. ..
June 21, 2017
Must Read This Book!
This is a well crafted guide and philosophical treatise on resisting the GOP hegemony. Even better, the book provides simple, easily actionable items. It is heartening and pragmatic.
This is a well crafted guide and philosophical treatise on resisting the GOP hegemony. Even better, the book provides simple, easily actionable items. It is heartening and pragmatic.
July 25, 2017
I liked this book more than I thought I would. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with Daily Kos (the blog / organization founded by author Markos Moulitsas), I find it to be too "partisan and strident" - a description from the book, but an accurate one - and yet I get enough out of the site that I go back and check it almost every day.
But I enjoyed reading this. It helped put the political situation and resistance activities in context. While many of the authors' suggestions will likely be familiar to readers, I suspect that everything will come away from the book with a few new ideas or activities they can do to fight Trump's racist, fascist agenda.
And I did not find this to be too partisan and strident. It was quite easy to read.
But I enjoyed reading this. It helped put the political situation and resistance activities in context. While many of the authors' suggestions will likely be familiar to readers, I suspect that everything will come away from the book with a few new ideas or activities they can do to fight Trump's racist, fascist agenda.
And I did not find this to be too partisan and strident. It was quite easy to read.
September 18, 2017
Exactly what I expected. Gives very practical ways to oppose trump but more widely, it gives practical advice on how to fight AT LEAST as hard as the conservative agenda. It is very hash in its tone, but the conservative agenda has been playing dirty for so long that its only fair to be at least as harsh as they have been. At the very least, it gives one the ability to see the tactics being used against you
June 2, 2019
Rich kids playing cops and robbers during some revolution or great war. And, as they were playing at 10, this is only in their minds and on TV for their own entertainment.
August 13, 2017
A very "of the moment," to-the-point manual (it will be very outdated in a year, already is a touch), but something greatly needed for 2017: a quite complete list of different ways to get involved in "resisting," not just from a protest viewpoint but from every possible angle of living and breathing. I had already made my own list of affiliations and groups but this bolstered it even more and tied me more into the groups fighting on the right side of history. If you don't buy this in 2017 you can just sign up for the Daily Kos, since most of the issues raised by following there are already in the book, but I found the comprehensive snapshot of US organizations and many easy/practical ways to fight back is helpful regardless of the dated material. Rarely does it seem a little too extreme, most of the ideas are rational, practical, and would flip the situation if followed faithfully by even a fraction of the population. I'm coming away with the vision to get people to vote, be more outspoken in my views through all media, contributions, and actions, and use my time wisely (every little bit helps if a lot of people do it).
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