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A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats

Key privacy settings and best practices.

by Stevie Bonifield

Publisher: The Verge

Recommended by Bruce R and EFF

With ICE and CBP roaming the streets, united community action is more important than ever right now — from local mutual aid groups to school safety patrols. Known for its privacy features and end-to-end encryption, the Signal messaging app has become a popular platform for organizing these community groups.

Signal can be a great tool for private messaging, but it’s at its best if you know how to use all the privacy options. Not all of these options are automatic or even immediately obvious; there are also some best practices that are helpful for participating in and leading group chats.

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Noncooperation & Targeting Pillars of Support

This handout describes some of the Pillars of Support.

Each time a pillar institution yields to or supports the regime, the regime grows stronger. In contrast, noncooperation — refusing to do what is expected, disrupting the normal course of events, and withdrawing support from unjust or illegal policies — weakens the regime and creates cracks in its foundation of power.

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Saving Democracy

A User's Manual for Every American: 2nd Edition: The Trump Era

by David Pepper

Publisher: St. Helena Press

Recommended by: Steve G.

Saving Democracy is that rare book that doesn’t simply diagnose the crisis our democracy faces, and the broader strategies that we must take to fight back…but it breaks it all down so that every reader understands the role she or he can play in their own lives.

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No Kings

For the latest information about No Kings events, go to this website: https://www.nokings.org

About No Kings

In June, we did what many claimed was impossible: peacefully mobilized millions of people to take to the streets and declare with one voice — America has No Kings. And it mattered. The world saw the power of the people. President Trump’s birthday parade was drowned out by protests in every state and across the globe. His attempt to turn June 14 into a coronation collapsed, and the story became the strength of a movement rising against his authoritarian power grabs.

Four months later, that movement roared back even stronger. On October 18, over seven million Americans joined 2,700+ events in all 50 states — a nationwide uprising 14 times larger than both of Trump’s inaugurations combined. What began in June as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading from small towns to city centers and across every community determined to defend democracy.

Now, President Trump has doubled down. His administration is sending masked agents into our streets, terrorizing our communities. They are targeting immigrant families, profiling, arresting, and detaining people without warrants. Threatening to overtake elections. Gutting healthcare, environmental protections, and education when families need them most. Rigging maps to silence voters. Ignoring mass shootings at our schools and in our communities. Driving up the cost of living while handing out massive giveaways to billionaire allies, as families struggle.

The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings — and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.

Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger. “No Kings” is more than just a slogan; it is the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, shouted by millions, carried on posters and chants, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together.

Because this country does not belong to kings, dictators, or tyrants. It belongs to We the People — the people who care, who show up, and who fight for dignity, a life we can afford, and real opportunity. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

Resources

Signal and Whatsapp as Organizing Tools – Google Doc

Build Power Locally – Google Doc

Sustained Action Between & Beyond No Kings – Google Doc

No King YouTube Channel

What’s Next after No Kings 3?

On March 28, millions of us made it clear: we don’t do kings in America. Our nonviolent movement is only growing. At our March 31 Mass Call, you’ll hear from …leaders and fellow local activists to celebrate this historic mobilization and dig into what comes next. Join us.Show More
What’s Next after No Kings 3?
What’s Next after No Kings 3?
On March 28, millions of us made it clear: we don’t do kings in America. Our nonviolent movement is only growing. At our March 31 Mass Call, you’ll hear from leaders and fellow local activists to celebrate this historic mobilization and dig into what comes next. Join us.
Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets Of Minneapolis” before 200,000 at No Kings Flagship Rally
Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets Of Minneapolis” before 200,000 at No Kings Flagship Rally
200,000 attended the No Kings flagship rally at the Minnesota State Capitol yesterday featuring Bruce Springsteen alongside national and local activists and leaders. “This past winter, federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis,” Springsteen began. “Well, they picked the wrong city. The power and the solidarity of the people of Minneapolis and Minnesota was an inspiration to the entire country.” “Your strength and your commitment told us that this is still …
Chicago, IL - No Kings Livestream March 28
Chicago, IL – No Kings Livestream March 28
Full No Kings program on March 28, 2026 in Chicago, IL. As President Trump escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS movement continues to rise stronger. We, the majority of millions, are united to remind the world: America has No Kings. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.
Seattle, WA - No Kings March 28 Livestream from Northwest Progressive Institute
Seattle, WA – No Kings March 28 Livestream from Northwest Progressive Institute
Full No Kings program on March 28, 2026 in Seattle, WA. As President Trump escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS movement continues to rise stronger. We, the majority of millions, are united to remind the world: America has No Kings. No thrones. No crowns. No kings. Livestream from @northwestprogressiveinstitute
Albuquerque, NM - No Kings Livestream March 28
Albuquerque, NM – No Kings Livestream March 28
Full No Kings program on March 28, 2026 in Albuquerque, NM. No thrones. No crowns. No kings!
San Fransisco, CA - No Kings Livestream March 28
San Fransisco, CA – No Kings Livestream March 28
Full No Kings program and speakers on March 28, 2026 in San Fransisco, CA. As President Trump escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS movement continues to rise stronger. We, the majority of millions, are united to remind the world: America has No Kings. No thrones. No crowns. No kings!
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Actor and Zen priest, Peter Coyote, on protest tactics

by Peter Coyote

This Substack post was reformatted and posted on Facebook.

Summary

I’m watching the Los Angeles reaction to ICE raids with trepidation and regret.

Three years ago I taught a class at Harvard on the “theater of protest”— designed to help people understand why so many protests turn out to be Republican campaign videos working directly against the interests of the original protest.

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How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch

A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable.

by Ezra Levin, Leah Greenberg

Summary

Indivisible founders, Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, wrote this inspiring article for The Nation. Reviewed by Rachael Maddow.

Continue reading How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch

Indivisible: A Practical Guide To Democracy On The Brink

If there’s one universally accepted truth in the modern age, it’s that sequels suck. And Trump 2.0 will be no exception. Trump, Vance, and their MAGA minions feel vindicated by the victory of their bigoted, fascistic clown show of a presidential campaign. Trump takes office with a plan to institute the worst parts of Project 2025. He’ll be enabled by a judiciary packed with right-wing ideologues and a congressional majority stacked with MAGA foot soldiers. And he’s assembled a bloc of corporations and billionaires eager to do his bidding in exchange for tax cuts and corrupt favors. But he has no mandate for the staggeringly harmful agenda he’s about to unleash on the country. And together, we have the power to fight back — and win.

Resource Guide – Archive

Indivisible.org

Table of Contents

In America, we don’t do kings.

We’re a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.

Indivisible National Organization

How we win

Defeating a multi-decade right-wing takeover of American government ain’t easy. But we’re here to win, and we have a plan. Here’s how we’re doing it:

We Are Indivisible. Our opponents depend on a divide-and-conquer strategy, so we treat an attack on one like an attack on all. We show up for each other, and particularly for those facing the brunt of right-wing ideologues’ attacks – often immigrants, people of color, and low-income people. We share a vision: a real democracy, of, by, and for everyone.

Strong Leaders, Strong Groups, Strong Movement. We build and sustain our movement’s power by helping individuals take leadership. They grow and lead local Indivisible groups, take independent action, and coordinate with their fellow local leaders. As a movement, our power comes from coordinated national campaigns where we act together, indivisible.

Inside/Outside Strategy. We understand systems of power – like how Congress operates – and we work inside them to get results. That complements our outside strategy of locally-based constituent pressure to demand elected leaders, regardless of political party, work for our democracy.

A Virtuous Cycle of Advocacy and Elections. We show up to advocate for policy wins in off-years and get out the vote in election years. These efforts reinforce each other to ensure our democracy works for all of us and that the people in power do too – or we will replace them with electeds who will.

Indivisible’s LinkTree

Instagram: indivisibleteam

Indivisible’s YouTube Channel

After the Biggest Protest in U.S. History, What Comes Next?

What do you do after the largest protest in American history? You build on the momentum. In this episode, Leah and Ezra break down the historic success of No Kings …III, discuss a new national campaign against Trump’s concentration camps, and look ahead to the next major national day of action on May Day. Plus: Insurgent U.S. Senate candidate Julie Gonzales — millennial daughter of a rancher and rodeo queen turned chair of the state senate’s judiciary committee — on remaking the Democratic Party into a fighting force that can actually win.

0:00 Intro
9:38 Julie Gonzales
22:32 Q&A

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About What’s the Plan:

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back.

The antidote: Coming together in community to process what’s happening, to sift through what’s important and what’s just noise, and coalesce around strategies for fighting back.

Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin each week, as we carve out an hour to discuss what’s happening and – more importantly – what’s the plan.

Join up, get to work, and let’s go win this thing together: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam

Catch What’s the Plan as a podcast every week on Lemonada Media: https://lemonada.lnk.to/WhatsThePlanwithLeahandEzraYT
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Indivisible is a national grassroots movement dedicated to building progressive power and fixing our democracy. We have hundreds of groups around the country fighting for D.C. statehood, court reform, racial justice, climate justice, and more. Subscribe to our channel today!

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After the Biggest Protest in U.S. History, What Comes Next?
After the Biggest Protest in U.S. History, What Comes Next?
What do you do after the largest protest in American history? You build on the momentum. In this episode, Leah and Ezra break down the historic success of No Kings III, discuss a new national campaign against Trump’s concentration camps, and look ahead to the next major national day of action on May Day. Plus: Insurgent U.S. Senate candidate Julie Gonzales — millennial daughter of a rancher and rodeo queen turned chair of the state senate’s judiciary committee — on remaking the Democratic …
No Kings Mass Call: What’s Next?
No Kings Mass Call: What’s Next?
On March 28, millions of us made it clear: we don’t do kings in America. Our nonviolent movement is only growing. On tonight’s Mass Call, you’ll hear from leaders and fellow local activists to celebrate this historic mobilization and dig into what comes next. Join us. —– Join up, get to work, and let’s go win this thing together: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam —– Indivisible is a national grassroots movement dedicated to building progressive power and fixing our democracy. We have …
No Kings 3
No Kings 3
Thank you for making No Kings 3 the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen. Wondering what’s next after the historic No Kings Day protests? We’re glad you asked: https://www.nokings.org/whats-next —– Indivisible is a national grassroots movement dedicated to building progressive power and fixing our democracy. We have hundreds of groups around the country fighting for D.C. statehood, court reform, racial justice, climate justice, and more. Subscribe to our channel today! …
No Kings Flagship Rally - MN State Capitol
No Kings Flagship Rally – MN State Capitol
Can’t make it to our third No Kings protest on March 28? Tune in to this livestream to watch our flagship No Kings rally at the Minnesota State Capitol featuring Bruce Springsteen alongside national and local activists and leaders like U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, MN Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Jane Fonda, MN AG Keith Ellison, and more. Millions of people around the country will take to the streets nonviolently to make it clear: Our country belongs to the people. We do …
No ICE, No War, No Kings
No ICE, No War, No Kings
Join up, get to work, and let’s go win this thing together: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam While Trump is flails, on Saturday we show up at more than 3,000 protests for No Kings III. Ash-Lee Henderson, former leader of the Highlander Research and Education Center, joins with historical context and strategic fire. You’ll leave this one PUMPED – ready for Saturday and everything after. Plus Q&A from movement members nationwide. 0:00 – Start 12:48 – Ashlee Henderson 29:45 – Q&A —– About …
Indivisible No Kings Spot: A Weak, Failing Wannabe-King.
Indivisible No Kings Spot: A Weak, Failing Wannabe-King.
On March 28, we rise up in nonviolent protest all across the country. Join us: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible —– Indivisible is a national grassroots movement dedicated to building progressive power and fixing our democracy. We have hundreds of groups around the country fighting for D.C. statehood, court reform, racial justice, climate justice, and more. Subscribe to our channel today! website: https://indivisible.org/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indivisibleguide/ …
Hell yeah it's No Kings 3 — here's how to make it massive
Hell yeah it's No Kings 3 — here's how to make it massive
March 28th. 3000+ protests. No Kings 3. Leah breaks down the strategic logic — why Trump fears mass protest, what we can actually accomplish, and what comes next. Ezra shares a dead-simple ‘tripling’ tactic to get your friends, family, and neighbors off the couch and into the streets. Plus: live Q&A, including why the single best message against Trump is that he doesn’t give two flying fucks about you. 0:00 – Start 16:57 – Q&A —– About What’s the Plan: The onslaught of news, the chaos …
No Kings Kickoff Call: Join us March 28
No Kings Kickoff Call: Join us March 28
On March 28, millions of us are rising again to show the world: the power belongs to the people. We don’t do kings in America. Our nonviolent movement is only growing. Join our Kickoff Call to learn more about the vision, urgency, and strategy behind this national day of action. Whether you’re brand new or a seasoned organizer, the time to act is now! You’ll hear from movement leaders about the strategic and moral imperative behind the next No Kings mobilization. —– Join up, get to work, …
No Forever Wars
No Forever Wars
We the People reject Trump’s brutality at home and abroad. Let’s show up on March 28 to say in one voice: No wars of aggression. No terrorizing our communities or yours. No tyrants, no conquests, no kings. nokings.org —– Indivisible is a national grassroots movement dedicated to building progressive power and fixing our democracy. We have hundreds of groups around the country fighting for D.C. statehood, court reform, racial justice, climate justice, and more. Subscribe to our channel …
Fascism funders are buying our elections
Fascism funders are buying our elections
Crypto, AI, AIPAC, and other fascism funders are spending millions of dollars to buy as many Democratic politicians as they can. The Illinois primaries showed us how we can organize to fight back. —– Indivisible is a national grassroots movement dedicated to building progressive power and fixing our democracy. We have hundreds of groups around the country fighting for D.C. statehood, court reform, racial justice, climate justice, and more. Subscribe to our channel today! website: …
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  • New Polling on Ousting Schumer: Necessary Policy and Smart Politics
    The first year of the second Trump administration was defined by horrifying authoritarian abuses from an unpopular regime that were met again and again by courageous resistance from everyday Americans…and cowardice or complicity from elites of every stripe. Despite genuine efforts from a handful of Democrats in congress, their ability to advance real, leave-it-all-on-the-field opposition strategy was repeatedly upended by the feckless leadership of Senate Democrats — and none were more feckless than Leader Chuck Schumer.Senator Schumer isn’t responsible for all of the Democrats’ problems, but in 2025 he became emblematic of the party’s failed status quo: a poor communicator who is out-of-touch […]
  • The arc of the moral universe does not bend on its own
    By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive DirectorScreengrab via Democracy Now!Martin Luther King Jr. Day arrives this year amid a deliberate effort to rewrite American history and a wholesale assault on civil rights in America.It has been one year since Donald Trump was inaugurated on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It felt cruel and grotesque that a man who represents so much of what Dr. King stood against could rise to power on a day meant to honor the struggle for racial justice and democracy.Over the last year, we have seen a devastating, sustained attack on nearly every facet of the […]
  • We Ain’t Buying It: What we learned
    Over Thanksgiving weekend, tens of thousands of people across the country came together to say “We Ain’t Buying It!” to companies that have capitulated to Trump.From Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, they participated in a shopping pause at Target, Home Depot, and Amazon, in protest of those retailers completely caving to the Trump administration and going along with their harmful, authoritarian policies.Target rolled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policiesHome Depot has done nothing to protect immigrants in their stores as ICE continues to conduct violent raids on their property.Amazon has funded the Trump administration through donations and significantly discounted government […]
  • We are in a battle against fascism. We need fighters, not folders.
    It’s time to turn the page in the Democratic Party.Since his election in 2016, Indivisible has been dedicated to the defeat of Donald Trump and his authoritarian political project. Winning this fight is existential for our country and our communities, and the struggle in 2025 is as stark as it has ever been. Donald Trump rules as a wannabe king, dismantling our democracy with a league of sycophantic enablers at his side. Empowered by techno-fascists, corrupt self-dealing billionaires and corporate cowards, this regime is killing the American experiment with a death by a thousand cuts.We have secret police forces and federal […]
  • Trump’s Big Ugly Bill has passed the Senate. We can still defeat it in the House.
    By Sarah Dohl, Indivisible Chief Campaigns OfficerRemember the night Trump’s first reconciliation bill failed and we saved the Affordable Care Act?I do. It was July 28, 2017.After months of nonstop calls, packed town halls, and rallies in blistering Arizona heat, every sign pointed to defeat. Republicans appeared to have the votes to kill Obamacare, and we had our “we lost” email written, proofed, and ready to send. But we should have known better.Because in those months, weeks, and days leading up to that vote, Indivisibles never stopped fighting.Activists like you showed up at Susan Collins’ Fourth of July parades with signs and bullhorns. […]
  • The Strategic Logic of the No Kings Protests
    By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive DirectorOver the last six weeks, we’ve gotten the occasional question about why Indivisible, together with our coalition of incredible partners, called for No Kings Day on June 14.Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. The speed, scope, and scale of the MAGA assault — on our rights, our neighbors, our democracy — is staggering. The stakes are enormous. There are days when nothing we’re doing feels sufficient to the magnitude of the horrors we face.Protest is a tactic. And with any […]
  • We’re in a constitutional crisis
    via Indivisible Twin Cities on BlueskyWe are in the midst of a full-blown constitutional crisis.That statement has been true nearly every day since January 20, as the administration has usurped the powers of Congress by illegally freezing funds, declared fake emergencies to grant itself more power, and skirted judicial rulings.But Trump’s brazen defiance of a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoran torture prison is truly a watershed moment for our teetering democracy.To recap:The Trump administration has sent over 238 people (likely far more) to a torture prison in El Salvador without due process. Mounting […]
  • We won in Wisconsin (the people > Musk’s pocketbook)
    Yesterday was a bad day for Elon Musk and Donald Trump and a good day for democracy. Even after Musk spent more than $20 MILLION to buy a seat on Wisconsin’s top court, Susan Crawford won — and the liberal majority on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is safe!This isn’t just a loss for Trump, Musk, and their lapdog Brad Schimel; it’s a wholesale rejection of oligarchy. The people of this country don’t want their courts stacked with bought-and-paid-for judges who’ll do the bidding of Musk and his billionaire friends. The vote results convey that loud and clear.And this isn’t just a victory for Susan Crawford […]
  • Trump’s newest target: The Department of Education
    screengrab via KHOUToday, Donald Trump signed an executive order that aims to eliminate the Department of Education. Emphasis on “aims to.” Trump cannot unilaterally abolish a federal department created by Congress.Let’s be clear about what this executive order will do: it instructs Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to facilitate the department’s closure while playing legal tricks to avoid a court making them stop. This approach indicates that the executive order is a preliminary step toward dismantling the department, setting the stage for further actions rather than causing an immediate shutdown.Trump’s goal here is to weaken the department (and thus public education), […]
  • We need real leadership. Schumer must step aside.
    When Republicans first introduced their partisan funding bill to keep the government open — full of extreme cuts, attacks on basic rights, and provisions to give even more authority to Trump and Musk to continue dismantling the federal government — it was clear that the fight to stop it would require Democrats to operate with real unity.Federal employee unions, litigators fighting Trump in court, outside advocates, House Democrats, many Democratic party insiders, and Indivisible were all in lockstep that passing this bill would be worse than a government shutdown. The GOP funding bill would give Trump and Musk carte blanche to continue their administrative coup, […]