Resources: Trusted Sources

It can be challenging to find the balance between staying informed and feeling overwhelmed when the strategy is “flooding the zone.”  Staying up with current events can be overwhelming.  Instead, use these resources to check in with voices leading the resistance whenever you have the capacity. All of the offer a daily communication to keep you current. Most offer weekly livestreams or videos with updates, too.

Jessica Craven

Activist, organizer. Author of Chop Wood Carry Water Daily Actions. Political content creator. Co-host of the Practivist Pod. Mom to a 🏳️‍⚧️ kid.

Current Event / Call to Action Videos

Practivist Pod — weekly podcast with co-host Steve Pierson

Chop Wood Carry Water — daily newsletter

Chop Wood Carry Water –  Wisconsin — periodic newsletter with specific information and actions for Wisconsin

Robert Hubbell

Citizen. Optimist. Realist. Renowned for his thorough research of social concerns, Robert Hubbell is a writer and pundit. His writings center on offering clarity on difficult issues. His smart, straightforward, and easily understandable communication approach is well known. Hubbell’s legal training has sharpened his capacity for analysis of these problems.

Today’s Edition Newsletter — daily newsletter to provide hope and perspective, livestream on Saturday mornings is exceptionally good

Heather Cox Richardson

Heather Cox Richardson is a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. She believes in American democracy, despite its frequent failures.

Letters from an American — daily newsletter, videos

Timothy Snyder

Timothy David Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is on leave from his position as the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, with plans to transfer to the University of Toronto for an indefinite time.

Thinking about… — newsletter

Don’t be a bystander. — shareable resources highlighting lessons from On Tyranny

Amy Siskind

Executive. Mentor. Mother. Patriot. Advocate for women’s rights. Champion of LGBTQ+ rights. Activist for American democracy. Amy Siskind is best known as the author of The Weekly List and President of The New Agenda, a non profit dedicated to the advancement of women and girls.

The Weekly List — list on Wednesday, podcast on Thursday

Sherrilyn Ifill

Sherrilyn Ifill is a highly regarded civil rights lawyer, scholar, and public intellectual. She served as the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) from 2013 to 2022. She is now the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights at Howard University and a law professor. Ifill is a nationally recognized expert on voting rights and judicial selection, and has written extensively on these topics, as well as on race and democracy. 

Sherrilyn’s Newsletter – periodic newsletter

Rachel Bitecofer

Rachel Bitecofer is a political scientist and election forecaster turned political strategist. Bitecofer’s interviews and analysis have been featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, Politico, The New Republic, Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC and many other prominent news sources.

The Cycle — Stat(s) of the Week

Anat Shenker-Osario (ASO Communications and Research Collaborative)

Host of the Words to Win By podcast and Principal of ASO Communications, Anat Shenker-Osorio examines why certain messages falter where others deliver. She has led research for new messaging on issues ranging from freedom to join together in union to clean energy and from immigrant rights to reforming criminal justice. Anat’s original approach through priming experiments, task-based testing and online dial surveys has led to progressive electoral and policy victories across the globe. Anat delivers her findings packed in snark at venues such as the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Centre for Australian Progress, Irish Migrant Centre, Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation and LUSH International. Her writing and research is profiled in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, Salon, The Guardian and Grist among others. 

ASO Messaging Guides – guides to help discussions regarding passion issues.  How to connect on shared values and what NOT to say.

Freedom Over Fascism Toolkit – a guide to become aware of and fight back against Fascism

Research Collaborative’s Messaging Briefings – offers current research statistics, details on actions that are working in other areas