Resources
Written and other materials drawn from a wide range of sources. Inclusion implies relevance to The American Crisis report, but not endorsement.
ARTICLES, REPORTS & MEMOS
- *FEATURED* Case Study on Mayors and the American Crisis (prepared by the Mayors Innovation Project for the American Crisis Report)
- Memos: Emergency Presidential Powers (Senator Tim Wirth & House Speaker Dick Gephardt)
- We are in the middle of a “rolling coup” (Senator Tim Wirth & House Speaker Dick Gephardt)
- The playbook of every successful nonviolent struggle (Jamila Raqib)
- Congress isn’t just a co-equal branch. We’re first among equals (Representative Jamie Raskin)
- Congressional Supremacy: America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance (Jamelle Bouie)
- The Final Battle for America’s Democracy (Michael Luttig)
- The State of Democracy in the United States (Democracy Forward)
- AFL-CIO Statement of Principles: We Want a Just and Decent World (Alan Singer)
- Build and Fight: A World to Win - A Political-Economic Analysis for Resistance and Transformation in the Trump Era (Kali Akuno, David Cobb, & Joe Guinan)
- Protests Matter in Election Years (Ben Manski and Michael Heaney)
- Voter Assemblies to Protect the Vote (2004-2020) (Ben Manski and Suren Moodliar)
- Holding the Fort, Birthing a New World – or Why Labor Unions Matter (Ben Manski)
- How to Spread the General Strike Beyond the Twin Cities (Stephanie Luce)
- Society on Strike: A Last Defense Against Tyranny? (Jeremy Brecher & commenters)
- May Day was even more important than you think (Daniel Hunter, Election Defense Alliance)
- Social Strikes: Can General Strikes, Mass Strikes, and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny? (Jeremy Brecher for the Labor Network for Sustainability)
- The Autocrat’s Worst Enemy: Why Despots Hate Cities and the Mayors Who Run Them (Nina Hachigian)
VIDEOS
- Rep. Pramila Jayapal: “Strength Always Emerges in the Times of Worst Crisis” (The Institute for Policy Studies)
TOOLKITS & RESOURCE HUBS
- The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook (Scot Nakagawa)
- Tracking the Crisis (The Democracy Collaborative)
- Beautiful Trouble Toolbox (Beautiful Trouble)
- Vote Safe from ICE (Common Cause)
- Election Defense Scenarios: How we keep their hands off our vote (Daniel Hunter)
- Hands Off Our Vote: Messaging guidance for protecting our vote in the 2026 midterm elections (RO Research Collaborative, All Action is Local Action, Fair Fight Action, ASO Communications)
- Preparing for federal interference in the 2026 midterm elections (Brennan Center & Protect Democracy)
- Election Protection Resource Hub (Election Safeguards Response Network)
- Federal Election Interference Risk Map (experiments4good)
- Community Resilience in the 2026 Elections: Supporting our neighbors in the face of threatened federal interference (Protect Democracy)
- Community Defense Resource Hub (Muslims for Just Futures)
- 2026 Election Risk Heat Map (Voting Rights Lab)
- Business Pledge for Democracy - A miniguide (Business Pledge for Democracy)
- Immigration Enforcement Preparedness Guide For Faith Communities (Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
- Multi-Faith Guide to Responding to Deadly ICE Enforcement (Interfaith Immigration Coalition)
- Executive Override Faith Companion Action Guide (Sojourners & Protect Democracy)
- ‘Solidarity School’ Organizer Toolkit (May Day Strong)
- We Are Ground Control (We Are Ground Control)
- Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence (HOPE PV)
- History, Archives, and Records Preservation Project (HARPP) (Organization of American Historians)
- Just Transition Handbook & Guides (Movement Generation)
ORGANIZATIONS, NETWORKS & ACTIONS
- Next System Teach-Ins (Next System Teach-Ins Taskforce)
- Freedom Trainers (Freedom Trainers)
- AFT Democracy Defenders (American Federation of Teachers)
- Summer of Resilience: A National Campaign of Survival and Resilience (Collective Resilience and Survival Bloc)
- The Resistance Lab (Representative Pramila Jayapal)
- Democratizing Training for Nonviolent Resistance (Jamila Raqib and Alia Braley)
- May Day Strong
- Community & Election Defense Trainings (States at the Core)
- The 300+ Movements to a Fair Economy (Jessica Friday)
- Talk to Your Sheriff Campaign (The Worker's Circle)
- Home Rule from Below: The Cooperative Movement in Washington, DC. (Johanna Bockman)
