Ten ways to resist Trump
Robert Reich
Jan 23
1**. Protect the decent and hardworking members of your communities who are undocumented or whose parents are undocumented.
One of Trump’s new executive orders allows ICE to arrest undocumented immigrants at or near schools, places of worship, health care sites, shelters, and relief centers
Trump’s Justice Department is already launching investigations of cities and states that go against federal immigration orders
2. Protect LGBTQ+ members of your community. Trump may make life far more difficult for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other people through executive orders, changes in laws, alterations in civil rights laws, or changes in how such laws are enforced.
**3. Help protect officials in your community or state whom Trump and his administration are targeting for vengeance.
4. Participate or organize boycotts of companies that are enabling the Trump regime, starting with Elon Musk’s X and Tesla, and any companies that advertise on X or on Fox News. Don’t underestimate the effectiveness of consumer boycotts. Corporations invest heavily in their brand names and the goodwill associated with them. Loud, boisterous, attention-getting boycotts can harm brand names and reduce the prices of corporations’ shares of stock.
5. To the extent you are able, fund groups that are litigating against Trump. Much of the action over the next months and years will be in the federal courts. The groups initiating legislation that I know and trust include the American Civil Liberties Union, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Defense Fund, and Common Cause.
6. Spread the truth. Get news through reliable sources, and spread it. If you hear anyone spreading lies and Trump propaganda, including local media, contradict them with facts and their sources.
Here are some of the sources I currently rely on for the truth: Democracy Now,Business Insider,The New Yorker,The American ProspectThe Atlantic,Americans for Tax Fairness,Economic Policy Institute,Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,The Guardian,ProPublica,The Lever,Heather Cox Richardson
7. Urge friends, relatives, and acquaintances to avoid Trump propaganda outlets such as Fox News, Newsmax, X, and, increasingly, Facebook and Instagram. They are filled with hateful bigotry and toxic and dangerous lies.
**8. Push for progressive measures in your community and state.
9. Encourage worker action. Most labor unions are on the right side — seeking to build worker power and resist repression
**10. Keep the faith. Do not give up on America.
America has deep problems, to be sure. Which is why we can’t give up on it — or give up the fights for social justice, equal political rights, equal opportunity, and the rule of law. The forces of Trumpian repression and neofascism would like nothing better than for us to give up. Then they’d win it all. We cannot allow them to.