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Follow-Up Survey is Complete!
I’m reporting back after fielding the follow-up survey with participants in the Resistance in the Streets. The survey officially closes this weekend after 3 weeks but I don’t expect a huge wave of surveys coming in before Memorial Day. I’m just hoping that the small number of people who started surveys and haven’t finished them…
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The Geography of the Resistance in the Streets
Where do the participants of the marches in Washington, DC call home? Are they the most motivated protesters from around the country or are they coming in to the District from the local area? A recent poll by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Fund found a surge in protesting in the US, finding…
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6 months Until the Mid-Terms…
It’s officially 6 months until the mid-term elections and the first big primary of 2018 is tomorrow. Last but not least, my follow-up survey of people who were sampled participating in the Resistance in the Streets (ie at all the big demonstrations that have taken place since Donald Trump’s Inauguration) goes live today! If you…
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Countdown to Next Wave of Data Collection
On Monday (6 months before the mid-term elections), I will be sending out a follow-up survey to my sample of participants in the Resistance in the Streets. The survey asks for an update on civic and political activities, as well as about experiences participating in activities in communities and with ‘Resistance Groups.’ Finally, the survey…
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Organizing Resistance in the Districts
Attached is my draft of Chapter 4, which focuses on Organizing Resistance in the Districts. This chapter is likely to change substantially as election season heats up. For now, though, it sets the stage regarding how “Resistance Groups” are organizing in the districts: groups are maintaining a hyper-local focus that aims to fill what many…
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Breaking up the Resistance in the Districts
I write with some major changes to the structure of American Resistance (the book project, not the movement): While doing the fieldwork collecting data with protesters at various events and interviewing so-called Resistance Groups about their work in the districts, I realized that there was a missing piece to this puzzle. As a result, I am breaking…
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And the Marches Keep Coming
This weekend, the second March for Science will take place in Washington DC and 230 other ‘sister marches’ around the world. There’s no question that the flagship March in Washington, DC will have better weather–last year it was chilly with lots of rain. Research has corroborated what you might expect: nice weather is associated with…
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Teachers in Red States Resist
At the same time that the survivors from the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida were leading political resistance around gun control, teachers in a number of Red states have gone on strike. So far, teachers have walked out in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Kentucky, and it is possible that other…
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The Challenges of Doing Public Social Science
I started this site as a means of getting my findings out to the public quickly so the work can contribute to the conversation about the Resistance and where it is going in America. To that end, I post drafts of chapters as they are written, provide summaries of preliminary findings, and give an overview…
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The March for Our Lives Joins #theResistance
This past weekend, streets around the US and beyond were flooded with rallies once again, this time for the March for Our Lives. The March in DC is estimated to have brought out up to 800,000 people to rally around the issue of Gun Control. I was in the crowds in DC, surveying with a…
Dana R Fisher 