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The Resistance in Election 2020
It’s still super early days, but everyone seems to be asking who is running and who could win. I asked participants at the 2019 Women’s March on January 19th who they would support in 2020. Although many respondents outwardly groaned when they saw the question on the survey, the results are very interesting. Moreover, it’s…
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The 2019 Women’s March Makes it’s Mark
While my colleagues over at the Crowd Counting Consortium keep tabulating how many people participated in the 3rd annual Women’s March, once thing is certain: the Women’s March continues to mobilize people to Resist in the Streets. My new piece over in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, highlights the ways that participants in this year’s Women’s March…
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Priorities for the Resistance
Happy 2019! The full revised draft of American Resistance will be going into Columbia University Press this month (so you can imagine what I’ll be doing for the next few weeks). That said, I wanted to share one more overview of findings from the follow-up survey with participants in the Resistance based on my post-2018…
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How Participants in the Resistance worked with Groups?
Participants in the Resistance reported working with numerous groups leading up to the midterm elections and the number had grown substantially in the 6 months before the election (from May to November 2018). The most mentioned groups were the Democratic Party, the Women’s March, MoveOn, Indivisible and the ACLU. There were also very significant differences…
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The Resistance in the Midterm Elections
As I analyze the data collected through my post-election follow-up survey with participants in the Resistance in the Streets, I thought I’d share some early preliminary findings. The most common protests attended by participants in the follow-up survey were the 2017 WomensMarch (68%) and the MarchForOurLives (51%). As expected, civic engagement levels were high for…
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On Response Rates and Revisions
The final data for American Resistance–the post-election follow-up with participants from the Resistance in the streets–closes at the end of this week. These data will complete the story of how people participated in the Resistance during the past two years–both in the Streets and in the Districts. The response rate for the survey is currently…
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Will the Resistance Join the Graveyard of Democratic Politics?
Now that the Blue Wave has washed over the House of Representatives (and continues to grow in some states), will the Resistance join the Graveyard of democratic politics? History suggests that progressive political movements lose their potency after Democratic electoral wins. Just look at the post-9/11 anti-war movement and the Obama campaign in 2008 for…
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The Countdown Continues
In final days before the Midterm elections, I am just finishing up analyzing interview data collected from conversations with leaders of Resistance Groups that are working to organize resistance in the districts around the election. I am currently revising the chapter based on these data (which is now Chapter 3 of the book on Organizing…
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Can Distributed Organizing Contribute to a #BlueWave?
With two weeks until the Midterm elections, we are barraged with polls telling us what likely voters might do on November 6th and what early voters have already done every day. As astounding images of early voting in states such as Florida, Nevada, and Texas, everyone is wondering what will happen. Having just completed follow-up interviews…
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19 Days and Counting…
While everyone focuses on different aspects of the upcoming midterms, I’m spending my time coding data from interviews I conducted last week with leaders of Resistance Groups. One of the clear themes in the interviews is the degree to which the Resistance in the Streets has shifted to the Districts leading up to the elections…
