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The Resistance Rises to Declare #NoKings
On June 14th, while Donald Trump held a military parade in our nation’s Capitol, millions of people across the US mobilized to protest the actions of the Trump Administration and its policies during the No Kings Day-of-Action. My team surveyed participants at the flagship event in Philadelphia and hosts organizing events across the US. Here’s…
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What We Lose When America Loses AmeriCorps
Last Friday, the Trump Administration / DOGE cut about 41% of the grant funding for our national service agency, AmeriCorps, which affected an estimated 1,031 organizations, and 32,465 AmeriCorps members and senior volunteers. The cuts affect programs in every state in the US. The map above shows the programs cut and where they were geographically…
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Resistance 2.0 Rises at the #HandsOff Rallies
This weekend, a coalition of left-leaning groups lead by Indivisible, 50501, and the Women’s March coordinated the HandsOff2025 day of action that included over 1000 events in all 50 states. One of the lead organizers reported over 5 million people participating across the US. We fielded a team of 8 to collect a random sample…
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The Rising Acceptance of Political Violence Among Left-Leaning Americans Grows
Last week, I published a paper at Scientific American that summarized some of the findings from our research at the Stand Up for Science Day of Action on March 7th. One of the most notable and chilling findings was that support for political violence continues to grow among Left-leaning Americans who are participating in protests…
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Learning About the Growing Threat of Political Violence from the People’s March
Today, I published a piece at the Brookings Institution summarizing some of the findings from our research at the 2025 People’s March in Washington, DC, which took place the Saturday before the Inauguration of Donald Trump. The piece highlights how participants at the People’s March were very similar to those participants at the first Women’s…
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Will the Resistance Rise Again?
That’s the question that journalists have been asking me since November 5th. We are about to enter the weekend before the inauguration and young people have been causing trouble from Los Angeles to Washington, DC (while the wildfires continue to burn). This weekend, the People’s March will coordinate over 200 marches across the US on…
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Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement
On January 6th, I published “Why climate activists are becoming more radicalized (and why that’s not a bad thing)” (co-authored with Hajar Yazdiha) in The Hill. The piece discusses the ways that climate activism has become increasingly confrontational over the past few years and compares these tactics and the political repression climate activists has faced…
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TED Talk on Saving Ourselves
My TED Talk on Saving Ourselves is Live! Tune in to learn why we ALL need to be apocalyptic optimists: Prepared for the climate shocks that are coming and ready to rally as activists, disruptors, and bridge-builders to save ourselves from the climate crisis. As COP29 continues to show the weaknesses of the climate regime…
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Waking Up In Trump’s America 2.0
On the day after the 2016 election, I published a reflection at HuffPost. “Waking Up In Trump’s America And Watching The Ocean Rise” looked at the climate consequences of what candidate Trump had promised. Since I’m still processing the outcome from last night (Trump was just announced as the 47th President of the US 7…
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Cultivating Resilience through Climate Corps
The last chapter of Saving Ourselves presents three recommendations for how we should focus our collective efforts to get us to the other side of the climate crisis most effectively (check it the book if you’re interested in learning more). The last recommendation is to cultivate resilience: “Because mitigation efforts have so far failed to…
Dana R Fisher 