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On the Anniversary of the Murder of George Floyd: More Evidence that White Allies Are Continuing to Push For Racial Justice
On the 1 year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, I am releasing some preliminary findings from the 2021 Indivisible Census. As I’ve written elsewhere and documented with data collected from participants at BLM protests in summer 2020, and with data from the American Resistance dataset, the murder of George Floyd was a turning…
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This is NOT What Democracy Looks Like! State-Level Efforts to Limit Protest are on the Rise
Across the country, while efforts to limit voting have been introduced in most states and gained substantial attention, more than 80 bills have been simultaneously been introduced in 34 states that aim to reduce citizen’s right to assemble and protest. These attacks on the very foundation of democratic participation—voting and peaceful assembly—are the most recent…
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The 2021 Indivisible Census is Open!
Last night, the 2021 Indivisible Census opened. The Census is collecting data on the Indivisible Network to see how this Resistance group has grown over the past year. It will provide insights into the priorities of the network in terms of who is participating, what they are doing, and what is motivating them. Here’s a…
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Will the Resistance Join the Graveyard of Democratic Politics (take 2)?
I posted a piece with this name right after the midterm elections in November 2018 and, after it came up in a conversation with Danielle Kurtzleben on NPR about the future of the Resistance, it seems like a good time to revisit it. With yesterday’s inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the…
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When Protest Becomes Insurgency
Since violent insurgents stormed the US Capitol on January 6th, myriad accounts of what happened have been reported. It is clear that what many believed would be a peaceful protest that was legally permitted by the National Park Service, turned into something altogether different. In contrast to some claims that the actions of January 6th…
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Kicking off 2021
It’s going to be a wacky week! Yesterday, the 117th Congress began. On Tuesday, the Georgia Senate runoffs take place, which will determine which party controls the US Senate. On Wednesday, the Congress will meet to count and certify each state’s electoral votes, which is expected to include a number of challenges by Republicans. At…
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Are We Drifting Towards Civil War?
Yesterday, I posted a new piece at Business Insider that lays out three reasons why America may be drifting towards a Civil War: first, the President and his allies have coaxed hate out of the dark corners of society where it had been relegated by social norms; second, the Trump Administration has cultivated a culture…
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As the Electors meet, Protests get much more dangerous
Today, the electors will meet to cast their votes for the 2020 Election. While many people who have been involved in the American Resistance since Donald Trump took office expected to be seeing light at the end of a four-year long tunnel, there is growing evidence that we are entering a dark place where violent…
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Resisters in the 2020 Election
This week has been a rollercoaster as the 2020 election continues. Although a national day of action to send a message to #ProtectTheResults had been called for Wednesday, the organizers called off the mobilization while states continued to count their mail-in ballots. Instead, only a small number of protests took place in urban areas, with…
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The Women’s March Marches Again
Yesterday, the Women’s March coordinated events in over 425 locations across the United States. I was out in Washington, DC with a research team of 10 (here’s the photo before we began data collection). We also collected data in NYC and LA (stay tuned for those findings). Although the event turned out repeat protesters (only…
Dana R Fisher 