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The American Resistance Joins the Protests Against the Killing of George Floyd
As of early Saturday morning, protests have broken out in cities across the US in response to police brutality, calling for racial justice in America. I haven’t seen an accurate count yet, but I expect that the crowd counting consortium will have data for anyone who is looking for numbers. Three days ago, I wrote…
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Will the American Resistance Join the Protests Against the Killing of George Floyd?
We know that the American Resistance is comprised predominantly of highly educated middle aged White women. We also know that many of them are motivated to participate in activism by issues related to Racial Justice and Police Brutality. So, the question is whether they will join the protests in the streets in response to the…
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The Geography of the Resistance Now
I’ve posted before about the geography of the Resistance in the streets, which was based on the data I collected from people whom I surveyed while they were protesting in the streets in Washington, DC. Now that the first wave of the Indivisible Census is complete, I am able to map out the geography of…
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Winning Elections takes much more than Winning Votes.
Today I published a piece in Politico about the youth climate movement and their important role in the 2020 election. The piece highlights how, although they were resistant to Joe Biden as a candidate through the early primaries, youth climate activists are not part of the #NeverBiden contingent. In my recent survey of organizers at…
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Studying Resistance During COVID-19
Last week, I began data collection for two projects that will help us understand Resistance in the age of COVID-19 (and leading up to the 2020 election). Although both of these projects were planned well before the pandemic basically shut-down the US, questions were added about how the pandemic has affected individual’s activism and political…
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And the Nominee is…Biden.
Today, Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination. In November, Joe Biden will run against Donald Trump in the general election. Based on my research in September and conversations across the country more recently, it is pretty clear that Biden has not been a favorite among progressive activists and Resisters.…
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American Resistance in the Age of Covid-19
The American Resistance book tour has been canceled at least until June while the world responds to the threat (and spread) of the Coronavirus. I’ll be keeping track of events that are canceled and rescheduled here FYI). As federal, state, and local governments respond to the virus, questions are emerging about how the practice of…
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The American Resistance Around the US
In the past two months, I’ve had the chance to talk with Resisters around the US during my book tour. I’ve been in Colorado, Virginia, Maine, Massachusetts, and Iowa and have had the privilege of speaking with activists who are now thinking about the 2020 Election, including people who were in the process of working…
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The Resistance Enters Primary Season
This week, primary season originally kicked off with the Iowa Caucus. In contrast to the results coming out quickly after the event on Monday night, we are still waiting for the final results as many discuss the dangers of introducing more technology into our electoral system. At the same time, the Senate finally voted on…
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Some Reflections on the Women’s March 2020
Now that the fourth anniversary of the Women’s March is behind us, many (including this recent piece in the Hill) are discussing what the low turnout this past weekend means to the March and to the Resistance more broadly. So far, the Crowd Counting Consortium reports that less than 150,000 people participated in this most…
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