Protests & Actions.....
Where to find them
There’s no single hub for protest information, which can make finding actions a challenge. This page highlights key sources to help you stay connected. Your grassroots organization is often the most reliable place to learn when and where to show up.
Use this page to find an event where you can creatively show up!
If you are not in any grassroots groups, find one here
No Kings Alliance
A coalition of grassroots organizations united in solidarity, building a nationwide movement through mass mobilizations and coordinated national alert actions.
In June, we did what many said was impossible: millions peacefully took to the streets to declare America Has No Kings. The people’s movement eclipsed Trump’s birthday parade, transforming a planned coronation into a global rebuke of authoritarianism. The world witnessed the power of collective action.
By October 18, the movement surged even stronger. Over seven million people joined 2,700+ actions across all 50 states—an uprising far larger than Trump’s inaugurations combined. What began as a single day of defiance has grown into a sustained, nationwide resistance, uniting small towns and cities alike in defense of democracy.
Indivisible Dashboard
Here is a Mobilize feed dedicated solely to Indivisible sponsored events. The events are organized or grouped by dates:
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Closest events this week
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Virtual events today
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Quick actions for right now
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Group promoted events
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Organizations wit upcoming events
Mobilize.us
is an online organizing platform used primarily by progressive and Democratic-aligned grassroots organizations to list, promote, and manage volunteer actions and events. It serves as a centralized hub where people can find opportunities to get involved—such as protests, canvassing, phone banks, trainings, mutual aid efforts, and community meetings—by location, issue, or organization.
For organizers, Mobilize provides tools to create events, track RSVPs, communicate with volunteers, and coordinate actions across campaigns and movements. For participants, it makes it easier to discover when and where to show up and how to take action locally or nationally.
Once you have set up a profile, when you go to the site it will automatically display events closest to you this week, by state, virtual events today, and quick actions for right now
Find A Protest
We just found this site on a google search. When you navigate to the page, allow google to know your location so protests within 15 miles of you are automatically listed
From their 'About Us' Page:
The idea for find a protest was sparked by a simple but common problem — people wanting to take action but not knowing where to start. With so many asking how to find protests near them, it became clear that a central, easy-to-use protest hub was needed.
We built find a protest to help people discover protests, rallies, vigils, and solidarity events in their area — whether it’s protests this weekend near me or global actions happening online. Our goal is to make reliable, up-to-date information accessible to everyone, without the need to spend hours searching across social media or scattered websites.
Users can set up alerts, post events to their calendar or to social media. Organizers can also post events on this site as well.
50501
is a national movement made up of everyday Americans who stand for democracy, and who stand agains the authoritarian actions of the Trump Administration. The name 50501 stands for 50 States, 50 Protests, 1 movement.
You can use this page to find events, host your own event, or locate a 50501 group. It also links to a weekly, crowd-sourced list of 50501 actions, which opens an Excel spreadsheet organizing rallies by state. In addition, there is a U.S. map populated by “We the People Dissent,” a Substack site that compiles and shares protest events from across the country.
We (the People) Dissent
is a bulletin board that serves as a collection of information and announcements about upcoming protests, boycotts, call campaigns, and strikes. Their commitment is to keep it simple and offer a variety of ways for people to engage. It’s a Substack site that also provides articles about the protests taking place within the movement.
To find the protest list, scroll through articles on the home page and look for “Protests this week.” Alternatively, you can use this link to access the US Map of Weekly Protests. Below is a screenshot of what the national list of protests looks like.
& Advocacy
Actions taken in conjunction with protests and civil disobedience are effective tools for combating fascist regimes.
Chop Wood, Carry Water
is a daily political activism Substack newsletter created by organizer and activist Jess Craven that gives readers simple, practical steps they can take each day to be more politically engaged and make a difference. It’s published on weekdays and focuses on concrete actions—such as calling or texting elected officials, showing up locally, writing postcards, or following up on civic issues—that aim to strengthen democracy, support progressive causes, and help elect public servants aligned with those values.
The newsletter is meant to be accessible even in short bursts (typically quick 5–7 minute activities) and also includes a weekly recap with news and insights. It’s popular, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and has related spinoffs focused on specific states or even issues.
Jess Craven herself is a grassroots organizer with experience in door-knocking, phone banking, fundraising, and digital content, and she also offers workshops and content on social media about how everyday people can be effective activists.
Indivisible [org website]
is a movement of thousands of group leaders and more than a million members taking regular, iterative, and increasingly complex actions to resist the GOPs agenda, elect local champions, and fight for progressive policies.
They make calls. They show up. They speak with their neighbors. They organize. Indivisible provides activists with campaigns and specific take actions which typically include toolkits for implementing or links to partner organizations sponsoring the actions
The Coordinated Action Dispatch (CAD) Team is an Action Team of Indivisible Massachusetts Coalition (IMC).
Each week, the IMC-CAD Team receives suggested actions from a wide range of activists through its CAD Team Action Submission Form, and works with legislative experts (Indivisible, ACLU, Common Cause, Progressive Mass, MIRA, and many others) to vet and prioritize a short list of actions for the week. These are sent to dozens of newsletter editors and individuals each Wednesday through IMC’s “Coordinated Action Dispatch.”
Find actions or validate potential actions with this great tool. It is published on Substack and has links to the sources and well as a detailed google doc on how to take action on the selected issue.
Swing Blue Alliance
is an all-volunteer, Democratic grassroots political organization based in Massachusetts that works to support and strengthen democracy by mobilizing volunteers for voter outreach and election efforts, especially in competitive swing states. It partners with local and on-the-ground groups to run phone banks, mailing campaigns (like postcard writing), canvassing, social media outreach, and other activities designed to register voters, increase turnout, and help Democratic candidates in close races.
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Volunteers hand-write and mail postcards or letters to targeted voters with messages tailored to the election or issue at hand. These can include get-out-the-vote, voter registration, or issue advocacy messaging. Organizers provide stickers with addresses, scripts, and instructions, and volunteers provide the time and postage.
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Swing Blue Alliance designs campaigns based on research and aims to ensure that each mailing is targeted, measurable, and impactful. They use past data and experimental methods to improve future efforts. Swing Blue Alliance
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Their campaigns have contributed to voter registration increases, calls in support of voting rights, and turnout boosts in strategic states. They also document results from randomized trials showing modest increases in turnout or voter registration in targeted groups.
Boycott Central
Want to Boycott? Need to know who & where.... This site is for you. Provides a thorough listing of active and effective boycotts linked to the source website. You can even set up your own alerts. The initial schemers on this project are volunteers Kat (Build the Resistance) and Daniel (Choose Democracy), and many others collaborated to make this happen.
We saw tons of people asking us to boycott on various dates. We wanted to make a place where people could look up the boycott — who called it? Is it real? Is it well-organized? Any information we provide is for informational purposes only and should not be considered official advice. We do not speak on behalf of any of the boycotts listed, nor do we claim to represent their organizers.
We hope this can inspire better designed boycotts, channel more people towards well-organized boycotts, and help measure their impacts. And by signing up, we can alert you to boycotts that we see as effectively organized and thoughtfully executed.
Got questions? Email them at boycottcentral.us@gmail.com
is a civic engagement website and app that makes it easy for people in the United States to contact their elected officials by phone about current political issues. It does the behind-the-scenes work of researching issues, identifying which representatives matter for each topic, collecting their office phone numbers, and providing simple scripts you can read when you call — so you don’t have to figure it all out yourself.
The site provides you:
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Find your legislator to call'
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Choose an issue
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Get a script
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Make the calls
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor are an effective—and often underestimated—form of civic engagement, especially at the local and regional level.
Here’s why they work:
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They influence decision makers
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They amplify individual voices
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They shape public opinion
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They're trusted media
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They help set the narrative
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They are accessible and low barrier
While a single letter rarely changes policy on its own, consistent, coordinated letter-writing—especially tied to local issues or events—can meaningfully shift public discourse and political priorities. Like protests, letters are most effective when used as part of a broader grassroots strategy.
Do you have an opinion about something about something you read in your paper or heard on Athene's? Want to highlight another side of a local story? Join Women Forward to start doing something by writing something. Join a workshop, download a toolkit, and read past examples to get started on your letter today!
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