All out against Trump/Musk ...

Resistance looks different in Trump 2.0. But that doesn't mean there isn't any. In fact, say scholars of protest Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, and Soha Hammam, "Resistance is alive and well in the United States."

Doubt this? They've collected the evidence. 

... since Jan. 22, we’ve seen more than twice as many street protests than took place during the same period eight years ago. ... In February 2025 alone, we have already tallied over 2,085 protests, which included major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine, and demonstrations against Tesla and Trump’s agenda more generally. This is compared with 937 protests in the United States in February 2017, which included major protests against the so-called Muslim ban along with other pro-immigrant and pro-choice protests. 

Their study of popular movements gives them a framework within which to describe what resistance works in the face of broad challenges to rule of law and democracy.

Historically, street protest and legal challenges are common avenues for popular opposition to governments, but economic noncooperation — such as strikes, boycotts and buycotts — is what often gets the goods. Individual participation is deliberately obscure, and targeted companies may have little interest in releasing internal data. Only the aggregate impacts are measurable — and in the case of Tesla, Target and other companies, the impacts so far have been measurable indeed.

Consider the protests against Tesla [join by way of Tesla TakeDown] in response to Elon Musk firing federal workers and blocking federal funding. The multifaceted campaign has a quite specific goal: punish Tesla, Musk’s signature company. ...

... The MAGA faction controls the GOP and enforces strict discipline among its members through fear and the threat of a well-funded Republican primary opponent in the next election. The Supreme Court majority is solidly on the right. Elected GOP officials are abandoning town halls and discouraging constituents from calling their offices. Street protests endure but are increasingly surveilled and high-risk, as the detention of Mahmoud Khalil suggests. Uncertainty about whether the Trump administration will ignore the First Amendment and weaponize the government to persecute political oppositionists looms large.

In the face of such changes, the public’s most powerful options are often withholding labor power and purchasing power. ...The prominence of billionaires in the administration and populist anger toward them make this type of approach even more viable in today’s climate. 

The world stage offers inspiring examples.

... Indeed, the diversification of resistance methods puts the United States on a similar trajectory to many democracy movements of the past. ...in Czechoslovakia, six days after the Soviet invasion in 1968, the newspaper Vecerni Prah published “10 commandments,” writing: “When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing.”

Read the scholars' Waging Nonviolence article about today's resistance here.

This pairs well with an eariler, time-honored response all of us need to know to any interaction for police or immigration cops. 

And be heartened that Bernie and AOC drew 30,000 people to a Denver rally against the regime yesterday. We are indeed everywhere.