The perception box is an exercise for understanding how to craft messages to reach your target audiences and move them along the spectrum of allies. By Beautiful Trouble.

More than "good messaging". Story-based strategy is a step-by-step guide to analyzing your opposition and writing your own narrative for creating change. By The Center For Story Based Strategy.

Learn from Minnesota organizers, international experts on authoritarian regimes, and people preparing nationally about how to build power and prepare for a general strike. By May Day Strong.

Training materials on how to use strategic non-cooperation to undermine the regime's "pillars of support." By Freedom Trainers.

Report outlines seven fundamental tactics used by aspiring authoritarians, describes examples from in and outside the United States. By Protect Democracy.

Free lesson plan designed to help students consider not just what the Constitution says, but what it leaves out. By Zinn Education Project.

2019 article argues that the real threat to liberal democracy isn’t authoritarianism—it’s nationalist oligarchy. By the journal Democracy.

2- page handout with reputable sources that examine fascism within a historical and global context. By the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association.

Insights from 65+ grassroots leaders and 25 funders in 28 states, outlining six key practices that strengthen connection, belonging, and collective agency. By Freedom Together Foundation.

Resources, tips, and framework to conduct power research. Includes case studies and a guide to building a team with the skills to investigate corporate bodies and organize to challenge their power. By Public Accountability Initiative.

Free database of who knows who in business and government. Find info like: Who do the wealthiest Americans donate their money to? Where did White House officials work before they were appointed? By Public Accountability Initiative.

Academic paper analyzing autocratic "U-turns" since 1900, where autocratic backsliding has been reversed and democracy restored or strengthened. By Marina Nord, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and others.

The Pillars of Support is a tool that can help us organize smart movements and break down the structures of authoritarian regimes. By Choose Democracy.

How to assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to identify best case, missed opportunity, mobilization scenario, and worst case options. By Beautiful Trouble.

A guide for activists and organizers who wish to grow their nonviolent resistance activities into a more strategic, fixed-term campaign. By International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.

Step-by-step process for mapping power dynamics to identify your primary target, then design a campaign strategy to pressure them to make the right decision. By Beautiful Trouble.

A Substack on how Democrats can use language to communicate what they believe and counter the narrative from the Right. By political messaging expert Antonia Scatton.

Interviews and info to help identify patterns of fascism, demystify what’s happening, highlight what to focus on, and offer concrete tools and actions. Hosted by organizer and strategist Ejeris Dixon.

Nonviolent movements that have toppled oppressive regimes, prevented coups and transformed societies follow these four essential steps. By Jamila Raqib, Waging Nonviolence.

A glossary of terms that overlap and interact with populism including authoritarianism, nationalism, and fascism, with concrete historical examples. By Institut Montaigne.