Social media platforms have openly embraced Donald Trump’s fascism.
It’s time to rewild the Internet, moving away from social media platforms to rebuild the online grassroots web that flourished before Facebook and Twitter sucked it dry.
In the old days, people made web sites that linked to other sites that people found useful. Each site was independent, but connection made the collective stronger. The following is such a list.
We’re starting small, but growing all the time. That’s what real grassroots looks like.
Antifascist Networks
Local Antifascism
Antifascist activism in Midcoast Maine
Antifascist news from Maine
defending democracy in the American West
Rights and Democracy – agitation in Vermont and New Hampshire
Rose City Antifa – Portland, Oregon
indigenous social justice in Alaska
Make The Road New York – dignity and justice for immigrant and working communities
Upstate New York antifascists tracking Congressman Josh Riley
Seeing Red – Nebraska from the Left
Antifascist Organizations
Standing up for the idea that the Bill of Rights actually means what it says
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
The Forge – information on activist organizing and practice
Five By Fifteen – commit five acts of good trouble in fifteen days
Remember when America stood for freedom?
Freedom from Religion Foundation
Standing up to Christian Nationalism
The April Institute – Antifascist research
Antifascist Books
God and the Fascists by Karlheinz Deschner
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Prequel by Rachel Maddow
Donald Trump’s Army of God by Clifford and Anise Cook
The Trump Bible by Peregrin Wood
Physical Resistance: 100 Years of Antifascism by Dave Hann
Socrates the Skinhead by Aleksei Sutuga
Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want To Run The World by Anne Applebaum
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
The Demonic Bible by F.G. Fitzer
Three Way Fight: Politics and Antifascism by Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons
When God Came Down To Alabama by Jesus Disraeli
Empire of AI by Karen Hao