Get Informed and Empowered
This page features resources for keeping informed and taking action to resist fascism from Johnson County. Please note that this page is under active development, so check back in periodically to see new additions!
Contacting Elected Officials
Writing or calling elected officials remains a vital way to make your concerns and priorities known to them. This can be daunting, but fortunately there are tools to make the process less time-consuming and offer some help on phrasing and content!
While we can't promise that you'll get an offer of support from your representatives - particularly those who have already sworn fealty to the Trump regime - we believe it is still important to keep up the public pressure and remind them that they are supposed to serve the public interest and uphold the law.
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Trustworthy Sources
One of the first things that fascist governments do is attempt to take control over sources of news to silence dissent and spread propaganda. Under the Trump regime we have seen many examples of this: suing news organizations over journalism protected under the First Amendment, abusing regulatory powers to influence the ownership of news organizations, and denying the press access to important press briefings based on prior critical coverage.
Here are some our favorite sources that remain trustworthy even as the regime attempts to control the public narrative.
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ICE
ICE has stepped into the role of Trump's secret police within the United States, loyal only to him and willing to carry out whatever abuses of law and human dignity he demands. They have militarized and terrorized our communities by sending armed agents, often masked and not in uniform, to abduct people off the street based on little more than racial profiling.
In times like these we need solidarity against these attempts at intimidation! Here are some resources on what to do if (and when) ICE decides to target our local community.
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