Whether you learn best by reading, watching videos, or participating in online training, there are many good sources of information that are factual, valid, and reliable.
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Online training
Fight Back With Friends! A program from Indivisible (national) that gives people the tools they need to connect with friends, family, and neighbors to help them become civically engaged. The training takes place the 4th Tuesday of each month, via a one-hour online session, and includes new calls to action.
What’s the Plan? With Leah and Ezra. An Indivisible weekly call – every Thursday from 3 – 4 PM, with co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin. They discuss the week’s biggest political stories, participants can submit questions online during the call, and they map out strategies for action.
Organizing to Protect Democracy – A 4-session series from the ACLU that provides tools to organize, mobilize, and lead to protect rights, freedom, and democracy. Each session is approximately 1 hour.
Amnesty International Human Rights Academy – Free online learning platform to learn about the basic principles of human rights and how to use them for positive change. Includes a wide range of free, online courses, ranging in length of time; topics include refugees, asylum seekers, & migrants; women’s rights; gun violence, freedom of expression, and more.
Articles & books
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Timothy Snyder, American historian of Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust). Drawing from dark moments in history, author Timothy Snyder offers 20 things we can do to resist authoritarianism and protect our democracy.
Without Precedent – How Chief Justice Roberts & His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution & Dismantled Our Rights (Lisa Graves, President of the Center for Media & Democracy, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. DOJ Office of Legal Policy/Policy Development, and former Chief Counsel for Nominations for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for Senator Patrick Leahy). Published in 2025, Graves explains how Chief Justice John Roberts has been willing to serve the billionaire-backed movement to change the nature of the Supreme Court, while presiding over the most corrupt and corrupted Supreme Court in history.
How to Stand Up to a Dictator (Maria Ressa, Filipino journalist, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her work to defend and protect freedom of the press from authoritarians). Through her own experiences as a journalist, Ressa tells the story of how the Philippines slid from a democracy to an autocracy, which, she believes, can happen anywhere, and more quickly than people think. But she also offers hopeful, clear advice for us to think about.
How Democracies Die (Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zieblatt, 2 Harvard political science professors who have studied countries’ slides from democracy to authoritarianism for decades). Published in 2018, during Trump’s first term, the authors clearly explain the 4 indicators of an authoritarian, and early on, exposed Trump’s behavior as authoritative. They ask questions all of us should ask ourselves of any political candidate or incumbent.
Attack From Within – How Disinformation is Sabotaging America (Barbara McQuade, former US Attorney, eastern district of Michigan, professor at University of Michigan Law School). A clear, deep explanation of the disinformation tactics authoritarians use to gain power, why disinformation works, how technology has been used to spread disinformation, why our country is vulnerable to disinformation, how disinformation is destroying democracy, and what we can do to stop it.
The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America (Elizabeth Dias, national religion correspondent for the NYT, and Lisa Lerer, national political correspondent for the NYT). The deep, inside story, based on investigative journalism, of the political and religious campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade, remake American families & womanhood, using a strategic, top-down takeover at every level of political and legal life in the US. They warn that Roe was just the beginning.
Democracy Awakening (Heather Cox Richardson, American historian & professor of history at Boston college, author of Letters From An American on Substack). A story, from an historian’s perspective, of how a small group of people used rhetoric and false history to undermine democracy, and how, in the past, we have been able to preserve and expand democracy in our country because we have adhered to the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
Blogs
Many of the blogs worth reading come through Substack, an online platform for news and information. Many contributors offer both free and paid subscriptions.
Heather Cox Richardson – Letters from an American – American historian and history professor at Boston College
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance – former US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, now a professor of law at the University of Alabama, and a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice
Thinking About… by Timothy Snyder – American historian of Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust; author of On Tyranny
Robert Reich – an American political commentator, professor, economist, and author; former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration