Community Resources

If your mental health is suffering during these uncertain times, you are not alone. We’ve gathered a variety of community resources, including hotlines, online counseling, and local support groups, to help you navigate the emotional impact of political stress. Additionally, we offer information on how to get involved in peaceful protests and advocacy efforts related to Project 2025 and the current administration, empowering you to make your voice heard in a positive, constructive way. Whether you’re seeking mental health support or looking for ways to contribute to the cause, we’re here to ensure you have the resources you need to care for yourself while actively participating in the movement. Your well-being and involvement matter, and we’re here to support you every step of the way.

Mental Health Resources

If you're feeling overwhelmed by the impacts of the current administration, know that you're not alone. Here are some resources than can help you better cope with the evolving political landscape.

Community Resources

Here are some podcasts, helpful videos, and organizations that can guide you in better understanding the current political landscape. These resources offer valuable insights into why we're in this situation and how we can move forward by helping you stay informed and engaged. 

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How to Radicalize a Normie 

Have you lost your friends to the alt-right internet sphere? This video can help you understand what happened.

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QAnon Casualties Subreddit

Sometimes you just need a break from the chaos and should look at something cute.

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Cults to Consciousness

Stories of claiming independence after leaving high-control groups & people

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The PewDiePipeline: how racist humor leads to violence

Sometimes you just need a break from the chaos and should look at something cute.

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The Brainwashing of My Dad

Jen Senko, a documentary filmmaker, looks at the rise of right-wing media through the lens of her WWII vet father who changed from a life-long, nonpolitical Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic after his discovery of talk radio on a lengthened commute to work.

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ADL (Anti-Defamation League)

Sometimes you just need a break from the chaos and should look at something cute.

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Counter Extremism Project

CEP strives to build and maintain its best-in-class research and analysis databases on extremist groups, including their ideology, leaders, history, financing, violent activities, tactics, and rhetoric.

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Hope Not Hate

Researching, Campaigning, and Supporting Communities to build HOPE and oppose far-right extremism.

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SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center)

Stand up, take action, and fight for a future built on justice, equality and democracy.

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Parents for Peace

From personalized family consultations to expert-led training and speaking engagements, we’re here to guide and empower you in addressing extremist influences.

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Life after Hate

We are committed to helping people break free from lives of violent hate and extremism, to connect with humanity, and lead compassionate lives.

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Showing Up for Racial Justice

SURJ mobilizes white people for justice across the country. Through campaigns, education, and action opportunities, we move our people to reject racism and complicity– and to join movements for change.

books for a better understanding

This collection of books offers valuable insights into key topics shaping today's political landscape. From exploring the long-lasting effects of redlining and understanding the fight for women's rights to delving into the rise of the alt-right and other politically motivated movements, these books provide a deeper understanding of the issues that impact our society. Whether you're seeking to educate yourself on historical injustices or contemporary challenges, these reads offer essential perspectives for anyone looking to engage thoughtfully in today’s world.

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All in the Family

The Trumps and How we Got this Way

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this honest memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name.

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Alt-America

The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump

Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the U.S. presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious “alt-right” figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influence since the 1990s with the rise of patriot militias.

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American Idolatry

How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey and reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church.

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Black Pill

How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Polarized—reveals how the battle between the right and left is spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences.

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The Color of Compromise

The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism

An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response.

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The Color of Law

A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

In The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels.

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Conspirituality

How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia—peddling vaccine misinformation, tales of child trafficking, and wild conspiracy theories.

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Cultish

The Language of Fanaticism

Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia—peddling vaccine misinformation, tales of child trafficking, and wild conspiracy theories.

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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science

A Scientist's Warning

Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how the antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths.

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Educated

A Memoir

An unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

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Erasing History

How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

In the United States, democracy is under attack by an authoritarian movement that has found fertile ground among the country’s conservative politicians and voters, but similar movements have found homes in the hearts and minds of people around the globe. To understand the shape, form, and stakes of this assault, we must go back to extract lessons from our past.

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Everything You Love Will Burn

Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America

The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political power.

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The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights

How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities

An increasingly interconnected and globally networked resistance, backed by religious-nationalist elements and conservative governments, has emerged to challenge LGBTI and women's rights, even seeking to reinterpret and co-opt international human rights law.

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Jesus and John Wayne

How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism―or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.”

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Letter to a Christian Nation

A Memoir

Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity. In the course of his argument, he addresses current topics ranging from intelligent design and stem-cell research to the connections between religion and violence.

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The Making of Biblical Womanhood

How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity.

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The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States, but Alexander noted that the discrimination faced by African-American males is prevalent among other minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged populations.

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Not All Dead White Men

Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

A virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women’s empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its proponents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to support their claims―arguing that they articulate a model of masculinity that sustained generations but is now under siege.

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The Religion of Whiteness

How Racism Distorts Christian Faith

Using national survey data, in-depth interviews, and focus group results gathered over several years, Emerson and Bracey show how the Religion of Whiteness shapes the practice of Christianity for millions of Americans--and what can be done to confront it.

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Sisters in Hate

American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism

After the election of Donald J. Trump, journalist Seyward Darby went looking for the women of the so-called "alt-right" -- really just white nationalism with a new label. The mainstream media depicted the alt-right as a bastion of angry white men, but was it?

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Terror, Love, & Brainwashing

Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems

Written by a cult survivor and renowned expert on cults and totalitarianism, Terror, Love and Brainwashing draws on the author’s 25 years of study and research to explain how almost anyone, given the right set of circumstances, can be radically manipulated to engage in otherwise incomprehensible and often dangerous acts.

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Transgender History

The Roots of Today's Revolution

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.

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Unfriendly Fire

How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America

Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Nathaniel Frank exposes the military’s policy toward gays and lesbians as damaging and demonstrates that “don’t ask, don’t tell” must be replaced with an outright reversal of the gay ban.
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A Well-Trained Wife

My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principles––a series of secret, special rules to obey.