- Ezra Levin, co-founder of the progressive non-profit organization Indivisible, told USA TODAY that 11,000 people showed up to an election result debriefing call Indivisible held the day after the election and more than 40,000 were on a call announcing a new version of the Indivisible Guide a week later, numbers he hasn't seen since 2017
- More than 100,000 people RSVP'd for a call hosted six days after the election by several national progressive organizations.
- Run for Something, which supports progressive candidates who want to run for local offices, hoped 100 people would sign up in the first year. When they launched on Trump's Inauguration Day in 2017, 1,000 people signed up. Since Trump won re-election, more than 7,000 people have volunteered to run for office, said the group's co-founder Amanda Litman, contradicting the anecdotes she's heard that people feel like there is no point in resisting and won't bother getting involved. “People are angry, they're galvanized, they're specific with what they want to do."
- Since Election Day, Run for Something has had over 10,000 people from across the country sign up to run for office. To put that into perspective, RFS had 15,000 people reach out with interest in running for local office in the first year of Trump’s presidency.
- 800 lawyers are signed up to implement legal counter-strike plans to Project 2025 that were developed in recent months in working groups convened by Democracy Forward.
- Public Citizen's co-president Lisa Gilbert said instead of people organically taking to the streets in shock like in 2016, the coalition of groups are working together to channel the "manic organizer energy" to ensure all possible lanes are covered; not just protesting and speaking with lawmakers but also monitoring Cabinet officials' ethics filings and pursuing lawsuits. Public Citizen is a non-profit progressive consumer rights advocacy group based in Washington that sued Trump's first administration repeatedly and helped form one of the largest coalitions of groups opposing Trump called the Not Above the Law Coalition. Gilbert said they are primed to file public information requests about Cabinet officials Trump doesn't want the Senate to vet and sue over moves he tries to make through executive order.
Watch out folks, we may all be a bit tired, but the Resistance is strong and smarter than ever and people are ready to fight.
You are not alone!!! 💙💙💙
