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Survival Guide: 14 Civic Action Items You Can Begin Tomorrow

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The Survival Guide is a compilation of 14 action items that touch on age-old civic engagement activities, souped-up for the Trump era. Other entries are newer ideas. This guide is for the introvert, the loud protestor, and the behind-the-scenes strategist. It is a nonpartisan reeducation for us all on using our collective civic power to stop the locomotive of authoritarianism in the United States.

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Author: Kevin Nix

Publication date: February 2025

6,800 words

The Survival Guide is a compilation of 14 action items that touch on age-old civic engagement activities, souped-up for the Trump era. Other entries are newer ideas. This guide is for the introvert, the loud protestor, and the behind-the-scenes strategist. It is a nonpartisan reeducation for us all on using our collective civic power to stop the locomotive of authoritarianism in the United States.

Details:

Author: Kevin Nix

Publication date: February 2025

6,800 words

The 14 action items include:

No. 1: Don’t give in to the mind games. That’s their whole strategy.

No. 2: Be smarter than they are. This is a chess game.

No. 3: Break out of the 24/7 negativity spiral.

No. 4: Money talks: Economic power is political power.

No. 5: Protest in the streets—and on phone calls.

No. 6: Organize a 17th century townhall but for YouTube

No. 7: Film everything.

No. 8: Leverage the local news media (cautiously)

No. 9: Get out of your personal and professional silos and build the biggest coalition in U.S. history.

No. 10: Be your own little media machine.

No. 11: Voting and vigilance in the 2026 elections.

No. 12: Hold corporate media, including the New York Times, accountable.

No. 13: Build a command center.

No. 14: Enter politics, defined broadly, as a profession.

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