Resources: Listen - Watch - Read

Listen to Podcasts

• “The Daily” New York Times daily podcast (topic: current events)

• Hidden Brain: Wellness 2.0 When It’s All Too Much with Sarah Jaquette Ray

• Wiser Than Me: Julia Louis Dreyfus Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

• ReThinking with Adam Grant (podcast): Fixing the trust crisis with Rachel Botsman

• MeidasTouch Podcast

News Media

• Indivisible National’s recommended News Sources

• The Contrarian, a new media operation started by staunch, never-Trumper, anti-”forced birth,” Jen Rubin of the formerly great Washington Post, who left the paper mid-January 2025. Great articles and video conversations

• Meidas Touch Network

Watch

• Building a Resistance Movement in Uncertain Times

• Did you miss Progressive MA’s “Beacon Hill 101”? Watch the recording ::  View the Slides here :: Read the Chat/Q&A here or here

• Watch: Senator Ed Markey hosts Massachusetts Response to Trump Inauguration including remarks from Sen. Elizabeth Warren; Andrea Campbell, MA Attorney General;  Boston Mayor Michelle Wu; Carol Rose, Exec. Director of ACLU-MA; Rebecca Hart Holder, President, Reproductive Equity Now; and many more

• When you’re really desperate to escape the news, watch: Live: Puppy & Kitten Inauguration

• TV Show/Series: “Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet” a show about nine planetary boundaries we must consider when trying to save the planet. (topic: climate change, channel: Netflix)

• Movies

  • “Kiss the Ground” a Cure for Climate Change (topic: climate change, channel: Netflix)

  • “The Janes” the story of an underground service for abortions before they were legal (topic: abortion, channel: HBO)

Read

• Daily Substack Newsletters

  • Heather Cox Richardson - Letters from an American (topic: current events, politics and history)

  • Joyce Vance - Civil Discourse (topic: politics)

  • “The Hopium Chronicles” - a daily newsletter by Simon Rosenberg (topic: hope and optimism while fighting MAGA)

• On Abortion & Reproductive Rights

  • (Article) Inside the $100m Plan to Restore Abortion Rights in America

  • (Report) Designed to Deceive: A Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Industry in Nine States

  • (Report) Designed to Deceive CPC Study

  • (Book) Undue Burden: Life & Death Decisions in Post-Roe America, by Shefali Luthra

  • (Book) Choice: A Doctor's Experience With the Abortion Dilemma,” by Don M. Sloan, et. al.

  • Articles about our June 24, 2024 rally in The Eagle Tribune here and here, although we found them disappointingly sanitized.

• MAGA’s “Project 2025 is their very detailed and deadly serious plan to dismantle democracy in a 2nd administration. Learn about it, Talk about it:

  • Project 2025 Explained -- An in-depth analysis of the MAGA playbook

  • 25 Things to Know About Project 2025 -- A quick list of 25 extreme things MAGA Republicans have planned

  • Talking About Project 2025 -- Key messaging strategies for educating voters about Project 2025 and ensuring they understand the stakes

  • Wikipedia/Project_2025 (an excellent summary)

  • Media Matters Guide to Project 2025 (another good overview)

  • Jon Oliver on Project 2025

• Books

  • “Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game” by Rachel Bitecofer

  • “Democracy Awakening” by Heather Cox Richardson

  • “How Democracies Die” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

  • “Laboratories of Autocracy” by David Pepper about how statehouses across the country pose the greatest dangers to American democracy

  • “Activism for Introverts: 9 Simple Ways Anyone Can Change the World” by L. Shay Bradham

  • “The Hill We Climb” poetry by Amanda Gorman