Resources from Season 3 - Episode 7 - All Gas, No Brakes: Assessing the 2026 Midterms with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

Resources

Read

• Listening Guide

• “What To Do During A Coup” by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Medium

• “They’re Counting On Not Counting Us” by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Medium

• “Who Gets Counted As Election Risk” by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Medium

• “What Would Make You Disobey” by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Medium

• “Gathering Forces: Election Defense In Authoritarian Times” by Marcy Rein, Sandra Hinston, Convergence Magazine

• “In the Records: Exposing and Disrupting Federal Attempts To Interfere In The 2026 Midterm Elections” by Democracy Forward

• “Black Voters Help Propel Democrats, Including History Makers, In Sweeping Midterm Victories” by Bill Barrow, Kim Chandler, Kate Burmback, Associated Press News

• “Where Voters Stand On State Ballot Measures, From Abortion To LGBTQ Rights To Guns” by Rachel Treisman, National Public Radio

• “Has US Fascism Moved From A Theoretical Debate Into An Urgent National Crisis?” by Nolan Hiddon, Truthout

• “Republicans Tried To Gerrymander Their Way Out Of Big Congressional Losses. It Didn’t Work” by Ashley Lopez, Benjamin Swasey, Rahul Mukherjee, National Public Radio

• “Special Issue—Quiet Is Not Peace” by Scot Nakagawa, The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

• “The Midterms Repudiated Trump. Grassroots Momentum Will Shape What Comes Next.” By Daniel Hunter, Truthout

• Stories That Didn’t Break the Barometer 

• Roundup Sources

Watch

• Activists Are Preparing To Defend Elections In November

• The Fascist Emergency Playbook and Electoral Fascism

• Armed Agents, Mail-in Ballots, And Preparing For Mid-Term Election Interference with Steven Gardiner and Ethan Fauré

Listen

• Hear From the Minnesota 15

Action

• Support The Fascism Barometer to continue to create the pod and produce resources on fighting fascism! 

• Join Ballot Rescue Phonebanking with the Carolina Federation and Down Home NC

• Attend the Laughing At The Strongman: Comedy as Resistance on November 10th with Narrative Initiative

• Watch the Post-Midterm Huddle on November 12th with Media Justice 

• Attend the No Tech for ICE Asamblea: Atlanta on November 20th with Mijente

• Take action and Oppose BAAJA Bill and Stop Immigration Detention Expansion with Detention Watch Network

• Help count every vote in Mississippi with May Day Strong

• Take Action to Demand Safe & Healthy Housing for All Monroe County Residents by Hoosier Action

• Join the Fight to Purge Palantir with Mijente

• Tell Congress! No Detention Expansion in Louisiana with Detention Watch Network

• Meet with Congress members to abolish ICE with Women’s March 

• Support United Vision for Idaho by attending a training and donating!

• Take Action to fight authoritarian practices with Amnesty International

• Donate to support Johan Sebastiáns family

• Donate to support Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s family

• Join Hands off our Vote with Indivisible 

• Tell Congress: Stop the SAVE ACT by Women’s March  

• Attend the Brobots vs. The People: Tech Money in Politics political education series by Media Justice

• Support the Prairieland Defendants

• Support the Minnesota 15

• Defend immigrant communities from ICE raids: Attend Training and Actions through the Defend and Recruit Project of SIEMBRA NC and donate

• Tell Congress: Defend the Freedom to Protest by Women’s March

• Tell Congress: No Secret Police by Women’s March

• Tell Congress to protect immigrants and asylum seekers by American Friends Service Committee

• Call GEO Group and local officials to support women of Delaney Halls demands by Cosecha

• Call Congress (Senate and House) to Oppose Warrantless AI Mass Surveillance by Indivisible

• If you’re approached by Federal Law Enforcement call the National Lawyer’s Guild’s Federal Defense Hotline (212-679-2811)

• Support Protect Oregon!

• Support the Free Chicago Project!

• Support Free DC through attending their events, taking action, and donating!

• Join Free DC and call your representatives to End the DC Take Over

• Call Congress: Stop Starving Gaza and Block the Bombs with US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action

• Sign up and take action with WeActNow

• Join Critical Resistance and support their work to abolish the prison industrial complex

• Protect Immigrant Communities! Join the Here to Stay Network with United We Dream

• Support About Face Veterans and the Right to Refuse Campaign

• Defend immigrant communities from ICE raids: Attend Trainings and Actions through the Defend and Recruit Project of SIEMBRA NC

• Join a Pro-Palestinian Protest Near You 

• Write to your congressperson about the Block the Bombs Act!

• Donate to Mohsan Mahdawi’s immigrant legal defense fund! Support the Vermont Immigrant Legal Defense Fund 

• Check out the All of US Directory, a sortable database that seeks to make it possible for newly activated people to easily connect with organizing and mutual aid efforts.