Resources to Help Understand the 2016 Election

Here below are references for helping make sense of what happened on November 8 and for what we can do to protect America from the damage of a Trump presidency. I intend to update this as I become aware of additional resources.

What To Do

• Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry, by the Southern Poverty Law Center; https://www.splcenter.org/20150126/speak-responding-everyday-bigotry

Resistance

• Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda, by @ezralevin, @angelrafpadilla, @texpat, @Leahgreenb; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DzOz3Y6D8g_MNXHNMJYAz1b41_cn535aU5UsN7Lj8X8/preview
• The Rebel, by Albert Camus; https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Essay-Man-Revolt/dp/0679733841

Authoritarianism and American Politics

• Trump Syllabus 2.0, by N. D. B. Connolly and Keisha N. Blaine; http://www.publicbooks.org/feature/trump-syllabus-20
• 20161109 A fascist’s win; America’s moral loss by Sarah Kendzior;
  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/a-fascists-win-americas-moral-loss/article32753320
• The View from Flyover Country, by Sarah Kendzior; https://smile.amazon.com/View-Flyover-Country-Essays-Kendzior-ebook/dp/B00WPW5EDY
• Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, by Chris Hayes; https://smile.amazon.com/Twilight-Elites-America-After-Meritocracy/dp/0307720462
• History Tells Us What Will Happen Next with Brexit and Trump, by Tobias Stone; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tobias-stone/history-tells-us-what-will-brexit-trump_b_11179774.html

Election Reform

• http://www.nationalpopularvote.com; http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation

Feminism and Other Forms of Activism

• 20161110 These are the real reasons women voted for Trump – and they’re terrifying, The Independent; http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-president-women-voted-for-white-college-educated-working-class-reasons-terrifying-a7409596.html
• Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay; https://smile.amazon.com/Bad-Feminist-Essays-Roxane-Gay/dp/0062282719
• Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, by Lindy West; https://www.amazon.com/Shrill-Notes-Woman-Lindy-West/dp/0316348406

Freedom of the Press

• Journalists Should Be Terrified, by Justin Peters;
  http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/why_trump_is_terrifying_for_the_freedom_of_the_press.html

Kleptocracy and the Blurred Lines Between Industry and Government

• Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, by Steve Coll; https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0064W5BPM

Privacy and Personal Security

• https://ssd.eff.org
• http://wildunicornherd.tumblr.com/search/trollattack
• http://www.crashoverridenetwork.com

Russia

Social Change

• Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed; https://www.amazon.com/Please-Stop-Helping-Us-Liberals/dp/1594038414

Totalitariansim

• The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt; https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Totalitarianism-Hannah-Arendt/dp/0156701537
• The Captive Mind, by Czeslaw Milosz; https://www.amazon.com/Captive-Mind-Czeslaw-Milosz/dp/0679728562

Voting Rights and Voter Suppression

• https://www.thenation.com/article/the-gops-attack-on-voting-rights-was-the-most-under-covered-story-of-2016