ChooseDemocracy.us,
We’re only doing this once: a single ask for donations. That’s it. No fundraising drive. No countdown clock. No guilt. (Please, no guilt!)
Because we’d rather be doing the work than writing you fundraising emails.
But if you do value what Choose Democracy is doing — and want to support it — now’s a great time to pitch in. We’re trying to raise $50,000 to to make sure we keep pace with the challenges before us.
We have more videos to create and are bringing on a part-time administrator because we’ve been so busy we haven’t even had time to write about some of the things we’ve been up to, including:
🔥 Last week Daniel Hunter co-led the largest noncooperation training in US history for No Kings — over 135,000 people attended. You can watch the recording and sign up for future workshops at NoKings.org/rise. (Rolling Stone covered the training.)
📖 Wrote an action peacekeeper manual, Streetwise and Steady, that’s been integrated into toolkits for 50501 and the No Kings rallies. (Written by Eileen and Daniel with illustrations by Paul Garner.)
🔥 Joined forces with multiple groups to launch Freedom Trainers. Freedom Trainers has borrowed a lot of our curriculum and gone off to train a host of organizations — over 100,000 people.
Here’s some of what that donation fuels, humble work that’s reaching people and moving them:
🛠 Led workshops and presentations for over fifty groups: interfaith coalitions, climate organizers, grassroots networks…
🎙 Reached 250,000+ people via podcasts and interviews: autumn and adrienne marie brown’s How to Survive the End of the World, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, The Majority Report, Anti-Authoritarian Podcast, Refuse Fascism, and Northern Radio’s Spirit in Action — the list goes on.
📥 Training tools downloaded 50,000+ times, used to train tens of thousands.
📣 Created Boycott Central, now 24,000-strong and growing — and published the viral article analyzing the February 28th boycott. Helped build the Resist List on Bluesky with Rebecca Solnit & others: 16,000+ followers tracking live resistance.
🎥 Dropped strategy-rich videos viewed 25,000+ times — on how we win and how we stay grounded, including: The 4 paths to resist Trump, 10 ways to ground ourselves, resist Trump, and thrive over the next four years, and 4 Keys to Defeat a Coup.
Oh! And the writing! Daniel Hunter’s strategy pieces are a backbone to many, infused with deeper, soulful strategy & care — because the movement isn’t just a series of tactics to win, it’s a way of being to demonstrate love, fierce resistance, and an extended community.
- Over 100,000 readers on What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked.
- Amidst the storm, helping to note key movement achievements, like Musk’s retreat.
- Published “10 ways to stay grounded after Trump won” — read 1.4 million times
- “We’re seeing the beginnings of mass noncompliance” — started as an email, got picked up by many venues!
- We convened a team to create “What can I do to fight this coup?” — a guideline that’s helped unfreeze a lot of folks (and one we’re planning to update in the coming weeks!).
This is movement infrastructure. Quiet, deep, connective tissue. We’re not here for show. We’re here to promote smart strategy.
If that’s something you want to back, here’s your moment:
We’ve got more projects brewing. We’ll keep doing the work. Your support helps make it possible.
In solidarity,
Daniel Hunter, Choose Democracy