# Resistance Organizations Hub The institutional infrastructure of the resistance — the organizations that sustain progress between movement peaks, litigate when the executive branch won't police itself, mobilize voters when protest energy needs to convert into electoral outcomes, and recruit the next generation of progressive leaders. This MOC collects every resistance organization in the vault. For the broader structural map — movements, strategies, legal frameworks, ecosystems, and the resistance through-line — see [[Resistance Hub]]. --- ## Grassroots Mobilization Organizations that convert civic energy into organized political action — street protests, constituent pressure, volunteer deployment. - [[MoveOn]] — founded 1998; ~3 million members; the original progressive digital organizing infrastructure; "Won't Back Down" 2026 midterm tour - [[Indivisible]] — founded 2016; 6,000+ local chapters; decentralized constituent-pressure network modeled on Tea Party tactics; organizing backbone of [[No Kings Coalition]] - [[No Kings Coalition]] — founded 2025; 200+ member organizations; umbrella coordinating the largest sustained street mobilization since the [[Civil Rights Movement]]; March 2026 protest drew 8-9 million participants - **Historical:** [[Women Strike for Peace]] — founded 1961; 50,000-woman strike against atmospheric nuclear testing; broke the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] in its December 1962 hearings; credited in part with the 1963 test-ban treaty - [[Planned Parenthood Action Fund]] — founded 1996; political advocacy arm of PPFA; post-[[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]] the single most electorally potent issue organization in the progressive coalition ## Electoral Strategy Organizations focused on winning specific races — candidate recruitment, volunteer deployment, fundraising, district targeting. - [[Swing Left]] — founded 2017; 1 million members; targets competitive House districts; "Ground Truth" listening-canvass program for 2026 midterms; $140M+ raised for Democratic candidates since founding - [[Run for Something]] — founded 2017; recruits young progressive candidates for state and local office; 3,200+ endorsed, 1,650+ elected; pipeline solution to Republican dominance at the statehouse level - [[Lincoln Project]] — founded 2019; anti-Trump super PAC run by Republican defectors; high-visibility media operation; contested effectiveness and significant institutional controversies ## Legal and Judicial Organizations that use litigation, FOIA, and legal strategy to check executive overreach, protect voting rights, and enforce constitutional guardrails. - [[ACLU]] — founded 1920; 1.7+ million members; the oldest and largest civil liberties litigation organization; more Supreme Court cases than any non-government entity - [[Brennan Center for Justice]] — NYU-based research and litigation center; voting rights, campaign finance, criminal justice reform; bridges academic research and courtroom strategy - [[Democracy Forward]] — founded 2017; high-volume executive-action litigation; frequent co-counsel with [[Protect Democracy]] and [[CREW]] - [[Protect Democracy]] — founded 2017; nonpartisan structural-cases specialist; bipartisan founding leadership; constitutional separation-of-powers litigation - [[Democracy Docket]] — founded 2020 by Marc Elias; the leading voting rights legal-tracking platform and litigation-funding ecosystem; real-time database of 1,000+ election cases - [[Lambda Legal]] — founded 1973; LGBTQ rights legal defense - [[Earthjustice]] — environmental law litigation ## Oversight and Accountability Organizations that enforce transparency, investigate corruption, and pursue accountability through FOIA, inspector general complaints, and public reporting. - [[CREW]] — founded 2003; government-ethics watchdog; FOIA litigation, IG complaints; leading accountability litigator of the [[Trump 2.0]] era - [[American Oversight]] — founded 2017; government transparency through public records litigation; exposed ICE responsibility in [[ICE Shooting of Ruben Martinez]] - [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] — founded 1971; hate-group tracking, civil rights litigation, intelligence reporting on domestic extremism ## Democracy and Good Government Organizations focused on structural democratic reform — voting rights, redistricting, campaign finance, institutional integrity. - [[Common Cause]] — founded 1970; 1.5 million members; the original modern good-government organization; voting rights, campaign finance, redistricting reform - [[States United Democracy Center]] — election integrity and pro-democracy state-level organizing - [[NAACP]] — founded 1909; the oldest civil rights organization; voting rights, criminal justice, educational equity ## Media and Communications Emerging counter-pole media and information infrastructure that competes structurally with the Fox/News Corp axis. - [[Lupa Systems]] — [[James Murdoch]]'s holding company; acquired [[New York Magazine]], Vox.com, and the [[Vox Media]] podcast network in May 2026; for-profit counter-pole to right-wing media - [[Democracy Docket]] (media arm) — the leading progressive election-law news platform ## Queer Liberation Organizations The century-long LGBTQ-rights institutional tradition — see also [[Queer Liberation]] ecosystem page. - [[Human Rights Campaign]] - [[GLAAD]] - [[GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders]] - [[GLSEN]] - [[National Center for Transgender Equality]] - [[Transgender Law Center]] - [[PFLAG]] - [[Trevor Project]] - [[Sylvia Rivera Law Project]] - [[Movement Advancement Project]] - [[Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice]] - [[Lambda Literary Foundation]] - [[Freedom to Marry]] **Historical:** - [[Mattachine Society]] - [[Daughters of Bilitis]] - [[Gay Liberation Front]] - [[Lesbian Avengers]] - [[Queer Nation]] - [[ACT UP]] - [[Gay Men's Health Crisis]] - [[Society for Human Rights]] - [[Combahee River Collective]] --- ## Key People Resistance-adjacent people already in the vault (full entries in /People/): **Political leaders:** [[Andy Kim]], [[Letitia James]], [[Liz Cheney]], [[Adam Kinzinger]], [[Merrick Garland]] **International opposition:** [[Péter Magyar]], [[Donald Tusk]], [[Salome Zourabichvili]], [[Alexandre de Moraes]], [[Alexei Navalny]], [[Yulia Navalnaya]] **Counterweight figures:** [[Ida B. Wells]], [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]], [[Sojourner Truth]], [[Sonia Sotomayor]], [[Elena Kagan]], [[Ketanji Brown Jackson]], [[Reid Hoffman]] --- ## Related MOCs - [[Resistance Hub]] — the master resistance page (movements, strategies, legal frameworks, ecosystems) - [[International Democratic Opposition Hub]] — opposition leaders and movements abroad - [[OG Resistance Hub]] — the founding generation - [[Queer Liberation]] — LGBTQ organizations and movement history - [[Pro-Democracy Movement]] — the post-2016 movement this infrastructure supports