ACTION

WhatWeCanDoNow – A Centre County-based website, run by a local volunteer. This is a treasure trove of local events, ways to take action, groups to get involved with, and lists of resources to learn more.
5 Calls – A great tool that makes contacting your senators and representatives easy. You can make the calls directly in the app, and suggested scripts are provided for many different topics.
Take Action Now with Indivisible. We are strong when we act together!
Truth Brigade – Online and offline, in person and on social media, you can clear the path to a sustainable democracy with more than 6,000 other Truth Brigade members by fighting back against disinformation.
Empower – Real change starts with the conversations we have with people we already know. Use the Empower app to harness this power of relational organizing and “fight back with friends!”

IDENTIFY AND CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS

Pennsylvania Elected Officials at the U.S. Federal Level
Sen. John Fetterman (Dem), next election 2028,
202-224-4254
Sen. Dave McCormick (GOP), next election 2030,
202-224-6324
Rep. Glenn “GT” Thomson (GOP – includes all of Centre County, PA), next election 2026,
202-225-5121, 814-353-0215

Pennsylvania Elected Officials at the State Level (Centre County – click here to see which of the below legislators represent your municipality)
Gov. Josh Shapiro (Dem), next election 2026,
717-787-2500
Sen. Cris Dush (GOP), next election 2028,
717-787-7084, 814-355-0477
Sen. Wayne Langerholc (GOP), next election 2028,
717-787-5400, 814-806-1197
Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (GOP), next election 2026,
717-783-1918, 814-355-1300
Rep. Scott Conklin (Dem), next election 2026,
717-787-9473, 814-238-5477
Rep. Paul Takac (Dem), next election 2026,
717-772-0750, 814-308-0569

Pennsylvania Legislative Maps
Really cool interactive map, developed by Fair Districts PA, that shows the borders of each PA county’s US Congressional Districts, PA Senate Districts, PA House Districts, Local Municipalities, and School Districts.

DIGITAL SECURITY RESOURCES

Activist Checklist
– Digital surveillance affects everyone. Your data can be used to profile communities, predict protests, or target those you care about.
– We like Activist Checklist because its step-by-step approach is comprehensive without being overwhelming. You can start where you are, and you can do what you can.
– They have easy-to-use digital security checklists for individuals, organizers, and protestors
The Cyber-Cleanse: Take Back Your Digital Footprint
– We like this site’s to goal to help you reclaim your “digital footprint” using the format of a 21-day cleanse.  The focus here is for anyone, not just activists, who are concerned with corporate control and use of their personal data.
Purchase With Purpose: A Guide for Change
– We like this simple infographic summary of reputable and worthy alternatives to products owned by big tech monopolies.
The Exodus Guidebook (ImagineTheNews)
– The Big 5 Tech monopolies have embedded themselves in our daily lives and grown into monopolies with dangerous amounts of power. What once felt like tools for connection have become the very infrastructure of addiction, manipulation, and social control. They’ve sold our data, eroded our privacy, stolen our IP, amplified division and now stand complicit in corporate-controlled governments around the world that are threatening democracy with misinformation, censorship and blacklisting. This guide is a map out.
Some of our recommended tools:
Signal Messenger (instead of WhatsApp or texting)
Proton Mail, VPN, Drive, Docs ect. (instead of Google products)

RECOMMENDED READING/VIEWING

Internet Resources
Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink
Project 2025 Tracker – see the progress on Project 2025

Independent Media
Bryan Tyler Cohen
Robert Reich
Glenn Kirschner

Documentaries
Bad Faith

Books [with links to (1) Bookshop.org and (2) Squirrel and Acorn]

Books about Organizing

Calling In by Loretta J. Ross [1 2]
Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic [1 2]
From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp [1 2]
Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba [1 2]
Micro Activism by Omkari Williams [1 2]
Mutual Aid by Dean Spade [1 2]
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer [1 2]
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba [1 2]
Why Civil Resistance Works by Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth [1 2]
The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza [Penguin Random House]
An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World by Patrisse Cullors [author’s site]

Books About Context:
These will provide deeper understanding of how we got here. Including: tactics that this regime is deploying to suppress or discredit resistance, and deep dives into issues that have been targets of misinformation by the current administration.

Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis [1, 2]
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl [1, 2]
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in American Cities by Matthew Demond [1, 2]
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin [1, 2]
In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil [1, 2]
Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez [1, 2]
The Massacre at El Mozote by Mark Danner [1, 2]
The Mauritanian (also published as Guantanamo Diary) by Mohamedou Ould Slahi [1, 2]
Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre [1, 2]
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder [1, 2]
A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (releasing in 2026) [1, 2]
We Are Indivisible by Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin [1, 2]
We Refuse by Kellie Carter Jackson [1, 2]
When Texas Came for Our Kids by Riki Wilchins [1, 2]
White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman [1, 2]
How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley [Penguin Random House]
The Power Worshippers by Katherine Stewart [Bloomsbury Publishing]
The Founding Myth by Andrew L. Seidel [Hachette]

Books About Intersectional Topics:
These will provide deeper understanding of issues that have an impact on our movement (so that when you have those conversations at Thanksgiving dinner, you can cite your sources)

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis [1, 2]
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Peipzna-Samarasinha [1, 2]
Feminist / Queer / Crip by Alison Kafer [1, 2]
I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom [2]
Reparations and Reparatory Justice by V. P. Franklin, et. al. [1, 2]
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini [1, 2]
White Tears / Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad [1, 2]
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez [1, 2, full documentary film]
We Are Not Here to be Bystanders by Linda Sarsour [author’s site]
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors [author’s site]