• Protest + Strategy: Protesting builds collective power, pressures institutions, can inspire further action, and can counter despair. Pair protest with a larger strategy to counter fascism such as combining it with voter mobilization, community organizing, legal advocacy, education, etc.
• Sign up for the General Strike: https://generalstrikeus.com/strikecard
  The General Strike is a grassroots network of regular people who know our greatest power is our labor and our right to refuse it. The aim is to unite every person and organization fighting for racial, economic, and environmental justice so that together, we can see real change in our lifetimes.
• Promote the truth: Fascism relies on disinformation, so an obvious way to counteract this is to read objective and reliable news. A few of these sources include Associated Press, Reuters, NPR, BBC, and PBS News.
• Know Your Rights -
• If approached by ICE, state that you are exercising your right to remain silent.
• Right to refuse a search
• Right to speak to a lawyer before you sign anything.
• Right to ask if you’re free to go. Repeat this question until you get an answer.
• Right to record public interactions.
• Right to refuse to answer: “Are you a U.S. Citizen?”
• Right to declare your fear of returning to your country of origin.

Read more here: https://www.nyic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/NYIC-KNOW-YOUR-RIGHTS-ENG-FINAL.pdf

• Build a supportive community around you. Countering fascism begins by creating spaces where people feel they belong.
• Find people with shared values and create a shared vision for the group, host regular gatherings, build skills and structures for resilience (conflict resolution, de-escalation strategies, etc.), form teams to respond to crises (immigrant raids, hate crimes, start mutual aid networks, host reading groups or teach-ins about history and previous liberation movements, and connect with larger movements.