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Drawing on interviews with over 100 activists across five continents, the book outlines how ordinary people can build the bravery to resist authoritarianism and protect democratic freedoms.

The core tenets for building dissident courage include:

Embracing Small, Incremental Risks: Courage is a muscle built over time. Begin with small acts of defiance to build resilience before taking larger, life-altering risks.

Prioritizing Conscience over Heroism:

Most dissidents do not set out to be famous martyrs; rather, they act because they simply cannot live with themselves if they remain silent.

Building a Community of Support:

Dissidents rarely act entirely alone. Finding or forming a small, trusted coalition provides the essential psychological and physical support needed to sustain long-term resistance.

Navigating Fear:

Authoritarianism uses fear as a primary weapon. Acknowledging that fear is rational, and learning how to calculate risks rather than acting blindly, is vital to surviving and continuing the fight.

Map of US Flock camera locations. It's shocking how quickly they got all these installed.

https://maps.deflock.org/?lat=33.0556&lng=-81.8443&zoom=5.57

While an undergraduate at the University of Michigan and president of the university's chapter of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, Hamlin was implicated with four other members in the death of the fraternity cat, B.K., on December 6, 1979.[3] According to local media, for failure to use a litter box, the cat's paws were cut off and it was hung on a tree and burned to death. While Hamlin's role in the killing is unclear, judge S.J. Elden later held him responsible for not using his power as president to prevent the killing.

According to Earl Carl, who worked as a cook at the fraternity house, the fraternity attempted to cover up the killing, telling members not to cooperate with law enforcement or the media and threatening those who spoke out. Carl described Hamlin as "one of three people directly putting pressure on me to say nothing to the media or the police". The five, including Hamlin, were later expelled by the national fraternity. They were charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty, to which they pleaded no contest in March 1980. They were fined US$360, given one year deferred sentences, and sentenced to 200 hours of animal-related community service. The criminal records of the members were expunged after the community service.

A White House office with no Senate confirmation, no financial disclosures, and no entry in any federal procurement database has built a secret copy of vote.gov, the country's voter registration website. It is run by the same people who were sued for accessing federal databases without clearance at DOGE. And it is collecting data on Americans right now, on a federal drug pricing website, with no privacy notices filed and no oversight body with jurisdiction to stop it. I found it by accident. I was on TrumpRx.gov. This is the full investigation into the National Design Studio, Joe Gebbia, and the shadow infrastructure being built inside the Executive Office of the President, connecting a White House-controlled passport portal going live this week, a federal voter registration system the DOJ told a judge doesn't exist, and the same private Cloudflare account running all of it.

Has anyone heard any more about this?