Democracy is defended locally, or not at all.

Join us! Actually, there is no "us" yet. There is just one guy, Jeremy Iggers. I created this site with a lot of help from Claude.ai. as a tool to resist autocracy and fight the enshittification of our lives. But it won't be much use unless it meets the needs of the community, and a lot more people use it and contribute ideas and resources. There are lots of ways to get involved: you can partner with me on developing this project help maintain the calendar, suggest local businesses and cafes to highlight, start your own blog, and participate in our discussion forums.

What's the point? A lot of us are feeling overwhelmed these days. I am sure you have noticed - life has been getting pretty shitty lately. Our politics, our climate, our jobs, our social media, even the air we breathe. For immigrants, refugees and people of color, it has gotten even shittier. And many of us share a gloomy sense that life is about to get shittier.

Resist Twin Cities is above all elase, a collection of ideas and resources for how to fight back.

The most urgent thing that we can do to fight this enshittification is to prepare for the November elections. We need to get out the vote, and be prepared to counter Trump's plans for subverting the election.
But after the votes are all counted, the fact will remain that too much control over our lives is concentrated in the hands of a few obscenely wealthy and powerful individuals and corporations. The list goes beyond Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook, Instagram, and Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and the Google team, but they are a good place to start. (We'll tackle Elon Musk, SamAltman, Larry Ellison, Rupert Murdoch etc. later.)