Organizations bringing technologists together
Projects that are open sourced that you can help with
Resources providing support to activists and organizers
Data Sources with useful information for activism-focused applications
Tools that are ready to be used today
Articles from other technologists about the challenges in front of us
Organizations
Organizations that bring technologists together to create new tech projects to work for progress.
Bayes Impact
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We are a group of full-time data scientists, engineers, and academics who believe data science can be used to solve the world's most ambitious problems.
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BetaNYC
BetaNYC is a civic organization dedicated to improving lives in New York through civic design, technology, and data. We envision an informed and empowered public that can leverage civic design, technology, and data to hold government accountable, and improve their economic opportunity.
LOCATION: New York, NY
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Civil Services
Civil Service USA Corp is a nonpartisan, independent and Non-Profit Organization with the goal to help United States Citizens to be a part of their Local, State & Federal Governments.
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Code for America
We are a network of people making government work for the people, by the people, in the 21st century. How do we get there? Government services that are simple, effective, and easy to use, working at scale to build healthy, prosperous, and safe communities.
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Data for Democracy
Data for Democracy is a community of data people volunteering on social impact projects. It is a virtual organization that operates through Slack and Github. Current project areas include election transparency, analysis of online communities and the extreme right, campaign spending, and more.
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DataRefuge
DataRefuge is building refuge for federal climate and environmental data vulnerable under an administration that denies the fact of ongoing climate change at Data Rescue events across America. It is an opportunity for civic hackers, scientists, activists, and volunteers of all kinds to to identify, back-up, and help to preserve at-risk climate and environmental data resources before they are suppressed from public view and use.
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Debug Politics
Debug Politics hosts events aimed at converting the tech community's frustration with politics into meaningful action. Let's use our talents as developers, designers, and technologists to find innovative ways to make a real difference.
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DevProgress
We are volunteers using our skills and expertise to create tech tools to help elect Hillary Clinton and other Democratic and progressive candidates. We are coders, designers, leaders, writers, mentors, and researchers. Each project we work on focuses on an app, service, data resource, or other technology to advance the cause. We are a team — join us!
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Progressive Coders Network
We're building a network of tech volunteers and together we're creating open-source tools for the progressive movement
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Scientist Action and Advocacy Network
We are a New York-based group of scientists who partner with partisan and non-partisan organizations that are creating positive social change.
LOCATION: 4 Washington Pl, New York, NY
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Tech Congress
Building 21st century gov with technology talent, placing technologists to serve with Members of Congress through our one-year Congressional Innovation Fellowship
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Tech Solidarity
Our goal is to discuss constructive ways we could prepare for a Trump administration, and what we can do locally and in the companies we work for to mitigate some of his anticipated policies.
JoinTech Workers Coalition
We are a coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends. We are organizing for activism, civic engagement and education in the Bay Area. We work in solidarity with existing movements towards social justice, workers rights, and economic inclusion.
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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Tech for Justice
Tech For Justice® is an initiative to accelerate the development of technology applications and processes that improve access to justice in human rights, legal aid, and the environment. We aim to support those who need critical help more efficiently, and change processes that no longer serve the people.
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TechResistance
By joining, you’ll receive semi-weekly emails about work being done across the tech community to resist the Trump Administration’s policies as well as information about actions you can take right now.
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Techs and Balances
We are a community of 100+ Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers devoted to building tools that make a positive impact - from standalone apps to integrations and enhancements for existing organizations and movements.
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The Digital Service
Thousands of people go to work every day to defend our rights, protect at-risk populations and organizations, and provide opportunities and resources for those in need. Whether you care about immigration, civic engagement, education, jobs, or the environment, there are lawyers, non-profits and activists who are working to solve problems and they need your help. Connect with the people who have dedicated their lives to serving the people, and be of service to them.
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Trans*H4CK
Tech organization that builds technology to empower and sustain the transgender and gender non-conforming community.
LOCATION: Oakland, CA
JoinProjects
Open source projects that technologists can use or contribute to.
Action Inbox
"I wish I could see all of the calls to action from orgs I support in one app/dashboard rather than as dozens of separate emails."
SKILLS NEEDED: design, node, express, javascript, ui-ux, gomix
Call Congress Hotline
Phone number to connect people with their senators and representatives.
BUILT BY: StayWoke
SKILLS NEEDED: node, express, javascript, twilio
Carpool Vote
Carpool Vote connects volunteer drivers with anybody who needs a ride to claim their vote. We are a nonpartisan organisation: Our goal is to increase voter turnout and improve representation.
BUILT BY: ProgressiveCoders
SKILLS NEEDED: python, jquery
HillaryBNB
We want to build an app to allow supporters to share their homes with others from out of town and to help supporters on the road find lodging.
BUILT BY: DevProgress
SKILLS NEEDED: ruby, rails, coffeescript
National Voter File
We provide an easy-to-use, modern-era database with voter files for each of the fifty states. It uses a data model that represents a national voter file as well as associated campaign measures in a shared data warehouse.
BUILT BY: ProgressiveCoders
SKILLS NEEDED: python, docker, elixir, phoenix
Nomad
Nomad is a web app for arranging long-distance carpools for supporters and activists, which was used to great success during the Hillary 2016 campaign.
BUILT BY: DevProgress
SKILLS NEEDED: javascript
PhoneYourRep API
Download all of your representatives' contact info straight to your phone. Then call them every day.
BUILT BY: ProgressiveCoders
SKILLS NEEDED: ruby, rails, coffeescript
PhoneYourRep frontend
Download all of your representatives' contact info straight to your phone. Then call them every day.
BUILT BY: ProgressiveCoders
SKILLS NEEDED: node, express, javascript
PulledOver
The next time you're being pulled over by the police and worry for your safety, call this number. If you've set up a PulledOver account, it will record anything it hears and send it to your friends and family.
BUILT BY: Matt Stauffer
SKILLS NEEDED: php, laravel, javascript, twilio
Run-DNC
RUN-DNC is a web app that aims to gather the peoples' vote for the upcoming DNC Chair election on February 26th, 2017. It also gives users the ability to send an email or postcard to their representatives in the DNC.
BUILT BY: ProgressiveCoders
SKILLS NEEDED: angular1, node, mongo
StayWoke Intake
Simple web/SMS signup tool to gather people's contact information.
BUILT BY: StayWoke
SKILLS NEEDED: design, node, express, javascript, ui-ux, gomix, twilio
Resources
Services or agencies that provide free support to activists & progressive tech work.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world. We unlock the full potential of the internet to drive a new era of development, growth and productivity.
Open Collective
Open Collective enables groups of people with shared missions to collect and use funds in full transparency.
data.world
Use data.world to organize a project - including data, notebooks, analysis, and discussions - in a single workspace. Find data from many sources or add your own data to open or private datasets. Collaborate efficiently using many tools: query uploaded data with SQL, interact with data via R Studio or Python programs using the data.world API, link a Google Sheet to a dataset, or work locally and upload a file.
Data Sources
Open sources of data for use in government/activism-focused applications.
ProPublica Congress API
Using the Congress API, you can retrieve legislative data from the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Library of Congress.
Tools
Web- or phone-based tools—usable by anyone, powered by tech.
100 Days of Resistance
Join the resistance to stop Trump's destructive agenda during his first 100 days in office!
5Calls
Spend 5 minutes, make 5 calls. There's one simple and straightforward way to influence the Government that is supposed to represent you: Call them on the phone. Calling is the most effective way to influence your representative. 5 Calls gives you contacts and scripts so calling is quick and easy. We use your location to give you your local representatives so your calls are more impactful.
A Common Sense Republic
A Common Sense Republic summarizes the most actionable issues coming out of the daily news cycle then points readers toward specific actions by providing easy and clear government rep information.
Action Hub
We collection action alerts and calls to action from more than 30 different websites, so you can find actions to take–and see what's happening across the resistance–all in one place. Daily summary posts.
Call Congress Hotline
One phone number will forward the call to your senator's office. After they hang up, it automatically calls your next senator, and then your representative
Call Them In
Email reminders with tailored call scripts so you can oppose Donald Trump's agenda and back progressive legislation in a meaningful way.
Call Trump Out
Easily look up your elected officials securely and add them to your phone's address book.
Calls for Change
Weekly reminder emails with scripts for calling Congress. "It's easier than you think to do something to advance women and equality. Calling members of Congress is one of the most effective ways to influence the political process, and Calls for Change makes it simple and fast."
CarpoolVote
We connect volunteer drivers with anybody who needs a ride to claim their vote.
Civil Services
Civil Service USA Corp is a nonpartisan, independent and Non-Profit Organization with the goal to help United States Citizens to be a part of their Local, State & Federal Governments.
Countable
Get clear, concise summaries of bills going through Congress, see what others think, then take action. Telling your reps how you feel is easier than ever with email and now video messages. Make your democracy more responsive!
Daily Action
Resisting extremism in America, one phone call at a time. Sign up and you'll get 1 call action text every workday.
Drive the Vote
Free rides to and from the polls on election day.
GovTrack
GovTrack is here to help you track legislation being debated in the United States Congress.
Indivisible Guide
A practical guide for resisting the Trump agenda.
IssueVoter
IssueVoter is an innovative, non-partisan platform with a mission to give everyone a voice in our democracy by making civic engagement accessible, efficient, and impactful. IssueVoter helps users make their voice heard in Washington and track how elected officials vote – holding politicians accountable.
Little Sis
A free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.
More than Votes
Sometimes voting isn't enough. Find your local city or county meetings. Show up.
MuckRock
MuckRock is a United States-based organization which assists anyone in filing governmental requests for information through the Freedom of Information Act, then publishes the returned information on its website and encourages journalism around it.
NeverAgain Pledge
NeverAgain is the pledge signed by technologists around the country who are pledging to refuse to build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs. The refuse to facilitate mass deportations of people the government believes to be undesirable. The pledge is no longer accepting individual signatories.
Phone Your Rep
Download all of your representatives' contact info straight to your phone. Then call them every day.
PhoneCongress.com
Phone your representative and senators in the U.S. Congress.
Posters for Progressives
Download and print posters on progressive causes
PulledOver
The next time you're being pulled over by the police and worry for your safety, call this number. If you've set up a PulledOver account, it will record anything it hears and send it to your friends and family.
ReminderToMe
Video self-recorder that will send the video to the user in fall of 2018.
Resistance Calendar
Calendar of Resistance events.
Resistance Manual
Learn how to resist the Trump/GOP agenda and continue making progress in America at resistancemanual.org.
SisterDistrict
The Sister District Project harnesses the energy of volunteers in deeply blue (or red) places and channels it to where it can make a real impact. We are a network of local teams that support important, flippable races across the country.
SocialRoots
SocialRoots enables you to find like-minded people, organize, and quickly spread a message across your digital networks.
Speak Louder
Free tools for activists to organize and create change. Phone lines, landing pages, and mass email and texting.
Swing Left
Find your closest Swing District and join its team to learn about actionable opportunities to support progressives—and defeat Republicans—in that district, no matter where you live.
The 65
Over 65 million Americans rejected Donald Trump on Election Day. Together, we can use our voices to remind congress they work for all of us. Call list, scripts, spaces for your notes, and a weekly call to action.
Trump Resistance Today
Five minutes is all it takes to make a difference. Daily actions via email.
WH Español
Translating the White House web site into Spanish.
What the fuck just happened today
Logging the daily shock and awe. Curated by @matt_kiser
White House Comment Line
Tell the White House how they’re doing.
White House Inc.
Call Trump's White House Inc. today! Enter your phone number and email address to receive a call that will connect you to one of Trump's properties.
Articles
Articles written by other technologists about the "how" and "why" of our resistance.