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Everyone should be doing the following:
Arming the FUCK up. I don't care how you feel about firearms in the US, it finally is that time that we need to worry about resisting tyranny. Meet force with force. You probably will never actually need to use the thing, but if the administration, or the next one, knows that actually enforcing policy will become a door-to-door meat-grinder across the entire US, they won't risk the bloodbath. We need to preserve the standoff at all costs.
Saving money. Economics are still a thing. If they can't strangle you, they will starve you. Cut vices like drinking and drugs, stop spending money on new toys and games, start putting cash away.
Getting involved in your community. As one protestor said, nobody is coming. The republicans sure won't save us. The democrats won't save us, nobody is going to swoop in and enact justice. Only your neighbors will save you. Or your family. Or your friends. Whatever shape it takes, we need numbers united. We need communities to stand up together and help each other. Time to exercise social muscles you didn't know you had and actually talk to people.
Get healthy. It's finally time to start doing those things you've imagined doing like exercising and eating better even if it means spending more time meal-prepping your beans and rice and taking daily jogs in the freezing cold or doing pull-ups in your doorway or just stretching for an hour a day so you won't cramp up and fall in the street when you have to run to a neighbor's house.
Audit your social media presence. I know we can't give up internet identities entirely if we're organizing resistance, but you need to be aware that they are in fact really making databases. I don't think this current administration remotely has the balls or intellect to use that data for anything other than pointing and whining, but we have no idea how long this is going to last, and you might want to worry about how President Theil is going to use facial recognition and his drone-swarm to enforce his new order. (This is FAR from over after Trump is gone.) Take your pictures down, make sure you can't be physically located with your clues and status, take off location tracking, do what you can to separate your real life habits and life information from your social media.
To add on to your points on getting involved with community and managing online presence, here's an article that describes some of how the residents of Minneapolis have been organizing neighborhood watches to keep track of ICE's actions using Signal: https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/rapid-response-networks-in-the-twin-cities-a-guide-to-an-updated-model
Where does one begin with this?
Remember how we all used to scream and cry how gunshows and gun conventions seem to have very loose restrictions and a lack of background checks?
Welp, here we are.
Also, a great place to start depending on your state and access might be a site like Gunbroker, the setup is pretty simple and it's basically ebay but they don't mail guns, instead you have to go to a gun store in your area to pick up your purchase. I've used it before to sell firearms and had only great experiences.
Otherwise I'd start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state
Just to know what's actually allowed or not in your state.
If you do not have firearm experience, and your state has Concealed Carry Weapon provisions for civilians, I would actually recommend going for a permit, because it comes with classes and training in many cases, and they brush you up on the law in your area. I don't know if the attitude has changed since I had one, but generally local law-enforcement is very cool about CCW's because they show the owner has gone through training.
If you are interested and have some specific questions, feel free to DM me.