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This is going to sound counter Intuitive to the Emotional need for revolution. But the best way to fight back is community networks and finding what is needed by marginalized groups and create programs that help those groups and organize around that action. Also making those networks distributed so it makes it harder for Authoritarians to squash but you can still navigate between the networks to get the resources you need.
A good example of this was the breakfast programs the black panthers started. If you read how the government tried to dismantle those programs and failed. You will see how effective they can be.
Mutual Aid is revolution.
The more we help each other, the more the state becomes obsolete.
Which goes hand in hand with similar safety that comes with having an extensive global economy. Isolationism very directly makes the entire world less safe.
This is the best solution. If we can no longer count on our "representatives" to represent our needs in governance, we must build our own separate governance from the ground up to help one another. The Black Panthers knew they couldn't trust the racist US government to help the black community, so they organized to help the community themselves. They mostly did community support projects, but they did have a set of armed members who essentially acted as a local police force since they also definitely couldn't trust the police to protect them.
That’s just surviving. OP asked how do you stop the oppression. That could be done over time via the electoral process if it was left intact, but it has been damaged already and very likely will be ignored if and when it goes against the will of the oppressors. Then what?
Correct it is just surviving but its also organizing around those projects to create a community that protects the community. In turn that creates a resistance to the oppression.
Organizing like that is a good idea for sure, but it will come down to revolution (probably violent) to eradicate the problem. Humans are just animals though, and whatever we build to replace what we destroy may likely be just as bad.
With the new surveyance methods available to the regime, this is going to get harder and harder.
True, but there are ways to still communicate secretly, especially if you only need to organize locally.
That's why face to face organizing is critical. Small groups distributed with common goal. None of that let's change our profile pictures bullshit. Building real connections, is key. Internet activism is a lie. It is doing nothing but it makes you fill like you did something and social media companies use that to control the masses into apathy.
I'm not saying communication is not important but it will be on private point to point communication with in your local network. Also using stuff like Meshtactic or ham radios are great for emergency response. Be it natural disasters or human caused crises.