This list compiled by AWN Policy Manager Elio McCabe, and Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network.

These resources can help you understand what is happening under the current administration, ways to resist, and to protect yourself. 

• Executive Orders

1. Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
   1. This is a comprehensive list of every current lawsuit filed in response to executive orders
2. Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker
   1. A list of executive actions detailing which executive actions match up with which Project 2025 proposals.
3. Overview of President Trump’s Executive Actions Impacting LGBTQ+ Health
   1. An overview of Executive Orders that impact LGBTQ+ people’s health and healthcare access. Regularly updated.

• Protect Trans People

1. Messaging and Background on January 20, 2025 Executive Order Seeking to Weaken Legal Protections for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex People
   1. A helpful guide from NWLC (will have to double check source) on what the initial anti-trans EO means and what it doesn’t. NOTE: From January 2025; information may change.
2. How to Delete Yourself From the Internet: Cybersecurity Explained for LGBTQ+ People
   1. An introductory guide to digital privacy for queer people (or other people who are especially at risk right now).
3. Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
   1. From r/passports, three upcoming Notice for Information requests relating to changing passport applications. The comments on the thread have helpful suggestions for submitting a comment.
4. How to Testify for Trans Rights
   1. A4TE’s in-depth guide for how to testify on behalf of trans rights.

• Protect Immigrants

1. Resources on Protecting Immigrant Students
   1. A list of resources to protect immigrant students, as compiled by NILC, ILRC, and NEA and AFT.
2. Know your rights: Immigrants’ Rights
   1. ACLU’s handy know your rights guide for immigrants. Available in multiple languages.
3. How Cities Can Defend Human Rights in the Face of Mass Deportations
   1. Webinar providing insight into protecting immigrants from an individual and systems level. NOTE: From January 29, 2025; info may change
4. ICE Detention Facility Locator
   1. How to locate loved ones who have been taken into ICE custody.
5. Human Rights Cities Alliance
   1. Network of local, national, and international human rights leaders and to support activists and organizers advancing the human rights city organizing framework. Has many helpful resources.

• Protect Data

1. Data Rescue Efforts
   1. A google doc detailing the actions of various groups seeking to preserve data before the administration destroys it. Includes links for how to get involved.
2. The Data Rescue Tracker
   1. A comprehensive tracker of data rescue efforts.
3. Data Rescue Project
   1.  The updated website which grew out of the google doc at 4.1.

• Protect Yourself

1. Liberatory and Anti-Carceral Resources for Mental Health, Wellbeing, and Healing
   1. Ly Xinzhen Zhangsun Brown’s incredibly helpful mental health resource list
2. How to Delete Yourself From the Internet: Cybersecurity Explained for LGBTQ+ People
   1. An introductory guide to digital privacy for queer people (or other people who are especially at risk right now).

• Trustworthy News Sources

1. Ground News
   1. Gathers news articles from a wide variety of sources and notes which direction the bias is leaning. Also features articles covered/not covered by the left/right, and a “blindspot” option which tracks your reading preferences and gives you articles you may be missing.
2. First Branch Forecast
   1. An excellent substack newsletter with the inside-baseball view of what happens on the Hill.

• The Difficult Stuff

1. Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise
   1. This is Project 2025.
2. Texas v. Becerra
   1. 17 State AG’s filed this suit against HHS challenging a provision in the introduction to the recent 504 guidance which suggested that gender dysphoria may be an ADA-recognized disability. The suit uses this to then attack Section 504, declaring it to be unconstitutional, and to challenge the “most integrated setting” mandate of Olmstead.
      1. Joint Status Report
         1. An update from the 17 State Attorney Generals. Despite what may have been said to the media, this report indicates a willingness to move ahead with the lawsuit despite recent EOs and an intention to challenge the integration mandate of 504 (but not to prevent disbursement of funds at this time).

1. Trump v. United States
   1. The “kingmaking” Supreme Court decision. This is the case which decided that the president can not be held criminally responsible for any of his actions while in office.