Categories and Tags

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Categories and Tags are one way related posts are grouped. You’ll find them listed at the bottom of posts. For more ways to find information you are interested in, see the post: How to find things on this site

Categories with Descriptions and Counts

This is a list of all possible post categories. A post can belong to multiple categories. The left panel’s categories dropdown shows the categories used and how many posts are in each. This is a list of the categories with their descriptions.

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Tags with Descriptions and Counts

This is a list of all the tags that could be used on this site. Tags use a ‘-‘ in multi-word tags (no spaces). Most tags should be lower-case. (Exception, authors: First-Last)

2026-midterm (5)
Posts that are related to the 2026 midterm election.
abuse-of-power (1)
Category: crime
Amanda-Ripley (1)
Anne-Applebaum (1)
Barbara-Walter (1)
bias (2)
Bill-Moyer (1)
blocking (2)
Blocking things we don't want.
bribery (2)
Category: crime
bridging (4)
Working with others to block or build things.
building (3)
Building what we want.
building-coalitions (15)
How to build coalitions.
community (10)
conflict-of-interest (1)
Category: crime See also bribery
constitutional-reform (1)
corruption (1)
Category: crime
critical-thinking (16)
cults (4)
David-Brooks (1)
David-French (1)
David-Pepper (2)
decision-process (6)
democracy (44)
democratic-institutions (6)
dictatorship (20)
disinformation (11)
disregard-courts (1)
Category: crime Ignoring court orders.
disregard-laws (1)
Category: crime Violationg federal and state laws. Not enforcing laws.
donate (11)
Erica-Chenoweth (4)
event (4)
These are current events (that have the "event" tag). These will be listed with the "Events and Meeting" menu. The posts will also be added to our "event feed" for other sites. After the event date, the event tag will be removed. If there are photos or videos for the event, they will be added to the past event post.
Ezra-Levin (2)
fascism (11)
feature (10)
Featured menu will list posts with this tag.
finding-common-goals (13)
How to find common goals.
finding-common-morals (6)
How to find common goals.
finding-common-values (12)
How to find common values.
Fiona-Hill (1)
frame-lab (7)
George Lakoff's Frame Lab Messaging Guide
framng (1)
Frontline (1)
George-Lakey (1)
George-Lakoff (1)
Heather-Cox-Richardson (2)
history (20)
how-to (5)
ICE (4)
Things about ICE
Indivisible (8)
These are mostly local Indivisible organizations. See the "local" tag for a list of the many local ogranizations.
intervention (3)
See tags: blocade, nonviolent-obstruction, nonviolent-raids, occupation, overloading-systems, shutdown, sit-in
Jamie-Raskin (1)
Jonathan-Haidt (1)
Leah-Greenberg (2)
litigation (1)
local (7)
Local organizations.
Maria-Stephan (1)
Miki-Kashtan (1)
minority-rule (2)
misuse-of-funds (1)
Category: crime Using taxpayer funds for personal use.
mobs (2)
morals (6)
music (1)
protest
mutual-aid (5)
news (2)
The "Local News" menu will list posts with this tag. This includes some local organizations that have RSS feeds with their latest posts. Mainly this is for notiices that are not events or meetiongs. These posts will be sent to our "news feed" for other sites.
no-kings (13)
No Kings related posts.
noncooperation (10)
See tags: boycotts, slow-compliance, strike, walk-out, withdraw, work-to-rule
nonviolent-communication (12)
nonviolent-obstruction (3)
intervention
NYT (1)
personal-level (20)
Peter-Coyote (1)
poll (1)
protest (21)
Usually this will include posts of upcoming and past protests, with photos and videos. See also tags: art, banner, march, music, petition, poster, rally, sign, speech
psychology (10)
Rachel-Maddow (2)
rally (5)
protest
rank-high (33)
rank
rank-medium (1)
rank
requiting (1)
resist-dictatorship (20)
How to resist dictatorship.
review (19)
Robert-Putnam (1)
Robert-Reich (1)
Ruth-Ben-Ghiat (1)
societal-level (14)
speech (6)
protest
state-ca (3)
Posts that are relevant to California.
Steven-Levitsky (1)
story-current (22)
story-past (11)
Stuart-Stevens (1)
summary (5)
support-democracy (22)
How to support democracy.
talk-to-others (20)
How to talk to others.
Timothy-Snyder (1)
Tiziana-Dearing (1)
values (6)