Resistance Theater seeks through its productions to inspire audiences to become active in the resistance to Trump and his fascist MAGA movement. To that end Resistance Theater has encouraged patrons to support the resistance efforts of local organizations on the front line of the Resistance.
Common Power
Founded in Seattle, Common Power is a national leader in political and educational efforts to resist Trump and MAGA. Since 2018, Common Power has worked to foster, support, and amplify a democracy that is just and inclusive. Common Power provides creative on-ramps to civic fieldwork, expanding the number of people engaging in and benefiting from such work, and sustaining this effort by investing in the next generation of leaders.
Today, this community has become a multigenerational and diverse group of volunteers that aims to work across differences to be an effective volunteer base for Common Power’s fieldwork program. The organization catalyzes its work through education and bolsters a public that takes action in support of a just and inclusive democracy. By fostering a community in which people learn from, support, and grow with one another, Common Power identifies and invests in young, diverse leaders and promote them into leadership positions within Common Power and beyond.
Common Power teams in the field connect with voters where it matters most: face-to-face in the most competitive elections across the country. In the fight for democracy that is the 2026 Midterm Election campaign, Common Power is fielding teams from Alaska to Maine, seeking to help wrest control of the Congress from a GOP that has become the chief national enabler of the Trump regime.
To learn more about Common Power, visit its website: https://commonpower.org/
Northwest African-American Museum
The Northwest African American Museum is an anti-racist, pro-equity, affirming gathering place of hope, help, and healing for the entire Northwest region that is building intergenerational cultural wealth.
At the heart of the African American experience in the Northwest is the story of the African-American journey to this region, the establishment of a vibrant community, and the ways in which that community has survived. To tell this ever-unfolding story, the Museum’s exhibitions and programs feature the visual arts, music, crafts, literature, and history of African Americans in the Northwest. Cognizant of the black community’s continuous evolution, NAAM focuses on African Americans whose route to the new world was through slavery as well as recent immigrants arriving from places such as Somalia, Sudan, and Ethiopia.
Recent executive orders targeting federally funded diversity initiatives, international collaborations and educational programming at cultural institutions are more than bureaucratic changes — they are calculated attempts to control which stories are told, whose histories matter and who gets to speak. The elimination of critical federal grants and threats to entire cultural agencies jeopardize more than budgets. They endanger programs that amplify underrepresented voices, foster understanding and bring vital learning to communities in Seattle and across the country.
This isn’t just policy. It’s erasure. And NAAM has declared itself determined to resist this attempt to take us back to a time when White Supremacists controlled the narrative of American history for everyone. In the words of Brandon Bird, NAAM’s director: “We cannot let fear win. We cannot allow political pressure to dictate which artists are seen, which histories are told or which communities feel welcome.”
To learn more about the Northwest African-American Museum, visit its website: https://www.naamnw.org/
