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Week of November 14-20, 2025
Welcome to TRACKING THE CRISIS, a weekly round-up from The Democracy Collaborative tracking the administrative, legislative, and other actions of the Trump Administration as well as the many forms of legal and movement response from across a broad range of social, political, and economic actors. TDC is providing this service for collective informational purposes, as a tool for understanding the times during a period of disorientingly rapid flux and change in the U.S. political economy. TDC should not be understood as endorsing or otherwise any of the specific content of the information round-up.
TRUMP TRACKER: Administration actions
Trump signs bill to release Epstein files as GOP breaks with Trump, MAGA coalition splinters across multiple contradictions. In one of the 20,000 emails released by the House Oversight Committee last week, Jeffrey Epstein warned several people about Trump and said, “I am the one able to take him down.” Years after Epstein’s death, the ongoing scandal around the late sexual predator’s possible connections to Trump may yet validate his statement, as Trump and senior Republicans were forced to give up their months-long effort to forestall the bipartisan measure put forward by Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie to force the release of the Epstein files. After Rep. Adelita Grijalva put the final signature on the discharge petition to advance the measure to the House floor last week, Trump and top Administration officials including House Speaker Johnson carried out a high-powered, last-ditch attempt to pressure three GOP women to rescind their support, which ultimately failed. By Sunday, November 16, it became clear that momentum for releasing the files could no longer be contained as polls showed overwhelming disquiet from voters across the spectrum, survivors made an impassioned case to the public, and senior GOP leaders became aware of “100 or more” Republicans planning to break ranks to vote for the bill; so Trump, in a ‘stunning’ reversal, dropped his opposition and said House Republicans should pass the measure, indicating he would sign the bill if passed. On Tuesday, November 18, the House overwhelmingly passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act by a vote of 427 to 1; hours later, the Senate unanimously agreed to automatically pass the House measure before it was technically sent to the floor, expediting its advancement to Trump’s desk (to the dismay of House Speaker Johnson, who had expected Senate GOP leaders to push for amendments). On Wednesday, even as he continued to call the issue a ‘Democrat hoax’, Trump signed the bill, which now compels the Justice Department to release all unclassified records relating to the Epstein case within 30 days. While AG Pam Bondi may still be able to leverage certain loopholes allowing the DOJ to redact or delay certain files involved in active investigations, survivors held a renewed sense of hope that the network of powerful people who supported Epstein’s sex trafficking ring that victimized up to 1,000 young girls will face justice.
The extraordinary decision of so many Republicans to defy Trump on the Epstein vote – which commentators note is perhaps the most spectacular political defeat Trump has suffered at the hands of his own party – is indicative of the president’s weakened position and loss of political control as heightened contradictions have blown open simmering rifts within the GOP and splintered his MAGA base. In the two weeks since Democrats delivered an electoral rout in this year’s special elections, Trump’s approval rating has hit new lows; his gerrymandering push has hit a wall as federal judges, including one handpicked by Trump, blocked Texas’ new maps and Indiana’s GOP-led Senate refused to consider its own redistricting proposal; Senate Republicans have blown off Trump’s efforts to abolish the filibuster and issue tariff rebate checks as a way of defusing backlash on the affordability crisis; Republicans are clashing with Trump’s Pentagon appointees over foreign policy and war plans; and more Republican lawmakers are voicing their displeasure at Trump and Vought’s ‘pocket recissions’ of Congressionally appropriated funding and Trump’s hardball stance on the budget impasse and healthcare subsidies. As longtime GOP consultants warn the Trump train is running off the rails, party leaders are reportedly beginning to treat Trump as a ‘lame duck’, already looking beyond his tenure as Republicans attempt to salvage their fading midterm chances up and down the ballot.
One of the most visible and explosive rifts that have rocked the Trump coalition in recent weeks has been the public defection of MAGA stalwart Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose simmering feud with Trump escalated dramatically this week after she refused to fold on her support for the Epstein bill. Trump withdrew his support, hurling insults at the ‘wacky’ congresswoman he renamed “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene” as Greene hit back, warning that Trump’s ‘vicious’ attacks were inciting ‘threats to her safety’ including a death threat against her son. Greene has also criticized Trump’s economic and foreign policies, staking out a populist line as she condemned Trump for abandoning the ‘America First’ agenda and spending too much time with global elites while ‘infuriating’ Americans by ‘gaslighting’ them on affordability concerns as the base struggles with inflation and soaring healthcare costs. In an interview with CNN on Sunday, November 16, Greene apologized for her long history of taking part in MAGA’s ‘toxic politics’, saying that the assassination of Charlie Kirk and recent threats against her and her family have made her reconsider the inflammatory rhetoric that has defined her political career. While some Democrats see Greene’s about-face as a potential asset, her MAGA constituency in Georgia has largely backed her against Trump’s attacks, bolstering speculation that Greene is staking out her position within the MAGA movement in anticipation of the inevitable post-Trump succession battle. The MAGA movement itself is splintering along several axes of division as its various factions have started turning on each other over the Epstein saga and populist issues Greene has foregrounded, as well as Trump’s statements this week supporting foreign worker visas for the tech industry, a deepening rift dividing conservative women around their role in politics and society, and Trump’s implicit defense of white nationalist provocateur Nick Fuentes, fanning the flames of an increasingly explicit antisemitic and neo-Nazi current within MAGA that has gained ground with Fuentes’ rising star, alarming GOP moderates and putting JD Vance’s ambitions for succession in a bind.
Trump calls for Democrats to be tried and executed for ‘sedition’ after lawmakers remind troops of their right and duty to disobey unlawful orders. As White House officials confirmed that plans were afoot to retaliate against Democrats in the wake of the Epstein vote, Trump launched into a multi-post Truth Social tirade on Thursday, November 20 calling for Democratic lawmakers to be arrested and put on trial for “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH” after six members of Congress, all veterans of U.S. military or intelligence services, posted a video on X urging active-duty servicemembers to stand by their oaths to the Constitution and remember their right and duty to refuse illegal orders. Trump also re-posted several Truth Social comments explicitly calling for violence against the six Democrats, including one that said “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!” House Democratic leaders issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning Trump for his “disgusting and dangerous death threats against members of Congress,” noting that Trump had already “incited a violent attack on the Capitol on January 6th” and calling on Congressional representatives on both sides of the aisle to pressure Trump to “recant his violent rhetoric before he gets someone killed.” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries announced that House leaders were in contact with Capitol Police to provide protection for the six lawmakers. Senator Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor to warn of the “deadly serious” consequences of Trump’s words in today’s highly charged political climate, calling for his statements to be “condemned forcefully, loudly, and without excuses before someone takes his words as permission to do the unthinkable.” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt later walked back the ‘violent rhetoric’, insisting that Trump did not want the Democrats executed but wanted them to be “held accountable” for conspiring to produce “radical rhetoric” that would “disrupt the chain of command,” while House Speaker Johnson responded to the outrage with equivocation, calling the video “wildly inappropriate” and insisting that Trump was merely “defining the crime of sedition.” Several legal experts interviewed by PolitiFact noted that the video does not meet the legal definition of ‘sedition’ as the U.S. has not held laws for the prosecution of speech since Congress repealed the WWI-era Sedition Act in 1920, and pointed out that the lawmakers in the video “are urging for the law to be upheld, not violated.” A ‘visibly angry’ video statement from Sen. Chris Murphy noted that the president’s rhetoric could put Democrats’ lives in jeopardy, saying, “If you are a person of influence in this country, maybe it’s time to pick a fucking side.”
The Democratic lawmakers in question, including Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, as well as Reps. Jason Crow , Chrissy Houlahan, Maggie Goodlander, and Chris Deluzio, released their own joint statement following the uproar, saying that “no threat, intimidation, or call for violence will deter us from [the] sacred obligation" to uphold the oath to the Constitution they swore as servicemembers. They also noted that “what’s most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law.” Their original video message to U.S. troops refers to Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which states that servicemembers are generally obligated to not follow orders that are “manifestly unlawful,” and was prompted by concerns that Trump’s military strikes in the Caribbean, which have killed over 80 people so far without legal process, have been condemned as ‘illegal extrajudicial killings’ by the UN as well as top allies who have distanced themselves from military collaboration with the United States as a result; and that servicemembers who carry out the attacks would not be protected by the Nuremberg Defense if prosecuted for war crimes. It would also be a concern for the federalized National Guard troops that Trump has deployed to U.S. cities like Washington D.C. to crack down on crime, which a federal judge ruled this week was “unlawful.” A number of federal courts have issued similar rulings blocking deployments to Portland and Memphis over the past several days. A survey conducted by Military.com in August, as Trump moved National Guard troops into D.C., found that 4 out of 5 U.S. troops understand their duty under Article 92 to disobey illegal orders.Border Patrol begins major operations in North Carolina as details emerge of a nationwide surveillance state built via ICE acquisitions of private AI-powered data programs. Days after Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino left Chicago after being censured by a federal judge for lying about using excessive force on protestors, city officials in Charlotte, North Carolina were taken by surprise when informed by federal agents late last week that Bovino and a complement of CBP officers were headed for the city. Bovino and his CBP, who have become notorious for their “frighteningly authoritarian” tactics, began ‘Operation Charlotte’s Web’ on Saturday, November 15, arresting over 200 people in Charlotte over the weekend as Bovino bragged online that his agents would “hit the city like a storm.” The crackdown sparked ‘widespread fear and uncertainty’, triggered protests, and disrupted the local economy as nearly half of the city’s small businesses shut down to protect customers and workers. Federal authorities called the operations in Charlotte “targeted investigations,” but many residents report being racially profiled during the crackdown, including: a naturalized U.S. citizen who was stopped twice by CBP and thrown to the ground the second time as agents smashed his car windows; dozens of churchgoers who “thought church was safe” but fled to nearby woodlands after Border Patrol officers showed up to arrest congregants; two U.S. citizens who were pulled from cars by masked federal agents for ‘honking their horns’ to warn residents; and a woman who had a gun pointed in her face as she was arrested for ‘driving erratically’ after CBP chased her down the street. North Carolina Governor Josh Stein advised residents to record “inappropriate behavior” from federal agents on their phones as the operation spread to Raleigh as well as Wake and Durham counties on Tuesday. Durham officials slammed the “horrific” actions of federal agents as Rep. Valerie Foushee condemned the operation as “a profound abuse of power, a violation of civil rights and a stain on our democracy.” On Thursday, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden announced an end to CBP operations in Charlotte, but was contradicted by a DHS spokesperson who said “Operation Charlotte’s Web isn’t ending anytime soon.” Republican Sen. Thom Tillis demanded answers from Homeland Security about the detainees, and surmised the crackdown may have been a retaliation against the Mecklenburg County Sheriff for ending cooperation with ICE last year. New Orleans’ deep-rooted immigrant communities are now bracing as Border Patrol announced the city as the next target for immigration enforcement operations starting December 1.
The New York Times gives a rundown of how the Trump Administration has used federal forces in over half a dozen cities so far, as a group of retired military officials released a report warning of the perils of politicization of the armed forces to occupy U.S. cities at an estimated cost of over $473 million and rising. As federal forces pull out of Chicago this week, teachers and caregivers across Illinois reckon with a rising mental health crisis affecting thousands of immigrant children left traumatized after “months of systematic physical and emotional abuse” at the hands of ICE. The Chicago Tribune reports that over 97% of the immigrants arrested in ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ had no criminal convictions. The Economist ran a feature this week on how Trump has empowered federal immigration agents to operate as “his own police force” in U.S. cities with few constraints on force, appearing to be “at least as focused on bullying the residents of Democrat-run cities as it is on deporting undocumented migrants.” Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi raised the alarm this week on ICE plans to outsource ‘skip-tracing’ and surveillance services to private contractors, paying $300 for each immigrant whose identity they can verify and submit to ICE. Wired explores how the United States is building a massive surveillance state through ICE’s acquisition of a suite of AI-powered surveillance tools, including a controversial face-scanning app that can capture biometric data on potentially millions of U.S. residents regardless of citizenship status, a secretive Border Patrol program using road cameras and predictive AI to detain drivers with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns, and a social media surveillance tool used by the Israeli military and the Pentagon to ‘identify threats,’ leading civil liberties groups to warn that ICE’s surveillance apparatus is stretching far beyond immigrants to target anyone who speaks out against the Trump Administration’s agenda.September jobs report no help for divided Fed as the bottom falls out in ‘affordability’ for consumers and ‘extreme fear’ grips investors over AI bubble, crypto crash, and private credit red flags. After nearly two months and a government shutdown, the BLS finally released its September jobs report on Thursday, November 20. The stronger-than-expected growth in September hiring gave JD Vance something to lean on as he touted the coming dawn of Trump’s promised ‘Golden Age’ amid record-low economic approval ratings; but closer scrutiny revealed a much more mixed picture that gave little guidance to a Federal Reserve board deeply divided over whether to cut interest rates in December, as Trump renewed his threats against Jerome Powell and threatened Scott Bessent’s job as well if they couldn’t lower the cost of borrowing. While the BLS report showed an unexpected boom of 119,000 jobs added in September, revisions showed a net loss of jobs in August and the unemployment rate rose to a four-year high of 4.44%, which would signal a rate cut if inflation figures hadn’t stayed at 3%, highlighting to some Fed decisionmakers the difficulty of balancing the contradictory impacts of Trump’s economic policy. As Trump attempted to reassure spooked investors and skeptical consumers with his ‘drive-thru affordability’ speech to McDonalds franchise owners, touting his imaginary triumph over inflation and a new ‘Golden Age’ of prosperity amid tangents on the Gulf of Mexico and Filet-O-Fish nostalgia, the White House quietly scrambled to lower food costs as Trump signed an order lowering Brazilian tariffs on beef, coffee, cocoa, and other common imports.
Meanwhile, foreclosures are up 20 percent in October from the year before as the housing affordability crisis simultaneously poses higher access barriers for prospective rural and younger homebuyers while recent job losses in tech have chilled homebuying among high-income workers that have propped up the lion’s share of housing demand, resulting in an ‘invisible recession’ that is crushing existing homeowners and has all but stalled new sales. Since the BLS canceled its October jobs report and will not publish an unemployment rate due to missing data during the shutdown, the true impact of October’s record-setting wave of AI-driven mass layoffs in the tech sector will remain occluded behind a ‘permanent blind spot’ in the official data, which will not be released until mid-December, after the Fed makes its decision on interest rates. Meanwhile, a report released this week showed U.S. consumer sentiment has fallen to near the lowest levels on record as consumers feel crunched by rising prices and real wage growth that has effectively stagnated for months, curbing Americans’ ability to service a growing mountain of household debt.
Fed governor Lisa Cook called for more scrutiny of private credit markets as the ‘borrowing bonanza’ now fueling the AI bubble and tech giants’ data center buildouts is straining bond markets and ballooning risk premiums, forcing some investors to withdraw and others to lean on credit default swaps to hedge against risk – prompting billionaire ‘bond king’ Jeffrey Gundlach to warn that the credit sector “has all the same trappings as subprime mortgage repackaging had in 2006,” right before the 2008 financial crash and the Great Recession. All of these alarm bells going off in the economy led to the stock markets’ worst dive since the April tariff shock; even Nvidia’s rosy earnings report could not fend off the downward slide as Peter Thiel joined other big investors in heading for the exit and dumping all of his Nvidia holdings. Crypto markets followed in the downward spiral as Bitcoin wiped out all of its gains from 2025 and BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF posted a record one-day loss of $523 million. Google CEO Sundar Pinchai warned that “no company is going to be immune” as the AI bubble bursts and recession in the real economy knocks at the door. As Trump attempted to once again force AI deregulation down the throats of wary states with a new executive order, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warns that Trump’s political intervention may no longer be enough to save either AI or crypto, as this week’s crash “reflects a realization that the political patronage the industry was relying on may not continue.”
MOVEMENT TRACKER
Charlotte residents learn lessons from Chicago as communities mobilize to resist Border Patrol operations. As the Border Patrol headed toward North Carolina, Charlotte-area organizations moved quickly to prepare their communities to resist the coming incursion and defend their immigrant neighbors. Chicago-area organizers with months of experience under their belts met virtually with several dozen community and nonprofit leaders in Charlotte in the days before the raids began, sharing legal knowledge on immigrants’ rights as well as the forms and procedures involved for detainees seeking legal representation. Charlotte organizers learned how to use Chicago’s whistle tactics as well as how to organize “magic school buses” to escort children to school whose parents stayed home for fear of being detained. Others learned how to build rapid response and support networks for vulnerable residents and their families. On Friday before the raids started, hundreds of people packed a community hall to receive ICE verification and response training from the Carolina Migrant Network, which has been running similar trainings on a regular basis since ICE first swept the city in May. Immigrant rights organization Siembra NC shared their rapid-response hotline and distributed “Defend & Recruit” neighborhood organizing kits to community members. A local grocery store offered free delivery to vulnerable families who felt unsafe traveling on the streets. Many local stores closed to protect workers and customers, but one laundromat stayed open, locking their doors behind customers to protect them from ICE agents.
As Border Patrol began to detain Charlotte residents on Saturday, the Charlotte chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation called for an emergency protest which drew around 500 people to First Ward Park in the city’s Uptown neighborhood, and held protest training sessions the next day, handing out whistles and ‘red cards’ outlining people’s rights once they are detained. Other residents spontaneously took action as Border Patrol showed up in their neighborhoods, filming and yelling as some successfully fended the agents off. Church volunteers who ran to the woods as ICE approached were apparently warned in advance by neighbors and prepared with ‘deafening’ whistles, which they used to confront ICE agents armed with tear gas canisters. On Monday, over 30,000 Charlotte students stayed home from school, as students from East Mecklenburg High School, Philip O. Berry Academy, Ballantyne Ridge High School, and Northwest School of the Arts walked out of class, forming a massive demonstration to protest the deportations of their fellow classmates. As Border Patrol expanded their operations, residents mobilized in nearby cities, drawing a ‘small army’ of community volunteers in Raleigh to a rapid-response training on Tuesday night and sparking protests in rural towns such as Boone, NC. Hundreds of protestors confronted the Border Patrol in Raleigh and Durham, as organizers throughout the region shared tracking information in real time over WhatsApp. As New Orleans braces for the next incursion of ICE and federal forces, Chicago organizers are helping local organizers share links and educational resources over Reddit to help communities prepare to resist.
Interfaith clergy put their faith and bodies on the line to protest ICE. Over half a dozen faith leaders were among the 21 protestors arrested during a tense standoff at Chicago’s Broadview ICE facility last Friday, as Catholic, Episcopal, Jewish, and interfaith leaders gathered for weekly services and to demand an end to workplace raids and mass deportations. Among the group of clergy who were arrested for kneeling in the street was a 72-year-old priest who had participated in immigration vigils for over a decade. Mara Richards Bim from Baptist News Global reported for the faith-based media outlet on the interfaith service and the subsequent arrests, calling out Kristi Noem and the Trump Administration for their hypocrisy and misuse of Scripture, as leaders of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies issued a statement in support of Baptist minister Rev. Michael Woolf and other detained clergy, and called out other denominational leaders who have stayed silent. Faith leaders in Charlotte opened their churches to host hundreds of people for rapid-response trainings throughout the week, and patrolled the streets with whistles and phone cameras to observe federal agents and protect community members. KQED reports on an interfaith group in San Francisco that holds weekly vigils outside the local ICE office, serving as “sacred witness” for migrants and asylum seekers as well as the protestors who are often mishandled and then labeled ‘violent’ by Trump Administration officials. A coalition of Roman Catholic clergy and lay ministers sued the Trump Administration this week for unlawfully blocking their members from ministering to people inside the facility, following up on Pope Leo XIV’s call for authorities to allow faith workers access to detained migrants. Pope Leo strongly backed the ‘Special Message’ issued by American Catholic bishops last week expressing solidarity for immigrants and calling for ‘meaningful reform’ of immigration laws that protect human dignity.
Community resistance to AI data centers is growing across the country. Wired reports this week on the growing movement opposing the buildout of AI data centers across the United States, as the watchdog organization Data Center Watch reports a 125% surge in data center opposition in the second quarter of 2025 alone, blocking a total of $98 billion worth of projects during that three-month period. The report states that of the “53 active groups across 17 states targeting 30 data center projects” nationwide, a remarkable 66% of the protested projects were blocked or delayed. Polling from Heatmap News shows that the majority of younger people are opposed to data centers, with others easily convinced to oppose the centers once informed of their impacts on water use, electricity rates, and more. Lawmakers across the political spectrum are also increasingly questioning the value of data center subsidies or tax abatements when weighed against their impacts, which has led to the suspension of major projects. Monthly Review reports on the strength of the grassroots opposition even in small rural towns in deep-red districts that are learning from each other and banding together with other activists and environmental organizations to resist large-scale projects. High Country News profiles one such project in a small New Mexico border town, where a proposed AI project is threatening the community’s hard-fought access to clean water. Axios documents the growing resistance to the data center boom in a northern Virginia region called “Data Center Alley,” as multiple projects have been stalled or cancelled due to the pushback. Next City reports on the movement pushing back on data centers across the eight states of the Great Lakes region, which faces potentially disastrous consequences for the environment and the fresh water supply on which millions of people depend. In Ashville, OH this week, city planning consultants were forced to move a stakeholder meeting to a bigger venue to accommodate the flood of local residents showing up to oppose the project. The opposition is also global, with communities from Latin America to Europe and Asia protesting in large numbers to oppose data center projects.
Latest Polls.
Trump’s Approval Rating: A Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Tuesday, November 17 showed that only 38 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s performance in office, hitting a new record low for his second term. Major factors in the change included the Trump Administration’s handling of the Epstein scandal, as well as dissatisfaction over the cost of living.
Economy: A Fox News poll released Wednesday found that voters blamed Trump for the current state of the economy by a 2-1 margin, including nearly half of Republicans who thought that Trump was doing more harm than good, indicating that Trump’s tactic of blaming inflation on Biden-era policy is not working as well anymore with his base. A new study from the Japanese Economic Review found that U.S. public opinion tended to be more supportive of higher taxation once they were informed of the “universal benefits of public goods,” challenging common assumptions about American views on government spending.
2026 Midterms: A ‘generic ballot’ for the U.S. House midterm elections conducted by Strength In Numbers/Verasight found that Democrats led Republicans by a margin of 7%. The poll also found 59% of voters supportive of extending ACA healthcare subsidies, and 63% supporting higher taxes on corporations and households making over $400,000 per year. Interestingly, the poll also found that a majority of voters in both parties (54% of Democrats and 55% of Republicans) felt that their respective party was out of touch with rank-and-file voters, with 61% of all adults saying they did not feel represented by either party. A separate Marist/NPR/PBS poll showed Democrats leading in the midterms by 14%, their biggest lead in 8 years as the cost of living emerged as voters’ primary concern for the midterms.
Democracy: A Kettering Foundation-Gallup survey found that while 2 out of 3 Americans ‘strongly agree’ or ‘agree’ that democracy is the best form of government, more than 4 in 10 do not believe that their leaders are committed to having a strong democracy, while 3 in 10 are not sure. About half of American adults think that democracy is functioning ‘very poorly’ or ‘moderately poorly’ in the United States, and only about one-quarter of respondents believe that government decisions reflect what a majority of people want done or reflect their best interests.
Upcoming protests, actions, and events.
Ongoing: Charity and social welfare group MomsRising is organizing a letter-writing campaign calling for congress to extend the Affordable Care Act. Participants can sign a pre-written letter template with an optional personal message. More information about MomsRising, including monthly community meetings and other organizing efforts, can be found on their website.
November 27- December 1st: Economic action group We Ain’t Buying It! is calling for a targeted blackout against Amazon, Target, and Home Depot Black Friday through Cyber Monday, in protest of corporate tax cuts, attacks on DEI, and collusion with ICE. Organizers are encouraging participants to redirect spending and sign their pledge to be a conscious consumer.
Tuesdays, 12-2pm ET and 7-9pm ET, ongoing: The New York-based nonviolent action group Rise and Resist is organizing a weekly picket against institutions that support the Trump regime on Tuesdays, at NYC’s Fox Headquarters (12-1pm ET) and at offices of various law firms complicit with the Trump regime (1-2pm ET). They will also be holding their general meetings on Zoom Tuesday nights from 7-9pm ET. More information can be found on Bluesky and at RiseAndResist.org.
November 20-22: The Removal Coalition is hosting a three-day event and action in Washington DC to lobby Congress en masse for the impeachment of Donald Trump. The impeachment demand is based on a model Congressional impeachment resolution outlining eight evidenced charges of impeachable offenses. A full program of events over three days in Washington DC can be found at the Remove the Regime website. Information on buses and rideshares to the event from over 75 pickup points can be found at https://rally.co/remove-the-regime-washington-dc. Solidarity events with the DC action are being organized across the country; partial listings can be found at Remove the Regime’s Mobilize page and on Bluesky.
Saturday, November 22: Following Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s call for a General Strike, General Strike US is holding an online introductory webinar on “Why We Need a General Strike and How We Can Make It Happen” on November 22 at 3pm ET / 12pm PT. More information is at GeneralStrike.US and those interested can sign up at the webinar registration link. More resources on the General Strike and current organizing can be found at https://linktr.ee/generalstrikeus.
Monday, November 24: The group Refuse Fascism! is leading an action to ‘Surround The White House’ on the next two consecutive Mondays to protest the Trump regime and help build a nonviolent mass movement to drive him out of power. The action is coordinated with the launch of the Removal Coalition’s impeachment campaign on November 22. More information and materials can be found at Refuse Fascism’s website.
November 25-December 2: Blackout The System has called for a nationwide economic boycott scheduled around the Thanksgiving holiday and extending through Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The initiative aims to become the most significant economic blackout in recent history; participants are encouraged to refrain from working or spending money, and organize for the action in advance by joining the pressure campaign, sticker teams, or building power in the local community. Momentum is growing for this action and it is getting more attention in the mainstream media. More information on the action and ongoing campaign can be found at BlackoutTheSystem.com.
Sunday, November 30 and every other Sunday, ongoing: General Strike US will be holding a bi-weekly General Strike Teach-In online every other Sunday on the Jitsi platform. Organizers are holding this space regularly as a way for the public to learn about the General Strike and connect with organizers around the country. More information on the General Strike can be found by downloading the General Strike Welcome Packet, the Teach-in resources can be found at the GSUS Public Calendar, and an organizer’s toolkit can be found at the GSUS Linktree archive.
Quote of the Week. During Trump’s White House meeting with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday, November 21, Mamdani was asked by a reporter to clarify if he thinks Trump is a fascist. Before Mamdani could answer, Trump intervened, saying “That’s okay. You can just say yes. That’s easier. It’s easier than explaining.”
Note to Readers on our Holiday Schedule: Tracking the Crisis will not be publishing next week, Friday November 28. Instead, we will have a double issue the following week, Friday, December 5. We will do the same over the Christmas break, with no publication on December 26 but then a double issue appearing on January 2, 2026.
