Resistance Live

Resistance Live

Join our FREE three day activation series and learn how to turn your energy and outrage into action: In this January 9, 2026 episode of Resistance Live, Elizabeth breaks down a brutally difficult week—and the unexpected signs of resistance emerging from it. She covers bipartisan cracks in support for Trump’s foreign policy, including Senate action to rein in military escalation in Venezuela and GOP defections on ACA subsidies, while also unpacking disturbing new developments in ICE violence following the murder of Renee Goode. Elizabeth explains what’s actually happening behind the...

Resistance Live

  Join our FREE three day activation series and learn how to turn your energy and outrage into action: https://gaialeadershipproject.com/activation-challenge In this urgent episode of Resistance Live, Elizabeth responds to the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, examining the available video evidence and dismantling official claims used to justify the shooting. She places the murder in the broader context of ICE violence, militarized policing, and state-backed intimidation, and explains why cosmetic reforms and “more training” will not stop this harm. The...

Resistance Live

Join our FREE three day activation series and learn how to turn your energy and outrage into action: In this episode, Elizabeth breaks down a wave of alarming headlines and rhetoric—from Trump’s threats about elections to foreign policy escalations and manufactured domestic scandals—and explains why fear is often the point. By grounding the conversation in civics, law, and power analysis, she shows how many of these threats are either legally impossible or signs of political weakness, not strength. The throughline: panic distracts people from organizing, while clarity creates leverage....

Resistance Live

Join our FREE three day activation series and learn how to turn your energy and outrage into action:  In today’s episode, we begin with the explosive developments surrounding the September 2nd Caribbean boat bombing and the growing controversy over the alleged second “kill order” issued against survivors. We break down what is known, why the legal terminology around “war crimes” is complicated in a non-war context, and how military code, international law, and the chain of command apply. We also examine the political fallout: fractures inside the MAGA bloc, demands for...

Resistance Live

Join our FREE three day activation series and learn how to turn your energy and outrage into action:  In today’s fast-moving episode of Resistance Live, Elizabeth breaks down explosive new developments on two major legal fronts. First, she unpacks the DOJ’s stunning claim that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—not DOJ officials—greenlit the defiance of a federal court order that led to the unlawful deportation and torture of over 200 detainees in El Salvador. With contempt hearings looming, Elizabeth explains what this revelation means for Noem, for Judge Boasberg’s...

Resistance Live

👉Join our FREE three day activation series and learn how to turn your energy and outrage into action: In today’s episode of Resistance Live, Elizabeth breaks down Trump’s latest escalation: openly calling for the execution of several Democratic lawmakers after they reminded military personnel of their duty to the Constitution. She explains why these threats are felonies, why they fall far outside presidential immunity, and how they could constitute impeachable offenses—even as the GOP remains silent. She also explores the political stakes of this moment and what it signals about the...

Resistance Live

➡️ Join our FREE three day activation series and learn how to turn your energy and outrage into action:  In this urgent episode of Resistance Live, Elizabeth breaks down the Senate’s shocking weekend vote to end the government shutdown—exposing why the deal represents a devastating sellout of the Democratic base and millions of Americans who rely on ACA subsidies. She explains how the Senate leadership, particularly Chuck Schumer, engineered a collapse in leverage just days after Democrats’ sweeping electoral victories, and why the promise of a mere vote in December...

Resistance Live

✨ Big news: we just opened POWER LAB: A Seven Week Program for Emerging Organizers to Overcome Outrage and Build Community Action for registration! This guided 7-week program helps you turn struggle into strategy, gather your people, and start making a real difference. Learn more here: Elizabeth unpacks the acting SNAP director’s late-night letter warning of a Nov 1 funding halt, situates it in shutdown gamesmanship, and lays out what it means for families already on the brink—alongside concrete steps you can take today (donate to local food banks; support neighbors). She also explains...

Resistance Live

✨ Big news: we just opened POWER LAB: A Seven Week Program for Emerging Organizers to Overcome Outrage and Build Community Action for registration! This guided 7-week program helps you turn struggle into strategy, gather your people, and start making a real difference. Learn more here: https://gaialeadershipproject.com/power-lab .

Resistance Live

✨ Big news: we just opened POWER LAB: A Seven Week Program for Emerging Organizers to Overcome Outrage and Build Community Action for registration! This guided 7-week program helps you turn struggle into strategy, gather your people, and start making a real difference. Learn more here: In this episode of Resistance Live, Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin covers this chaotic holiday weekend.  We zero in on why Arizona’s special-election winner GVA still hasn’t been seated and how Speaker Johnson’s delay looks like a stall to block a House vote on the Epstein files—plus exactly...