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Our Shot: December 31, 2025

Welcome to the 31st edition of Our Shot! You may have noticed that we haven't sent a newsletter in December. Originally that wasn't intentional - there was Thanksgiving, then a stomach bug, then a fingernail avulsion (don't look this up) and the holidays and

Our Shot: November 26, 2025

Welcome to the 30th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Today we wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all of you for being our subscribers! We are grateful to all of you

Our Shot: November 19, 2025

Welcome to the 29th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. First action: The Trump administration has just announced more detailed plans to dismantle the Department of Education, transferring responsibilities of DOE programs to other federal agencies.

Our Shot: November 4, 2025

Welcome to the 28th edition of Our Shot, our special election day edition! Don't forget to vote today if you have not done so already! Smaller action: remind 2 people in your life to go vote today. Larger action: remind 10 people in your life to go vote

Our Shot: October 29, 2025

Welcome to the 27th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. We missed a week last week but now we're back! We have two actions for this week, both on the larger side, both important!

Our Shot: October 16, 2025

Welcome to the 26th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. We're low on time this week so sharing some very quick resistance thoughts! Smaller action: Learn about the press corps exit from the Pentagon

Our Shot: October 9, 2025

Welcome to the 25th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Smaller action: Watch Jane Goodall's final interview in Famous Last Words, an interview she filmed with the understanding that it would only be released

Our Shot: October 1, 2025

Welcome to the 24th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Smaller action: Take a moment to remember Jane Goodall, the extraordinary activist and primatologist. We loved this summary of her life and work, and this quote

Our Shot: September 24, 2025

Welcome to the 23rd edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Smaller action: Push back on the recent Trump administration claims that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism. I had trouble even explaining to Leo why Trump

Our Shot: September 18, 2025

Welcome to the 22nd edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. This week's edition is a little bit different, in that rather than sharing specific actions, Leo and I have been talking about mindsets and

Our Shot: September 10, 2025

Welcome to the 21st edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Smaller action: Sign up for a library card and help to spread the word to friends and family to do the same! September is National Library

Our Shot: September 3, 2025

Welcome to the 20th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Smaller action: Get familiar with and share back-to0school resources for immigrant students and families. With school starting for us this week, we wanted to make sure

Our Shot: August 20, 2025

Welcome to the 19th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Before we share this week's actions, we are looking for a guest writer for next week's newsletter! We will be out of

Our Shot: August 13, 2025

Welcome to the 18th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Smaller action: Watch and share this video from Heather Cox Richardson, shared to us by our friend Robert, who says: HRC is an inspiration for her

Our Shot: August 6, 2025

Welcome to the 17th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Smaller action: Pay someone a compliment! A little context: when Leo and I were brainstorming names for this newsletter, one of the ideas we had was

Our Shot: July 31, 2025

Welcome to the 16th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. We're a day late today, largely because it's summer and our schedules are in chaos and I genuinely thought yesterday was Saturday

Our Shot: July 23, 2025

Welcome to the 15th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Smaller action: Subscribe to newsletters from press freedom organizations - groups that actively promote and defend freedom of the press! Between the recent federal funding cuts

Our Shot: July 16, 2025

Welcome to the 14th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Leo's birthday was on Monday, and I have been reflecting on the time around his birth. It was summer of 2016, Obama was president,

Our Shot: July 9, 2025

Welcome to the 13th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. Smaller action: One of the many upsetting things about the Trump presidency is the ways that the media coverage of him can normalize or downplay the

Our Shot: July 2, 2025

Welcome to the 12th edition of Our Shot, a weekly newsletter of actions that anyone (especially kids) can take to resist the Trump administration. This week is unexpectedly the grandparent edition of our newsletter! We have been lucky enough to hear from both sides of our family in the last