With so much going on, it is understandable for people to feel news whiplash. To help our partners stay focused and find the signal in the noise, we are happy to share what we are tracking.

In this briefing held on February 26, 2025, our expert panel explored tangible opportunities to proactively bolster local civic health and act as a bulwark against federal overreach.

What we’re watching in February.

What we’re watching in January.

This resource from Protect Democracy aims to orient civil society organizations to the different types retributive investigations that state and federal government actors may undertake. It is intended to help organizations identify concrete actions they can take now to prepare for and mitigate these threats.

This comprehensive resource provides essential information and action guides to assist Jewish organizations with leading their communities effectively through contentious times.

This resource provides detailed scenarios and planning worksheets to help organizations prepare for potential election-related challenges including social unrest, misinformation, and attempts to overturn results, along with instructions for creating custom scenarios tailored to specific community concerns.

This resource provides guidance for establishing and operating a Community Preparedness Working Group (CPWG) within Jewish organizations. It reviews CPWG best practices to help communities stay safe, informed, and engaged during contentious times.

This resource provides a elections-related guidance on whether and how Jewish organizations should respond to antidemocratic activity from through Inauguration Day.

This Equip 2024: Community Preparedness Summit page provides a comprehensive list of recordings and resources from our September 17, 2024 virtual event.

This resource includes talking points to help Jewish organizations message effectively to preserve social cohesion in contentious times.

This webinar, held on July 11, 2024, provided tangible ideas and information to clergy interested in speaking about American democracy and the 2024 election during their High Holiday observances.

Using Over Zero's years of research into conflict resolution, this resource identifies six ways to discourage violence through intentional communication.

Veteran reporter Eve Pearlman introduces "dialogue journalism": a project where journalists go to the heart of social and political divides to support discussions between people who disagree. See what happened when a group that would have never otherwise met gathered to talk about contentious issues.

In this episode of Ripple Effect, Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assesses the health of U.S. democracy and unpacks the risk of political violence surrounding the 2024 U.S. elections.

The Elections Dashboard is a visualization that collates news stories about past and present election-related developments, sorted by state, some of which could lay the foundation for actual election crises and/or violence.