• 01

  // Domain 01

  Digital Security & Privacy

  Device security, encrypted communications, secure browsing, and operational security for anyone handling sensitive information. The technical foundation on which all other operational security rests. Draws on EFF Surveillance Self-Defense and Freedom of the Press Foundation guidance.

  Device Encryption Secure Messaging VPN & Tor Password Security Metadata
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• 02

  // Domain 02

  Countering Misinformation

  How disinformation campaigns work, how to identify them, and how to counter them without amplifying what you are opposing. Covers verification methods, source assessment, narrative inoculation, and the mechanics of influence operations. Essential for anyone operating in contested information environments.

  Verification Source Assessment Influence Operations Narrative Inoculation OSINT
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• 03

  // Domain 03

  Street Level Tactics

  A curated reference to Gene Sharp’s 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action, the definitive academic taxonomy of proven nonviolent resistance methods, anchored exclusively to Albert Einstein Institution publications. Covers protest and persuasion, noncooperation, and nonviolent intervention, with historical precedents for each category.

  198 Methods Gene Sharp Protest & Persuasion Noncooperation Historical Cases
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• 04

  // Domain 04

  Identity Discipline

  Protecting your personal identity, your network, and your sources from surveillance and retaliation. The human behavior layer on top of digital security, drawn from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) methodology and adapted for civil society workers, journalists, and resistance members operating under scrutiny. Covers threat modeling, digital and physical identity separation, OSINT awareness, and secure communications.

  Threat Modeling Digital Separation Physical Discipline OSINT Audit RSF Framework
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• 05

  // Domain 05

  Know the Law

  A country-agnostic framework for understanding your legal rights during nonviolent resistance. Covers the five universal legal principles that appear across democratic systems, the four phases of legal exposure, how to research jurisdiction-specific law, documentation as protection, and how to find legal support wherever you are. Built to be useful in any democratic context.

  Universal Principles Four Phases Legal Research Documentation Legal Support
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The Resistance Toolkit exists because the information needed to engage safely and effectively in nonviolent resistance is scattered across academic publications, NGO guides, and specialist resources that most people never encounter. The toolkit aggregates, structures, and contextualizes that information in one place, referenced, sourced, and editorially accountable.

Every page in this toolkit draws on primary sources from organizations that have spent decades developing this knowledge: the Albert Einstein Institution, Reporters Without Borders, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Amnesty International, and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. We do not originate tactical instruction. We provide access to the best existing frameworks, clearly organized and ready to use.

The five domains are independent. Each can be read and applied on its own. For those new to operational security or nonviolent resistance, the following sequence builds from foundational to advanced, with each domain reinforcing the next. Note that the recommended reading order differs from the domain numbering above.

1. 1

   Start with Know the Law

   Understanding your legal rights and the framework for protecting them is foundational. Before any other preparation, know what you are legally entitled to do and what protections exist for you. Know the Law is country-agnostic and applies in any democratic context.

2. 2

   Assess Your Threat Level: Identity Discipline

   Use the threat modeling framework in Identity Discipline to assess your specific exposure. This determines how rigorously you need to apply the digital security and physical identity measures in the toolkit. Not everyone needs the same level of protection, but everyone needs to know their level.

3. 3

   Secure Your Communications: Digital Security

   Apply the technical protections in Digital Security & Privacy proportionate to your threat level. At minimum: a password manager, Signal for sensitive communications, and full-disk encryption on your devices. These changes address the majority of exposure for most threat environments.

4. 4

   Understand the Information Environment: Countering Misinformation

   Any active resistance operates in an information environment that will include disinformation about your movement, your methods, and your intentions. Understanding how influence operations work and how to counter them without amplifying them is an operational requirement, not an optional extra. See Countering Misinformation.

5. 5

   Apply the Methods: Street Level Tactics

   With legal knowledge, identity protection, secure communications, and information resilience in place, Street Level Tactics provides the strategic framework for action. Sharp’s taxonomy gives you a historically grounded, academically rigorous reference for selecting and sequencing nonviolent methods appropriate to your context.

• // Resilience Toolkit

  Resilience Toolkit

  Five domains covering physical, mental, social, and economic resilience plus contingency planning. The preparedness complement to the Resistance Toolkit, building the personal and community capacity to sustain resistance over time.

• // Core Concepts

  Resistance Core Concepts

  The strategic and theoretical foundations of irregular warfare and resistance: key thinkers, guerrilla tactical frameworks, social movement theory, and the history of resistance mobilization. The intellectual context for the practical tools in this toolkit.

• // Reference

  Irregular Warfare & Resistance Glossary

  The Resistance Hub’s comprehensive glossary of irregular warfare and resistance terminology. Essential reference for understanding the language of the field across academic, military, and practitioner sources.

• // Reading List

  Essential Books on Resistance

  The Resistance Hub’s curated reading list: primary texts on guerrilla strategy, nonviolent resistance, special operations, and the history of resistance movements. The foundational library for anyone serious about the field.

The Distillery Press produces restored and remastered editions of primary resistance literature. These three collections sit directly behind the frameworks used across the toolkit.