Rise and Resist Will Not Be Deterred by
Government Threats
Rise and Resist is a small, entirely volunteer group of activists dedicated to nonviolent, creative protest. We are committed to fighting back against Donald Trump’s corrupt agenda. The Trump Administration is now threatening us with a federal investigation because of peaceful protests we have organized against Tesla. We are not scared of this threat, and we will not back down.
On March 8, Elon Musk sent out a hostile tweet that blamed Rise and Resist and four other groups for the ongoing Tesla protests.
On March 10, after weeks of national protests against CEO and DOGE chief Elon Musk, Tesla's share price crashed. Musk personally lost $29 billion in a single day.
On March 11th, Trump said that violence against Tesla dealerships will be labeled domestic terrorism. Rise and Resist has never engaged in violence against Tesla dealerships or property.
On March 12, as if on cue, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene sent an official notice to Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General, and to Kash Patel, Trump’s FBI Director, falsely accusing Rise and Resist of acts of vandalism. She maliciously associated us with “domestic political terrorism” and called for an investigation of Rise and Resist by the FBI and Department of Justice. These ridiculous claims are baseless and without legal merit. They are solely designed to crush dissent.
Rise and Resist was founded in late 2016 in recognition of the threat that Trump posed to our democracy. Over thousands of actions in the past 9 years, Rise and Resist has not once engaged in violence or vandalism.
Donald Trump, a would-be dictator, and Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire, are destroying the agencies and government functions on which ordinary hard-working Americans depend—throwing hundreds of thousands of people out of work, endangering social security and veterans' services, jeopardizing climate science and denying healthcare to vulnerable people.
We at Rise and Resist are committed to doing our utmost to stop Trump’s and Musk’s taking a chainsaw to crucial services and jobs, and their attack on the constitutional separation of powers.
Accordingly, on March 13, Rise and Resist protested at the Manhattan Tesla dealership in yet another act of nonviolent resistance.
We at Rise and Resist will continue to assert our First Amendment right to engage in peaceful protest. We will continue to engage in nonviolent activism. We will engage in creative acts of nonviolent civil disobedience in the powerful tradition of the Civil Rights movement until Elon Musk is fired, and Donald Trump and his minions are voted out of office.
The opposition to this fascist coup is proliferating in every state across the country. Rise and Resist is proud to be a small part of this nationwide mobilization. Join the Resistance — before it’s too late.
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