10 Effective Ways You Can Make Change — In Addition To Attending A Protest

10 Effective Ways You Can Make Change — In Addition To Attending A Protest

10 Effective Ways You Can Make Change — In Addition To Attending A Protest What happens now? That may well be the question being asked by “No Kings” protesters, who marched, rallied, and danced all over the nation on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Pro-democracy groups had aimed to encourage large numbers of Americans to demonstrate that “together we are choosing democracy.” They were successful, with crowds turning out for demonstrations in thousands of cities and towns from Anchorage to Miami. And while multiple GOP leaders had attacked the planned demonstrations, describing them as “hate America” rallies, political science scholars and national security experts agree that the current U.S. administration’s actions are indeed placing the world’s oldest continuous constitutional republic in jeopardy. Once a democracy starts to erode, it can be difficult to reverse the trend. Only 42% of democracies affected by autocratization — a transformation in governance that erodes democratic safeguards — si…