--- title: How the Anti-Trump Resistance Is Organizing Its Outrage description: Inside the grassroots movement to help Democrats take back Congress canonical: https://time.com/5428173/boots-on-the-ground/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-18T10:09:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T20:12:08.430Z article:section: Politics og:title: How the Anti-Trump Resistance Is Organizing Its Outrage og:description: Inside the grassroots movement to help Democrats take back Congress og:url: https://time.com/5428173/boots-on-the-ground/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How the Anti-Trump Resistance Is Organizing Its Outrage twitter:description: Inside the grassroots movement to help Democrats take back Congress twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How the Anti-Trump Resistance Is Organizing Its Outrage (18 Oct 2018) > Sponsored content. 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Her husband has always followed politics, but Eberly used to steer away from it in polite conversation. She voted, but not much else. Then came President Donald Trump’s election. “I felt sick to my stomach,” says Eberly, 51\. She found herself at the Women’s March in Charlotte, then at rallies for immigrants, then staying up all night reading news articles posted in Facebook groups. She began to feel uncomfortable around her neighbors who voted for Trump and around her volleyball friends who didn’t seem to care about politics. The day after the Women’s March, she saw on Facebook that a woman who lived an hour away was hosting a letter-writing party to pressure local elected officials. Eberly couldn’t make it over, so the woman suggested she host her own event. Eberly typed up an invitation. 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