Welcome. We are the resistance. Thank you for coming. We are Indiana 50501, an aggressive, non violent distributed protest organization that is dedicated to removing the Trump Regime from power.
We are organized at the State and Congressional District level (districts 7 and 8 have leadership) and ultimately the town level. Our goal is to organize 288,000 people here in Indiana which is 3.5% of the population. That's the magic level where Erica Chenoweth says authoritarian regimes fail.
Want your event here? Signal message Scott / @CancelTesla.2025 with date, title and link
This is coming but we need to do a security review on the MailChimp form before we take it live.
Scott is the author of:
In a example of Scott's book nerdiness, his book collection was featured on Oxide Computer's podcast with Bryan Cantrill. Books matter. Books are how we understand the world.
50501 grew up on the Internet and we make use of Signal and Discord for encrypted communications.
The serious organizing happens on Signal where ideas show up, get analyzed and, if they are good and someone likes them, implemented. Implementation is often led by the person who had the idea, since they will tend to have the most drive to see it happen.
As senior leadership, our role is to curate the community and support people in making the magic happens. We take the position that leader's exist to serve the community.
Oh and we also hang out and talk about gardening, vent about the insane state of the world and whatever.
We are a chaotic, anarchic, distributed group and it works. We refer to it internally as a hive mind and, well, come in and see.
To get into our Signal, find someone in leadership or someone who has access and get them to invite you. We actively ban trolls and MAGA.
Watch our fund raising video on YouTube. This will appear soon.
Our FAQ also talks about it although not everything is set up yet. We do need an accounting type person to help us manage the process. I know you're out there since you talked to me on Saturday but I didn't get your details.
Here are the start of our governing documents:
We believe in building a radically transparent organization based on a learning model that incorporates the good and the bad (aka post mortem documents). That's means we need to listen to everyone, and so:
My name is Scott Johnson and I am the person in charge of 50501 in the state of Indiana.
You have two ways to tell me I am wrong:
fuzzygroup at gmail.com
That's my personal email account that I have been using since Gmail existed. It is my only email account.
Got something to tell us? You know what to do ... winces
If you got here then you are likely a tech person like me. Technologically I am an open source guy with a bias for Ruby and Python. My bona fides include founding NTERGAID, Feedster, co founding Covid Near me and Pizza For Ukraine, writing AppData and scaling it until acquired.
We do need some IT help and I want you to email me with the subject line:
FELLOW NERD THAT VALUES SECURITY
Initial technical work is the DevOps work to push our content from GitHub where it is stored to our website which is a DreamHost box.
Follow on work involves setting up an instance of EtherPad on an offshore Hetzner box for document collaboration.
Peace fellow nerd. Thanks.