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Indivisible: The Next Step is to Normalize Direct Action
During an all-call this week, Indivisible, the country’s largest protest organizer and the main organizer behind the burgeoning Color Revolution…
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Mike Shelby
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'No Kings' Report Back & Analysis: What Is To Be Done?
Bottom Line Up Front: While I doubt Indivisible achieved a turnout of seven million protestors on Saturday, it kind of doesn’t matter.
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Mike Shelby
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The Color Revolution Chooses Yellow
According to social media posts and their website, Indivisible and the No Kings protest campaign have chosen yellow as their unity color.
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Mike Shelby
How Successful are Color Revolutions?
I spent part of this week doing a deep dive into Color Revolutions and framing out areas of research for a planned book on the topic (on how to counter…
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Mike Shelby
The Color Revolution Chooses Their Color
On a recent call, the co-executive directors of Indivisible, the country’s largest protest organizing network, said they had an hour-long meeting to…
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Mike Shelby
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August 2025

Breaking Down the “Popular Support” Myth
Or, why the Color Revolution doesn't need a majority to succeed
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Mike Shelby
Left Wing Project Tracking Trump-Linked Billionaires Part of Color Revolution Effort
The Department of Class Solidarity, an emerging left-wing activist group, launched a project to “audit” and track over 1,000 billionaires across the…
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Mike Shelby
Color Revolution: A Strategic Assessment (2025-2028)
A Color Revolution is a coordinated campaign to force political change (revolution) by mobilizing mass protests; undermining government legitimacy…
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Mike Shelby
The U.S. anti-Trump movement shares the same strategy as the 2000 Serbian color revolution
Over the weekend, I was catching up on the Serbian color revolution against Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.
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Mike Shelby
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Strategy: Mass Resistance to Revolution
In a series of training videos, Indivisible “freedom trainers” confirmed my expectations of broadly three phases of their “strategic noncooperation…
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Mike Shelby
One Million Rising: Expanding the Resistance
The latest push from Indivisible, the country’s largest protest organizing group, is training a million organizers to hold in-person meetings to recruit…
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Mike Shelby
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