FAQ
Record Resistance is a grassroots archival initiative dedicated to preserving vulnerable documents, data, and public information that is at risk of revision, deletion, or censorship by authoritarian regimes.
Who runs Record Resistance?
We're a dedicated group of citizens volunteering our time, effort, and talents to fight fascist regimes. The Record Resistance team includes writers, journalists, educators, professional and amateur archivists.
We already have the Wayback Machine, so what's the point?
The Wayback Machine and Internet Archive are wonderful tools. But, to use them, you need to know exactly what you're looking for. Webpages also aren't automatically archived on a continuous basis — most are manually submitted for archival, which means a lot of changes go unrecorded.
That's what Record Resistance comes in — we comb through the archives so you don't have to. Then, we recover the original (pre-2025 administration) version of whatever was altered, add it to a safe offline backup, and republish it here with a timeline and summary about why the change matters to everyday citizens.
Additionally, like Wikipedia and other citizen-led repositories of free, publically accessible education, the Internet Archive is also under threat from tech broligarchs like Elon Musk.
Libraries and educational institutions are probably already doing this, so why bother?
The very same institutions normally responsible for this type of archival are under attack. Entire budgets, teams, and departments have been slashed. Content that doesn't fit the current administration's agenda is being purged from universities and libraries all across the country — and anyone who doesn't fall in line gets their funding taken away.
We believe you can never have too many extra copies of crucial documents. And we also believe in the power of the everyday citizen voice. After all, one of the main reasons the world knows about the atrocities committed during the Holocaust is because a 14-year-old girl named Anne Frank wrote about them in her diary.