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Abstract Resistance to U.S. President Donald Trump's policies on gender equality, healthcare, race relations, the environment, and immigration has been large, widespread, and persistent. Following President Trump's election, millions of people across the United States protested, creatively using slogans, signs, costumes, chants, and songs. Others engaged in resistance with online videos, songs, memes, and hashtags. By employing the Communicative Informatics Model, we examine the relationship between online communication and the creative and active audience involved in U.S. political resistance in 2017. Keywords resistance, political protest, social media, Communicative Informatics, active and creative audience, Women's March of 2017, Black Lives Matter, Indivisible, Town Halls, Earth Day, March for Science, airport immigration rallies