Music

Protest Songs 2026


Curtis Lovejoy — “F Is For” www.facebook.com/reel/772015405947064

Devon Sproule – “Gargle My…” www.facebook.com/reel/1954653128787987

Curtis Brand – “A Murder In Minnesota” youtube.com/watch?v=UGdU_DA2mi4

Neutral Nation- “People’s Lives” facebook.com/reel/1583621439396277

Big Merla-“The Mantrum Jig” (sent by Beth Barron) www.facebook.com/reel/1196386395954257

Billy Bragg-“City Of Heroes” www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW8

Samara Jade – ”Turn A Blind Eye” www.facebook.com/reel/1221998632741450

Eric “Red” Schwartz — “Asshole’s Day” www.facebook.com/reel/2172011930312115

The Third Mind – “Reap What You Sow” www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y6MU4lSjrM

Emily Elbert — ”Country Blues For The You-Know-Whos” www.facebook.com/reel/1420099229475010

Barnaby Jones — “Kill The President” www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8jdzfHvCI8

Ethan Gontar — Irish Folk Version of Bruce’s “Streets Of Minneapolis” (sent in by Ed McGuirl) www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4o0Y4wH7FY

HummusVacuum – “G-U-I-L-L-O-T-I-N-E” www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNHCkuGrAl4

Earth to Eve — “Toy Soldier” www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3JdRcf1gio&t=1s

Marsh Family – “Piece of Denmark” – www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSDIkpwlqsA

Neighborhood Kids — “Kids In The Cages” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg0-q8-Wy_o

Malört & Savior – On The Day It Finally Happens www.youtube.com/watch?v=41NOMETNp3U

Tribe None – ”Counting Mississippis” www.youtube.com/watch?v=41NOMETNp3U (sent in by Frederick Lewis DeAngelis)

Ron Gallo — “Ice, Ice Baby” www.facebook.com/reel/1585008299589077

Lon E Plynton — “Hard Come” www.youtube.com/watch?v=45avMy6GY5I (sent in by Lon)

Cathy Fink — “The President’s for Sale” www.facebook.com/reel/1962818541285846

Sandly Pliskin — “Hands Off!” www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIvlrgfVAnI

Carsie Blanton – ”Allegedly” www.facebook.com/reel/1685673545745375 (You will want to follow her. She is a brilliant songwriter and performer!)

 Local singer-songwriter, Andy Stone, sent this one: “And A Piece Of Me Dies.” In it, he writes, “Two-way streets are now dead ends, Brothers and sisters are estranged, So many strangers who used to be friends, Is all our closeness out of range?”  www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI93Izoq4nM

I love this rewriting of the “Modern Major General” song from Pirates of Penzance! “I Am the Perfect Picture of a Presidential Pedophile” by Mark Graham: markgraham1.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-perfect-picture-of-a-presidential-pedophile

FB friend, Maxine Wolfson, sent this one: “No Identity No Authority” by Elsewhom www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar8aEFxnxXY

“Allegiance” By Consumer Culture. www.facebook.com/reel/1961128167772965

Resistance Revival Chorus with Rhiannon Giddens “All You Fascists Bound To Lose” (Woody Guthrie): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa7aAIfLE

“A Guy Named Curtis Yarvin” (I cannot find the artist who created it but it’s poignant) www.facebook.com/reel/888645980824942

“For Our Scientists” by Elle Cordova: www.facebook.com/reel/652372890792836

This one is great! “Feck Tr@mp” Sligo Bandits www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5mEDPl9wVs

“American Obituary” U2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ziTSYyook

Jesse Welles always comes up with something great! Here’s another one www.facebook.com/reel/1240079434217673

Kaye-”Epstein’s Island” www.facebook.com/reel/2205276386611201

“Yo Ho, Pam Bondi” – –Homestyle Dinner Rolls www.facebook.com/reel/912142291537117

The Dropkick Murphys –– “First Class Loser” www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0gdgOChktc (sent by Ed McGuirl).

“Get The Ice Out” posted to YouTube by John D. Cundle www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-669AAvIgo

Jesse Welles-”Better To Die in Iran”

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1651019895931472

Eric Anderson-”Stand Up and Resist”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkQMesV-3GE&list=RDzkQMesV-3GE&start_radio=1

“Another War” Carsie Blanton

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1423355081998065

“If A Tree Fell” Billy Simmons, Jr

https://www.facebook.com/reel/923239533386833

Blood n Dreams -“All Rise Up” https://youtube.com/shorts/9PiDdqJUvlQ?si=04exhLiEQvlOnFD2

Blood n Dreams – ˜No More Kings” https://youtube.com/shorts/_GsDj3xJqvI?si=uQOxfq-vOWZjoBNc

“If A Tree”-Mallory Chipman

https://www.facebook.com/reel/26611672491789744

“The Mantrum” Big Merla

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1196386395954257

Jas Van Cleve – “We Didn’t Know”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UzvIEQpJA8

“The Ballad of Stephen Miller” (from the record “MAGA Country”) – Bruce Kluger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v49Pxsshz1o&list=RDv49Pxsshz1o&start_radio=1

THE REASON — by David Ippolito

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1z6JO-Ez18

“Living on a Thin Line” by The Kinks 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjOeWiPZeZw&list=RDyjOeWiPZeZw&start_radio=1

Still Rivers – “No Kings, No ICE, No War”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L54sDgDICs&list=PLhIof2GTkkV1k4-zMtvKAuiOAUlQoxniZ&index=2

John Flynn – “American Dissident”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGSqfdMTn3Y&list=PLhIof2GTkkV1k4-zMtvKAuiOAUlQoxniZ&index=4

“Tr@mp Lyin’ 9-5”

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1268167802110388&rdid=wZifpVopAjyQjf4J

“Fuck MAGA” · Lacey Anne Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaNf_JrEUbY&list=RD6ced2YB_w88&index=12

“Go Fuck Yourself” · Mr.Cine · Filippo Cinetto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ced2YB_w88&list=RD6ced2YB_w88&start_radio=1

Big Merta

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1265943488960628

“No Nukes Never” Ed McGuirl

https://edmcguirl.bandcamp.com/track/no-nukes-never

“Yesterday Was Not Too Soon” Ed McGuirl

https://edmcguirl.bandcamp.com/track/yesterday-was-not-too-soon

“The Fields Are Alive” Ed McGuirl

https://youtu.be/6BrwF2W7tS0?si=SLSXRNF-2o6rr6UQ

“Who Would Jesus Bomb?” Rainbow Girls

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1670012090674690

“Some Men Deserve to Die” by Trevin Francko

https://www.facebook.com/reel/4067227890242280

“Trumpy Days” by The Amari.

https://on.soundcloud.com/0l1TaRaOBB3tjk7JDQ

“The Wannabe King“ Chris Haddox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzdcZzwKcdE&list=PLhIof2GTkkV1k4-zMtvKAuiOAUlQoxniZ&index=4

“No Kings! No Kings!” Tom Chapin / John Forster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNR5mbs8WBE&list=PLhIof2GTkkV1k4-zMtvKAuiOAUlQoxniZ

Crowes Pasture – “Coming for You Next”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA7Q9dlgmow&list=PLhIof2GTkkV2xRu1NZiKoxob9C-Q442W_

Hana Zara: “The Ballad of Husker Scruggs”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efd8uZ5CllE&list=RDefd8uZ5CllE&start_radio=1

Katie Dahl: “A Song for Minnesota”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–P3b3D4uLM&list=RD–P3b3D4uLM&start_radio=1

Sarah Larkin: “Jesus Isn’t Comin’”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub_RcnJp3LU&list=RDUb_RcnJp3LU&start_radio=1

Christine Bilé: “Lend a Hand”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf9AIuMf-Ig&list=RDgf9AIuMf-Ig&start_radio=1

Queen Esther: “Home Free”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3bOZPphPrY&list=RDZ3bOZPphPrY&start_radio=1

Bev Grant: Small Town Girl”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3u-CuwKTk&list=RDzK3u-CuwKTk&start_radio=1

Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: “Me Too”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BouCqIEhTkU&list=RDBouCqIEhTkU&start_radio=1

Emma’s Revolution: “No ICE”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ma2kX7sDs&list=RDy-ma2kX7sDs&start_radio=1

Alex Radus: “Where Liberty Lives”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtFUBqXZmHc&list=RDPtFUBqXZmHc&start_radio=1

Tom Prasada-Rao: “For What It’s Worth”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sblalrN3K6g&list=RDsblalrN3K6g&start_radio=1

John Flynn: “America’s Game”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FNJxHDHAwg&list=RD5FNJxHDHAwg&start_radio=1

Martin Kerr: “Immigrants”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5y7S4g2jTE&list=RDm5y7S4g2jTE&start_radio=1

Brian Claflin: “ICE on the Road (for Renee Nicole Good)”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtNRPBmr_M&list=RDOQtNRPBmr_M&start_radio=1

John Louis: “Unmarked Vans”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgwUsdUr26M&list=RDxgwUsdUr26M&start_radio=1

Joe Rathburn & Musicians for Good: “Did You See What I Saw (The Ballad of Renee Nicole Good)”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7varL1VtyY&list=RDu7varL1VtyY&start_radio=1