Resources for Federal Employees

EPN provides resources for federal employees to help them navigate this moment, including information about their rights, reductions in force, and voluntary retirements; and connections to legal and other support.

From one listing on Googledocs (!):

• What to do first:
• Organize your community and set up safe communications channels:
• Having a secure place to share information and collaborate has been critical for pushing back against these moves.
• Set up Signal
• Ensure you have multiple moderators for groups and set disappearing messages (1 week is a good place to start, but you can go down to 1 day or less; please note those working in far-off places with little service such as Department of Interior, National Parks, Native American Reservations, rural communities, might opt out of this due to delayed communications and limited wifi abilities.)
• Basic guide to using signal: https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal
• Both broad/large groups and specific smaller topical groups will be helpful
• Recruit from existing networks.
• Of course talent is not limited to previous appointees, so build broad strong networks.
• Create a Team Signal to make sure everyone has access to information and take daily roll calls and team check-ins on everyone’s mental and physical health.
• If you already have relationships with trusted advocates, particularly those with strong Hill and press relationships, include them early.
• Develop a central information tracking location — could be a google doc for central messages, materials, advocacy content.
• Create dummy gmail accounts separate from your personal email account to set up document sharing.
• Set up personal digital security and doxxing protection:
• Use a password manager like 1password
• Activist Checklist has a great set of resources, including a Fed specific page
• Tool Guides from EFF: https://ssd.eff.org/module-categories/tool-guides
• If you’re at immediate risk for being doxxed:
• Reach out to the Public Service Alliance: https://thepublicservicealliance.com/
• Digital Security Hotline can support you directly: https://www.accessnow.org/help/ and email: help [at] accessnow.org (help[at]accessnow[dot]org)
• Consider paid service like DeleteMe ($129/yr)

Lambert here: There’s no publication date on the page, but it’s listed on this page, which is dated February 24, 2025