Political Art and Slogans

The designs on this page are for protest and support - trying to take a message and create an image that provides immediate impact on a tee or sticker.   The challenge is to create a bright and positive message instead of a negative and miserable one.

Our political masters thrive on fear and division.  Protest should be the opposite using happiness and unity to make the point.

The best designs are those that people make for marches and demos using wit and art in equal measure.  Pretty much everything else is a commercial corruption of the original idea.  You know your slogan is finished when the models on the catwalk are wearing it as a fashion statement.

As my protest design collection has grown over the years so too has the number of bans inflicted on related merchandise.  Phrases previously allowed are cancelled due to wokedom.  Other designs fall foul of the need to shut down anything people can identify with or gather around.  These are oppressive and worrying times for anyone who cares about personal freedom and the right to self-expression.

​Here is a random AZ of designs with a little comment on the whys and wherefores of them. 
Live Free Or Die design shows a hand drawn skull with Stars and Stripes behind the eyes and nose sockets, with the words

Live Free Or Die Gifts >>

Anarchy

Placing the anarchy design below on product amuses me.   That commercialisation is the exactly the opposite of anarchy in my opinion.  Wearing the tee while smashing a Starbucks window makes little sense.

The image is a fiery version of the simple graffiti logo spray painted wherever a wall is available. 

​I like the graphic and the anarchic sentiment as well.  If only we could smash the system and start a utopia.  The problem is someone always ends up in charge, and it begins all over again.
Picture

Anarchy Gifts >>

Anti Social Media

An anti social media design. Because networking with people you don't know about volatile subjects online is a fast way to achieve nothing.


Except irritation.


There is a feeling of the media algorithms herding you into an echo chamber you never really asked to join. Let alone the privacy issues of your preferences being stored forever in an electronic warehouse.

Anti Social Media design shows the sheep flocking to the Big Tech social media networks.

Anti Social Media Gifts >>

Clown World

Some phrases resound no matter where you sit on the political spectrum.

Clown World is one of those.  We are living in a world of untruths, governed by clowns and forced to sit in a circus of lies.

This is laughable, except the reality is dangerous.  If we only have clowns in clown world who will speak up for us?
Clown World celebrates living in a circus where everything is back to front and upside down. The louder the music, the faster the carousel spins, the more they lie. The clowns are in charge and we must bow down obediently. Features wording plus clown face and globe in hand drawn satire.

Clown World Gifts >>

Defund The Police

In 2020 as a white cop murders a black person this slogan first appeared.  In an extraordinary move the Minneapolis council voted to indeed - defund the police.  Quite what happens next is unclear.
Defund the Police design features a happy hat-wearing pig saying

Defund The Police Gifts >>

Disagree Better

Disagree Better came to my notice after the tragedy of Charlie Kirk. An example of how political discourse has reached such heat that people on all sides are angry beyond reason. Whipped up by politicians and media players, both mainstream and alternative.


The idea is that people return to debate as a healthy way to express different opinions and challenge in a reasonable way. Sounds good to me.

Disagree Better shows a crowd of people marching under a single banner. Because debate, discourse and dialogue is better than getting angry. This group is working out their differences under a shared goal - to Disagree Better!

Disagree Better Gifts >>

Disobey

Perhaps the simplest of all political slogans, Disobey sums up a course of action. If you disagree with instruction from higher ups - take no notice. Go your own way. Eventually they will catch you, or give up trying.


Either way you have made a stand. Don't make it easy for them.

Disobey design features a flock of obedient sheep obeying the latest farming directive. One black sheep thinks for itself and chooses its own path. Fun graphic for those who don't feel like following orders.

Disobey Gifts >>

Drain the Swamp

What a great slogan for an election campaign Drain the Swamp is. 

​Everyone knows how corrupt and infested the political system in any country is and how swamp like and slow moving.

The shame is that swamps are hard to get rid of.  No sooner do you start clearing out the old one then a new swamp - worse than the one before - appears.

Why would career politicians and civil servants have it any other way?  Their livelihoods depend on an expanding endless swamp. 
Drain the Swamp sign sinking into a swamp

Drain The Swamp Gifts >>

Enough Is Enough

The great thing, from the point of view of a tee designer, is Enough Is Enough covers many protest angles.

Whatever side you are on, the point of protest is often to stop something you disagree with.  Enough Is Enough contains the essential soundbite style three word phrase.  It protests against The Thing, whatever that may be.  And it sets a time limit on it.

Stop it, right now, because enough is enough.
Enough Is Enough design shows a confident and happy person holding their hand up. The words

Enough Is Enough Gifts >>

Hold The Line

Hold The Line means to stand your ground against incoming adversaries, whether financial, health or political enemies.

This is a design for proud Americans who respect the flag, the eagle and all it stands for.
Hold The Line design features a proud and patriotic American Eagle with the phrase

Hold The Line Gifts >>

Luddite

A Luddite is an often disparaging term used to describe people who are against technology.  

It refers to the protesters against the Industrial Revolution - the first march of the machines in the 17th century when skilled workers were being replaced for more efficiency and profit.

The opinion of this site is that Luddites were heroes. 

A new age is coming where every job that can be done by cheap labour or robot is taken from the traditional workforce. 

​Opinions differ on whether this leads to an income for all or mass unemployment and civil unrest.

​It might be an idea to wake up.

Luddite is a term to value those crafts we have.  To treasure and protect them against globalisation and worker exploitation.
A traditional worker with hand tools creates a

Luddite Gifts >>

Make It Make Sense

Ever feel like the world has lost it's mind?


Whatever side of the political spectrum you inhabit there are times when the media headlines seem to indicate a world out of control.


Make It Make Sense is a simple expression of exasperation. Somebody make some sense out of it.

Make It Make Sense design is for those struggling to make sense of it all. Shows a querying guy with arms outstretched with the message

Make It Make Sense Gifts >>

Red Triangle

The inverted red triangle was worn by Nazi concentration camp political prisoners.  It is an image that is banned in some places because our world is so sensitive that a red triangle is potentially subversive.

The banning of images, memes, books, thoughts and freedoms are exactly why more people should wear the red triangle. 

​We are all political prisoners now.
Inverted Red Triangle is for dissident political types who want to show their dissent - wear it with pride!

Red Triangle Gifts >>

Resist

Resisting is a peaceful way to say no. Simply make life difficult for those who would seek to control you. March, strike, refuse to comply. All actions that are permissible and a way to build comradeship with your fellow resistance team.


There are few things as much fun as marching with a crowd of like-minded people.


Resist!

Resist protest design shows group of people marching with a large

Resist Gifts >>

Rules For Thee

Rules for thee but not for me sums up the two-tier society we live in.  Where the rulers such as politicians, celebrities and mass media instruct the great unwashed, that's you and me, how to behave.

We have to stop travelling, gathering together, eating meat and generally enjoying ourselves while they carry on as before.  We can enjoy their good fortune by pressing our noses against the restaurant window glass until moved on by their police force.

It's about the ruling class and the divide between rich entitled and the rest of us.
Rules For Thee But Not For Me sums up the attitude of the ruling class to those beneath them, issuing endless instructions which they themselves are free to ignore.

Rules For Thee Gifts >>

Stand For The Flag

The opposite of Take A Knee - Stand For The Flag encourages people to take a patriotic or traditional stance.

The National Anthem is not the time to be protesting - it is a time to respect your country, citizens and society.
Stand For The Flag features an American Eagle saying the words

Stand For The Flag Gifts >>

They Can't Arrest Us All

If enough people turn out to protest the state can't cope with it. They aren't enough police, vans, and cells to deal with the protesters.


That was truer in the days before mass surveillance. Now the arrests can take place weeks after the initial protest with an early morning knock on the door from your local police force.


However. There is still some truth to it. And strength in numbers is a good place to be when you're protesting.

A Civil Disobedience design,

They Can't Arrest Us All Gifts >>

Thin Blue Line

How ironic that the UK Met police were instructed NOT to wear their version of the US Thin Blue Line design for fear of giving offence when policing.  Because in our topsy-turvy world of make believe and fee-fees, allowing coppers to celebrate and have some pride in their civic role could be perceived as dangerous.

Whereas a bastardized rainbow flag covering all manner of sexual preferences is fine - nay compulsory - to be displayed in schools, churches and hospitals.

Ah well.  The Thin Blue Line becomes a symbol of protest. 
The Thin Blue Line UK flag supports our police force. It is now yet another symbol disapproved of by the easily outraged. Support free speech and the police!

Thin Blue Line UK Police Gifts >>

Uniparty

Uniparty design takes the Democrat Donkey and the Republican Elephant and combines them to create a single corrupt self-serving globalist beast.

​Who would vote for this animal which represents nobody - left or right.

Although this is an American themed design using the logos of the two parties, the principle applies across the world where democracy is practiced.  The main parties as in Orwell's Animal Farm have become indistinguishable.  When an occasional figure appears to offer a real choice they are hounded and victimised by coordinated attacks from the Establishment, Media and the usual State Actors.

This problem hurts both sides of the political debate equally.  When the representatives no longer represent and alternatives are not allowed the voters are the losers.
Uniparty design shows the political animals merged into one beast. The word

Uniparty Gifts >>

World's Gone Mad

World's Gone Mad is a statement of exasperation and confusion. Similar in design and purpose to the Make It Make Sense above.

World's Gone Mad is for people watching current events, politicians, media, celebs and wondering what happened to our world. It went mad.

World's Gone Mad Gifts >>

The End of My Protest

That is the end of this collection of political slogans and images.


The players in politics, corporates, the super rich and media seem to have the game so sewn up and controlled that it is hard to see hope for democracy, decency, openness and honesty.


​The best way to fight back may be to ignore them. Without attention they are nothing. Switch the news off, don't use social media and try to celebrate the good things people can do.


Created by Mark Ewbie. Last Updated: October 11, 2025.