> Can you be more specific and point to text that discuss strategies for the people to protect and increase their freedom vis a vis a "political class" that want to coerce and gaslight them.

I'd start with Revolutionary Self-Theory;

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/larry-law-revolutionary-self-theory

Society of the Spectacle by Debord goes much deeper on describing the problem, but there's not so much there in the way of tactics.

The CrimethInc. primer Days of War, Nights of Love is worth a look too;

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-days-of-war-nights-of-love