Trump is Trying to Steal the Midterms!
How Do We Know?
He’s Doing it in Plain Sight:
March 2025: An executive order trying to unilaterally overhaul election administration.
July 2025: Ordered Texas to gerrymander five new Republican House seats.
August 2025: An executive order to “get rid of” mail-in ballots ahead of the midterms.
January 2026: Told the House GOP “they should cancel the election.” He regretted not seizing the voting machines after 2020, and then later that month he sent goons to raid Fulton County’s election hub.
February 2026: Said Republicans should “nationalize” elections. The next day Steve Bannon said, “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” and urged Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.
March 2026: Issues an executive order to create state-by-state citizen lists and orders USPS to deliver mail ballots only to federally approved names. Installed election denier Dan Bishop to run DOJ’s “election-integrity” efforts.
April 2026: Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act, paving the way for racial gerrymanders in former Confederate states. Trump team threatens to force blue states to redraw their own maps.
June 2026: Raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a voter-registration nonprofit.
We Can Stop Him!
First – Help Dems Win Big!
The bigger we win, the harder it will be for the regime to deny the results. Therefore the first step in protecting the elections is to drive HUGE voter turnout amongst Democratic leaning voters. Here’s how:
- Prepare yourself and everyone you know to vote. Vote.org has easy to use tools to 1) check voter registration status, 2) register, 3) learn every state’s rules on early voting, mail voting, etc. 4) find polling places, and much more.
- Vote early in person and tell everyone you know to do the same. Find your state’s rules, deadlines and procedures at Vote.org.
- Get Out The Vote (GOTV) by writing postcards. Write postcards with friends every Wednesday from 10:00 – 12:00 at Preservation Hall in Wellfleet.
- GOTV by having meaningful conversations with voters from all backgrounds either in person or by phone from anywhere with Swing Left’s Ground Truth program. These are open ended conversations designed to build relationships and trust. Find a canvass here and/or sign up for a phonebank here.
- Donate to Swing Left’s Balance of Power Fund: This fund supports Democrats in the elections that will determine the national balance of power—all with a single donation. A mix of must-win U.S. House, Senate, and gubernatorial races across the country, this is a high impact donation! Read more about Swing Left’s strategy here.
- Donate to Black Voters Matter Fund: To build Black political power by strengthening local organizations, expanding civic engagement, building cross-community coalitions, and advancing policies that protect and empower Black communities.
- Donate to Movement Voter Project: To fund local organizing in every swingable Senate, House, and downballot race — to build the biggest Blue Wave possible.
- Spread the word about and donate to Voteriders.org, a free resource to help voters get to the polls.
And – Take Direct Actions to Protect Elections:
Be a poll worker and encourage your family and friends to do so as well. Learn more at Powerthepolls.org.
Volunteer with VoProPros.com. This is the friendliest phonebanking you’ll ever do. You’ll notify people who have been dropped from voter rolls, help them register, contact them if their ballot has been rejected and help them “cure” their ballot, among many other things to help people access their right to vote. Learn more about the two ways to get involved here.
Sign up with Indivisible’s Hands Off Our Vote. You’ll be notified of key voting deadlines in your state, get updates on any threats to your voting rights and learn how to counter them, and play an important role in rapid response moments whenever and wherever the regime tries to pull dirty tricks.
If you live in or have friends or family in Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas, join or encourage your friends and family to join Indivisible’s Election Protection Corps. This is a grassroots network of volunteers dedicated to protecting the right to vote before, during, and after the 2026 election in the states where the threat of sabotage is highest.
Be prepared to mobilize peacefully if necessary. In the words of the folks from Protect Democracy, “There may be moments in the coming year when officials or institutions face intense pressure to violate the law or subvert election results. If so, peaceful, visible public action may be essential. When people come together in sufficient numbers to defend democracy and uphold the law, it works.”
Donate to the ACLU: To fund strategic litigation, advocacy, and organizing needed to take on voter suppression and gerrymandering and promote access to the ballot. Donate here.
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