• Who: Dozens of MVP partners across the country – we are in close touch and evaluating needs and opportunities to maximize impact.
• What: Protecting immigrant communities, defending LGBTQ+ rights, and responding to other urgent threats through mutual aid, know-your-rights trainings, local government advocacy, media and storytelling to put a human face on the issues, participation in lawsuits, and more.
• Where: Red, purple, and blue states across the country, because no community is safe from the chaos wrought by this administration.
• Why: We can’t just say “We survived the last Trump term, we’ll survive now.” Many did not survive. Many more had their lives destroyed and their dignity stripped. And now, many more will suffer and die when they lose access to basic civil protections, employment, food, shelter, and medications. We cannot and we will not allow this to happen again without a fight. Not on our watch.
• How much money: At least $1 million. We could deploy much more, but we also need to balance the need for rapid-response protection with long-term power strategies. (Although in many cases they are intimately connected; e.g. in Arizona, the organizing in 2010 against the anti-immigrant bill SB 1070 helped eventually flip Arizona blue in 2020).

• Who: A new alliance of national and local year-round organizing groups.
• What: Targeted campaigns to 1) push swing-district GOP House members to block MAGA legislation, and 2) hold each rep accountable for their votes — by flipping their seats in 2026.
• Where: 20+ House districts (every competitive district we need to flip or defend).
• Why: We lost the House in 2024 by just 7,310 votes across three seats. By building and strengthening all-hands-on-deck alliances of community, labor, and local activist groups in the most narrowly-held GOP districts, we can stop the worst bills in 2025 — while laying the groundwork to halt Trump’s entire legislative agenda by flipping the chamber in 2026.
• How much money: At least $2 million to launch Battleground Alliance and provide seed funding to several of the key national and local partners who are anchoring the work. 

• Who: Dozens of MVP partner organizations that function primarily by building large bases of youth, communities of color, labor, faith, and multiracial working-class communities.
• What: Strengthening state-level alliances built around shared analysis, vision, narrative, and infrastructure; providing capacity-building support to strengthen organizations and whole “state ecosystems”; and supporting campaigns that yield policy wins and increased political influence. We are in long-term committed relationships with these state alliance ecosystems.
• Where: The perennial battleground states (AZ, GA, MI, NC, NV, PA, WI) and other key states we are assessing.
• Why: We know this long-term approach works because we have seen it bear fruit. We are working closely with the architects of “the Minnesota model,” which led to some of the most sweeping policy wins of the last decade. This progress didn’t come out of nowhere – it was the result of over a decade of strategic base-building and organizing, much of which was led by MVP partners. 
• How much money: At least $4 million. This is the heart of our steady, long-term work over the next decade. We are in intensive conversations with our state-based partners about how to level up their organizing, and this initial investment will help them take strong steps in this direction.

• Who: We are currently mapping the landscape of media entrepreneurs, strategists, and intermediaries to identify our highest-impact partnerships. This will involve new levels of innovation and collaboration with a wide array of allies as well as media and tech players. 
• What: Seeding and scaling the best strategies to grow the progressive media ecosystem, as well as infusing smart media and culture-shifting strategies into MVP partners’ core organizing work.
• Where: We are examining national, state, and local strategies, with an emphasis on the perennial battleground states (AZ, GA, MI, NC, NV, PA, WI).
• Why: Like it or not, the media environment has radically changed and we have to “adapt or die.” Frankly, the other side is kicking our butt with an integrated digital comms and distributed organizing model. To compete for hearts and minds at a substantially higher order of magnitude, we must evolve our approach. This is a long-term strategy but we have to start mapping the landscape and making initial R&D investments ASAP – so we can impact 2026 and 2028.
• How much money: At least $1 million to get started. We are happy to make referrals to media-focused partner organizations to move this funding directly, but we also believe MVP has a unique role to play at the intersection of catalytic organizing and new media innovation. 

• Who: MVP partners including Wisconsin Conservation Voters, Voces de la Frontera Action, Blue Sky Waukesha, Fair Wisconsin, Wisconsin Working Families Party, Power to the Polls Wisconsin, and many more.
• What: Microtargeted voter persuasion and mobilization by door, phone, text, mail, digital ads, relational organizing, campus organizing, and more, using paid and volunteer-driven voter contact. Issue targeting will include: Community safety, reproductive freedom, climate, democracy, criminal justice reform, and labor rights.
• Where: Moderate-leaning to strongly Democratic voters in 20+ Wisconsin counties.
• Why: Besides direct impact on Wisconsinites, the WI Supreme Court might rule on cases that could swing the state’s electoral votes in 2028, and/or lead to Congressional redistricting that could flip a GOP-held House seat. Lastly, investing in this race is part of our 10+ year strategy to push Wisconsin to become a more progressive state like its neighbor, Minnesota.
• How much money: At least $2 million - this is the #1 most urgent need right now. Winning Wisconsin will also send a sorely needed national message, in this first major election of the Trump II era, that he does not have a mandate.

Unlike short-term candidate campaigns and TV ads that vanish after Election Day, the Battleground Alliance will be entirely powered by year-round, on-the-ground organizing, led in coordination by national and local organizations that can build long-lasting relationships, leadership, and community. This is how we build a sustainable power base to not only win the toughest seats in 2026, but to keep those seats long-term.

For more details: See above under “Pressure Congress”.