What are MVP Partner Organizations Doing to Block the Trump Agenda?

In competitive U.S. House districts across the country, MVP local partners are organizing to hold the nation’s most vulnerable GOP representatives’ feet to the fire — while also keeping that same heat on Democratic representatives! — to block Trump’s agenda.

Here is just a small sampling of the dozens and dozens of actions our partners have instigated, organized, and mobilized in the past month. Make sure to also check out the press hits below, filled with constituents’ human stories that will simultaneously break your heart and fire you up to keep up the fight.

Graphic: AZ Working Families Power + other MVP partners

In Arizona’s 6th Congressional District, MVP partner Working Families Power teamed up with Honest Arizona, LUCHA, Care in Action, AZ Jews for Justice, and SEIU to hold an “empty chair” town hall meeting to call out GOP Rep. Juan Ciscomani (2024 win margin: 2.5% – 10,822 votes) specifically around his willingness to cut funding to important federal programs like Medicaid and Medicare. Press hit »

Screenshot: Yellowscene Magazine. “Hundreds Turn Out To Demand Accountability From Absent Rep. Gabe Evans,” 3/22/2025

In Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, MVP partners Indivisible, Working Families Power, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition Action Fund, and others held a town hall to protest GOP Rep. Gabe Evans (2024 win margin: 0.7% – 2,449 votes) and “the DOGEing of essential federal institutions, the mass firing of federal workers across Colorado and the nation, and devastating impending cuts to vital social safety nets like Medicaid.” Press hit »

Photo: Maine People’s Alliance & Food AND Medicine – Overflow attendance at a Bangor town hall (which Rep Jared Golden failed to attend)

In Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, MVP partners Maine People’s Alliance and Food AND Medicine (as well as other groups) organized a town hall in Bangor pressuring absentee Democratic Rep. Jared Golden (2024 win margin: 0.7% – 2,706 votes) to fight back forcibly on GOP attacks on veterans’ benefits, Medicare and Medicaid, and the Constitution. Press hit » 

Screenshot: The Detroit News, “Protesters target local congressional offices over Elon Musk access, demand action” | 2/10/2025

Across Michigan, a dozen MVP partner groups have been organizing call-ins, protests, and lobby days, pressuring their entire congressional delegation, including vulnerable GOP Rep. Tom Barrett (2024 win margin: 3.7%, 16,763 votes) in MI-07, to stop Trump and Elon Musk from slashing critical programs. Press hit »

Screenshot: SI Live, “Let’s talk, protesters say: Rally at Staten Island Rep. Malliotakis office demands town hall meeting.” 3/16/2025

In New York’s 11th Congressional District, MVP partners Citizen Action NY (CANY), Indivisible’s Brooklyn chapter, and others helped organize a protest outside the office of GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, demanding a town hall meeting with constituents. Press hit »

Screenshot: Indivisible Brooklyn’s Bluesky account, 3/25/2025: Coverage of NY-11 March and Die-In on 3/16/2025.

When it was clear Rep. Malliotakis would not agree to a town hall, they organized an “Empty Chair Town Hall” for constituents to voice their concerns.

Screenshot: Indivisible Brooklyn’s Bluesky account, 3/19/2025: Staten Island “Empty Chair” Town Hall to Pressure NY-11 GOP Rep. Malliotakis – Organized by MVP partners Citizen Action of NY, Make the Road NY, Indivisible Brooklyn, and other allied groups

In this same district, MVP partners and other local allied groups held a protest and “Die-In” outside Rep. Malliotakis’s Brooklyn office. Press hit »

Screenshot: WBRE Wilkes-Barre, “Protestors march in Wilkes-Barre against DOGE cuts,” 3/1/2025. Protest organized by MVP partner Action Together NEPA.

In Pennsylvania 7th and 8th Congressional Districts, Action Together NEPA has been targeting vulnerable GOP Representatives MacKenzie (in PA-07; 2024 win margin: 1.0% – 4,062 votes) and Bresnahan (in PA-08; 2024 win margin: 1.6% – 6,252 votes) especially, with marches, rallies and call-ins. 

Other MVP partners including Make The Road PA, PA Stands Up, and Working Families Power have also been organizing constituents to pressure Reps. Mackenzie and Bresnahan on cuts to Medicaid. 

For coverage of Action Together NEPA’s anti-Trump march and rally in the wind and cold in Wilkes-Barre on March 1, see press hits here and here. 

Graphic: WI Working Families Power + other MVP partners

In Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District, MVP partners Working Families Power and Main Street Alliance, with other local allies, organized a town hall meeting to question absentee GOP Rep. Van Orden (2024 win margin: 2.7% – 11,256 votes) on Medicaid, social security, and other issues critical to western Wisconsin. Press hit here »

Also in Wisconsin: 

• As the Trump administration passes Executive Orders week after week that impact rural communities, agriculture, and the environment, the Wisconsin Farmers Union (WFU) has been surveying their members on exactly how they are impacted by recent federal policies. In talks with their members, they have surfaced stories of family farmers being out up to $70,000 in funds the federal government was supposed to cover for crops produced in Wisconsin that were going to alleviate hunger in other parts of the world. WFU is now working with elected officials to surface their members’ concerns and make it clear what constituents want and need from their representatives in Congress. 
• In related efforts: Main Street Alliance, a national MVP partner with the largest concentration of their small business owner members in the state of Wisconsin, is involved in three lawsuits against the Trump administration, and is using this federal work to build electoral momentum among their members in the 3rd Congressional District.

And, last but not least, in states across the country: MVP national partner Equality Federation helped stall a Trans Athlete Ban bill in the Senate by organizing with its state affiliates (in AZ, FL, GA, MI, OH, OR, NC, NJ, MD, ME, TX, UT, and VA) to send calls, emails, and petitions from constituents to Democratic and Republican Senators alike. 

Each state affiliate tailored its messaging depending on the state’s constituency and target Senator — but all were united around a common message: “If you truly want to protect women, protect them from the real harms they face: unfair wages, inequitable medical treatment, and a law enforcement system that often fails to support victims.”

So what? Is this all just a “flash in the pan”?

All of this grassroots energy is not a “flash in the pan” — it’s the beginning of the end of Trump’s legislative agenda. These actions combine two powerful forces:

1. Spontaneous, seething grassroots anger, and
2. Year-round local organizations that can channel that anger into strategic action.

AP News, 2024 House Election Results map

Here’s the premise:

• Republicans have a wildly slim 215-210 majority in the U.S. House.
• Nine of those GOP Reps won by under 3% (see AP 2024 election results).
• If we pressure just three GOP Reps to vote “nay,” we stop a bad bill in its tracks.
• If we flip just three GOP seats in 2026, we cut off Trump’s entire legislative agenda.
• We lost the House in 2024 by just 7,310 votes across three seats. 
• By building and strengthening alliances of community, labor, and activist groups in the most narrowly held GOP districts, we can stop the worst bills in 2025 — while building momentum for 2026.

All of this is why MVP has helped to launch something called The Battleground Alliance.

The Battleground Alliance is a massive national collaboration of organizing groups to hold Congresspeople’s feet to the fire in 2025, flip the House in 2026, and — maybe most importantly — scale up a coordinated, year-round organizing presence in the swingiest swing districts, so we can keep those seats over the long term.

MVP’s GOP-held House targets for voter organizing and mobilizations in 2025

All of the stories above are perfect examples of Phase 1 of this plan. And they are not one-offs, but part of our “opening shots” in a much larger strategy that extends through 2026 and beyond.

In each of these districts, MVP national allies and local partner organizations are coming together to turn grassroots outrage into organized protest, organized protest into sustained pressure, and sustained pressure finally into voter mobilization.

Flipping the House in 2026 won’t solve everything — for instance, we’ve already seen some of the cruel and heinous things the Trump administration can do without consent of Congress (legally and otherwise) — but if we regain that chamber next year, it will blunt the administration’s momentum and stop MAGA’s legislative agenda in its tracks.

“OK, but will there even be elections in 2026? Does any of this matter?”

Yes, Trump is taking the country further into authoritarianism each day, and it’s right to wonder, “will there even be free and fair elections in 2026?!” — but remember, state and local officials are in charge of elections.

For this reason, it would be enormously hard for the Trump administration to simply end elections (see this Vox article under the section header: “Democracy is not lost”). 

And yes, Trump is trying to enact voter suppression on a massive scale – and we will have no choice but to fight this, as groups like the ACLU and others are already gearing up to do. But this cannot be an argument for giving up — on the contrary, it has to be an argument for fighting harder.

So let’s fight harder.

Check out our full plan and join the fight.