Winning white, working-class voters to defeat Susan Collins in Maine? Building on Democratic momentum to elect Roy Cooper in North Carolina? Using Trump’s redistricting war against him? Targeting House races where Republicans won by tiny margins? That’s how we are going to flip the House and Senate this November.
MVP’s partners are ready, but they need us to help make it happen. Check out a sampling of their plans below, and help us support them here.
Photo: Carolina Federation getting out the vote in the North Carolina 2026 Democratic primary elections.
AREA #1: Flip the U.S. Senate and Win Key Statewide Elections
North Carolina: Elect Roy Cooper to the U.S. Senate and Re-Elect Anita Earls to the North Carolina Supreme Court
MVP partners are working hard to elect former Governor Roy Cooper to flip one of the most competitive U.S. Senate seats in the country. Winning this race will increase Democrats’ margin of power in the Senate, which will be crucial for blocking the Trump agenda. Electing Roy Cooper would also help pave the way to flip North Carolina’s second must-win Senate seat in 2028.
MVP partners are also focused on the critical race to re-elect state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls. As one of only two Democrats on the court, and after the protracted court challenge to Allison Riggs’ 2024 win, it’s important to win this race decisively. Re-electing Anita Earls would help open the way to flip two more seats on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2028, shifting the Court’s majority to Democrats ahead of the 2030 census and redistricting. Winning this year, which would also make a 2028 victory easier, is the only viable path toward ensuring fair Congressional and state legislative electoral maps at the end of the decade.
To win in November, MVP partners need to scale up now to successfully engage and persuade voters this spring and summer. Selected highlights of spring and early summer work include:
- Carolina Federation will engage primarily Black, Brown, and working-class voters living in the group’s four core counties: Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, and New Hanover — all of which Kamala Harris won in 2024.
- North Carolina Asian Americans Together in Action (NCAAT in Action) will run a campus ambassador program and creator cohort to organize young North Carolinians online and on college campuses. Launching in early summer, the creator cohort will pilot partnerships with local influencers to counter disinformation and amplify authentic, online narratives focused on winning the U.S. Senate and NC Supreme Court races.
Photo: Mobile home residents in August, ME rally for rent stabilization with Maine Labor Climate Council.
Maine: Defeat Susan Collins by Organizing White, Working-Class Voters
We need to mobilize every vote possible to defeat Susan Collins and flip this Maine U.S. Senate seat. That includes engaging and mobilizing white, working-class voters who have historically been a more conservative-leaning voting bloc. The Maine Mobile Homes Campaign, led by MVP partner Maine Labor Climate Council (MLCC), aims to do just that — engage white, working-class voters around the issues that impact their lives to mobilize them in support of the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.
With 469 mobile home parks across the state, mobile homes make up a significant share of Maine’s housing. MLCC’s Maine Mobile Homes Campaign grew out of a 2024 electoral canvassing partnership with the Maine AFL-CIO that revealed housing insecurity — driven by rising lot rents and private equity ownership — as the dominant concern among mobile home residents. Building on emerging resident organizing successes, MLCC has spent the past five months implementing a door-to-door, park-wide organizing model that brings neighbors together to identify shared grievances, build majority support, and pursue collective action, such as advocating for municipal rent stabilization ordinances, while elevating residents’ voices through media advocacy.
The campaign aims to capitalize on recent successes to educate mobile home residents about the U.S. Senate race, shifting their focus to supporting a Democratic candidate who will fight for the issues they care about: economic and housing justice, affordability, and good-paying jobs.
MLCC’s Maine Mobile Home Campaign is a promising new approach to engage white, working-class voters on the issues that actually affect their lives, rather than contrived MAGA wedge issues like immigration, DEI, and trans rights.
Photo: Pennsylvania Working Families Party training Neighborhood Captains.
AREA #2: Flip the U.S. House and Build Power in Swing Districts
Multi-state: Scale Ground Game to Protect or Flip CO and CA House Seats
Colorado
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition Action Fund (CIRC Action) is focused on flipping Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, which the Republican incumbent won by only 2,449 votes in 2024. CIRC Action will conduct a targeted outreach campaign aimed at low-propensity voters, emphasizing the impact of immigration policies on their daily lives. Outreach will include canvassing, phone banking, and text messaging to connect with approximately 150,000 voters. Parallel efforts will support state legislative and gubernatorial races, where maintaining and expanding pro-immigrant majorities in the state Senate, state House, and Governor’s Office is crucial.
CIRC Action’s voter universe will focus on registered voters in CO-08 who are Latine, AAPI, Black, or from immigrant backgrounds; unaffiliated or Democratic; under 35 years old; women; and residents of low-income households. These communities are central to securing pro-immigrant representation and reflect the diverse base of CO-08, which is just north of Denver and east of Boulder.
California
After winning Proposition 50 in the fall, Democrats have a chance to flip up to five U.S. House seats in California. MVP partner Battleground California is focused on flipping California’s 22nd and 48th Congressional Districts and protecting California’s 13th and 45th Congressional Districts.
To win, Battleground California is currently expanding its coalition and running accountability campaigns against Republicans in CA-22 and CA-48, which will soon transition into a large-scale voter mobilization effort ahead of November. Battleground California plays a unique convening role, ensuring coalition members’ voter engagement efforts, including field and messaging, are data-driven, coordinated, and complementary.
Battleground California needs to rapidly scale its programs and coordination efforts to successfully transition from congressional accountability to voter mobilization ahead of California’s primary election on June 2, to prepare voters to turn out in November.
Pennsylvania: Expand Neighborhood Captains Program to Flip Key House Seats
MVP partners in Pennsylvania, led by the Pennsylvania Working Families Party, are building on their successful 2025 election work to scale a Neighborhood Captains program to flip Pennsylvania’s 7th, 8th, and 10th Congressional Districts. Each Neighborhood Captain will be responsible for sustained voter outreach to neighbors in their own community. They will engage in deep canvassing — rather than transactional door knocking — characterized by a series of meaningful conversations with voters about their lives and the issues they care about. These conversations build connection, trust, and understanding, increasing voters’ likelihood to turn out to vote. Neighborhood Captains will connect issues voters care about to voting for the Democratic candidates in PA-07, PA-08, and PA-10 to flip these three House seats. Captains receive a stipend for their commitment to the program.
The Working Families Party needs funds now to bring on at least 15 captains in PA-08, at least 20 in PA-10, and at least 50 in PA-07 for the initial phase of outreach this spring and early summer.
Screenshot: More Perfect Union Action’s launch of More Perfect University — a campus-based program to build young people’s online organizing skills.
AREA #3: Organize the Progressive Youth Vote Online and On Campus
Multistate: Nurture and Amplify Young Online Creators to Counter MAGA and Win the Midterms
To counter the MAGA youth machine, we must become more rigorous about organizing young people where they are: online. MVP partner More Perfect Union Action (MPUA) — a center-left digital media and organizing initiative — is focused on rapidly expanding its reach among people under 45 to counter the scale of the right-wing digital organizing behemoth, PragerU.
MPUA’s growing digital community aims to convert passive viewers into active participants and local organizers, using a funnel that starts with broad brand awareness and progresses to deeper, substantive engagement, while tracking multiple youth engagement pathways. Its content strategy emphasizes relatable messengers and youth ownership of content.
This year, MPUA is launching a media-first college campus program, More Perfect University, focused on helping students become content creators and citizen journalists. Students will submit content to MPUA, which will amplify the best content across its far-reaching online platforms, including YouTube and Instagram. This process will support student leaders in building their own brands while also spreading awareness about the issues young people care about and connecting those issues to candidates on the ballot. MPUA aims to launch the program in the final weeks of the spring semester and establish partnerships with students before the summer.
Multistate: Organize Young People on College Campuses to Build Power and Turn Out the Progressive Vote
With the conservative Turning Point USA set to run the largest, most well-resourced program in its history, organizing and turning out young people has never been more important.
MVP partner Alliance for Youth Action (AYA) will work with state-based organizations to support their college campus organizing programs in 18 states, including Ohio, North Carolina, and Michigan. AYA has been leveraging the spring semester to get young people ready to vote in the fall, and is now gearing up for its Summer Organizing School and fall semester programs.
This summer, AYA will train 25 young organizers, building their skills in persuasion messaging, voter engagement tactics, and successful get-out-the-vote strategies. The summer organizing intensive sets participants up to hit the ground running, with Welcome Week programming in August and a final fall semester persuasion and turnout program leading up to November.
Photo: Mobile home residents in August, ME rally for rent stabilization with Maine Labor Climate Council.
AREA #4: Elect Grassroots Democrats in Red Strongholds
Recruit Democratic Candidates for Uncontested Local Offices and Strengthen Local Democratic Parties
With Democrats winning races up and down the ballot and overperforming in nearly every special election since the start of Trump’s second term, there is ample opportunity to increase Democratic margins, even in deep red geographies. MVP partner Contest Every Race (CER), a project of Movement Labs, recruits and supports Democrats to contest the 100,000 local, rural, partisan races that are currently uncontested each year. This number represents nearly half of all partisan races, meaning millions of voters — primarily in red and/or rural areas — have no Democratic option. Since 2018, CER has recruited over 12,000 candidates — many of them first-timers, women, and people of color — to run for state legislatures, county commissions, community college boards, and other local offices. Forty-four percent of CER’s candidates have won, defeating more than 5,600 Republicans who otherwise would have had no opponent, cutting into Republican margins in these areas. In 2026, CER is recruiting in 30 states and sharing its database of more than 300,000 prospective candidates with dozens of partners, like Run for Something, Emerge, School Board Project, state recruitment tables, and more.
CER also supports more than 390 county-level Democratic parties in overlooked rural areas through a quarterly grants program that distributes $600 per quarter after local parties meet certain goals (e.g., registering voters, hosting community service projects that boost the party’s brand, or fundraising locally). These small grants, plus access to tech tools that CER provides, can supercharge the impact of volunteer-led local parties. In 2026, CER is coordinating all its grantee teams around a single national action: raising money to purchase and forgive medical debt in their communities, branded under each local Democratic Party. The goal is to drive earned media, rebuild the Democratic brand in places it's most underwater, drive a contrast with Republicans who are voting to take away healthcare, and deliver real, tangible relief to voters before early ballots drop in the fall.
