What do we do if Trump tries to overturn the election? (MVP and our allies have a plan.)
Count Every Vote rally in Milwaukee, 2022, with Working Families Organization, Voces de la Frontera Action, and others (Photo: Reema Ahmad, MVP)
Trump and the GOP are preparing to overturn the 2024 elections. MVP and our partners are part of the national effort to stop them.
We’ve just put out an overview of our plan, which lays out the threats we anticipate at every key stage of the electoral timeline, as well as our five-part plan to ensure a safe, democratic process through Inauguration Day.
Based on our ongoing analysis of anticipated threats, we are investing in the following objectives:
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Count Every Vote: Support partners’ legal efforts to ensure voters’ access to the polls; provide access to tech tools and training to bolster partners’ ballot-curing campaigns.
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Mobilize Public Support: Support our partners in leveraging unified messaging and mass demonstrations of public support (see Philly 2020) to defend the electoral process through Inauguration Day.
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Bolster Legal Action: Support our partners’ and allies’ court cases – from enlisting lawyers to recruiting plaintiffs, ensuring testifiers’ safety, mobilizing public support, and driving the media narrative.
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Protect Physical Safety: Support safety training for partners’ staff and volunteers, so they can safely turn out voters — and help ensure community safety in the event of unrest after Election Day.
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Strengthen Digital Security: Support our partners to assess, monitor, and fortify their digital infrastructure; and ensure that data is safe, synced, and secure on platforms with the greatest data integrity.
Read the full strategy overview here.
More than ever, Election Day is an inflection point, not the endpoint.
Now through Inauguration Day, every dollar MVP can move will help our partners:
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Turn out every last vote.
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Make sure every vote is counted.
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Bolster the legal and mass mobilization strategies to stop Trump from overturning the election.
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Mount rapid-response efforts and build an unprecedented resistance movement if Trump wins.
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Push for the most bold, progressive agenda possible for the first 100 days if Harris wins.
To support our local partners’ work in the critical period after Election Day, please contribute here.
