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April 25, 2025

What Is MVP Doing to Stop Authoritarianism?

Scholars have laid out the authoritarian playbook and shared global lessons learned about how to pull democracy back from the brink. One indispensable component is civil resistance. Fueling this resistance is the crucial role MVP and our partners and allies have to play.

October 9, 2024

Could the Presidency and Congress All Come Down to… Nebraska?!

In Nebraska, MVP partners blocked the GOP from adopting a “winner-take-all” system in the Electoral College, which could have cost VP Harris the Presidential election. Now our partners are working to flip a U.S. House seat and a dark-horse Senate race — which could decide control of both chambers.

September 6, 2024

Michigan Partners Galvanizing Progressive Voters Around Campaign to Curb Money in Politics

A coalition of MVP partners is leveraging a bold state-level campaign to curb money in politics to galvanize progressive, pro-democracy voters around the November elections.

May 23, 2024

Funders Must Step Up to Engage Pro-Equality Voters This Year

MVP's 501(c)(3) sister entity, Movement Voter Fund, was featured in an op-ed in Inside Philanthropy co-authored by Arcus Foundation and Equality Federation. The op-ed discusses the urgent need for U.S. pro-democracy and equality movements to join forces in this pivotal election year.

May 14, 2024

The Courageous Giving Framework: A Philanthropic Strategy to Build a Just Democracy

In Nonprofit Quarterly, fundraising consultant Marsha Davis just shouted out Movement Voter Project as a top vehicle for funding grassroots voter engagement, as a key strategy for maintaining and building on the human and civil rights gains of the last 50 years.

May 10, 2024

Stories from the states: The power of early money

Thanks to early money, MVP partners are engaging voters on the issues and races that matter most to them. This in turn will help create a reverse-coattails effect in November, in which voter enthusiasm at the bottom of the ticket helps put our top-of-the-ticket candidates over the top.

February 29, 2024

Wisconsin: R.I.P. Gerrymandering, Hello Fair Maps!

In Wisconsin, our grassroots partners are celebrating fair maps signed into law this month by Democratic Governor Tony Evers, which will finally represent the people’s votes in the state legislature.

February 29, 2024

Stories from the states: Victories and momentum in WI, NY, PA, AZ, NC, and NH

Across the country, MVP local partners are organizing for victory up and down the ballot on November 5th — and for lasting policy change before and after.

January 31, 2024

Stories from the states: Wisconsin win, Florida flip, Santos special, and more

Celebrations and shout-outs to Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia!

December 19, 2023

Make a New Year’s Resolution to Fight Trump

Michelle Goldberg just shouted out MVP in her new New York Times op-ed, "Make a New Year’s Resolution to Fight Trump," urging everyone to stop authoritarianism in 2024 by investing now in local organizing.

November 1, 2023

Fall 2023 Newsletter: Heartbreak + Hope + Holding Us Together

These past few weeks have been intense, emotional, heartbreaking, horrifying. Even with everything going on, the MVP team is working hard to focus on our job: making sure we don’t have fascism in this country one year from now.

August 15, 2023

Trump Georgia Indictment: Swing-State Grassroots Groups Are Our Best Hope for 2024.

Trump was just indicted in Georgia for trying to subvert the 2020 election. If grassroots groups had turned out slightly fewer voters in three states, we’d be in a very different world right now.

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