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Run the Vote triptych, banda truck, runners, and I Voted sticker (video stills, via @yourphoenixfriend)

October 30, 2026

Run the Vote: LUCHA runs Phoenix voters to the polls with a live banda on wheels

LUCHA teamed up with two Phoenix run clubs and Banda La Experta for “Run the Vote,” a festive run to an early voting site, complete with banda playing from a flatbed truck and a DJ set at the finish.

Photo: MVP donors Sam McVeety and Jordan Goldwarg are long-time volunteer organizers and activists. Earlier this year, they gave their largest donation yet to MVP — 20 times their previous amount.

October 22, 2026

MVP gets it. That's why I donated big this year.

My husband and I gave our biggest donation yet to MVP. Here’s why.

Photo: Black Leaders Organizing Communities (BLOC) helping voters vote early in Wisconsin.

October 2, 2026

Biggest early vote in history?!

MVP and our partners are working to make 2026 the biggest early vote in history! MVP Executive Director Billy Wimsatt tells the story.

June 12, 2026

FBI raids an MVP partner in Ohio — what now?

The FBI raided our partners in Ohio, seizing laptops and even showing up at staffers’ homes. We’ve set up a democracy defense fund to support their work to fight back.

ACLU of New Hampshire - Homepage Graphic

May 29, 2026

Victory: Court strikes down anti-voter law after MVP partners’ lawsuit

Thanks to a lawsuit by the ACLU of NH, Forward Foundation, NH Youth Movement, and others, a federal court in New Hampshire just declared the state's 2024 anti-voter law unconstitutional.

Photo: MONARCA trains 700 constitutional observers to be election protection observers.

May 6, 2026

From Minnesota to the midterms: Protecting our communities and democracy

Organizers are turning rapid response networks to protect communities from ICE into networks to protect our democracy.

Photo: Common Cause NC at No Kings 3 in Charlotte, NC.

April 3, 2026

Frontline Digest: No Kings 3, redistricting, elections, and more!

From marching against autocracy to mobilizing at the ballot box for our future, MVP partners are out in these streets. Check out what they’ve been up to over the past few weeks.

December 18, 2025

Let’s jump-start January!

From ballot measure campaigns to campus organizing, MVP is already moving money to our partners to kick off critical nonpartisan work in 2026.

Inflatable dinosaur holding a People Not Politicians sign

October 22, 2025

Missouri redistricting: MVP partner, People Not Politicians, working to overturn rigged US House map

Missouri Republicans just passed gerrymandered U.S. House maps. People Not Politicians is fighting back, mobilizing 3,000 volunteers to gather signatures for a referendum to throw the maps out.

September 8, 2025

Casa San José takes on ICE in Pittsburgh

In Pittsburgh, Casa San José is running one of the most effective immigrant defense programs in PA, with 800 volunteers stepping in to defend immigrant families from the harm of sudden ICE crackdowns.

October 1, 2024

Down Home North Carolina retools election canvass for Hurricane Helene disaster relief

In the wake of Hurricane Helene, MVP partner Down Home North Carolina has activated its get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operation to support devastated communities across Western North Carolina.

September 17, 2024

Forward Montana registers 8,800 voters this election cycle

As of September 17, Montana's largest youth organizing group, Forward Montana, has registered over 6,700 (mostly youth) voters in 2024 — for a total of 8,800 this election cycle!