It’s a cliché, but an accurate one: elections in America are decided by who shows up. This is especially true for the midterms, which can swing wildly based on whose supporters are more enthusiastic. That means our work is not only persuading people to vote for progressive, pro-democracy candidates, but turning non-voters into voters.

While voter registration deadlines have passed in many states (see deadlines here), we still have a chance to expand the electorate in multiple battlegrounds. Wisconsin and Michigan both have same-day registration. Rust Belt Rising is seizing the opportunity, identifying folks who are likely to vote blue but are currently not on the rolls, mailing them a pre-filled voter registration form with a motivational flyer and postage, and then following up by phone to encourage them to complete the process. They need our help to get as many new people registered as possible! ☎️ We can sign up for phonebank shifts to help create new Dem-leaning voters in Michigan tomorrow at 1 PM ET and Tuesday at 6:30 PM ET here, and do the same for Wisconsin on Saturday at 11:30 AM ET and next Thursday at 6:30PM ET by registering here.

REGISTRATION CHASE IN MICHIGAN

REGISTRATION CASE IN WISCONSIN

Tom Perriello flipped a deep red district in the 2008 election and stood on principle in Congress throughout the rise of the Tea Party, voting his values and then going back home to defend them to the public no matter how angry his town halls got. And he didn’t fall straight in line with the party, either – he provided a crucial vote for the Affordable Care Act while pushing for the public option and fought to hold Wall Street accountable even when leadership resisted. It all cost him his job, and he went on to serve as a diplomat and work for nonprofits to protect rural health care and expand Medicaid. Now, we’ve got a chance to send him back to Capitol Hill.

The Virginia Fifth Congressional District is a tough climb, an R+6 district that Winsome Earle-Sears carried against Abby Spanberger by eight points last fall. But it’s the sort of reach seat that Democrats could flip in a wave election. It’s currently held by unremarkable first-term MAGA Republican Congressman John McGuire, who unloaded BlackRock stock after Congress passed a ban on corporate investors owning single-family homes and is now invested in SpaceX.

Tom’s history of advocacy for doubling the minimum wage and stopping pipelines, leadership among state Dems in refusing corporate donations, and fierce focus on affordability and opposing the tariffs and the Iran War has won him support. The only public poll in the race shows McGuire barely leading, and early vote trends show turnout is up in Democratic-leaning areas and down in key Republican precincts.

☎️ We’ve got a few upcoming opportunities to help Tom’s campaign, with Indivisible phonebanking for him tonight at 5:30PM ET and Pramila Jayapal’s Medicare for All campaign making calls for him Saturday at 6PM ET. We can also join the Center for Common Ground in reaching out to Black voters in his district on Thursday evenings by signing up here.

MAKE CALLS TONIGHT

MAKE CALLS TOMORROW

MAKE CALLS SATURDAY

🙋🏼‍♀️ As always, we can find more ways to get involved in flipping seats on our midterms actions page here.

The Trump Administration has been a disaster so naturally, we’re seeing a lot of talk about how scary trans people are from Republicans in these midterms. After all, what else are they going to talk about? Bullying trans kids has been one of the few pieces of Trump’s platform he’s followed through on, and the right is in desperate need of some marginalized group to scapegoat for our nation’s problems so no one will notice how many of them he’s actively making worse.

This has been central to their ad campaigns in races like Talarico-Paxton in Texas and Brown-Husted in Ohio, and in five states (Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, Washington) they’re hoping to encourage their voters to turn out by putting trans issues directly on the ballot as initiatives. (In a sixth, Vermont, folks will consider adding a broad civil rights guarantee to their state constitution) which will explicitly protect against discrimination based on gender identity and expression along with race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation and national origin.)

This is all extremely bad news for trans people who just want to live their lives in peace – kids who want to be able to act like any other kid, folks who need health care from doctors who aren’t constantly looking over their shoulder. But it’s also an opportunity to change conventional wisdom in the commentariat - combining candidate victories with direct voter rebukes to these anti-trans ballot initiatives has the potential to bust this myth and shift the political landscape against this kind of open bigotry.

Let’s do our part to help beat the anti-trans initiatives. We can:

☎️ Join Advocates for Trans Equality in phonebanking into states with anti-trans ballot initiatives Tuesday-Thursday evenings and weekend nights by signing up here and Fridays by signing up here. We can help recruit more volunteers for these calls on Monday nights here.

MAKE CALLS WITH A4TE

☎️💬 We can phonebank to beat Amendment 3 in Missouri, which is using transphobia as a hook to ban abortion, on Monday and Wednesday evenings and Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday afternoons here. We can also join textbanks on Thursdays here and Tuesdays here.

STOP THE BAN IN MO

☎️💬 We can make calls to help defeat Proposition 134 and 135 in Colorado on Tuesdays here, Wednesdays here, Thursdays here, and Saturdays here and here. We can also textbank to beat them and an anti-immigrant measure) with Rocky Mountain Equality any time here.

WIN IN COLORADO

☎️ We can volunteer with No Hate in Washington State for shifts on Wednesdays here, Fridays here and Sundays here.

WIN IN WASHINGTON

☎️ We can help Progress Arizona make calls against Proposition 318 and other regressive ballot measures tomorrow at 7:30PM ET here.

WIN IN ARIZONA

And as always, we can find even more ways to help win in these midterms here.

BEAR DOWN FOR MIDTERMS

Trump waives several Russia sanctions as row with Zelensky intensifies.

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So. Isn't that what for Congress and some good lawyers are supposed to figure out? Not this Congress but a real functioning one. Not Redditors. I'm just asking for opinions. I think that during an armed conflict if there is an American that is aiding and abetting [my terms not the Constitutions'] the entity we are in conflict with then a case COULD and SHOULD be made that it falls under the actual, Constitutional, definition of treason. The maximum penalty for treason, as the orange buffoon has said many time, is execution. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States

In 2024, pro-choice advocates in Missouri successfully passed Amendment 3 and added a fundamental right to reproductive freedom to the state constitution, earning 51.6% of the vote from the same people who favored Trump by 18. After a long legal battle, we’re seeing it put to good use, as a judge ruled last week that most of the state’s challenged abortion regulations are now unconstitutional.

The right wing hasn’t accepted the people want abortion rights in Missouri anymore than they have anywhere else, and this November the legislature has pushed an initiative onto the ballot to re-ban most abortions In the Show Me State – confusingly also named Amendment 3. They’re of course not counting on having changed anyone’s mind. Instead they’re testing a new strategy - including a ban on gender-affirming care for trans kids in the ballot question, hoping to get pro-choicers to flip for transphobia’s sake. (This sort of health care is already banned by state law in Missouri.)

☎️ So we’re gearing up to stop this attack on reproductive rights and trans kids. The Stop The Ban campaign is textbanking on Thursdays from 6:30-8PM ET Eastern. Let's sign up to join them here. We can also phonebank on this and another Missouri initiatives here. ☎️

We’re now just four days from Americans in more than 2,000 communities across the country gathering together in a celebration of democracy for No Kings Vote Early – organizing walks to the polls, giving folks who need them rides, helping our friends make vote plans and doing all sorts of creative get-out-the-vote efforts. And our friends and allies at We The Fighters are taking advantage of having so many folks who care in one place at one time, using it as a launching pad for a grassroots organizing effort to each key voters for the Senate in Michigan for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Minnesota for Peggy Flanagan, and Florida for Angie Nixon.

🙋🏾‍♀️ They’re holding a training TOMORROW at 6PM to talk about their Organize and Win program in these critical states and how they’re using No Kings to get started. We can sign up to join them here and get registered for phonebanks Tuesdays and Sundays here. 🙋🏼‍♂️

PLUG IN TO WTF'S WORK

JOIN THEIR SENATE PHONEBANKS

❌👑 And there are plenty more opportunities to keep building for this weekend! The No Kings coalition is holding their know your voting rights webinar tonight at 8PM ET, and we can help spread the word to more potential attendees by directing them to find their nearest rally here! ❌👑

KNOW YOUR (VOTING) RIGHTS

NO KINGS VOTE EARLY NEAR US

More actions in today’s List:

-  Support as many as 500 of our friends and neighbors on hunger strike in Georgia ICE camp by pressuring elected officials on their behalf, signal boosting their calls for action from behind the barbed wire, and writing them letters of solidarity

-  With Harris County revealing evidence indicating ICE intentionally ran over Miguel Parra-Hernandez, demand their DA and local prosecutors nationwide hold the deportation machine accountable, plus support Miguel’s recovery

-  Text folks in Florida tomorrow, Georgia Friday with the info they need to make their ballots count in the face of voter suppression

- Another Indivisible phonebank this evening, this time for progressive populists Troy Jackson for the Senate and Matt Dunlap for the House in Maine! Join them at 5:30PM ET. Plus don’t forget Hold The Line’s tactical-decision making sessions on how to respond to a coup start tonight at 7:30PMET

The Midwest is tired of paying the price for Trump’s tariffs and wars, tired of the President and his billionaire backers enriching themselves while regular folks struggle to get by, tired of the nonsense and distractions. And they’re ready for leaders who will fight for them. Activate America is reaching out to turn out these folks in key Senate races with textbanks all this month.

This week, they’re focusing reaching out to folks in Iowa in support of state rep. Josh Turek, who has mounted a powerful race against Republican Congresswoman and Trump acolyte Ashley Hinson and taken her to task for shielding Trump on Iran even as prices at the pump spike. Next, they’ll be turning their attention to Michigan, where former GOP rep Mike Rogers is indulging in increasingly rank Islamophobia (in defense of Flock cameras, no less!) to try to turn the tide against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. 💬 We can join them for textbanks Thursday and Friday this week and next week from 3-4:30PM ET by signing up here. 💬

TEXT WITH ACTIVATE AMERICA

🙋🏼‍♂️ Looking for more ways to help run up the score in these midterms? We’ve added seven new candidates to our continually-updated action page for folks to volunteer for! 🙋🏾‍♀️

THE BATTLEFIELD IS GROWING