How you can protect democracy
THe Democracy Playbook
Protecting our elections takes all of us. Here are easy, important actions you can take to help ensure our elections are free and fair.
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Why Your Actions Matter
Save, print, and share your state’s voting guide 🗳️ (opens a new window)
Learn about threats to the 2026 midterm elections 🗳️ (opens a new window)
Get election news you can trust 🗳️ (opens a new window)
Help your community vote safely and freely 🗳️ (opens a new window)
Register your community to vote 🗳️ (opens a new window)
Make sure you have what you need to vote 🗳️ (opens a new window)
Save the Election Protection Hotline 🗳️ (opens a new window)
Become a nonpartisan election observer 🗳️ (opens a new window)
Look up your state’s high school voter registration laws (opens a new window)
Educators: bring voter registration into your classroom (opens a new window)
Download the Black Voters’ Survival Guide (opens a new window)
Find out what your state is doing to protect immigrant communities (opens a new window)
Join young leaders in Washington DC this September (opens a new window)
Build a civic habit with Zivic (opens a new window)
Discover your civic superpower (opens a new window)
Ask better questions of your public officials (opens a new window)
Read Protect Your Vote: A Citizen’s Guide (opens a new window)
Students: help your campus get ready to vote (opens a new window)
Train to protect voters in your community (opens a new window)
Understand the cost of deportations in your community (opens a new window)
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Read more about threats to the midterms
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Deceive, Disrupt, Deny in full effect
- Protecting Elections
- Research & Analysis
- Reports
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Frequently asked questions about the 2026 midterm elections
- Protecting Elections
- Research & Analysis
- Explainer
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How the Trump administration plans to interfere with the 2026 elections
- Protecting Elections
Can I Make a Difference?
Protecting democracy starts with you
We are not helpless. Start with what is closest to you and let your actions ripple outward.
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Learn. Start with what you can control.
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Build Community. Extend to the people you influence.
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Engage in Political Action. Support the institutions we all rely on.
What Actions Make Possible
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Defending Maine communities from federal surveillance and intimidation
- Stopping the Consolidation of Power
- Litigation
- Case Documents
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Constitutional gatekeepers: The history and role of grand juries
- Stopping the Consolidation of Power
- Research & Analysis
- Reports
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Challenging the federal use of chemical weapons against Portland residents
- Stopping the Consolidation of Power
- Litigation
- Case Documents
