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2 weeks out: Make sure you have what you need to vote 🗳️

August 30, 2026

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The Gen Z Election Defense Toolkit: Respond to youth voter disenfranchisement 🗳️ (opens a new window)

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)

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Help your community vote safely and freely 🗳️ (opens a new window)

Become a poll worker 🗳️ (opens a new window)

Register your community to vote 🗳️ (opens a new window)

2 weeks out: Make sure you have what you need to vote 🗳️ (opens a new window)

Save the Election Protection Hotline 🗳️ (opens a new window)

Two people talking in a polling station.

Become a nonpartisan election observer 🗳️ (opens a new window)

Make a plan to vote 🗳️ (opens a new window)

Join the election protection effort (opens a new window)

Explore the NAACP’s Voter Protection Hub (opens a new window)

Know what’s on your ballot beyond the top of the ticket (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)

Build a civic habit with Zivic (opens a new window)

Discover your civic superpower (opens a new window)

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What Actions Make Possible

Defending Maine communities from federal surveillance and intimidation
- Stopping the Consolidation of Power
- Litigation
- Case Documents
Constitutional gatekeepers: The history and role of grand juries
- Stopping the Consolidation of Power
- Research & Analysis
- Reports
Challenging the federal use of chemical weapons against Portland residents
- Stopping the Consolidation of Power
- Litigation
- Case Documents

THe Democracy Playbook

2 weeks out: Make sure you have what you need to vote 🗳️

The Gen Z Election Defense Toolkit: Respond to youth voter disenfranchisement 🗳️ (opens a new window)

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)

Become a poll worker 🗳️ (opens a new window)

Register your community to vote 🗳️ (opens a new window)

2 weeks out: 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)

Make a plan to vote 🗳️ (opens a new window)

Join the election protection effort (opens a new window)

Explore the NAACP’s Voter Protection Hub (opens a new window)

Know what’s on your ballot beyond the top of the ticket (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)

Build a civic habit with Zivic (opens a new window)

Discover your civic superpower (opens a new window)

Read more about threats to the midterms

Deceive, Disrupt, Deny in full effect

Frequently asked questions about the 2026 midterm elections

How the Trump administration plans to interfere with the 2026 elections

Protecting democracy starts with you

What Actions Make Possible

Defending Maine communities from federal surveillance and intimidation

Constitutional gatekeepers: The history and role of grand juries

Challenging the federal use of chemical weapons against Portland residents

Read more about threats to the midterms

Deceive, Disrupt, Deny in full effect

Frequently asked questions about the 2026 midterm elections

How the Trump administration plans to interfere with the 2026 elections

Protecting democracy starts with you

What Actions Make Possible

Defending Maine communities from federal surveillance and intimidation

Constitutional gatekeepers: The history and role of grand juries

Challenging the federal use of chemical weapons against Portland residents

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