They are already trying to grab power during this election. They can try to steal elections, refuse to seat duly elected officials, and break things they never intended to fix. The question isn't whether to fight. It's which fight is yours, because the strongest thing you can do is the thing that actually fits what you've got, where you are, and who you are.
Name what you're planning against. Answer nine quick questions to find your fight. Then build a real plan across the timeline: this summer, this fall, the election, the certification window, and into January. Honest, not aspirational. About seven minutes.
Be specific. The strongest plan is built against a real threat, not a vague one. Pick what you're actually building to stop. Pick more than one if you're planning for more than one.
The fight you picked is the entry point, not the whole job. This arc is the work it has to run.
You'll plan for all four in your planning tool.
Don't only do the loud part. Crews pile onto Win and Enforce, because those feel like the fight. Ensure and Prove get skipped, because the access work and protecting the count don't feel like a rally. But they're what decide whether the loud parts matter. Cover all four, not just the two that feel like a fight.
On the other side: a timelined, step-by-step plan for your fight. From now through the election: making sure everyone who can is registered and votes, that their vote is counted, that the winners take office, and the work that comes afterward.
We'll use this to send you your plan and nothing else without your say-so. You decide at the end whether to share it with anyone.
We plan backwards across four phases: Ensure people can vote, Win the election, Prove the win, Enforce it. Start from where this has to land, work back to what you do this month.
A plan that only does one of these is fragile. The strongest plans do at least two of the four.
Policy wins are rare and hard. This is the scoreboard we actually control. Even if you don't win the fight itself, a strong plan moves at least one of these.
Name the line. Plan for what you do if they cross it anyway. Without this, "win" is a feeling. With it, "win" is a thing you can see.