The Pledge
Before and after Election Day, we pledge to defend what we love and demand what we deserve. If there is an attempt to sabotage the 2026 midterm elections, I will be ready to defend the future of our communities. If there’s a new Congress, I’ll be ready to demand they push policies to make life liveable again.
Alongside millions nationwide, I’ll participate in one or more of the following ways:
Get trained: learn how to talk to friends and neighbors, and take action together
Recruit: bring neighborhood businesses and local organizations together
Call on corporations: take action to pull out a pillar of support for the steal
Join protests: make our voices heard
Commit: No free and fair elections means "No Work No School No Shopping"
Be ready to push: make life livable for all of us and push for a real affordability agenda
Why this, Why now?
All of us are preparing to get out record voter turnout, and all of us are preparing for the backup plan we need if the administration further attempts to sabotage the results of the election.
Sabotage has a purpose. In America, voters pick our leaders. The administration and its enablers are trying to keep people from voting and keep votes from counting so they can hold more power. Between court decisions that gutted the Voting Rights Act that the Civil Rights movement fought for, new restrictions on who can vote and how, and talk of ICE agents entering polling places, we need to prepare both for massive voter turnout and to defend our vote and its results.
If there is an attempt to steal this election, the strongest response is millions of people who already know what they will do. No matter what obstacles they put in our way, organized people beat organized money every time.
That's what the pledge is for.
Readiness is a decision we make now. People who commit in advance are ready to act when the moment comes.
Every signer is a connection. Local organizers can reach each signer with a training, a call, or a next step.
Three friends turn one commitment into a chain. Each signature brings in people we would never reach on our own.
A pledge is a commitment to be ready, and a signal that millions of people are watching and preparing.
Together, we will show up, speak out, and refuse to be intimidated. Our generation won’t be the one that lets the voting rights that the Civil Rights movement enshrined be trampled or let the billionaires extend the power they wield in the rest of our lives take away our voice at the ballot box as well. That's the tradition we're part of. The pledge is how we show it.
How to Make the Ask
The ask has two steps: sign, then ask three friends.
Acknowledge the feeling first. Many people are scared or worn out. Say so before asking for anything, then move to what people are doing together.
Start with what's already happening. People are taking action; we're all getting ready to vote in record numbers, and readiness is the next step.
Say what it is. The pledge is a commitment to be ready, not a prediction about what will happen.
Name the threat plainly. Say "an attempt to sabotage the election," and describe what that looks like: keeping people from voting, refusing to count votes, or refusing to seat the winners. Name the intent too: it's an effort to keep people from voting and keep votes from counting so they can hold more power. Don't repeat their claims or spend time debunking them.
Keep it hopeful. There are more of us than there are of them, and the pledge is how we show it. Talk about the people who show up as neighbors, coworkers, and community members joining together for something they believe in. Lead with the freedom to speak and the freedom to join together, which people across the country already hold dear.
Make the three friends ask specific. Ask: "Who are three people you'd want next to you if this happens?"
Close with determination. End on what we can do together, never on fear.