The Trump administration is executing a coordinated campaign to suppress, dilute, and nullify votes — before Election Day, on Election Day, and after. Momentum Rising exists to name it, prepare for it, and organize against it with trained women and civic leaders who know exactly what to do.
We do not tell people
"he can't do that."
We tell people
"here is exactly what we do when he does."
The most consequential suppression happens quietly, months before Election Day — through documentation barriers, mass voter purges, closed polling places, and sabotaged mail ballots. Most voters won't know it happened until they show up and find their name is gone. Momentum Rising is building the infrastructure to catch it, document it, and fight it before it's too late to reverse.
Verify your registration. Attend a documentation clinic. Join our purge monitoring network.
Get Involved →New federal documentation requirements will block millions of women whose legal names don't match their birth certificates — most of them married women — from voting. The rules are still being written. The fight is happening right now. This is our "Your Name Is Your Vote" campaign.
12 states have already handed voter rolls to Trump's DOJ and DHS — and the administration is actively suing 26+ more states that refused. Cross-referencing against federal databases with known error rates is already generating massive false-positive removal lists. Millions of eligible citizens will be purged — most without legally required notice — and won't know until Election Day.
Polling places in targeted communities are being closed and consolidated. Voters aren't being notified. They show up on Election Day, find an empty building, have no transportation to the new location, and leave. The closure is technically legal. The silence is the weapon.
The Trump administration is deliberately slowing mail ballot delivery in both directions — ballots sent to voters arrive too late to return, and completed ballots returned by voters are delayed past the deadline at registrars. DeJoy proved the playbook in 2020. A more aggressive version is coming in 2026.
Trump has deployed ICE agents to airports — carrying luggage, handing out water, performing visible "community service." This is a deliberate image rehabilitation campaign designed to normalize armed federal agents in civilian spaces. The goal: make their presence at polling places in 2026 feel routine.
The Trump DOJ has withdrawn from voting rights enforcement. The federal backstop is gone. State and local violations that previously triggered federal intervention will go unanswered. The entire burden of enforcement now falls on civil rights organizations — and on organized citizens who document what they see.
Check your name, address, and active status at your state BOE website. Do it today.
Add your name and share with every woman you know who has changed her name.
Ask five people in your life if they've verified their registration this year. Be the resource.
Become a certified poll watcher trained to protect the vote in your state.
Join a Your Name Is Your Vote documentation clinic in your area — or help us host one.
Donate to Momentum Rising. This infrastructure is run by paid professional organizers, not volunteers.
Election Day threats are immediate, simultaneous, and geographically dispersed. They cannot be fully prevented — only absorbed, documented, and countered in real time by trained people already in position. The infrastructure that exists on the morning of November 3rd is the infrastructure you will have. Project Sentinel is how we build it.
Apply for Project Sentinel. Become a certified poll watcher deployed to a targeted precinct.
Apply Now →Federal agents deployed to communities of color in swing-state precincts where Trump sees losses coming. Armed presence alone — without a word spoken — suppresses turnout. This is the application of the normalization campaign built at airports. It does not require a confrontation to work.
Millions of voters removed through the federal purge pipeline will arrive to find their name is not in the poll book. They have the right to a provisional ballot — but many won't know that, and undertrained or politically aligned poll workers may not tell them. This is the largest potential single-day disenfranchisement event in modern American history.
Voters whose polling places were closed without notice arrive at empty buildings. No transportation to the new location. Jobs to get back to. Children to pick up. Many will leave. This is the intended outcome: closures plus silence equals suppression without a single unlawful act on Election Day.
Organized campaigns to challenge voters at the poll book in targeted precincts — often based on the same purge lists that generated false positives before Election Day. Designed to slow lines, create confusion, and pressure voters to leave before casting a ballot.
False information about polling hours, location changes, ID requirements, and ballot rules spread by text and social media in targeted communities on Election Day. Designed to reach voters who are already uncertain or intimidated. Speed of correction is everything.
Machines fail. Lines grow. Voters with jobs and children calculate whether a three-hour wait is possible and leave. Equipment failures do not have to be engineered to be suppressive — but they must be documented in real time, because that documentation is the legal basis for extended polling hours.
2020 proved that the period between Election Night and certification is as contested as the election itself. The Trump administration — more experienced, more legally sophisticated, and more institutionally entrenched than in 2020 — will exploit every procedural vulnerability that was identified and left unremedied. Momentum Rising is preparing for all of it now, not in November.
Post-election observers and rapid response communicators needed in all four target states.
Join Now →Federal agents seizing ballots under the pretext of a fraud investigation — removing physical ballots from the certified chain of custody before the canvass is complete. Unprecedented, but no longer unimaginable given the Trump administration's posture toward election administration at every level.
County canvassers or state boards refusing to certify results, citing unsubstantiated fraud claims. Georgia and Arizona remain the highest-risk states. This is not a fringe scenario — it was attempted in 2020, and the guardrails that stopped it have been partially dismantled since.
Simultaneous lawsuits challenging mail ballots, provisional ballots, and technically defective ballots — filed across multiple jurisdictions to overwhelm the legal response capacity of voting rights organizations and delay certification past statutory deadlines.
Organized pressure campaigns targeting individual canvassers and state board members who are moving toward certification. Designed to force resignation or capitulation before the canvass is complete. The personal cost imposed on officials who held the line in 2020 functions as a deterrent for 2026.
Coordinated disinformation delegitimizing results before certification — seeded on Election Night, amplified through aligned media and official administration statements. Designed to build political and legal pretext for non-certification and to make the public doubt results before they're official.
Executive branch interference in state-level certification processes, using legal theories being actively developed that have no established constitutional basis — but that have never been fully litigated before a Supreme Court remade for this moment.
The constitutional answer is unambiguous: Congress sets the date of federal elections by statute.
The President has no authority to postpone or cancel them. No war powers claim,
no national emergency, no executive order changes this.
But we have watched this administration treat court orders as negotiating positions.
The realistic threat is not a formal cancellation. It is a cascade —
USPS failure, polling place chaos, ICE deployment, certification refusal, emergency declarations
that suppress turnout in targeted areas — that corrupts an election
without ever formally canceling one. Each individual action arguably defensible.
The cumulative effect: a stolen result.
That is what this entire framework is designed to counter.
Not one act. The cascade.
Governors, AGs, and Secretaries of State in non-compliant states are the constitutional firewall. Organized citizen pressure on those officials — before, during, and after — is essential.
Emergency litigation in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously. The legal infrastructure for this must be built now — relationships, pre-drafted motions, and documentation systems that function before the crisis, not in response to it.
Organize, document, witness, speak, and refuse to accept a falsified outcome as legitimate. This is the oldest form of democratic self-defense. It has a name: civic resistance. It is legal, principled, and it is what Momentum Rising was built to lead.
The courts buy time. Organizing determines what you do with it. Legal action without political cost imposition is insufficient. They must run together, from the same organizational infrastructure.
Show up to county canvass board meetings. Your organized, named presence matters to officials who are being pressured.
Public letters, media presence, and physical support for canvassers facing harassment lower the cost of doing the right thing.
Trained Momentum Rising spokespeople respond to fraud disinformation in local media markets — where the narrative is actually being seeded.
If you witnessed irregularities, your documented account goes through a direct pipeline to our legal partners. Your eyes matter in court.
Momentum Rising is a women-led 501(c)4 civic organization.
We don't protest — we build infrastructure. We don't react — we prepare.
We employ experienced professional organizers, train citizens to act with precision,
and deploy trained people where they are needed most.
If you want to do something real about what's happening to our democracy,
this is where you start.
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