Democrats and activists plan to push back if Trump tries to interfere in midterms

The useful part

Activists are planning mass protests if the Trump administration tries to interfere with voting or ballot counting. Legal scholars are distributing white papers advising judges what they should do if the government tries to seize ballots. The anxious contingency planning as voting gets underway has become a marker for how fraught democracy has become in the country that once stood as an example to the world.

How it works

• Democratic state parties announced Monday that they are launching an operation for the midterm elections they're calling the "New Battlefield Project," intended to recruit 10,000 volunteers to guard polling...
• "We have never prepared for an election sabotage event like we have now," said Ezra Levin of the left-leaning group Indivisible.
• Trump has given Democrats plenty of reasons to organize a resistance Democrats say they have reason to plan for doomsday scenarios.
• During his first term, Trump refused to accept his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden and attempted to overturn the vote, only to be defied by career officials and more establishment Republicans.
• Upon returning to power, Trump has stocked his administration with those who helped his 2020 efforts...