Friend, 

Just over a week from now, this historic and completely insane midterm cycle is going to be over. Phew, now we can all take a deep breath and forget about American politics for a while, right? 

Wrong. 

Here’s what’s going to happen. As soon as the air clears, Trump is going to ride down the Trump Hotel escalator or live stream from the Mar-a-Lago breakfast buffet, and officially announce his candidacy for President Dictator of the United States. 

Don’t doubt it. The groundwork has already been laid. The most power-hungry political operatives have descended upon Mar-a-Lago. (Our advice: Ask any Trump campaign manager how that’s gonna go) His calendar is packed with more MAGA rallies. And oh yeah… Trump’s already declared “I have to run again in 2024.”

Every conceivable sign is pointing to a 2020 revenge match and the operative word here is “revenge.” Over the next couple of years, Trump is going to be touring the country with such grievance it’s going to make his 2016 campaign - and 2020 -  look like a tea party. 

Trump isn’t just going to be shouting to shouting at Newsmax cameras and “truthing” (ugh, that was painful to write) into oblivion. Now that Elon Musk is officially in charge of Twitter, the red carpet will soon officially be rolled out for Trump to take back his favorite megaphone. Yep, we can think of two things that’ll be damaged when that happens: Devin Nunes’s Truth Social stock options and America’s nearly 250-year-old-democracy. 

If this all sounds like a complete nightmare to you, it’s because it is. It’s just a fact of our current political moment. But we’re not here to cry or complain about it. The Lincoln Project is here to fight it. 

So here’s what you can do.

1. Keep your eyes fixed on the midterms, and do everything in your power to elect pro-democratic candidates in your state and around the country. That means check out the work we’re doing at The Union if you haven’t yet. 
2. Support one of the hard-hitting, critical ads we’re running in swing states around the country. Your support helps us reach more voters and helps grow our pro-democracy movement through November 8th and beyond. 

Then, when Trump makes his big announcement, you stay in the fight. And you get your friends and your family to stay in the fight. 

That’s the mission. 

-The Lincoln Project