Building working-class power, safeguarding our elections, mobilizing the youth vote — if we want to make progress in 2026, we have to go all out. That’s exactly what MVF’s partners are doing. Check out a sampling of their plans below, and help us support them here.
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Photo: Mobile home residents in August, ME rally for rent stablilization with Maine Labor Climate Council.
AREA #1: Build Local, Working-Class Power and Cross-Sector Organizing Strategies
Maine: Organize Mobile Home Residents Around Cost-of-Living and Energy Issues
The Maine Labor Climate Council (MLCC) is a coalition of Maine labor unions representing working-class Mainers. With 469 mobile home parks across the state, mobile homes make up a significant share of Maine’s housing. Building on emerging resident organizing successes, MLCC’s Maine Mobile Homes Campaign has spent the past five months implementing a door-to-door, park-wide organizing model that brings neighbors together to identify shared grievances, build majority support, and pursue collective action, such as advocating for municipal rent stabilization ordinances, while elevating residents’ voices through media advocacy.
The campaign aims to generate visible, winnable fights around a broadly popular affordability issue that engages voters across the ideological spectrum. It is a promising new approach to engaging white, working-class voters around the economic justice issues that directly affect their lives.
Wisconsin: Strengthen the State Ecosystem to Engage and Mobilize Voters
In 2026, the Wisconsin Civic Power Table (WCPT) will launch a field program cohort that recruits, trains, and funds five partner organizations from the social service, faith, and community base-building sectors to build their capacity around electoral organizing. The goal of this program is to bolster voter outreach programs throughout the state by training organizations on vital organizing skills like hiring, strategic programs, data best practices, and statewide field coordination.
Participating organizations will be able to map strategies for shared program planning, collaborate on training to ensure best practices on canvass operations, including messaging and door-knocking, and coordinate to avoid duplicative efforts and gaps in voter engagement and mobilization.
The outcomes of the cohort include: an established model that produces quality field programs and reporting; increased statewide voter outreach; increased collaboration and decreased duplication across WCPT members; and expanded capacity in the Wisconsin ecosystem.
Photo: Young Nevadans building power through fun at Battle Born Future’s first-ever Student Feud.
AREA #2: Build Year-Round Youth Civic Power and Mobilize the Youth Vote
Multistate: Empower Young Online Creators to Mobilize the Youth Vote
Multistate
More Perfect Union Foundation (MPU) is a digital media and organizing initiative focused on rapidly expanding its reach among people under 45, with an ambition to surpass the scale of PragerU and Turning Point USA. MPU is building a digital community to convert passive viewers into active participants and local organizers, using a funnel that starts with broad brand awareness and progresses to deeper, substantive engagement while tracking multiple youth engagement pathways. Its content strategy emphasizes relatable messengers and youth ownership of content.
This year, they are launching a media-first campus program, More Perfect University, focused on helping students become content creators and citizen journalists. Students will submit content to MPU, which will amplify the best content across its far-reaching online platforms, including YouTube and Instagram. This process will support student leaders in building their own brands while raising awareness of the issues young people care about and connecting those issues to the power of voting.
MPU aims to launch the program in the final weeks of the spring semester and establish partnerships with students before the summer.
Nevada
Battle Born Futures (BBF) is a new 501(c)(3) organization in Nevada that spun out of one of the state’s leading grassroots organizing groups, One APIA. While One APIA organizes in the Asian American community, BBF leads broad, multiracial youth organizing and leadership development work.
Their 2026 Youth Fellowship x NewVote Digital Creator Academy will train 25-30 college student fellows across five campuses to become credible online messengers with skills grounded in community organizing.
The program will include participation in a 12-week training curriculum covering digital skills and in-person voter engagement:
- Digital skills: basic strategy for video platforms, video planning, research, script writing, editing, and streaming.
- In-person voter engagement: Canvass management, MiniVAN software, and strategies to cut turf and build lists.
Fellows will produce and collectively publish 200+ pieces of civic and issue-based video content (7+ per fellow), aiming to reach and civically engage more than 300,000 young Nevadans
Pennsylvania: Launch a Leadership Development Program to Build the Civic Engagement Skills of Young People
Named for the 26th Amendment, Project 26 Pennsylvania (P26) is a youth-led grassroots movement that exists to promote and expand democracy by elevating youth leadership, organizing young voters in key elections, and training them to exercise their power through civic engagement. P26 works to restore Gen-Z’s faith in our democracy by creating a leadership pipeline that instills lifelong habits of participation, growing a more informed and active citizenry that is invested in their communities, and demonstrating to students their own power to enact positive change.
In 2026, P26 will launch and implement a youth civic engagement fellowship program that includes a focus on nonpartisan election protection work. Components of this work include:
- Voter protection student fellowship program: Students will focus on expanding voting access in their counties by sharing their experiences as student voters with elections administrators, advocating for local guidance on using digital student IDs for voting, and organizing for satellite election offices near college and university campuses.
- Recruiting student poll workers: Staffing polls with student workers ensures that students have access to support from peers who understand their needs and concerns, while providing students with valuable experiential learning and work experience.
Resources are needed this spring to support planning and training over the summer.
Graphic: Power Coalition for Equity & Justice advocating for fair maps and voting rights to ensure equal representation.
AREA #3: Protect Fair Electoral Representation
Southern Region: Prevent Racial Gerrymandering Following an Unfavorable SCOTUS Decision in Louisiana v. Callais
The Supreme Court will issue a decision in Louisiana v. Callais before the end of June, which legal observers expect will materially scale back protections afforded by Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA). A decision of this magnitude could ultimately result in the elimination of all Black representation at the Congressional level in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. On the state level, almost 200 Black- and Latine-majority legislative districts are in jeopardy across 10 Southern states.
Coalitions in each state have developed plans to prevent — or mitigate the harm — of racial gerrymandering through three phases over the next year: (1) The Interregnum (now to SCOTUS Decision); (2) Post-Decision (Decision Day to Potential Redraws); and (3) Post-Redraws. Corresponding strategies cut across organizing, communications, and legal approaches.
Our partner Fair Representation in Redistricting funds state-based groups to meet their most urgent needs, and provides and/or funds shared infrastructure and resources that enable groups to “punch above their weight.” This includes technical assistance, data access and analysis, and litigation support.
State-based partners in the Southeast include: Power Coalition for Equity & Justice (Louisiana), Alabama Forward, Mississippi Engaged.
Photo: Arizona Center for Empowerment (ACE) members gather at a member-hosted house party to discuss this year’s election and the state of the moment.
AREA #4: Safeguard Elections and Defend Democracy
Multistate: Sustain and Expand Election-Protection Efforts
MVF and our partners are laser-focused on safeguarding our elections and defending our democracy. With this year’s unique concerns, our partners need to be prepared to sustain and expand their election-protection efforts.
Arizona
Arizona Center for Empowerment (ACE) is led primarily by young Latine organizers working toward social, racial, and economic transformation. ACE plays a leading role in Arizona's “movement ecosystem.” This year, ACE galvanized community members to oppose the deployment of ICE at Arizona polling locations. They also provide know-your-rights training for Arizonans to learn about how to protect themselves from federal agents and ensure they have safe, secure access to the ballot box.
ACE will continue to educate and organize its members to learn about their rights and oppose any future attacks on voting rights in Arizona. Their efforts are part of a broader movement in the state to monitor and push back against attacks on immigrant communities and tactics that could intimidate voters or restrict voting access.
Texas
MOVE Texas Civic Fund is dedicated to building the political power of young people in underrepresented communities through civic engagement, leadership development, and issue advocacy. They have a presence on campuses in Webb, Bexar, Guadalupe, and Hays counties, which includes San Antonio and the surrounding areas. They will be especially focused on supporting student voters, who face specific challenges voting in Texas: State law requires a voter to show ID but does not accept student IDs; there is no online voter registration, unlike most states; and there are not as many on-campus early voting locations as there are in other states.
MOVE Texas will be focused on educating young voters about their rights and supporting them to make a voting plan to know when, where, and how to cast their ballots.
