Tomorrow night, Tuesday, March 10, at 7pm ET, Marc Elias and I join the folks at to discuss what’s at stake in 2026 and what it will actually take to protect free and fair elections from MAGA-aligned attacks and Trump-fueled chaos.
Thank you Joyce. We signed up from Robert Hubbell's Substack, Today's Edition, very early this morning. It is my understanding if we cannot join at scheduled time an email will be sent with the video so we can watch later. Hope I'm correct. We have been donating to the Marc Elias group through Democracy Docket for many years.
TRUMP’S ‘SAVE’ BILL IS SCREW THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE LEGISLATION
Trump’s threat that he won’t sign any legislation until Congress passing a robust SAVE bill is his intended blitzkrieg to ‘nationalize’ the November elections. It challenges the law on the role that states have constitutionally to determine eligibility and methods of voting in state and local elections.
This is a rock-and-hard place threat for Republicans in Congress. They know that SAVE has massive unconstitutional provisions. Will they bow down in the face of their fading cult leader?
Clearly Trump is concerned by bad personal polls and the effect this will have on November elections. While he may try to wave his magic endorsement wands in primaries, increasingly this magic disappears in actually elections.
WE MUST FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL TO PREVENT WHAT TRUMP CALLS THE SAVE BILL AND I CHARACTERIZE AS THE SCREW AMERICAN VOTERS BILL
Ok. Just finished listening to the bs press conference via DJT. How many millions of barrels of oil did we get abd how many million on the way from our new besties in Venezuela??? Fact check please. If any of you know real numbers please reply to me. How about that really good phone call with Putin today??? Guess Putin gave him his new orders on Iran. What a joke we have for a President. Yuck!!!!!
Yes! I signed up for tomorrows BIG TENT to protect our elections. Here is a Substack on Resisting!
"Trump’s war on Iran is unpopular, dangerous, and escalating. But without organizing, public anger will not stop it.
Trump wants us to believe we’re powerless to stop him. But the reality is that this is a widely unpopular regime waging one of the most unpopular wars in US history."
Why then has there been so little collective protest against the US-Israel offensive?
But exploring why we’re lacking an anti-war movement today can help us move to actually start building one. And for the sake of Iranians, the Middle East, and working people in the US, we’d better do so as soon as possible.
1) Americans Feel Powerless
Proving in practice that we have power in smaller battles can inspire millions to join the fight against this administration’s worst horrors at home and abroad.
2) People Are Hoping the War Ends Quickly
Trump’s speed and dismissal of public opinion has created little space for Americans to break out of spectator mode.
3) Trump is Doing So Many Horrible Things
The good news is that the upcoming No Kings protests on March 28 and the day of disruption on May 1 provide excellent opportunities to bring together all our anti-Trump demands and struggles. Opposition to war is likely to be a major focus of those actions.
4) People Confuse Mobilizing with Organizing
A movement is a movement to the extent that ordinary people organize between protests — in other words, when they get actively involved to win over others to the cause.
That’s why we should look at March 28 and May 1, not as one-off protests, but as mechanisms to recruit, onboard, and train as many people as possible into ongoing campaigns.
5) Sectarianism Has Helped Marginalize Anti-War Activity
Intense repression against these valiant but relatively isolated efforts chilled campus organizing. Especially since students are often a vanguard of anti-war and anti-authoritarian organizing, reviving a culture of mass politics on colleges remains a key task.
6) Reviving an Anti-War Movement
Most Americans are strongly against this war and just don’t know what to do about it. It’s time to reach widely and to break beyond our echo chambers. That’s what makes a movement real.
A second concrete step you can take is to support the QuitGPT campaign. This boycott has taken on an added level of urgency — and anti-war content — after the Pentagon two weeks ago refused to accept Anthropic’s contract stipulations that its AI not be used for mass surveillance or fully autonomous military attacks.
Just as Tesla Takedown succeeded in forcing Elon Musk out of the White House, so too can QuitGPT punish OpenAI for its enabling of a US military machine that is massacring grade school girls in Iran and hurtling the world towards catastrophe. According to QuitGPT organizers, over 4 million people have already taken part in the boycott.
I was able to register just now, Edward. So indeed, hopefully, "it's because of a massive number of people trying to sign up." Joyce Vance and Marc Elias are high on my list of "go-to" people as dedicated and highly regarded voices. And I've appreciated the work of BigTentUSA for some time now.
Joyce, I signed up with you and Marc but alas, I was not sent anything by Big Tent in which to watch you. This is like the 2nd or 3rd time this has happened to me. Don’t know what to do about this but hope the talk will be recorded.
Will this be recorded for later viewing?
I'm going to echo your question. Please record it for those who can't join live.
I support Marc Elias and Democracy Docket. https://www.democracydocket.com/
Elias has been involved in nearly 450 cases across 43 states and the District of Columbia, focusing on voting rights and election administration.
In 2020 he led efforts to defend election results, winning 64 out of 65 cases against attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
His litigation often targets state-level actions that violate the Voting Rights Act, such as cutting polling locations or restricting mail-in voting.
As of late 2025, his firm, Elias Law Group, was litigating more than 60 voting and election cases in 30 states.
Thank you Joyce. We signed up from Robert Hubbell's Substack, Today's Edition, very early this morning. It is my understanding if we cannot join at scheduled time an email will be sent with the video so we can watch later. Hope I'm correct. We have been donating to the Marc Elias group through Democracy Docket for many years.
PEACE COMES FROM CHOICE….NOT CIRCUMSTANCES✨🌈✨🍀
Hopefully, this will be recorded. Got a local Dems meeting in Brevard County, Fla!
TRUMP’S ‘SAVE’ BILL IS SCREW THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE LEGISLATION
Trump’s threat that he won’t sign any legislation until Congress passing a robust SAVE bill is his intended blitzkrieg to ‘nationalize’ the November elections. It challenges the law on the role that states have constitutionally to determine eligibility and methods of voting in state and local elections.
This is a rock-and-hard place threat for Republicans in Congress. They know that SAVE has massive unconstitutional provisions. Will they bow down in the face of their fading cult leader?
Clearly Trump is concerned by bad personal polls and the effect this will have on November elections. While he may try to wave his magic endorsement wands in primaries, increasingly this magic disappears in actually elections.
WE MUST FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL TO PREVENT WHAT TRUMP CALLS THE SAVE BILL AND I CHARACTERIZE AS THE SCREW AMERICAN VOTERS BILL
Timothy Snyder says all t regime chaos has everything to do with federalizing elections TO STAY IN POWER!
Ok. Just finished listening to the bs press conference via DJT. How many millions of barrels of oil did we get abd how many million on the way from our new besties in Venezuela??? Fact check please. If any of you know real numbers please reply to me. How about that really good phone call with Putin today??? Guess Putin gave him his new orders on Iran. What a joke we have for a President. Yuck!!!!!
Yes! I signed up for tomorrows BIG TENT to protect our elections. Here is a Substack on Resisting!
"Trump’s war on Iran is unpopular, dangerous, and escalating. But without organizing, public anger will not stop it.
Trump wants us to believe we’re powerless to stop him. But the reality is that this is a widely unpopular regime waging one of the most unpopular wars in US history."
> https://laborpolitics.substack.com/p/why-is-there-no-anti-war-movement?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Why then has there been so little collective protest against the US-Israel offensive?
But exploring why we’re lacking an anti-war movement today can help us move to actually start building one. And for the sake of Iranians, the Middle East, and working people in the US, we’d better do so as soon as possible.
1) Americans Feel Powerless
Proving in practice that we have power in smaller battles can inspire millions to join the fight against this administration’s worst horrors at home and abroad.
2) People Are Hoping the War Ends Quickly
Trump’s speed and dismissal of public opinion has created little space for Americans to break out of spectator mode.
3) Trump is Doing So Many Horrible Things
The good news is that the upcoming No Kings protests on March 28 and the day of disruption on May 1 provide excellent opportunities to bring together all our anti-Trump demands and struggles. Opposition to war is likely to be a major focus of those actions.
4) People Confuse Mobilizing with Organizing
A movement is a movement to the extent that ordinary people organize between protests — in other words, when they get actively involved to win over others to the cause.
That’s why we should look at March 28 and May 1, not as one-off protests, but as mechanisms to recruit, onboard, and train as many people as possible into ongoing campaigns.
5) Sectarianism Has Helped Marginalize Anti-War Activity
Intense repression against these valiant but relatively isolated efforts chilled campus organizing. Especially since students are often a vanguard of anti-war and anti-authoritarian organizing, reviving a culture of mass politics on colleges remains a key task.
6) Reviving an Anti-War Movement
Most Americans are strongly against this war and just don’t know what to do about it. It’s time to reach widely and to break beyond our echo chambers. That’s what makes a movement real.
A second concrete step you can take is to support the QuitGPT campaign. This boycott has taken on an added level of urgency — and anti-war content — after the Pentagon two weeks ago refused to accept Anthropic’s contract stipulations that its AI not be used for mass surveillance or fully autonomous military attacks.
Just as Tesla Takedown succeeded in forcing Elon Musk out of the White House, so too can QuitGPT punish OpenAI for its enabling of a US military machine that is massacring grade school girls in Iran and hurtling the world towards catastrophe. According to QuitGPT organizers, over 4 million people have already taken part in the boycott.
Why Is There No Anti-War Movement in the US?
'Labor Politics' by ERIC BLANC
MAR 9 2026 | Substack
https://laborpolitics.substack.com/p/why-is-there-no-anti-war-movement?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
EDIT. Now it works for me. Looking forward. "Never mind."
Right now, the REGISTER link on the Big Tent site is not working. I hope that it's because of a massive number of people trying to sign up.
I was able to register just now, Edward. So indeed, hopefully, "it's because of a massive number of people trying to sign up." Joyce Vance and Marc Elias are high on my list of "go-to" people as dedicated and highly regarded voices. And I've appreciated the work of BigTentUSA for some time now.
I just signed up 9:42 am PT
Worked just fine !!!
Try again!!
Thank you, I look forward to listening to this. Will it be on U Tube?
Thanks 🙏🏼 for sharing this with us‼️ We are looking forward to hearing a lively discussion on the topic of voting in America today‼️🙌🏼👏🏼😅😄👍🏼
Hoping this is recorded for later will be volunteering tomorrow evening
FAIR ELECTIONS? How about letting your own PARTY VOTE?
I'm bringing receipts
2016, 2020, 2024 - the base in all those presidential primaries was GIVEN THE MIDDLE FINGER.
Instead dishonest sanctimony how about cleaning your own party you start preaching to anyone else.
Joyce, I signed up with you and Marc but alas, I was not sent anything by Big Tent in which to watch you. This is like the 2nd or 3rd time this has happened to me. Don’t know what to do about this but hope the talk will be recorded.
Online tech crap once again frustrates. Mot letting me join big tent though I registered days ago. GRRRRR