We cannot afford to squander our chance to make our voices heard.

This is crunch time. Only days to go before Election Day. It is certainly no time to relax. There will be plenty of time for that after November 5, but not now.

I’m sure I don’t need to convince you of the imperative of electing Kamala Harris and defeating the fascist Trump. Of course we need to beat him. But we know he is gonna challenge the results, so we need to beat him badly. So badly that there are no questions about the result.

So I am appealing to you. Have you done all you can to win the election? If you are in a state that allows early voting, please do so. Please make a checklist of what you can do in these last days. Make a list of all your loved ones. Call them to make sure they vote. Ask them to make their own lists.

Speak to those in your church, synagogue or mosque. Speak to your community organizations, tenants’ groups, and neighbors. Speak to the parents of your children and grandchildren. Take no vote for granted.

Visit 1199votes.org/volunteer to find out how to get involved. This election will be decided in the following “battleground states”: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada. No matter where you live, the voters in these states are only a phone call away.

Donald Trump is a desperate man. He is not only running for President. He is running to stay out of prison. And he is becoming uglier than ever. He and his running mate, JD Vance, have no program to offer to improve our schools and our healthcare system, to create decent jobs, to ensure retirement security. Trump’s Supreme Court already gutted federal guarantees of women’s reproductive rights, and Trump threatens to outlaw them altogether. They’ve got no plan to confront the climate emergency and save our clean air and water. They say nothing about lifting the trillion-dollar burden of student debt. Nothing about the growing disparity between the billionaire oligarchs and the majority of working people living paycheck to paycheck.

So, they run on lies—like the ones about Haitian immigrants— here, legally, by the way—eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio. Racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia,”childless cat ladies”—that’s all they’ve got.

We know what Trump will do because he’s done it before and promises to do it again. He will claim victory. He will claim the election was stolen if he loses. His far-right supporters in the House of Representatives will refuse to certify the election. In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court threw the election to George W. Bush even though Al Gore had more votes and Florida hadn’t been counted. The Supreme Court today is far more corrupt, its right-wing majority not even disguising its loyalty to Trump.

Are you ready to do your part in the remaining days before November 5? Please start making your phone lists. Leave nobody out. Just a few more days. Let’s get to work!