https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-left-secretly-preps-for-violence-after-election-day
Last week, a coalition of leading progressive groups gathered on Zoom to begin organizing for what they envision as the post-Election Day political apocalypse scenario.
Put together by the Fight Back Tablean initiative launched after the 2016 election to get a constellation of lefty organizations to work more closely together—the meeting dealt with the operational demands expected if the November election ends without a clear outcome or with a Joe Biden win that Donald Trump refuses to recognize.
Sources familiar with the discussions described them as serious with a modestly panicked undertone. A smaller FBT session last fall had talked about post-election planning, but those discussions were tabled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the first time they were bringing the matter to the 50-plus organizations that make up the coalition. To formalize the effort, they gave it a name: the “Democracy Defense Nerve Center.”
https://www.demos.org/our-story-populist-meta-narrative-moment
The project is over a year in the making and has been sculpted by many of the best narrative thinkers and top progressive leaders in the field. Together we have created a populist meta-narrative for this moment that both undermine the right-wing narrative and can be adapted to tell an issue-specific story that links to a wider collective vision.
This project would not be possible without the leadership of Move On, Color Of Change, NDWA, People’s Action and ==Demos for creating and steering the Fight Back Table– or the work of Center for Story-Based Strategy, Opportunity Agenda, Marshall Ganz, and so many others whose work and craft in story, messaging and communications deeply informed this work. I’d especially like to recognize Ian Haney Lopez, Anat Shenker-Osorio, Lake Research, Anika Fassia, SEIU and Demos whose work on the Race + Class Narrative was instrumental in establishing a foundation for this work.
https://www.demos.org/about/board-trustees