The Radical Left Wing Scheme To Hijack The Presidency

Americans elect the president state by state, as the Constitution requires. But liberals have a plan to change those rules without amending the Constitution. After this November’s election, Democrats may control enough states to enact the plan before 2028. This is a four-alarm fire — but voters in four states can stop it.

The plan is called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. States that join pledge their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, regardless of their state’s election results. It’s a scheme to shift political power away from diverse swing states — ironically, the very states that are now poised to enable it — towards high-population metro areas like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, permanent Democrat strongholds in permanently blue states.

Even worse, the compact would create a race to the bottom for election integrity. Democrat states already have election laws that most of the rest of the country considers cheating: automatic voter registration with no proof of citizenship, no voter ID, all-mail elections, ballot deadlines that stretch days or weeks after Election Day, and virtually unregulated vote harvesting. Red states would have to match these laws or cede a permanent advantage to the Left’s political machine.

But it would not stop there. Suppose Republicans respond by embracing all-mail elections. What would stop Democrat states from lowering the voting age to 16 or attempting to enfranchise noncitizens? Numerous liberal jurisdictions have already done both, and even now Congress’s ban on noncitizen voting is under attack in federal court. National Popular Vote (NPV) transforms every election into nothing more than a contest to turn out the most ballots. The Left calculates it can win that fight because they do not really care where those ballots come from.

Eighteen Democratic states plus the District of Columbia have already signed on. That is 222 electoral votes for the compact, with 270 needed to activate it. For years, joining the NPV compact was largely a way for liberal politicians to virtue signal and pander to a far-left base that demands the overhaul of any institution that does not relentlessly serve liberal interests.

But now, for the first time, NPV is on the brink of becoming a reality. Democrats in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin may be poised to win trifectas — all four have Democrat governors in competitive races this year, and the legislatures are up for grabs. Flipping them all would bring 55 more electoral votes within NPV’s reach; if Nevada elects a Democrat governor, the total climbs to 61. That is more than enough to activate the compact — and bring America to a constitutional crisis.

This is no hypothetical concern. Virginia joined the compact in April of this year thanks to, as the Left-leaning NPR put it, a new Democratic trifecta. Liberal Vox was even blunter: “the bigger the blue wave this year, the better Democrats’ chances” to activate the compact.

Democrats have spent two decades building to this moment, and the groundwork is already laid for these states to follow Virginia’s lead. In Arizona, Governor Katie Hobbs co-sponsored pro-NPV legislation while in the state Senate. In Wisconsin, Democratic legislative leaders backed this year’s NPV measure and are predicting they will gain a “blue trifecta” this November. If these states go blue, a tidal wave of progressive anger will demand the compact to “protect Democracy.”

If Democrats bow to the mob, they will be putting America on course for chaos. Any attempt to activate the compact will mean immediate litigation. After all, Congress never consented to this compact. More fundamentally, the Constitution clearly lays out an amendment process that requires building broad public support. NPV advocates know they will never get that, hence the need for a “clever” workaround.

Regardless of the outcome, the stage will be set for one side or the other to view the rules of 2028 as fundamentally illegitimate. Even Yale professor Akhil Amar, who helped lay the foundations for NPV, compares his work to Dr. Strangelove: “I created this doomsday machine.”

One can hope some Democrats would stand up to the mob, as former Nevada Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak did when he vetoed NPV in 2019. But hope is not a strategy. The best defense is for voters in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to recognize what is at stake this November and vote as if the Electoral College — and the future of our constitutional republic — depend on it.

That future is being decided now, one race at a time.

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Jason Snead is the Executive Director of Honest Elections Project Action.