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The lesson for the United States is that power gets consolidated in stages, and every stage that’s blocked makes the next stage easier to prevent. Legal challenges are essential, but so are the actions of ordinary citizens. For example, Indivisible and No Kings have been conducting Hands Off the Vote trainings and recruiting poll monitors, and the long-standing 866-OUR-VOTE national hotline is expanding its presence. Veteran nonviolent organizers the Freedom Trainers have mapped out how people can respond to multiple scenarios, from preelection attempts to suppress the vote to attempts to block vote certification. www.thenation.com/article/politics/how-to-...