You don't think at the very least when Biden was still running that they weren't seriously considering what to do if Trump won?

Even if not, they still have a couple of months before he's sworn in too

Be a part of that change. Run for local office and or encourage other progressives around you to do the same

Change quite often starts locally and flows up. Those in the national party very usually come from state offices and work their way up. Make that pool of people as progressive as possible

Make no seat uncontested

Organize in every place you can. Beyond just elections, organize for unions, organize to protest, organize to stand with your community, do not given in to the complacency that the far right wants you to have

Power is not be given freely, you have to fight for it. That fight lives on and is worthwhile. Things will get worse before they can get better. But we can lay the groundwork for the future to be better

Down ballot, dems weirdly did decently in a number of states even though they didn't do as well for president

Wisconsin no longer has a republican super majority in their state legislature

Kentuky supreme court flipped to democratic control

There was a lot of ticket splitting and republicans who only voted for Trump and left the rest blank

House has not been called yet and still can flip or if not very likely to reduce their margin, and there are state legislature/officals seats that matter too. We need those state officials more than ever to try to stand up to trump

Vote in your down ballot primaries, and volunteer hard to get progressives in. People in those state/local offices often tend to move upwards in the party

Consider also running for office yourself https://runforsomething.net/

After you vote, you can also volunteer to phone bank for last minute get out the vote calls!

https://go.kamalaharris.com/calls/

Find your polling location. Go vote!

Your ballot will be deciding much more than just the president. Even if you did theoretically think both presidential canidates were equal in all regards (they aren't), then vote for the down ballot races!

Keep your local school boards from having insane people on it that will ban books and harm your kids or your neighbors's.

Vote for the constitutional ammendment questions and ballot initiatives. For instance, many states have either pro and anti abortion questions on their ballot.

They already killed it for Supreme Court nominees when it suited them. If they really wanted something they'd kill it for that

By 2017, roles had reversed — Republicans held the majority in the Senate, and President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office.

After Senate Democrats, now in the minority, filibustered the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch — Trump's first nominee to the Supreme Court — McConnell engineered his own "nuclear option."

The Republican-controlled Senate voted 52-48 to reduce the vote threshold for confirming nominees to the Supreme Court from 60 to 51, per The New York Times.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fact-check-gop-ended-senate-filibuster-supreme-court-nominees/3573369001/

Note that Harris has called for eliminating the Filibuster should dems get a trifecta

Harris says she would support ending the filibuster to bring back Roe v. Wade

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123955/kamala-harris-abortion-roe-v-wade-filibuster

We can do a bit better than just hope, there is still time to volunteer to help get out the vote today and tomorrow on election day!

https://go.kamalaharris.com/

Easily pushed around by dictators and billionaires, not so easily pushed by average citizens

Harris is more able to be influenced by public pressure which is what John Oliver is trying to get at

There are also still opportunities to volunteer in person and online - including on election day!

https://go.kamalaharris.com/