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# No Kings Comes Back October 17 With a New Job: Get the Early Vote Out
- URL: https://www.indivisibleca.net/no-kings-comes-back-october-17-with-a-new-job-get-the-early-vote-out/
- Published: 2026-09-17T20:13:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-17T20:13:38.000Z
- Author: David Anthony

Three times now, millions of people have filled streets across the country under the No Kings banner. Each time the message was the same: no one in this country is above the law. The fourth No Kings, coming October 17, starts from a different premise. The message has been sent. Now the movement wants to bank votes.

The timing is not an accident. Last week the president stood in front of a half-empty GOP convention and pledged to "cheat like hell" in the midterms. Within days, the No Kings coalition announced its next nationwide mobilization, and Indivisible co-executive director Ezra Levin was blunt about the connection in his weekly letter to supporters. The president is going to try to sabotage the election, he wrote, and he is going to fail. October 17 is how.

The logic is simple. An election that happens on a single day is fragile. An election that stretches across weeks of early voting is hard to rig, because every ballot already in the box is one that can't be suppressed, and every problem that surfaces early is one that can still be fixed. So the goal for October 17 is the largest early vote in American history, paired with something quieter: a trained, organized network of people ready to respond if the count is interfered with, built before it's needed rather than scrambled together after.

That changes what a No Kings event looks like. In states where early voting is already underway, Levin imagines get-out-the-vote drives and post-voting parties where everyone shows up with a friend who just cast a ballot. In states where early voting opens days later, a rally that makes sure every neighbor knows the first day they can vote. In the few states without meaningful early voting, an event that points everyone toward election day. He's not precious about format. Community barbecues, visibility brigades, superhero costume parties, big rallies, whatever a group of friends can pull off and put on the map.

For Californians, this is the easy version. County elections offices mail a ballot to every registered voter starting October 5, so by October 17 your ballot will have been sitting on the kitchen counter for nearly two weeks. A California No Kings event can be as simple as a neighborhood ballot party: bring the envelope, fill it out together, walk it to the drop box, celebrate. Events can be found or listed on the [No Kings map](https://www.nokings.org/?ref=indivisibleca.net), and any Indivisible group, or any few people who want to start one, can host. The coalition is running a [How to Host High-Impact, High-Engagement Events](https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/1014507/?ref=indivisibleca.net) session on September 24 for anyone planning one.

The coalition is also starting to train the people who will guard the count. The first session, [Election Protection 101](https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/1014450/?ref=indivisibleca.net), is this Thursday, September 17, at 5pm Pacific, and covers how polling place protection works, what voter suppression looks like on the ground, and what to do when you see it. It's followed by [Telling the Story of Election Protection](https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/1014487/?ref=indivisibleca.net) on September 23, a [Safety and Security Training](https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/1014722/?ref=indivisibleca.net) on September 30, and [Election Protection 201](https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/1014737/?ref=indivisibleca.net) on October 1, all at 5pm Pacific. The [full training schedule](https://www.nokings.org/trainings?ref=indivisibleca.net) runs through the end of October, and every session is open to anyone, anywhere. If you missed the September 10 kickoff call, the [recording is on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IpIVqLMWhM&ref=indivisibleca.net).

If you'd rather start dialing now, there's work to do in the states where early voting arrives first. Indivisible is phone banking into Ohio this Wednesday at 2:30pm Pacific for Sherrod Brown's Senate run and for Brian Poindexter and Don Leonard, who are challenging two of the president's most reliable House votes in OH-07 and OH-15\. On Saturday at 10am Pacific, the Fated States phone bank returns, pairing calls to Georgia voters for Sen. Jon Ossoff with the hosts of the romance podcast Fated Mates, and it runs every Saturday through the election. Iowa is up September 21, then Maine on September 28 and New York on October 1\. Sign-ups for all of them are on Indivisible's [trainings and calls page](https://indivisible.org/group-support-hub/trainings-and-calls/?ref=indivisibleca.net), alongside the weekly What's the Plan briefing with Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, Thursdays at noon Pacific. The phone banks are paid for by Indivisible Action and not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.

One more piece of news worth knowing. In Denver, the city and a coalition of advocacy groups have sued to stop DHS from sending ICE agents to polling places this fall, after Secretary Markwayne Mullin twice declined to rule it out. It's the clearest example yet of a local government deciding not to wait and see, which is more or less the whole idea behind October 17.