Quick Hit:

Conservative grassroots organizations are aggressively mobilizing to keep their 2024 momentum alive and secure Republican majorities in the 2026 midterms. As M.D. Kittle writes in The Federalist, early voting strategies—once regarded with skepticism in GOP circles—are now being fully embraced by Republicans, thanks in large part to the leadership and endorsement of 47th President Donald Trump. Activists and operatives are aligning resources to maintain high early voter turnout, target low-propensity voters, and fend off a flailing Democratic Party losing ground with its base.

Key Details:

GOP-aligned ballot chasers are replicating early voting successes from 2024 in key battleground states ahead of 2026.
President Trump’s endorsement of early voting was critical to record-breaking turnout among Republicans in 2024.
Democrats are “hemorrhaging voters,” with Republicans now out-registering them in states like Arizona and closing gaps in Pennsylvania.

Diving Deeper:

M.D. Kittle’s piece in The Federalist highlights a crucial and strategic transformation within the conservative movement: the full-scale embrace of early voting. This shift, catalyzed by Trump’s re-election campaign in 2024, helped the president sweep all seven key battleground states. "Convincing the president to get on board with early voting may go down as one of the greatest sales jobs of all time," Kittle wrote.

The data backs up the change. According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s 2024 report, early in-person voting saw massive spikes: Georgia surged by 71%, North Carolina by 73.4%, Michigan by 31.3%, and Nevada by 36.6%. These numbers reflect a groundswell of Republican voters utilizing a method once monopolized by Democrats. As Kittle notes, “The early turnout is breaking records in swing states.”

Key to this turnaround was grassroots action. Ned Ryun, CEO of American Majority and American Majority Action, told The Federalist that the “heartbreak” of the underwhelming 2022 midterms sparked a renewed and strategic focus. “We realized we had a serious problem, not only on focus but on funding,” Ryun said. His group initiated a targeted campaign to engage low- and mid-propensity voters, reshaping conservative GOTV (Get Out The Vote) efforts across multiple states.

Conservative activist Scot Mussi, who leads Arizona Free Enterprise Club, saw similar growth in his home state, where Arizona Republicans reversed the poor turnout of 2022. “You can’t say that was the result of voter fraud. It was just people not showing up to vote,” Mussi told The Federalist. By 2024, however, the tide had turned: Trump won Arizona in a landslide, Republicans expanded legislative control, and the voter registration gap more than doubled in the GOP’s favor—up from 166,000 in 2022 to nearly 330,000 by July 2025.

Ryun emphasized the importance of sustaining this effort: “The rules of the game are this: You have to play by the rules to win the game.” He added, “We had been handicapping ourselves for sure, fighting with one hand behind our backs. We don’t have to do that anymore.”

But maintaining momentum without Trump’s name on the 2026 ballot presents a new challenge. “That’s the golden question,” one grassroots strategist told The Federalist, while affirming that Trump’s policies—and the threat of a Democrat-controlled House undoing them—remain potent motivators for conservative voters.

The left, meanwhile, continues to help Republicans by doubling down on unpopular policies. Kittle cites a Wall Street Journal poll showing the Democratic Party’s favorability at a dismal 8%, with 67% of voters holding an unfavorable view. Even former Democrat operative Zach Kennedy admitted in The Hill that “they’re struggling to recruit candidates altogether.”

This voter attrition is becoming systemic. “It’s not just getting better for Republicans. Now there are fewer Democrats than registered in 2022. They are hemorrhaging voters,” Mussi told The Federalist.

Republicans are capitalizing on the shift. As Newsweek noted, Democrats’ once-massive registration advantage in Pennsylvania has shrunk to just 59,000. Ryun hopes to replicate the Florida model across the country: “My goal is to make Arizona into Florida. Nevada into Florida. Wisconsin into Florida,” he told Kittle.

As grassroots organizations double down, Ryun remains optimistic. “I’m confident that if we do the right work between now and 2026… I think we have a legitimate shot to hold on to the House.”

The momentum is real—and the conservative movement isn’t slowing down.