I have 89 cases in court and one message: Don’t despair.

The law firm I started in 2021 may only have 60 lawyers, but it is currently litigating 89 voting and election cases in 43 states and the District of Columbia. Anyone who follows me on social media knows that I post about this litigation regularly.

Though I am proud of our work, I am motivated by more than pride. I want Trump and his allies to know that, notwithstanding his corrupt deals with some of the largest law firms, there are lawyers who cannot be bought and are still fighting back. Even more importantly, I want everyone else to know that when we fight back, we can win.

I have spent a decade fighting against Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine our elections. I did it in 2016 when I was working for Hillary Clinton, and I continued after he was elected. In 2020, I fought in court to ensure people could vote in the middle of a pandemic. When Joe Biden won, I represented him in defeating Trump’s efforts to overturn the results.

I know the power Trump has. I understand his advantages before conservative judges. I know how election deniers in state and local offices can make voting harder and subvert election results. I have faced all of these challenges in court and called them out in public.

But I have also learned Trump’s weaknesses and used them to secure victories for voters and for free and fair elections. Here is the key.

Trump is not as powerful as he wants you to believe. He is unpopular. His political standing is eroding. 

Yes, he can issue executive orders, and the Department of Justice will do his bidding. But courts will strike down those orders, and we have proven we can defeat the DOJ. 

Trump’s true power — what he relies upon more than anything else — is convincing us that the fight is already lost, that resistance is futile, and that his army of election deniers is too powerful to overcome. If there is one message I try to deliver — in my writing, in the media, and to individual voters — it is this: Refuse to give him that victory.

That matters because Trump’s strategy depends on the illusion of inevitability. He needs his opponents to believe that fighting back is pointless, that institutions are fully under his control, and that anyone who stands up to him will be crushed. 

When I post about a new case, a new filing, or a new victory, I am depriving Trump of that power. I am exposing that he can be beaten in court and democracy can be protected.

This is not to suggest that the fight ahead isn’t hard and filled with peril.

The Supreme Court is considering a series of cases that could roll back minority voting rights, restrict voting by mail, and open our campaign finance system even further to big money. Trump is attacking birthright citizenship while simultaneously pushing Congress to require voters to jump through new hoops to prove their citizenship when registering to vote.

Republican governors are signing new voting restrictions while Trump claims the power to take control of voting, vote counting and certification. Even as ICE retreats from our cities, Trump’s acting attorney general has suggested it would be entirely normal for federal agents to be present at the polls.

And then there are the personal threats. 

As someone on the front lines of these court fights, I can attest that the harassment is real. I have become more security-conscious, more alert to my surroundings, more careful about where I go and how I engage with strangers. 

I have endured name-calling by Trump and members of his party, a presidential memorandum questioning my ethics, and a lawsuit by Trump himself. That’s because I am in their way, and they are trying to get me to back down. 

I intend to stay there — standing taller than ever.

I know my confrontational approach makes even some who share my values uncomfortable. They prefer I not provoke Trump. They prefer a more cautious strategy — work within the system, avoid confrontation, trust that democratic norms will ultimately reassert themselves. 

I understand the impulse, but I reject it. Caution in the face of a reckless opponent is not a strategy. It is not principled to abide by norms when the other side does not — it is a surrender.

Trump is using every tool available to him to control who gets to vote and whose ballot gets counted. He is laying the groundwork to challenge election results he doesn’t like. And he wants us to think we cannot stop him.

I believe we can. I believe we must.

So, I will keep filing cases. I will keep posting about them. I will keep speaking out, showing up and refusing to be intimidated — not because I am certain we will win every fight, but because I am certain that we will lose if we stop.