Donald Trump’s latest social media blast promising a nationwide voter ID mandate by executive order is blatantly unconstitutional and nakedly anti-democratic. He knows it, because courts have already told him he cannot use executive orders to rewrite election rules or add new paperwork hurdles to vote. When he tried to force “citizenship proof” into the registration process, Democratic attorneys general and voting-rights advocates took him to court and won, securing permanent injunctions against key parts of his elections order.

Judges have said clearly: the president has no power to unilaterally change how Americans register and vote.

So why repeat the same losing move? Because he’s afraid. Trump sees the energy building for Democratic victories in the midterms and is trying to rig the rules out of desperation, not strength. He is signaling that he fears the accountability voters are about to deliver.

We can’t meet that fear with silence. We have to meet it with action: organizing, registering, turning out, and defending every eligible voter’s right to cast a ballot. Get active, get busy, and let’s defeat Trump and Trumpism at the polls and in the courts.