No Kings-Tied Group Tells Supporters To Stockpile Food And Shut Down America If They Don't Like The Election Results

According to The Gateway Pundit, the campaign is being driven by Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service, a group that helped promote the recent No Kings demonstrations and is now openly describing those protests as a trial run for larger, more disruptive actions. War Rooms Natalie Winters obtained and reported on internal documents in which the organization lays out a National Shutdown Checklist and a broader strategy for escalating pressure around the midterm elections, including direct targeting of election officials, state attorneys general, and judges.

The materials, couched in the language of nonviolence, nonetheless sketch out a sweeping plan to paralyze normal life if activists deem the electoral process illegitimate. The guidance calls for households to prepare for days of disruption, workplaces to coordinate mass absences, and schools to brace for closures or student walkouts, all under the banner of defending democracy from alleged sabotage.

November 01, 2026

Pace e Benes own September post leaves little doubt about the political timing, explicitly anchoring the preparations to the 2026 midterms and warning that if elections are sabotaged and results ignored, there may be a call for no work, no school, no shopping. The groups Election Defense guide goes further, instructing activists to think beyond their own communities and to be ready to mobilize nationwide if they believe any jurisdictions results are under threat.

While much of Election Defense work is local, especially some of the scenario planning, its also important to broaden your lens. Start talking with your networks and groups about how to engage in meaningful solidarity actions to support other communities if theyre the ones targeted with election sabotage. For example, think about what will you do in solidarity if Trump follows through on his threats and nullifies DCs election results because he doesnt like the winner; or Arizona refuses to certify the results of certain precincts; or racist officials try to throw out hundreds of thousands of Black votes in swing states or other areas, the guide states. It adds, If any community calls for people to stand with them in making sure their votes count, we all need to be ready to take meaningful solidarity action.

The organization attempts to normalize this level of disruption by likening its checklist to standard blizzard or hurricane preparations, with the key difference that the storm in this case would be a coordinated political shutdown. Its four-page document pairs five to ten days of food with medicines, fuel, childcare plans, and mutual aid arrangements, signaling that activists should be ready to sustain a prolonged standoff rather than a one-day protest.

Workers are urged to coordinate with colleagues and unions, and to plan sick calls or other forms of absence if management refuses to endorse the shutdown. School administrators are explicitly targeted with proposals for closures or student walkouts, underscoring that children and families could be swept into the effort whether they agree with the politics or not.

Pace e Bene portrays the tool as useful not only for the upcoming midterms but for what it calls a longer-term struggle, suggesting that such tactics could become a recurring feature of American political life. In a February 10 message, the group encouraged activists to treat the March 28 No Kings protests as a dry run to test organizing capacity ahead of a more ambitious May 1 strike.

An October communication sharpened the message, calling for sustained picketing and for people to stay away from work, shopping, and school until this crisis is resolved, language that leaves the definition of crisis in the hands of partisan organizers. That same message directly addressed election officials, state attorneys general, and judges, signaling that the shutdown strategy is meant to function as a pressure campaign on institutions that are supposed to operate independently of street politics.

The groups planning documents identify specific pressure points after voting as hypothetical triggers for shutting down normal activity, including scenarios in which Michigans results are not certified, an Ohio winner is not seated, or Georgia ballots are seized. They also flag Georgia, Michigan, Texas, Ohio, Arizona, and Washington, D.C., as key jurisdictions to watch, while citing examples of prolonged protest movements in other countries as a model for what they hope to replicate in the United States.

While the materials concede that supporters can resume normal life if elections proceed smoothly, the emphasis is clearly on readiness for escalation and on treating any contested outcome as grounds for mass disruption. That posture stands in stark contrast to years of lectures from the left about the supposed danger of questioning election integrity, a standard that now appears to apply only when conservatives raise concerns.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Democrat Sen. Ed Markey has already signaled that his party is preparing to take the fight beyond the ballot box and into the courts and the streets. The 80-year-old Massachusetts senator boasted this week that Democrats have lawyers already drafting an emergency case for the Supreme Court because they believe President Donald Trump will attempt to interfere with the midterms, and he openly called for a nationwide shutdown if they do not like how Election Day unfolds.

We have to be ready on Election Day to have a national strike. We have to be ready to have millions of people come out of their homes to be protesting what Trump is trying to perpetrate as an electoral crime on our nations history, Markey claimed. His rhetoric, combined with Pace e Benes detailed shutdown blueprint, suggests that the same political faction that once insisted it was a grave sin to question elections is now preparing to paralyze the country if voters deliver results they refuse to accept.