Alice Lopez left the union hall so disturbed by what she had just heard that she determined she would persuade her daughters to vote even though they had never done so before.
A friend had taken Lopez to a meeting arranged by Latino community leaders in bellwether Saginaw county, Michigan, to discuss Project 2025, the authoritarian plan to impose rightwing control across the entire US government if Donald Trump wins, in an attempt to jolt complacent and indifferent voters into turning out on Tuesday.