🚨 Your 2026 Primary Election Guide: Calendar, Activist Links, and Donation Links 🚨

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I'm starting to piece together the election calendar for this year. Right now it's in a rudimentary stage and I'll certainly be updating frequently until General Election Day, including links and other info.

Please let me know if there are any broken links, or any incorrect or incomplete information, and I will make the necessary corrections.

Note – if you do anything by mail, be sure to mail things in WELL IN ADVANCE. I personally would recommend at least 10 days, especially for submitting absentee ballots. Remember, we’re still dealing with DeJoy’s postal system! (DeJoy himself might be gone, but his postal complex is still in place.)

Activist and Donation Links:

Click here to go to ActBlue and donate to Democrats:
https://www.forwardblue.org/

Omaha Steve’s post about DU Act Blue 2026 fundraisers for congress, etc.:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218885532

A caveat: ActBlue keeps a small percentage of your donation. So if you want a candidate or entity to have all of your donation, write a check to the candidate directly.

Also: in Arizona you’re required to provide a birth certificate (or passport) in order to register to vote in state elections, so if that affects you, be sure to act on it early. hlthe2b’s thread about how doing so can be quite costly!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220668602

Democratic Freedom Caucus Guide For Activists:
https://www.democraticfreedomcaucus.org/guide-for-activists/

Indivisible, for protests and activism:
https://indivisible.org/

Things you can do other than voting or protesting (thanks to WhiskyGrinder for this):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OSWxykA1WHOi0vTPLAJDaCeVhR3uSfh7PhlCj4t4yT0/edit?tab=t.0


2026 Election Calendar

Wednesday, January 21 – Tuesday, January 27
TX-18 special election run-off early voting.

Saturday, January 31
TX-18 special election run-off.

Monday, February 2
Texas voter registration deadline for primary (in-person, and by mail postmarked by this date)

Thursday, February 5
Illinois state primary: early voting begins. Details here:
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-early-voting-2026-primary-election
New Jersey-11: primary for special election

Tuesday, February 17 – Friday, February 27
Texas early voting for primary

Tuesday, March 3
Arkansas state primary
North Carolina state primary
Texas state primary

Sunday, March 8
Daylight Saving Time begins

Tuesday, March 10
Georgia-14: special election to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat (if necessary, run-off on April 7)
Mississippi state primary

Tuesday, March 17
Illinois state primary

Thursday, April 16
New Jersey-11 special election

Tuesday, May 5
Indiana state primary
Ohio state primary

Tuesday, May 12
Nebraska state primary
West Virginia state primary

Saturday, May 16
Louisiana state primary

Tuesday, May 19
Alabama state primary
Georgia state primary
Idaho state primary
Kentucky state primary
Oregon state primary
Pennsylvania state primary

Tuesday, June 2
California state primary
Iowa state primary
Montana state primary
New Jersey state primary
New Mexico state primary
South Dakota state primary

Tuesday, June 9
Maine state primary
Nevada state primary
North Dakota state primary
South Carolina state primary

Tuesday, June 16
Oklahoma state primary
Virginia state primary

Tuesday, June 23
Maryland state primary
New York state primary
Utah state primary

Tuesday, June 30
Colorado state primary

Tuesday, August 4
Arizona state primary
Kansas state primary
Michigan state primary
Missouri state primary
Washington state primary

Thursday, August 6
Tennessee state primary

Saturday, August 8
Hawaii state primary

Tuesday, August 11
Connecticut state primary
Minnesota state primary
Vermont state primary
Wisconsin state primary

Tuesday, August 18
Alaska state primary
Florida state primary
Wyoming state primary

Tuesday, September 1
Massachusetts state primary

Tuesday, September 8
New Hampshire state primary
Rhode Island state primary

Tuesday, September 15
Delaware state primary

Sunday, November 1
Daylight Saving Time ends

Tuesday, November 3
General Election Day