With last week's balloting behind us, we now have just less than a year before one of the most momentous elections in American history. As voters in 1860 had to decide between Union and secession, we face a stark choice of our own: America or Trump. There is no middle ground. This is democracy at its Armageddon.

The good news is, there are far more of us who believe in America than those who believe in Trump. It's not incidental that he lost the popular vote three years ago or that his party has only won it once since 1992. Nor is it incidental that the nation sides against him and them on hot-button issues like guns, abortion and health care.

But here's the bad news. Trump's party knows all too well that the numbers are against them, that they cannot win nationally without cheating. So they do. Behind a fig leaf of concern over imaginary voter fraud, Republicans have imposed photo ID laws, voter purges and polling-place closures that disproportionately disenfranchise those who don't vote GOP. Meaning, pretty much everyone who's not a straight, white, angry, older male lacking a college diploma.

So the rest of us must take action -- now -- to protect our 2020 ballots. That’s why I asked Carol Anderson, a history professor at Emory University and author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, to compile that action list. Here’s what she advised: