This is not the Boy who Cried Wolf. This is not someone shouting fire in a crowded theater. This is not a drill.

“Expect no justice and fairness under Trump. I know,” warns Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Central Park Five, and the voice of authority in Left of Center-PAC’s latest radio ad, titled “I Know.”

“In this election we must again reject hate and chaos, and choose a brighter future for all Americans. Join me, Yusef Salaam, in choosing Kamala Harris,” adds Mr. Salaam, now an elected New York City Councilman, who in 1989 was a teenager when he and four others were wrongly accused of a highly publicized violent crime.

Trump injected himself into the narrative at the time when he bought full-pages ads in NYC that suggested executing the Central Park Five for a crime they did not commit. Eventually fully exonerated, Trump nonetheless has persisted in persecuting the Exonerated Central Park Five and continues to falsely accuse those then innocent boys, now grown men, of a crime they were cleared of. Not surprisingly, now the Exonerated Central Park Five are suing Trump over his repeated lies and defamation.

Yusef Salaam is a gentleman, leader and survivor of a system that wrongly tried to cancel him, and he has successfully faced down Trump and his toxic image as Manhattan media darling born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Instead of resentment, Mr. Salaam embraces empowerment, freedom and democracy, and when it comes to Trump he knows what he is talking about.

Partnering with Yusef Salaam and others, Left of Center has committed to reaching undecided and low-propensity voters in two key Battleground States where there are crucial votes to be harvested, Georgia and North Carolina. The spot will run through early voting right up to Election Day to support get out the vote efforts on the ground. Frankly, we believe this ad belongs in other Battleground States (Philly and Detroit/Dearborn come to mind).

All over the country brigades of activists, volunteers and field organizing professionals are now at their posts. To support the Democrats ground game, organizations like Left of Center are divvying up the duty. The goal is to find every malleable or persuadable vote for Harris-Walz and down-ballot Democrats, leaving no one on the couch. Name a demographic — women, working men, union households, suburban voters, young voters, Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQ+ — you name it and some organization is micro-targeting the available votes among those and other cohorts.

It’s a critical moment, and reports out of the Battleground States are a mixed bag. Key states and races are just just too darn close call.

We also hear Mr. Salaam’s words of warning, and mark them well. We have seen Trump’s lies inspire violence, tear apart communities with malice and hate, and disrupt rescue and recovery efforts after deadly hurricanes. We expect more to come. There have been "at least 300 cases of political violence since Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including at least 51 incidents this year,” according to an investigation by Reuters news service.

A new investigative report by Politico, titled, The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway, is an absolute must-read to come to terms with the potential evil that is lurking.

“No one knows exactly what Trump’s attack on the electoral system will be in 2024,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Jan. 6 select committee, said in that report. “What will he do this time.”

Democrats need to be vigilant and elevate their game the final two weeks of the elections. We must fight until the clock expires and we must be resilient. Expect the unexpected and ignore the noise. We need to find every vote everywhere. It’s doable; and if everyone shows up or digs deep we can save democracy and put the stake into the hate of Donald Trump.