READ: Left-wing Radicals Post Online Guide to 'Disrupting' the Country if Election is Close

It casts its plan for disruption as a response to an imagined “coup” by the president in the case of a close election.In an email promoting the guide, ShutDownDC declares: “Preventing Donald Trump from stealing the election and remaining in office is likely to take mass, sustained disruptive movements all over the country.” The guide is a manual to that “disruption.”Parts of the guide are committed to ensuring a “fair election.” Parts of it, however, read like a manual for staging a coup rather than a guide to preventing one:In the context of a coup or highly contested election we need to be clear that our actions must directly affect the structures and pillars of power. The guide also says that activists plan on “physically protecting the vote count from counter-protestors, federal agents, or white supremacist militias.”The guide indicates that activists intend to “demand that no winner be announced until every vote is counted,” and that they will launch “mass coordinated action” to that end.The signal for action will be if President Donald Trump is declared the winner on Election Night:Trump may try to declare himself the victor before the votes are counted, or Fox News might call the race.