21 months. That’s how long it took to strip away decades of climate protections.

26 days. That’s how long until we get a say in what happens next.

We’ve covered the Trump administration’s climate record one headline at a time. Before you vote- as if you needed more reasons to vote- we want to remind you how it affects you personally.

• Your health. EPA weakened mercury and toxic-air protections for coal plants and stopped putting a dollar value on the lives its clean-air rules save. It tried to scrap the stronger soot standard, until a federal court stopped it. It repealed most carbon limits on power plants and delayed parts of its methane rules until 2027. Oil and gas pollution alone contributes to about 91,000 early deaths a year. Weakening pollution protections will add to that burden.

• Your gas tank. EPA killed greenhouse-gas standards for cars and trucks, and NHTSA gutted fuel-economy rules. New cars were on track for 50 miles per gallon. Now it’s 35. The pitch is cheaper cars, but the government’s own numbers say you’ll spend more at the pump than you save at the dealership. With gas up about $1.50 a gallon since the start of the year, you’ll feel it every time you fill up.

• Your power bill. The EV tax credits are already gone, and the clean energy tax credits are being phased out. EPA canceled $7 billion in Solar for All grants and moved to claw back another $20 billion in clean-energy financing, though courts have since ruled both moves unlawful. The Administration blocked offshore wind leases, halted projects mid-build, and canceled $679 million. Developers were promised nearly $4 billion to walk away, and most of that money is going into LNG and gas. Coal plants that should have retired were ordered to stay open, and DOE put $625 million into propping up the coal industry.

• Your wild places. Under an “energy emergency,” the Administration opened 1.56 million acres of the Arctic Refuge. It also reopened roughly 82% of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to oil and gas leasing, including areas around the Teshekpuk Lake region. It approved more than 600 drilling permits. It planned to offer about 1.3 billion acres of coastal waters to oil and gas drilling, including California’s, which hasn’t seen a new lease since 1984. It also moved to end the Roadless Rule, lifted the mining ban near the Boundary Waters, and erased the Endangered Species Act’s definition of “harm,” which protected the habitat species need to survive.

• Your forecast. It dismissed the National Climate Assessment authors and asked climate deniers to write the next one. It moved to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research and NOAA’s climate research. It slashed and reorganized EPA’s research office and took Climate.gov offline.

• Your protection. Justice Department civil environmental enforcement fell about 80%. Agencies were told to steer away from criminal charges for breaking environmental rules, and the department sued states over their own climate laws. The tools your town uses to plan for floods and fires are disappearing.

• Your voice in the world. The U.S. left the Paris Agreement, again, moved to quit the UN climate treaty and the IPCC, and sent no one to COP30.

And, perhaps most crucially, the EPA rescinded the endangerment finding, the legal foundation for federal regulation of greenhouse gases from vehicles and a cornerstone of U.S. climate policy.

That’s a lot to lose. But it’s not necessarily lost for good.

Rules can be rewritten. Funding can be restored. A federal appeals court has already upheld the stronger soot limits, and twenty-five state attorneys general are in court fighting the endangerment repeal. What we need now are people in office who’ll fight just as hard.

On November 3, we choose who represents us, from Congress all the way down to, in many states, the utility commission that sets our rates. The Environmental Voter Project estimates that millions of people who care about the environment sit out midterms. That’s more than enough votes to swing a close race. We just need to show up.

So make a plan. Check your registration. Vote early. Bring three people with you.

Twenty-one months of damage. One day to say ENOUGH!!!