The American Civil Liberties Union plans to spend more than $50 million on the 2026 midterm elections, the organization told NBC News.

The ACLU said $25 million will be spent on ensuring the elections run smoothly. The organization told NBC News it will train and deploy more than 100 paid staff members and more than 3,000 volunteer leaders to get people to vote and also monitor ballot counting and certification.

More than 5,000 people have been trained with plans to train 5,000 more volunteers, the ACLU said.

The ACLU said that it expects to invest heavily in seven battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

"We are in a really unprecedented situation here with this administration's abuses of power and concerted attempts to suppress voters, to gerrymander, to basically co-opt our democratic system," Deirdre Schifeling, the ACLU's chief political and advocacy officer said to NBC News.

In Georgia's primary elections last month, the ACLU had monitors on the ground to watch voting and vote counting in seven counties.

The ACLU said it plans to spend another $25 million on down-ballot races and ballot measure campaigns, including Supreme Court races in Montana and North Carolina and secretary of state races in Arizona and Nevada.

Schifeling called their spending a "firewall for freedom strategy."

"Given all the signals that we've received from this administration, all of the totally unprecedented ways that they have acted to intervene in elections and to undermine mail-in voting and to insert DOJ [the Department of Justice] in election processes in a way that is unprecedented and inappropriate, we would be foolish to not be prepared," Schifeling said.