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Trump doesn’t simply accept his losses and move on. He escalates his preposterous claims and rhetoric even further, Marc Elias says.
“We all saw what that led to on January 6, 2021.”
Help us stand up to Trump and fight for our democracy:
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🚨BREAKING: Trump DOJ says it will deploy federal election monitors to six states during the 2026 primary season.
The announcement comes the same day DOJ threatened election officials with potential criminal prosecution over noncitizen voting.
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🎉 WIN: The DOJ’s request for the personal information of thousands of 2020 Fulton County election workers was “unreasonable,” a federal judge ruled.
The judge found that the DOJ was clearly motivated by Trump’s repeated false claims of widespread voter fraud.
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The DOJ wants to appeal every defeat in Trump’s nationwide campaign to obtain unredacted state voter data.
They have yet to win a single court order to obtain unredacted statewide voter data.
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🚨NEW: FEMA is threatening to withhold terrorism-prevention funds unless states adopt Trump’s anti-voting demands — including citizenship checks and paper ballots.
Trump can’t run state elections, so he’s trying to use public safety money as leverage.
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NEW: Trump's DOJ sent letters to top election officials in multiple states threatening criminal prosecution over possible noncitizen voting.
It marks an escalation of the administration's pressure campaign after courts repeatedly rejected its effort to seize unredacted voter rolls.
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📬 USPS LATEST: The Postal Service is asking a federal court to let it move forward with Trump’s dangerous attack on mail voting— even after a judge blocked the order in 23 states and D.C.
Trump’s executive order directs USPS to only deliver mail ballots if states first hand over their voter lists to the administration.
Here's what’s happening next in the fight to stop it:
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NEW: A federal judge allowed Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Iowa to again use a DHS database to search for noncitizens on their rolls after a court blocked access in June.
The judge acknowledged the conflict between the two courts, which will likely trigger a rash of litigation.
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BREAKING: Maryland's top Democrats announced a special session aimed at redrawing the state's congressional lines ahead of the 2028 election.
State lawmakers will convene in August to consider legislation that would put a redistricting amendment before voters this November.
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🚨BREAKING: In a win for democracy, a court blocked the DOJ's subpoena seeking the personal information of thousands of Fulton County's 2020 election workers.
The court found the subpoena was clearly motivated by Trump's repeated false claims that widespread fraud led to his 2020 loss in Georgia.
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NEW: The League of Women Voters and other pro-voting groups slammed the Trump administration's ongoing bid to use a federal database as a tool to purge voters from the rolls.
A judge last month blocked the effort, ruling the administration's attempts to change the database were illegal.
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This from the same guy who tried to get the Supreme Court to throw out 20M+ votes in 2020:
New: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.”
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NEW: USPS asked a court to temporarily allow it to move forward with implementing Trump's order directing it to only deliver mail ballots to states that share voter lists with the federal government.
Democrats warn the order will make it harder for states to smoothly administer the midterms.
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Our current Supreme Court was installed for the purpose of turning the clock back on our rights as Americans, @HillaryClinton says.
“It’s shocking when they don’t fall in line with Trump. It’s shocking when they stand up to him on anything.”
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Trump wants to create a national database of every registered voter in the country.
Then, he and the GOP want to decide who gets to stay on it.
“It’s a way of essentially taking over the voter registration process,” Marc Elias says, “or, more precisely, taking over the results.”
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows Alabama to use its 2023 congressional map, which lower courts previously blocked for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, in the 2026 midterms.
The ruling comes after the Court gutted the landmark law in Louisiana v. Callais.
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