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‼️ An acting U.S. attorney in New York was serving illegally when he issued subpoenas to New York Attorney General Letitia James, a federal appeals court ruled.
As a result, investigations from 2025 into one of Trump’s biggest foes, James, cannot move forward.
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Trump’s DOJ appears to have hired a new lawyer. His credentials? Pleading guilty after illegally accessing government election websites.
Now, he could be part of the department’s election monitoring operation for the midterms.
We have the receipts in this exclusive story:
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NEW: Nevada called the Trump administration's bid to police its voter rolls "bulls**t" after DHS walked back Trump's claims that thousands of noncitizens were illegally registered to vote in the state.
“This whole exercise has been bulls**t,” Nevada Secretary of State Aguilar said.
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Pro-voting plaintiffs argued before a Texas appeals court that Galveston County officials should not be allowed to:
🗺️ Hold primary elections under one set of district lines
🗺️ Use different boundaries for the general election just months later
The appeals court denied their effort. Here's why:
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NEW: The 2nd Circuit invalidated John Sarcone’s subpoenas against NY Attorney General Letitia James, ruling he issued them after his authority as interim U.S. attorney expired.
The ruling marks a blow to Trump’s revenge campaign against his political foes, which James has been an ongoing target of.
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"In a republic, we have to have the losing side accept the results." —Florida's top election official, Cord Byrd, in the New York Times.
Bold words from a guy who still won't say Biden won in 2020. (The Times left that part out.)
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NEW: In a loss for voters, the Arkansas Supreme Court rejected a bid to put an initiative on the November ballot that would have barred lawmakers from repealing voter-approved measures.
The move comes after the GOP rejected 20k of the 108k required petition signatures over an administrative error.
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🗳️ Want to know the truth about the DOJ's election monitors?
“These monitors will not be judged on honest reports of what is happening at the polls,” Marc Elias writes. “They will be expected to generate information that can be weaponized against voters and election officials.”
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📦 The FBI seized sensitive voter information from Fulton County, Georgia, earlier this year.
Now, a lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from misusing those records has been dismissed.
But the case was dismissed without prejudice. Here's why that's important:
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🗳️ If Chick-fil-A isn’t open, polls shouldn’t be either.
That’s the argument a GOP county board member in North Carolina made for scaling back weekend voting in the state.
Some say the plea to eliminate Sunday voting has “serious racial undertones:”
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Donald Trump hates me and Republicans think I am the enemy. Trolls and critics can say what they want, but they should know that I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
As FDR said, “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
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Attorney General Todd Blanche says the federal government should play a role in elections.
That’s not what the U.S. Constitution says.
“The federal government plays only the role that Congress gives it. Period,” Marc Elias says.
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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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