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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/10/2026
What do we do when Congress, the DOJ and even local election offices are stocked with election deniers? “Frankly, it’s going to be a generational challenge,” Marc Elias says. We’re up for the challenge. Are you? ➡️ demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is bad that the White House demonstrates casual disregard for the rule of law.
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William Turton @williamturton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW STORY: Susan Collins Dismissed Our Reporting as Old News. Some of Her Claims Aren’t True. www.propublica.org/article/debu...
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I had a good chat with @hcrichardson.bsky.social about my new book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America," noting that by helping Trump become POTUS, Putin mounted the most successful covert operation in modern history. For more on the book: HowRussiaWon.com.
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Most Successful Covert Operation in History
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: After reporters were denied access this morning, plaintiffs are requesting an immediate hearing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
ABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., MS NO
ABLE, LLC, POLITICO LLC, ET AL
Plaintiffs,
V.
DONALD J. TRUMP, ET AL.,
Case No. 1:26-cv-03287-TJK
REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE HEARING
Defendants.
REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE HEARING
Early this morning the Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order directing "that Defendants (except for President Trump) and their agents, representatives, and all persons or entities acting in concert with them shall immediately return, reinstate, and restore the White House "hard pass' press credentials held by employees of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO that were revoked on or about September 18, 2026." Dkt. 24 (the "Order"). This morning journalists from each of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO attempted to enter the White House and were turned away, and Secret Service agents confiscated the hard pass of journalists whose hard passes
had not previously been confiscated. And when Plaintiff Betsy Klein, whose hard pass was confiscated on Saturday, September 19, requested to have her hard pass returned, her request was denied and she was refused access to the White House complex. And time is of the essence CNN is scheduled to be the television pool this evening for President Xi Jinping's visit to the White House.
Counsel for Plaintiffs reached out to counsel for Defendants this morning and requested to
call the Court together. Counsel for Defendants has not responded.
Case 1:26-CV-03287-TJK Document 25 Filed 09/24/26 Page 2 of 2
Defendants have already repeatedly violated the Court's Order. Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court set a hearing by videoconference or teleconference as soon as possible this morning.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
An AI executive warned that ChatGPT was built via “the largest theft of labor in human history.” That’s just one of the bombshell quotes we discovered through our OpenAI lawsuit.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Kelly just concluded there's no "national security" argument in this case (CNN/MSNOW/Politico)
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Republicans believe AI is capable of governing themselves, while not believing women should govern their own bodies. Think about that...they think robots should have more autonomy than humans.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 16/09/2026
Another chance to start a new, $100+ billion endless foreign war? Another chance to send diesel costs skyrocketing to all-time highs? Another chance to send gas prices above $4/gal? Another chance to strip health care from millions of Americans?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Medicare for All means we will no longer be nickeled and dimed by corporations who exist specifically to hold our healthcare dollars and pay out as little as possible.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel suggested at a Senate hearing Tuesday that federal agents may be present at the polls in November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Kash Patel suggests FBI agents may be at polls
“I don’t know that we can’t legally do it,” Patel told lawmakers. “I’m telling you we’re going to house our agents and intel analysts in our field offices for election security.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
💚 HCR
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/09/2026
Nailed it as always, sir
Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion column by Peter Navarro, published March 12, 2026, headlined “Iran War Will Lower Energy Prices,” with the subheadline: “The risk of regime violence has long been baked into the global price of oil and gas—and everything else.”
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 16/09/2026
Your reminder that there is a madman in the White House identified in the Epstein files as a rapist, there has been no investigation, and the files are still being hidden in violation of federal law.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No shit, 100% agree here.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After Pretti was killed, Savageford, who is Asian-American, said she was taken to a warehouse near the Whipple detention center where immigrants were being detained. She was strip-searched, including by male agents who Cook told HuffPost on Friday were “touching her privates.”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk all agree that we have to slow down - and now - something serious clearly happened with a frontier AI model. Journalists should be digging in to this. We aren’t getting the whole story here.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/09/2026
Epstein survivor Dani Bensky reveals that Fox News has refused to give survivors a platform, even as they try to reach Americans across the political spectrum. “We have survivors on both sides of the aisle... but there really is this great divide that we can’t seem to cross.”
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Please share wisely to publicize the attempts by musk to suppress votes and spread disinformation popular.info/p/the-hidden...
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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Elias Law Group is currently litigating 89 voting and election cases in 42 states plus the District of Columbia: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If it weren't for FOX, the entire country would know this instead of only those people who actually know how to read.
Meme:
[images of presidents Clinton, Obama and Biden]
FUN FACT:
Each one of these Presidents inherited
an economy WRECKED by a Republican,
and each one left with
a booming economy,
only for the incoming Republican
president to wreck it again.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@khanna.house.gov: "I don't think [Mike Johnson] is naive enough to think that if he just adjourns Congress that he can make the whole Epstein situation disappear, but he has seen the same numbers that Thomas and I have seen. Not a single issue has been a bigger blow to Republicans, MAGA, & Trump."
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 03/09/2026
The Trump administration has repeatedly sought Americans’ private data. Now CPSC wants names, addresses, birthdates, diagnoses, and other sensitive information from emergency room patients. CPSC must immediately halt this sweeping and invasive data collection.
Democrats urge consumer product agency halt public health modernization project
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026
A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
JD Vance told El-Sayed to stop invoking Usha after AES said: "Do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no." But it turns out AES offered this *in response* to something vile that JD previously said about how Papaw would have viewed AES: newrepublic.com/article/2149...
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump doesn't want Americans to have a right to vote out our leaders. He doesn't believe we should have any freedom or rights.
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Adam O’Neal quietly left The Washington Post this week after barely a year leading the Opinion section Some staffers are relieved to see him go, with one calling him a “nightmare of a manager” who had begun clashing with even some of his own hires www.status.news/p/washington...
status.news
The Post Opinion’s Open Wounds
Adam O'Neal spent his final weeks as opinion boss largely absent from the newsroom, Status has learned, as even staffers he once championed turned on him.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In a new poll, Americans give President Donald Trump a -20 net approval rating on “elections and democracy,” as he continues to pitch restricting the vote as a path to electoral victory in November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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By wide margin, Americans oppose Trump’s handling of elections, poll finds
49% strongly disapprove, while just 17% strongly approve — a 32-point gap.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 23/08/2026
Bullying doesn’t always work; dumb bullying even less; TACO dumb bullying least of all.
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U.S.-Canada breakdown shows limits of Trump’s aggressive trade strategy
“It’s a big setback,” one analyst said, noting that other countries unhappy with the president’s trade deals are probably watching closely.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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