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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DHS SAVE database has long and documented history of producing false positives of non-citizens voting, leading to sensational headlines of alleged voter fraud that turn out to be untrue on closer inspection. In St. Louis County, MO, for example at least 81% of the names flagged were incorrect

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks to SCOTUS GOP-appointed majority (same ones who attended Trump's state dinner last night), Trump admin will use faulty & inaccurate data to wrongly label eligible voters non-citizens & pressure states to remove them from rolls. Sets a chilling precedent www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Supreme Court allows Trump to use flawed database to vet voter citizenship

While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026

By destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction, write @ariberman.bsky.social & @pemalevy.bsky.social.

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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social

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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social have a damning new story about how the Roberts Court is reviving Jim Crow, relying on the same legal tactics used to undermine the Reconstruction. A must read to understand the stakes of this election. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Cover of Mother Jones issue on the new Jim Crow

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Did @ariberman.bsky.social and I manage to have an *empowering* conversation about election interference? Yeah, I think we did slate.com/podcasts/wha...

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Who’s Interfering in the Election Now

They let the maps slide, but even this Supreme Court wasn’t going to let the USPS run mail-in voting.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

USPS blatantly illegal and unconstitutional scheme to steal the midterms for Trump would've disenfranchised millions of voters For once SCOTUS got it right on voting rights www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Supreme Court blocks Trump’s mail ballot scheme

The decision prevents massive disenfranchisement and chaos in November.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/08/2026

If Trump's order for DHS to help manage voter rolls goes into effect this November, "it's going to be inaccurate, it's going to be unconstitutional, and a lot of legitimate American voters are going to be wrongly labeled as non-citizens and unable to vote," warns @ariberman.bsky.social

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

SCOTUS GOP-appointed majority has ruled for Trump in 90% of shadow docket cases and is clearly signaling they’re not going to stop him from interfering in midterms by approving, at least temporarily, blatantly unconstitutional EO to restrict mail voting www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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SCOTUS hands Trump a temporary win in his crusade against mail voting

The ruling could advance Trump's bid to"take over" elections.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now says it's too soon for states to challenge Trump EO restricting mail voting even though midterms 70 days away. Justice Jackson rightly calls it "Kafkaesque nightmare"

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

61 years ago LBJ signed Voting Rights Act. He called it "a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield." But now the Supreme Court has effectively killed it after John Roberts spent 40 years working to destroy the country’s most important civil rights law

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's no coincidence that Trump went nuclear on John Thune to pass SAVE Act just as GOP is detoriating in generic ballot. Latest polls are striking: Fox D+7 Pew D+6 Emerson D+11 On the pod, @ariberman.bsky.social is so good on Trump's coming effort to steal midterms: newrepublic.com/article/2134...

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Angry Trump Openly Urges GOP to Rig Midterms as Brutal Fox Poll Hits

As a striking Fox News poll suggests the GOP midterm position is deteriorating, a voting rights expert walks us through what Trump is really gearing up to attempt this fall—and how to defeat it.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump's speech was a total dud but he's still going to use it as pretext to interfere in midterms. In particular the discredited allegations of Chinese interference are intended to lay groundwork for fake national emergency. That's the real threat www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Trump’s primetime speech was a dud. He could still use it to interfere in the midterms.

The allegations of foreign interference by China are intended to create a fake national emergency.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump claimed in speech DHS found 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote. Turns out that number was 10,716 based on report they just released. Even that # likely wildly inflated due to false positives & inaccuracies in SAVE database

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

All the ways Trump has gutted efforts to stop foreign election interference: -laid off a third of CISA employees -disbanded FBI task charged with combatting foreign election interference -eliminated DHS teams combatting foreign disinformation -fired all the EAC commissioners

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump claims 278,000 non-citizens on voter rolls. That’s laughable. Utah recently audited 2 million people on voter rolls and found just 27 noncitizens registered, amounting to .00135% of registered voters

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump was in charge in 2020 when all the foreign interference he alleges happened

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

National Intelligence Council 2021 report directly contradicts Trump's lies about alleged Chinese interference: “We assess that China did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US presidential election"

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Likely a wildly inflated number, given that none of these states handed over their voter rolls & DHS provided no evidence to support such claims

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/07/2026

A federal judge in Atlanta has quashed a DOJ subpoena seeking the names and personal info of Fulton County's 2020 election workers. “Georgia is just a microcosm of what they're planning to do to interfere in the midterms,” says @ariberman.bsky.social, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

SCOTUS destroying Voting Rights Act Trump openly planning to interfere in midterms DOJ threatening to prosecute election officials I discussed how all these threats to democracy fit together on @nprfreshair.bsky.social today. Please listen www.npr.org/2026/07/08/n...

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Do you know where your birth certificate is? Journalist warns of new voting barriers

The rules of the midterms are being rewritten, from redistricting to campaign money. Mother Jones journalist Ari Berman explains why President Trump seems "obsessed with the mechanics of voting."

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"Every major study has shown that mail-in voting is safe and secure, but the fact that four justices signed on to Trump’s crusade to get rid of mail-in ballots is highly disturbing and could embolden the president to attempt to take even more drastic steps to make it harder to vote"

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Good news that SCOTUS preserved mail ballot grace periods but very disturbing that 4 justices led by Alito amplified Trump's conspiracies about mail voting, including debunked claims of "voter fraud" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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In a rare blow to Trump, the Supreme Court just saved mail-in voting—for now

The surprise victory is unlikely to slow down the administration's assault on voting rights.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Breaking: SCOTUS in 5-4 ruling by Barrett upholds Mississippi law allowing ballots to be counted if postmarked by Election Day but received after. Major disaster averted. A ruling the other way would've disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters in 2026 www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Politicians who brazenly push to disenfranchise Black voters need to pay a political price everywhere they try it

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My Mayor is Muslim My Bagel is Jewish My Christian Dior NY State Dems can gerrymander 4

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Dems could draw more than 20 new blue districts by 2028, reversing GOP’s redistricting advantage They need to maximize their power everywhere they have it to counteract Trump & SCOTUS destroying VRA I break it down here, citing great research by @stephenwolf.bsky.social @davidnir.com

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

WTF is this NYT headline? What the Alabama + Callais decisions really signal is that Roberts Court will make up whatever the hell rule it wants to maximally help the GOP & prevent Black voters from having any representation

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/06/2026

Last night, the Roberts Court once again handed Republicans another shocking gerrymandering win in Alabama. For the second time in three weeks, they green-lit an Alabama congressional map that a lower court has repeatedly found intentionally discrim inates against Black voters.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Roberts Court now engaged in blatant electoral warfare, doing everything it can to give Republicans as many seats as possible in midterms & completely erase Reconstruction amendments. If Dems don’t reform court when back in power there will be no democracy left to protect

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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In Alabama, the Roberts Court hands Republicans yet another shocking gerrymandering win

By reinstating a discriminatory map, the justices are once again doing all they can to help the GOP.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is so outrageous. Roberts Court said in Callais finding of intentional discrimination could invalidate gerrymandered maps. Lower court found Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters. SCOTUS still allowed map eliminating majority Black district to go through

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Big redistricting news: New York Democrats plan to unveil and pass a constitutional amendment by Thursday that would let them redraw the congressional map in 2028 and target up to 4 GOP seats. They will need to pass it again next year and win a November 2027 referendum for it to take effect

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New York Democrats push redistricting amendment, joining national battle

The proposed amendment won’t change the Empire State’s House lines in 2026 as local Democrats take a longer-term approach.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/05/2026

In the wake of Louisiana v. Callais, Republicans are moving to eliminate at least half a dozen majority-Black districts in the Deep South between now and 2028. That would trigger the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Breaking: Louisiana legislature gives final approval to new 5-1 gerrymandered map eliminating majority-Black district represented by Dem Rep Cleo Fields Black voters comprise 33% of state population but will be able to elect candidate of choice in only 1 of 6 congressional districts

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Republicans are moving to eliminate at least half a dozen majority Black districts in TN, AL, LA, SC, MS, GA between now & 2028. This is what return to Jim Crow looks like www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Republicans are reviving Jim Crow in the old Confederacy

The GOP is moving to eliminate at least half a dozen majority Black districts in the Deep South.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Someone tell Lane Kiffin, who praised LSU for its “diversity,” that Louisiana Republicans are dismantling the congressional district of the Black member of Congress from Baton Rouge

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Breaking: Louisiana House passes new gerrymandered map eliminating majority-Black district represented by Dem Rep Cleo Fields Black voters comprise 33% of state population but will be able to elect candidate of choice in only 1 of 6 congressional districts

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/05/2026

A three-judge federal court panel with two Trump appointees just issued a stunning rebuke to the Roberts Court.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Breaking: South Carolina Senate just failed to invoke cloture on 7-0 gerrymandered map eliminating Jim Clyburn's majority Black district. It appears redistricting is dead for real this time as early voting begins today & 32,000 ballots already cast

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Wow 3-judge panel with two Trump appointees restores second majority Black congressional district in Alabama for midterms. "We cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination"

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Read @protectdemocracy.org: slush fund for insurrectionists, gutting of VRA & purging of GOP dissidents all related: "None are popular. None are smart politics. All are designed to hold power without winning public support — by overriding free & fair elections" www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-strate...

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The strategy hiding in plain sight

The slush fund, the VRA, the purges: one project, designed to hold power without winning it

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"We are in a new phase of electoral warfare by the Roberts Court. People need to understand that this is not just a conservative court, but a rabidly partisan one"

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Crooked Media @crooked.com · 21/05/2026

The Roberts Court keeps ruling like the GOP’s in-house counsel.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

NEW 🧵: Here's how Dems could redraw 9 congressional maps by 2028 & target more than 20 GOP seats. The GOP tried to rig the national map in 2026, & Dems had few ways to respond. But Dems could fully counteract them by 2028. We have example maps for each state www.the-downballot.com/p/how-democr...

Map of states where Democrats may have the opportunity to redraw congressional maps by 2028 to target seats currently held by Republicans. They could target Republicans in:

Colorado: 3
Illinois: 1
Maryland: 1
Minnesota: 2
New Jersey: 2
New York: 4
Oregon: 1
Virginia: 4
Wisconsin: 3
Total: 21

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