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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/09/2026
🎥 WATCH: A federal judge just barred USPS from advancing new mail voting restrictions that could leave vast numbers of people unable to cast a ballot by mail this fall. Marc Elias is breaking it down in this special live episode.
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BREAKING: Judge BLOCKS Trump's Mail Voting Takeover
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Norm Eisen of Democracy Defenders Fund: “Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule. Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
EMERGENCY EPISODE: Harmeet Dhillon just announced the DOJ will deploy 1,000 election observers for the midterms. The DOJ wants you to think this is business as usual, but I break down why this deployment is laying the groundwork for what comes after Election Day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZjB...
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BREAKING: Trump DOJ Announces 1,000 Monitors to Watch You Vote
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 07/08/2026
"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."
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Trump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt Women
And the number of women who have left the workforce since January is more than double the number of men.
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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · 29/07/2026
In an important decision, Arizona’s supreme court ruled that corporate campaign contributions are not protected speech under the state constitution — a departure from the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling. Learn more by subscribing to State Court Report’s free newsletter: bit.ly/45IXZ0M
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the First Circuit denied the DOJ’s request to allow USPS to move forward with enacting Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order. The ruling, which applies to 23 blue states and D.C., comes after a lower court blocked part of the order from being implemented.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I'm sorry. "ICE facility for kids" should be where this loses everyone. WTF, America?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ballou: Based on reporting, Larry and David Ellison, talked about transforming CNN and potentially even firing anchors the president didn’t like. Once that happened, the regulatory barriers melted away. When you’re talking about giving a private benefit in exchange for a public act, that’s bribery.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/07/2026
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/07/2026
Oh look. Texas also made voter registration errors. They were caught and fixed, all without needing the SAVE act or a national voter roll database. CRAZY. www.kxxv.com/news/local-n...
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Election errors found in Texas voter database ahead of November election
A campaign worker found errors in Texas's voter database. Here's what it means for McLennan County voters ahead of the November election.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The SAVE America Act mandates that all voters must bring to the polls specifically a photo ID which has proof of citizenship “on the front of the document.” So REAL IDs don’t count. If the ID does not precisely conform to that standard, you must also bring separate proof of citizenship.
SEC. 3. PHOTO VOTER
IDENTIFICATION
REQUIRED FOR
VOTING IN A FEDERAL ELECTION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each
individual voting in an election for Federal office shall present an eligible photo identification document.
(b) PRESENTATION
REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) IN-PERSON
VOTING.—In the case of an individual who votes in-person, the eligible photo identification document shall
(A) be a tangible
(not digital) document; and
(B) be presented at the time of voting.(c) ELIGIBLE PHOTo
IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT.—For purposes of this section:
(1) IN GENERAL.—The
term "eligible photo identification document" means any document which
(A) is issued by an authority described in paragraph (2); and
(B) meets the requirements of paragraph (3).(3) REQUIREMENTS.—A
document meets the
requirements of this paragraph if the document contains
(A) a photograph of the individual identified on the document;
(B) an indication on the front of the document that the individual identified on the document is a United States citizen; and
(C) either
(1) an identification number issues by the entity described in paragraph
(2)(A); or
(11) the last four digits of the social security number of the individual identified on the document.(4) USE OF ADDITIONAL
DOCUMENTATION.—
(A) USE OF ADDITIONAL
DOCUMENTATION.—A document which fails to meet the requirements of paragraph (3)(B) shall not fail to be treated as an eligible photo identification document if the document is presented together with another identification document that indicates the individual is a United States citizen.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
President Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of unfounded claims in his prime-time speech Thursday. But since then, election officials across the country have rushed to refute the lies and defend their states’ election systems. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election officials of both parties rush to denounce Trump’s lies, defend voting systems
Officials and administrators from at least 30 states debunked the president’s claims over the weekend.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
NEW EPISODE: Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin just gave away the game. His 15-word slip exposes the real goal of Trump's voter ID push. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZn4...
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Your Driver's License Won't Pass Trump's Voter ID Test
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
He died at Irwin, the detention center made notorious by allegations of unwanted gynecological procedures, and that Biden had shut down. Trump reopened it. Now it’s the site of yet another death in ICE detention following claims of medical neglect.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 15/07/2026
‘PJM, the nation’s largest electrical grid operator, on Tuesday released results of an electricity auction that would add $6.3B in costs to the bills of millions of households within the next three years, an increase driven by the power demands of data centers.‘ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/b...
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Data Centers to Add Billions in Power Costs in 13 States
A power auction conducted by a giant grid operator is expected to add $6.3 billion in additional charges to consumers and businesses because of electricity needs of data centers.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Exactly. The president is going to spin some incredible lies about the 2020 election and the media -- and every single Democrat in the country -- has to be ready to smack this bullshit down immediately. Not a mealy-mouthed fact check or, golly, this is weird. Call it out as an assault on democracy.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.social
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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
The Parties used the existence of federal litigation as a means of conferring legitimacy upon a course of action that they were unwilling to subject to judicial review.
The context of the "settlement," the relationships of the people involved in negotiating and approving it, the ethical implications of their conduct, and the Parties' swift efforts to
dismiss this case after the Court raised fundamental jurisdictional questions all support this conclusion. Accordingly, the Court expressly finds that Plaintiffs acted in bad faith.
See Sofaly v. Portfolio Recovery Assocs., LLC, 155 F.4th 289, 295 (3d Cir. 2025) (monetary sanctions were proper under the court's inherent power where the lawyers acted in bad faith and committed fraud on the court by using "their clients to bring
contrived lawsuits"). That finding is enough to invoke the Court's inherent authority. See JTR Enter., LLC V. Columbian Emeralds, 697 F. App'x 976, 986 (11th Cir. 2017) ("The key to invoking a court's inherent power to sanction is a finding of bad faith.") (citation
omitted).
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Did you see this? www.cnn.com/newsletters/...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I have always appreciated Marc and his team but even more so since he broke down why the voter file is the holy grail of election manipulation for my Substack. Link to my discussion with him in nect skeet 1/
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 10/07/2026
ICE killed a man without wearing body cameras all because someone in his van “resembled the target” though it wasn’t them.   Now we’ve learned that the agents lied about what happened, mocked the man they shot as he was dying, and stripped his ID from him when they brought him to the hospital.
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Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
David Axelrod: All the signals are flashing red, the latest being POTUS's summary dismissal of the remaining Federal Election Assistance Commission members.

Put that together with political hack Pulte's odious appt as DNI; election deniers in the most sensitive oversight positions; Trump's exec order on mail-in voting, and potential use of the Postal Service as a weapon of subversion; his pathological prioritization of the SAVE act, which would be the most powerful voter suppression tool in generations; and his persistent, unfounded claims of election fraud, which he uses to justify extraordinary federal interventions.
On the square, the GOP would take a beating this fall, largely because of Trump's unpopularity.

So he's setting up Plan B--do whatever you need to do to win.  Anything.
Anyone who says "Well, he wouldn't do THAT" hasn't paid attention.  He's already proven he will!

So the period AFTER the Midterms may be even more turbulent than the run up to them.

The courts are going to be very busy this fall.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Our independent federal regulatory agencies were created to protect the public from corporate harms. The only reason to end these protections is to give corporate America even higher profits by shifting the risks of harms to individual people. The shame of the John Roberts court.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.
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Kateration @kateration.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/06/2026
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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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Facts matter. Trump is trying to restrict mail in voting by taking control of who is eligible. That’s up to the states, but Trump has decided the states can’t mail ballots to anyone who isn’t on his list. Read here to understand the EO & lawsuits challenging it: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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The Executive Order To Restrict Vote By Mail
Trump is still trying to suppress your vote
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/06/2026
Nothing will ever convince me that JD Vance believes in Jesus Christ or Catholicism. This creature of pure ambition—who has had so many names—wears masks to attain power. Behold the avatar of Thiel, “hillbilly” hater of the poor, anti-Christian to the bone. www.thenerdreich.com/communion-ho...
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Communion: How JD Vance Became an Epstein Class Errand Boy
The vice president serves two men with deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Inside access: The SpaceX IPO will make ten White House officials — ranging from Steve Witkoff to Kelly Loeffler — millions of dollars according to their most recent public financial disclosures: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Officials Held Millions of Dollars of SpaceX Ahead of IPO
SpaceX’s initial public offering will likely make President Donald Trump’s already wealthy administration even richer.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.
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CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/06/2026
What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Wow. A convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter has been hired to work in a Pentagon office that handles classified military information. Elias Irizarry was hired to work in the DOD’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and internal alarms are going off. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
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Jan 6 Capitol Rioter Elias Irizarry Hired at Pentagon: Rpt
A convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter is raising concerns after reportedly being hired to work in a Pentagon office that handles classified military information.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Shortly after the 2025 elections, I published a list of seven voting laws every blue state should enact. While I stand by all seven, I want to highlight three. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...
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It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms
With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Postal Service moving forward with Trump’s attack on mail voting
It signaled it plans to only send ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The Wisconsin Elections Commission is sounding the alarm about the “unusually long time” it took for absentee ballots to reach their assigned voters by mail in the state’s April primaries. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Wisconsin warns USPS over ‘unusually long’ mail voting delays
Wisconsin election officials alerted the USPS about “widespread” concerns regarding late ballot delivery times in a recent primary.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Tim Miller: This is a front page story and weeks long scandal for anyone other than Trump.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“.. four months after its establishment, the board’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. ‘Zero dollars have been deposited,’ one said.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5ba3...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 24/05/2026
NEW: If you thought Trump’s unpopularity is moving GOP voters away from election denialism, this week suggested otherwise. Several candidates who actively question 2020's results advanced to runoffs in Georgia's GOP primary elections, including for governor and secretary of state.
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This week at Democracy Docket: Election denialism is alive and well in Georgia and Pennsylvania — while Trump’s DOJ continues to stumble
If you thought President Donald Trump’s deep unpopularity might be moving GOP voters away from election denialism, this week suggested you should think again.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
In this episode I explain how a made up legal doctrine that says federal courts should not alter state voting rules, district maps, or election procedures too close to an election has been weaponized against Black voters and Democrats. youtu.be/InDAklMpVao?...
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A Made-Up Supreme Court Rule Rigs Election Law for Republicans
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Missouri Republicans are organizing a referendum that would make citizen initiatives basically impossible to pass: boltsmag.org/missouri-ame... They’ve decided to schedule it for August, not November: missouriindependent.com/2026/05/22/m...
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