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Mollie Cohen

@mjcohen.bsky.social
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assoc prof (elections, public opinion, voting behavior) | opinions are mine | babies, baking, coffee, dogs, elections, exercise. rarely in that order. My book: press.umich.edu/Books/N/None-of-the… My work: www.molliecohen.com

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 22/07/2026
Laws that allow citizens to challenge one another’s eligibility have been used to suppress voters of color. bit.ly/4h8jgK7
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The Racist History of Voter Challenge Laws
Laws that allow citizens to challenge one another’s eligibility have been used to suppress voters of color. 
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Mollie Cohen @mjcohen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I have exactly one (1) piece of good news to share
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
WTF is this? Normalizing authoritarianism repression as an electoral strategy www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/09/2025
Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law – what comes next?
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
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Mollie Cohen @mjcohen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I wrote up some thoughts about the Bolivian election, and Evo's null vote campaign in particular. theconversation.com/1-in-5-boliv...
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1 in 5 Bolivians spoiled their ballots – a sign of voter dissatisfaction as nation tips to the right
For the first time since returning to democracy, Bolivia’s presidential election heads to a runoff. But no left-wing candidate made it past the first round.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
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An Exceptional Failure of Democratic Accountability: How American Institutions Protected Power While Global Democracies Upheld Justice
How Elite Deference Eroded America's Rule of Law, Defying the Global Norm.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/06/2025
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived."
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Mollie Cohen @mjcohen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
American exceptionalism: congress, the courts, the citizenry lay down for the silent coup. Because (1) surely, someone will save us, and (2) it could never happen here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/11/2024
A remarkable thing happened Tuesday night on an “election integrity” discussion page on the social media platform X, as it became clear that former president Donald Trump was headed to a decisive victory against Vice President Kamala Harris. It got quiet. wapo.st/40VIxPB
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Mollie Cohen @mjcohen.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Again, poll watchers are in the news. @gsheag.bsky.social and I wrote an explainer at @theconversation.bsky.social about the role of partisan monitors in the U.S.: theconversation.com/what-poll-wa...
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What poll watchers can − and can’t − do on Election Day
Political parties sign up volunteers to observe what happens at polling places – which can improve transparency or cause problems.
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Mollie Cohen @mjcohen.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
I don't love social media, but None of the Above comes out in February, so here we are polisky. The book has something for everyone: angry voters, irreverent ballots, democracy in decline, data galore! Consider preordering with a discount code from the press: press.umich.edu/content/down...
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Mollie Cohen @mjcohen.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Polisky? Polisky.
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Mollie Cohen @mjcohen.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Y'all, I have page proofs!! Coming soon to a bookstore near you in hardback, paperback, and open access :) press.umich.edu/Books/N/None...
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