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National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
30 countries use mail voting
In case you’d forgotten Arizona Republicans hired “Cyber Ninjas” to audit 2020 election result in Maricopa County & Biden picked up 360 more votes when it was done
This Week on The Podcast: @motherjones.com's @ariberman.bsky.social discusses the alarming ways the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to cheat and interfere in the 2026 midterms and what is standing in their way. Listen to the episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Far right election deniers lobbying Trump to declare national emergency so he can:
-seize voting machines
-outlaw mail voting for most Americans
-force every American to re-register before midterms & every subsequent election
Insane wannabe dictator fever dream www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The far right election deniers pushing Trump to declare a national emergency to seize control over voting include a Florida man suspended by the bar twice and sanctioned by a federal court and the guy who started the birther conspiracy against Obama www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"Alito is essentially saying that districts drawn under the Voting Rights Act to remedy centuries of racial discrimination are as racist as the racism they were meant to rectify."
Read @ariberman.bsky.social on how the justice's latest opinion could portend the killing of the VRA.
"Alito is essentially saying that districts drawn under the Voting Rights Act or other federal and state laws to remedy centuries of racial discrimination are as racist as the racism (including the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow) they were meant to rectify"
Even by his standards Alito’s opinion in NY redistricting case last night was totally unhinged. If he’s writing majority opinion in Voting Rights Act case that’s very very bad news www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hypocrisy of Roberts Court is astounding: they’re inventing one set of rules to uphold gerrymandered maps that benefit white voters & Republicans in states like Texas while using a completely different set of rules to strike down maps that benefit racial minorities & Democrats
From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s recent attempts to seize state voter data set a chilling precedent for how his administration might interfere in the midterms should Republicans lose the House, Senate, or key state races.
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During his State of the Union speech, Trump claimed that the SAVE America Act is supposed to protect election integrity.
In actuality? It's just another effort for Trump to take over the midterms.
ICYMI, @ariberman.bsky.social offers analysis of Pres. Trump's calls for passage of the SAVE Act:
www.wnyc.org/story/unpack...
Who Save America Act could disenfranchise:
-146 million without passport
-69 million married women who took spouse's last name
-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs
-21 million without current drivers license
-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office
Trump’s last executive order on elections was blocked by the courts and the next one will be too. He can’t unilaterally usurp the power of Congress & the states
"Save America Act would be worst voter suppression bill ever passed by Congress. 146 million Americans don't have passports. 21 million don't have ready access to citizenship documents. 69 million married women have last name different from birth certificate."
The House passed a bill this week — the SAVE America Act — that "combines a lot of the worst things that Republicans want to do with regards to voting, and it comes at a time when Trump appears dead set to try to interfere in the midterm elections," says @ariberman.bsky.social from @motherjones.com.
30 countries use mail voting
This is a must read. The impact on married women alone is egregious—especially impacting women who are older and more conservative
Key facts about SAVE Act 2.0 you won't hear from GOP sponsors:
-"Show your papers" requirement far more restrictive than voter ID
-Voters would have to show documents in-person at election office, traveling up to 4.5 hours to do so
-States would be forced to hand over voter rolls to Kristi Noem
Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise:
-21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers
-69 mil married women who took partner’s name
-21 mil w/out valid drivers license
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
West Virginia, of all places, just rejected the DOJ's demand to turn over its voter rolls
"The DOJ doesn’t have authority to run a state’s elections" said Republican Secretary of State Kris Warner
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Now would be a good time to read my @motherjones.com story with @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social about Pam Bondi’s insane plan to get voter rolls from all 50 states & why it poses such a grave threat to the right to vote www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Republicans trying to sell new SAVE America Act as voter ID bill. It’s much worse. Requires proof of citizenship such as passport or birth certificate to register to vote which could disenfranchise millions & forces states to hand over voter rolls to Kristi Noem www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
House set to pass new version of SAVE Act today, making terrible bill even worse. Could disenfranchise:
-21 million Americans without access to citizenship papers
-69 million married women who took partner’s name
-21 million without current drivers license
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Republicans want you to show citizenship papers to register to vote & strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot but won’t require ICE agents to take off their masks
Yes, it's as bad as you suspected. Trump is abusing the power of his office to revive falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election—and to orchestrate a phony scenario that will let Republicans skew the midterms.
FBI’s Fulton County affidavit confirmed what we’ve long suspected: seizure of ballots based on discredited/recycled falsehoods about 2020 election pushed by election deniers & designed to sow mistrust in election system so that Trump can interfere in midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Furthermore there is no evidence or even allegations of foreign election interference in the FBI affidavit which raises even more questions about why Tulsi Gabbard was at Fulton County raid
My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here
Olsen lobbied DOJ to file lawsuit attempting to overturn 2020 election with Supreme Court & was later sanctioned by federal judge for making “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” when Kari Lake challenged election results in AZ in 2022