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📽️NEW: Marc Elias breaks down the Washington Post report detailing how Trump is crafting a justification based on the debunked lie of "Chinese interference" in 2020.

This isn't just rhetoric — it's a roadmap to federalize elections and rewrite voting rules unilaterally👇
https://bit.ly/4cCmX8D

Exclusive: State election chiefs are huddling to plan responses to Trump’s expected interference in midterms The signs that Trump will try to intervene are too many and too big to ignore.

Democratic election chiefs are running through all the possibilities of Trump interfering in the midterms:

“There’s a list of 10 or 20 scenarios that probably keep us up at night," Vermont’s secretary of state said.

And they're preparing for every last one to ensure voters cast their ballots.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting.

Legal experts called the order blatantly unconstitutional. Read the full, 17-page order below👇 https://bit.ly/4l0gmXp

Voting rights groups sue Georgia for refusing to release voter purge records Without full access to the records, plaintiffs say they cannot determine whether eligible voters were wrongly removed.

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for refusing to turn over key records related to his office’s sweeping 2025 voter roll purge — a purge that canceled nearly 471,000 registrations, about 6% of the state’s voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A white woman who is not a doctor & doesn’t believe in science is currently undergoing Senate confirmation hearings to be the US Surgeon General.

Black people, don’t EVER let these people tell you that you are a “diversity hire” or don’t deserve the roles you have so richly prepared for & earned.

You know what’s hard? Reading about crimes committed against people, children included, and absolutely NOTHING being done about it. It’s like a continual state of dread with no end in sight.

Ever.

And cancel the midterms.

Bingo.

They are Trolls set out to trigger you. Scroll past them.

Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says amandascgorman Minneapolis, Minnesota For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched & froze. Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been. Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour & bitter anger of our neighbors Is moved by the love * better angels of our nature.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

Find joy whenever and wherever you can.

Wow. The Trump regime won’t even allow the investigation to happen.

Imagine this in another country. We are over the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

I think that was the plan all along. Make people so angry that they take to the streets and then claim Marshall Law. Checks and balances are gone, accountability doesn’t exist, and public outcry seems to be largely ignored.

Checks and balances have been obliterated… Dear God…

They speak of justice while ruling through fear. They speak of sovereignty while stealing the vote. They speak of dignity while condemning their own people. I learned that those who insist the most on calling themselves "the good ones" are often the ones most afraid to face themselves. The Maduro regime wraps itself in flags, in anti-imperialist rhetoric, in a false epic where any criticism is labeled as betrayal. They claim to defend Venezuela, yet they stole the people's voice when they refused to respect the elections. That act alone strips away any moral authority. But do not be mistaken. The fact that a tyrant is real does not automatically turn an external aggressor into a savior. The United States does not act out of love for democracy. It acts out of interest. It always has. The language changes, the enemy changes, but the method remains the same: pressure, punishment, displays of power. And as always, the blow is not absorbed by those in power, but by ordinary people.

The Venezuelan people are trapped between two narratives that do not represent them. One that oppresses them from within, and another that exploits them from outside. One that claims legitimacy without real elections. Another that claims justice without taking responsibility for the human consequences of its actions. I do not defend Maduro. I point at him. But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries. Pain does not need propaganda. Hunger does not understand geopolitics. Dignity is not imposed with missiles, nor with dictatorships. While some sell themselves as the good ones to justify repression, and others sell themselves as the good ones to justify aggression, the result is always the same: more suffering, more rage, more generations learning that force replaces justice. And once again, pain is inherited.

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

@starmom45.bsky.social , Man o man, I just looked it up…I just don’t understand the end game. What’s the game more money than one can spend, power to do (?),…this is wild…

This is beautiful! What’s the name of your new church?

For those that have read Project 25, is the takeover of Greenland mentioned?

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2026 will be filled with love
2026 will be filled with peace
2026 will be filled with healing
2026 will be filled with progress
2026 will be filled with blessings
2026 will be filled with happiness
2026 will be filled with opportunities

@marcelias.bsky.social Can this nervous”rule” be challenged in court?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Lucy!

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Good grief! Just let AI do it…

Good morning. Safe travels to all getting on the road this week. Pay attention and keep distance.

Picture of Carol Burnett starring in the original movie version of “Annie”.

Just why?!?!

If the House resumes will Rep-Elect Grijalva have to be sworn in immediately?