@mattdcohen.bsky.social
Senior Reporter @DemocracyDocket.com, covering voting rights, far-right extremism and threats to democracy (lol). Collector of records, plants, tattoos, horror movies.
NEW, from me: One of DOJ's newest voting lawyers once brought bogus charges against a election software company based of conspiracy theories from a far-right election denier group. Charges were dropped and the company sued. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Wow. Quite a story from @mattdcohen.bsky.social.
A Republican lawyer who recently took on a leading role in the DOJ effort to obtain state voter records was put on leave as a prosecutor in Los Angeles County after bringing charges based on information from far-right election conspiracists.
viva la revolucion!
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RELEASE THEM
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Prominent right-wing figures are calling on the military to free election denier Tina Peters from prison after the Colorado Department of Corrections said last week it would not release her into federal custody per the DOJβs request.
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EXCLUSIVE: Colorado told the DOJ to βtake a hike,β becoming the latest state to reject the DOJβs request for private voter data. Read an exclusively-obtained email from the DOJ revealing its push to access the stateβs βunredacted voter registrationβ informationπ
https://bit.ly/3XyxtF8
Colorado joins the ranks of other states to tell DOJ to pound sand when it comes to trying to seize voters' private data: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Prominent right-wing figures are calling for the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero whoβs currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud.
02.12.2025 21:59 β π 916 π 403 π¬ 130 π 40Democracy Docket is offering a one time $20 discount on an annual premium membership. Join now and use code: CYBER20. Offer expires at midnight. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
01.12.2025 19:55 β π 266 π 96 π¬ 4 π 3iβm trying to save some movies for the second half of my life, yβknow?
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27.11.2025 01:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0havenβt seen it!
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The best Scorsese. Sorry Β―\(γ)/Β―
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NEW: For the first time in nearly five years, Georgia hasnβt enacted any new anti-voting laws. Instead, Republicans spent the year laying the groundwork to pass an avalanche of voter suppression laws next year that would radically alter elections in the Peach State.
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NEW: Pro-voting advocates say North Carolina's student-voting restrictions stem from a pressure campaign by Trump ally Cleta Mitchell, who complained in a deposition that "college students can just roll out of bed, vote, and get back into bed.β
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absolutely essential reading by my colleague @jimsaksa.com
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absolutely wild interview on several different levels www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsi5...
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OUT: taking photos of the band at the gig
IN: sketching the band at the gig
(love this portrait someone drew of me and my bandmates at our show last night. beautiful!)
more than anything, i think this list exposes how great a generational gap there is for comedy than any other genre
24.11.2025 15:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0thanks for coming out; it was a fun one for sure!!
24.11.2025 14:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0how it feels logging into bluesky this morning and seeing all you mfs vagueposting about what i think youβre vagueposting about
22.11.2025 14:19 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Well that Mamdani-Trump press conference was truly surreal.
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SCOOP: obtained the agenda and notes from a secretive summit held last week by some of the nationβs top anti-voting activists and election deniers. during the confab, they outlined how theyβre pushing to cut early and mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
20.11.2025 00:50 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Man, MAGA is gonna have a field day with this dissent, unfortunately
19.11.2025 21:04 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Fasten your seatbelts. Itβs going to be a bumpy night!β
So begins the most unhinged dissent I have ever read, in the Texas gerrymandering ruling that came down yesterday.
I was excited! but the minor perfectionist/completionist in me was going crazy. IT NEEDED TO BE FINISHED. WE NEED TO CLOSE THE LOOP.
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yesterday: TX racial gerrymandering ruling
today: NC racial gerrymandering hearing
And you can read the story featured in Picture A (left) here: www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...
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Good morning everyone!
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