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Matt Cohen

@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.

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DOJ’s New Voting Lawyer Brought Flawed Charges Pushed By Election Deniers Read more here.

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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DOJ’s New Voting Lawyer Brought Flawed Charges Pushed By Election Deniers Read more here.

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.

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viva la revolucion!

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RELEASE THEM

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Right-Wingers Are Calling For Military Intervention, Violence to Free Tina Peters Read more here.

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 DOJ’s request.

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EXCLUSIVE: Colorado told the DOJ to β€œtake a hike,” becoming the latest state to reject the DOJ’s request for private voter data. Read an exclusively-obtained email from the DOJ revealing its push to access the state’s β€œunredacted voter registration” informationπŸ‘‡
https://bit.ly/3XyxtF8

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Colorado Tells DOJ β€˜Take a Hike’ as It Rejects Demand for Statewide Voter Data Read more here.

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/...

03.12.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Right-Wingers Are Calling For Military Intervention, Violence to Free Tina Peters Read more here.

Prominent right-wing figures are calling for the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero who’s 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.

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Democracy 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

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i’m trying to save some movies for the second half of my life, y’know?

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Β―\(ツ)/Β―

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haven’t seen it!

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The best Scorsese. Sorry Β―\(ツ)/Β―

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Georgia Republicans and the Trump Administration Are Working to Undermine the 2026 Elections Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

NEW: For the first time in nearly five years, Georgia hasn’t 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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North Carolina Restricted Student Voting After 'Influence Campaign' by Cleta Mitchell Read more here.

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.”
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absolutely essential reading by my colleague @jimsaksa.com

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ZOHRAN MAMDANI Talks Meeting Trump, Mayoral Election, Arsenal
YouTube video by The Adam Friedland Show ZOHRAN MAMDANI Talks Meeting Trump, Mayoral Election, Arsenal

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!)

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more than anything, i think this list exposes how great a generational gap there is for comedy than any other genre

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thanks for coming out; it was a fun one for sure!!

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how it feels logging into bluesky this morning and seeing all you mfs vagueposting about what i think you’re vagueposting about

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Well that Mamdani-Trump press conference was truly surreal.

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Exclusive: Cleta Mitchell, Activists Scheme to Bring Back One-Day Elections Read more here.

SCOOP: obtained the agenda and notes from a secretive summit held last week by some of the nation’s top anti-voting activists and election deniers. during the confab, they outlined how they’re pushing to cut early and mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Man, MAGA is gonna have a field day with this dissent, unfortunately

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"Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night!”

So begins the most unhinged dissent I have ever read, in the Texas gerrymandering ruling that came down yesterday.

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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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a shirtless man sits in a chair with the words " it 's one of those infinite timeloop situations " ALT: a shirtless man sits in a chair with the words " it 's one of those infinite timeloop situations "

yesterday: TX racial gerrymandering ruling
today: NC racial gerrymandering hearing

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And you can read the story featured in Picture A (left) here: www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...

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Good morning everyone!

Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.

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