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In case you're wondering....this Texas elections/Paxton/SCOTX mess has happened before.....Harris County 2022

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the greatest sentence ever composed

NEW: A lawyer for the Election Assistance Commission — a key federal panel that helps states administer fair elections — was scheduled to brief a top anti-voting group last fall while it was pressuring the agency to require proof of citizenship on the federal voter registration form, emails show.

Congratulations Substack on your new partnership with Polymarket!

And to those publishing on Substack, is this really the tool you want from the folks who take part of your revenue?

these games — at least the ones I play, not into online multiplayer ones (tho no disrespect to those who are, just not my bag) — are more like interactive movies.

upgrade to a Switch 2, if you've already got a Switch! it's out on Switch 2 and that console can now run a lot of the AAA games that the Switch couldn't handle.

escaping the horrors of reporting on crumbling democracy this weekend to dive into, well, other horrors.

god i love these games so much.

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One of the anti-voting activists pitching the White House on an emergency executive order to allow Trump to take control of elections just sent me a copy of said order, which has been circulating since last April.

Read it here: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

i want to suck down my soup, not on it, patrick

pardon my language but what the fuck

ICYMI: Trump ally with sensitive legal info outlining how the White House is gonna try and take over elections just... sent me that info when I asked for it lol

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Read the laughable legal memo behind the claim that Trump can declare a national voting emergency There are “four immediately obvious problems” with this, legal expert Liza Goitein said.

After @mattdcohen.bsky.social got this legal memo for an executive order the White House just might issue, I took a quick look at it, the laws it cited, and -- you're not gonna believe this -- it's pretty dumb. (And we got a real lawyer to confirm my take)

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White House circulating blatantly illegal draft emergency order to take control of elections Voting rights experts and at least one state election chief said Trump doesn’t have the authority to claim such powers — and any attempt would be blatantly illegal.

Here's the thing about that Washington Post report re: Trump draft emergency EO to take over voting: It is so blatantly illegal that not only will it be struck down so hard by the courts, states could just, like, ignore it!

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WE ARE SO BACK

“When we asked about state sovereignty and whether they could make public statements reinforcing the state’s authority over elections, there was stunned silence,” Maine Sec. of State Shenna Bellows said about the meeting, which included DHS senior "election integrity" official Heather Honey.

States asked the Trump admin. to affirm they, not the Feds, run elections. They were met with silence Trump administration officials said will not be dispatching ICE agents — or any other armed federal agents — to polling places for the midterm elections.

NEW: The FBI and other Trump admin officials held a private meeting with state election chiefs where they were grilled about midterm election.

Officials would not commit to publicly saying stating states run elections, but DID say no ICE at polling places.

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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.

EXCLUSIVE: Democratic state election chiefs reveal to Democracy Docket’s @mattdcohen.bsky.social that, for months, they’ve been meeting for planning exercises, including tabletop simulations, gaming out their response to expected election interference by Trump.

Right-wing influencers are going viral claiming voter fraud. The problem? They’re wrong “A lot of this is about homeless people, or people who are in sort of dire situations financially, living in buildings that are condemned… and moving, and therefore the building no longer exists. But ...

Seen Nick Shirley's latest video claiming voter fraud in California? Read this explainer by @democracydocket.com's @mattdcohen.bsky.social. He breaks down two previous videos by right-wing influencers and explains why their claims are intentionally deceptive.

Permanent head flex Listening to free car, harDCore and the shape of D.C. music to come

New writing about new D.C. MUSIC

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unlike that Indrid Cold fella. bad vibes.

Even election officials who like voter ID have issues with the SAVE America Act "It's a classic 'show your papers’ law designed to make it harder for US citizens to vote," Sec. Jocelyn Benson said.

Even state election officials who support voter ID aren't fans of the SAVE America Act. Why?

@jimsaksa.com spoke with some of them, including in solidly red areas, to find out. A must-read.

expect trump to double down on these alien document disclosures now lol.

or bomb Iran 😬

the truth is out there... under where you poop

yeah, this is 10000% a vindictive move because Obama garnered headlines for saying he believes aliens are real. it's so dumb and ignores the actual significant disclosures that have been made over the past decade.

don't get me started on my first love, the mothman

exactly