This week at Democracy Docket: Trump wants to ‘take over’ voting, while GOPers unveil a massive new suppression measure Steve Bannon and Mike Johnson welcomed Trump's comments about taking control of elections. And a new Republican anti-voting bill could disenfranchise millions.

President Donald Trump kicked off the week with one of his clearest statements yet that, with polls looking bad for the GOP, he wants to take control of this year’s elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

As is so often the case with this administration, it’s not the what, but the how. And then they pretend that critics are attacking the former rather than the latter. Don’t fall for it.
The rule of law does not permit the ends to justify the means. When you’ve lost Joe Rogan…

Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

A once great institution destroyed by greed and personal ambition. During Trump I, the Post was turning out superb journalism. And then Bezos bowed to Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

Opinion | Trump’s obsession with renaming buildings after himself is about more than ego Cultural omnipresence is a strongman tactic.

Putting a leader’s name and image on everything is an authoritarian tactic. It is a symbol of submission to make the leader seem invincible to subvert opposition. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Brandishing is a legal term that means to display all or part of a firearm, or otherwise make its presence known to another person to intimidate them, regardless of whether it's directly visible to that person. Given the video, that's not what Alex Pretti was doing when he was shot & killed.

Government shutdown risk grows as DHS funding stalls after fatal Minnesota shooting A fatal Border Patrol shooting in Minnesota has intensified Democratic opposition to a DHS funding bill, raising the risk of a partial government shutdown ahead of a Jan. 30 deadline.

A partial government shutdown is increasingly likely following the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old ICU nurse by a Border Patrol officer, an incident that has hardened Democratic opposition to a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that includes money for ICE and Border Patrol.

That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.

This is a MUST-READ affidavit.

This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

A man shot and killed by federal officers in Minnesota worked as an ICU nurse, his parents say Federal officers shot and killed a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, according to a hospital record obtained by the Associated Press. Minneapolis G...

The 37-year-old man murdered by federal agents in Minneapolis worked as an ICU nurse.

There is everything wrong with this from a law enforcement perspective. One does not have to be in law enforcement to know that. But I wish law enforcement would say that if they haven’t already.

This.

From the minnesota community on Reddit: Another closer angle showing him trying to protect other protesters Explore this post and more from the minnesota community

This is why it’s so important to see all the video you can before making a judgement (looking at you DHS). Video appears to show the victim trying to protect another person & being pulled down by agents. There needs to be a credible investigation, not one by CBP/ICE www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...

Where are the resignations from ICE and CBP??? I guarantee you there are at least *some* who know this is wrong but arectaking the path of least resistance (“following orders”). They need to step down and speak up

F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns

FBI supervisory agent Tracee Mergen in Minneapolis resigned after FBI leadership in DC pressured her to discontinue an investigation into ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot & killed Renee Good. An investigation following an agent-involved shooting death is commonplace. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

But this was okay…

The Power of Being Watched Why hitting the "record" button is an act of moral courage.

In my latest Substack, I explain why every video of what ICE is doing in Minnesota (or anywhere) is a powerful form of resistance

open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too.

Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

Ugh…

All the States Where DOJ is Demanding Voting Data Read more here.

If you are not paying attention to this, you are doing exactly what Trump and the GOP want. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I have been screaming this for weeks. The constitutional crisis isn’t with the executive branch (though yes it is acting lawlessly), it’s Congress. The calls are coming from inside the House, as it were

This is extraordinarily corrupt. But I still think he’s far more malevolent and sociopathic than merely corrupt.

That’s why the work ahead of us has never been more important. The freedom to receive reproductive health care must be restored as a constitutional right.

Congress needs to act and pass the Women’s Health Protection Act to codify Roe and protect the rights of all.

Since then, Republicans across the country have doubled down on their attacks on reproductive freedom by implementing near-total bans on abortions and endangering the lives of millions of women by making it harder to receive life-saving care.

Three years ago today, a runaway Supreme Court, with appointees hand-picked by President Donald Trump, made the dangerous decision to strip away the constitutional right to an abortion.

More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider inform

According to ProPublica, more than a dozen top executive branch officials and congressional aides sold stocks just before Trump's "Liberation Day" market crash. 

Today would be a great day to ban public servants from trading stocks, don't you think?

Every day this administration finds new ways — petty and profound, symbolic and consequential, buffoonish incompetent and cartoonishly evil — to embarrass the people it serves.

Holy cow❗

People apparently _returned_ from El Salvador for mistaken identity etc. in Alien Enemies Act deportations.

This new development appears to show that the Trump administration's claim that they know all detainees sent to El Salvador prison were properly vetted may be dangerously false.⬇️