Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress

We all need to be ready for this -- Lawyers, activists, elected officials, election workers and philanthropists. The fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. And it is most squarely before us in the battle for free and fair elections this November. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

DO NOT LOOK AWAY.

Two-month old babies, choking on their own vomit while detained by ICE? I can't even believe I typed that sentence.

MAGA, you can't keep clinging to your "oh, they need to come here legally" bullshit. These are BABIES.

Where is the humanity?
Shut these concentration camps DOWN.

Counterpoint:

Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM.

That’s fucking insane.

BREAKING: Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says

Stephen Colbert Defies CBS, Says Network Banned Him From Interviewing James Talarico On ‘The Late Show’ The Late Night host explained FCC Chair Brendan Carr's new guidance on the "equal time" rule, which alters how some programs schedule interviews.

The party against cancel culture loves canceling everyone.

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Brilliant, "False herring" now I'm hungry...

Wow.

THIS!!!

Google, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, OpenAI and Meta platforms are suppressing the Epstein files and downplaying it right after Trump demanded “we all move on.”

Coincidence?

Tom Pritzker, Citing Epstein Connection, Steps Down as Hyatt’s Executive Chairman

Thomas J. Pritzker, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, stepped down from his role as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation — becoming the latest person felled by an association with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

Major Update: New Mexico Launches First Ever Probe of Epstein Ranch as Trump Falsely Claims he is "Totally Exonerated" Major developments unfolded this evening in the ongoing controversy surrounding the release of files connected to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, intensifying political tensions and renewi...

Major update: New Mexico lawmakers approve first ever investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch.

Trump falsely claims he has been “totally exonerated.”

Hillary Clinton turns the table on Trump accusing him of a cover-up. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Donald Trump said today that "Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting."

My life's work is to prevent that from happening. I started Democracy Docket as a critical tool in the fight for free and fair elections. Support its work by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Then un-redact the files and prove it.

Dismantle it all.

There will be elections.

This f*ckknuckle doesn’t have enough lead in his pencil to cancel them.

They may be chaotic. They may be litigated within an inch of their lives. Courtrooms may stay lit through the night.

But the polling stations will open. And they will see record numbers. Oh yes.

The Pentagon just failed its 8th consecutive audit and still got approved for a $1 TRILLION budget without blinking so I'm gonna need every corrupt hypocritical politician complaining about made up food stamp fraud and forcing drug tests and work requirements on poor people to shut up forever. Thx.

You can feel it. Hundreds of millions of people from around the world, are coming together in a more synchronized manner for the purpose of making sure those who committed Epstein crimes…are forced to watch with the world…as their names and companies are broadcast around the world. It’s coming.

My thoughts on Stephen A Smith potentially running for president are:

Could we please stop fucking electing celebrities and get back to the business of running the country with boring people who just want to do a good job.

Thanks

Oh cuddle bear. Timeline cleanse😍

"It's important to remember that there are more of us than them ... every one of us can be sand in the gears of an injustice."

Rep. AOC

Can confirm.

It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.

"I’ve wanted Marc Elias to be wrong for seven years, or six years, for as long as he’s been coming on my show. I have wanted his warnings to be wrong, but every single one of them has been either affirmed or prescient."--Nicolle Wallace. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

It shouldn’t be harder for a woman to register to vote than a man…

None of this is normal

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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

And now we pray together on this beautiful Sunday

Great substack! "more painful path; staring down the terrors and refusing to look away from what so many willfully choose not to see."