Maine Trained Its Cops to Keep Trump's Feds Out
One week before the midterms, the Justice Department is sending 1,000 federal observers to polling places, and the state of Maine has responded the only way it knows how: by printing the federal statu…
Tag: voting (17 articles)
Doomsday, According to the Attorney General
The attorney general of the United States has told the country that the Justice Department is ready to break the November elections, should the count come out wrong. "Of course there are scenarios tha…
He Called It a Scam. Now He's Telling His Base to Vote It
The man who built a second term on the claim that the ballot was broken just told his base to use the broken ballot. "Whether you vote early, absentee, by mail, or in-person, we must 'swamp' the Radic…
Supreme Court Revives The Voter Purge Machine
The Supreme Court has not found a single case of a noncitizen casting a ballot. It has found a database that has already mislabeled actual citizens as noncitizens, and a reason to let it keep running.…
The Post Office Is Building a Ballot Killer
The United States Postal Service has spent months building a system to decide which Americans get to vote, and its own employees are calling it a catastrophe in the making. "As presently designed, if …
March to Save the Vote. The Map is the War.
Sixty-three years after 200,000 Americans filled the Mall, a fraction of them returned to beg a president and a Supreme Court to stop redrawing the map so they would not count. "Today, we have a presi…
The DOJ Whistleblower Behind the Ivy League Probes
When the Justice Department finds nothing wrong, the funding still gets cut. "There's no way we're going to get a letter of no violation cleared." — A Trump administration official, as described by th…
Trump DOJ Loses 16 Straight Cases Seizing Voter Files
The Justice Department has sued more than 30 states for their voters' personal data and lost every single time, at the hands of judges the Trump administration itself put on the bench. "DOJ is now 0-1…
Trump Admits Pro-Democracy Measures Would Destroy The GOP
The president says that restoring basic democratic protections would annihilate his own political party. "They do this, and the Republican Party is DEAD!" — Donald Trump, on a resolution to restore vo…
Supreme Courts Shadow Docket Has Overtaken Open Justice
The Supreme Court has quietly become a government by anonymous ballot, deciding more consequential cases in secret than in open court for the first time in modern history. "The result is a body that l…
Trump Postal Plot: Two Judges Block Mail Ballot Scheme
The president wants the Post Office to decide who gets to vote. Two federal judges just said no. "The Proposed Rule violates paragraph 2 of the Agreement because the Postal Service cannot post documen…
Tuberville Cannot Prove He Lives in Alabama
A man claims to be Alabama's next governor while his tax returns, travel records, and voting history all point north of the state line. "The question is, by what authority does a guy that lives in Flo…
Trump's Spy Chief Pick Killed His Spying Law
Trump appointed a mortgage regulator to run America's spy agencies, and it turned out to be exactly what privacy advocates needed to finally kill his surveillance law. "Voting for a clean reauthorizat…
Trump Pulte Appointment Forces Dems to Block Spying Law
A Trump administration housing executive with zero intelligence experience becomes spy chief, and suddenly Democrats find their spines. "Voting for a clean reauthorization of Section 702 is co-signing…
Dark Money Bankrolled the Voting Rights Evisceration
Seven conservative nonprofits that filed Supreme Court briefs to weaken the Voting Rights Act absorbed $105 million in anonymous donations between 2021 and 2024, a sevenfold increase from the prior pe…
Trump Pressured a Governor Into Freeing His Martyr
A convicted felon who breached her county's election systems is back on air claiming voting machines flip votes, exactly two weeks after a Democratic governor folded to presidential pressure and let h…
Judge Lets Trump Overhaul Mail-In Voting. You Can Sue After Your Ballot Never Arrives.
A federal judge let Trump proceed with his plan to control who gets mail-in ballots, on the grounds that nothing has actually happened yet. "The Court recognizes that the Postal Service may ultimately…