Democracy Docket
ALERT: Trump’s DOJ is Playing Dangerous Games
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- ALERT: Trump’s DOJ is Playing Dangerous Games
- Runtime
- 32:13
- Date posted
- 2 hours ago
- Description
- Over the weekend, a federal judge issued an injunction barring Trump's self-aggrandizing, illegally taxpayer-funded ads from being aired, but they continued to play anyway. The Trump administration has made a habit of ignoring court orders and blowing through deadlines and giving lame excuses. The reason they are able to continue doing so is because the federal judiciary has yet to hold them to account for their flagrant disregard for the law. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias explains why federal judges need to stop extending the Trump administration any benefit of the doubt in order to protect our elections and the rule of law, and discusses why using your individual voice to spread news of Trump's defeats is essential.
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00:00 Can the Courts Protect the Midterms?
02:13 Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Political Ads
03:59 Judge Orders the Ads Stopped
04:4...
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- Trump Hosts Tina Peters at the White House
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 23 hours ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #politics #election
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- Can Trump Take Over Elections with a National Emergency?
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #election #politics
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- ALERT: Trump Takes His Hatred of Me to the Supreme Court
- Runtime
- 24:00
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
- Description
- Donald Trump has attacked Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias personally for years, because he knows Marc is a bulwark against his illegitimate claims of election fraud. The truth is Trump has racked up losses in court, including in his 2022 lawsuit against Marc and Hilary Clinton, who he accused of racketeering. A federal judge not only dismissed that case, but sanctioned Trump and his legal team, ordering them to pay nearly $1M. Last week, Trump revived that baseless grievance by taking his hatred for Marc Elias all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In this week's episode of Election Watch, Marc Elias explains why he keeps fighting and winning against the corrupt Trump legal apparatus in defense of free and fair elections – and why our obligation as pro-democracy citizens is so important to upkeep.
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00:00 Trump Takes His Grudge Against Me to SCOTUS
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- Undercover Agents Investigating Voter Registration Groups?
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #ice #trump #voting #election
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- I'm Sorry, WHAT? Conspiracy Theorist Cooking the Books Inside DHS
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #election #voting #ice
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- The Democrats' House Majority Runs Through California
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #california #voting #election
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- Election Deniers Beg Trump to HIJACK Voting Machines
- Runtime
- 1:23:57
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- Trump's most fervent election denier allies are begging him to take over voting machines and ballots just weeks before the midterms. Join Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias LIVE as he breaks it down. Tina Peters’ lawyer says her plan is to grab ballots “as soon as the machine spits them through.” In 2020, Trump’s own lawyers stopped a plan to seize machines. But who is stopping them this time? Marc also covers a MASSIVE court win: A federal judge just shut down the Trump DOJ’s nationwide voter data program, which handed millions of voters’ records to ICE. But ICE isn’t done. It investigated hundreds of voter registration groups and won’t say whether agents will show up at the polls.
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Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and elections in the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy and independent standp...
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- Newly Revealed Plot to Weaponize ICE Against Voter Groups
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #ice #voting #trump #election
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- Trump Almost Always Tells Us His Nefarious Plans in Advance
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #california #voting #election
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- Longer Vote Counting Gives Trump Opportunities to Meddle
- Runtime
- 2:07
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #california #voting #election
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- ICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun Documents
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- 37:38
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- ICE never wanted you to see these: internal government documents obtained by legal nonprofit Democracy Forward show that Homeland Security Investigations has been probing nonpartisan groups that help register citizens to vote in battleground states. They even went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents to target these nonprofits for registering "illegal alien" voters, though no evidence of such activity appears to have been found. ICE also collected tens of millions of voter records and considered feeding state election data into a system used to locate people for deportation. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias details the explosive findings and explains how deeply ICE has become involved in elections.
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00:00 New Memo Exposes Plot to Rig the Midterms
02:25 Inside the Homeland Security Document
04:24 82 Pennsylvania Nonprofits, Zero Fraud Foun...
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- Don't Mistake Trump's Attacks on the Constitution for Ignorance
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- 1:56
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #election #midterms2026 #voting
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- We Can't Afford to Brush Off Trump's Warnings
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #election #midterms2026 #voting
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- If Democrats Win Elections, Trump Will Call Them Corrupt
- Runtime
- 2:42
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #election #midterms2026 #voting
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- ALERT: Trump Reveals Details in Plot to Steal Election
- Runtime
- 28:48
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- Less than 30 days before the midterms, Trump told a reporter that anyone looking for mail voting fraud should "start off by taking a look at California." Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias explains the real reason Trump is targeting the state: its 52 congressional seats could decide control of the House. Because California counts mail ballots for days after the election, Trump will have a window to lie about the results and try to interfere.
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00:00 Trump Targets California Mail-In Voting
01:57 Trump's Mixed Messages on Voting by Mail
03:56 Why Trump Telegraphs His Plans
05:00 Unpacking Trump's "Cheat Like Hell" Remark
07:12 Why Trump Singles Out California
08:19 Trump's Long War on California Elections
11:07 Trump Calls California's Mail Votes a Fraud
13:15 Federal Fraud Probes After the Primary
17:15 Jay Clayton Questio...
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- Trump Just Admitted His Post-Election Plans. Believe Him.
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- 29:56
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- When asked earlier this year if he regretted not seizing voting machines and ballots after the 2020 election, Donald Trump said, "Well, I should have." Now he's telling us exactly what he plans to do in this year's midterms, and this time, we should believe him. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias explains why the biggest threat may come after the polls close and what you can do to stop it.
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00:00 Trump Says He Should Have Seized Ballots
02:25 Why the Media Won't Take Trump Literally
04:19 What 2020 Taught Us About Trump's Threats
05:44 Why the Midterm Stakes Are So High
07:09 Trump's Playbook to Make Voting Harder
09:58 The All-of-Government Attack on Voting
10:55 Voting Has Started and the System Is Holding
12:10 The Real Threat: Counting and Certification
14:42 Trump Claims States Are His Agents
17:05 From Cancel...
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- Synthetic Content Will Target You Based on Your Mood
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #davidpakmanshow #ai #algorithm
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- David Pakman On How to Build a Healthy Media Diet
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #algorithm #davidpakmanshow
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- The Right's Lies Spread Online Like Wildfire
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #rightwing #algorithm #davidpakmanshow
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- MAGA Wants Feds to Seize Voting Machines in Georgia
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- See more on @DemocracyDocket 's channel
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- Trump's Takeover of Georgia's Vote Count Has Quietly Begun
- Runtime
- 32:21
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- Weeks before the midterms, election deniers on Georgia's election board quietly asked Trump's DOJ to intervene. Their letter is full of excuses: attacks on the state's voting machines, demands for last-minute software changes and unsubstantiated claims of "altered records." Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the excuses in the letter and why it fits Trump's long obsession with controlling how Georgia's votes are counted.
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00:00 - Breaking Down the Georgia Election Board's Letter to DOJ
01:05 - Who is Harmeet Dhillon & What the Board is Demanding
04:01 - The Broader Strategy Behind Targeting State Tabulation
07:37 - Attack on Voting Machines & Tabulation Technology
09:12 - The Truth About ERIC (Interstate Voter Roll System)
12:20 - Analyzing the Board's Specific Demands to the DOJ
15:36 - The Flawed Push for Federal Deadl...
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- How Trump Could Block Opponents From Voting
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #election #midterms2026
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- Call Me an Alarmist, But I've Been Proven Right
- Runtime
- 2:00
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #election #midterms2026
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- Threats to Democracy Will End Up in Court
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #ice #election #midterms2026
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- What Trump Has Planned Should Worry Every Voter
- Runtime
- 39:31
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can once again use a flawed database to help Republicans purge eligible voters from the rolls, just weeks before the midterms. Some are calling it a partial win. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias sees a warning. He breaks down the footnote in the majority opinion that leaves the door open, the upcoming Supreme Court case that could slam it shut on voters and why he refuses to look for a bright side when Trump and elections are involved.
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00:00 Why I Won't Stop Sounding the Alarm
07:02 Supreme Court Greenlights the SAVE Database
11:12 Justice Jackson's Dissent and the "Bright Side"
14:59 What the Majority Opinion Actually Says
17:40 The House Is Still on Fire
21:39 Trump's Push to Weaponize Voter Data
26:07 Every Time I Was Called an Alarmist
30:03 Why the 90-Day Qui...
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- Why Trump Hates Me
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #court #trump #voting #election
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- The Algorithm Didn't Want You to See This Video | David Pakman
- Runtime
- 34:55
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
- Description
- Have you ever wondered why bombastic right-wing content seems to travel further and faster on social media than tempered analysis and commentary? Podcaster and author David Pakman joins Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias to discuss how the algorithms that control what you see on YouTube and other platforms favor content that targets "scapegoats and enemies with pithy language," and why the next influencer in your feed might not be a real person at all.
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00:00 David Pakman Joins Defending Democracy
01:19 Midterms and Trump's 2028 Kingmaker Role
03:16 Targeted by the White House as a Media Offender
06:08 Why Right-Wing Content Wins Online
10:06 Podcasts, RSS Feeds and Building a Media Diet
13:46 Why the Left's Media Ecosystem Struggles
16:26 Audience Capture Explained
19:28 Reading Beyond Your Own Bubble
23:40 Why This Boo...
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- The Law Is Not Dependent on Whether It Makes Trump Happy
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #scotus #election #voting
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- BREAKING: Supreme Court BLOCKS Republican Power Grab in Missouri
- Runtime
- 1:21:42
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed Friday that Missouri cannot use a gerrymandered congressional map for this year’s midterm elections, closing out a yearlong redistricting legal battle. The Supreme Court’s ruling, which is a victory for pro-voting groups, comes after Missouri has already sent ballots for the upcoming election to overseas and absentee voters. The map that the Court blocked was likely to hand Republicans another seat in the midterms. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the Supreme Court's ruling and what it means heading into the midterms.
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Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and elections in the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy and independent standpoint.
Covering election and voting litigation is central to our mission. But today’s battles over democracy — acces...
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- SCOTUS Hypocrisy Highlighted in Justice Jackson's Dissent
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #scotus #voting #election
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- SCOTUS Just Gave Trump a Win No Other Court Would
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #scotus #voting #election
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- BREAKING: Supreme Court Revives Trump's Voter Purge Scheme
- Runtime
- 1:11:30
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of Americans’ personal information to initiate registration purges. Join Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias as he breaks it all down in this special live episode.
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Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and elections in the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy and independent standpoint.
Covering election and voting litigation is central to our mission. But today’s battles over democracy — access to voting, gerrymandering, executive overreach, the rule of law and more — also play out in Congress, in the Trump administration and in states around the country. As Trump and his GOP allies work to dismantle our democrac...
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- We Need a Nationwide Ruling Against Feds at Polling Places
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
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- Trump's Voter Intimidation Scare Tactics
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #ice #voting #election2025
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- What If Trump Invokes the Insurrection Act During the Midterms?
- Runtime
- 2:07
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #ice #voting #election #trump
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- BREAKING: Democrats Sue to Stop What Trump Has Planned for Election Day
- Runtime
- 30:09
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- Democrats just sued to block Trump's latest voter intimidation efforts. The administration has been suggesting for months that they will deploy armed federal agents at polling places, even though federal law says it's a crime. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the lawsuit filed by Democratic leaders and explains why the threat matters even if Trump loses in court. The threat of federal agents at the polls serves to intimidate and discourage voters from showing up to cast their ballots.
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00:00 Democrats Sue to Keep ICE Away From the Polls
01:56 Trump's Plan to Make Voting Harder
04:36 The Next Battleground: Armed Agents at Polls
06:44 A Campaign of Fear and Intimidation
09:37 The Federal Law Barring Armed Agents at Polls
10:48 No Exception for Threats, Warrants or Emergencies
12:38 Trump and Kash Patel Refuse to Rule It ...
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- Election Denialism Is All That Holds MAGA Together
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #election #voting
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- Sending ICE to the Polls Will Get Trump Sued
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #ice #voting #elections
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- 25th Straight Loss for Trump's DOJ Voter Data Grab
- Runtime
- 30:52
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- For the 25th consecutive time, Donald Trump's Department of Justice has lost its case attempting to access sensitive voter data. With just over 40 days left until Election Day, Americans are thinking about how to afford the skyrocketing cost of living – but Donald Trump's only focus is disenfranchising voters in order to tilt the scales in his favor. In this video, Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias explains why free and fair elections are the biggest threat to Trump's authoritarian goals.
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00:00 DOJ Loses 25th Straight Voter Data Case
02:40 Trump's Early Push to Control Elections
03:38 Why Trump Wants Your Voter File
05:44 Election Denial as the Core of MAGA
09:02 30 States Refused, So DOJ Sued
11:17 Trump Keeps Losing on Voting
14:38 The 160 Voter Fraud Arrests Claim
17:02 Why Losing Makes Trump More Dangerous
18:21 ...
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- Something is Keeping Me Up at Night
- Runtime
- 46:08
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- Everywhere Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias goes, he's asked two questions: what is Trump going to do next, and is he worried? The first one is easy, because Trump has said, over and over, that he plans to seize control of vote counting in the 2026 midterms. The second one is harder — and it's the one that's been keeping him up at night.
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00:00 The Two Questions I Get Asked Most
00:58 What Trump Will Do To Steal Midterms
04:18 Trump's Claim: States Answer To Him
07:48 How Trump Could Seize The Vote Count
11:08 Blocking Election Certification
13:08 Voter Suppression At The Polls
17:05 Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns
19:46 Am I Worried? The Honest Answer
20:14 The 1984 "Bear In The Woods" Ad
28:54 Pascal's Wager Explains The Risk
38:43 What You Can Do To Fight Back
Democracy Docket is the lead...
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- I'll Never Back Down From Trump
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #election #democracy
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- Trump Is Constantly Losing in the Courts
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #courts #election
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- BREAKING: Trump Hit With MAJOR Lawsuit Over Plot to Scare Voters From the Polls
- Runtime
- 1:30:56
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- A coalition led by the NAACP just sued the Trump administration, accusing officials of plotting to send ICE and other federal agents to polling places this November. Voting rights groups say the efforts are designed to scare voters, especially voters of color, away from the ballot box. Join Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias as he breaks it all down in this special live episode.
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Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and elections in the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy and independent standpoint.
Covering election and voting litigation is central to our mission. But today’s battles over democracy — access to voting, gerrymandering, executive overreach, the rule of law and more — also play out in Congress, in the Trump administration and in states around the country. As Trump and his GOP allie...
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- Trump Made Republicans Pledge to Cheat In the Midterms
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #elections
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- What Trump Just Said on Stage Should Shock Every American
- Runtime
- 28:44
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- Donald Trump just did something extraordinary on stage at the RNC convention: he made Republicans raise their right hand and pledge to him personally — then pledge that they're going to "cheat like hell," whether they're registered to vote or not. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down why this moment matters and why it confirms what he's been warning for months: Trump's plan for the midterms isn't to win a fair fight, it's to make it harder for you to vote and easier for Republicans to cheat.
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00:00 Trump Admits He'll Cheat
2:37 Breaking Down Trump's RNC Speech
5:11 Suppression Vs Fraud: The Real Distinction
6:17 Legacy Media's False Equivalency
8:14 Elias Law Group's 90 Election Cases
9:35 RNC's Mississippi Mail Ballot Lawsuit
13:02 Missouri Gerrymander Defeated
15:50 The Escalation Pattern: 2020 To Now
18:16...
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- Trump Is Shifting His Strategy On Attacking the Midterm Elections
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #election
- Title
- BREAKING: SCOTUS Deals Huge Blow to Trump's Anti-Mail Voting Efforts
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #election
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- BREAKING: Supreme Court Hands Trump Stunning Defeat on Mail Voting
- Runtime
- 1:12:50
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
- Description
- In a major win for voters, the Supreme Court rejected Trump's attempt to reinstate mail voting restrictions ahead of November's midterms, keeping absentee ballot rules unchanged for the roughly 47 million Americans who vote by mail. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the ruling and what's next in this special live episode.
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Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and elections in the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy and independent standpoint.
Covering election and voting litigation is central to our mission. But today’s battles over democracy — access to voting, gerrymandering, executive overreach, the rule of law and more — also play out in Congress, in the Trump administration and in states around the country. As Trump and his GOP allies work to dismantle our democracy, we’re co...
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- Trump's Attack On Mail-In Voting Just Hit a Major Roadblock
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #votebymail #election
