Democracy Docket
Call Me an Alarmist, But I've Been Proven Right
- Title
- Call Me an Alarmist, But I've Been Proven Right
- Runtime
- 2:00
- Date posted
- 10 hours ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #election #midterms2026
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- Threats to Democracy Will End Up in Court
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 13 hours ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #ice #election #midterms2026
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- What Trump Has Planned Should Worry Every Voter
- Runtime
- 39:31
- Date posted
- 16 hours 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
- 2 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
- 2 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
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 3 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
- 3 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
- 3 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
- 4 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
- 4 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
- 4 days ago
- Description
- Title
- Trump's Voter Intimidation Scare Tactics
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 4 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
- 5 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
- 5 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
- 5 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
- 6 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
- 6 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
- 8 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...
- Title
- I'll Never Back Down From Trump
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #election #democracy
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- Trump Is Constantly Losing in the Courts
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 10 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
- 10 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
- 12 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #elections
- Title
- What Trump Just Said on Stage Should Shock Every American
- Runtime
- 28:44
- Date posted
- 13 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...
- Title
- Trump Is Shifting His Strategy On Attacking the Midterm Elections
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 13 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
- 14 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
- 14 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...
- Title
- Trump's Attack On Mail-In Voting Just Hit a Major Roadblock
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #votebymail #election
- Title
- ALERT: Something Just Went Wrong for Trump's Mail Voting Plan
- Runtime
- 29:06
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- A federal judge in Washington, D.C. — appointed by Donald Trump — just blocked the U.S. Postal Service's new mail-in voting rule, delivering a major setback to the administration's effort to restrict how Americans vote just 50 days before the midterms.
Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the ruling in DSCC v. Trump, handed down late Sunday by Judge Carl Nichols. This ruling is separate from the related mail-in voting case out of Massachusetts, which is still pending before the Supreme Court. Marc walks through how the two cases differ, what a Trump appeal could look like next and what voters need to know as ballots start going out.
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00:00 Breaking: Judge Blocks USPS Mail Voting Rule
01:48 Trump's Long War on Voting by Mail
03:07 How Trump Co-Opted the Federal Government
04:07 Inside the New USPS Envelope and Barcode Rules
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- Why It's Going to Be Harder to Vote in a Red State
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #poltics #election #democracy
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- Supreme Court Ruling That Could Gut Mail Voting Looms
- Runtime
- 1:16:57
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- A Supreme Court decision on mail voting could drop any day now — and it could reshape how millions of Americans cast their ballots. With less than two months until Election Day, the stakes couldn't be higher. Join Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias in this special live episode as he breaks down the latest developments. Plus, what the heck just happened in Missouri?
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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 di...
- Title
- Slower Mail Service Will Benefit Republicans in the Midterms
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #voting #election
- Title
- Trump Cares About One Thing — His Own Power
- Runtime
- 0:29
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #election
- Title
- This Is Just The Tip of Trump's Voter Suppression Iceberg
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #trump #politics #election
- Title
- Trump's DOJ Is Blaming the States For This?
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #elections
- Title
- Trump Will Throw Out Any Vote to Win an Election
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #election
- Title
- The DOJ Admitting This Is WILD
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #doj #supremecourt #voting
- Title
- Trump's DOJ Makes BOMBSHELL Admission in Latest Supreme Court Filing
- Runtime
- 31:18
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- Donald Trump's Department of Justice just admitted, in its own words, what we have been saying for months: the U.S. Postal Service's new mail-in ballot rule could strip millions of Americans of their ability to vote by mail. In a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, the DOJ acknowledged there is a "grave risk" that states won't be ready to comply if the rule takes effect for this year's midterms. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the sentence buried in DOJ's filing, what it reveals about the Trump administration's real strategy and why the rule's barcode-matching system could cause tens of thousands of eligible voters to be rejected over a single mismatched name.
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00:00 DOJ Finally Admits the Truth
00:55 Reading the DOJ's Brief Line by Line
03:27 How the Postal Service Barcode Rule Works
04:53 One Mismatched Name, Thousands of Lost B...
- Title
- Not All Local Election Officials Are Doing the Right Thing
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #election #voting #politics #democracy
- Title
- Trump's Real Scheme With Mail-In Ballots Explained
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #mailinvoting #election #voting
- Title
- Trump Doesn't Actually Care About Free and Fair Elections
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #election #voting
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- Trump's Election Rigging Scheme is Back at the Supreme Court
- Runtime
- 1:23:14
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- The Supreme Court could throw mail voting into chaos just weeks before the midterms, leaving millions of ballots in limbo. Join Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias for a live breakdown of what's at stake and what it means for voters this fall.
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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 committed to exposing the threats through in-depth reporting and expert analysis you won't find ...
- Title
- They've Been Planning This Since Trump Took Office
- Runtime
- 38:38
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- Less than two months before Election Day, Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias lays out Donald Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms. An executive order could put the U.S. Postal Service in charge of deciding whether mail-in ballots get delivered at all. The Department of Justice has lost 23 straight lawsuits trying to seize state voter data. A rule change could disenfranchise thousands of voters over a single mismatched name, and a Postal Service slowdown is already increasing ballot rejection rates in this year's primaries. DOJ's seizure of ballots in Fulton County and Maricopa County looks less like an isolated fight over 2020 and more like a dry run for something bigger. Federal law enforcement at the polls is no longer an abstract threat.
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00:00 Trump's Blueprint To Rig The Midterms
04:26 USPS Weaponized Against Mail Voting
07:27 The Voter List-Mat...
- Title
- We Can't Fix Anything Without Democracy
- Runtime
- 0:32
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #democracy #voting
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- The One Thing That Holds MAGA Together
- Runtime
- 0:48
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #maga #trump #politics #voting
- Title
- It's Time For Corporations to Care About Democracy
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #democracy
- Title
- Why Do Courts Keep Giving Trump The Benefit Of The Doubt?
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #voting
- Title
- Support News That's Not For Sale
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #politics #voting #democracy
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- Is Trump Ignoring Court Orders on Purpose? | Skye Perryman
- Runtime
- 42:20
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- Marc Elias sits down with Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward, for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of democracy under the second Trump administration.
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00:00 Today's Guest: Skye Perryman
02:44 Is Trump Defying Court Orders?
04:35 Are DOJ Lawyers Complicit or in the Dark?
09:47 What Is Trump's Data Strategy?
13:42 How Does DHS Data Fuel Citizenship Lists?
16:12 What Do You Tell People Scared of Data Misuse?
18:43 Trump 1.0 vs Trump 2.0: What's Different?
22:08 How Does the Administration Make Decisions?
23:51 Have the Courts Gotten Too Conservative?
27:39 Why Write a Book for Ordinary People?
30:20 What Can Ordinary People Do?
32:42 What About People in Red States Like Texas?
34:54 Fighting Fear Around ICE and Reproductive Rights
39:27 What Comes After the Midterms?<...
- Title
- One Name Mismatch Could Tank Thousands of Ballots
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #votebymail #democracy #politics
- Title
- You Can't Just Swap Mail Voting For In-Person
- Runtime
- 0:38
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #democracy #voting
