Democracy Docket
Do You Know Where Your Birth Certificate Is? You May Need It In Order To Vote
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- Do You Know Where Your Birth Certificate Is? You May Need It In Order To Vote
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- #shorts #voting #trump
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- Requiring Passports to Vote is Essentially a Voting Tax
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- #shorts #voting #trump
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- Our Mini-Documentary Unmasking the Callais Plaintiff Drops This Week
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- #shorts #voting #trump
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- Trump's Voter ID Laws Are Designed to Disenfranchise Democratic Voters
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- #shorts #trump #voting
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- Your Driver's License Won't Pass Trump's Voter ID Test
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- 23:50
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin just admitted it: Real ID doesn't prove citizenship. In this video, Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the 15-word slip that exposes the real goal of Trump's voter ID push and why only two documents actually prove citizenship — documents that many Americans don't have. It's a policy that hits Black voters and married women hardest, and the Election Integrity Network's own handbook shows it's by design.
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00:00 Mullin Slips Up On Voter ID
02:37 Real ID Doesn't Prove Citizenship
06:54 The Birth Certificate Loophole
13:47 How This Kills Vote By Mail
15:36 Cleta Mitchell's Election Law Handbook
19:07 Media Repeats Misleading Poll Claims
21:23 Mullins Said The Quiet Part Out Loud
Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and election...
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- Trump Knows He's Going to Lose the Midterms. That's Why He's Starting the Fraud Claims Now.
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- #shorts #trump #voting
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- Trump Weaponizes China Voting Claims to Create Pretext for Undermining Elections
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
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- #shorts #trump #voting
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- Trump Is Rehashing Old Intel. And It All Goes Against His Claims of Voter Fraud
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
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- #shorts #trump #voting
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- Trump Has One Agenda With His Voter Roll Crusade: Remove Democrats
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
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- #shorts #trump #voting
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- The Chilling Directive at the End of Trump's Speech
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- 23:39
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- Trump gave a speech Thursday night packed with recycled 2020 grievances and zero new evidence. But buried at the end was a directive every voter should be paying attention to before 2026. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down what Trump actually said, why his claims about Chinese hacking, "vulnerable" voting machines and noncitizen voting don't hold up, and what he's really setting up: a partisan purge of voter rolls before the midterms.
00:00 Trump's Election Speech Breakdown Begins
02:14 Trump's China Hacking Claims, Debunked
05:45 Voting Machine Vulnerabilities Debunked
09:28 Michigan Voter Registration Fraud Claims
13:39 The SAVE Act's Fake Noncitizen Number
16:50 Trump's Real Plan To Purge Voter Rolls
21:50 Media Cowardice And The Fight Ahead
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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- The Most Consequential Supreme Court Term in a Generation | Expert Panel
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- 41:48
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
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- The Supreme Court just closed out its most consequential term in a generation — gutting the Voting Rights Act, ending 90 years of independent agency precedent and testing the limits of presidential power.
Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias hosted a panel of legal experts to break down the key decisions shaping democracy: Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who argued Louisiana v. Callais before the Supreme Court; Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama; and Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, who was lead attorney in the lower courts on Trump v. Barbara and part of the team that defended it before the Supreme Court.
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Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
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- Trump Fired the EAC to Create Chaos in the 2026 Elections
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #trump #voting
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- Pressuring Officials to Commit Improper Actions Is a Key to the MAGA Movement
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #trump #voting
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- The EAC is Paralyzed. Trump Wants it That Way.
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #trump #voting
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- Trump Just Disabled a Key Federal Election Agency Months Before Midterms
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- 26:16
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down Trump's firing of the remaining commissioners at the Election Assistance Commission, the federal agency that certifies voting equipment, administers a national backup voter registration form and provides expertise and training to state election officials. It's now legally paralyzed months before the 2026 midterms. Marc argues Trump has two likely motives: sidelining nonpartisan election expertise (as he's done with vaccines, food safety and the military) and deliberately degrading state election administration to manufacture a post-election narrative. He also warns that without commissioners, the White House may try to pressure EAC staff directly.
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00:00 Trump Fires The Election Assistance Commission
02:27 What The EAC Actually Does
08:22 Why Trump Wants No Experts Watching
11:12 Second Theory: Sabotaging Ele...
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- There's No Voting Fraud in California
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #politics #briantylercohen #california
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- Fecklessness Creates a Vacuum That Autocracy Thrives In
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #briantylercohen #politics
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- Why Passing Progressive Legislation is Pointless Without Supreme Court Reform
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #briantylercohen #scotus
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- The Only Way to Beat Trump and the MAGA Movement | Brian Tyler Cohen
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- 33:43
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Marc Elias sits down with Brian Tyler Cohen to discuss his new book, "The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World," which makes the case that Democrats need to fight harder and prioritize outcomes over institutional deference to defeat Republicans. They break down the Supreme Court's latest term and the case for court reform, but also dig into the bigger argument: that clinging to norms like the filibuster risks squandering a rare chance to win back disillusioned voters. Brian lays out what he believes Democrats need to be ready to act on from day one, including voting rights reform and election integrity. They also break down how independent media is reshaping political strategy heading into the midterms.
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00:00 Today's Guest: Brian Tyler Cohen
00:37 Brian's New Book And A Disappointing SCOTUS Term
01:49 Newsom, Prop 50, And Court Reform
07:03...
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- Trump Always Escalates After Every Loss in Court
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #trump #politics #democracy
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- The Slaughter Ruling Just Gave Trump an Excuse to Control the Postal Service
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #scotus #politics #trump
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- The Supreme Court Just Let Trump Fire Anyone at Any Agency — Except the One Wall Street Cares About
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #scotus #politics #trump
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- The Supreme Court Term Just Ended. The Fight to Save the 2026 Midterms is Just Beginning.
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- 20:43
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The Supreme Court's term just ended, and the results were mixed for voting rights. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the wins — including a 5-4 ruling protecting mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day — and the losses, including Louisiana v. Callais, which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and the Slaughter case, which lets Trump fire independent agency officials at will (except at the Federal Reserve). But there's no time to sit with these rulings. Trump doesn't accept a loss and move on. With 196 voting cases pending nationwide and the midterms just four months away, Marc explains why the pro-democracy movement needs to stay ready for what comes next.
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00:00 Intro: Trump's Pattern And The Supreme Court Term
02:53 Good News: Mail-In Ballot Ruling Win
06:43 Worst Ruling: Voting Rights Act Gutted
09:26 The Slaughter Case And...
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- This Supreme Courts Agenda is to Empower Donald Trump
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #hillaryclinton #scotus #trump #politics
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- The Department of Justice Will Do Whatever It Can to Protect Trump
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #hillaryclinton #doj #politics #trump
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- Hillary Clinton: Republicans Can't Win Free and Fair Elections
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- #shorts #hillaryclinton #election #politics
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- Hillary Clinton: The Supreme Court Knows Its Own Rulings Are "Nonsensical"
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- 51:21
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joins Marc Elias on Defending Democracy for a wide-ranging conversation on Trump's Justice Department and blatant corruption, the Supreme Court's assault on voting rights and the decades-long right-wing machine that made it all possible. Clinton, who has been on the front lines of these fights since the 1990s, pulls no punches on the institutions that have failed to push back and what Democrats need to do to win in 2026.
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00:00 – Hillary Clinton returns to Defending Democracy
00:49 – Supreme Court's major rulings this term
5:04 – Why Democrats fought Alito and Roberts
11:03 – Voting Rights Act's long bipartisan history
18:22 – Weaponizing government against political foes
25:51 – Who stood up to Trump and who caved
31:14 – Concerns over Bill Pulte and intelligence
36:17 – Win...
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- SCOTUS Rules 6-3 In Favor of Birthright Citizenship. But There's Still Cause For Concern.
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- 1:52
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #supremecourt #shorts #birthrightcitizenship #trump
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- A Win for Birthright Citizenship and a Warning for What Lies Ahead
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- 13:46
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship 6-3, rejecting Trump's executive order — but three justices sided with Trump, and Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence signals the fight may not be over. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias also breaks down the other cases that closed out the term: a 5-4 win in the mail-in ballot case, where the RNC tried to stop states from counting ballots postmarked by Election Day but received after, and a loss in his campaign finance case where six justices struck down a provision that had been law since 1976. The wins are worth celebrating, but the margins are narrow and none of these fights are finished.
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00:00 Supreme Court Rules On Birthright Citizenship
00:41 Why The 6-3 Vote Is So Alarming
02:23 Justice Thomas's Dissenting Opinion
09:40 Kavanaugh's Narrow Concurrence Explained
11:12 Republicans Vow To Challenge ...
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- Every State Should Have Mail Ballot Grace Periods
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #votingrights #politics #supremecourt
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- Days Like Today Are Why I Started Democracy Docket
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #supremecourt #votingrights
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- Supreme Court Rules 5-4 in Watson v. RNC. A Major Win for Voters.
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #supremecourt #vote
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- They Said We Couldn't Win at the Supreme Court. They Were Wrong.
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- 14:50
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Democracy Docket founder and voting rights attorney Marc Elias spent years litigating Watson v. Republican National Committee from trial court all the way to the Supreme Court — despite plenty of people telling him he couldn't win. In this video, he breaks down the court's 5-4 ruling rejecting the RNC's effort to throw out mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward. He also explains why every state should now adopt this rule and what you can do to make that happen.
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00:00 SCOTUS Upholds Mail Ballot Counting
01:00 The RNC's Scheme to Toss Ballots
05:30 Fighting Back — and Winning
09:38 What Comes Next at the Court
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...
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- Trump's Actions Are That of a Deeply Unpopular President
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #trump #politics #election
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- Weaponizing the Government Against Citizens Is a Classic Trump Play
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #votingrights #election #trump
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- Trump's Executive Order Is Not Only Powerless In Elections. It's Unconstitutional.
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #trump #election #politics
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- The USPS is Delaying Mail, All Under Orders from Donald Trump
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #trump #postoffice #election
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- Trump Tried to Change the Outcome of California's Election
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #trump #california #election
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- BREAKING: Judge Blocks Trump From Killing Your Mail Ballot
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- 25:31
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- A federal judge in Massachusetts just blocked Trump's executive order that would have let him use the Post Office to control who can vote by mail. This is a massive win for democracy — and it's not the only one. In this video, Marc Elias breaks down three major court victories against Trump's effort to restrict voting, collect your sensitive voter data and undermine mail-in ballots before 2026.
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https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trump-told-us-exactly-what-he-did/
00:00 Courts block Trump's mail ballot power grab
1:02 Breaking: Mass. court blocks EO #2
2:18 Trump's USPS mail ballot scheme explained
5:34 Building a national voter database
10:38 DOJ is 0 for 9 on voter data cases
11:23 6th Circuit rules for voters
14:53 The Watson case at SCOTUS
19:39 Don't count out the lower courts
Democracy Docket i...
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- Trump's Voter List Is Just Another Form of Voter Suppression
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #politics #trump #votingrights
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- Trump's Plan A to Rig Elections Is Failing in Court. Plan B Is Much Worse.
- Runtime
- 14:23
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias joins Nicolle Wallace's Deadline: White House to break down Trump's scheme to control who gets to vote in the 2026 midterms. Trump's DOJ has sued states across the country to seize voter files — and lost every single case so far. But winning in court may only be the beginning. Trump is following the same grievance playbook he used in 2020, and the next phase could be far more dangerous.
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00:00 Trump's Election Interference Plot
00:49 DOJ's Voter Data Strategy Exposed
5:42 Setting Up the 2026 Grievance Playbook
7:43 Trump's Homeland Security Extortion
10:05 Big Law's Silence on Democracy
13:33 The One Story Behind It All
Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and elections in the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy and independent standpoint. <...
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- Republicans Were Against Voter Lists Until Trump
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #voterlist #trump #politics
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- Trump Doesn't Want Democrats to Hold Him Accountable
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #trump #politics #votingrights
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- Trump's Voter Data Obsession is More Dangerous Than You Think
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- 25:28
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The DOJ has sued 30 states plus D.C. to seize your most sensitive voter data. They've lost every single case so far: nine courts, zero wins. In this episode, Marc Elias breaks down why Trump's voter data obsession isn't just a PR stunt — it's about building a national voter list the White House controls and using it to decide who gets to vote in 2026.
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00:00 DOJ Loses 9th Voter Data Case, Mail Ballot Ruling Looms
2:15 Trump's DOJ Is 0-for-9 in Voter Data Lawsuits
5:45 Why Trump Really Wants a National Voter List
10:33 Trump Needs to Rig 2026 to Survive
13:52 Supreme Court's Mail Ballot Case, Explained
19:03 The Fight Ahead: Courts, Appeals, and the Clock
21:15 What You Can Do Before 2026
Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and elections in the courts — from an unapologetically pro-...
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- Trump Runs the Government Like a Mob Boss
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- #shorts #politics #trump
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- BREAKING: Georgia Republicans Unexpectedly Kill Redistricting Push
- Runtime
- 15:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Georgia House Republicans called a special session to redraw the state's maps — then walked away before it even started. Democracy Docket's Marc Elias and Ashley Cleaves break down the political climate surrounding why the GOP blinked and what it means for the fight ahead.
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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 expe...
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- Is Trump Really Just a Mob Boss? | Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade
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- 36:04
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Former U.S. attorney and University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade spent decades prosecuting organized crime, corrupt officials and con men. In her new book, "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government," she makes the case that what's happening in Washington right now looks very familiar. In this episode of Defending Democracy, Marc Elias sits down with McQuade to break down how Trump has turned the Department of Justice into a tool of political retribution, why major law firms and media companies caved to White House pressure and what everyday Americans can do to fight back.
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1:30 Trump turned DOJ into a tool of retribution
4:00 Term one vs. term two: How Trump learned to weaponize DOJ
7:04 Todd Blanche knows...
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- Republicans Know Their Ideas are Unpopular
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #politics #tennessee
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- How Tennessee Republicans Gerrymandered Black Voters Out of Representation in Three Days
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #politics #memphis
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- They Gerrymandered Him Out. He's Running Anyway. | Rep. Justin Pearson
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- 35:04
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Days after the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais decision, Tennessee became the first state in the country to eliminate a majority-Black congressional district. Memphis was cracked into thirds in just 72 hours, with no hearings, no community input and no requirement to notify voters. State Rep. Justin Pearson breaks down how it happened, what was lost and why he's running for Congress anyway — in the very district they drew to stop him.
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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, executi...
