Democracy Docket
The One Thing That Holds MAGA Together
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- The One Thing That Holds MAGA Together
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #maga #trump #politics #voting
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- It's Time For Corporations to Care About Democracy
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #democracy
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- Why Do Courts Keep Giving Trump The Benefit Of The Doubt?
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #voting
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- Support News That's Not For Sale
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #politics #voting #democracy
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- Is Trump Ignoring Court Orders on Purpose? | Skye Perryman
- Runtime
- 42:20
- Date posted
- 2 months 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?<...
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- One Name Mismatch Could Tank Thousands of Ballots
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #votebymail #democracy #politics
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- You Can't Just Swap Mail Voting For In-Person
- Runtime
- 0:38
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #democracy #voting
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- Imagine If Biden Tried This With The Post Office
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #democracy #voting
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- BREAKING: Judge BLOCKS Trump's Mail Voting Takeover
- Runtime
- 1:24:51
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- A federal judge in Massachusetts just barred the U.S. Postal Service from advancing new mail voting restrictions that, if carried out, could leave vast numbers of people unable to cast a ballot by mail this fall. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias is breaking it 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 democracy, we’re committed to exposing the threats through...
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- This Isn't Clever Lawyering, It's Desperation
- Runtime
- 0:41
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #voting #democracy
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- Trump DOJ Makes Desperate Legal Move on Mail Voting
- Runtime
- 1:03:49
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- In this special live episode, Marc Elias breaks down a chaotic day in the fight over Trump's mail voting order — a Boston hearing where the judge tore into DOJ's case, the Trump administration's emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, and a USPS whistleblower complaint alleging one mismatched name could get thousands of ballots rejected.
Plus, Marc takes your questions live on what it all means for your ballot 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 — access to voting, gerrymandering, executive overreach, the rule of law and more — also play out in Congress, in the Trump adm...
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- ALERT: Trump's Mail-In Ballot Scheme Has Been Uncovered
- Runtime
- 1:41
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #votebymail #politics
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- BREAKING: Whistleblower Leaks Trump's Secret USPS Scheme
- Runtime
- 24:57
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- A bombshell whistleblower complaint, submitted to Sen. Richard Blumenthal's office, reveals that the U.S. Postal Service allegedly kept building a new system to restrict mail-in ballots even after federal courts ordered it to stop it. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the two major allegations: that USPS defied court orders while developing its new "Federal Ballot Mail Portal," and that the system is designed with a "zero percent failure rate" — meaning if just one ballot in a batch of thousands can't be verified, the entire batch gets rejected and sent back, potentially disenfranchising voters over a single mismatched name or address.
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00:00 USPS Voting Scheme Exposed
00:26 The Whistleblower Complaint Explained
02:03 Two Central Allegations
03:33 Blumenthal's Letter To Postmaster General
05:58 USPS Defied June Court Injunction
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- Trump's DOJ Just Embarrassed Itself (Again)
- Runtime
- 37:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- With just over 60 days until the midterms, Donald Trump is still trying to weaponize the U.S. Postal Service against mail-in voters. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the legal fight playing out in federal courts in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., including a temporary restraining order that's now being appealed. He also reads directly from the Department of Justice's own court filings, in which lawyers compare mail-in ballots to overweight packages, cremated remains and fake bombs to justify blocking them.
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00:00 Trump's Scheme to Weaponize the Postal Service
02:33 Trump's Second Anti-Voting Executive Order
05:11 USPS Barcode and Ballot List Rule Explained
06:51 Court Battles in Massachusetts and DC
08:02 New TRO Granted, DOJ Appeals
10:50 DOJ's Postage Analogy Debunked
15:57 Ballots Compared to Cremated Remains
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- BREAKING: Trump's DOJ Moves to Restore USPS Rule That Could Cripple Your Vote
- Runtime
- 21:08
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The Department of Justice just made a major move to restore a U.S. Postal Service rule that could cripple mail-in voting in the 2026 midterms. Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket, walks through where this fast-moving litigation stands, how we got here and what's coming that you're not hearing about anywhere else.
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00:00 Breaking News Mail Voting Update
01:18 DOJ Appeals Massachusetts TRO
01:42 Trump's Executive Order Explained
03:36 DOJ's 0-23 Record In Court
04:30 Lawsuits And Supreme Court Ripeness Ruling
05:43 Amended Lawsuits And New TRO
08:00 DOJ's First Circuit Vs. Supreme Court Dilemma
12:20 State Officials Caught In The Middle
13:34 Trump's Strategy Of Election Chaos
Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and elections in the courts — from an unapologeticall...
- Title
- The Hypocrisy Is Hard to Miss
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting
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- Trump's Mail Ballot Scheme Was Just Blocked Again
- Runtime
- 1:08
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #trump #shorts #voting #usps #democracy
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- ALERT: This is a Major Win For Democracy
- Runtime
- 18:50
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- In a major win for free and fair elections, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing key parts of Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order. In this episode, Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down Judge Indira Talwani’s critical ruling and reveals how it will impact the midterm elections. Plus, Marc explains why Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 election results is at the heart of the battles we’re fighting today.
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00:00 Breaking News: Judge Blocks Anti-Mail Voting Rule
03:00 Understanding the Court's Rulings
08:51 New Lawsuits Filed After Final Rule
12:10 The Lie Holding Elections Hostage
15:04 Looking Ahead: Future Legal Challenges and Responsibilities
Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and elections in the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democr...
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- The US Postal Service Is Bowing Down to Trump
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting
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- Trump's Executive Order Targets Mail Ballots
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting
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- Trump Wants You to Think This Fight is Over. It's Not.
- Runtime
- 22:56
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The Supreme Court just ruled that legal challenges to Donald Trump's anti-voting executive order were filed too soon, but the fight is just getting started. The U.S. Postal Service has since finalized a rule that could block your mail-in ballot unless your state hands over sensitive voter data to the federal government. In this episode, Democracy Docket's Marc Elias breaks down where the fight is headed next, from courts in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., to another likely showdown at the Supreme Court, and why Trump's own side built the legal doctrines that could end up sinking the rule. Plus, what's at stake for the 2026 midterms if it isn't stopped.
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00:00 The Fight Is Not Over
01:45 Trump's War On Mail Ballots
04:17 New Lawsuits Filed After Final Rule
06:17 USPS Violates Mail Nondiscrimination
09:47 A Conservative Legal Power Grab
...
- Title
- The Legal Fight Against Trump Continues
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #voting #democracy
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- Trump's DOJ Is Weaponizing the Postal Service
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #democracy #voting
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- The Supreme Court May Make It Harder to Vote by Mail
- Runtime
- 2:26
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #supremecourt #politics #breakingnews
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- The Postal Service Equates Mail Ballots With Human Remains
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #trump #politics #democracy
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- BREAKING: Supreme Court Sides with Trump Against Your Right to Vote by Mail
- Runtime
- 20:38
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration, allowing its executive order targeting mail-in voting to move forward ahead of the 2026 midterms. In this episode, Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the conservative majority’s ruling and their claim that the potential harm was "speculative." Plus, he calls out the major contradiction at the center of the case: while the court ruled the suit was premature, the Postal Service went ahead and finalized the very restrictions state officials warned about.
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00:00 - Breaking: Supreme Court Sides With Trump
00:44 - Trump's Anti-Voting Executive Order Explained
02:06 - New Postal Service Mail Ballot Rules
03:37 - DOJ's Push For State Voter Files
05:18 - States Sue To Block The Order
06:25 - DOJ Claims The Case Isn't Ripe Yet
08:32 - Court Ignores What Agencies Actually...
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- Trump Has the Postal Service Lying For Him Now
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #politics #democracy
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- USPS Compares Mail-in Ballots to Fake Bombs and Pet Remains to Appease Trump
- Runtime
- 32:21
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Just over 70 days before the midterms, Donald Trump's Postal Service quietly issued a final rule on mail-in voting late Friday night. Buried inside it, USPS compares your mail ballot to cremated human remains and fake explosives. Yes, you read that right. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down how we got here and explains what happens next as the rule heads toward publishing on August 26 and the fight continues at both the Supreme Court and in Massachusetts federal court.
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00:00 Trump's Mail Voting Order
01:31 Trump's Second Executive Order On Mail Voting
02:55 DOJ's Losing Streak On Voter Data (0-23)
05:12 Courts Block The Executive Order
07:37 DOJ Rushes To The Supreme Court
09:50 USPS Quietly Finalizes The Rule
11:33 Inside The Rule: Real Motives Exposed
18:06 USPS Concession Undermines DOJ's Case
21:00 Cremat...
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- Trump Wants to Kick Lawful Voters Off the Rolls
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #trump #shorts #voting #democracy #politics
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- Donald Trump Will Prosecute Anyone to Undermine the Midterms
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #democracy #voting
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- What Trump's DOJ Wants Is Unconstitutional
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #politics #trump #democracy #voting
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- Trump's Department of Justice Just Revealed Their Plans For the Midterms
- Runtime
- 2:02
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #democracy #politics
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- The Supreme Court Shouldn't Waste Its Time On This
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #voting #democracy
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- Trump's DOJ Is Losing
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #voting #politics #democracy
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- WARNING: Something Disturbing is Coming to the Midterms
- Runtime
- 20:42
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon just announced the Justice Department will deploy 1,000 election observers for the midterms. The DOJ wants you to think this is business as usual, but Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down why this deployment is anything but and how it's laying the groundwork for what comes after Election Day. Meanwhile, it's no surprise the announcement comes the same day the DOJ lost its 23rd straight court case over access to sensitive voter data. Plus, where are these 1,000 monitors actually coming from?
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00:00 DOJ Announces Plan For 1,000 Election Monitors
01:09 Harmeet Dillon Announces Election Observers
02:34 Playing Dillon's Full Announcement Clip
03:44 Dillon Normalizes an Unprecedented Power Grab
05:02 DOJ Run By Election Deniers, Not Independent
07:02 Where Will These Thousand Monitors Come Fr...
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- Trump's Desperate DOJ Eyes Supreme Court to Get Your Voter Data After Losing 22 Times
- Runtime
- 34:25
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Trump's Department of Justice has lost 22 straight cases trying to force states to hand over sensitive, unredacted voter data. A conservative panel on the Sixth Circuit dealt them their latest blow. But on "Meet the Press," Attorney General Todd Blanche made clear the fight isn't over. He wouldn't rule out taking the case to the Supreme Court, and he wouldn't promise the DOJ will act independently of the White House. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down what's really behind their desperate data grab and what it means for the integrity of the 2026 midterms that are now less than 80 days away.
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0:00 DOJ's Voter Data Fight
0:58 DOJ Loses 22nd Case, Sixth Circuit Says No
5:48 DOJ Reacts: Very Powerful Dissents
7:14 Todd Blanche Defends Data Demands on TV
9:15 Elias's Law Firm Remains Undefeated
10:29 Fact-Checking Blanche's Legal Cl...
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- UNHINGED: Trump Humors Wild Plan to Seize the Midterms
- Runtime
- 25:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- When Trump went on Wayne Allyn Root's show and got pressed to declare a "national security emergency" to force through the SAVE America Act, it was just the latest example of his most extreme allies telling him made-up ways to illegally seize control of the 2026 midterms. In this episode, Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down why none of it is real and explains why Trump would rather humor the idea than shut it down — all to keep "the big lie" alive.
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00:00 Debunking Trump's Election Emergency Threats
02:08 Wayne Allen Root Pitches Trump the Plan
05:55 Why the National Emergency Claim Is Fake
10:06 The Real Motive Behind January 6th
15:08 How the GOP Embraced the Big Lie
21:51 Fighting Trump's Plan in Court
Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights and elections in the courts — ...
- Title
- We're Within 90 Days of the Midterms
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #politics #voting #trump
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- Federal Judge Halts Trump's USPS Takeover
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #usps #voting
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- 60 Minutes' Newest Correspondent Is Another Trump Sycophant
- Runtime
- 2:20
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #60minutes #politics
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- ALERT: Judge Stops Trump From Hijacking USPS to Rig 2026
- Runtime
- 19:25
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- A federal judge in Massachusetts just issued a nationwide injunction blocking Trump's executive order that would have let the U.S. Postal Service withhold mail-in ballots from states that don't hand over voter data to the Department of Justice. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the ruling, including the judge's pointed call-out that Trump's DOJ made "little effort" to defend the order on its merits, and what it means for a related case now before the Supreme Court ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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00:00 — Breaking: Judge Blocks Postal Takeover
00:57 — Inside Trump's Anti-Voting Executive Order
02:53 — DOJ's Losing Streak and Shift in Strategy
04:28 — Judge Slams DOJ for Dodging the Merits
13:06 — Supreme Court Showdown: What Comes Next
Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform covering voting rights an...
- Title
- Let's Be Clear. Trump Has No Control Over Federal Elections.
- Runtime
- 0:40
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #election #voting #politics
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- The Senate Left Without Passing This Bill
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #voting #politics #trump
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- There's No Limit For How Far Todd Blanche Will Go For Trump
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- #shortsyoutube #toddblanche #trump #politics #doj
- Title
- Trump May Have Finally Found an Attorney General With No Limits
- Runtime
- 37:08
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- With less than 90 days until the 2026 midterm elections, Trump may have finally found a lawyer with no limits — and Todd Blanche is only getting started.
In this episode of "Election Watch," Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down Todd Blanche's confirmation as attorney general and why he compares Blanche to Trump's ruthless former lawyer, Roy Cohn. Plus some good news: the Department of Justice is now 0-21 in court battles over access to state voter files. He also covers the Save Act's failure in the Senate, the Supreme Court's pending ruling on Trump's mail-in ballot order and why Ross Douthat's farewell New York Times column got it backward.
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00:00 – Blanche Confirmed, Save Act Fails, DOJ 0-21
01:34 – The Roy Cohn Playbook
04:53 – Todd Blanche: More Dangerous Than Bondi
10:44 – Save Act Fails, Trump Targets USPS
...
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- The DOJ Is Now 0-21 In Cases Trying to Access States Voter Files
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #doj
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- Todd Blanche Has Been Confirmed As AG. He Humiliated Himself In the Process.
- Runtime
- 1:53
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #toddblanche #politics #trump
- Title
- The Big Lie Has Infected Every Trump Nominee
- Runtime
- 31:01
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Trump nominees live and breathe by one rule: Don't say Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Instead, the word of the day is "certified." Now, Trump judicial nominees are taking the evasion of facts to the next level: They won't even say Trump won the 2016 election. In this episode, Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket, breaks down why this sets a dangerous precedent and how this convoluted logic could affect the judicial rulings of every election going forward.
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0:00 - Casting Doubt On Democracy
0:16 - Trump's Humiliation Ritual For Judges
1:47 - Clip: Nominee Won't Say Biden Won
4:12 - The Big Lie Becomes Party Orthodoxy
7:23 - How Trump Gains Leverage Over Judges
9:28 - Same Dodge On The 2016 Election
11:20 - Fact Vs. Law In Election Disputes
16:56 - Undermining Confidence In The Judiciary
21:37 - DOJ's 21-0 Losing Strea...
- Title
- Trump Knows His Best Chance In the Midterms Is to Cheat
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- #shorts #trump #politics #voting
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- Truth vs. Troost: Kansas City, gerrymandering and the fight for representation
- Runtime
- 21:46
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- If you want to understand democracy, don't start with the Capitol. Start with a street.
But Troost Avenue isn't just a street in Kansas City — it's the color line that decided who gets heard and who doesn't.
For decades, Troost split Kansas City in two: a white west side and a Black east side. The 1965 Voting Rights Act promised every voice would count equally. Sixty-one years later, we went to see what that promise actually looks like on the ground, right as Missouri proposed redrawing the 5th Congressional District along that same line.
Representation isn't abstract. It decides which streets get repaired, which schools stay open, which grocery stores survive, and whose complaints reach City Hall as priorities instead of vanishing into silence.
In April, the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — "all but a dead letter," in Justice Kagan's words. States are already redrawing map...
