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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Trump Is Plotting To Disrupt The Next Election
With a combination of executive orders, legal maneuvers and staffing decisions, President Donald Trump has already put in motion his next effort to subvert upcoming federal elections in 2026 and 2028.
Since taking office, Trump has installed loyalists who follow his orders into key positions at the Department of Justice, issued executive orders centralizing decision-making within the White House, attempted to unilaterally change state and local election laws, demanded unprecedented access to voter data, dismantled election security protections, threatened elections officials and workers, law firms and others who have historically stood up to protect elections and defended, hired or pardoned those involved in previous efforts to subvert elections.
All of these actions combine into a concerted strategy to undermine federal elections, according to a new report by the Brennan Center for Justice, a left-leaning nonprofit that advocates for voting rights. The report highlights how these actions are being used together to set the stage for future lies about election integrity and attempts by the White House to try to change the outcome of elections altogether. It also details how they are being fought by states, election officials and voting advocates.
We are seeing this as an unprecedented intrusion by the White House into the way that our elections work in a way that really makes us concerned for our elections moving forward, said Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the voting rights and elections program at the Brennan Center.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-2026-election-threat_n_688d1e69e4b022c2fddf099b
This must be stopped---by any means necessary.
Fiendish Thingy
(22,181 posts)hannah
(412 posts)For everyone to understand why he put all these creeps in his administration. It pisses me off that we cant rely on the Supreme Court to stop being so partisan. We have to overcome and overwhelm!
Bayard
(28,725 posts)Lying, cheating, threats, and blackmail come naturally to him.
We know these are the battle plans. What can be done RIGHT NOW to get our own weapons in place? Just saying, "Vote," is not going to get it anymore when they are already putting their machinery in place to steal the election.
several on the supreme court in my opinion
EverHopeful
(652 posts)and apparently all the blatant evidence of efforts to interfere with our elections hasn't sounded enough alarms for a request for assistance.
"United Nations electoral assistance is provided only at the specific request of the Member State concerned or based on a mandate from the Security Council or General Assembly."
https://dppa.un.org/en/elections
lastlib
(27,616 posts)US ambassador (tRump toadie) would veto it.
What about the Carter Center? They do election observance in other countries. Could they do it here?
A DUer on another thread reminded us of "the four boxes--soap, ballot, jury, cartridge"............ Be prepared to resort to the last one..... jus' sayin'.....
Xolodno
(7,317 posts)...was going to suspend elections and declare himself President for life.
Of course that didn't happen. And now these nut jobs want to do it for real with their cult. I hope life doesn't imitate art like the movie "Civil War".
EarthFirst
(3,973 posts)
authoritarian governments fear an armed populace.
All this time hTe dEMs R cOmMin fEr R GunZ! when the reality is when push comes to shove; it will be their dear beloved who disarms them.
Will the still blindly follow the pedophile?
Cha
(317,138 posts)bluestarone
(21,301 posts)Have to be WAY ahead of these bastards BEFORE 2026. (i actually wish we could pick a state we can trust, just to get the numbers, for a just in case thought)
twodogsbarking
(17,632 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 3, 2025, 07:53 PM - Edit history (1)
From the grave.
kimbutgar
(26,898 posts)And use it as a reason to cancel the 2026 election.
I wouldnt put it past that POS!