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Jilly_in_VA

(13,869 posts)
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 02:57 PM Aug 2025

How 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.

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How Trump Is Plotting To Disrupt The Next Election (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 OP
The states are far from powerless. Nt Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #1
Really important hannah Aug 2025 #2
He's a criminal, pure and simple Bayard Aug 2025 #3
So are Rebl2 Aug 2025 #6
K&R B.See Aug 2025 #4
Unfortunately, a request for UN election observation must come from the Member State EverHopeful Aug 2025 #5
We won't get help from the Security Council lastlib Aug 2025 #12
I remember when hard right wingers were saying Obama... Xolodno Aug 2025 #7
The real mind fuck will come when they come to confiscate their guns... EarthFirst Aug 2025 #11
TY KICK! Cha Aug 2025 #8
Because of what TSF is doing today,plus all he is on record of cheating we bluestarone Aug 2025 #9
I wanna see him try. twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #10
He will create some major distraction or a terrorist act that he's behind kimbutgar Aug 2025 #13

hannah

(412 posts)
2. Really important
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 03:20 PM
Aug 2025

For everyone to understand why he put all these creeps in his administration. It pisses me off that we can’t rely on the Supreme Court to stop being so partisan. We have to overcome and overwhelm!

Bayard

(28,725 posts)
3. He's a criminal, pure and simple
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 03:27 PM
Aug 2025

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.

EverHopeful

(652 posts)
5. Unfortunately, a request for UN election observation must come from the Member State
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 04:00 PM
Aug 2025

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)
12. We won't get help from the Security Council
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 05:42 PM
Aug 2025

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)
7. I remember when hard right wingers were saying Obama...
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 04:19 PM
Aug 2025

...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)
11. The real mind fuck will come when they come to confiscate their guns...
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 05:30 PM
Aug 2025

…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?

bluestarone

(21,301 posts)
9. Because of what TSF is doing today,plus all he is on record of cheating we
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 05:05 PM
Aug 2025

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)

kimbutgar

(26,898 posts)
13. He will create some major distraction or a terrorist act that he's behind
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 05:46 PM
Aug 2025

And use it as a reason to cancel the 2026 election.

I wouldn’t put it past that POS!

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