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NEW: When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held.
But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social
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Detailed reporting from @propublica.org 's @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social on the dismantling of our elections: “The election denial movement is now interwoven within the federal government...in ways that undermine the freedom to vote". www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections - “The election denial movement is now interwoven within the federal government, and they are working together toward a shared goal of reshaping elections” in ways that undermine the freedom to vote.
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IT'S A CLEARLY AND SHARPLY AIMED OPERATION AT ANYTHING THAT MAY MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO DECLARE ELECTION RESULTS AS THEY WISH.
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【美国观察：美国政策】
ProPublica 披露：特朗普正试图通过一系列手段“接管”中期选举。
分析：这并非简单的竞选活动，而是一场关于选举基础设施控制权的权力斗争。如果成功，这可能会从根本上改变美国选举的去中心化传统，将政党对选举过程的影响力提升到前所未有的高度。
观察点：关注法律层面的挑战以及各州选举官员对此的反应。
#美国观察 #美国政策 #中期选举 #特朗普 #选举制度
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As Trump plots to take over the midterm elections, he has gotten rid of the federal guardrails that stopped him from overturning the 2020 election, hired two dozen election deniers, and empowered MAGA extremists.
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The biggest lesson we can take from Hungary is turnout. We need to engage as many voters as possible to create numbers too big to rig.
That is our assignment the rest of the year: voter registration and voter turnout to overcome all the fascist fuckery.
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“Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing”
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ProPublica's bombshell: Trump gutted 75 election guards, installed 11 deniers. FBI seized Georgia ballots after a kamikaze Barr standoff. Midterms in peril.
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This is an important read and gives insight into the Republican mindset that is untethered from any reality.
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Democrats are really going to have to focus on turnout this year. So far Trump's doing a better job inspiring voters (against him).
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Inside #Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the #Midterm Elections. #ProtectOurVotes
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@propublica.org is exactly what we need right now. They're a nonprofit, you know. They could use your support.
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Achter de schermen is de regering-Trump bezig haar macht in te zetten om de tussentijdse verkiezingen te beïnvloeden.
Dit is het verhaal over Trump zijn pogingen om, zoals hij het zelf noemt, de tussentijdse verkiezingen „over te nemen“.
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Essential reading by @propublica.org about the Trump administration's efforts to "take over" the 2026 mid-term elections:
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections h/t @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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There remains broader concerns…. This initiative really is not a Left v. Right conservative policy issue but clearly originates as an authoritarian attempt to control and separate Americans…
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Our reporting uncovered previously undisclosed aspects of a federal effort to safeguard the results of the 2020 vote, which involved at least 75 people across several agencies. Today, nearly all of those people are gone, (cont.)
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"The people we identified as resisting attempts to overturn the 2020 results have been replaced by roughly two dozen people Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections."
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Les midterms aux US, ça ne va pas forcément se passer à la hongroise...
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Our democracy is on life support. Will the midterms kill it? How can we save it? www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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13Apr26, ProPublica
tRUMP 34XFELON-SEXUAL PREDATOR-ELECTION RIGGER has been systematically conniving to keep their stranglehold on power.
He & his maggot-minions are corrupting midterm elections to their advantage; destroying free & fair elections.
Please read.
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This is an excellent, detailed, article from ProPublica about the threats to upcoming elections from this administration.
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Exclusive new details about Trump's effort to 'take over' the midterm elections, in a monthslong investigation from @dougbockclark.bsky.social & me: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Our best defense against the coming assault on democracy is to VOTE LIKE THIS COULD BE THE LAST ELECTION.
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Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban planned to steal yesterday’s election. He couldn’t. A huge turnout and lack of ambiguity made it impossible. Voting in overwhelming numbers is the way to save our democracy. Perhaps it is the only way.
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At least 11 administration appointees, including Honey, have ties to the Election Integrity Network, a conservative grassroots organization seeking to transform American elections. It is led by #CletaMitchell
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"Our reporting uncovered previously undisclosed aspects of a federal effort to safeguard the results of the 2020 vote, which involved at least 75 people across several agencies. Today, nearly all of those people are gone"
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The only hope we have of surviving the Trump mafia takeover is MASSIVE voter turnout against him in the mid-terms. We must overcome all the stacked cards and loyalists with landslide vote numbers. Otherwise, we're cooked and the NaXis will take over when he's dead.
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"The people we identified as resisting attempts to overturn the 2020 results have been replaced by roughly two dozen people Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote, and the rest are associates of such people...."
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"Our reporting uncovered previously undisclosed aspects of a federal effort to safeguard the results of the 2020 vote, which involved at least 75 people across several agencies. Today, nearly all of those people are gone,
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“Experts say 2026 will serve as an unprecedented stress test of the integrity of American elections.”
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Trump and team are systematically dismantling our election integrity and security infrastructure/guardrails that helped foil his previous attempt to steal the election. And replacing the experts with those who supported his lies and attempts to steal it.
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Late last summer, a small group of political appointees began convening at DHS HQ. The group — which once called itself “Team America” — looked for federal levers it could pull to make Trump’s March executive order about elections a reality. @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social
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A deep dive: When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing. @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social
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Barr wrote of Trump in his memoir. “If he actually believed this stuff he had become significantly detached from reality.”
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Trump’s 2020 election denial wasn’t a one-off—it was a rehearsal
Now the same ecosystem is being positioned for 2026, with the same goal: pressure, override, and control the machinery of elections.
The guardrails held once. The question is whether they hold again www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Mad King Donald I will never stop.
trump is stark, raving insane and cannot stop. trump's narcissism has run away and he'll destroy the United States before he'll back down or stop.
Witness him posting that he is Jesus Christ.
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Media people think I'm funny and/or crazy when I start every conversation about Murthy, the CenSorShIp InduStrial ComPlex, CISA, etc with "So some election deniers did a thing..."
But it has been the whole game the whole time and this article explains it: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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"CISA was created by Trump to counter cyber threats in the aftermath of Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 vote (...)
After the 2020 election, it played a crucial part in puncturing fallacies spread by Trump supporters.
Among Trump’s first actions [in 2025] was eviscerating CISA"
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"But if faced with the same tests today, the guardrails and people that held the line would largely be missing"
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New reporting shows the election denial movement isn’t on the outside looking in anymore—it’s now embedded in the machinery of government.
Over the past several years, billionaires + right-wing foundations poured tens of millions into building that infrastructure. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Most states — including those with millions of voters — have eventually marked only a few to a few hundred potential noncitizens as registered to vote, and far less have ever voted.
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Dentro del intento de Trump de “tomar el control” de las elecciones de mitad de mandato.
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He's not doing it alone of course. He's got a whole network of election deniers and conspiracy theorists.
These were people who were fringe elements in the last election. They're now placed in key roles.
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50% of local election officials said they were worried about political interference ahead of the midterms, while 45% feared politically motivated investigations and 32% said they had already faced threats, harassment, or abuse.
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Concerns grow over the potential absence of democratic guardrails that resisted Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election, raising questions about the resilience of current institutional checks.
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing. ...
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