@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSubstack-based investigative outlet Democracy for Sale says it now has nearly 50,000 subscribers and 1,500 paying readers; its stories had 3M views in 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters
@fgraver@hcommons.socialHow AI Swarms Are Disrupting Democracy – O’Reilly https://www.oreilly.com/radar/how-ai-swarms-are-disrupting-democracy/
@bici@mastodon.social"American democracy is too weak and fragile "
Just MULL over those words.
Sure doesn't square with all the hubris of The concept of America as a "shining city on a hill" — a beacon of hope, #democracy, and freedom— does it.
Wake up #America you are hea…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThis is what democracy looks like -- There is an uncountable number of repositories of power all across the United States. (pbump)
https://www.pbump.net/o/this-is-what-democracy-looks-like/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p145#a260203p145
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is planning one of the biggest grifts of his career.
It could have lasting consequences for American democracy.
Renderings of the proposed Trump "presidential library" building,
to be designed by the Florida-based architecture firm Bermello Ajamil,
appear to show a tower with some 50 floors set upon a wider podium or base.
It would be the first skyscraper to serve as a presidential library,
taller than the stubby structure designed for the…
@servelan@newsie.socialFor a Time, the U.S. Protected Democracy - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/requiem-voting-rights-act/687037/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8HfVT62VNyCzC6swe_2uVmU
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotEveryone in the UK, there's an official petition to parliament to 'Call a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy'.
Please could I strongly urge everyone to sign it?
#Israel
#PalestineAction
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116345305718754160
This is not democracy. It's money-ocracy.
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social#Gutefragenet hat 60% des Traffics verloren, seit es KI Zusammenfassungen in Suchen gibt, die nichts für den Contentklau bezahlen, sagt Nepomuk Seiler beim #2MR
@johl@mastodon.xyzDemocracy manifest: ‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive of recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThis Summer, Students From Hundreds of Colleges Will Heed One Urgent Call (Michael S. Roth/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/opinion/elections-college-crisis-democracy-summer.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QlA.xQVX.vIS7ltZsxbjV&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p58#a260304p58
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialVideo: Multifaith Mondays: Moral Witness for Democracy (March 23, 2026)
I was honored to be able to offer a small reflection at this event. Since March 3, 2025, Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resistance, and multifaith community-building in a time of deep division and threat to America’s democratic values. Every Monday, New Yorkers come together — rain or shine, hot or cold — to draw strength from each other, and…
@edintone@mastodon.greenStep inside St Mary’s Church, Putney in 1647, where soldiers, radicals, and reformers wrestled with bold, world shaping ideas about rights, representation, and how society should be governed. #democracy #englishcivilwar
@paun@digitalcourage.socialMarie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, chair of the @… Committee on Security and Defense, said the committee aims to strengthen collaboration and described #Taiwan as an important EU economic and technological partner and a key member of the global trading system…
@cdarwin@c.imIn many European countries, including Britain, Germany and France,
far-right parties seem ascendant.
And Donald Trump is doing what he can to undermine democracy in the United States.
Yet a closer analysis shows that autocrats are often running scared of their people.
And surprisingly, democracy these days seems sometimes to be held in higher esteem in the global south than in the democratic heartland of the west.
These trends show there is nothing inevitable ab…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“‘For Orbšn in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year’
…
US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.
Worldwi…
@holger_moller@bildung.socialDas halte ich mal als Notiz an mich selbst fest: Es gibt eine Methode namens #DeepDemocracy, die #Konflikte für #Wachstum und
@inthehands@hachyderm.io❝When Peter Thiel said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” he wasn’t talking about your freedom. He was talking about his own. You don’t exist.❞
Hell of a story.
https://archive.is/arJG0
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialVideo: Multifaith Mondays: Moral Witness for Democracy (March 23, 2026)
https://youtu.be/LPHrJRglnd4?t=403
I was honored to be able to offer a small reflection at this event.
Since March 3, 2025, Multifaith Monday vigils have served as a sacred space for collective lament, prophetic resist…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSeeing Iran appoint new leaders and continue to fight is seeing the more literal kind of necropolitics in action, as a hierarchical system continues to function while replacing the expendable human parts that it lost. The system is of course changed and influenced (and ultimately was built) by humans, but it has become something undying, or at least almost as hard to kill as an idea, and it maintains a terrible inertia in it's destructive tendencies (e.g., "Morality Police" continue to patrol the streets).
Lest anyone think this somehow expresses approval of US actions, the same logic applies here too: what once had a (thin) verneer of democracy, a system which loudly proclaimed to be controlled by "the people" (but which never was nor was ever intended to be) has lost its paint job, exposing the inhuman machinations beneath. Trump is a symptom, not cause, of an institution built on blood and spoils, whose alignment with the Epstein class (and moreover, their institutions) is ever more apparent with each disregarded law and principle.
Stepping back for a moment, this systems/necropolitics perspective is just a perspective, with its own distortions and blind spots. To paraphrase LeGuin, any institution built by humans can also be changed or destroyed by them. But I think it's very useful to put on the systems goggles in this moment, especially when some are fond of preaching about the dangers of "overwhelmingly powerful systems unaccountable to humans which pursue destructive ends" without actually examining the plethora of existing systems that do just that.
P.S. yes, United Healthcare is another good example of this.
P.P.S. yes I bending the meaning of necropolitics here, but the two are related: these systems would not be so free to profit from human death and suffering if they were more vulnerable to the deaths of their constituent parts. Necropolitics of the standard variety is of course present as companies like Raytheon and Lockeed Martin profit from the carnage. The F-15 caught by friendly fire? Just as profitable for Beoing to replace as one downed by the enemy.
@kctipton@mas.toTrump’s 2026 State of the Union: the key line to understand it all | Vox https://www.vox.com/politics/480388/trump-state-of-the-union-2026-transcript-democracy "Taken literally, that is the president announcing that the stated policy of his ad…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialHow To Save Democracy From AI https://www.noemamag.com/rescuing-democracy-from-the-quiet-rule-of-ai/?utm_source=noemalinkedin&utm_medium=noemasocial
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMajor US progressive donor network Democracy Alliance plans to invest "tens of millions" in new media sources and shift away from ads and broadcast TV (David Weigel/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/01/2026/progressive-megadon…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump calls for 'Deranged Jack Smith' to be 'brought to Justice, NOW!!!' (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-retribution-former-special-counsel-jack-smith/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p66#a260303p66
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialDemocracy in the US is essentially dead. They don't even bother to inform Congress about going to war.
"Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, was not notified of the strikes in advance, his spokesman said."
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog
"The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute a t Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion in its annual report, that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey."
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialAs far back as 2011 I posited the idea of each state enacting laws over the corporations chartered on that state's laws as a means to restrict the effect of the Citizens United decision.
I have been glad to see that idea grow into The Montana Plan and now this piece and possible action in California.
(Note that this state by state approach will probably leave "corporate havens" by states that want to reap the benefits of attracting corporations to move their incorpo…
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotNO DEMOCRACY IN THIS ACCURSED, INVOLUNTARY, UNEQUAL "UNION"
"Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the UK government would not allow a second referendum, and the Supreme Court confirmed that Westminster has the power to refuse the request, however, Swinney has said a rejection in the face of an SNP majority would be politically untenable"
#LABOUR_AGAINST_DEMOCRACY
@cdarwin@c.imIt is not an exaggeration to say that the changes that will result will probably represent the greatest withdrawal of voting power from Black Americans since the end of Reconstruction and the establishment of Jim Crow.
It is difficult to say how many seats Democrats will lose in the coming Republican redistricting bonanza that the court’s decision will allow.
A New York Times analysis found that the ruling would endanger about a dozen Democratic-leaning seats across the America…
@janneke@todon.nlIn a well-functioning democracy, i.e., with a government that governs with respect for minorities, for the poor, and for the less fortunate, a murder attempt on a democratically elected leader should not only be illegal, it should also be considered to be morally rejectable.
In a well-functioning and fair democracy, leaders should not have to fear for their lives!
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPower, democracy, and clarity (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-democracy-and-clarity
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p33#a260501p33
@fgraver@hcommons.socialThis is a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece. Will we chose the ease of compliance or the friction of engagement as AI becomes increasingly prevalent also in our democratic institutions?
For me, I chose friction, as compliance has never been my nature. But my fear is I am in a minority, and the majority is quite happy to outsource decisions and cognitive work to AI.
How To Save Democracy From AI
@rmdes@mstdn.socialHow Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post https://rmendes.net/content/bookmarks/2026-02-04-democracy-and-foreign-correspondents-die-in-darkness
@kingconsult@berlin.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comNew Jersey governor is down to join redistricting wars, following Supreme Court gutting of Voting Rights Act (Brentin Mock/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/new-jersey-governor-is-down-to-join-redistricting-wars-following-supreme-court-gutting-of-voting-rights-act/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p61#a260502p61
@publicvoit@graz.socialRE: #democracy is currently in a much faster deterioration process than any other democracy in …
@UP8@mastodon.socialMan with sign in front of Downtown 7-11
more photos: #photo
@cdarwin@c.imWorried about election interference?
Join Sen. Chris Murphy
& Donuts Democracy
for a conversation this Tuesday.
Click to RSVP: https://donutsdem.org/l/mQs4dq
@hippyjo@c.imRussia continues the deceptive practice of sabotage and propaganda to stay alive, even as it chokes on it's own toxic ways.
Giorgio is a hero who risks his life to report from the trenches of democracy on the ground in Ukraine.
Support Ukraine, support journalism, help the world get a glimpse of truth by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:
@servelan@newsie.socialChristian leaders say silence no longer option amid 'crisis of faith'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/23/christian-leaders-denounce-trump-crisis-faith-democracy/88787800007/
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
@markhburton@mstdn.socialOr rather, as US hegemony breaks down, Trump's statements and actions reveal what had been masked, the USA always was a racist, imperialist entity. Now there's no pretence.
"Trump operates completely outside the framework of international law, of democratic conventions and basic legality. His statements and actions are a testament to the total breakdown of American democracy ...."
Trump’s threats to destroy Iran and the breakdown of American democracy.
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialThree solutions to secure Europe’s digital sovereignty
1. Eurostack: building an independent European tech stack
2. Homegrown European social networks
3. Strong enforcement of Europe’s digital laws
https://www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-de…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org"The best war oratory is not actually about war. It is about peace. People hear it and think not merely of the lives that might be lost, but of a way of life that might be: they fear for culture, for democracy, for decency. You weep at good oratory because you fear not just a lost war but a lost world. Yet when you watch the White House videos, you weep for a lost world anyway. "
🎁
The rhetoric of war has changed. Not for the better
https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/04/23/the-rhetoric-of-war-has-changed-not-for-the-better?giftId=ZTk0ZjgzMDEtMDk0YS00MGUxLWI3ZWUtMTU4NWE5MTFhNDEy&utm_campaign=gifted_article
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeEach week, Metacurity is proud to offer our free and premium subscribers a digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Thai citizens are trafficked to unlock bank accounts with facial ID,
--Texas police deploy AI surveillance with little transparency,
--Bot swarms threaten democracy,
--Digital age checks erode privacy, security, and free speech,
-…
@cdarwin@c.imThe 30th anniversary celebration of Democracy Now!, held in New York City’s historic Riverside Church this week, featured live performances and appearances from writers and musicians including Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith. The musical performances were kicked off by singer-songwriter Alynda Segarra and their band Hurray for the Riff Raff, performing the Puerto Rico-inspired anthem “Pa’lante.”
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIs caring about democracy a luxury belief? (Milan Singh/The Argument)
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/is-caring-about-democracy-a-luxury
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p81#a260226p81
@cdarwin@c.imThree major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House.
An annual report from V-Dem, an institute at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, concluded democracy had deteriorated so much in the U.S. that it lowered the country's democracy ranking from 20th to 51st out of 179 countries.
The U.S. landed between Slovakia and Greece.
Meanwhile, Bright Line Watch, which surveys …
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imJust days after the
GOP-controlled Senate skipped town
once they failed to send a voter suppression bill to Trump’s desk,
the Republican on Tuesday signed an executive order to create a nationwide list of US voters and crack down on voting by mail
—which is how he voted in Florida’s most recent election.
Legal experts expect the order will be swiftly challenged in court as unconstitutional.
David Becker,
a former US Department of Justice lawyer who …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's attack on Iran and the plot against your vote (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trumps-attack-on-iran-and-the-plot-against-your-vote/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p74#a260301p74
@hippyjo@c.imUkraine update: Asymmetrical advantage as Russians sit in protected bunkers and hunt unarmed civilians hundreds of kilometers away. These are not soldiers, they are monsters on a murderous safari.
Giorgio risks his life to report these and other truths from the trenches of democracy. Please share the friend link to bypass the paywall.
Support Ukraine, and support true journalism, so the world might get a glimpse of the truth:
@servelan@newsie.socialBangladesh's Tarique Rahman pledges to work for democracy after landslide victory in election | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/bangladeshs-tarique-rahman-pledges-to-work-for-democracy-after-landslide-victory-in-election/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Hong Kong appellate court overturns fraud convictions against Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, a rare legal victory for the prominent pro-democracy activist (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/26/jimmy-lai-conviction-wins-a…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump is dismantling U.S. democracy at an “unprecedented” rate,
downgrading the U.S.’s democratic rating on a global scale
and plunging the country toward autocracy at a faster rate than autocratic leaders of other countries in the 21st century,
the latest report by an international democracy watchdog finds.
Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Sweden’s Gothenburg University finds in its annual report that
Trump’s second term has been characterized…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBREAKING: Trump will sign sweeping order attacking mail-in voting (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-signs-sweeping-order-attacking-mail-in-voting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260331/p133#a260331p133
@hippyjo@c.imUkraine update: Definition of a "gray zone" is very different in today's military. Unsurprisingly, Russia uses ignorance as a tool in it's blundering genocide of Ukraine.
Giorgio is a hero reporting from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine.
Support Ukraine, support journalism, by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:
@cdarwin@c.imThere have always been reasons to criticise US foreign policy.
Yet in the past, many of us still looked with a certain envy at the strength of the country’s institutions,
the independence of its media,
and the willingness of its citizens to engage in democratic life.
Today, as Ukraine fights a war to defend its democracy
– to preserve a state where institutions serve the people rather than dictators,
where the press remains independent,
and where ci…
@servelan@newsie.social**Virginia court declines to block Democrats from using new voter-approved congressional map** - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/virginia-court-declines-to-block-democrats-from-using-new-voter-approved-congressional-map/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLouisiana sued for suspending active election, nullifying votes to draft GOP gerrymander (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/louisiana-sued-for-suspending-active-election-nullifying-votes-to-draft-gop-gerrymander/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260430/p136#a260430p136
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'We are ON IT!': Trump DOJ vows to weaponize Supreme Court ruling against minority voters (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/we-are-on-it-trump-doj-vows-to-weaponize-supreme-court-ruling-against-minority-voters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260430/p131#a260430p131
@cdarwin@c.imA group of nearly 400 prominent Christian leaders called Donald Trump’s administration
“cruel and oppressive”
and accused the government of being corrupted by an aberrant form of Christianity,
in an Ash Wednesday statement
https://acalltochristians.org/
@servelan@newsie.socialMass layoffs at Washington Post: Dimming democracy's light
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5729864-democracy-dies-in-darkness/
@cdarwin@c.imAcross the country, people are organizing Solidarity Events to march, rally, gather, and raise their voices on February 28, 2026.
These local actions make the movement impossible to ignore, underscoring the fact that democracy belongs to all of us, not just those who can travel to Washington, D.C.
If there isn’t an event in your area, you can create one through Mobilize, our national organizing platform.
Hosting is simple: choose a location, set a time, describe your event, …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFlorida passes GOP gerrymander, sending map to DeSantis (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/florida-passes-gop-gerrymander-sending-map-to-desantis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p117#a260429p117
@servelan@newsie.socialNew study shows democracy has deep global roots—not just Greece and Rome
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-democracy-deep-global-roots-greece.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRead the draft emergency executive order for Trump to take control of elections (Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/exclusive-read-the-draft-executive-emergency-order-for-trump-to-take-control-of-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p82#a260227p82
@cdarwin@c.im @memeorandum@universeodon.comDems demand records from anti-voting groups on DOGE 'voter data agreement' (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/dems-demand-records-from-anti-voting-groups-on-doge-voter-data-agreement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p106#a260227p106
@servelan@newsie.socialHong Kong media baron and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/hong-kong-media-tycoon-democracy-activist-jimmy-lai-sentenced-imprisonment.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comVoting rights groups sue Georgia for refusing to release voter purge records (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/voting-rights-groups-sue-georgia-for-refusing-to-release-voter-purge-records/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p112#a260227p112
@cdarwin@c.imHello—this is Ken Burns, reaching out on behalf of Alex Vindman for Senate.
I have dedicated my life to sharing America’s stories through films. They examine crucial moments in our nation’s history and the threats to our democracy. These stories are not easy.
Today, our country is facing its own reckoning, and the stakes have never been higher. That is why I am reaching out.
Alex Vindman––who I first met in 1983 while filming my documentary, the Statue of Liberty, when he w…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comExclusive: New records show paper trail of DOGE voter data pact with election deniers (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/exclusive-new-records-show-paper-trail-of-doge-voter-data-pact-with-election-deniers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p116#a260429p116
@servelan@newsie.socialEven if Victor Orbšn is ousted on Sunday, Hungary’s return to liberal democracy is not guaranteed | Gabriela Greilinger and Cas Mudde | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/10/victor-orban-hungary-peter-magyar-liberal-democracy-fidesz
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116142400144355099
Pro-democracy forces can win even unfair elections,
as Hungary’s Viktor Orbšn is likely to discover in April
@cdarwin@c.imInternational affairs scholar Nathalie Tocci, speaking to Democracy Now! from Italy, criticizes Europe’s “ambiguous” response to the war on Iran
as most of the continent has refused to condemn it.
“We were the ones that were for multilateralism, for international law, and that ambiguity is basically another nail in the coffin of our credibility.”
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCourt gives DHS conspiracy theorist access to 2020 election data (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/court-gives-dhs-conspiracy-theorist-access-to-2020-election-data/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p119#a260428p119
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAn hour after SCOTUS guts Voting Rights Act, Florida House passes GOP gerrymander (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/an-hour-after-scotus-guts-voting-rights-act-florida-house-passes-gop-gerrymander/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p75#a260429p75
@cdarwin@c.imHe took Pelosi’s lectern on Jan. 6.
Now he’s running for office.
Adam Johnson poured Scotch into a coffee mug, logged on to Zoom and steeled himself for his plea hearing.
He concentrated on looking contrite.
Johnson was among the most infamous of the Donald Trump supporters who had roamed the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
He’d found House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern and was carrying it into the Rotunda when he waved to a news photographer an…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comReport: Anti-voting activists co-ordinating with White House on blatantly illegal draft emergency order to take control of elections (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/white-house-circulating-blatantly-illegal-draft-emergency-order-to-take-control-of-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p99#a260226p99
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS downgraded in democracy index as press freedom concerns grow (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/media/trump-vdem-democracy-media-report
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p71#a260318p71
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMachado: Venezuela could quintuple oil production under a democratic government (James Bikales/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/24/machado-venezuela-oil-production-democracy-00843221
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p145#a260324p145
@cdarwin@c.imDemocracy experts believe there is no longer any doubt about Trump’s desire to interfere with this fall’s elections.
“We should not be waiting for the next shoe to drop,”
said Wendy Weiser, vice-president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice.
🆘“There is a full-blown effort to seize control of some of the mechanisms of our elections and to lay the foundation for interfering in upcoming elections.”
The president has no power over federal elections,
and …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump DOJ's own goals could stymie its efforts to undermine midterms (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/trump-dojs-own-goals-could-stymie-its-efforts-to-undermine-midterms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p94#a260225p94
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJailed for "Standing Up": DHS Assault Victim Aliya Rahman Arrested at State of the Union Address (Democracy Now)
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/25/aliya_rahman_sotu
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p100#a260225p100
@cdarwin@c.imOpponents of VA Redistricting Amendment Send Out Mailer/Text Falsely
-- and Offensively!
Claiming That Fighting Trump’s Assault on Our Democracy Is
“Just Like Jim Crow”
Note that many of the most prominent supporters of this amendment
- Barack Obama, Louise Lucas, Don Scott, etc.
- are African American
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFulton County officials argue FBI agent misled judge to seize ballots from 2020 election (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fulton-county-raid-fbi-agent-search-warrant-affidavit-hearing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p106#a260225p106
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'Trump is aiming for dictatorship'. That's the verdict of the world's most credible democracy watchdog (Martin Gelin/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p34#a260317p34
@cdarwin@c.imA dysfunctional United States government is fertile ground for an authoritarian takeover
But instead of addressing needed changes to address the dysfunction, opinion writers too often choose to focus instead on merely how democratic principles are being sabotaged and by whom.
Until the causes of government failure to live up to democratic principles are actually addressed,
the trend towards more authoritarian rule will continue
regardless of complaints in the media,…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIn Virginia, Republicans attack the map and the right to vote (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/in-virginia-republicans-attack-the-map-and-the-right-to-vote/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p81#a260426p81
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow one country stopped a Trump-style authoritarian in his tracks (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/479290/brazil-democracy-trump-bolsonaro-multiparty
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p98#a260218p98
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWho is Sheriff Chad Bianco, the California governor candidate who seized 650,000 ballots? (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/who-is-sheriff-chad-bianco-the-california-governor-candidate-who-seized-650000-ballots/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260328/p24#a260328p24
@memeorandum@universeodon.comVirginia court declines to block Democrats from using new voter-approved congressional map (Matthew Kupfer/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/virginia-court-declines-to-block-democrats-from-using-new-voter-approved-congressional-map/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p74#a260426p74
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow to stop a dictator ... Just over a year into President Donald Trump's first term ... (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/479924/democracy-us-brazil-south-korea-poland-backsliding-resilience
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p62#a260224p62
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocracy Dies in Broad Daylight (David Remnick/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/democracy-dies-in-broad-daylight
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p20#a260208p20
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWalz in Spain rips 'feeble-minded' Trump, Vance over Iran war (Sarah Davis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5838041-walz-trump-democracy-threat/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p62#a260418p62
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAs goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/08/washington-post-layoffs-democracy-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p15#a260208p15
