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In Big Win for Voters and Democrats, Court Blocks Trump's Demand for Voter ID on Registration Form (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/in-big-win-for-voters-and-democrats-court-blocks-trumps-demand-for-voter-id-on-registration-form/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p121#a251031p121

Vita husets nya direktiv låter FBI fokusera på inhemska hot utifrån ideologi, som "anti-amerikanska åsikter", snarare än brottsplaner. En tyst, administrativ förändring som riskerar att flytta gränsen mellan åsikt och handling och erodera demokratin.
https://carlheath.se/demokratin-ramnar

"Are we losing our democracy?"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/31/opinion/trump-autocracy-democracy-report.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk8.G-lO.sNBbzX5OaSNR&amp…

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

🫱🏽‍🫲🏿 How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats
#politics

How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats
It’s a powerful, unifying theme—and it’s tied to the crisis of democracy under Trump.

A profile of Anna Gomez, the FCC's lone Democrat, who considers that as minority commissioner, "the power that you have, really, is your ability to dissent" (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/anna-gomez-democrat-fcc-para…

Anna Gomez’s Lonely Fight
As the FCC’s sole Democrat, she’s been outspoken about protecting the First Amendment. Getting her way has been tough.

“Overwhelmingly, the reason people care is the belief that the Democrats [winning] control of the House of Representatives next year is the only possible meaningful impediment to Donald Trump’s implementation of his authoritarian agenda,”
said David Welch with the Democratic central committee of Butte county, where Chico is located.
Denney, who chairs the Democratic Action Club of Chico,
has been traveling to the far reaches of the district in north-eastern California to ta…

Democrats should have no illusions, Trump can not allow them to win future elections because it will mean prosecution for him and his friends.
#politics #democrats #trump

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids
“Coming to Other Cities”
as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/31/immigration_aaron_reichlin_melnick

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids “Coming to Other Cities” as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling for federal agents to pause immigration enforcement in the Chicago area until after Halloween, amid widespread condemnation of violent arrests and confrontations with residents. Meanwhile, the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, did a five-hour deposition Thursday in a case challenging federal agents’ treatment of protesters, journalists, children and immigrants. Bovino is “in charge of the Chi…

Omar Fateh,
the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist,
is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis
and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey.
Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate.
Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization,
raising the minimum wage
and reforming how the city handles public safety.
“…

“Mamdani of the Midwest”: Meet Omar Fateh. Could He Be the Next Mayor of Minneapolis?
Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey. Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate. Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization, raising the minimum wage and reforming how the city handles public safety. “Minneapolis can have a different kind of politics,…

Warnings From Weimar. Why Bargaining With Authoritarians Fails.
#weimar

Warnings From Weimar
Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.