@cdarwin@c.im‘The biggest threat is the president’
Election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November,
despite truce in bitter power struggle
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j
@scott@carfree.city"Palestine is a canary in the coal mine for an electoral approach that prioritizes popularity and political careerism over anti-imperialism and party-building."
I wish AOC were better and DSA could proudly endorse her, but as it stands, I unfortunately agree with Red Star's critiques and conclusion here.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElection Live Updates: Virginia Passes New Map, Lifting Democrats' Midterm Chances (Nick Corasaniti/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/21/us/virginia-redistricting-election
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p144#a260421p144
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzLooking at https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/732341/trump-claims-that-declassified-documents-show-us-election-vulnerabilities it's worth noting that the Heritage Foundation wrote the Project 2025 plan, and they're …
@scott@carfree.city"The SFMTA announced last month that it would significantly reduce the 1.1 miles of [Ocean Ave] red [transit-only] lanes to a handful of blocks"
Okay, hold it right there. That's a cut-and-dried violation of our city charter's Transit First policy, repeatedly reaffirmed by voters. This should not be a debate because we already had the debate. The "don't prioritize transit" side lost. Transit supporters need to sue the city.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comColorado Governor Censured for Commuting Sentence of Election Denier (Jack Healy/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/colorado-governor-polis-tina-peters.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p121#a260520p121
@cdarwin@c.imSix months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake,
Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.
It comes as Republicans already face a grim political environment made worse by Mr. Trump’s decisions to pursue a war in Iran t…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyIn an incoherent speech last night, Trump prepared the US public for him stealing the midterm elections in November, which his Republican party would normally lose.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k9wvv5wyo
@cdarwin@c.imUnder acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the pace of investigations against Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies has accelerated
— most strikingly, the indictment of the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, for posting on social media an image of seashells that prosecutors cast as threatening.
Blanche has used his new perch to boost debunked election conspiracy theories promoted by the president.
But the moves that most starkly illustrated Blanche’s evolving approach came th…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialThe fact that an autocratic, corrupt and in some ways fascist republican administration only leads to a relatively small lead of the democrats in the polls, is food for thought. People in the US are farther removed from European and democratic values than ever it seems.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioTake note: Everything this court does, it does with at least one eye to preserving right-wing political power. They’re •still• afraid of rescinding abortion access before an election.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/supreme-court-mifepristone-abortion-pill-upheld
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDon't fall behind as AI continues to reshape the cyber landscape at lightning speed.
Check out today's Metacurity for more on this trend and the other critical infosec developments you should know, including
--AI cyber skills now doubling in months, not years,
--Microsoft's AI-driven MDASH system discovered 16 new Windows vulnerabilities,
--France's Mistral AI competes with Mythos for European banks,
--Dream Market admin busted by German and US c…
@servelan@newsie.social"Mr. Polis had previously said he needed to see an expression of remorse from Ms. Peters. On Friday, he said that in her application for a commutation, she “owns up” to what she did; that she had admitted that she was wrong to allow an outsider to gain access to voting machines under her control; and that she had promised to “always follow the law” in the future."
Tina Peters, Colorado Election Denier, Will Be Freed by Gov. Jared Polis - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/tina-peters-colorado-trump-polis.html
@smurthys@hachyderm.io"Colorado governor will free election denier Tina Peters"
Watch as Trump delays (even reneg on) removing his obstacles to #Colorado receiving federal funds. He'll for sure humiliate the governor in some way before releasing funds.
Never give the #bully an inch.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/tina-peters-colorado-trump-polis.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCan Anyone Beat Jon Ossoff? Georgia Republicans Grasp for a Contender. (Tim Balk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/politics/georgia-senate-election-ossoff-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p90#a260518p90
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeDon't fall for it. He has no evidence of widespread fraud. He wants us to distrust elections so he can claim fraud on every election that doesn't go his way.
https://wapo.st/4f9h0Re
@jonippolito@digipres.clubOne of the biggest election stories no one's talking about: the US Democratic primaries are becoming a proxy war between rival AI factions, with candidates tuning their strategies accordingly. My latest Substack digs into how that happened.
…
@cdarwin@c.imThose seeking to join Trump’s second administration had to pass a key litmus test:
Did they believe the 2020 election was stolen from Trump?
With like-minded allies now positioned in key roles throughout the government,
Trump has trained the full arsenal of the federal government on one of his most persistent obsessions:
sowing doubt about the security of the country’s election systems.
Major agencies such as the Justice Department, the F.B.I., the Homeland Secu…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115M so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI, and Republican Super PACs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technology/andreessen-horowitz-politics.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Feuds With Thune and G.O.P., Stoking Election-Year Rift (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/politics/trump-thune-republicans-election-year-rift.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p125#a260617p125
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is waging war on voting rights using justice department lawsuits,
FBI investigations,
and an executive order to limit voting by mail,
-- moves mirroring the US president’s false claims he lost the 2020 election due to voting fraud, say election experts and ex-officials.
🔥Since Donald Trump began his second term, numerous 2020 election denialists have been installed in key agencies such as the DoJ, the FBI and elsewhere to pursue widely discred…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialThe efforts at #EthnicCleansing continue, and while I see the news reports, I don't really hear much about this from my elected officals who can influence US policies that currently enable these crimes.
Palestinians brace as Israeli settler figures in coalition seek to cement West Bank gains before election
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialThe efforts at #EthnicCleansing continue, and while I see the news reports, I don't really hear much about this from my elected officals who can influence US policies that currently enable these crimes.
Palestinians brace as Israeli settler figures in coalition seek to cement West Bank gains before election
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGREATER MANCHESTER MAYORAL BY-ELECTION - Greater Manchester Mayoral By-Election
https://greatermanchester.greenparty.org.uk/?link_id=4&can_id=fa41d46fda326186a7dd2445f763d020
@scott@carfree.cityThis is the kind of unity we need to see among left-of-center candidates—everyone not on the billionaires' team. Like Saikat, I'll support Connie in the general election. I won't hide my disagreements with her, but fortunately most of them are much less relevant to federal office.
https://
@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats have slammed Donald Trump’s Thursday night speech
where he repeated conspiracies and unfounded claims that both the 2020 election was stolen,
and the current state of election integrity is compromised.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said the address was
a “pathetic attempt” by the president to cast doubt on the fact that he lost the 2020 election.
The Senate minority leader said that Trump is evading discussing contentious policy issues,
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyApparently, if US senator Mitch McConnell has indeed passed away or is in a vegetative state, Republicans can avoid an election in Kentucky by preventing him vacating his seat until after 3 August. That's over 3 weeks from now.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyjpkzew1o
@brian_gettler@mas.toI'm already exhausted by the Toronto politics narrative that's going to bombard us non-stop through the election: "mayoral race has tightened." I've seen no evidence whatsoever that Brad Bradford - my councillor - has any business being elected to the office he holds, much less the mayoral position. Toronto's got problems. It'd be great if we could avoid making Bradford an even bigger one.
@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats and voting rights groups say Donald Trump’s primetime speech
making unverified claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election
is the clearest sign yet that the president is laying the groundwork to tamper with the results of November’s midterms.
The upcoming elections to decide the balance of power in Congress and many state legislatures
will be a major test of Trump’s appeal to voters two years after he resoundingly beat the Democratic candidate Kamala…
@servelan@newsie.social"However, a US intelligence report in 2021 ... conducted under John Ratcliffe, Trump’s then-director of national intelligence and his present CIA director, found China attempted to collect information on US voters, public opinion and political parties going as far back as 2008. Typically, such data is publicly available and cannot be used to alter votes."
Did China steal 2020 US election data, as Trump claims? | US Elections 2020 News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/17/did-china-steal-2020-us-election-data-as-trump-claims?traffic_source=rss
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow a Democratic Governor Came to Release an Election Denier From Prison (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/us/politics/jared-polis-trump-tina-peters.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p53#a260517p53
@shriramk@mastodon.socialKinda' amazing that you can type this in and get a full, good (yes, I checked) summary of all the goings-on, far better than anything I can find in my (US) newspapers.
@cdarwin@c.imMullin threatens states that refuse Trump's election demands
Mullin also repeated his threat of withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funding to states that don’t work to “secure” elections.
“If they’re not willing to do it, it should raise serious questions.
It’s not that hard. This isn’t a partisan issue,”
the homeland security secretary said.
This also comes after the Trump justice department sent letters to election officials in every sta…
@cdarwin@c.imPrimary elections are taking place in Oklahoma today and a closely watched run-off is underway in Georgia,
as Donald Trump’s iron grip on the Republican party faces its next test.
In Washington DC - a Democratic stronghold - voters are also selecting a candidate for the party ahead of November’s mayoral election.
Oklahoma will hold races to help decide US senate and gubernatorial candidates.
Ahead of November’s midterms, Trump has given his early backing to Kevin Hern…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThe US midterm election coup, as @locuta.bsky.social calls it.
How redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races - https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-redistricting-supreme-court-have…
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump Administration Demands Names of 2020 Election Workers in Georgia - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/trump-2020-georgia-election-workers.html
@scott@carfree.cityMatt Mahan's list of endorsers is quite the anti-advertisement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_California_gubernatorial_election#Endorsements
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHillary Clinton Says Biden's Re-election Bid Was a 'Terrible Mistake' (Tim Balk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/us/politics/clinton-biden-reelection-terrible-mistake.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260616/p137#a260616p137
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPolitical campaign managers and consultants are using AI to analyze voter data, create campaign materials, and more; survey: 87% of campaigners use AI daily (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29…
@cdarwin@c.imJay Clayton, the US attorney for the southern district of New York,
refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election during his Wednesday confirmation hearing to become the country’s next intelligence chief.
Clayton opted instead to say that Biden was “certified” as president.
Clayton also skirted questions about his previous election integrity claims and whether or not a White House official asked him to subpoena a group of New York Times journalists as part of an alleg…
@cdarwin@c.imDocuments Trump released to support his claims — and previous assessments from the intelligence community — do not back up his most aggressive statements about election security.
In fact, some of the documents reach the opposite conclusion.
They also do not contain significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in election systems.
One of the documents posted on the White House website was blunt:
“We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipu…
@scott@carfree.cityWondering why the left is split in SF’s Congressional race to replace Nancy Pelosi? This is by far the best overview I’ve seen: https://jacobin.com/2026/06/sf-congress-election-chan-chakrabarti
@cdarwin@c.imTrump may be trying to wind down his conflict with Iran,
but he is escalating his war with Senate Republicans.
Trump blindsided his supposed allies in the Senate on Wednesday with a rocket of a social media post from across the Atlantic,
tying together a host of his pet peeves about the Senate while yanking his new nominee for national intelligence director from his confirmation hearing just hours before it was to occur.
It was an extraordinary move from a president w…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTina Peters, Colorado Election Denier, Will Be Freed by Governor (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/tina-peters-colorado-trump-polis.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p98#a260515p98
@cdarwin@c.imSenator Susan Collins of Maine said in a new interview that she did not “regret” her vote to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018
but was “disappointed” that he later helped overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
“I do not regret that vote,” Ms. Collins, widely seen as the most vulnerable Republican senator up for re-election this year,
said when asked about the episode by News Center Maine.
“I do disagree with Justice Kavanaugh’s…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTwo Dan Sullivans? Alaska G.O.P. Suggests Kicking One Off the Ballot in Senate Race (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/us/politics/dan-sullivan-alaska-senate-election.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260613/p13#a260613p13
@scott@carfree.cityThose Lurie allies outspokenly opposed the most prominent housing developments in their districts: Marina Safeway tower for Sherrill, 1234 Great Hwy affordable housing for Alan Wong. Corporate “pro-housing” candidates are a joke.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump fires last members of election commission, sparking fears of midterm ‘chaos’
The Bipartisan Election Assistance Commission maintains mail-voter registration form, among other duties
The Election Assistance Commission serves as a “national clearinghouse of information on election administration”,
accredits testing laboratories and certifies voting systems,
and maintains the national mail-voter registration form developed by the National Voter Registration Act o…
@cdarwin@c.im“Firing every remaining member of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission
months before the midterms
is a brazen attempt to seize control of our elections before a single vote is cast,”
Chuck Schumer wrote on X.
“He is gutting the independent agency that certifies voting systems and helps election officials run secure elections.”
Schumer said Senate Democrats will fight this move.
“The American people—not Donald Trump—will decide the 2026 election.”
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump steps up attacks on California's election system (Steve Gorman/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-steps-up-attacks-californias-election-system-2026-06-09/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p115#a260609p115
@scott@carfree.cityThe answers to this question are, for D4, relative to expectations, refreshingly reasonable. I'm glad even the candidates with a track record of being quite car-brained (lookin' at you Albert Chow) at least feel the need to talk about balance and aren't all, "Yes, there is a war on cars, bicycles are ruining everything and only white people ride them" or something.
@servelan@newsie.socialFormer prosecutor pursued by Trump calls for crackdown on election lies: ‘Lying can be held to account’ | US politics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/24/andrew-weissmann-donald-trump-liars-kingdom
@cdarwin@c.imIn 2022, a group of prominent conservative legal experts
—including former federal judges, Republican election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, former Solicitor General Ted Olson and ex-U.S. Senators John Danforth and Gordon Smith
—released a report titled
"Lost, Not Stolen", concluding that
“Joe Biden was the choice of a majority of the Electors”
and that there was “absolutely no evidence of fraud” sufficient to alter the results.
Independent reviews, …
@cdarwin@c.imRepublicans in the Georgia State Legislature, facing mounting anger from Black leaders,
scuttled plans to take up redistricting on Wednesday during a special session that had been called expressly to erase U.S. House seats in majority-Black districts.
Gov. Brian Kemp called the session to draw legislative maps before the 2028 election with the aim of creating boundaries more favorable to Republicans.
Georgia was to be the latest Southern state to consider redistricting afte…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocratic Group Kicks Off $50 Million Midterm Blitz in Conservative Strongholds (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/politics/democrat-election-ads-american-bridge.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p24#a260609p24
@cdarwin@c.imTrump Administration Demands Names of 2020 Election Workers in Georgia
The Justice Department again appears to be using the investigative power of the federal government to rehash debunked claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election
https://www.nytimes.…
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump’s DHS wants to give election officials a list of every American before it can be checked for accuracy | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-citizenship-list-mail-in-ballots-b2998693.html
@scott@carfree.cityI sometimes griped about my former supervisor Hillary Ronen, but cheers to her for joining a nonprofit that protects immigrants after leaving office, rather than go to a cushy lobbying gig.
The contrast is especially stark with her would-be "moderate" successor who, after losing his election, immediately joined ICE-collaborating Flock Safety as a lobbyist.
@cdarwin@c.imAs the 2024 election approached,
advertisements began popping up in key swing states suggesting local officials had discretion not to certify elections.
The advertisements were misleading.
Certification is not optional,
and officials are required to certify the vote once the proper process for any election challenges are complete and an official challenge is complete.
The warnings, nonetheless, arrived at a moment when Donald Trump and allies seemed to be geari…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Administration Pushes Limits of Election Investigations (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/politics/trump-california-vote-elections-investigations.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p63#a260611p63
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump is “inventing fraud”
in California’s primary elections,
and likely to ramp up unfounded allegations when more races go against him,
pro-democracy experts have warned.
While the felon-president has used this playbook for years
– from his loss at the Emmys as a reality TV star to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election
– election integrity campaigners fear this time could be different.
“California’s election is not the problem here,” …
@scott@carfree.cityThis wasn’t a headline I expected to read, but it kinda makes sense. Connie Chan has been milquetoast in her criticism of Israel compared to Saikat. She supports the Block the Bombs Act, but conspicuously left open the option of supporting so-called “defensive” aid like Iron Dome. Makes sense AIPAC would want the general election to be her and Wiener, not Saikat and Wiener.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Previews Fall Strategy With Baseless Claims of California Vote Fraud (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/us/politics/trump-election-fraud-strategy-california.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p115#a260608p115
@cdarwin@c.imIt was a plan House G.O.P. leaders hoped would satisfy everyone in their party:
With a special budget bill, they would bypass Democratic opposition and provide tens of billions for the Iran war while imposing new election restrictions Trump has demanded.
Instead, a day after the leaders released the plan, which hews closely to a spending request the White House sent to Capitol Hill last month,
it became clear it is a product that no one really likes.
The measure, whic…
@scott@carfree.cityMayoral appointee is only D4 candidate not to oppose mayor’s tax cut on rich real estate investors.
Great answers from the others. Greco and Gee are the ones I’m most aligned with overall, but on this question Lee and Chow are strong too—all 4 defending the will of the voters to put this money toward affordable housing. Love to see it
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTop DOJ prosecutor is latest to spread lies about California vote counting (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/jay-clayton-sdny-us-attorney-california-election-conspiracy-theories/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p83#a260608p83
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Administration Demands Names of 2020 Election Workers in Georgia (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/trump-2020-georgia-election-workers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p3#a260505p3
@cdarwin@c.im @memeorandum@universeodon.comWhy Complete Election Results in Maine Could Take More Than a Week (Nick Corasaniti/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/us/politics/maine-slow-vote-count.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p54#a260610p54
@cdarwin@c.imHilton Beats Steyer to Win Second Spot in California Governor Race
Steve Hilton, a Republican endorsed by President Trump,
will face Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, in the general election.
Tom Steyer, a progressive billionaire Democrat, will not advance
https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhy We Might Not Know California's Election Results for Days (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/us/politics/california-election-delayed-results.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260602/p105#a260602p105
@cdarwin@c.imDefense secretary, Pete Hegseth, will this weekend headline a faith rally on the National Mall in Washington DC
hosted by a private foundation operating in partnership with the White House,
which includes speakers that experts have characterized as Christian nationalist or extremist.
"Rededicate 250", billed as the faith-based component of America’s semiquincentennial, features speakers including
a Detroit pastor who has called the Democratic platform “demon…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIn Mississippi, a Democrat Challenges the Senator Who Blocked His Judgeship (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/politics/mississippi-hyde-smith-senate-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.CbUQ.DOl78LJlKy_c&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260503/p12#a260503p12
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has been anything but subtle about his desire to limit the ability of Democrats to vote by mail,
claiming, with no evidence, that simply choosing that widely used means of casting a ballot is inherently suspect.
Addressing a gathering of Republican lawmakers in March, he said the way to hold their majority was to pass a strict voter identification law cracking down on mail ballots.
“It’ll guarantee the midterms,” he told them, warning that failure would bring “big tro…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comVoters Sue Over Louisiana Governor's Move to Delay Primary (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/politics/louisiana-voters-lawsuit-election-primary.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p94#a260501p94
@cdarwin@c.imPoliticians must be held accountable if their lies damage democracy,
according to a former US federal prosecutor and FBI general counsel who was pursued by Donald Trump.
The US must be “as creative as possible” and introduce sweeping structural reforms
if it escapes its current “mess”,
said Andrew Weissmann, laying out a proposal for a legislative crackdown on election deceit.
“Lying can be held to account,” argued Weissmann,
a senior figure in former FBI …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenate Democrats Will Train Staff as Election Observers (Michael Gold/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/senate-democrats-will-train-staff-as-election-observers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p6#a260625p6
@cdarwin@c.imThe United States Constitution puts control over elections in the hands of the states
and grants Congress the ability to pass federal election legislation.
It gives no explicit authority to the executive branch.
But in early February, Trump said he wanted the Republican-led federal government to “nationalize” or “take over” the running of elections.
“A state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” he said.
Trump had already, in March 2025, signed…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump claims 2020 election 'rigged' at least 107 times in six months as midterms loom (Bo Erickson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-claims-2020-election-rigged-least-107-times-six-months-midterms-loom-2026-05-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p49#a260526p49
@cdarwin@c.imTrump says Tennessee governor is working to
‘give us one extra seat’
as states race to redraw congressional maps
Trump’s social post comes after Louisiana postpones primaries to redraw maps
-- just a day after supreme court ruling guts Voting Rights Act
Louisiana postpones primaries as states rush to redraw districts after supreme court ruling
Voting rights advocates vow to ‘relocate’ fight after supreme court gutting
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's Homeland Security Chief Threatens Election Officials With Prison Time (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/us/politics/markwayne-mullin-election-officials-threats-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260717/p98#a260717p98
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Brings Full Weight of Government to Bolster False Election Claims (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/us/politics/trump-government-election-claims.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yVA.t1qN.gx-3DoFZohOq&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260717/p99#a260717p99
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Claims He Asked Prosecutor to 'Do Me a Favor' and Look Into the California Election (Shawn Hubler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/us/politics/trump-us-attorney-hilton-california-governor.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p134#a260624p134
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenator Dan Sullivan Has a New Challenger in Alaska: Dan Sullivan (Tim Balk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/dan-sullivan-election-senate-alaska.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260531/p4#a260531p4
@cdarwin@c.im[Gift Article]
At first glance, the Trump administration’s deployment of more than 200 F.B.I. analysts to Georgia this week seems to be another stubborn assault on a fact that has refused to budge:
Despite the president’s baseless claims, no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election has ever surfaced there.
But critics contend that it is just one piece of a broader effort to sow doubt about the electoral process itself
and the integrity of elections to come.
And no matt…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElection Live Updates: Races Are Close in California With Many Votes Still to Count (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/03/us/california-primary-elections-midterms
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p59#a260603p59
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump says he asked US attorney for California election probe: 'Do me a favor' (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/23/trump-california-election-probe-do-me-a-favor-00972919
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p7#a260624p7
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has decreed that Republicans will stage their first ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections
-- a move aimed at energizing voters as the party fights to hold its narrow congressional majorities in November.
The two-day gathering will take place in Dallas on 9 and 10 September,
marking a break from the longstanding tradition of holding national conventions only during presidential election years.
Trump confirmed the plans on Tuesday in a Tru…
@cdarwin@c.imA Florida lawyer who describes himself as Donald Trump’s boyhood “best friend”
is pushing the president to declare a national emergency
to enable him to take control of November’s midterms, according to a report.
Peter Ticktin, 80, is a long-time believer in the claim that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from Trump by a vast voter fraud conspiracy
told CNN in a new interview that the threat remains real
@cdarwin@c.imRob Sand, the best-known Democrat in Iowa,
appears on podcasts to discuss his love of hunting, begins rallies by having the audience sing America the Beautiful and has a tendency to criticize the country’s two-party political system.
Now, Sand is running to lead a state that Republicans have come to dominate under Donald Trump,
and Democrats believe his candidacy for governor could be the breakthrough needed to win key Iowa offices in the November midterm elections.
W…
@cdarwin@c.imTech billionaires have shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars ahead of the 2 June primary election in California,
in an unrivaled attempt to influence who gets to run the state that Silicon Valley calls home.
The industry has used a cover-all-bases approach,
funding candidates and ballot measures big and small,
contributing to what looks to be the most expensive primary season in California history.
The goal, experts say, is to gain both political and regu…
@cdarwin@c.imLouisiana postpones May primaries after supreme court rules state must redraw congressional maps
Louisiana moved to postpone its May primaries on Thursday
in a move that came as other southern states are also scrambling to redraw congressional districts
in response to the supreme court’s Wednesday ruling that severely weakened the landmark Voting Rights Act.
Before the supreme court’s decision, eliminating a key protection against racial discrimination in drawing voti…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is trying to use the levers of the federal government,
along with personal influence over state and local lawmakers,
to reshape the rules governing the 2026 midterms and future elections in extraordinary ways.
Many of these efforts have been blocked by courts, stymied by the Constitution or stopped in Congress.
But the relentless assault by the president on the electoral process
— both administratively and rhetorically
— is likely to sow doubt
@cdarwin@c.imHicks said he didn’t have an alternative to propose to the top-two system,
only a conviction that it needed “a review, a reconsideration and maybe even a repeal”.
He hoped either the state legislature of “someone with significant resources” would put a different model before the voters. “It could be done as early as 2026,” he said, “but it could be done in a future election as well.”
Historically, the two major parties have tended to prefer primaries accessible only to reg…
@cdarwin@c.imIf you live in San Francisco,
there’s a good chance that somebody knocked on your door today from the Saikat Chakrabarti campaign.
An early employee at Stripe, the payments processing company,
Chakrabarti spent $8.8 million of his own money trying to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress.
Several hundred people fanned out around the city to knock on voters’ doors canvassing for him.
His campaign says they cumulatively visited 5,000 homes per hour.
