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BREAKING: In a win for voters, Missouri will not be able to use its gerrymandered map for the midterms after the Supreme Court refused to wade into the state matter. The denial from Justice Brett Kavanaugh ends a year-long bid by Missouri Republicans to grab another congressional seat this fall.

In big win for voters, Supreme Court won’t revive Missouri gerrymander before midterms

The Court's order ends a year-long bid by Missouri Republicans to grab another congressional seat this fall.

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Key moments so far from a hearing on Trump's mail-voting EO: 🔺 Judge Talwani has repeatedly pushed back on the DOJ's arguments. 🔺 Only one state has told the administration it can comply with the rule in time for the midterms. 🔺 Talwani says she will try to issue a ruling by the end of the day.

This morning, @democracydocket.com is reporting from Boston, where U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani will consider whether to issue a preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s dangerous anti-mail voting order from being carried out ahead of the midterms. Follow our live blog for updates.

Mail voting live updates: Judge weighs fate of Trump’s anti-voting executive order

This morning's hearing may be the most consequential moment yet in the months-long legal fight over Trump's attempt to restrict mail voting before the midterms.

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📬 HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge is considering a block on Trump's dangerous mail voting executive order. Voting rights groups are arguing the order could cause widespread disenfranchisement in this year's midterms. Follow live updates from the courtroom here: https://demdock.com/4wYLHy5

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NEW: Chick-fil-A isn't open on Sundays. Therefore, polls shouldn't be either, one GOP North Carolina county board member argued to restrict weekend voting — a critical window for many Black voters. And despite protest from residents, the state board ultimately approved a plan to end Sunday voting.

No Chick-fil-A, no voting: One North Carolina county’s argument for closing polls on Sundays

“I do not support these companies that are employing people on Sunday to make another dollar. I like how Chick-fil-A has done it, and I wish more companies would do that,” Anson County's Matt Longwort...

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Libraries Beg Brendan Carr To Back Off Plan To Make U.S. Broadband Shittier, More Expensive Back in June, Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr announced he'd be reviewing the... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/19/libraries-beg-brendan-carr-to-back-off-plan-to-make-u-s-broadband-shittier-more-expensive/

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Can a Texas county rewrite its own election maps after the primaries — just to tilt the general election? Galveston is testing that question right now. If it wins, expect other counties to try the same move. Jen Rice explains👇

In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:

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BREAKING: Trump used a primetime address to resurrect debunked claims about the 2020 election, allege foreign interference and pressure Congress to pass the SAVE America Act. But despite claiming the election was stolen, he presented no evidence that vote manipulation affected the 2020 outcome.

Trump pushes debunked election lies, demands SAVE America Act in primetime speech

Despite years of claiming that the election was stolen, he presented no evidence that any entity, foreign or domestic, manipulated votes or registration records, or in any way altered the outcome of t...

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Greetings from Rapid City, SD! 👋 I'm at the summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State this week. Will be talking to election chiefs from a bunch of different states about midterm preparedness, Trump interference in voting, and other stuff. Updates throughout the day!

NEW: Trump is expected to amplify false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election in a prime-time address Thursday. His claims may rely on soon-to-be-declassified intel that will purportedly show irregularities in the five-and-a-half-year-old contest, which he lost by over 7 million votes.

Trump to attack voting systems, undermine elections in primetime address Thursday

The address is likely aimed at accelerating his multi-pronged campaign to restrict the right to vote before the midterms.

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🚨BREAKING: In a win for democracy, a court blocked the DOJ's subpoena seeking the personal information of thousands of Fulton County's 2020 election workers. The court found the subpoena was clearly motivated by Trump's repeated false claims that widespread fraud led to his 2020 loss in Georgia.

Trump-appointed judge rejects DOJ’s demands for personal info of 2020 Georgia election workers

The judge said the department's bid to force the county to divulge election workers’ names and home addresses was “staggering.”

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NEW: Hillary Clinton doesn’t mince words when it comes to Donald Trump’s Republican Party. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Hillary Clinton: Trump’s GOP ‘can't win a fair fight’

“[Trump] can't win a fair fight and his Republican Party, which has become a cult answering only to him, can't win a fair fight,” Clinton said.

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🎥NEW: Since the 1990s, former Secretary of State @hillaryclinton.bsky.social has been on the front lines of the fight for democracy. In 2026, that fight continues. She joins Marc Elias to talk attacks on voting, the right-wing machine that made it all possible and what Democrats need to do to win👇

Hillary Clinton Slams Trump Corruption: "These People Are Unleashed and Unhinged"

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Our Founding Fathers were also long dead when the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, Congresswoman.

Over the past year, conservatives have radically transformed redistricting into virtually unrecognizable terrain perhaps most closely resembling a burn scar — the term for the scorched land left behind after a wildfire. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Scorched earth: How Trump’s gerrymanders and the Supreme Court burned redistricting to the ground

Over the past year, conservatives have radically transformed redistricting into virtually unrecognizable terrain perhaps most closely resembling a burn scar — the term for the scorched land left behin...

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The DOJ's losses today, as seen by DD's photo selections:

Decided to reflect on some memorable #Mets games I've been to. There are ... a lot.

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Good morning #MetsSky! Today's newsletter is a bit different! It's part one in a series of me talking about memorable #Mets games I've been to. Have you been to any of them? Let me know! Maybe we were sitting next to each other and didn't know it! almostametnewsletter.substack.com/p/memorable-...