🎥 NEW: The DOJ is now 0-20 in its voter roll cases. Marc Elias breaks down why federal judges have unanimously rejected the department's demands and why today's 90-day "quiet period" deadline may have shut the door on Trump's scheme just in time for the midterms👇

This Just Killed Trump's National Voter Database

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Showing up is one of the most powerful things you can do 💪

@kmhutch.bsky.social · 17h ago

Exactly - people need to show up and be vocal. It matters.

NEW: Missourians sued to put their bid to strike down a GOP gerrymander on November’s ballot after the state’s top election official declared the effort unconstitutional. Voters have fought nearly a year to put the gerrymander to a statewide vote, but the GOP has thrown roadblocks at every turn.

Missouri voting advocates sue after redistricting referendum rejected

Missouri voters have fought for nearly a year to put the gerrymander to a statewide referendum vote in November.

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John Thune is in a bind with Trump over the SAVE America Act. “John Thune may be spineless, may be willing to do whatever Donald Trump wants,” Marc Elias says, “but John Thune can count to 100.” Get the latest updates on the SAVE Act as the midterms rapidly approach: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg

New Jersey recently disclosed a registration glitch that led to noncitizens being added to the state’s voter rolls. Now, the DOJ claims the rare occurrence is proof that Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order needs to be implemented — and the Supreme Court could weigh in at any moment.

Urging Supreme Court to greenlight Trump’s mail voting order, DOJ seizes on New Jersey registration glitch

It’s just the latest example of Republicans exploiting the error to advance their anti-voting agenda.

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🏛️ TODAY: Republicans in Virginia want to disenfranchise overseas voters. A state court will hold a hearing on whether to dismiss the RNC’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of allowing overseas U.S. citizens to vote in Virginia elections.

🚨 RNC v. Virginia State Board of Elections

Learn more.

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🗳️ POLLS CLOSE: Voting in primary races across the country has officially wrapped up. Follow Democracy Docket for election updates, including DOJ’s surveillance in Michigan and a Missouri ballot measure looking to take power away from voters. https://demdock.com/4btOgAz

📝 POP QUIZ: What is the presumption of regularity? The idea that courts should assume the government is acting in good faith. But the Trump administration so routinely violates that right, Marc Elias says. It’s due time judges operate from the assumption of bad faith. https://demdock.com/3S95i0d

The legacy media tells us that “career civil servants” are protecting our elections. But who do those civil servants work for? 🤔 “They work for Donald Trump’s administration,” Marc Elias says, “and Donald Trump wants to subvert the outcome of the election.” https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg

🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters defeated a GOP bid to limit their ability to amend the state constitution. The measure was the GOP's attempt to diminish the power of voters who’ve used citizen initiatives to expand Medicaid and protect abortion access.

Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution

Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure,…

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ICYMI: In a win for voters, a federal judge blocked Trump’s recent ban on nonpartisan groups helping newly naturalized citizens register to vote. The court found the ban was likely driven by intentional discrimination against new citizens. https://demdock.com/4xeEjiG

ICYMI: In a win for voters, a federal judge blocked Trump's recent ban on nonpartisan groups helping newly naturalized citizens register to vote — which has been a key avenue to boost voter turnout. The court found the ban was likely driven by intentional discrimination against new citizens.

Court blocks Trump ban on voter registration help for new citizens, finding likely intentional discrimination

Senior Trump administration officials have repeatedly portrayed immigrants' political participation as an electoral threat.

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🗣️ Say it louder for the people in the back: We need to give up on nostalgia for the past. Donald Trump has decimated the government in some profound, irreversible ways. The only way forward? Building something newer and better, Marc Elias says. Watch below👇 https://demdock.com/4w4O9mk

Trump’s DOJ has lost its 20th consecutive voter roll data grab — this time in Colorado. The judge found that unredacted state voter rolls aren’t records to which the department is entitled under federal law, echoing the conclusions of every other DOJ voter roll lawsuit. https://demdock.com/45Ej0vb

🚨BREAKING: Maryland lawmakers just sent a redistricting amendment to voters, clearing a major hurdle to fighting Trump-backed GOP gerrymanders. In November, Marylanders can open the door to a fairer fight for Congress ahead of 2028.

Maryland Democrats send redistricting amendment to voters

Maryland Democrats have said they cannot stand down while Republicans manipulate district lines to entrench their power in Congress.

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🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Republicans have sent two sweeping elections bills to Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, including one that cuts early voting and expands the ability to challenge lawful ballots. Stein has signaled he will veto it.

North Carolina Republicans send sweeping voting restrictions to governor’s desk

The bills will now be enrolled and sent to Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, who has signaled he is likely to veto at least one of them

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Nearly two dozen states asked SCOTUS to keep Trump’s anti-mail voting order blocked, saying it poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.” Under the EO, USPS would refuse to deliver ballots to states that do not hand over a list of voters who requested a mail ballot. https://demdock.com/3RwjJvf

Almost two dozen Democratic-led states asked the Supreme Court to keep Trump's anti-mail voting order blocked, saying it poses "extraordinary threats to our democracy." They warned millions of voters, especially those with disabilities and in rural areas, could be denied mail ballots this fall.

Blue states urge Supreme Court to uphold block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order

The states and D.C. said Trump's order poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.”

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NEW: Republican officials were set to vote on a plan to cut almost half of Election Day voting locations in Tarrant County, a major Texas battleground county. But all that changed when outraged voters who packed the meeting room demanded their voting locations remain open.

GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage

The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters

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NEW: The DOJ seized on New Jersey's recent registration glitch while asking SCOTUS to allow Trump's sweeping attack on mail voting to take effect before the upcoming midterms. The reference marks the latest example of the GOP aiming to exploit the error to advance its anti-voting agenda.

Urging Supreme Court to greenlight Trump’s mail voting order, DOJ seizes on New Jersey registration glitch

It’s just the latest example of Republicans exploiting the error to advance their anti-voting agenda.

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🚨BREAKING: In a loss for voters, Missouri's top election official blocked the citizen-led referendum on the GOP’s new congressional gerrymander from appearing on the ballot this fall. While the battle isn’t over, the move denies Missourians right to block the map from use in the midterms.

NEW: Hours after the DOJ was handed its 20th loss in its legal bid for states' unredacted voter data, a judge asked the department if there was any meaningful difference in its Washington case. The DOJ's answer: "No, your honor." But that didn't stop it from defending the lawsuit in court.

After 20 straight losses, Trump DOJ struggles to defend demand for Washington state voter rolls

The concession left DOJ asking the Washington court to reject a judicial consensus that now includes 20 district court rulings and one federal appellate decision — without identifying any distinct fac...

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NEW: A pro-voting group sued USCIS to find out how it's working to purge voters from the rolls per Trump's anti-voting executive orders. The lawsuit comes after the federal immigration agency failed to answer FOIA requests related to its role in creating a federal citizenship-based voter list.

Lawsuit seeks evidence of federal immigration agency’s role in Trump’s voter purge plans

Democracy Forward went to court after USCIS failed to disclose the public records, despite multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about the agency’s involvement in Trump’s unprecedented a...

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The GOP plans to cut Tarrant County's Election Day voting sites in half. One Democratic candidate for Texas House: a "voter suppressed, racially gerrymandered, poll cutting" county that sends letters to living people and declares them dead so they can't vote. The GOP can't win unless they cheat.

NEW: Voting rights advocates joined 23 blue states in urging SCOTUS to uphold a block on Trump's executive order attempting to restrict mail voting ahead of November's vote. They warned that lifting the block less than 100 days before the midterms would sow chaos and risk disenfranchising voters.

Voting advocates call on Supreme Court to uphold block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order

The group said lifting the block under 100 days before the midterms would sow chaos, risk disenfranchising voters and create administrative nightmares for election officials.

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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:

DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

BREAKING: Maryland Democrats voted 96-38 to pass a bill that would change the rules for lawmakers to draw the state's congressional map. If the measure is approved by the Senate and then voters, it could clear a path to dismantle the state's lone red district in time for the 2028 election.

Maryland Democrats clear first hurdle on path to redistricting

If the bill passes the Senate — and is then approved by voters in November — it would allow lawmakers to draw a new map to dismantle Maryland’s lone GOP-majority district ahead of the 2028 presidentia...

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NEW: The DOJ hit a significant milestone — its 20th loss out of 20 in its sweeping legal effort to access state voter rolls after a judge dismissed its case against Colorado. The court ruled the department did not provide a sufficient justification for needing the rolls, as required by federal law.

Trump DOJ now 0 for 20 after judge dismisses Colorado voter roll lawsuit ‘with prejudice’

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is zero for 20 in its lawsuits seeking to obtain state voter rolls, after a federal judge dismissed its case against Colorado Monday.

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NEW: Republicans said they were “concerned about the application of federal law in New Jersey" around voter registration and demanded the state provide election-related documents. The move follows the disclosure of a software glitch that accidentally registered noncitizens to vote in the state.

Republicans demand election documents in New Jersey as they continue to seize on bogus election fraud claims

In the latest of the cascade of probes following a software glitch that accidentally registered noncitizens to vote in the state, U.S. House Republicans sent a letter to Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell (D) dem...

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