It is my impression that there are a number of politicos out there who don’t want us to bring up the topic of election security because they are afraid it will cause people to not vote because the thinking is, they will believe the election would already be lost if they heard Trump may try to rig it. I’m sympathetic, but it needs to be talked about anyway.
I really doubt it will suppress voters to discuss real issues in a realistic manner. No one is saying don’t bother to vote. It’s simply about being realistic about what Donald Trump’s limits are, which we haven’t seen any yet.
And people are concerned. At our caucus this year the topic of what are we doing to keep our elections secure came up. In response to those expressed concerns, a statement was made, “it’s not that easy to rig elections because the states are in charge.. we’ll be ready with lots of poll watchers” or words to that effect.
True, states are in charge of elections according to the Constitution but Donald (aka The felon in the White House) has a plan for that! And we all have seen how much TFIWH and his Republican enablers adhere to the Constitution when it doesn’t suit their purposes. Not to mention, Iowa has a Republican trifecta that simply can’t be trusted, to put it bluntly.
Also, one can only assume it wasn’t that easy to, for example, get people to storm the capitol on January 6, 2020 and a host of other terrible, horrible blows that have been visited upon democracy under the Trump regime – but they tried. And when they fail they try again and again. So let’s not freak out about it but neither should we be in denial about what they are capable of trying, and realize how close they came to getting away with supremely crazy stuff like the fake elector scheme, one of my personal favorites.
Mark Elias – whose law firm has won over sixty court cases fighting the Trump administration on election law – makes his case to the public in this video below that there is one fear driving Trump’s behavior, and we need to be very concerned about what he is up to, because we will need to be ready to fight back. I think it goes without saying, Marc Elias knows what he’s talking about and he says this about Donald Trump:
“What he really fears is that in November we are going to vote Republicans in congress out of power.” – Marc Elias
“If you want to understand American politics in 2026 you can never forget that almost every event is explainable at least in part by Donald Trump’s insatiable appetite for power. He wants to be an authoritarian. He wants to be a dictator. And that the greatest threat to that, the greatest threat to his power is you and me. That’s right, the voter.
What he really fears is that in a few months, this November, we’re going to vote Republicans out of power in congress. Because whatever you may think about the Democrats or any particular elected official we know one thing. The Republican congress are just his enablers. The Republican congress are just his doormat. They will do whatever Donald Trump tells them to do.
What really motivates him is election denialism and the twin manifestations of it, voter suppression and election subversion – that’s what drives decision making in this White House.
And once you start looking for signs of it, you see it everywhere.
At 2:30 am on Saturday morning, Donald Trump did a video on Truth Social to announce the bombing of Iran. As crazy as that was that he announced a war on Truth Social in the middle of the night, it’s even crazier that two hours later he wrote, “Iran tried to interfere in the 2020 and 2024 elections to stop [Trump] and now faces renewed war with the United States.” That’s right. The very next social media post, back to back.
The one announcing the war was him tying a connection between this alleged interference in 2020 and 2024 and the war that he had just launched.
These two posts tell you everything you need to know about where Donald Trump is going for the next eight months.”
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00:00 The 2026 Election Power Grab
01:09 Trump’s Election Strategy and Fear of Voters
04:41 Iran, Foreign Interference Claims, and National Security
09:05 Executive Orders and Control Over Voting
11:24 DOJ’s Push for Sensitive Voter Data
16:38 Media Silence and Institutional Failure
18:06 AI, Surveillance, and the Anthropic Clash
21:54 Connecting the Dots to 2026
26:12 What You Can Do to Fight Back
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