Setting the record straight:
Trump *cannot* cancel the 2026 midterms – but he *can* try to rig them.

Here’s how Trump and Republicans are trying to do it right now. ⬇️

https://x.com/MaxFlugrath/status/1981760800382726603

In July, I wrote about Trump + White House officials pressuring GOP states to gerrymander congressional maps.

It started in Texas – now it’s spread. Some states passed maps (NC, MO), others are under pressure (NH, NE, IN).

They want to weaken our votes.

https://x.com/MaxFlugrath/status/1947375379309859259

NEW: Trump’s team is plotting to declare a fake national emergency to hijack elections.

One top operative says they can “take steps without Congress” and “mandate" election rules for states.

@NYTimes' investigation exposes the operatives and the takeover already underway. ⬇️
Heather Honey (Trump DHS appointee) floated using national emergency powers to mandate election rules for states as early as March.

Honey is part of the Election Integrity Network, a group that spreads disinformation, pressures election officials & pushes to rig election rules.

NEW: Tomorrow the Supreme Court will rehear a case that could let the GOP grab 19 new, safe U.S. House seats by gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

I wrote for @Slate about how the far-right justices seem ready to help Republicans lock in one party rule for decades. ⬇️
After a court found Louisiana’s congressional map violated the VRA by weakening Black voters’ power, the GOP legislature was ordered to draw a 2nd majority-Black district.

When they fixed the map, non-Black voters sued, saying fixing the discrimination was itself discrimination.

NEW: Next week, the Supreme Court will re-hear a case that could allow Republicans to create 19 new safe U.S. House seats by gutting what’s left of the Voting Rights Act.

The far-right majority may finally be ready to finish the VRA off.

Here’s what’s at stake. ⬇️ This all started in 2022 when a court found Louisiana’s congressional map violated the VRA by weakening Black voting power.

The court ordered a fix: draw a second majority-Black district.

The GOP legislature complied – then was sued by non-Black voters. lailluminator.com/2025/08/06/how…

NEW: Today, the Republican Party is pushing a judge to jail Fulton County commissioners.

Why? They refuse to vote to appoint two far-right election denial activists to the Fulton County Election Board who have a history of undermining elections.

Here's what they had to say. ⬇️ Fulton County Commissioner @TheDanaBarrett:

When I ran for a seat on the county commission I never thought I’d be facing jail time for doing my job – but here we are. Elections are under attack all across this country.

BREAKING: Fulton County Commissioners face potential arrest over GOP push to install widely regarded conspiracy theorists on Board of Elections.

The nominees, Julie Adams & Jason Frazier, are known operatives in Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” network. ⬇️ Adams (a board member seeking re-appointment) and Frazier are backed by the RNC + Georgia GOP.

Between them, they’ve refused to certify elections, sued the Fulton Election Board and led efforts to purge voters.

Today, the Fulton County Commission deadlocked 2–2.

Background. ⬇️

🚨NEW: Russia-style takeover of elections?

Trump just announced a new executive order – he wants to use federal power to control elections.

This is a dangerous power grab and part of Republicans’ plan to rig 2026. ⬇️ Here’s what Trump says about the coming executive order:
–Eliminates mail voting
–Bans drop boxes
–Restricts absentee voting
–Strips states of authority to run elections

This puts elections under federal control – opposing the Constitution, which says states run elections.

Should voting be a limited privilege?

In America, it’s supposed to be a right.

But that’s not what the Supreme Court seems to think.

Their next ruling could empower states to block millions of Americans from voting. ⬇️ For generations, courts have been a place Americans can go to block discriminatory voting laws and maps.

But, as @AllegraLawHardy + @JoyceWhiteVance write, the Supreme Court has dismantled the Voting Rights Act – and now may make it harder to even access the courts at all.

12 Black educators and organizers were arrested in a rural South Georgia town.

Their crime? Helping neighbors vote.

This is the story of the Quitman 10+2 and the voter suppression playbook it inspired. ⬇️ In 2009, three Black women organized to flip seats on a white-majority school board in deeply segregated Brooks County, GA.

It was a quiet revolution – powered by mail ballots.

Their school board race wins should have been celebrated. Instead, they triggered a crackdown.

🚨Trump is trying to hijack the nonpartisan Election Assistance Commission to advance his voter suppression agenda.

Election denier activists are flooding the commission with comments in support.

Join us in fighting back – we can’t let them win. ⬇️ This is part of Trump’s plot to illegally control our elections through his Executive Order.

The SAVE Act passed the House and faces an uphill climb in the Senate – so he’s using the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to move forward.

More on the EO:

https://x.com/MaxFlugrath/status/1904697847892652145

Margaritas and “gang tattoos” – photo ops gone off the rails.

Authoritarian regimes use propaganda to distract from the truth.

Stalin did it. Mussolini did it. Trump’s doing it now.

Here’s how they game reality. ⬇️ Authoritarians want to look strong and in control.

So they stage photos, falsify images, and use media to mislead the public.

Bukele's people staged the margaritas to make it look like a casual hang out.

But no one drank them. It was a photo op.

https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1913330203822014719

What if I told you the real driver of MAGA’s plot to rig future elections isn’t Trump?

It’s a fringe lawyer you’ve never heard of.

But her blueprint is taking shape – and it could block millions of Americans from voting.

BIG story you may have missed this week. ⬇️ Cleta Mitchell helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 election – and she hasn’t stopped.

Now, she’s behind the SAVE Act, a bill that could block millions from registering to vote.

She even got a personal thank you from the bill’s sponsor when the House passed it last week.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. House just passed the SAVE Act – a new MAGA voter suppression bill backed by Trump and his allies.

It’s not about protecting elections. It’s designed to save MAGA politicians from accountability at the ballot box.

Here’s what you need to know. ⬇️ Fair Fight Action CEO @GWLauren said it best:

"Let’s call this what it is: a desperate attempt by Trump and his MAGA allies to rig the rules, block millions from voting, and dodge accountability at the ballot box – it should be called the Save MAGA Politicians Act."

90 minutes. That's how long Trump rambled last night at the glitzy $35 million GOP dinner.

Most of it was the usual: lies, grievances, and weird love for tariffs.

But one line stood out – and it may reveal his real 2025 plan. ⬇️ Trump last night: "We're gonna get good elections pretty soon. There's a lot of clamor for it...the states are just an agent of the federal government."

That's wrong. The Constitution is clear: Congress and the states run elections. Not the president.

What do @CoryBooker's 25-hour protest speech, wins in Wisconsin and Louisiana, and 1,100+ rallies today have in common?

They’re all part of a growing movement to stop Trump & Elon Musk's attack on democracy.

It’s working – and it needs you. ⬇️ The last person to speak this long in the Senate was Strom Thurmond, a segregationist filibustering civil rights.

This time, it was different.

Booker stood for 25+ hours without food or water to protest Trump and Musk's attack on freedom and the rule of law.

“In four years, you don’t have to vote again.”

Trump said that last year - and it sounded like a punchline.

Now he’s trying to rewrite election law. And says he’s “not joking” about a third term. ⬇️ Last week, Trump signed an executive order that reads like a MAGA fever dream:

– Requires citizenship docs to register to vote
– Lets Musk’s DOGE access state voter rolls
– Threatens military & overseas ballots

It’s likely illegal, and designed to create chaos + silence you.

🚨 Trump’s DOJ just killed a voting rights case (brought under the Biden admin) that challenged Georgia’s anti-voter law, SB 202.

It’s a clear move to gut democracy, exactly what Project 2025 was written to do.

Here’s what you need to know. ⬇️ SB 202 was the GOP’s revenge after Trump lost Georgia in 2020. It cut drop boxes in Black communities, hiked absentee ballot rejections & created ID barriers.

Despite GOP spin, the data is clear: SB 202 made it harder for Georgians to vote. ajc.com/politics/georg…

NEW: What if I told you Trump's new executive order could rig elections and give Elon Musk power over who gets to vote?

This isn’t your typical MAGA voter suppression. It’s a blueprint for authoritarian control.

Here's what's in it. ⬇️ The MAGA fever dream executive order requires government-issued, documentary proof of citizenship to use the federal voter registration form — even though only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections and already swear to it on the form, under penalty of perjury.

There’s so much chaos coming from the Trump administration — but don’t miss this: Georgia Republicans just dropped a new voter suppression agenda.

They want to end early voting, kill the vote-by-mail system, and make it harder to register to vote.

Big fight ahead. ⬇️ Last night, the Georgia Republican Party announced their voter suppression legislative agenda with a slew of priorities that would make it harder for Georgians to vote.

You've heard a lot about Trump's freeze on federal funding this week.

What you may not have heard — it included an assault on election independence that's straight out of Project 2025.

The courts blocked it (for now), but the threat is far from over. ⬇️ Trump’s freeze on federal funding included $55 million in Election Security Grants.

The grants, sent to every state, help modernize voting systems and defend against cyberattacks.

Without them, our elections are more vulnerable to foreign interference.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

🚨Trump will use the Justice Department to hunt for evidence of nonexistent 2020 election fraud and fire prosecutors who worked his criminal cases.

Trump's DOJ agenda isn't about justice — it’s about revenge and dismantling our democracy.

Here's why you should care. ⬇️ Trump’s weaponization of the DOJ would set a dangerous precedent.

He plans to use the DOJ to investigate political enemies and fabricate fraud claims.

This isn’t about election independence — it’s about silencing dissent and consolidating power. wapo.st/3YUkH3W