Democracy Docket

📬 CONFIRMED: In a win for voters, USPS is following a pair of court orders blocking it from implementing Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order.

That order directed the Postal Service to only deliver mail ballots if states handed over a list of preapproved voters.

USPS says it’s not implementing Trump’s anti-mail voting order, for now

“The Postal Service is abiding by these injunctions, which are also currently under appeal."

⚠️ The RNC filed its eighth lawsuit seeking to block certain U.S. citizens living abroad from voting.

The GOP’s anti-overseas voter campaign is now a state-by-state legal strategy aimed at suppressing voting access for Americans abroad.

RNC sues New Jersey in eighth lawsuit targeting overseas voters

It is the eighth overseas voter lawsuit the RNC has filed in recent months, following similar cases in Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, Virginia, Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada.

📬 USPS is rushing to carry out Trump’s wishes on restricting mail voting, which could disrupt mail voting and hand the Trump administration private voter information.

Here’s how we can fight back: https://bit.ly/3SPmUhD

🤔 DID YOU KNOW? Texas made the same clerical error as New Jersey with noncitizens — but the two instances are being treated very differently.

“Have you heard the Department of Justice condemn Texas?” Marc Elias asks.

If you’re sick of the hypocrisy, join our fight: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg

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BREAKING: In a win for Pennsylvania voters, a federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s lawsuit for access to the state’s unredacted voter rolls.

The department is now 0-10 in its sweeping legal effort seeking private voter data.

‼️ North Carolina GOP officials are pressuring local election boards to reject early voting sites on college campuses before the midterms.

It’s not the only way they’re working to restrict early voting for the November elections. https://bit.ly/4aycTvo

Trump justified his complete dismissal of the Election Assistance Commission by asserting his presidential power.

But that’s not the only reason, Marc Elias says.

“[Trump] doesn’t like there to be true experts who are willing to tell the truth to the American public.”

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🚨BREAKING: A Bush-appointed federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking access to West Virginia's unredacted voter registration list.

The department is now 0-13 in its sweeping legal hunt for states' private voter data.

NEW: 25 states and D.C. are suing FEMA and DHS for allegedly withholding billions in disaster funds in an attempt to coerce states into implementing Trump's anti-voting policies.

The aid is meant to provide a vast range of disaster services, from mitigating earthquakes to managing wildfires.

States sue Trump admin for withholding $148M in disaster aid over ‘unlawful' election demands

While many red states have raced to enact President Donald Trump's policy goals -- even ones that have been blocked by the courts -- blue states have persistently refused.

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court revived USPS’ ability to move forward with Trump’s anti-mail voting rule.

The rule would mandate new federal checks before mail ballots are sent to voters

Appeals court allows USPS to move forward with Trump’s anti-mail voting order, for now

Voting rights advocates have warned that Trump’s rule could allow USPS to refuse to deliver ballots to eligible voters if they are not on approved lists or if states fail to comply with new federal…

Our current Supreme Court was installed for the purpose of turning the clock back on our rights as Americans, @hillaryclinton.bsky.social says.

“It’s shocking when they stand up to [Trump] on anything.”

Help us stand up to Trump – even when SCOTUS won't: https://bit.ly/4qskS3m

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BREAKING: In a huge win for voters across the country, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold grace periods for mail ballots.

States CAN count ballots postmarked by Election Day but received after Election Day.

BREAKING: In a huge win for voters, a federal court granted the NAACP's request to halt the USPS implementation of Trump's executive order targeting mail voting.

The order, which covers the entire nation, comes after a judge blocked the implementation in 23 blue states just last week.

Court blocks USPS from implementing Trump’s anti-mail voting order

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan dismissed USPS’s arguments to the contrary as “without merit.”

Trump’s DOJ is sending election monitors to 15 jurisdictions in six states during the 2026 primaries.

The program appears to be an effort to obtain information to justify conspiracy theories about election irregularities – a radical departure from past monitoring efforts. https://bit.ly/4vokFj1

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denounced SCOTUS for allowing Trump to shape the federal government through arbitrary dismissals.

“Put simply, today the majority reshapes our Government,” Sotomayor wrote. https://bit.ly/3SrtZF8

In a major attack on elections, President Trump fired all remaining commissioners on a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections.

The dismissals leave the agency without leadership months before the midterm elections.

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HAPPENING NOW: Trump is addressing the nation with what he's calling "really big news" on elections. The reality?

He's spent nearly six years pushing false claims about 2020 that have been debunked by his own administration, election officials and courts.

We're fact-checking him LIVE below👇

A Democratic majority in Congress and the White House won’t be enough to bring progressive change, @briantylercohen.bsky.social says.

“There is no world in which this Supreme Court … is not going to upend any progressive legislation the second they get their hands on it.” https://bit.ly/4qskS3m

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Only about half of Americans have a U.S. passport. And for Black Americans, those rates are even lower.

“That is not a flaw from Donald Trump’s standpoint,” Marc Elias says. “That is a feature.”

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BREAKING: A federal court denied the Trump administration's request to reopen access to a DHS database created to purge noncitizens from the rolls.

The decision comes one day after another judge ordered DHS to give four red states access to the system again.

Why are some mail-in ballots received after Election Day despite being postmarked before Election Day?

“Will it shock you to learn,” Marc Elias asks, “that the same postmaster general who wants to cooperate with Donald Trump … that under his tenure, election mail is moving slower and slower?”

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NEW: Justice Sonia Sotomayor denounced SCOTUS for granting Trump power “over broad swaths of American life” by upholding his arbitrary dismissal of the last Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission.

“The result is a President who emerges with far greater power than ever before,” she wrote.

Sotomayor: Supreme Court just gave Trump ‘far greater power than ever before’

"The one thing that does appear to be clear going forward is that chaos will follow," Sotomayor warned.

Why does Trump want to create a national voter registration list?

“This effort to create a national voter file that Donald Trump controls is an effort to mass disenfranchise people through paperwork.”

Don’t let him get away with it. Join our fight for fair elections: https://bit.ly/4qskS3m

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📹 WATCH: ICE agents were caught on camera confronting a poll worker at a voting site in New York.

The alarming incident comes as prominent far-right figures have called for ICE agents to be deployed to polling places in the midterms — a clear effort to intimidate voters. https://bit.ly/4g1YPOj

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