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Whistleblower Claims Fed Agents ‘Likely’ Broke State Laws in Pursuit of Trump’s Conspiracy Theories (opens the original)
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Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Democrats released another damning whistleblower disclosure this week. This one alleges some disturbing, and potentially illegal, activity from the Department of Homeland Security’s ongoing effort to access state voter rolls as part of the Trump administration’s relentless campaign to unearth proof of President Trump’s conspiracy theories about noncitizens voters. On Monday, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) released an anonymous 30-page
Supreme Court Gets Involved in Trump Admin’s Relentless Crusade to Purge Voter Rolls (opens the original)
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Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Despite the fact that the U.S. has entered the “quiet period” — the 90 day window before an election during which state election officials are federally barred from “systematically” removing people from voter rolls — the Trump administration is going full steam ahead in its crusade to control election administration and try to purge voters from the voter rolls. This week, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to allow it to continue its expanded
Dems Demand Investigations After USPS Whistleblower Report: ‘Unconstitutional Power Grab’ (opens the original)
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Democrats are sounding the alarm and demanding investigations in the wake of a recent whistleblower complaint released by the office of Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) earlier this week. The report warns that the Postal Service’s new mail-in ballot policies that are being implemented to comply with President Trump’s March executive order to restrict mail-in voting, were made hastily and have been through very little testing. The whistleblower’s report, which my colleague John Light unpacks in dep
Dem Guvs Renew Vow to Fight for States’ Right to Administer Their Elections in Wake Of SCOTUS Mail-in Voting Decision (opens the original)
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Hello, and happy Thursday! Welcome back to The Franchise. On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in an unsigned order, with the conservative majority allowing the Trump administration, at least for now, to move forward with implementing rules to help carry out Trump’s March executive order. The order called for the creation of citizenship lists to control who can vote, and for the U.S. Postal Service to get heavily involved in policing who can receive a mail ballot. A g
California’s Dem Senators Write to SoS Expressing ‘Grave Concerns’ About Tina Peters (opens the original)
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Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Election officials in Shasta County — a deep red California county that has been plagued by election denialism and election conspiracy theories since the aftermath of the 2020 election — have decided that it would be a really terrific idea to hire election denier and recently-released-from-prison ex-elections administrator Tina Peters as an … elections consultant. Just to jog your memory briefly, Peters is the former Mesa County, Colorado elections admin
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