Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar Joins House GOP to Pass Voter Suppression Bill

Doing President Donald Trump’s bidding, the Republican-controlled US House on Wednesday approved legislation that would potentially prevent millions of Americans from participating in federal elections by instituting draconian voter ID requirements, mandating documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, and requiring states to share voter information with the Department of Homeland…
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Trump Says He’ll Only Accept 2026 Midterms If He Deems Them “Honest”

In an interview with NBC News’s Tom Llamas on Wednesday, President Donald Trump indicated that it’s possible he won’t accept the outcome of the 2026 midterms. Asked whether he’d respect the results of the elections that will be held later this year, Trump said he would only do so if he deemed the outcomes to be legitimate. “I will [accept the midterm outcomes] if the elections are honest…
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Bannon Calls for ICE to Engage in Voter Intimidation During the Midterms

On February 3, as Donald Trump was doubling down on his push to “nationalize” elections, Steve Bannon, MAGA’s version of Rasputin, promised his War Room podcast audience that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be deployed to swarm polling places during the upcoming midterm elections. “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November…
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Trump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data

As the nation staggers toward the 2026 round of midterm elections, the threats to the integrity of U.S. democracy — already a veritable hailstorm of partisan contention — have escalated dramatically under the second Trump administration, attaining something like hurricane force. Owing to the fevered narratives proliferating across right-wing media, many have come to believe that the nation faces a…
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Leavitt Derides Reporters’ Concerns Over Trump’s Desire to Cancel Midterms

In an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, President Donald Trump signaled he was upset that congressional elections will be taking place later this year, as they could potentially disrupt his agenda in the second half of his term. In comments seeking to manage people’s expectations for the Republican Party in the midterms, Trump seemed to acknowledge a well-known pattern: that the party of…
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68 Cities, Counties, and States Will Increase Their Minimum Wage on January 1

The Trump administration is one of the most anti-labor administrations in modern U.S. history — it has attempted to decertify the union representation of more than 1 million federal employees. Trump has also fired key members of the National Labor Relations Board, thus rendering it largely non-functional. Moreover his administration has come out against rules requiring disabled workers all be paid…
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