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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC, Elias Law Group is fighting the Department of Justice’s sham lawsuit to preemptively block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if anyone other than the Republican incumbent wins. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ THREATENS Election Certification youtu.be/CszrRheo1V8?...

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, in new comments Thursday, did not rule out that the Department of Justice (DOJ) could try to prevent a state from certifying its election results — a process over which the federal government has no authority. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨 NEW: A bombshell 44-page Senate investigation obtained by MeidasTouch reveals how Trump is opening the floodgates to corporate megamergers, raising fears of higher prices, job losses, and media consolidation. @macfarlanenews.bsky.social reports.

Nearly 6 in 10 Americans think President Donald Trump has dictatorial ambitions and could destroy U.S. democracy, a new poll has found. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: Trump's case for a GOP candidate, 'I examined his ass,' is another example of his madness youtu.be/qgfq6_tdjFo?...

President Donald Trump has no legitimate grounds to order the seizure of ballots or voting machines during this year’s midterm elections. But the dismal reality is he may try anyway. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin SOUNDS ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram during nationwide protests. LEVIN: “We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.” “We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime.”

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🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump threatened California election officials with jail time hours after DOJ warned that they could face “criminal exposure” if they do not disenfranchise thousands of voters the federal government has flagged as potential noncitizens. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

My Latest: He hates that I won’t be intimidated. He hates that I speak out without fear. Most of all, he hates that I win. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

Can someone ask CBS News why Ted Koppel said that "Bannon's technically correct; they didn't have standing" in the 60+ cases Trump and his allies lost in 2020. This is verifiably false and is a GOP talking point. Many/most of the cases Trump lost were on the merits. Do they not fact check at CBS?

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The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/

Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a "serial child molester." He was a registered sex offender.

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It is clear that Democrats are set to sweep control of Congress in free and fair elections. It is also clear that Trump and the GOP are working to make sure the elections are not free and fair. I founded Democracy Docket to help you stay informed to fight back. demdock.com/4w6emld

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today: Total Active Cases: 204 Active Voting Rights Cases: 164 Active Redistricting Cases:  40 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 84 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 79 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 31 www.democracydocket.com

“On Thursday night, Trump stood before the Republican faithful, demanded they raise their right hand, and pledge to vote whether they are "registered or not." He then told them to: “cheat like hell." Support @democracydocket.com

“60 Minutes” — once a fearless national treasure — has been largely gutted. Over a year ago, I appeared on “60 Minutes” because I trusted the leaders of CBS to report the news with honesty and bravery. That will be my last appearance on the show. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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Doubt America has devolved into a dictatorship and a kleptocracy? Jared Kushner is not a govt official. He’s just the son in law of Trump. Where are the experts? Where are the professionals appointed and confirmed? What a disgrace . www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/w...

Thank you, Gloria Steinem. You are one of the giants whose shoulders we stand on. ❤️❤️❤️ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...

🚨 TEXAS: THEY’RE TRYING TO CLOSE 92 ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES Tarrant County officials are set to vote TODAY on cutting Election Day voting locations from 316 to 224, nearly 1 in 3 polling places gone. Civil rights groups warn the cuts could disproportionately burden Black, Latino & Asian voters

The Pentagon influencer scandal keeps getting bigger. More partisan online personalities. More government jobs. More taxpayer money. Who hired them, what are they being paid to do, and are military officers violating the UCMJ? This deserves answers.

I'm sure NBC will respond appropriately by either paying Trump $16 million or, at a minimum, buying a table at the next fancy dinner honoring him.

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Here is Trump's progression: Fake polls➡️Fake voters➡️Fake results➡️Fake winners🟰Real suppression, real lies, real subversion and real violence.

Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.

NEW EPISODE: In a major win for free and fair elections, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing key parts of Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order. In this episode, I break down this critical ruling and how it will impact the midterm elections. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V7T...

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: TWO Australian Scientists, Stacey Edwards & Juliet French, Have Discovered Cancer-Fighting RNA Molecules That Could Lead to a New Generation of Breast Cancer Treatments

They are just reaching for anything they can to punish women.

“Sandwich guy case” “Harvard clawed frog embryo smuggling case” “Olympic canoeist reflecting pool vandalism case” “James Comey seashells Instagram post case” New rule: If the case sounds like a Mad Libs story, it’s probably about to implode.

When the full story of this is told, I suspect some lawyer or group of lawyers in the US Attorney's Office feared for their bar licenses and forced the dismissal and disclosure. trump, of course, doesn't care about anyone but himself, so he continues his lies.

Can someone explain how Axios could publish this and not note that DOJ has lost 18 of these cases and not won a single one? 0-18 is smart brevity.

Even by GOP standards, this is nuts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The legacy media is reconsidering the White House Correspondence dinner because Trump insulted them. What they don't get is that they insulted their viewers and readers by attending in the first place. Support independent media that doesn't suck up to Trump whether he is nice to them or not.

I feel like some White House reporter needs to ask Trump about the fact that his DOJ has lost 16 straight cases to access state voter rolls and that in 7 of the cases it was before judges he nominated. Oh and point out that I am still not tired of winning.

Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

The Airbnb-style company Swimply said there have been about 275,000 private pool reservations so far this year.

“I study World Cup penalty shoot-outs: they say a lot about the psychology of performance under pressure” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Trump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

Well, I gotta admit it was worth the wait for that curtain to be removed.