Paul Blumenthal

Ok the only time I've ever heard of this happening was at wonderland in like 2006.

depraved behavior

A message on election interference: Don't be scared. www.youtube.com/watch?is=69u...

NEW: We asked readers if they've been drowning in political texts, calls, mailers and TV ads, and to share pics of what they're getting. Hooo boy, did we get responses! Some fumed its been "harassment." Some won't donate to Dem campaigns ever again. www.huffpost.com/entry/voters...

Impatient Federal Government Asks Ninth Circuit to Rule in California Ballot Case by Saturday; Ninth Circuit Orders Responses to Be Filed by that Time [Corrected headline] electionlawblog.org/2026/impatie...

“The law and the courts are on voters’ side. It’s Illegal to deploy federal troops or armed federal agents at any polling location as it’s been since the Civil War.” - LDF lawyer John Cusick www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

My take at Cato on why DOJ's lawsuit against Alaska is borderline frivolous, abusive, contemptuous of federalism and more. "In the aftermath of the 2020 election, courts made clear that they would not allow meritless litigation to steal an election. They may soon have to make that clear again."

NEW: Popok is joined for a special "voter protection" briefing by HuffPo's own Paul Blumenthal to discuss what he found in his new article, "Donald Trump is Learning the Hard Way that He Can't Steal This Election"

#ELB: “Why Reported Challenges With Touchscreen Voting Machines Don’t Signal Election Rigging” https://electionlawblog.org/2026/why-reported-challenges-with-touchscreen-voting-machines-dont-signal-election-rigging/

NEW from me: Democrats could win in November. And if they do, and they take on the Trump administration’s vast corruption as promised, they will be squaring off with a wildly obstructionist Justice Department. So how can they outsmart the cronies at DoJ? I take a look for @huffpost.com.

DOJ plays no role in the certification process so the question is a non sequitur as is the answer.

A reminder: “My only concern is that we forget that we’re in charge. These elections are for us, not for him.” www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

NEW from me: Beth Fuller was a 10-year CDC contractor when she was DOGE'd last year by Trump + Elon Musk, a mass layoff process cheered by the GOP. Now she's a candidate in a key swing district that could end the GOP’s decades-long grip on total power in Georgia. www.huffpost.com/entry/beth-f...

North Carolina’s Democratic governor warns that the absentee ballot rejection rate is twice as high as in 2022 thanks to last-minute changes by Republicans. He recommends voting in person if you can (early voting is even better!) wcti12.com/news/local/g...

When campaign promises become evidence in a future court case.

the thing about NY is that a random person on the subway may very well be the funniest person you've ever met.

Anyone out there in the field or reading early vote data know if there's anything to the anecdotes that Dems are voting differently (dropping off, not mailing, voting early in person) than 2020-2024?

Donald Trump's closing midterm message:

Truth is irrelevant. They just needed a nice scarry round number to feed to the MAG base ... "The justice department’s list of suspected non-citizens in California includes a “high percentage” of people born in the United States, Los Angeles election officials said on Tuesday."

LOL. Texas Republicans accidentally gerrymandered this district to make it more favorable for Cuellar and then Trump pardoned him. Couldn't have fucked this one up more.

I have reached out to both Husted and Moreno for comment and received nothing back.

Not just Susan Collins www.propublica.org/article/nava...

"Everyone who knows her best ― her former boss, her former state colleagues, her fellow physicians, and now her own mother ― are clearly warning Ohioans not to vote for her" -- Ramaswamy spox Whether they made the ad, they are embracing it.

We are already firmly in House is lost for GOP territory. So now we're seeing the map expand quickly.

Probably one of the ugliest episodes in recent elections www.huffpost.com/entry/amy-ac...

This is nuts. A government make-work program for GOP influencers

It is funny when one of the fascists realizes ”wait this is all simulacra guys chill out”

DOJ has filed for a TRO in the CA case to require certain ballots they say are from non-citizens be segregated electionlawblog.org/wp-content/u... This should go nowhere. They have no legal or statutory authority to demand this, its lists of non-citizens are known to be bunk and the timing is sus.

This is obviously turning into a media fueled moral panic. Are there instances where I've heard about people going no contact that make me kind of roll my eyes? Yes, but it's not my life. Do I also know people whose parents are mental and I totally get going no contact? Yes.

The sport where players actively risk killing themselves so they don't miss a game.

Social media undefeated in getting people to reveal themselves

The Zacharia situation just shows that this administration is truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. It's a preview of the next two years. Who wants to board the Titanic when you could be on a presidential campaign?

This Zacharia thing is like a good first term Trump storyline.

It was so powerful she can just retire now

Dan is right, although I'd say it's already dead. Wrote this last year: www.huffpost.com/entry/citize...

The raid of Ilhan Omar's home is a tyrannical escalation of Trump's birtherist policy agenda www.huffpost.com/entry/ilhan-...