I look forward to the next election, the freest and fairest of all time:
The Department of Justice has dropped nearly all voting rights cases it was pursuing.¹ The Civil Rights Division has lost 70 percent of its attorneys.² CISA terminated approximately 130 employees in initial cuts, including members of election security teams, and has since lost roughly one-third of its total workforce.³ The Federal Election Commission lacks a quorum and cannot enforce campaign finance law.4 In 14 states, the DOJ is now suing to obtain voter roll data, including Social Security numbers, for a citizenship verification database that no law authorized.5
This has already happened, all of it in 2025.
At the state level, 29 restrictive voting laws have passed in 16 states this year alone.6 Forty-one percent of local election administrators have turned over since 2020, the...
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| Can Trump revulsion and voter mobilization overcome voter suppression?
| In the aftermath of recent gains, Democrats are feeling hopeful about taking back at least one house of Congress next November. The gubernatorial blowouts in New Jersey and Virginia, and the 2025 special House elections, suggest a national wave next year.
The most recent case was a 13-point swing in favor of the Democrat in Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District last Tuesday, where Republican Matt Van Epps beat Democrat Aftyn Behn by nine points, compared to Trump carrying the district by 22 points over Kamala Harris. This performance, in an unusually high-turnout special election where Republican funders went all in, comes on top of a 23-point pro-Democrat swing in the special election in FL-01, 17 points in AZ-07, 16 points in FL-06, and 16 points in VA-11.
Gerrymandering may not prove to be so fearsome. In some states, such as Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, and New Hampshire, local Republicans are resisting Trump’s....
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