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“My time is short here, so I can’t get into the details, but let me tell you that these machines are capable of changing the vote,” election denier Peter Ticktin said.
After her disastrous hearings before Congress this week, President Trump announced that he would replace Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem with Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R) at the end of the month.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is publicly offering to abandon his U.S. Senate campaign if Senate Republicans agree to change the filibuster rules and pass the SAVE America Act, a sweeping anti-voting bill.
As the MAGA base fractures over the decision to attack Iran, GOP Senators excoriate some cabinet officials in hearings, and House Republicans subpoena others, Trump and his allies appear increasingly desperate to pass the SAVE America Act.
Despite weeks of confusion caused by the GOP’s attempts to block the vote, Virginians will head to the polls Friday for the first day of early voting on a redistricting referendum. If passed, it could send a blue wave through the state.
“Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, but right now they are under threat,” Obama said.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled, for the second time, that voters can decide whether the state can redraw its congressional map — clearing the way for a referendum that, if successful, could help counter GOP gerrymanders nationwide.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about her role in the Justice Department’s incomplete release of its files on convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Baffled Texans in two counties struggled to find their polling locations for primary voting Tuesday after a GOP-driven change. The secretary of state’s office failed to provide accurate information. Texas’ Republican attorney general sued to oppose extended voting hours for those confused voters. And the GOP-controlled state Supreme Court quickly ruled in its favor.
Idaho — a deeply Republican state — has become the latest to refuse the Trump Justice Department’s demand for unredacted statewide voter rolls.
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