Donald Trump’s campaign strategist for his 2016 election win says: “I believe we will have a national emergency declared by late August,” ahead of the Congressional midterm elections due on November 3. “You will have enough evidence by mid-August to show that we have a massive problem” of election fraud, he tells me in an interview. Trump’s televised address to the nation on Thursday last week was the beginning of the process, he says.
The president declassified documents, which he claimed show “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” revealed by the 2020 election.
These had been hidden, even from him, by a “deep state” conspiracy of US intelligence services, he posited.
Trump demanded that the Congress pass a bill called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act. The bill stipulates that all voters produce a passport or birth certificate to be eligible to vote. Democrats denounce it as an effort at mass disenfranchisement. The Brennan Centre for Justice at New York University estimates that it could block 21 million Americans from the ballot box.
Under the US Constitution, it’s the states, not the federal government, that run elections. The SAVE Act would force state governments to hand voter roll information to Washington.
Trump sent his Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, out the following morning to issue a threat to state officials: they could face prison time unless they followed the administration’s orders to remove non-citizens from rolls.
I feel so sorry about the continuing decline of the USA political system to an actual autocratic fascist regime
Im done feeling sorry for Americans fucking this up so bad when the writing was in neon signs flashing in their faces.
Somebody explain to me how there’s rampant fraud but also the republicans took the house, senate, presidency, and the Supreme Court. That makes no sense.
The fraud is rampant. It’s called gerrymandering, closing polling locations, poll taxes (ID requirements that cost money), propaganda, voter intimidation, etc
Republicans are obsessed with voter fraud because they are the ones doing it and they can’t comprehend that everyone else wouldn’t be too. “I cheat all the time, how come I can never catch the other guys cheating?”
Tbf, the Democrats are gerrymandering too. You’re 100% correct about the rest though
No no no, NO! See, look, right, here goes, when the
Gang Of PaedosAngelic Republicans lose an election it’s because of the SHOCKING RAMPANT FRAUD. OK!!?!!However on the elections the GoodGuys™ win then it’s because of all their diligent and trustworthy behind the scenes hard work they do to ensure no SHOCKING RAMPANT FRAUD is going on.
But…but…but, unfortunately, those pesky tricksy demoncrats are in league with the devil and always find ways to do some SHOCKING RAMPANT FRAUD to sway the honest, free, fair elections that the Pure Innocent
NazisConservatives hold so dearly to their virginal and trustworthy hearts.Do you understand and are in agreement, or do I have to send ICE around to explain it to you personally? (In a free and fair and nonviolent manner, of course)
Because the election fraud benefits the Republicans. These actions are to ensure the frauds continue.
It doesn’t need to make sense… we’re far beyond this point. It needs to KEEP THEM IN POWER, this will totally suffice. Since no ones going to hold them accountable (ignoring court rulings is a habit) this should do as fig leaf.
The only national emergency is him raping kids. Bullshit cunt of a president. Even Joe Biden was better.
Biden was the first president since the 70s who tried to enforce antitrust laws, meaning going against megacorporations to reduce anti-competitive practices.
What the article isn’t saying is that Bannon himself is part of the plan, making sure everyone knows a national emergency is coming, getting in front of it. Bannon’s not talking about election insecurity out of concern: telling the media now is his part in making it happen. This asshole WANTS a third term and everything that goes with it, including ICE at polling stations:
Steve Bannon Doubles Down on Third Trump Term – Newsweek, April 2026
Also, it bears repeating: before you give this asshole too much credence it’s best to always keep in mind that Bannon was arguably Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend. So close were they that Epstein was on his way to meet Bannon the day he got arrested in 2019. His very last text was to Bannon as he was being detained at Teterboro Airport, telling Bannon their plans are “All canceled” now.
To quote one of Bannon’s texts to Epstein,
Everyone thinking there’s no way this will work is 100% the reason it inevitably will. Y’all keep believing in the system…
Also he’s 0 for 17 on suing states for their voter rolls.
Unfortunately, a lot of red states probably handed the voter rolls over willingly, without needing a lawsuit at all.
Red states gonna Red state.
Which is really strange, because the voter rolls are public information in every state of the Union. You can just buy them, and many political action groups do.
Well, it’s not actually about the voter rolls.
Also Trump famously doesn’t pay people.
Art of the Spiel
It only takes one.
This.
The states: “that’s cool, we’re gonna have our elections anyway”
It has to be some kind of mass psychosis at this point, the amount of faith Americans continue to have in systems that the fascists have systematically subverted and destroyed on their path.
“No no, I’m sure THIS TIME we’ll be okay”
Not when he sends ICE to shut them down
and half the states send their national guards to support ICE
how many ice’s you got tho?
you know, aside from the obvious TOO FUKEN MANY
A couple thousand ICE agents spread across 110,000 polling places in the US?
Good luck.
Doesn’t have to do them all. Democrats are super concentrated relative to Republicans. Here in Georgia, if ICE would shut down just Fulton county, they’d shift the state-wide margin by close to 10 percentage points, and that’s just 40 polling sites.
“Your honor, there were armed and masked men impersonating law enforcement and intimidating people at a polling place. I believed it was my patriotic duty to defend my community from what must have been terrorists.”
Judge: “Don’t care. Guilty. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to jail”
Too many people think our justice system cares at all about circumstances.
In Texas, individual precinct judges are granted extremely broad police power to ensure the proper decorum in and orderly operation of their polling places. And this power is independent of the county sheriff, the constables, and any local police department
I’m from just outside Atlanta originally, would be hilarious if Fulton just shut them the fuck down.
Hell a couple of well placed car crashes on 285 and 75/85 might keep ice stuck for weeks
Key swing states have been systematically limiting the number of voter locations and ending other means of voting like mail-in. Expect to see squads positioned around key Democratic cities within swing states. Also expect “emergency situations” like the threats to voting locations like last time. That strategy didn’t get nearly enough attention.
They have around 30,000, and will likely expand that rapidly before the election. They just have to slow stuff down and dissuade enough swing voters from showing up.
Don’t have to do them all. Just a few blue areas in a few swing states. Enough to invalidate the entire election.
So, his administration is still sticking with the story that china took information from millions of ballots, but didn’t change any votes. How exactly does showing your photo id protect from that? What are they doing to safeguard our polling data? Oh, right, nothing…not even a slap on the wrist for china because “that was a long time ago and they’re a different country now.” It’s all just going to be a bullshit excuse for what’s coming from him.
I think everyone has been mostly peaceful so far because we’re expecting the midterms to change things. If he fucks with the elections, it’s not going to remain peaceful and he’ll use that as an excuse to use the military on citizens and jail democrats.
It’s wild that this writing has been on the wall since at least before he was reelected, and it literally does not matter at all.
Bannon needs to finish drinking himself to death
But then who are we going to have from “their” side telling us what we all saw a year ago.
The number of noncitizens on the rolls is microscopic compared to the election results. Removing these votes does nothing to change the outcome.
Only by removing citizens under guise of checking the rolls can they hope to gain an upper hand. This is a conspiracy to steal the midterms.
Its the most obvious conspiracy ever too. But americans are dumbfoundingly moronic so they will probably just allow this to happen.
At this point I’m not even sure it’s stupid - I think it’s lazy.
I think 30 percent will allow it as long as their team wins. 30 percent will cover their heads and hope it goes away, and the majority of remaining folks feel overwhelmed or too helpless, or just don’t know what they can do as one person to make a difference. It’s the real heros that figure out how to enact positive change.
It’s both
It’s about chain of custody
If he can seize ballots then all bets are off
The Divided States of America. Only way forward.
Wild Wild West was a warning?
I’ve been calling it the Untied States
And he will be ignored. Too many are ready for that shit.
Can we just skip ahead to the part where the fascist takeover is complete. And then the fucks who said we were just fearmongering start using their new excuses for why ending democracy was necessary to protect the constitution. And then people move the goalposts and say it still isn’t a full nazi style dictatorship because there aren’t yet gas chambers…that we know of.
We need to end democracy to Protect the Kids!!! Also threat of China??? Ayy-Eye!!! Yet you live in fascist society anyways… 🤔 hmm very interesting…
I don’t do politics. Not my thing. If you just follow orders, I’m sure it’ll work out (for the right people) 😇 😇 😇
Didn’t some states experiment with gas chambers for executions already? It’s not unlikely they already exist in use in some official capacity today.
I definitely think some detainees have been secretly executed some way or another. Wonder when they will do it openly and how people will excuse it. I guess MAGA is already okay with police executing people for minor crimes without being convicted so it isn’t that much of a stretch for them to justify mass executions of people who haven’t been convicted of serious crimes
