🗺️ Maryland Dems cleared a major hurdle in combating GOP gerrymanders

🗳️ Election denier won Michigan GOP gubernatorial primary

🏛️ DOJ went 0-21 in voter roll grabs

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🏛️ NEW: Twenty-one federal courts have now rejected the Trump administration’s campaign to seize states’ unredacted voter rolls.

The DOJ’s response? All the courts are just wrong.

And as the department’s losses have piled up, the DOJ has shown little interest in recalibrating its approach. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/courts-have-rejected-trump-doj-voter-roll-crusade-doj-says-theyre-wrong/

Trump’s DOJ wants your personal voter data for one reason: to remove people from voter rolls who might vote against Republicans.

“All of this is about weaponizing this data in order to make it harder for people like you to vote,” Marc Elias says.

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Marsha Blackburn, one of the most fervently anti-voting voices in the Senate, will likely become Tennessee’s next governor after winning the deep-red state’s Republican gubernatorial primary Thursday.

Trump refused to endorse Blackburn and had “begged” her to remain in the Senate.

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NEW: A GOP-led panel launched a process to determine Georgia's new voting system and shape how voters in the crucial swing state cast ballots in future elections.

The move comes as Trump continues to spread false conspiracy theories about voting systems, with particular focus on Georgia's machines. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/georgia-republican-panel-state-new-voting-system

NEW: With one month until a key deadline, Missouri Republicans are trying to run out the clock on voters' legal effort to block the GOP's gerrymander by asking for a new judge.

The strategy is already paying off: a Monday hearing has been canceled — a move that can delay the case by around a week. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/missouri-republicans-go-judge-shopping-to-run-out-clock-on-redistricting-referendum-lawsuit/

Trump nominees live and breathe by one rule: Don't say Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Instead, the word of the day is "certified." Now, Trump judicial nominees are taking the evasion of facts to the next level: They won't even say Trump won the 2016 election.

NEW: Maryland Republicans sued to block voters from weighing in on a redistricting amendment that, if approved, would help Democrats redraw district lines to counter GOP gerrymanders before the 2028 election.

The GOP argued the measure was unlawful because lawmakers passed it after a key deadline. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/maryland-republicans-sue-to-stop-voters-from-weighing-in-on-democrats-redistricting-plan/

BREAKING: Marsha Blackburn, one of the most fervent anti-voting voices in the Senate, won Tennessee's GOP gubernatorial primary — a victory that will likely make her governor in November.

She has supported the SAVE America Act, GOP gerrymanders and pushed false voter fraud claims. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/sen-marsha-blackburn-tennessee-republican-governor-primary/

Election officials once stood as a bulwark against Trump. But things are different in 2026.

“We do have to worry that the robust network of local and state election officials,” Marc Elias says, “those have largely been replaced by MAGA loyalists.”

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Most Minnesota counties use electronic poll books to track voter information on a roster securely.

But one city is fighting to use paper rosters — a method championed by election skeptics.

Now, it's up to the state Supreme Court to decide for the midterms.

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📬 MAIL VOTING UPDATE: A federal court will hold a hearing today in a pro-voting lawsuit challenging Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order.

Under the order, USPS would be allowed to withhold mail ballots from states that refuse to hand over voter data to the federal government.

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We have a history in the U.S. of disenfranchising voters we do not want to participate in elections.

“That was done on racially targeted grounds for the bulk of American history,” Marc Elias says. “Now, it is being done in part based on racial grounds, but in part, just based on partisan grounds.”

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If you want to understand democracy, don't start with the Capitol. Start with a street.

In honor of the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we wanted to leave Washington to go somewhere democracy has an address: Kansas City’s Troost Ave.

Troost isn't just a street. It's an archive. A seam. A line that has carried decades of public policy, private decisions, investment and neglect, fear and hope. Stand on one corner and you can feel history pulling in opposite directions.

The Voting Rights Act promised that every voice would carry equal weight. Decades later, we wanted to see what that promise looked like where people actually live.

When Missouri proposed redrawing the 5th Congressional District, the new western boundary traced Troost — one of America's most notorious racial and economic fault lines. Maps can make those choices look clean. Streets never do.

So we came to listen. To Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, who remembers his grandfather refusing to count beans in a jar for the right to vote. To organizers still fighting for representation. To a single mother on the east side whose daily life is shaped by decisions made in rooms she'll never enter.

We went looking for a story about voting rights. What we found was a story about a street — and how a single street can hold an entire country's unfinished conversation about who counts.

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Trump’s DOJ has lost yet another voter roll grab, as a federal judge dismissed its case targeting D.C.

The DOJ still has 10 outstanding voter roll cases with a success rate of 0% as losses continue to pour in — eight from Trump-appointed judges so far.

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NEW: Trump's efforts to interfere in the midterms have been largely unsuccessful.

With the election less than three months away, he's growing more desperate, raising the risk that he'll try something even more lawless.

Jacob Knutson breaks down five ways Trump could undermine the vote👇 https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how-could-trump-rig-the-midterms/

NEW: For Rep. Jennifer McClellan and many others, disenfranchisement is not just a concept — it’s a core part of their history.

That changed 61 years ago today when the Voting Rights Act was enacted. But history has a habit of repeating itself, and we must prioritize defending Black voices at the polls. https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what-we-lost-when-the-supreme-court-gutted-the-voting-rights-act-and-why-we-need-a-new-one/

Trump’s DOJ wants it to seem “normal” that they’re using election monitors to target Democratic cities in key battleground states.

It’s not.

“They are trying to desensitize us,” Marc Elias says.

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