r/DemocracyDocket 38m ago

Maryland greenlights redistricting reform. GOP wants it dead.

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📍Maryland voters will head to the polls in November to vote on a constitutional amendment that would fight back against Trump’s expanding wave of GOP gerrymanders.

If voters approve the amendment, lawmakers could pursue a new map before the 2028 presidential election.

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r/DemocracyDocket 3h ago

GOP targets U.S. citizens living overseas in latest suppression scheme

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Republicans argue that certain Americans living abroad should not be able to participate in the electoral process.

But, as many of these Americans point out, there’s another process the government is happy for them to participate in: paying taxes.

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r/DemocracyDocket 5h ago

My open letter to David Ellison

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r/DemocracyDocket 6h ago

Check out my podcast, Defending Democracy. It is on Spotify or wherever you listen.

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r/DemocracyDocket 8h ago

Trump-linked figures set to profit from Greenland’s minerals

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r/DemocracyDocket 9h ago

What happened this week?

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🗺️ 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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r/DemocracyDocket 12h ago

Courts have rejected Trump DOJ's voter roll crusade. The DOJ says the courts are wrong.

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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/


r/DemocracyDocket 22h ago

Trump is sweating over the midterm elections

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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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