With Trump’s help, Republicans across the country are sowing doubt about next year’s congressional elections—and gearing up for 2028.

Special elections in Florida and Wisconsin have suggested that voters are already fed up with the Trump administration and point to the possibility that the 2026 midterms could be a blue wave. As Trump’s failures continue to mount, Republicans have good reason to fear a backlash.

Perhaps this explains why Trump is intent on bolstering the election denial movement, which has lately notched a number of key victories. On March 25, the president signed Executive Order #14248, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” which neither preserves nor protects our elections but rather undermines them.

It is a clarion call to Republicans throughout the nation, who are being encouraged to question the legitimacy of any election loss and ultimately establish a permanent electoral advantage by challenging and removing eligible voters from the rolls. Now, with Trump’s executive order, they have insurance: a way of tipping elections in their favor by choosing the voters rather than having the voters choose them.

  • Binky@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    If that’s true, nothing will. We need not only Dems, but independents and GOP voters that realize they’ve been swindled.

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Exactly. The public needs to be in support of this. Relying on Dems will not help. They are not on your side either.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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          19 hours ago

          You forgot the jury box i.e. jury nullification

          “Eyy what murders? I didn’t see no murder. Brian Thompson just fell on some bullets.”

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        22 hours ago

        There’s a saying about the western front of WW2, “The war was won with Soviet blood, British intelligence, and American steel” though over simplifying the whole affair and the contribution of the Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, Danes, Belgian, etcetera the point is still broadly true. I say this to point out that the destruction of fascists is a multifaceted operation and that decrying the use of a tool no matter how small is foolish.

        Ideally we will be able to vote them out and then get to lynching the sons of bitches, but only using two tools is unlikely. But well as Cincinnatus once said “Hope for peace, Prepare for war”.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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          19 hours ago

          I think that saying is just the British patting themselves on the back. It was mostly just Soviet blood that liberated the camps.

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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            19 hours ago

            It ain’t British Intelligence was fucking nuts and after awhile just devolved into trolling the Axis because they were that far ahead. Same thing with American war materials it gave both the Soviets and British enough slack to focus on what was wanted rather than what was needed, without M3 Lees the British may not have had enough tanks for North Africa and without the M3 Trucks the Soviets would’ve wasted materials building trucks rather than tanks.