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(DIR) Post #AzTGsvXdUYIukpaWXo by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:16:44Z
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#Trump Empowers #ElectionDeniers, Still Fixated on False 2020 GrievancesTrump has placed proponents of his #BigLie into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over #elections ahead of next year’s #midterms.#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/trump-election-deniers-voting-security.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AzTHAH0AxKsaEeCzmC by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:19:52Z
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#Election officials from nearly all 50 states gathered on a call last month with #DHS’s point person on “election integrity,” eager to hear how the woman filling a newly created #Trump admin position might help safeguard the #vote ahead of next year’s #midterms.But many of them left alarmed.#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
(DIR) Post #AzTHIFScZP9vlvJghM by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:21:18Z
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Rather than offering assurances that the federal government’s #election protection programs would continue uninterrupted, the new official, Heather Honey, instead used portions of the meeting to echo rhetoric that has infused the #FarRight *election activist* movement that emerged since #Trump falsely claimed that his 2020 defeat was the result of widespread fraud, acc/to 5 people with knowledge of the call.#law #ElectionLaw #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #US
(DIR) Post #AzTHQcfg9oz84iPwbg by BlueWaver22@genomic.social
2025-10-22T15:22:47Z
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@Nonilex RED ALERT!!!
(DIR) Post #AzTHanujDCx5q7JNAW by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:24:39Z
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Heather Honey, a leader in that movement until her appointment in August as deputy assistant secretary for *election integrity*, complained that her department’s #cybersecurity experts tasked with combating #disinformation about #elections had “strayed from their mission.”#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
(DIR) Post #AzTHcLHMeAVRbpdI8m by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:24:56Z
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The remark parroted a widespread view on the right that #CISA had sought to silence supporters of Trump’s fraud claims. Honey also repeatedly mentioned a false report often cited by #election conspiracists to support their claims that voting machines were rigged to favor Democrats, acc/to the people familiar with the call.#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
(DIR) Post #AzTI0PpJOIBIfAzTCC by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:29:17Z
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The ascent of Honey reflects how #Trump & his allies, despite a clear victory last year, remain consumed with the belief that the 2020 election was stolen — & how Trump is [ab]using the powers of the government to upend an electoral system that he falsely insists helped Joseph R. Biden Jr. take the White House.#law #ElectionLaw #TrumpCoup2
(DIR) Post #AzTI4OVKFVxPiiXUps by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:30:01Z
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In the past few months, #Trump has elevated multiple proponents of his false fraud claims into high-level admin jobs. Now, as government insiders, these activists could wield their newfound power to discredit future results or rekindle old claims to argue for a federal intrusion into locally administered voting systems.#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
(DIR) Post #AzTIL34RBzEwASu6qG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:32:53Z
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On a call with #FarRight activists in March, before her appointment to DHS, Honey suggested that the new #Trump admin could declare a “national emergency” & justify dictating new rules to state & local governments. She said this could be based on an “actual investigation” of the 2020 election if it showed there had been a “manipulation” of the vote.[There have been countless exhaustive investigations]#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #US
(DIR) Post #AzTIPfbzq41IrMnwrA by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:33:51Z
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“And therefore, we [would] have some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” Honey said in March, according to a recording reviewed by The New York Times from someone who joined the call, “and therefore, we can take these other steps without #Congress & we can mandate that states do things & so on.”#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
(DIR) Post #AzTIi7bWVDO0tBNiwi by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:37:06Z
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…The idea of *reinvestigating* the 2020 election gained steam recently with the White House’s decision to hire #KurtOlsen, a lawyer who has been tasked with *examining* the 2020 vote & other #election matters, acc/to a White House official. The hiring of Olsen, who has worked closely for years with the pillow entrepreneur #MikeLindell to promote false stolen-election #ConspiracyTheories, was first reported by WSJ.#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/white-house-hires-stop-the-steal-lawyer-to-investigate-2020-election-claims-6395d322
(DIR) Post #AzTIxmwL6DzLQvaYhU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:39:38Z
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Another activist, #MarciMcCarthy, who spread debunked claims about voting machines in Georgia when she was the chairwoman of the DeKalb County #Republican Party, was named in May to be the director of public affairs at the #Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, or #CISA, which is housed in #DHS.#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
(DIR) Post #AzTIzSoosflhbis1Q0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:40:19Z
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McCarthy’s appointment comes as nearly all of the #election experts at #CISA have been placed on administrative leave or reassigned this year amid a large-scale *downsizing* of the agency, which had played a leading role in deterring attacks on elections systems & combating #disinformation about voting.#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
(DIR) Post #AzTJBm3lAY52l0jE8W by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:42:28Z
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These changes are unfolding as #Trump takes other steps to create more structural advantages for #Republicans ahead of the 2026 #midterms, including pressuring #GOP led states to redraw congressional district lines to maximize the party’s chances of keeping control of the #House.Now #elections ofcls who have spent years trying to debunk false claims that the voting systems were tilted against Trump are assessing how to work with some of the most fervent proponents of those claims.#law #coup
(DIR) Post #AzTJKT9kow8ijgg7oO by lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social
2025-10-22T15:44:05Z
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@Nonilex That *is* the plan
(DIR) Post #AzTJd5TV5lcan6nBo0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:47:29Z
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…The moves by #Trump to elevate #election deniers portends escalating #legal battles over how much #power his admin wields over balloting across the country.Already this year, #courts have affirmed that the president has no legal authority over #elections, which have long been the domain of #state & #local governments. Judges have largely blocked an executive order that Trump issued in March requiring, among other changes, documentary proof of citizenship to vote.#law #coup #TrumpCoup2
(DIR) Post #AzTJi2RJnvI2pF8HWi by lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social
2025-10-22T15:48:21Z
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@Nonilex This is a great thread and it’s extremely important information showing what the regime plans next regarding elections. IMO they don’t in any way believe there was any fraud in 2020. This is a premeditated, focused propaganda campaign to invalidate the prior election results and justify stealing the next election. They know full well that these claims are bullshit
(DIR) Post #AzTJoMhrMjRPQ3t1jU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:49:31Z
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But the #Trump admin has taken other aggressive steps to assert more sway over #elections.#DOJ, for instance, is compiling the largest set of national #voter roll data it has ever collected, an effort to try to prove unsubstantiated claims that large numbers of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally, The Times previously reported.#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/trump-voter-registration-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AzTKDWqIoh7S5zpnTU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:54:04Z
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Aa separate effort that collects similar details, #DHS has been soliciting #election ofcls to upload #voter information in bulk through a program it developed that checks #immigration status, acc/to docs released in a recent lawsuit & other docs viewed by NYT. #State election ofcls have long rebuffed attempts by DHS to access state voter rolls, warning that sharing this #data could expose sensitive #information like #SocialSecurity numbers, or be used to gain an uneven political advantage.#law
(DIR) Post #AzTKdx2K3E0Mrc3Wca by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-22T15:58:51Z
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@lawyersgunsnmoney 100%
(DIR) Post #AzTSsLoJXOhlO1sfiK by curiously@mastodon.au
2025-10-22T17:30:56Z
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@Nonilex very putinesque, amazing really that after the "correction" of the voting figures over 90% of l"egitimate" votes supported emperor Donald. Just like Putin's repeated landslide victories in recent decades. I mean you do support elections right? Wouldn't want to have to accuse you of being undemocratic and put you in that compound. Right?
(DIR) Post #AzUXQQEKCqtxujVcQ4 by SmartmanApps@dotnet.social
2025-10-23T05:56:40Z
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@Nonilex