(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The Pushback Chronicles: NPVIC [1] ['Greg Dworkin', 'Sabrina Haake', 'Bill In Portland Maine'] Date: 2026-07-08 Oh, EEEEEVIL National Popular Vote Interstate Compact! Republicans are now claiming that it will subvert the Constitution, undo the Union, and make the plague of [non-existent] voter fraud many times worse. In reality it is a way to un-Gerrymander the Electoral College, so that votes in populous states have the same weight as votes in states with small populations. Wrong-Wing Astroturf MAGAtroidism I’m not going to try to count all of the demonizing lies in the following screed. The Hill: All Latest Selwyn Duke News Spanberger Advances the Anti-Electoral College “Soft Coup Against America” By Selwyn Duke The New American May 28, 2026 One of the nation-shattering issues hardly ever discussed, distracted as we are with frivolity, is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). This is the state-led scheme to circumvent the Electoral College and force presidential elections to be decided by popular vote. It’s dangerous not just because it would essentially enable densely populated cities to determine the president for the whole country. It also would profoundly magnify vote fraud’s effect, allowing those localities to steal any and every election. And now Governor Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) has given the NPVIC another shot in the arm. She has just signed a bill making Virginia part of the compact. This places the NPVIC a mere 48 votes away from national implementation. Martyrs to the Unspeak… Douglass, James W. Check Amazon for Pricing. Spanberger is, as many know, the politician who campaigned as a “moderate” in 2025. She then predictably began effecting far-left governance the moment she entered office. (This is why, in general elections, you vote for the party, not the person. For the person will almost always vote with his party.) Now, it’s not surprising that hard-left Spanberger would push the NPVIC. After all, the compact would likely make it impossible for a Republican to be elected president. Note here that 18 of our largest 20 cities are run by Democrats. The two “exceptions,” Dallas and Fort Worth, have GOP mayors but primarily liberal city governments. And this score of cities boasts more than 10 percent (about 35 million people) of the country’s population. Before proceeding, it’s helpful to review precisely what the NPVIC is. As USConstitution.net informs, it is one of those ideas that sounds like a constitutional amendment but is not. It does not abolish the Electoral College. It does not rewrite a single clause. What it tries to do is simpler and, in practice, potentially disruptive: use the rules we already have to make the national popular vote determine who gets the presidency. The compact is an agreement among participating states and the District of Columbia. DC is not a state, but it can participate through its own enabling law and, under the Twenty-Third Amendment, it carries three electoral votes. Each member jurisdiction promises that, once the compact is in effect, it will award all of its electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote across all 50 states and DC. [Emphasis in original.] The NPVIC takes effect once the signatory states have an electoral-vote total of 270. The compact now stands at 222 with Virginia’s accession. A Furtive Revolution Writing about this Sunday was commentator and national election-validity advocate Marly Hornik. Calling the NPVIC effort a “soft coup against America” and quoting the “National Popular Vote!” website, she relates: Six additional states with 65 electoral votes (Arizona, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) are especially promising places for obtaining the 48 electoral votes needed before 2028 [for NPVIC activation]. Hornik then warns about how precarious our situation is, writing: BALANCE AND FALL PREVE… Sievernich, Patrick J. Check Amazon for Pricing. With the coalition falling hard on political lines, the situation is troubling. All six of their targeted states have gubernatorial elections this November, with proven Bill of Rights abusers like Jocelyn Benson of Michigan favored to win. Although one or even both houses in some states have voted to join the popular vote compact at various times, the governor’s signature has been the greatest hurdle. If the opportunity to codify this popular-vote scheme is seized by incoming administrations, a permanent woke regime in America that ends limited government and equality under the law is a real risk. Possible Remedy This said, Hornik insists all is not lost. She cites James Madison, who in The Federalist, No. 43 warned that the minority of citizens may become a majority of persons, by the accession of alien residents, of a casual concourse of adventurers, or of those whom the Constitution of the State has not admitted to the rights of suffrage…. [Emphasis in original.] This is relevant because the NPVIC-enabling states tend to have lax voting laws, which invite ineligible-voter participation. Hornik then points out that Madison was concerned about states undermining the national government via federal-election manipulation. This led to the Elections Clause (U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 4). This grants Congress power to override states on the “time, place, and manner” of federal elections. Second, Hornik states that post-Civil War, the 14th Amendment’s Section 2 was designed to punish states that deny or abridge qualified-citizen voting rights. A state’s congressional representation (and thus Electoral College votes) can be reduced commensurate with the number of disenfranchised qualified voters. Hornik asserts that this was a general safeguard against disloyalty and electoral betrayal, not solely a race-based measure. These two constitutional provisions should be used, Hornik insists, to thwart NPVIC-enabling states. Laying out her case further, she writes: When states decline to legally qualify voters by failing to verify identity, citizenship, and eligibility under State law, they commit multiple injuries: First, they fail to prevent crime via illegal voting. Second, they fail to protect the right to choose representatives, the core promise of our republican form of government, and the second sentence of the US Constitution. Triple Strength Omega … Check Amazon for Pricing. Third, States usurp the right to choose when they administer elections without controlling access and certify elections that include illegal votes. Sometimes there are a lot of illegal votes, yet representatives are sent to Congress or the White House regardless. Note here that none of the 19 NPVIC-signatory states requires strict photo voter ID. This means that they can’t know whom their voters are. It is, however, their duty to know. Regarding this, Hornik wonders, absent an implicit state commitment to run elections responsibly, why would we have ratified the Constitution? “Why would we have authorized a process that could dilute our representation?” she asks. Intolerable Situation One answer is that in 1789 and for a long time afterwards, the federal government was small, as the Constitution dictates. For this reason, who occupied the presidency wasn’t too relevant in the daily lives of citizens. Most laws affecting them were made on the state and local levels. Those days are long gone. Now the feds regulate light bulbs, washing machines, refrigerators, furnaces, dishwashers, air conditioners, shower-head flow rates, minimum wages, and beyond. So when big-government-enabling states game the system to control the presidency, they’re exercising tyranny over states playing by the rules. It’s thus no wonder that radical leftists are giddy that “the next president could finally be elected by the popular vote.” The good news is that thwarting the NPVIC may not require Hornik’s involved remedy, as it appears unconstitutional. As The Princeton Legal Journal wrote in 2021, the NPVIC constitutes a violation of the Compact Clause, which states that “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress…enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.” So the Supreme Court may nix the compact should it be implemented. What’s for sure is what would happen under a popular-vote system. California and other left-wing, one-party states would have great incentive to kick their vote-fraud operations into high gear. (I’ve reported on electoral fraud’s reality previously.) They could conceivably deliver millions of fraudulent Democratic votes most undemocratically, ensuring that the United States would become a one-party country. That would make us a nation of statists, by statists, and for statists — but only those in charge. Be warned, useful-idiot statists need not apply. This article was originally published on The New American. I’ll just quote four disgusting lies from this next assault on Democracy and reality. The idiots on the WaPo Editorial Board: Virginia Dems Pass National Popular Vote Law that Experts Warn Is Unconstitutional Virginia Democrats are the latest slate of state officials to threaten the American Republic 🤢 and move to eliminate the electoral college. Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) signed into law on Monday a bill (called H.B. 965) joining Virginia to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), which would permit member states to award their electoral votes in a presidential election to the winner of the national popular vote ✅, instead of to the winner of the state in question, effectively eliminating the use of the electoral college for participating states. The Republican Party of Virginia was quick to criticize Spanberger for signing the legislation, which was passed by the Democrat-controlled General Assembly. “Fake Moderate 🤢 Spanberger just signed a bill to render Virginians’ vote for president NULL AND VOID!” 🤢 the state’s GOP wrote in a social media post. The Republicans charged that the law “says that all of Virginia’s Electoral College votes will go to the winner of the national popular vote — no matter who wins the popular vote in our Commonwealth. This is an unconstitutional assault 🤢 on our democracy.” Disenfranchising of American voters comes in several forms | Opinion Next up, The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an attempt to override electors and Electoral College in our presidential election process. Under the current system, electors for each state collectively comprise the Electoral College, and officially elect the president. Excepting two states, the winning candidate in each state election receives all of that state’s “electoral” votes. The Founders didn’t set it up this way to favor whoever is an “underdog.” Among other reasons, they wanted to prevent undue influence of regional population centers on presidential elections. For example, using a straight popular vote count, a small minority of states, e.g. the statistical influence of New York and other Northeast states, Illinois, and California and the West Coast states, could consistently determine who is our president. When states representing 270 electoral votes out of the total 538 are party to the NPVIC agreement, they will have pledged enough votes to control a majority of the Electoral College. Their goal will have been achieved, subject to legal challenges. While there’s always a possibility of success, most experts consider the legal challenges insurmountable. Extraordinary Popular Vote Delusions and the Madness of NPVIC While pratfalling toward her redistricting disaster, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger affixed her signature to an idea that, if in effect in 2024, would likely have given Donald Trump the greatest Electoral College victory since George Washington—one vote short of Washington’s unanimous victories. The bill that Spanberger signed adds Virginia to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC)—one of the most harebrained public policy ideas of a notoriously harebrained era. Harvard Journal on Legislation: Combination Among the States: Why the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is an Unconstitutional Attempt to Reform the Electoral College Since the 2000 election “misfire” produced a President who won the Electoral College but lost the national popular vote, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (“the Compact”) has garnered support across the nation. Under the terms of the Compact, the states would thereafter pledge their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, regardless of the outcome of the election within their own state. The Compact, already successfully approved by eleven states and the District of Columbia, needs its signatories to possess at least 270 electoral votes before it takes full effect and converts the Electoral College into a de facto direct popular election of the President. The current compacting states possess 165 electoral votes, and therefore need only 105 more before the Compact takes effect, a total that can be reached with the consent of as few as four more states. This article argues that this possibility makes the Compact a constitutional crisis–in–­­waiting. Although this crisis is not yet upon us, it lurks in the shadows and must be addressed before it has the chance to alter a presidential election and take away any and all effective electoral power from as many as thirty–nine states. This article explains that the Compact is unconstitutional because it promotes combination among the states ☒ and effectively creates a direct popular election ✅. What wonderful non sequiturs! Reality Fulcrum: Reducing the Influence of Money in Presidential Politics is Within Our Reach, from where we Least Expect it: the Electoral College The winner-take-all (WTA) feature of the Electoral College narrows the focus of massive campaign expenditures in a “Funnel Effect”* to a handful of closely divided battleground states. Because candidates have little to gain from spending in states where they are comfortably ahead or hopelessly behind, they concentrate all their financial resources on 15 or 16 states, or in some cycles, as few as seven key swing states. All this could change if the “battleground state” phenomenon were taken away from the wealthy, as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) would accomplish. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is a pragmatic, state-based initiative designed to ensure that the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes across fifty states and the District of Columbia wins the presidency. It aims to achieve this without requiring a constitutional amendment, operating instead within the existing Electoral College framework by utilizing states’ constitutional authority to appoint electors. If enough states join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) to reach 270 electoral votes, the United States will effectively shift from a winner-take-all (WTA) regime to a national popular vote system for electing the President. Spirit of 1776 – Rejected by Project 2025, Embraced by NPVIC Project 2025 is a structural undoing of the “Spirit of 1776.” It fundamentally undermines the foundational principles of the Declaration of Independence in the following areas: democratic representation, equality, liberty, and checks/balances. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) restores the founding ideals of civic equality. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) and Project 2025 represent opposite approaches to American democracy, differing fundamentally in their views on voter enfranchisement, states’ rights, and the balance of political power. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) aligns with the democratic ideals of the “spirit of 1776” by ensuring the president is chosen directly by all citizens. This restores foundational principles of the American Revolution—popular sovereignty and political equality—by guaranteeing every voter’s ballot carries the exact same weight, regardless of where they live. The American Experiment at the Brink Due To Minority Rule The challenge for continuing the American Experiment is recovering from the “Second Gilded Age” (1980s to the present). As of early 2026, the U.S. national debt is 122% to 125% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This situation has been exacerbated since 2000, when the U.S. national debt as a percentage of GDP was 33% to 35%. Americans can attribute this worsening situation to two non-popular vote presidents, Bush-43 and Trump-45. Directly, during their terms, and indirectly, with the aftermath of the 2008 Great recession and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 1894, toward the end of the 19th century “Gilded Age,” the U.S. national debt was approximately 7% of gross domestic product GDP. The extension of the “second Gilded Age” was achieved through several interconnected mechanisms of minority rule, which shielded hyper-concentrated wealth and corporate power from democratic accountability, as follows: Minoritarian rule of the winner-take-all (WTA) electoral college: Because 48 states allocate all electoral votes to the statewide winner, a candidate can secure the presidency while losing the popular vote. This enables the election of administrations that prioritize corporate deregulation and tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, even when the broader electorate demands reform. While the Constitution allows state legislatures to determine the method of elector selection, the Framers did not mandate the winner-take-all electoral college system currently used by 48 states. This system concentrates campaign attention on a few “swing states” while rendering millions of votes in “safe states” effectively irrelevant. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is a pragmatic, state-based initiative designed to ensure that the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes across fifty states and the District of Columbia wins the presidency. It aims to achieve this without requiring a constitutional amendment, operating instead within the existing electoral college framework by utilizing states’ constitutional authority to appoint electors. If enough states join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) to reach 270 electoral votes, the United States will effectively shift from a WTA regime to a national popular vote system for electing the President. As of early 2026, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has been adopted by seventeen states and the District of Columbia, which collectively hold 209 electoral votes. The compact requires 270 electoral votes (a majority of the 538 total) to take effect. It currently needs sixty-one more electoral votes to become active. Legislative elections will be held on November 3, 2026, for eighty-eight state legislative chambers in forty-six states. In 2026, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) will be a relevant issue in several state elections, particularly in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. As the compact needs sixty-one more electoral votes to hit the 270-vote threshold, these purple or contested states are key battlegrounds where legislative control could determine whether they join the 18 jurisdictions already signed on. Ballotpedia The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an interstate compact initiative to award member states’ Electoral College votes to the presidential ticket that receives the most votes nationwide. Most states award all of their electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most votes in the state. League of Women Votershttps://www.lwv.org › blog › what-national-popular-vo… Sep 23, 2024 — The NPVIC stands as a beacon of hope for a more democratic electoral system, one that aligns with the core principles of equality and voter empowerment. Rock the Vote [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/8/800047041/community/the-pushback-chronicles-6-10-npvic/ Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/