Under Save America Act Trump most likely would be ineligible to vote by mail in Florida. He wasn’t out of town during the entire voting period and he doesn’t have a documented medical hardship

Media always focuses on rare instances when SCOTUS rules against Trump like tariffs and consistently underplays how they gave him king-like power & have turbocharged GOP’s war on voting for past two decades www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump pressuring Congress to ban mail-in voting as part of Save America Act & now MAGA-aligned Supreme Court justices echoing his conspiracy theories to potentially disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters in advance of midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“There's a reason why voting rights advocates believe this is the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress."

All the ways Save America Act would hurt Republicans: -10 states with lowest passport ownership all voted for Trump -GOP women 2x likely as Dems to change last name & have mismatched docs -rural voters who skew R forced to drive up to 8 hours to show citizenship docs at election office

Senate Republicans could be trying to end the Iran war or improve the economy. Instead, they are championing Trump’s MAGA voter suppression bill.

Instead of addressing the issues that Americans actually care about, Senate Republicans are spending the next week or more attempting to make it harder to vote. On Tuesday afternoon the Senate began debating the SAVE America Act. Watch:

Trump claims Save America Act will “guarantee the midterms” for Republicans. It won’t. 10 states with lowest rates of passport ownership all voted for Trump www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Iran war is a disaster. Gas prices are rising. Economy is tanking. So what are Trump & Republicans singularly focused on? Making it harder to vote www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Shorter GOP: Let's spend weeks pushing a bill that would disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans even though we have no evidence to support it

Trump admin orders libraries to stop processing passport applications...at same time they want to require citizenship docs like passport to register to vote www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

30 countries use mail voting

In case you’d forgotten Arizona Republicans hired “Cyber Ninjas” to audit 2020 election result in Maricopa County & Biden picked up 360 more votes when it was done

This Week on The Podcast: @motherjones.com's @ariberman.bsky.social discusses the alarming ways the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to cheat and interfere in the 2026 midterms and what is standing in their way. Listen to the episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Far right election deniers lobbying Trump to declare national emergency so he can: -seize voting machines -outlaw mail voting for most Americans -force every American to re-register before midterms & every subsequent election Insane wannabe dictator fever dream www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The far right election deniers pushing Trump to declare a national emergency to seize control over voting include a Florida man suspended by the bar twice and sanctioned by a federal court and the guy who started the birther conspiracy against Obama www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Alito is essentially saying that districts drawn under the Voting Rights Act to remedy centuries of racial discrimination are as racist as the racism they were meant to rectify." Read @ariberman.bsky.social on how the justice's latest opinion could portend the killing of the VRA.

"Alito is essentially saying that districts drawn under the Voting Rights Act or other federal and state laws to remedy centuries of racial discrimination are as racist as the racism (including the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow) they were meant to rectify"

Even by his standards Alito’s opinion in NY redistricting case last night was totally unhinged. If he’s writing majority opinion in Voting Rights Act case that’s very very bad news www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hypocrisy of Roberts Court is astounding: they’re inventing one set of rules to uphold gerrymandered maps that benefit white voters & Republicans in states like Texas while using a completely different set of rules to strike down maps that benefit racial minorities & Democrats

From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s recent attempts to seize state voter data set a chilling precedent for how his administration might interfere in the midterms should Republicans lose the House, Senate, or key state races. Watch:

During his State of the Union speech, Trump claimed that the SAVE America Act is supposed to protect election integrity. In actuality? It's just another effort for Trump to take over the midterms.

ICYMI, @ariberman.bsky.social offers analysis of Pres. Trump's calls for passage of the SAVE Act: www.wnyc.org/story/unpack...

Who Save America Act could disenfranchise: -146 million without passport -69 million married women who took spouse's last name -21 million without ready access to citizenship docs -21 million without current drivers license -Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office

Trump’s last executive order on elections was blocked by the courts and the next one will be too. He can’t unilaterally usurp the power of Congress & the states

"Save America Act would be worst voter suppression bill ever passed by Congress. 146 million Americans don't have passports. 21 million don't have ready access to citizenship documents. 69 million married women have last name different from birth certificate."

The House passed a bill this week — the SAVE America Act — that "combines a lot of the worst things that Republicans want to do with regards to voting, and it comes at a time when Trump appears dead set to try to interfere in the midterm elections," says @ariberman.bsky.social from @motherjones.com.

30 countries use mail voting

This is a must read. The impact on married women alone is egregious—especially impacting women who are older and more conservative

Key facts about SAVE Act 2.0 you won't hear from GOP sponsors: -"Show your papers" requirement far more restrictive than voter ID -Voters would have to show documents in-person at election office, traveling up to 4.5 hours to do so -States would be forced to hand over voter rolls to Kristi Noem

Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers -69 mil married women who took partner’s name -21 mil w/out valid drivers license www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

West Virginia, of all places, just rejected the DOJ's demand to turn over its voter rolls "The DOJ doesn’t have authority to run a state’s elections" said Republican Secretary of State Kris Warner www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Now would be a good time to read my @motherjones.com story with @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social about Pam Bondi’s insane plan to get voter rolls from all 50 states & why it poses such a grave threat to the right to vote www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Republicans trying to sell new SAVE America Act as voter ID bill. It’s much worse. Requires proof of citizenship such as passport or birth certificate to register to vote which could disenfranchise millions & forces states to hand over voter rolls to Kristi Noem www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

House set to pass new version of SAVE Act today, making terrible bill even worse. Could disenfranchise: -21 million Americans without access to citizenship papers -69 million married women who took partner’s name -21 million without current drivers license www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Republicans want you to show citizenship papers to register to vote & strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot but won’t require ICE agents to take off their masks

Yes, it's as bad as you suspected. Trump is abusing the power of his office to revive falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election—and to orchestrate a phony scenario that will let Republicans skew the midterms.

FBI’s Fulton County affidavit confirmed what we’ve long suspected: seizure of ballots based on discredited/recycled falsehoods about 2020 election pushed by election deniers & designed to sow mistrust in election system so that Trump can interfere in midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Furthermore there is no evidence or even allegations of foreign election interference in the FBI affidavit which raises even more questions about why Tulsi Gabbard was at Fulton County raid

My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

Olsen lobbied DOJ to file lawsuit attempting to overturn 2020 election with Supreme Court & was later sanctioned by federal judge for making “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” when Kari Lake challenged election results in AZ in 2022

Affidavit for Fulton County FBI raid is out & begins with massive red flag, noting that "criminal investigation originated from referral sent by Kurt Olsen, [Trump's] Director of Election Security & Integrity" Olsen was leader of 'Stop the Steal' in 2020 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thanks @joyannreid.bsky.social for having me on last night. "False conspiracies about an election that took place 6 years ago fueled an FBI raid of 700 boxes of ballots, then the DNI put the president on with the agents. This is the type of thing the Kremlin would do" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugeD...

We need to stop treating Trump’s interference in midterms as a hypothetical. He’s already interfering with the vote, as I told @briantylercohen.bsky.social. ICE terrorizing blue cities, DOJ demanding voter rolls, FBI seizing ballots all intended as voter suppression www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNfH...

Federal judges in Michigan, California & Oregon have now rejected DOJ attempts to force states to hand over voter rolls Read this for why it matters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"It's not a hypothetical anymore. Trump is interfering with the 2026 election. He is using the full weight of the federal government to interfere, and I think if it was treated that way, we would be having a very different conversation."

That would explain why Tulsi Gabbard "investigating" voting machines in Puerto Rico & present at FBI raid in Fulton County even though DNI prohibited by law from participating in domestic law enforcement operations

I'm not a doomer. I believe we have a robust system of checks and balances baked into our elections systems. But that's why this convo with @ariberman.bsky.social is useful -- you can hear us reach some pretty chilling conclusions anyway. The most important: get involved slate.com/podcasts/wha...

“Why do they want Fulton County? Well, that’s obvious. It’s the biggest county in Georgia, and it houses Atlanta. If you control Fulton County that basically guarantees for Republicans they win every statewide race.”

Trump wants to take over voting in at least 15 places FBI raid in Fulton County GA now fueling MAGA calls for election takeover there That would allow them to purge voters, cut polling places, limit early voting & challenge election results. Very scary for 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...