Organizing to protect the vote in all 50 states is a massive undertaking — we estimate it will cost at least $6 million. If you’re in a position to pitch in, we could really use your support to help us protect the midterms.

"It's actually a 'Russia, are you listening' moment where it's saying, 'hey guys, if you want to do this, our defenses are down.'" @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social reacts as @weissmann.substack.com warns Trump may be tearing down election safeguards to invite interference and manufacture a crisis.

⚠️ The Trump administration is threatening states with criminal charges if they do not use a flawed federal database to purge voters from their rolls. The SAVE database has repeatedly falsely identified eligible voters as non-citizens.

Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.

Good night, dear friends. See you tomorrow. 🇺🇦❤️👏Ukraine’s 10-year-old gymnast Oleksandra Paskal, who lost her leg in a Russian missile strike in 2022, performed her powerful “Dance of Freedom” in Paris.

After nearly half of House Democrats voted to eliminate aid to Israel this week, the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC closed off online donations for more than a dozen lawmakers that it had endorsed.

Brandon Booth, 42, has been booked on suspicion of murder. trib.al/o7DgFyU

John Lewis believed in the power of EVERY voter. Not some voters. Not certain voters. EVERY voter. That's why we organize. That's why we show up. That's why #GoodTrouble lives on. Join the Weekend of Action: July 17-19 social.demcast.com/s/7yl7bSWc

I was honored to be asked by @hcrichardson.bsky.social to join her 250 to 250, a public history initiative featuring a series of 250 one-minute videos highlighting the everyday Americans, events, and movements that shaped the country's democracy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_KG...

JUST IN: Two U.S. service members were killed after Iran attacked a military base in Jordan overnight. Another remains missing in action, and four were injured. Since Trump launched the war with Iran nearly five months ago, 16 U.S. service members have been killed and 430 have been wounded.

NEWS: Two American troops are dead in Jordan. One is missing. And the Commander in Chief spent this morning on "Executive Time" at his golf course. Full recap on everything happening right now. Iran, Kuwait, Ukraine's strikes on Moscow, all of it. Your midday recap is here.

Trump administration allows killing of species threatened with extinction Gift Article www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

"The review, the most comprehensive to date, suggests that the administration’s use of the law has often been less about protecting federal agents than about providing legal cover to cow protesters and immigrants into submission." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/u...

ATTN @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @robertgarcia.bsky.social @repstansbury.bsky.social @dscc.bsky.social @electdemocrats.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/camo...

Essential Dem strategy from @simonwdc.bsky.social National Dems "should come together and create a unified front to defend our elections and our democracy." "As part of that effort Democrats should announce a simple agenda to let voters know what we will do when back in power."

This was earlier today in Biddeford Maine, the place where ICE murdered yet another person. It's great see people rallying together to push ICE out of their communities

We should not have to live this way. He has stolen 11 years of our lives. We should not have to live every day under assault psychologically by a deeply disturbed POTUS. This is all happening because REPUBLICANS will not do a thing to check his insanity and destruction.

Make it make sense.

While Trump continues to lie about the 2020 election, the motive behind this address was to rig the election right before our eyes. His speech was the latest escalation in a fight Trump has been waging for more than a year. newsletters.democracydocket.com/trumps-speec...

"There's a series of institutions that have been created, going back decades actually, that are designed to prevent foreign interference and other interference, and actually the Trump administration [has] pretty systematically dismantled them," said @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu.

Doctors say abortion restrictions have left many Texas women terrified that pregnancy complications could become life-threatening. “I don’t want to die, please don’t let me die.” That is a plea that no doctor in Texas ever wants to hear from their pregnant patient. msmagazine.com/2026/07/15/d...

Great anti-collins ad in ME by @lincolnsquare.media action.lincolnproject.us/shame_in_mai...

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

Senator @coons.senate.gov: “we're seeing a full-on assault on our federal elections.” President Trump “didn't talk about rising costs, didn't talk about the ongoing war with Iran. He rehashed what are now six year old conspiracy theories.”

NEW: Voting and cybersecurity experts pushed back against assertions Trump made about China's involvement in the 2020 election. While the president claimed China bought, stole or hacked voter data, experts told Democracy Docket the records likely came from public sources that anyone can obtain.

DHS Sec. Mullin on ICE agents' use of force: "We're turning up the heat on the streets."

BREAKING: 35,000 anti-sex trafficking advocates, survivors of Epstein’s abuse, and concerned citizens announce opposition to Todd Blanche's confirmation.

NEW: In 25 minutes, Trump undermined voting machines, claimed there were massive numbers of noncitizens on the voter rolls and championed the SAVE America Act. But none of the newly declassified information proved any of his claims, and experts are calling the sensationalized episode a "huge dud."

The DNC is launching a massive voter registration Weekend of Action at World Cup watch parties across the country. Volunteers and organizers will spend the weekend meeting and registering thousands of new Democratic voters outside FIFA Fan Zones, at watch parties, and more.

John Solomon has a pretty clear M.O.: He’ll spin a story that seems like a massive exposé, get it trumpeted on Fox News and throughout the right-wing media ecosystem, then let it quietly get deflated. The latest edition of False Flag from @willsommer.bsky.social:

United Airlines is offering free flight changes to passengers seeking to avoid the newly renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport in Florida.

Trump’s own IC says, “We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/u...

The 2020 election was not rigged and no votes were changes. Donald Trump's reaction was to sue and incite a violent insurrection in the Capitol. Donald Trump is once again laying the groundwork to try to overturn elections he is about to lose. We need to be prepared and to fight back.

🎥 NEW: Trump gave a speech Thursday night packed with recycled 2020 grievances and zero new evidence. But buried at the end was a directive every voter should be paying attention to before the 2026 midterms. Marc Elias explains it all. Watch 👇

Ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE officer who killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero: David told me to lie about his character and not to talk about the abuse in our relationship. I told him I was not going to lie for him. I need to come out with everything because a man lost his life.

David Brouillette was “extremely mentally ill” and should never have been an armed federal agent, one relative said.

A key element of the Trump administration's #deportation policy targets US #immigration courts. UN Special Rapporteur Meg Satterthwaite and Sang-Min Kim outline the ousting, replacement, and pressuring of immigration judges:

Ex-wife of the ICE officer who killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero speaks out: David brought up he had accepted a job with ICE. I thought it was delusional. I'm like, how do you keep getting jobs where you're around guns?

Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared.

Trump will lie about the 2020 election. Trump will lie about the 2026 election. But, if Trump claims powers he does not have, or tries to undermine free and fair election, we will sue and we will win. If you doubt me, take a look at my record in beating him and his allies in court.

Senators who vote to confirm Blanche in the face of such damning evidence of ethical depravity and professional unfitness should face the wrath of voters and the condemnation of history.Judge Williams and Epstein survivors deserve full credit for courageously defending decency and the rule of law

It’s easy to dismiss Trump’s latest speech as just more of the same rehashed lies. But buried within it was the "first salvo in this fight to remove people from the voter rolls," @marcelias.bsky.social says. "We need to recognize what we are up against." Stay informed: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg

one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)

Trump's speech tonight was a 5-alarm fire for our democracy, our Constitution, and our country. No matter your political party, we must stand together for our democracy & fight back against this attempt to undermine it. No Kings.

Trump was in charge in 2020 when all the foreign interference he alleges happened

TRUMP: Claimed China obtained 220 million U.S. voter files and accused intelligence officials of concealing election threats. FACT: U.S. intelligence concluded that no foreign actor attempted to alter voter registration, ballot casting, vote tabulation or the reporting of 2020 election results.

Pretty strong summary from election security expert and former Justice Department official (under both parties) David Becker about Trump’s speech tonight “This wasn’t new information”

In this section of his speech, Trump is lying about the intelligence community's findings about China's actions in the 2020 election. This is the actual IC finding, declassified in 2021. www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...

Across multiple cases, the Roberts Court has demonstrated its determination to “ignore, rationalize, or misrepresent the explicit animus of government officials” toward targeted groups, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues: