Here is Trump’s blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms

We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime.

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North Carolina absentee ballot restrictions will remain in effect for midterms, judge rules

In a blow to voters, North Carolina’s restrictive absentee ballot rules will remain in place for the midterms, a federal judge ruled.

Seizing ballots would be an illegal attack on democracy. Trump might try anyway

President Donald Trump has no legitimate grounds to order the seizure of ballots or voting machines during this year’s midterm elections.  But the dismal reality is he may try anyway.

Trump DOJ’s California crackdown rests on 25 potentially illegal votes out of 45 million ballots cast

The potential illegal voting identified by the Department of Justice is painstakingly microscopic: just 0.00006% of all ballots cast in the elections at issue, or one alleged illegal vote for every 1.7 million votes.