“We Asked All 143 Texas GOP Congressional Candidates About Biden’s Win. Only 13 Called It Legitimate”
The Houston Chronicle reports.
Category Archives: election subversion risk
Must-read Jon Ward: “How Democrats botched the fight over voting”
Jon Ward in Yahoo News:
Democrats told Americans over the last year that voter suppression was the biggest threat to democracy, even as it was clear that the far more immediate challenge is the potential for politicians to overturn… Continue reading
“Texting Through an Insurrection”
WaPo:
These and thousands of other frantic, ephemeral text messages that might have otherwise been lost to history are now key to piecing together the most vivid and comprehensive picture to date of the events surrounding the chaos… Continue reading
“A bipartisan deal to stop Trumpian election subversion? Not so fast.”
Politico:
Joe Manchin is ready to speed up a bipartisan deal to combat election subversion. His friends in the GOP don’t share his sense of urgency.Manchin wants to get what’s known in the Capitol as a “framework” as soon… Continue reading
“Opposition Research Goes Hyperlocal; The liberal group American Bridge is launching a new project to collect information for campaigns against Republicans running for state and local offices.”
NYT:
Some of the loudest Stop the Steal voices on the right are actually far removed from the levers of America’s election machinery. When a member of Congress makes false claims about hacked voting machines or stolen ballots, he… Continue reading
“Opinion | Why Democrats Shouldn’t Say the Midterms Will Be Illegitimate”
David Levine Politico oped:
But supporters of the bill should stop claiming that the 2022 elections may be “illegitimate” if it does not pass — an argument that President Joe Biden and other top Democrats have at least hinted… Continue reading
“Jan. 6 Inquiry Subpoenas 6 Tied to False Pro-Trump Elector Effort”
NYT:
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed two of Donald J. Trump’s campaign aides and Republican Party officials from battleground states on Tuesday as it dug deeper into a plan to use false… Continue reading
“2020 Election Denier Will Run for Top Elections Position in Colorado; Tina Peters, the Mesa County clerk, has been stripped of her county election oversight but is seeking to oversee her state’s elections as secretary of state.”
NYT:
A Republican county clerk in Colorado who was stripped of her responsibility of overseeing county elections is joining a growing movement of people throughout the country who spread false claims about fraud in the 2020 presidential election and want… Continue reading
Judge Luttig: “The Conservative Case for Avoiding a Repeat of Jan. 6”
Judge Luttig NYT oped:
The clear and present danger to our democracy now is that former President Donald Trump and his political allies appear prepared to exploit the Electoral Count Act of 1887, the law governing the counting of… Continue reading
“How the G.O.P.’s Censure Fight Exposes the Party’s Deeper Divide”
NYT:
More than a year after the 2020 election, Donald J. Trump’s false claims of election fraud remain a destabilizing force for the Republican Party, dividing an activist base galvanized by a lie from elites in Washington who are… Continue reading
Watch Archived Video of Jan. AALS Panel on the Risk of Election Subversion, Featuring Rep. Jamie Raskin, Guy Charles, Rebecca Green, and Bertrall Ross (I’m Moderating)
You can watch at this link:
Useful WaPo Guide: “All the Ways Trump Tried to Overturn the Election–and How It Could Happpen Again”
WaPo list:
President Donald Trump made clear just hours after polls closed on Nov. 3 that he had no intention of conceding the 2020 election to Joe Biden. Instead, he and his allies engaged in overlapping strategies to try… Continue reading
“Giuliani asked Michigan prosecutor to give voting machines to Trump team”
WaPo:
In the weeks after the 2020 election, Rudolph W. Giuliani and other legal advisers to President Donald Trump asked a Republican prosecutor in northern Michigan to get his county’s voting machines and pass them to Trump’s team, the… Continue reading
“‘Legitimate political discourse’: Three words about Jan. 6 spark rift among Republicans”
WaPo:
When the Republican Party voted to censure two of its own members of Congress last week at its winter meeting in Salt Lake City, it justified the move in part by declaring that efforts to investigate the Jan.… Continue reading