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What Is the Democrats’ New Battlefield Project? | Politics

Democrats are gearing up to fight back against what they see as potential voter intimidation on the part…
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https://www.europesays.com/3251495/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/13/first-ministers-to-affirm-right-to-seek-independence-from-the-uk. "Latest #polling suggests 47% of #Scottish #voters would opt for #independence in a #referendum held tomorrow, along with 36% in #NorthernIreland & 32% in #Wales. Support for independence in #Scotland has hovered between 45% & 50% since the 2014 referendum, while #data suggest it is rising in Wales & Northern Ireland." See: https://nation.cymru/news/first-ministers-to-hold-talks-in-cardiff-over-future-of-uk/.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/13/first-ministers-to-affirm-right-to-seek-independence-from-the-uk. "Latest #polling suggests 47% of #Scottish #voters would opt for #independence in a #referendum held tomorrow, along with 36% in #NorthernIreland & 32% in #Wales. Support for independence in #Scotland has hovered between 45% & 50% since the 2014 referendum, while #data suggest it is rising in Wales & Northern Ireland." See: https://nation.cymru/news/first-ministers-to-hold-talks-in-cardiff-over-future-of-uk/.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/13/first-ministers-to-affirm-right-to-seek-independence-from-the-uk. "Latest #polling suggests 47% of #Scottish #voters would opt for #independence in a #referendum held tomorrow, along with 36% in #NorthernIreland & 32% in #Wales. Support for independence in #Scotland has hovered between 45% & 50% since the 2014 referendum, while #data suggest it is rising in Wales & Northern Ireland." See: https://nation.cymru/news/first-ministers-to-hold-talks-in-cardiff-over-future-of-uk/.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/13/first-ministers-to-affirm-right-to-seek-independence-from-the-uk. "Latest #polling suggests 47% of #Scottish #voters would opt for #independence in a #referendum held tomorrow, along with 36% in #NorthernIreland & 32% in #Wales. Support for independence in #Scotland has hovered between 45% & 50% since the 2014 referendum, while #data suggest it is rising in Wales & Northern Ireland." See: https://nation.cymru/news/first-ministers-to-hold-talks-in-cardiff-over-future-of-uk/.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/13/first-ministers-to-affirm-right-to-seek-independence-from-the-uk. "Latest #polling suggests 47% of #Scottish #voters would opt for #independence in a #referendum held tomorrow, along with 36% in #NorthernIreland & 32% in #Wales. Support for independence in #Scotland has hovered between 45% & 50% since the 2014 referendum, while #data suggest it is rising in Wales & Northern Ireland." See: https://nation.cymru/news/first-ministers-to-hold-talks-in-cardiff-over-future-of-uk/.

Poll finds more than half of Oklahoma voters struggled to afford food https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/5836/ #ChrisBernard #FoodAssistance #FoodCosts #FoodInsecurity #HouseholdFinances #hunger #HungerActionMonth #HungerFreeOklahoma #HungerPrograms #NutritionPrograms #Oklahoma #OklahomaDining #OklahomaFood #OklahomaGroceryStores #OklahomaRestaurants #poverty #SNAP #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram #tulsa #voters

Poll finds more than half of Oklahoma voters struggled to afford food https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/5836/ #ChrisBernard #FoodAssistance #FoodCosts #FoodInsecurity #HouseholdFinances #hunger #HungerActionMonth #HungerFreeOklahoma #HungerPrograms #NutritionPrograms #Oklahoma #OklahomaDining #OklahomaFood #OklahomaGroceryStores #OklahomaRestaurants #poverty #SNAP #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram #tulsa #voters

Poll finds more than half of Oklahoma voters struggled to afford food https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/5836/ #ChrisBernard #FoodAssistance #FoodCosts #FoodInsecurity #HouseholdFinances #hunger #HungerActionMonth #HungerFreeOklahoma #HungerPrograms #NutritionPrograms #Oklahoma #OklahomaDining #OklahomaFood #OklahomaGroceryStores #OklahomaRestaurants #poverty #SNAP #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram #tulsa #voters

Poll finds more than half of Oklahoma voters struggled to afford food https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/5836/ #ChrisBernard #FoodAssistance #FoodCosts #FoodInsecurity #HouseholdFinances #hunger #HungerActionMonth #HungerFreeOklahoma #HungerPrograms #NutritionPrograms #Oklahoma #OklahomaDining #OklahomaFood #OklahomaGroceryStores #OklahomaRestaurants #poverty #SNAP #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram #tulsa #voters

#California #Voters, mail your ballots at least a week before the June 2 #election.

Do not listen to #VoterSuppression #disinfo that tells you to "wait and see." Time to wait is over, vote now or #USPS might not deliver your ballot in time to be counted.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-05/election-officials-appeared-skeptical-of-social-media-posts-urging-democrats-to-delay-casting-their-ballots

2/ In the US, the smaller and poorer states hold disproportionately more power in the #Senate and #ElectoralCollege Which one is right? #democracy #elections #voters #power

In case folks are not aware of the interesting contrast about two #democracies - #US Vs #India : a constitutional amendment proposed in India seeks to expand the legislature and ensure population-based representation. And the southern states (smaller population but wealthier) to oppose it as unfair. In the US, the smaller and poorer states hold disproportionately more power in the #Senate and #ElectoralCollege

Which one is right?

#democracy #elections #voters #power

#Alabama makes it a class B felony for most people to help #voters with #absenteeballots

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/rwhhonb_ozE

CNN – What Matters – November 10, 2025

Editor’s Note: Below is a re-formatted post from a CNN Newsletter. It will appear online soon. The newsletter is sent first, then it is published online in a later cycle. I’ve posted it here, because of my comments. This 8-member “deal” on the side is a huge mistake. Read more below. –DrWeb

: Democrats seethe over shutdown deal.
They might be celebrating in a year

The likely end to the longest-ever government shutdown has Democrats turning on each other in searing anger.
 
The prevailing opinion appears to be frustration that eight senators freelanced a deal with Republicans.
 
While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.
  
Sen. Tim Kaine, who helped finalize the deal, defended it on CNN Monday. Kaine noted that the White House had pledged to rehire federal workers fired during the lapse in government funding and to bar further reductions in force at least until January 30.
 
That’s not good enough for many Democrats who were feeling powerful after victories in mostly blue-state elections last week. They wanted to hold out for more guarantees from the White House, even as the nation’s air travel system started to buckle under the strain of air traffic controllers not being paid and people who rely on the government for assistance buying food went without.
 
There’s no guarantee that House Speaker Mike Johnson will allow a House vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, but Kaine argued that if senators pass it with bipartisan support and Johnson ignores it, the GOP will pay a political price.
 
“Their midterm election next year would look a lot worse even than the shellacking they got last week in Virginia and elsewhere,” Kaine said.
 
The expiring enhanced subsidies, according to analysis by KFF, will be felt more in states that voted for Trump in 2024, and could result in millions of people opting not to have health insurance at all.
 
This shutdown, assuming it ends and is not repeated in January, won’t be top of mind for voters in midterm elections next year, but it’s still worth taking a look at what happens at the ballot box after a shutdown.

DrWeb’s Comment…

“While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.” –article quote

I have highlighted in bold a quote from the article. It is embarassing to post the truth for these eight renegades. They got scammed, including Catherine Cortez Masto, one of my Senators I used to support in Nevada.

To believe that quote, is to believe or trust Trump. I don’t.

These 8 should have known better. I don’t believe or trust the Trump Senate. I don’t.

It won’t vote on the subject, or the votes will vote to remove Obamacare and/or the subsidies, surprise surprise.

All the damn signs point to Trump erasing Obamacare (ego thing to do), and replacing it –after many years of asking GOP for any national health plan, they will dump something out and call it National Health Care by Trump.

Watch, wait, Trust me. They are screwed, these 8, we are screwed by the failure to support the Democratic Party (outliers not welcomed). All those closed days –accomplished NOTHING. Because of these 8 fools. –DrWeb

#Americans #CNN #Democrats #EightSenators #FederalGovernmentShutdown #GovernmentShutdown #healthCare #Newsletter #Republicans #ShutdownDeal #SubsidiesInJeopardy #TimKaine #Trump #USHouseOfRepresentatives #USSenate #Voters #WhatMatters #WhiteHousePledges_ #ZacharyBWolf

#Maine rejects #JusticeDepartment’s request for all #voters’ personal info, list of election officials

Secretary of State #ShennaBellows' responded to the request by telling the DOJ to "go jump in the Gulf of Maine."

by Dylan Tusinski, July 29, 2025

AUGUSTA — "Maine is denying the U.S. Department of Justice access to its voter registration records, state officials said Tuesday, rejecting an unprecedented request for sensitive voter data that the Trump administration has now delivered to all 50 states.

"A letter late last week to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and signed by Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General Michael Gates claims Maine had roughly 11,000 voters with duplicate registration. It requested the state’s entire voter registration list dating back to November 2022 'to ensure that ineligible voters are being removed.'

"The state has 14 days to respond to the letter dated July 24.

"Bellows, who is also a Democratic candidate for governor, said in a press conference Tuesday the Trump administration is overstepping its bounds, empowering false narratives and 'trying to change the topic away from the Epstein files.'

" 'Article 1 of the Constitution places the states — not President Trump, not the federal government — in charge of federal elections,' she said. 'The DOJ doesn’t get to know everything about you just because they want to.'

"Bellows’ office is coordinating with Maine’s Office of Attorney General to draft a formal response, she said.
The Maine Republican Party has previously claimed widespread voter fraud across the state, but a subsequent investigation by Bellows’ office concluded this month and found those claims were baseless. Just because someone is registered to vote in two different towns doesn’t mean they intended to vote twice. Often, it simply means that they moved between elections.

"A spokesman for Maine Senate Republicans declined to comment on the DOJ’s request or Bellows’ response. Other Maine GOP officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

"In addition to #VoterRegistration information, the DOJ also has requested the names of local election officials as well as information about noncitizens, felons, and deceased people’s alleged participation in Maine elections following President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.

" 'Please provide a description of the steps that Maine has taken, and when those steps were taken, to identify registered voters who are ineligible to vote as well as the procedures it used to remove those ineligible voters from the registration list,' the DOJ’s letter reads.

"The DOJ has not publicly said why they are seeking voter records across the country. Asked about the request to Maine and other states, spokesperson Pierson Furnish replied in an email 'No comment.'

"The first Trump administration similarly made requests to view all Americans’ voter information in 2017. Then-Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said at the time he would release voters’ names, ages, residences and districts with the government, as allowed by Maine law.

"The American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] of Maine said the DOJ’s actions both now and then are part of 'a clear pattern of intimidation' and applauded Bellows’ refusal to share voters’ information.

" 'This letter also fuels #FalseNarratives that sow distrust in our elections. Maine elections are safe, secure, and accessible, and that’s why Maine consistently has some of the highest voter turnout,' said Samuel Crankshaw, the group’s communications director. 'Our government should focus on helping more people exercise their fundamental rights.'

Maine’s voter turnout is reliably high compared to other states and more Mainers voted in 2024 than in any election before, according to state voting data.

"The Justice Department initially reached out to swing states like #Michigan, #Arizona and #Wisconsin, where local election clerks have reported federal agents requesting broad access to the states’ #RegistrationRolls and #VotingMachines.

Now, Bellows said all 50 states have received similar letters. #Maine, #Minnesota and #NewHampshire are the only states to have rejected the requests so far."

Read more:
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/07/29/maine-rejects-justice-departments-request-for-lists-of-all-voters-election-officials/

Archived version:
https://archive.md/K91De

#District13 #MaineResists #MinnesotaResists #NewHampshireResists #Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #GovernmentOverreach #BigBrother #CharacteristicsOfFascism

#SAVEAct Could Stop Millions of #Women From Voting. Here’s What You Need to
Know
Bill would make it harder for women, people of color, young voters, and other marginalized groups to register to #vote. It would have a direct impact on anyone whose #legalname does not match their #birthcertificate or #passport, such as 79% of heterosexual married women.
Data show that SAVE Act would only #disenfranchise eligible American #voters, and do nothing to prevent illegal voting.
https://www.glamour.com/story/save-act-could-stop-millions-women-voting

Here's where #voters #supported #reproductive #healthcare, #LGBTQ+ #rights this #election.

On Tuesday, seven #states passed #legislation that #protects #reproductivehealthcare. Three passed laws protecting #samesexmarriage, and several #elected #members of the #LGBTQ+ #community to #PublicOffice.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Progress #DemocraticParty #Allies

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/07/abortion-lgbtq-rights-election/76109640007/

As Goes #MiddleAmerica , So Goes #SanFrancisco ... 2024 #Voters Cast Their Rejection Of #WorkingClass Warrior Achievers & Crave Cuckolding By #UpperClass Controllers...

Like #DJT, A #MultiMillionaire #RichKid Heir Who Inherited Daddy's Wealth But Craved #PoliticalPower Becomes Mayor Of Former #LeftCoast Outpost

White Male #PacificHeights Scion Daniel Lurie , Whose Father Inherited Levi's Clothing Empire & Once Owned Local #MLB Team, Takes Mayoral Throne From A Black Female #Mayor Raised In #PublicHousing

https://wapo.st/4fcm70y

#WashingtonPost #California #Politics #Wealth #SharedLink

#DemocraticParty #Nominee for #Presidnet #KamalaHarris and #allies aim new #ad, #texts at #PuertoRican #voters after #Trump #MadisonSquareGarden #rally #insult.

The #Harris #campaign says it is making a six-figure #investment to air the #ad in #battlegroundstates in the final days before the #election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/31/harris-trump-puerto-rico-insult/

Watch original on-the-ground reporting by us @VOANews correspondents who traveled to #SwingStates that could determine the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Here is: "The Inside Story"
https://www.voanews.com/a/7837928.html
#voters #US #democracy #Harris #Trump #battleground #Wisconsin #Arizona #Nevada #Georgia #Michigan #Pennsylvania

They’re part of a #community ‘who have the most to #lose.’ So they’re #showingup for #VicePresident #KamalaHarris.

#Black #trans #women are a small #subset of #trans #voters, who make up a small portion of the #electorate — but they’re also longtime #leaders of the #LGBTQ+ #rights #movement who know what’s at stake.

https://19thnews.org/2024/10/black-trans-women-leaders-lgbtq-rights-movement-kamala-harris/

#VicePresident #KamalaHarris' emphasis on #maternal #health pays dividends with #Black #women #voters.

Harris is seeing a surge of #support from #Black #women #voters, galvanized in part by her work on #healthcare #issues such as #maternalmortality, #reproductiverights, and #guncontrol.

Their #enthusiasm may be #key for #Democratic #turnout at the #polls in critical #battlegroundstates.

https://www.ajc.com/news/health-news/harris-emphasis-on-maternal-health-pays-dividends-with-black-women-voters/2W7VAJW47FF3XJTMHZ5EFL5ZEM/

#VicePresident #KamalaHarris' #emphasis on #maternalhealthcare is paying dividends with #Black #women #voters.

The #enthusiasm may be #key for #Democratic #turnout at the #polls in critical #battleground #states. #BlackWomen have always been among the most #reliable #voters in the #Democratic #base

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harris-maternal-health-care-black-women-voters/

#RightWing activists & allies of #Trump are quietly challenging thousands of #VoterRegistrations in critical #BattlegroundStates, an all-but-unnoticed effort that could have an impact in a close or contentious #election.

Calling themselves #ElectionInvestigators, the activists have pressed local ofcls in #Michigan, #Nevada & #Georgia to drop #voters from the rolls en masse.

#VoterSuppression #law #Biden2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/us/politics/trump-voter-rolls.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

#Advocates #Argue to #Disqualify #Trump From #Colorado #Ballot Over #January6th #Attack

The #voters are seeking to use the #USConstitution's #14thAmendment, which bars #officials who have #engaged in "#insurrection or #rebellion" from #holding #publicoffice.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Insurrection #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-11-15/advocates-argue-to-disqualify-trump-from-colorado-ballot-over-jan-6-attack

#Trans #lawmaker #ZooeyZephyr says #Republicans using #LGBTQ+ ‘#boogeyman’ to hide real #problems, terrible #policies, and a troubling lack of #ideas that would actually benefit #voters in #US.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #RepublicanParty #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/17/zooey-zephyr-trans-boogeyman-republicans-interview/

The Supreme Court
#vetoes efforts by #workers, #environmentalist, #students, #localofficials, #voters and all others who try to rein in #corporategreed and #abuses.
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