Post #1479698

2026-01-27 14:51 UTC

@Sigmundkapje @surethingwhitey it's unlikely without an open civil war. States run elections, not the federal government. So, he could interfere with elections in very red states with complicit legislatures, but it's the swing states and blue states he needs to interfere with, and those seem unlikely to go along quietly. Which is why he's trying to interfere and manipulate in other ways. They're currently trying to extort access to voter data in Minnesota under threat of continued occupation.

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@swelljoe@mas.to 2026-01-27 14:57

@Sigmundkapje @surethingwhitey of course, it'd be foolish to ignore the fact that Trump and Republicans expanded ICE and DHS (the most overtly fascist paramilitary institutions in the US from the beginning) funding to be larger than pretty much every military on earth other than our own. He wanted an army of loyalists to make sure he never has to face consequences for anything he does, and the real military has previously balked at illegal actions like what ICE is currently doing.

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@Sigmundkapje@mastodon.vlaanderen 2026-02-03 11:01

@swelljoe @surethingwhitey CNN: Trump calls on Republicans to ‘nationalize’ future elections. Does this mean the end of state run elections? https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/02/politics/trump-calls-on-republicans-to-nationalize-future-elections

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