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Democrats have a working‑class voter problem

Democrats have a working‑class voter problem

Published by Sam Flores

The answers come in different forms. Sometimes it is veteran Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, railing against “the oligarchs.” Or it’s Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who after the 2024 election declared, “Democrats must reclaim our identity as the party of the working class.” Or a new generation of candidates – tattooed veterans, mechanics, bartenders – whose biography is supposed to do the political work that policy has not. Graham Platner, the Maine Senate candidate who had become the left’s latest blue-collar savior until he ended his campaign in the wake of a sexual assault allegation, put the theory in its most unguarded form. “We are in a form of class war,” he says. “And if the Democratic Party is going to have a future with working people, it needs to pick the side of working people.” The most recent high-profile progressive candidate to embrace those working people: Abdul El-Sayed, whose economic populism helped him win the 2026 Michigan Democratic Senate primary. Called a “working class” champion by the United Auto Workers, El-Sayed performed best in wealthier, …

Claims of noncitizens on voter rolls leave states baffled : NPR

Claims of noncitizens on voter rolls leave states baffled : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin answers questions from reporters on July 17 after remarks about his agency alleging that more than 250,000 non-U.S. citizens are on the voter rolls in just four states. Those states dispute that tally. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. Two weeks after Trump officials said they had found more than 250,000 non-U.S. citizens on voter rolls in just four states, election officials are still struggling to understand where the numbers came from and what the claims may portend for federal interference in this year’s midterms. Multiple state officials told NPR they fear these unverified numbers, or similar ones unveiled closer to the general election, could be used as a pretext for warrants to allow law enforcement to interfere in vote-counting. Several reviews in recent years have found that actual voting by noncitizens is extremely rare. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversaw the voter roll analysis of four states — California, Nevada, New Jersey and …

States push DHS to explain its noncitizen voter claims

States push DHS to explain its noncitizen voter claims

Published by Sam Flores

State officials are pushing back on the Department of Homeland Security’s claims that it found tens of thousands of noncitizens on their voter rolls, asking the department to explain how it arrived at its conclusion. Ahead of President Donald Trump’s primetime speech from the White House earlier this month in which he made sweeping claims of voter fraud, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote to officials in Nevada, Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey, saying he believed the four states had more than 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls combined. During a news conference the day after Trump’s speech, Mullin threatened officials with potential prison time if they do not “secure their elections.” Ahead of Mullin’s requested two-week deadline for response, officials in California, Nevada and Pennsylvania sent back letters questioning where DHS got its data. All three states have declined to share private state voter roll data that includes personal identifying information like Social Security numbers. “The American public deserves transparency in how their private information is being used at the federal level,” Nevada Secretary …

Judge rejects DOJ request for access to unredacted NJ voter rolls

Judge rejects DOJ request for access to unredacted NJ voter rolls

Published by Sam Flores

A federal judge issued a Wednesday ruling rejecting the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request for unredacted New Jersey voter rolls. District Judge Zahid Quraishi, an appointee of former President Biden, sided with the Garden State citing privacy concerns for voters if information were to be handed over unredacted. Quraishi wrote in his 17-page ruling that… Source link

California Democrats Attempt To Sabotage Voter ID Initiative

California Democrats Attempt To Sabotage Voter ID Initiative

Published by Jenni Sidey

In November, California voters will have the opportunity to vote on Proposition 39. The measure, officially the Voter Identification, Citizenship Verification, and Registered Voter List Administration Initiative, would require Californians to show identification when they vote and force state officials to clean up the voter rolls and verify that the people on them are eligible citizens. All signs suggest it will pass. A poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found in May that 71% of Californians support requiring proof of citizenship for first-time voter registration, and 54% want it required before every election. However, Attorney General Rob Bonta is trying to make sure it doesn’t pass. His latest move came on July 21, just months before the November election, when Bonta rewrote the official ballot title for Prop 39, replacing the language he himself approved last year with a new title that proponents say is engineered to make voters reject it. The original ballot title for the bill, approved by Bonta last year, read: ESTABLISHES ADDITIONAL VOTER IDENTIFICATION AND CITIZENSHIP VERIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. …

Ken Paxton has long crusaded against voter fraud. His Senate rival now accuses him of committing it.

Ken Paxton has long crusaded against voter fraud. His Senate rival now accuses him of committing it.

Published by Sam Flores

The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas is trying to turn a key talking point of his Republican opponent against him — alleging Attorney General Ken Paxton is guilty of the same type of voter fraud he has spent years trying to eliminate. “As our state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton has gone on a voter fraud witch hunt,” state Rep. James Talarico, who is challenging Paxton in the race to replace U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, said during a campaign event in Houston. “Turns out, he was committing voter fraud the whole time, voting illegally in six elections in a row from the wrong address.” Talarico’s comments come after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that Paxton moved out of the home he shared with his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, in 2024 but continued to vote using that address, including during the March Republican primary in which he beat Cornyn. Three election experts told the news organizations that Paxton may have broken state law.  Last week, the Collin County Democratic Party filed a complaint …

Deep State In “Fight To The Death” To Defend Voter Fraud

Deep State In “Fight To The Death” To Defend Voter Fraud

Published by Jenni Sidey

Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Journalist Alex Newman is an expert on the so-called Deep State.  He is the author of the longtime popular book “Deep State” and, most recently, “Deep State 2.0.”  The Deep State is not a conspiracy theory.  It is a conspiracy fact.  This year, the Deep State will be going to war with the Trump Administration to hold onto the voter fraud that has won them elections for many years.  Without voter fraud, Deep State Democrats lose and lose big in the midterms.  They are fighting every way they can to keep the cheating going.   The Trump Administration is threatening fines and jail time if the Dems in Blue States “Refuse to Cooperate to Secure Elections.”  It is so bad that Harvard PhD and political expert Dr. Jerome Corsi says President Trump must “Stop Voter Fraud or Lose the Republic.”  The fight is going to get much more intense and violent before the midterm elections in November.  Alex Newman says: “Voter integrity is one of the arenas where this fight to the death is taking place.  We are going …

'Get Off That Topic': Trump Voter Blasts President's Election-Conspiracy Speech

'Get Off That Topic': Trump Voter Blasts President's Election-Conspiracy Speech

Published by Sam Flores

Self proclaimed three-time Trump voter Mark Bogue speaks with MS NOW’s Alex Tabot on Thursday July 16, 2026 A self-proclaimed supporter of President Donald Trump expressed his displeasure with the president’s Thursday night election-conspiracy speech, urging him to focus more on affordability issues and the war in Iran.  Following the speech, where Trump pontificated about supposed vulnerabilities in voting systems and debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 election loss, MS NOW’s Alex Tabot spoke with voters in Iowa. MS NOW’s “The Moment” host Katy Tur featured some of those interviews during Friday’s show, where Tabot asked Mark Bogue how he felt about Trump giving a speech about the 2020 election in 2026.  “I would like to see him move forward and get off that topic, yes sir. I’d like to get back to what we’re really trying to accomplish, and that’s — even today, I want to hear where we’re going. I’m not all for that conversation at all,” Bogue said. Tabot further pressed Bogue on what he would prefer to see the president focus on.  …

DHS Issues Funding Warning To States That Don’t Purge Voter Rolls

DHS Issues Funding Warning To States That Don’t Purge Voter Rolls

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday said that states that do not purge their voter rolls of potentially ineligible voters and noncitizens could lose funding. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin speaks during a news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, on July 17, 2026. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images It came as he said the DHS has identified more than 250,000 noncitizens who were illegally on voter registration rolls in four states: California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Nevada. “We know Iran hacked state voter files and attempted to compromise our systems where military members used to vote,” he said, adding that DHS “security enhancements” will be mandatory. “If these states want a grant, and they want to be reimbursed to run federal elections, they’re going to have to implement security measures.” Voting systems have to be secured, and voter registration lists need to be “scrubbed,” Mullin said. “We need to make sure that individuals that are legally able to vote …

Voter roll purges banned 90 days before federal elections : NPR

Voter roll purges banned 90 days before federal elections : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

People stand near a voter registration table at a 2022 event in Fredericksburg, Texas. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Republicans are mounting a push for courts to reinterpret a longstanding ban on mass purges of voter rolls just before a federal election. That legal protection for eligible voters is now set to be reviewed by the Supreme Court during its upcoming term, beginning in October, through a case out of Arizona, as President Trump and GOP leaders continue to spread false claims of widespread voter fraud by non-U.S. citizens, even as state reviews have found illegal voting by noncitizens to be incredibly rare. Under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, election officials are supposed to finish any program for systematically removing ineligible voters 90 days before Election Day in federal races. That deadline applies to the 44 states covered by the NVRA, plus Washington, D.C. Congress passed this ban on late mass purges to make sure any eligible voters who mistakenly get caught up in a purge have enough time to …