The plan to dump Democratic voters

Alternet -   On Sunday, posting from Truth Social, Donald Trump announced that Republicans would deploy an “Election Integrity Army” in every single state for the 2026 midterms. Much bigger than 2024, he promised. He did not say who would be in it. He did not say how large it would be. He did not say what it would do when it got to the polling locations. These details were apparently beside the point. The point was the army.

In 2024, the Republican National Committee recruited thousands of volunteers to serve as poll watchers across the country. They were trained to challenge voter eligibility, observe ballot counting, and report irregularities. That operation, by Trump’s own description, is now the baseline.

Trump also said in February that he will only accept the midterm results if he feels they were honest. That same month, he called for Republicans to “nationalize the voting” in 2026. The administration has since deployed ICE agents to polling locations ahead of the election.

The midterms are six months away. The army is already being built. The concession speech is not being written.

Hartmann Report -    We have shocking news this week from CNN: Trump is preparing to illegally purge tens of millions of Democratic voters from voter rolls nationally, just in time for the election. ....

Russian dictator Joseph Stalin is often quoted (perhaps apocryphally) as saying:

“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”

Today’s GOP version of that could be:

“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s how many people we can remove from the voting rolls that will decide the election.”

In this year’s iteration, the Trump Department of Justice has demanded that all states turn over their voting rolls, complete with names, addresses, driver’s license and social security numbers, voting history, and date of birth.

They’re also requiring states to sign a “Memorandum of Understanding” that says the states will then purge from their voting rolls anybody who Republican partisans within the Trump administration — once they’ve dug into the state’s voter data — find to be a “concern”:

“You agree therefore that within forty-five (45) days of receiving that notice from the Justice Department of any issues, insufficiencies, inadequacies, deficiencies, anomalies, or concerns, your state will clean its VRL/Data by removing ineligible voters…”