Welcome back. As Republicans gear up for a fight over control of Congress, President Trump said this week he plans to sign an executive order to get rid of mail-in ballots in certain voting machines. We should note Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to vote by mail, according to survey data.Now, in a lengthy post on social media, the president falsely decrieded mail and balloting as fraudulent and called certain voting machines inaccurate. He also incorrectly claimed that the US is the only coun ...

It is 3:00 at the Texas State House in Austin. The burning hot epicenter today of the future of democracy. Right now, following a marathon session crackling with fireworks speeches and amendments and debate, at this moment, it appears we are close to a final vote on those new gerrymander district maps, the transparently partisan ones drawn up mid decade by Republicans at the request of Donald Trump attempting to gobble up more seats in Congress.Of course, the truth of the matter is that today's long- aaited ...

Speaking of mailin ballots that you brought up earlier, Donald Trump announced today that he would sign an executive order to abolish mail-in ballots and voting machines before the 2026 midterms. Um, it's an unprecedented federal overreach. It flouts state authority and it's following the advice of Vladimir Putin.Per Donald Trump's words. Per Donald Trump's words. So if democracy is built on secure and accessible voting, where do you stand.So elections are run by the states. So So I ask you where you think ...

Joining us now is Colorado's Democratic Secretary of State, Jenna Griswald. She's running to be the state's attorney general in 2026 and has called this a quote direct attack on democracy. So, Secretary Griswald, your state's actually a great fact check on the president when he says mail ballots only elect Democrats.That's one of the complaints he's leveled. But Colorado has elected Republicans like Senator Corey Gardner as recently as 2014. So talk about what you're seeing in the president's renewed push h ...

MASQUERADING AS STRENGTH. >> JOINING ME NOW, DEMOCRATIC CALIFORNIA CONGRESSWOMAN LAURA FRIEDMAN, WHO ATTENDED NEWSOM'S EVENT YESTERDAY AND, CONGRESSWOMAN, ABOUT THE FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PRESENCE OUTSIDE OF THAT EVENT, THE LA TIMES QUOTED A CHIEF PATROL AGENT AS SAYING, WE'RE HERE MAKING LOS ANGELES A SAFER PLACE SINCE WE WON'T HAVE POLITICIANS THAT WILL DO THAT. WE DO THAT OURSELVES.WE'RE GLAD TO BE HERE AND WE'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE. SO WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE TIMING OF THIS BORDER PATROL DEPLOYMENT. >> ...

And we'll be asking for the people on November 4th, a special election coinciding with a lot of local municipal elections, to provide a temporary pathway for congressional maps. We will affirm our commitment to the state independent redistricting after the 2030 census, but we're asking the voters for their consent to do midterm redistricting in 2026, 2028, and 2030 for the congressional maps. In California, you have the power to stand up to Trump. You have the power to declare that you support a system that ...

An Illinois judge just rejected a request by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to help arrest Democrats who fled there over a fight on redistricting. Texas Republicans are expected to end their first special legislative session tomorrow after Democrats denied them a quorum, but they will immediately begin a new one, leaving out of state Democrats hammering out a plan for when they should return home. Joining me now, Democratic strategist and author of the Salty Politics Newsletter on Substack, Julie Reggink ...

The battle over redistricting in Texas has threatened to ignite a partisan redistricting arms race. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsome says his state will respond to Texas and call a November special election over redistricting to redraw California's maps. Meanwhile, Republican controlled states from Missouri to Indiana to Florida are being encouraged by President Trump and Vice President Vance to take a look at their district maps ahead of the midterms.Joining me now is the expert on all things r ...

So Paxton was just on Fox this past hour to respond to you calling him out on X earlier, saying he is lying, trying to silence you. Here's what he had to say back. >> The judge gave him a direct order, which was you can no longer fund raise.And in his rally, he clearly violated that order. It's not even questionable. So look, we're just following the law. He is not following the law.And that's where his problems lie, not with me. My job is to enforce the law and that's exactly what I plan on doing. >> So, t ...

To those absent members, you can go to another city, another state, even another time zone. But you cannot escape your responsibility to the people of Texas. Eventually, you will be here.Tomorrow, when the gavl drops, the question is simple. Will you be in that chair to vote for these critical disaster recovery bills, or will you be remembered as one who did not show up. The choice is yours.And that happened just a couple minutes ago. That's the speaker of the Texas Legislative State House um basically sayi ...