A court blocked Trump’s attack on mail voting. But voting advocates aren’t celebrating yet

• Despite the win, Trump’s legal opponents aren’t ready to take a victory lap, given this administration’s predilection for defying and dodging court decisions.
  
  
• “There are these ongoing attempts to circumvent court orders or do things through the back door that courts have told them they can’t do through the front door,” one expert told Democracy Docket.

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Meanwhile, one state official issued a clear warning against Trump’s mail ballot rule

• In comments submitted to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs (D) said the proposed rule — which seeks to implement part of Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order — is unnecessary, unconstitutional and unworkable for states that already administer secure vote-by-mail elections.

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Update on ICE at poll location

• Local election officials in Upstate New York said they were frustrated and alarmed by two federal immigration agents confronting a poll worker over a social media post during the state’s primaries earlier this week.
  
  
• Kevin Ryan, Onondaga County’s Republican elections commissioner, told Democracy Docket the ICE agents should not have entered the polling place.

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Far-right stokes fears of ‘nightmare’ Democratic midterm sweep to push for election takeover

• Prominent far-right figures and influential election deniers have escalated their rhetoric about what will happen if Democrats emerge victorious in this fall’s midterms.
  
  
• The alarming statements raise concerns that conservative figures with close ties to the president may be using their connections to push the Trump administration to take drastic measures to interfere in November’s elections.

➤ Inside their bonkers conspiracy theories

Republicans sue Colorado in surging attack on overseas voters

• The Republican National Committee filed a new lawsuit today seeking to block certain U.S. citizens living abroad from voting in Colorado — the second such lawsuit within a week and the latest escalation in the GOP’s exploding campaign against overseas voters.

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The SAVE America Act doesn’t have the votes — but GOP still wants to censure John Thune

• South Dakota Republicans are moving to censure Thune for being "at odds with President Donald Trump" by failing to pass the SAVE America Act.
  
  
• The move underscores just how much of a priority the anti-voting bill has become to the GOP.

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Kansas GOP scheme could cancel election in bid to weaken voters’ power to elect U.S. senators

• There’s growing concern over a potential scheme that could deny voters a say in this year’s U.S. Senate race and let GOP state lawmakers silence voters’ voices on who represents them in Washington.

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Marc’s thoughts on a judge blocking Trump from killing your mail ballot

• “The courts did the right thing. Voters were protected. Democracy was on the docket, and it won.” Marc breaks down three major court victories against Trump's effort to restrict voting, collect sensitive voter data and undermine mail-in ballots before 2026.

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