[T]he Department of Justice raided the Fulton County, Georgia, election office and seized ballots and other materials related to that election. The raid followed a failed attempt to have a federal judge order the materials turned over as part of a civil case.
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Forget the fact that Trump and his allies filed, and lost, eight cases aimed at throwing out the results. In Trump’s mind, the facts are irrelevant. He is only concerned with his false narrative that he was the victim in 2020.
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None of this is a coincidence. It is a strategic effort to cast doubt on the veracity of the 2020 election. Never mind that Georgia conducted two full recounts — one by machine and another by hand.
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The government obtained a search warrant listing specific federal crimes that a partisan U.S. attorney in Missouri is apparently investigating.
We don’t yet know who the target of the investigation is, but we can expect it will be aimed at inflicting maximum damage.
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Last week in Davos, [Trump] pointed directly to what he was doing:“The 2020 U.S. presidential election was rigged. It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that. They found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. That’s probably breaking news.”[...]
If Trump can use the DOJ to seize ballots from a 2020 election office, he will believe he can do the same everywhere in the country in 2026.
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While we don’t yet know what was presented to the magistrate judge who approved the Fulton County search warrant, recent experience shows the possibility that it contained misstatements.
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With Supreme Court-conferred immunity and a GOP-controlled Congress, the question we must confront is this: Who is going to stop him?
Democracy Docket
UPDATE 01/31/2026:
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