With election denialists installed in key positions, officials using series of measures to change voting rules
The Trump administration is waging war on voting rights using justice department lawsuits, FBI investigations, and an executive order to limit voting by mail, moves mirroring the US president’s false claims he lost the 2020 election due to voting fraud, say election experts and ex-officials.
Since Donald Trump began his second term, numerous 2020 election denialists have been installed in key agencies such as the DoJ, the FBI and elsewhere to pursue widely discredited claims of fraud, which can intimidate election workers and voters in swing states that Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020.
The justice department has also filed lawsuits seeking sensitive voter data from 30 states – even though, by law, states control elections – and the FBI has launched investigations into debunked allegations of voting fraud in Georgia, Wisconsin and a few other swing states that Trump lost in 2020.
Americans need to organize and convince more people to stand up for their rights and fight back. The protests happening now are a good start but won’t change anything, as you already said. Most Americans are content to make excuses and sit around while fascism takes over the country and by the time they realize the problem it’ll be too late. Most Americans think the next step after protests and strikes is to start shooting, which is the first thing you jumped to too. It’s not. The next step is to ramp up the resistance until the media and the fascists can’t ignore it anymore.