Will Bunch: Texas primary exposed GOP scheme to rig the 2026 midterms

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https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/dallas-voting-problems-gop-midterms-20260305.html

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A man named Justine Marine had arguably the toughest job in America on Tuesday: “Election navigator” in Dallas County, Texas, where a confusing, Republican-engineered change in voting rules for 2026 left many voters dazed, confused, and miles from the place where they were supposed to be casting ballots.

“There are a lot of infuriated voters,” Marine told a reporter for the Votebeat website as he struggled to do his job outside the Anita Martinez Recreation Center in West Dallas, where he encountered voters as they arrived at the large polling center. It seems that this election worker heard a lot of words that aren’t found in the Bible as he told every second or third voter they were supposed to be somewhere else.

“I walked up here because I want to vote so, so bad,” Veronica Anderson told a reporter after traveling two and a half miles on foot to Dallas’ Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, only to be told she could only cast a ballot at some other location she’d never heard of. She added that the rejection felt like “your self-esteem and everything is torn down.”

That level of despair is exactly what Donald Trump’s Republican Party is going for, as America this week kicked off an eight-month mad dash to a November midterm election that will be pivotal for the nation’s barely-breathing democracy.

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1. We MUST be better prepared to defend against the...

...felon's / trumpublican's "whatever it takes to hold power" onslaught heading our way

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221057403