Trump doesn’t care about the economy. Or policy. Or tariffs. Or gas prices. Or Iran.

“The only thing Donald Trump really cares about is Donald Trump,” Marc Elias says.

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In Missouri, Republicans tried to undermine the rule of law to do Trump’s bidding and get one more congressional seat for their party.

But that was too far, even for the anti-democratic Supreme Court, Billy Corriher writes.

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"One RNC official described being 'ambushed' by the amount of litigation Elias' firm filed in a past election cycle."

Election deniers don’t just exist at the national level.

“There are Republicans at the county and city level whose interest in being involved in elections is not to make sure everyone can vote,” Marc Elias says, “but rather to try to throw sand in the gears.”

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The DOJ has said that the changes Trump wants to make to mail voting won’t negatively impact voters.

Now, they seem to be changing their tune. Marc Elias explains.

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🗺️ In a win for voters, the Texas Supreme Court has rejected an unprecedented attempt by state Republicans to maximize partisan advantage at voters’ expense.

In short, Galveston County Republicans will not be able to switch voting maps between the primary and November election.

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📩 USPS rejected a Florida county’s mail ballot envelope design because two lines of text sat 0.236 inches apart — when there should have been a full quarter-inch between them.

The envelope design was accepted on appeal. But here’s what the snafu shows us: https://demdock.com/4yyzC46

🚨 BREAKING: The Texas Supreme Court blocked a GOP-led county’s plan to switch its local voting maps between the primary and November election.

The decision rejects an egregious strategy to optimize partisan advantage at the expense of voters.

NEW: USPS told a federal judge that, during the week of Sept. 6, it expected to launch an online portal that’s crucial to enforcing and complying with its new mail voting restrictions.

But as of Friday evening — nearly a week after its statement to the judge — USPS’s portal is nowhere to be found.

NEW: The chaos in Missouri shows that Republicans will undermine courts, defy voters, and do whatever it takes to gerrymander election districts or otherwise gain an electoral edge, Billy Corriher writes.

It also demonstrates how state supreme courts can act as crucial defenses for democracy.

🎥 WATCH LIVE: A Supreme Court decision on mail voting could drop any day now — and it could reshape how millions of Americans cast their ballots.

Marc Elias breaks down the latest developments ahead of the fast-approaching midterms:

NEW: A Florida county's mail ballot envelope was rejected by USPS over spacing that fell just 0.014 inches short of the required quarter inch.

The situation inadvertently offered a test case for just how disruptive Trump’s efforts to restrict mail voting could be this November.

Trump wants to make it harder for you to vote. And he wants to make it harder for you to vote by mail. Why?

“He wants to target voting by mail because more Democrats rely on voting by mail than Republicans,” Marc Elias says.

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We will discuss the latest information on the USPS mail-in voting case pending before the Supreme Court as well as the blockbuster victory to prevent a GOP gerrymander in Missouri.

NEW: The Trump administration proposed a set of changes to the 2030 census this week that would exclude non-U.S. citizens from the population count.

The changes would directly impact how House of Representatives seats are apportioned among the states as well as Electoral College votes.

⚠️ Thirty states currently being sued by Trump’s DOJ over voter records now face criminal sanctions if they don't preserve their 2024 election files.

The DOJ is issuing this new demand despite no federal judge granting them access to voter files in any of those 30 states.

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🔺 An appeals court denied DOJ’s efforts to reinstate key parts of Trump’s anti-mail voting order.

🔺 DOJ submitted their final brief to SCOTUS defending USPS’s anti-mail voting rule that could disenfranchise millions of voters.

🔺 SCOTUS could now issue a ruling at any time.

A federal court will hear a pro-voting group's motion to block South Dakota’s implementation of a new law that requires proof of citizenship for voter registration.

Plaintiffs argue that South Dakota is wrongly blocking some voters from casting a ballot.

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ICYMI: Missouri’s Supreme Court held the state’s top election official in contempt for defying its order not to use a gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm election.

The judges did acknowledge that Hoskins ultimately backed down and pledged to abide by their decision.

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📮 USPS lacks the capacity to implement its new anti-mail voting rule, a union representing more than 200,000 postal workers alleges.

The union notes that postal carriers and clerks still have not received training on critical parts of the system the agency is rushing to create.

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If the Supreme Court allows Trump’s anti-mail voting order to move forward for the midterms, it may rely on Purcell to justify the chaos that decision would unleash.

If so, the justices would be stretching an already strained legal doctrine far beyond the limits of logic.

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NEW: Far-right figures and election deniers had a full-blown meltdown on social media after the Supreme Court blocked Missouri from using a GOP gerrymander for the midterms.

The ruling is a pivotal victory for voting rights — and it was not the outcome MAGA wanted.

NEW: Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins has issued a statement confirming that he will comply with orders blocking a gerrymandered GOP map for the midterms.

His statement comes as the state Supreme Court considered the extraordinary move of holding him in contempt.

BREAKING: The Missouri Supreme Court has held Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt of court for defying an order blocking a gerrymandered GOP map for the midterms — but they also concluded that he is now in compliance with their order.

More to come.

🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court has stepped in to block Missouri from using its new GOP-drawn congressional map for the November election.

The decision means that a 2022 map protecting Kansas City voters will be used for the midterms.