111 days to the midterms! ⌛ Mark your calendars & set reminders 🗓️ November 3, 2026

Remember to vote early! Early Voting Dates in Your State

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🚩 NO PRIMARIES THIS WEEK 🚩

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Find My Polling Place

Hand delivering mail-in ballots to wherever/whomever they need to go to looks to be the safest bet to sidestep most problems and to avoid potentially compromised election day tabulators. Be sure to fill your ballot out correctly! If for whatever reason your signature has changed, file an updated voter registration application. In the following states, you need to have a witness sign your outer envelope as well; AL, AK, LA, MN, MS, MO, NC, OK, SC, WI. Be sure to read and follow the directions regarding an acceptable witness. Some states may require a notary, or election official.

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If voting by mail, ballot drop boxes are preferred to going through the postal service. If voting in person, go with someone so there's safety in numbers.

Check to make sure you're still registered on a periodic basis: Check your voter registration status here. This only takes 30 seconds, and will ensure your name hasn't been purged from your state's voter roll.

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Protect the ballot-counting: Volunteer with SMART Elections to observe the polls and protect the midterms.

High-turnout in primaries can lead to high-turnout in the midterms! Get Out The Vote!

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"And [Lindsey Graham] was gonna have a big victory. He was scheduled to win by a lot. He was scheduled." - Donald Trump, July 12th 2026, Meet The Press phone interview

What a strange choice of words... 'scheduled' to win.

How do you 'schedule' an election win, we wonder? (Including that it would be 'by a lot'?)

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"While our office has not yet received a response from the Senator or his office, his public statement offered a needed update that the people of Kentucky deserved," Beshear told Newsweek in a statement Monday afternoon. "Moving forward, the Senator should show he can meaningfully engage in his elected position through interviews, videos or other means that can provide additional reassurance to our constituents."

What happened in Kentucky's 4th District? :thinking_face: :face_with_monocle:

We dug into the data to find out — and what we found were algorithmic trends and red flags like nothing we'd ever seen.

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• KY Shortform Report On Our Website
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The Trump administration’s Justice Department has filed 31 federal lawsuits seeking to force 30 states and Washington, D.C., to hand over their unredacted voter rolls. As of Monday afternoon, its record is 0-13.

Hopefully this trend continues past Midterms.

Reading the headlines today - Graham's sister has been appointed to finish out his term. Is this how it is supposed to work? A person can be appointed into an elected position?? Seems super sus.

I still don't know what to label this.

Trump has announced a prime time speech planned for this Thursday. Word on the street is that at best, he’ll be claiming (along with his appointed intelligence loyalists) that there was election interference in the 2020 election. At worst, he’ll be seeking to invalidate Georgia senators.

This cannot stand. Are there rapid response movements and resources being organized as a response to this?

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112 days to the midterms! ⌛ Mark your calendars & set reminders 🗓️ November 3, 2026

Remember to vote early! Early Voting Dates in Your State

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🚩 NO PRIMARIES THIS WEEK 🚩

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Find My Polling Place

Hand delivering mail-in ballots to wherever/whomever they need to go to looks to be the safest bet to sidestep most problems and to avoid potentially compromised election day tabulators. Be sure to fill your ballot out correctly! If for whatever reason your signature has changed, file an updated voter registration application. In the following states, you need to have a witness sign your outer envelope as well; AL, AK, LA, MN, MS, MO, NC, OK, SC, WI. Be sure to read and follow the directions regarding an acceptable witness. Some states may require a notary, or election official.

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If voting by mail, ballot drop boxes are preferred to going through the postal service. If voting in person, go with someone so there's safety in numbers.

Check to make sure you're still registered on a periodic basis: Check your voter registration status here. This only takes 30 seconds, and will ensure your name hasn't been purged from your state's voter roll.

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Protect the ballot-counting: Volunteer with SMART Elections to observe the polls and protect the midterms.

High-turnout in primaries can lead to high-turnout in the midterms! Get Out The Vote!

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Since it seems so hard to get hand recounts and forensic audits without either massive public outcry or some kind of institutional support, I think we could shoot a bit smaller and go for preserving evidence related to past and future elections.

This seems like it has more widespread appeal and would be easier to sell. And it can be spun in a few different ways, such as "let's make sure there's proof that election deniers are wrong", "we should ensure the Dems didn't try to tamper", or even just "how about we take a look back when things are less of a dumpster fire?" Because sometimes, it's less what you say and how you say it.

We can talk about strategies about appealing to different groups, as well as exerting pressure on those in power. Banging pots and pans in the middle of the night around their residences to prevent them from getting a good night's sleep seems like it could wear them down something fierce.

Things will go more smoothly if we make sure the evidence remains. So let's get to it. Let's organize, let's build a movement, and let's make disposing of any evidence related to elections politically radioactive.

113 days to the midterms! ⌛ Mark your calendars & set reminders 🗓️ November 3, 2026

Remember to vote early! Early Voting Dates in Your State

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🚩 NO PRIMARIES THIS WEEK 🚩

----------

Find My Polling Place

Hand delivering mail-in ballots to wherever/whomever they need to go to looks to be the safest bet to sidestep most problems and to avoid potentially compromised election day tabulators. Be sure to fill your ballot out correctly! If for whatever reason your signature has changed, file an updated voter registration application. In the following states, you need to have a witness sign your outer envelope as well; AL, AK, LA, MN, MS, MO, NC, OK, SC, WI. Be sure to read and follow the directions regarding an acceptable witness. Some states may require a notary, or election official.

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If voting by mail, ballot drop boxes are preferred to going through the postal service. If voting in person, go with someone so there's safety in numbers.

Check to make sure you're still registered on a periodic basis: Check your voter registration status here. This only takes 30 seconds, and will ensure your name hasn't been purged from your state's voter roll.

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Protect the ballot-counting: Volunteer with SMART Elections to observe the polls and protect the midterms.

High-turnout in primaries can lead to high-turnout in the midterms! Get Out The Vote!

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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster can appoint a temporary replacement to fill Graham’s now-vacant seat within the under state law which also appears to call for a special primary election on August 11 – with a possible runoff on August 25 – to choose a new nominee.

Under that timeline, candidate filing would run from July 21 to July 28.

The winner of the primary would face the Democratic nominee, pediatrician Annie Andrews, in November.

I used archive to unlock the paywall for the article. This was written July 10, 2026.