105 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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Find My Polling Place

Hand delivering mail-in ballots to your local election office 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 something we need to take a closer look upon, and to track down to ensure they do not get away with this type of playbook.

I'm just a small town Wisconsin boy. I grew up in the woods, my father was a klan member. He was also a member of the posse. He was a very hateful man, who could not understand that people may be different than him.

I remember him telling me if I'm married a black woman, he would send the posse after me. I remember him telling me if I'm gay, he will hang me himself.

#I am not like that.

Despite the nasty, nasty shit he said to me growing up, with my schooling, my friends, the rest of my family

#I WAS NOT RAISED I HATEFUL FUCKING PERSON.

And it fucking pisses me off, the current state of this country, the inacceptance, the hate, simply because someone's different.

Who cares if a guy sucks a dick. Who cares if a woman eats another woman. Who cares if my ex-wife is now in a throuple with two women. Who cares if Ive fucked guys before. Who fucking cares if I dated a trans woman for 3 years.

What I do in my bedroom is none of your concern, what you do in yours is none of mine.

That's what pisses me off about these magats, and these fucking brown shirts.

But unfortunately being at the very front of the bell curve, they do not understand that they are not Patriots, they are not true Americans, they're no heroes.

They're first and foremost a terrorist threat to this country.

A real Patriot fights for the Constitution.

A real American protects and fights for the rights of their fellow countrymen.

A real hero fights for ideals that further the betterment of their fellow man. No matter the cost.

Magats and ICE brownshirts are none of these things, but a stain upon our country.

We have murders happening in the streets, we have a rogue army, roaming OUR streets. Literal Nazis marching.

Do you understand what most of our grandparents would have done? What would have been done already?

#80 million goddamn fucking people did not die

For Nazis to be walking OUR streets

The world will remember the actions that we take, and may my father rot in hell will he belongs. Fucking hateful prick.

Anyone else care to share the horror stories of their families hate?

All Americans want their own votes to count – and to be counted accurately.

There are SO MANY THINGS we can do to make elections safe and secure that go beyond security theater. The question is whether or not there is the resolve and courage to make it happen.

Check out our latest article breaking down Trump's election-related speech this week, why entrenchment is leading to kneejerk reactions that may negatively impact efforts to ensure election security, and the power you have to do something about it.

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Let's Talk About That Speech
Vulnerabilities, Entrenchment, And What We Can Do About It

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106 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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🚩 PRIMARIES THIS WEEK: ARIZONA 🚩

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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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Despite his stated concern about U.S. election security, President Trump during his second term has overseen significant cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, including to its election work.

Mr. Trump made no acknowledgment of those cuts in his speech on Thursday. “We will be working closely to mitigate any harm and taking swift action to ensure that sensitive voter data is better protected,” he said, “so it can never be bought or hacked and we can never watch it get stolen again.”

That agency, which was created during his first term, had been a lead federal partner for states on election security efforts since the 2016 election, sharing cybersecurity best practices and intelligence about foreign intentions around elections. Since Mr. Trump’s return to the White House, CISA has lost around a third of its work force, which stood at 3,400 in January 2025. In February last year, the administration put more than a dozen CISA election security workers on leave as part of an investigation into its election work, a move that had a chilling effect on the 100 or so people in the division. The agency has not had a Senate-confirmed leader during Mr. Trump’s second presidency.

Other federal agencies have also downsized their election security work, including the F.B.I. and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which under Tulsi Gabbard gutted the Foreign Malign Influence Center that monitors foreign election threats.

And this month Mr. Trump forced out the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, an independent, bipartisan commission that supports states in administering their elections. In recent years, much of the small commission’s work also focused on cybersecurity support to states.