📢 Trump and His Republican Accomplices Want to Cheat in 2026
Trump and his Republican allies know they can’t win fairly in 2026 — so they’re trying to cheat. We expose their efforts to rig elections and urge people to speak out and show up for democracy.
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America was founded on fairness — the promise that power comes from the people, not kings or billionaires. Our democracy depends on a straightforward rule: if you can’t win the people’s vote fairly, you don’t deserve power. But Donald Trump and his Republican accomplices know they can’t win on their record, so they’re trying to cheat.
They’re attacking the system itself through three major schemes: gerrymandering red states, undermining the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court, and weaponizing the Election Assistance Commission to block voters from the ballot box. If they succeed, 2026 would not mark just another election — but the end of free and fair elections as we know them. I urge you to watch these three spaces:
Gerrymandering Red States
Federal law already prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, yet Trump and his cronies are spreading this falsehood to justify a gerrymandering crusade. Trump’s approval is tanking, his policies are failing, and Americans are paying the price — higher costs, worse healthcare, and government chaos. So now they are trying to rewrite the rules: banning mail-in ballots, controlling how states count votes, and installing an election conspiracy theorist inside the Department of Homeland Security.1
Consider this finding: under the new map in Texas, about 445,000 white residents would be needed to win one congressional seat, but 1.4 million Latino residents and 2 million Black residents would be required to win a comparable seat.2 In effect, the votes of Black Texans are being discounted — it takes nearly five times as many Black residents to equal the political weight of white residents. That’s shameful and un-American.
Republicans aren’t interested in solving problems like high grocery or housing costs — they’re trying to lock in power before voters can hold them accountable.
The Supreme Court on Fair Representation
On October 15, the Supreme Court will hear Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — the law protecting voters from racial gerrymandering. After Louisiana finally adopted a fair map allowing Black voters equal representation, Trump-aligned forces are seeking to undo that progress and take the Voting Rights Act (VRA) down with it.
This is the same Court that upheld the VRA just two years ago. If they reverse themselves now, it will be an open declaration that fairness — and the votes of Black Americans — no longer matter.
Friendly reminder: the last time Congress reauthorized the Voting Rights Act, it passed overwhelmingly — 390–33 in the House and 98–0 in the Senate.3 Its enforcement in states like Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia proves beyond doubt that these protections are not relics of the past — they remain essential to ensuring fair and equal representation today.
The Election Assistance Commission’s New Barriers
Meanwhile, Trump’s allies at America First Legal, co-founded by his extremist adviser Stephen Miller, are pushing new voter registration rules that would force millions to re-prove their citizenship — even though they already have.4 Passports, Real IDs, military papers — documents many working Americans don’t have readily available — would be required to register.
This isn’t “election integrity.” It’s voter suppression by design. It would disproportionately harm women, students, rural voters, and low-income Americans — precisely the groups MAGA Republicans want off the rolls.
The Choice Before Us
Trump and his Republican accomplices are waging war on fairness itself. They want to rig the maps, the courts, and the registration system to steal power they can’t win honestly. But the same spirit that defeated kings and segregationists still lives in us.
When the powerful try to silence us, people power rises. Across the country, ordinary Americans are standing up, speaking out, and showing up — in town halls, at rallies, in courtrooms, and at the ballot box. We organize in our communities, build coalitions, and demand that our leaders serve the people, not the wealthy or well-connected.
Every letter we send, every call we make, every protest we join adds up to something unstoppable — the collective force of democracy in action. We hold the line not just by voting, but by building power together.
Because fairness isn’t a gift from the powerful — it’s something we defend repeatedly through courage and unity. And we will rise again to meet that test.
Today’s Urgent Calls to Action
Click here to sign on to our petition to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to reject an illegal and unnecessary voter registration requirement that would effectively block millions of Americans from voting by imposing severe barriers to registration.
Click here to Stop the “Show-Your-Papers” Voter Suppression Rule
Click here to Tell Lindsey Graham: Stop Pushing Illegal Third Trump Term
Click here to check out our latest song and video: Do You Hear the People Healing?
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https://www.propublica.org/article/heather-honey-dhs-election-security
https://time.com/7310875/texass-map-racial-division
https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114010/documents/HHRG-117-JU10-20210816-SD103.pdf
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/right-wing-groups-press-election-agency-on-proof-citizenship-rule-for-voter-registration/
Each state should do a public exposure of every republican in their state.
Love the song, Laurie.