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[David French @DavidAFrench]

Pathetic.

Once again the Republicans send the same message -- loyalty to Trump is more important than respect for the law.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

For anyone excited by the latest (rehashed) fan fiction that Maduro helped rig tabulators for the 2020 election...

A reminder that Georgia has paper ballots.

You can't hack paper.

And it counted those paper ballots 3 times. Once by hand.

Each count yielded the same result.

[Sofia B. Kinzinger @sofiakinzinger]

Let me explain the reason behind this post…

Everything—absolutely everything—has to be viewed through a political lens. Why? Because the base has to be constantly reinforced with a sense of victimhood. They have to believe that, without the party, they would be left behind, ignored, and persecuted.

The goal is to make them see the world as dark and dangerous—an existential threat to everything they value. When people are taught to fear everything around them, they’re far more likely to cling to the people promising to protect them.

Who needs hope when fear keeps people loyal?

[Rep. Jared Huffman @RepHuffman]

Every American should be outraged by what Trump has done to our nation's 250th birthday celebration. What should have been a once-in-a-generation moment to unite the country has been turned into another vehicle for division, propaganda, and political gain.

We uncovered how he hijacked America 250 – watch to see how.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts.

I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me:

There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States.

The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud.

This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal:

A presidential commission under President Donald Trump.

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena.

Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government.

State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud.

Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems.

Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud.

Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud.

What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud?

Ask The Heritage Foundation.

For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an “Election Fraud Database.”

The database contains “proven instances of election fraud.”

It covers elections going back nearly fifty years.

That’s billions and billions of American votes.

Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is:

1620.

That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things:

1. Some individuals commit election fraud.

2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA.

The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time.

It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that.

Stop trying to subvert our democracy.

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@Brcremer Meritocracy

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

Fun Fact: Mass deportations have created virtually no jobs for American workers. None.

[Tom Bonier @tbonier]

They’re openly admitting that the SAVE act is constructed to suppress Democratic votes.

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

We should pass Scott’s bill. Pay TSA. Do not pay ICE.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Dear Christian,

Undocumented immigrants can’t vote. It is a crime that results in prison and/or deportation.

Only 68 instances of this has happened in the last 40 years, by the Heritage Foundation’s own report.

Saying tons of undocumented immigrants are voting is a lie.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

It's such a harmful Christian theology that looks at wars and famine and says, "This might be the fulfillment of End Times prophecies!" and "Jesus might be retuning soon!" instead of "look at how much people are suffering” and “how can we stop this injustice?"

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This was the goal. Make life miserable at VA for employees. Cut staff so it’s failing. Then declare it’s unfixable and privatize it to billion dollar healthcare and insurance companies who are dying to sink their teeth into 9 million new government funded patients. This is why Doug Collins was hired. This is in Project 2025.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

See, if you want your criticism to be taken seriously, Erick, you shouldn’t have supported Trump. The guy who invited Kanye West and Nick Fuentes to dine w him at Mar-a-Lago. Who retweeted a supporter shouting White Power. Kash Patel went on Stew Peters podcast 8 times! I mean

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

.@ruthbenghiat nails it:

"I have seen this brand of strongman megalomania and the adverse effects it can ultimately have on leaders and their governments. I call it autocratic backfire. …

"As autocrats surround themselves with loyalists who praise them and party functionaries who repeat their lies, leaders can start to believe their own hype. As they cut themselves off from expert advice and objective feedback, they start to promulgate unscrutinized policies that fail. Rather than course correct, such leaders often double down and engage in even riskier behavior — starting wars or escalating involvement in military conflicts that eventually reveal the human and financial tolls of their corruption and incompetence. The result: a disillusioned population that loses faith in the leader and elites who begin to rethink their support."

https://t.co/b5sws25OJP

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@andrewmercado @GovTimWalz You’re the only person I’ve seen explain this situation accurately.

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[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

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@StealthQE4 I live in Coronado, love that view!

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[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Trump is ranting about voter fraud. Again. As usual, he offers zero proof for his claims.

There’s one thing I know for a fact about voter fraud: There is no voter fraud of any consequence anywhere in the US. And the reason I know that is that the Republican Party has proven it to me.

For decades, the Republican Party has been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of voter fraud. The GOP has been armed with vast amounts of power and money in this search; it’s one of the most massive efforts to examine voting records in our history:

A Presidential Commission under Trump in his first term, well-funded and armed with the power of subpoena, went hunting for voter fraud.

The Department of Justice under Trump was given a specific order that every US Attorney in the country look for voter fraud, armed of course with the power of subpoena.

Committees of Congress controlled by Republicans, also with subpoena powers, have called witnesses and tried to amass evidence.

Republican-controlled state legislatures and regulatory bodies have also looked—also using subpoena powers.

Conservative think tanks and academics have trained their analytical tools and joined the search.

Fox News and the rest of the Trumpist media have investigated.

The result is hilarious.

In 2017, the Heritage Foundation set up an “Election Fraud Database” to collect all the data from this enormous effort. Heritage looked at elections going back to the 1970s—that’s billions of American votes. To be fair, they did not look at every single election or every single precinct or every single vote. But they scoured the records in search of “proven cases of election fraud,” and to this day they continue the search.

The tally to date: 1600 cases.

All that money. All that power. All that time and effort across the country, for decades. And that’s what they’ve got? Yeah, they’ll tell you this paltry number proves their case. That tiny number—among billions of America votes cast—that’s the tip of the iceberg! But that ain’t no iceberg. It’s not even an ice cube. The water isn’t even cold.

So I thank the Republican Party for achieving the impossible: They have proved a negative. There is no voter fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States.