"Owing to the fevered narratives proliferating across right-wing media, many have come to believe that the nation faces a scourge of "illegal" voting and wide-scale fraud. But this misdirection, shrill as it is with racist dog-whistles, is itself a fraud perpetrated against democratic rights. The right-wing battle for voter suppression, long waged primarily at the state level, is now being perpetrated by the federal government and the Department of Justice (DOJ) itself."
"The Trump administration has proven it will go to extreme lengths, however sinister or farcical, to flatter its leader, reward its cronies, and improve its position through bullying and force. By installing sympathizers, firing expert federal overseers, eradicating the DOJ's checks on power, and even criminally investigating critics among Trump's own officials, the second Trump administration has been able to turn the DOJ to its own ends."
U.S. democratic integrity has escalated into a severe threat under the second Trump administration, driven by fevered right-wing narratives alleging widespread "illegal" voting and fraud. Those narratives operate as misdirection and racist dog-whistles that facilitate voter suppression. Voter-suppression efforts that were once primarily state-led are now being advanced at the federal level through DOJ intervention. The administration has installed sympathizers, removed expert overseers, weakened internal checks, and pursued critics, enabling the DOJ to be used for partisan ends. Federal efforts now include aggressive legal attempts to wrest control of confidential state voter-roll data. Federal enforcement actions in battleground states have produced violent confrontations and civilian casualties, even as large segments of the population mobilize in response.
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