Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A Republican dark money group blankets Virginia with deceptive mailers ahead of redistricting vote Ads targeting Black voters compare Virginia's redistricting referendum to Jim Crow.

A dark money group funded in the past by Peter Thiel has given nearly $9 million to a GOP-led PAC that is blanketing Virginia with mailers comparing the upcoming redistricting referendum to Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president With Virginia on board, the National Popular Vote Compact is now enacted in states worth 222 electoral votes. Here's what that means.

Big news: Gov. Spanberger signs bill making Virginia 18th state + DC to join National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

States in compact now total 222 electoral votes, 48 shy of 270 needed for popular vote plan to go into effect

www.npr.org/2026/04/14/n...

A landslide in Wisconsin will make it much harder for MAGA to steal elections Progressives won a massive victory in a crucial state Supreme Court race.

Progressives controlling majority on Wisconsin Supreme Court through at least 2030 is BFD. Means they can prevent Trump and his allies from trying to steal another presidential election in the state & potentially block another round of GOP gerrymandering www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Breaking: progressive judge Chris Taylor wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Currently leading by 20 points! Liberals will now control majority on court through at least 2028. They’ve won 4 straight elections to expand majority to 5-2

Under Save America Act Trump most likely would be ineligible to vote by mail in Florida. He wasn’t out of town during the entire voting period and he doesn’t have a documented medical hardship

Trump wants to end mail voting. The Supreme Court’s conservative justices appear eager to assist. The Republican National Committee and the Trump administration want to overturn mail ballot deadlines in 29 states.

Media always focuses on rare instances when SCOTUS rules against Trump like tariffs and consistently underplays how they gave him king-like power & have turbocharged GOP’s war on voting for past two decades www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump wants to end mail voting. The Supreme Court’s conservative justices appear eager to assist. The Republican National Committee and the Trump administration want to overturn mail ballot deadlines in 29 states.

Trump pressuring Congress to ban mail-in voting as part of Save America Act & now MAGA-aligned Supreme Court justices echoing his conspiracy theories to potentially disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters in advance of midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Disenfranchise Tens of Millions? Trump’s SAVE Act Targets Women, Poor, Rural & Trans Voters Experts are calling it “the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress.” As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Trump-backed voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, millions of ...

“There's a reason why voting rights advocates believe this is the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress."

All the ways Save America Act would hurt Republicans:

-10 states with lowest passport ownership all voted for Trump

-GOP women 2x likely as Dems to change last name & have mismatched docs

-rural voters who skew R forced to drive up to 8 hours to show citizenship docs at election office

The world is on fire. Gas prices are rising. Republicans are trying to make it harder to vote. Instead of ending the Iran war or improving the economy, Senate Republicans are championing Trump's MAGA voter suppression bill.

Senate Republicans could be trying to end the Iran war or improve the economy. Instead, they are championing Trump’s MAGA voter suppression bill.

Instead of addressing the issues that Americans actually care about, Senate Republicans are spending the next week or more attempting to make it harder to vote.

On Tuesday afternoon the Senate began debating the SAVE America Act. Watch:

Trump claims Save America Act will “guarantee the midterms” for Republicans. It won’t. 10 states with lowest rates of passport ownership all voted for Trump www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The world is on fire. Gas prices are rising. Republicans are trying to make it harder to vote. Instead of ending the Iran war or improving the economy, Senate Republicans are championing Trump's MAGA voter suppression bill.

Iran war is a disaster. Gas prices are rising. Economy is tanking. So what are Trump & Republicans singularly focused on? Making it harder to vote www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Shorter GOP: Let's spend weeks pushing a bill that would disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans even though we have no evidence to support it

Nonprofit libraries ordered by State Department to stop processing passport applications The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall, informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport...

Trump admin orders libraries to stop processing passport applications...at same time they want to require citizenship docs like passport to register to vote www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

30 countries use mail voting

In case you’d forgotten Arizona Republicans hired “Cyber Ninjas” to audit 2020 election result in Maricopa County & Biden picked up 360 more votes when it was done

This Week on The Podcast: @motherjones.com's @ariberman.bsky.social discusses the alarming ways the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to cheat and interfere in the 2026 midterms and what is standing in their way. Listen to the episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

These far-right conspiracists are pushing Trump to take control of voting Election deniers are lobbying the president to declare a national emergency.

Far right election deniers lobbying Trump to declare national emergency so he can:

-seize voting machines
-outlaw mail voting for most Americans
-force every American to re-register before midterms & every subsequent election

Insane wannabe dictator fever dream www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

These far-right conspiracists are pushing Trump to take control of voting Election deniers are lobbying the president to declare a national emergency.

The far right election deniers pushing Trump to declare a national emergency to seize control over voting include a Florida man suspended by the bar twice and sanctioned by a federal court and the guy who started the birther conspiracy against Obama www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Justice Alito’s latest opinion is a very, very bad sign for voting rights A decision upholding a New York GOP congressional district could be a prelude to killing the Voting Rights Act.

"Alito is essentially saying that districts drawn under the Voting Rights Act to remedy centuries of racial discrimination are as racist as the racism they were meant to rectify."

Read @ariberman.bsky.social on how the justice's latest opinion could portend the killing of the VRA.

"Alito is essentially saying that districts drawn under the Voting Rights Act or other federal and state laws to remedy centuries of racial discrimination are as racist as the racism (including the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow) they were meant to rectify"

Justice Alito’s latest opinion is a very, very bad sign for voting rights A decision upholding a New York GOP congressional district could be a prelude to killing the Voting Rights Act.

Even by his standards Alito’s opinion in NY redistricting case last night was totally unhinged. If he’s writing majority opinion in Voting Rights Act case that’s very very bad news www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hypocrisy of Roberts Court is astounding: they’re inventing one set of rules to uphold gerrymandered maps that benefit white voters & Republicans in states like Texas while using a completely different set of rules to strike down maps that benefit racial minorities & Democrats

From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s recent attempts to seize state voter data set a chilling precedent for how his administration might interfere in the midterms should Republicans lose the House, Senate, or key state races.

Watch:

The GOP’s “show us your papers” bill Is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections “If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted"

During his State of the Union speech, Trump claimed that the SAVE America Act is supposed to protect election integrity.

In actuality? It's just another effort for Trump to take over the midterms.

Unpacking Trump's Voting Proposals from the State of the Union | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC Mother Jones' Ari Berman offers analysis of President Trump's State of the Union address, especially his talk of voter fraud and push to pass the SAVE act.

ICYMI, @ariberman.bsky.social offers analysis of Pres. Trump's calls for passage of the SAVE Act:

www.wnyc.org/story/unpack...

Who Save America Act could disenfranchise:

-146 million without passport

-69 million married women who took spouse's last name

-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs

-21 million without current drivers license

-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office

Trump’s last executive order on elections was blocked by the courts and the next one will be too. He can’t unilaterally usurp the power of Congress & the states