4 big takeaways from key federal election commission’s  annual meetings Democracy Docket was among the few outlets covering the gatherings.

🚨NEW: Just months before the 2026 midterms, election officials warn of chaos, executive overreach and interference.

From a looming Supreme Court ruling to a federal voter data network push, here are key takeaways from this week’s EAC meetings in Chicago.

🔊On Tuesday, Virginians will head to the polls to vote on Democrats’ redistricting plan aimed at countering GOP gerrymanders nationwide.

If approved, the state could gain up to four more blue seats in Congress in the 2026 midterms.

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Grijalva to RFK Jr: "You apparently once cut the penis off a roadkill raccoon"

Trump DOJ scrambles to salvage Minnesota voter roll case — but files wrong document and leans on shaky new claim Facing mounting defeats, DOJ has asked courts to let it send new letters to states — effectively a do-over. In Minnesota, the department appears to be trying a different approach and retroactively sup...

🚨BREAKING: After losing five straight cases attempting to access state voter rolls, the DOJ tried to patch a key legal flaw in its Minnesota lawsuit — only to attach the wrong document and rely on a single, disputed allegation as its new justification. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

THREAD: I've now analyzed @massgovernor.bsky.social's proposed social media legislation and ...

... it is somehow even worse than the House bill that passed last week (which was already one of the worst bills on this issue we've seen in the US.)

You might wanna sit down for this. Here goes: 🧵

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

🇪🇺 Will #ChatControl 2.0 (CSAR) result in indiscriminate mass scanning of our chats after all? EU govts reviewing all options (Politico leak): www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/...
Council so far uncompromising on “voluntary” mass scanning. And your gov?
Trilogue […]

The new social media ban in Massachusetts is so sweeping in its definition of "social media" that it would require age-verification for Wikipedia.

You don't protect kids by cutting off resources.

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New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages We've covered here before on individual US states setting up their own age verification laws, and now a new US Congress bill has been proposed for it.

New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages
#Gaming #USA #PCGaming #US #AgeVerification

Healey proposes bill to limit time young people can spend on social media Healey's bill seeks to force social media companies to implement “age assurance” systems and disable common features like infinite scroll for young users.

“Governor Healey is right that we can’t trust Big Tech, so why does she want to force our kids to send them even more data, and force them to share that data even more widely?”

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Trump attracts a certain type...

Are we serious right now?

Why are we referring to 15-year-old girls as women?

DOJ said Vermont was violating federal voting laws. Asked for evidence, it couldn’t provide any The hearing comes less than a week after a federal judge dismissed a similar DOJ lawsuit against Massachusetts on comparable grounds.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) admitted it has no evidence that Vermont is not complying with federal voter roll maintenance laws — an admission that could further weaken its case for amassing voters’ sensitive data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

The PR guy at DoorDash is having a bit of a crash out

23 Major News Sites Have Blocked the Wayback Machine – Digital History In Danger Major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine, threatening your ability to verify claims and track editorial changes in digital journalism.

The @archive.org 's Wayback Machine, a digital time machine that has preserved over a trillion web pages over the past 3 decades, is facing systematic blocks from major media outlets.
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🚨 Count US IN v. Morales Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS Indiana law banning the use of a student ID for voting. A huge victory my law firm, our clients Count US IN and Women4Change Indiana, and the voters of Indiana.

Another reminder that when we fight we win! www.democracydocket.com/cases/indian...

In major win for voters, judge blocks Indiana GOP’s student ID ban While Indiana argued the ban was necessary to protect election integrity, the court found no evidence that student IDs had ever posed a problem.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Tuesday blocked Indiana’s ban on using student IDs for voter identification, a victory that will make it easier for students and young voters to cast ballots in the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Maricopa County election staff told to grant FBI unrestricted access, new emails show The emails depict Arizona election offices preparing for possible federal intervention while at least one top local official offered support for the probe.

‼️Election administrators in Maricopa County, Arizona ordered staff to grant federal agents sweeping, unmonitored access to election facilities — including instructions not to record their actions — according to newly released emails. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Internet Archive's Wayback Machine under severe threat by publisher blocks The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is one of the web’s most valuable resources, enabling us to access earlier versions of...

🚨 Save the Wayback machine! 9to5mac.com/2026/04/13/i...

Sign: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-03... @fightforthefuture.org #Waybackmachine #PublicRecords #Archiving #Openaccess #Opendata

This week, Congress will vote to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), one of the US government’s most objectionable, widely abused surveillance policies. Section 702’s abuses were exposed by Edward Snowden.

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an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera . ALT: an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera .

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

CTRL+ALT+DEL loss comic except JD Vance runs into the room to find two beds, with Viktor Orban and the Strait of Hormuz.

No wonder the (free) world hates America.

Bannon referred to Orban as "Trump before Trump."

Well, Orban is gone. MAGA is next.

So are they going to keep holding CPAC conferences in Budapest or no

Less than three hours after the polls closed, Viktor Orban conceded that he lost. Five years after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he still falsely claims that he won.

Tomorrow, I offer my analysis of what this means for the midterms. Subscribe now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Orbán has lost.
Putin has lost.
Trump has lost.
Hungary has won.
Ukraine has won.
Democracy has dealt a major blow to totalitarianism and wannabe dictators.