Voting is Democracy
Keep it now or lose it forever
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Watching Republicans and Conservatives madly exploit their hopefully brief moments of hegemony to dismantle any election laws intended to make voting easier, makes us wish that there was someone with authority declaring these activities as the seditious acts that they are and forbidding them. Once the courts would have upheld our laws and our Constitution. Now we have partisan courts and the judges appointed to the courts that lean right keep making decisions that support this administration in dismantling the Constitutional rights of American citizens.
Both parties understand the existential nature of the 2026 midterms. Republicans are playing offense to engineer the election to stay in power. Their strategies include:
1. Letting the right gerrymander state districts while acting aghast when Democrats use gerrymandering as a defense.
2. Campaigning to make mail-in voting suspect and therefore illegal.
3. Using ICE to intimidate voters.
4. Requiring national picture ID’s which would make it difficult for married women and some minorities to vote.
5. Making Americans believe that our elections are no longer free and fair.
6. Trying to nationalize elections that the Constitution gives to the states.
7. Gutting the voting rights act in the exact moment when white nationalism is gaining power.
8. They have ideas that will jerry rig the Electoral College votes.
9. They can keep making full use of the Supreme Court, which they expect to rule in their favor.
But just think about it - would Republicans be this paranoid if they believed they would win the midterms fair and square?
No matter how difficult they make voting, vote blue at what could be our last moment to participate in a free and (somewhat) fair election. If we don’t have a blue wave we could lose our last grip on democracy and languish in an authoritarian state that favors billionaires over those of us who are not billionaires. The American we get will be even less recognizable than the one we have now.