THOUGH this was first posted a year and a half ago NOT MY pres drumpf's/trump's ignorance these past few weeks makes it appropriate to post again. ELBOWS UP CANADA!!! Real Americans still love you!!!
BUCKNACKT'S SORDID TAWDRY BLOG We should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive & well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate, bier or wein in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WHOO-HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!"
09 September 2026
Here is Trump’s blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms 8SEP26
I AM NOT AN ALARMIST. The neo-nazi fascist drumpf/trump-vance administration with the gop / greed over people-republican party, scotus, the fascist heritage foundation and right wing "religious" extremist are and have been opposed to our democratic Republic and want to replace it with an authoritarian theocratic oligarchy. If enough of us, the loyal opposition, turn out and vote in every precinct, community, and state we can save America. Remember, ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD, 2026! DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT! We need to make sure everyone who really loves our country votes. Remember to confirm you are registered to vote and your voting location information at Rock The Vote by Wednesday, 28 October 2026. You can also register to vote through Rock The Vote, check with them as soon as possible for the last date to register to vote in your state. NOTE-as long as you are in line to vote when the polls in your state close you will be able to vote and your vote will count! This from Democracy Docket.....
We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime. Ballots have already started to be sent out. The threats to free and fair elections are real and growing more serious by the day.
What once seemed like an abstract threat has now become concrete. The risk of a rigged election is no longer unthinkable. The need for action can no longer be delayed or denied.
I have often said that Donald Trump’s plan is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for him to cheat. Now we know what that will look like in 2026.
Donald Trump issued an executive order claiming powers over federal elections that he does not have. In response, the U.S. Postal Service is trying to ram through a rule that will make voting by mail more difficult while requiring states to turn over sensitive voter data.
The Postal Service has not been shy in making clear that it is taking these steps to allow federal law enforcement to conduct criminal investigations of alleged voter fraud.
That is not all the USPS has done to make voting more difficult. A series of smaller changes have resulted in slower mail service and delayed postmarks on envelopes. While these are not limited to returned ballots, the results have been devastating for those trying to vote by mail.
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice continues to sue for access to states’ complete voter files, while the head of its Civil Rights Division is threatening to deploy 1,000 federal agents to “monitor” polling places in the midterm elections.
The Department of Homeland Security is readying so-called state citizenship lists to send to states, a thinly veiled threat to state officials to purge voters… or else. And things are escalating quickly. Now word has come that the DHS will launch a massive witch hunt to investigate evidence of nonexistent, widespread voter fraud.
The weaponization of government against Trump’s political enemies is in full swing and out in the open. Under Trump’s direction, the DOJ will now target state election officials under the guise that they have permitted illegal voting.
Republicans and their allies are litigating to make voting more difficult and election subversion easier. Recently, the Republican National Committee joined the Trump administration in asking the Supreme Court to gut a federal law that limits last-minute voter purges.
Election offices, which in the past served to protect the integrity of elections from attacks by bad actors, are now being overrun and infiltrated by election deniers trying to sow doubt from the inside.
Individually, each of these developments is troubling. Collectively, they paint a damning picture of an authoritarian president trying to rig the vote before it happens. This government-sponsored voter suppression is on a scale we have not seen in our nation’s history.
While nearly all of what I describe above is undisputed fact, it has been normalized by a legacy media intent on not taking sides. That must end now.
In the past, some have called me an alarmist. Critics have accused me of being too aggressive in fighting back. They suggest I find more room for compromise and seek bipartisan solutions.
There is no virtue in turning a blind eye to voter suppression to meet Republicans halfway. There is no vice in remaining firm against election subversion, even if it requires standing alone.
It is not spreading conspiracy theories to draw the obvious connections between the individual efforts of this administration and their GOP allies to obstruct free and fair elections.
Donald Trump is the unquestioned originator and leader of the election denier movement. But he is not its only adherent.
The plan to subvert the midterm elections may have originated in the White House, but it is being carried out by dozens of federal agencies, outside groups, and Republican officials.
Defeating it in the short time remaining will require a similarly focused effort by the pro-democracy community. That means recognizing the strengths that we all bring to this fight.
As Election Day nears, Democratic candidates and parties will necessarily step to the forefront in the courtrooms. As I often point out, it is no coincidence that the 2000 election was decided in a case captioned Bush v. Gore. Nor was it by chance that I represented Joe Biden and the Democratic Party in more than 60 cases in the 2020 post-election litigation.
The role of candidates in litigation has become more important. The Supreme Court recently granted them unique standing to challenge nearly all election rules and laws. According to the Chief Justice John Roberts, unlike other potential parties to litigation, “candidates suffer when the process departs from the law.”
That does not mean there is not an important role for other pro-democracy organizations to play in the courtroom and out. On the contrary, providing nonpartisan information to voters, organizing direct action and supporting election officials who do the right thing are vital to our system of elections.
The most important work, however, belongs to the citizens of this country. Each of us must make sure we understand the rules for registering to vote and casting a ballot. We must share that information with those in our circles of trust.
We must also call out the efforts to suppress the vote for what they are — an assault on democracy. We must insist that our election officials, regardless of party, stand up against those barriers. And, after the ballots are cast, we must remain engaged until the accurate results are certified and the rightful winners take their seats.
The next few months will be long and hard. But democracy is worth the fight.
We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime. Ballots have already started to be sent out. The threats to free and fair elections are real and growing more serious by the day.
What once seemed like an abstract threat has now become concrete. The risk of a rigged election is no longer unthinkable. The need for action can no longer be delayed or denied.
I have often said that Donald Trump’s plan is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for him to cheat. Now we know what that will look like in 2026.
Donald Trump issued an executive order claiming powers over federal elections that he does not have. In response, the U.S. Postal Service is trying to ram through a rule that will make voting by mail more difficult while requiring states to turn over sensitive voter data.
The Postal Service has not been shy in making clear that it is taking these steps to allow federal law enforcement to conduct criminal investigations of alleged voter fraud.
That is not all the USPS has done to make voting more difficult. A series of smaller changes have resulted in slower mail service and delayed postmarks on envelopes. While these are not limited to returned ballots, the results have been devastating for those trying to vote by mail.
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice continues to sue for access to states’ complete voter files, while the head of its Civil Rights Division is threatening to deploy 1,000 federal agents to “monitor” polling places in the midterm elections.
The Department of Homeland Security is readying so-called state citizenship lists to send to states, a thinly veiled threat to state officials to purge voters… or else. And things are escalating quickly. Now word has come that the DHS will launch a massive witch hunt to investigate evidence of nonexistent, widespread voter fraud.
The weaponization of government against Trump’s political enemies is in full swing and out in the open. Under Trump’s direction, the DOJ will now target state election officials under the guise that they have permitted illegal voting.
Republicans and their allies are litigating to make voting more difficult and election subversion easier. Recently, the Republican National Committee joined the Trump administration in asking the Supreme Court to gut a federal law that limits last-minute voter purges.
Election offices, which in the past served to protect the integrity of elections from attacks by bad actors, are now being overrun and infiltrated by election deniers trying to sow doubt from the inside.
Individually, each of these developments is troubling. Collectively, they paint a damning picture of an authoritarian president trying to rig the vote before it happens. This government-sponsored voter suppression is on a scale we have not seen in our nation’s history.
While nearly all of what I describe above is undisputed fact, it has been normalized by a legacy media intent on not taking sides. That must end now.
In the past, some have called me an alarmist. Critics have accused me of being too aggressive in fighting back. They suggest I find more room for compromise and seek bipartisan solutions.
There is no virtue in turning a blind eye to voter suppression to meet Republicans halfway. There is no vice in remaining firm against election subversion, even if it requires standing alone.
It is not spreading conspiracy theories to draw the obvious connections between the individual efforts of this administration and their GOP allies to obstruct free and fair elections.
Donald Trump is the unquestioned originator and leader of the election denier movement. But he is not its only adherent.
The plan to subvert the midterm elections may have originated in the White House, but it is being carried out by dozens of federal agencies, outside groups, and Republican officials.
Defeating it in the short time remaining will require a similarly focused effort by the pro-democracy community. That means recognizing the strengths that we all bring to this fight.
As Election Day nears, Democratic candidates and parties will necessarily step to the forefront in the courtrooms. As I often point out, it is no coincidence that the 2000 election was decided in a case captioned Bush v. Gore. Nor was it by chance that I represented Joe Biden and the Democratic Party in more than 60 cases in the 2020 post-election litigation.
The role of candidates in litigation has become more important. The Supreme Court recently granted them unique standing to challenge nearly all election rules and laws. According to the Chief Justice John Roberts, unlike other potential parties to litigation, “candidates suffer when the process departs from the law.”
That does not mean there is not an important role for other pro-democracy organizations to play in the courtroom and out. On the contrary, providing nonpartisan information to voters, organizing direct action and supporting election officials who do the right thing are vital to our system of elections.
The most important work, however, belongs to the citizens of this country. Each of us must make sure we understand the rules for registering to vote and casting a ballot. We must share that information with those in our circles of trust.
We must also call out the efforts to suppress the vote for what they are — an assault on democracy. We must insist that our election officials, regardless of party, stand up against those barriers. And, after the ballots are cast, we must remain engaged until the accurate results are certified and the rightful winners take their seats.
The next few months will be long and hard. But democracy is worth the fight.
08 September 2026
Germany’s Far Right Tops Key State Race, but Falls Short of Power 6SEP26
Germany’s Far Right Tops Key State Race, but Falls Short of Power
The Alternative for Germany party is projected to finish first in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. But lacking a majority, without the help of other parties it cannot become the first far-right party to govern a state since 1945.
The Alternative for Germany party dominated a crucial state election on Sunday, according to near-final results, but fell short of the absolute majority that would have made it the first far-right party to govern part of the country since the Nazi era.
If those results hold, the AfD, as the party is known by its German initials, could still assume power in the eastern Saxony-Anhalt state in the coming weeks, depending on the outcome of negotiations among rival parties that have vowed not to support an AfD government.
Saxony-Anhalt is a relatively small state, and the heart of the AfD’s power base in eastern Germany. But the result has sent shock waves through the country’s political system, which was designed after World War II to prevent extremist parties from ever returning to power.
The political establishment has treated the AfD as a pariah, but the party tapped into voter frustration on a wide range of economic and social issues to win about 44 percent of the vote in the state, and was set to claim 39 of the 83 seats in the Parliament.
“We’ve made history, and we’re taking our country back,” Ulrich Siegmund, the party’s candidate to lead the state, told a cheering crowd on Sunday evening. “It all starts here in Saxony-Anhalt.”
Exit polls suggested that many of the AfD’s gains came at the expense of the center-right Christian Democrats, the party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz that also led the incumbent government in the state. Amid record turnout, the AfD won the support of many Germans who were casting ballots for the first time, including a wide plurality of young voters.
The far-right AfD has surged to lead national polls, as centrist parties bleed support and struggle to forge the consensus needed to sideline the far-right party.
The domestic intelligence agency has designated the AfD as a “suspected extremist” group. Some of the party’s leaders have played down the Holocaust and adopted Nazi slogans. Others have strong ties to Russia. The AfD has also said that Islam is incompatible with the German Constitution and has vowed to conduct mass deportations of immigrants.
The AfD has rejected accusations of extremism as politically motivated.
The party appealed to voters in Saxony-Anhalt with promises to revitalize a sagging economy, and its supporters, especially in eastern Germany, say the AfD is their best chance to break mainstream parties’ hold on political power.
They delivered such a blow on Sunday. Sudha David-Wilp, vice president of external relations at the German Marshall Fund, said the result in Saxony-Anhalt “stands as a harbinger for the inability for mainstream parties to form stable coalitions.”
They will have to build such a coalition in Saxony-Anhalt, if they hope to prevent the AfD from assuming power. The Christian Democrats, who finished a distant second, could end up leading the state if they can build a coalition with four other parties: the center-left Social Democrats and Greens, the far-left Die Linke, and the populist Sahra Wagenknecht alliance, known by its German initials BSW.
But some Christian Democrat leaders in the state have said they would not work with Die Linke, calling it extremist. BSW leaders have also said they would not support the current state leader, Sven Schulze of the Christian Democrats, or the AfD.
Reporting from Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
Muhammad Hassan, 27, a native of Pakistan, said he has done all he can to assimilate in Germany since he arrived in 2023. He learned German, obtained his drivers license, finished his masters degree in water engineering, secured a job as a technical draftsman drawing underground infrastructure like sewage and electrical lines. But he fears that his dream of a free, secure life in Germany is colliding with the rise of the AfD just one year before he becomes eligible for permanent residency.
“When I see today’s situation,” he said, referring to the election, “it has totally disappointed me because what I have dreamed, I cannot see right now.”
Reporting from Berlin
We’ve passed 90 percent of the votes counted. The AfD still looks likely to fall short of an absolute majority. The prospects for a rival coalition coming together remain unclear.
Here’s one quick scenario being tossed around in Berlin political circles: The BSW, a populist party with policies associated with both the left and the right, could at some point abstain from voting for a state leader. In that case, the other parties — the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, Greens and Die Linke — would have one more seat than the AfD, and just enough to elect a leader of their choice.
Reporting from Berlin
One big reason the AfD will fall short: the apparent success of the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance, known by its German initials BSW. The party seems likely to win more than 5 percent of the vote, the threshold needed to win seats in the state parliament, and it could effectively decide who governs Saxony-Anhalt. BSW is a populist party with policies associated with both the left and the right. Its leaders have said they will neither back the AfD nor the current state leader, Sven Schulze of the Christian Democrats.
Reporting from Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt
Addressing a crowd of supporters in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s lead candidate in the state election, called his party’s victory historic. “We’ve made history, and we’re taking our country back,” he told a cheering crowd. “It all starts here in Saxony-Anhalt,” he said.
Reporting from Berlin
About 80 percent of the votes have been counted in Saxony-Anhalt, and it looks increasingly likely that the AfD will fall just short of the absolute majority of seats it needs to be assured of taking power in the state.
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