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Early voting has already started, but that hasn't stopped the Trump administration from meddling in elections and continuing to suppress the vote. DOJ just dropped a list of voters it wants disqualified and has threatened legal action against a key state in the midterms if they don't comply with their ridiculous demands. Join Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias LIVE as he breaks it down. Trump defied a judge's order to stop putting out self-aggrandizing political ads, and once they stopped airing on TV, he took them to YouTube – further placing himself on the wrong side of the law. Republicans in Georgia want to appoint election deniers to the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, but the Georgia Supreme Court doesn't seem very eager to overrule the Board of Commissioners that rejected the nominees last year.

Over the weekend, a federal judge issued an injunction barring Trump's self-aggrandizing, illegally taxpayer-funded ads from being aired, but they continued to play anyway. The Trump administration has made a habit of ignoring court orders and blowing through deadlines and giving lame excuses. The reason they are able to continue doing so is because the federal judiciary has yet to hold them to account for their flagrant disregard for the law. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias explains why federal judges need to stop extending the Trump administration any benefit of the doubt in order to protect our elections and the rule of law, and discusses why using your individual voice to spread news of Trump's defeats is essential.

Donald Trump has attacked Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias personally for years, because he knows Marc is a bulwark against his illegitimate claims of election fraud. The truth is Trump has racked up losses in court, including in his 2022 lawsuit against Marc and Hilary Clinton, who he accused of racketeering. A federal judge not only dismissed that case, but sanctioned Trump and his legal team, ordering them to pay nearly $1M. Last week, Trump revived that baseless grievance by taking his hatred for Marc Elias all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.In this week's episode of Election Watch, Marc Elias explains why he keeps fighting and winning against the corrupt Trump legal apparatus in defense of free and fair elections – and why our obligation as pro-democracy citizens is so important to upkeep.

Trump's most fervent election denier allies are begging him to take over voting machines and ballots just weeks before the midterms. Join Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias LIVE as he breaks it down. Tina Peters’ lawyer says her plan is to grab ballots “as soon as the machine spits them through.” In 2020, Trump’s own lawyers stopped a plan to seize machines. But who is stopping them this time? Marc also covers a MASSIVE court win: A federal judge just shut down the Trump DOJ’s nationwide voter data program, which handed millions of voters’ records to ICE. But ICE isn’t done. It investigated hundreds of voter registration groups and won’t say whether agents will show up at the polls.

ICE never wanted you to see these: internal government documents obtained by legal nonprofit Democracy Forward show that Homeland Security Investigations has been probing nonpartisan groups that help register citizens to vote in battleground states. They even went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents to target these nonprofits for registering "illegal alien" voters, though no evidence of such activity appears to have been found. ICE also collected tens of millions of voter records and considered feeding state election data into a system used to locate people for deportation. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias details the explosive findings and explains how deeply ICE has become involved in elections.

Less than 30 days before the midterms, Trump told a reporter that anyone looking for mail voting fraud should "start off by taking a look at California." Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias explains the real reason Trump is targeting the state: its 52 congressional seats could decide control of the House. Because California counts mail ballots for days after the election, Trump will have a window to lie about the results and try to interfere.

When asked earlier this year if he regretted not seizing voting machines and ballots after the 2020 election, Donald Trump said, "Well, I should have." Now he's telling us exactly what he plans to do in this year's midterms, and this time, we should believe him. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias explains why the biggest threat may come after the polls close and what you can do to stop it.

Weeks before the midterms, election deniers on Georgia's election board quietly asked Trump's DOJ to intervene. Their letter is full of excuses: attacks on the state's voting machines, demands for last-minute software changes and unsubstantiated claims of "altered records." Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the excuses in the letter and why it fits Trump's long obsession with controlling how Georgia's votes are counted.

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can once again use a flawed database to help Republicans purge eligible voters from the rolls, just weeks before the midterms. Some are calling it a partial win. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias sees a warning. He breaks down the footnote in the majority opinion that leaves the door open, the upcoming Supreme Court case that could slam it shut on voters and why he refuses to look for a bright side when Trump and elections are involved.

Have you ever wondered why bombastic right-wing content seems to travel further and faster on social media than tempered analysis and commentary? Podcaster and author David Pakman joins Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias to discuss how the algorithms that control what you see on YouTube and other platforms favor content that targets "scapegoats and enemies with pithy language," and why the next influencer in your feed might not be a real person at all.

Democrats just sued to block Trump's latest voter intimidation efforts. The administration has been suggesting for months that they will deploy armed federal agents at polling places, even though federal law says it's a crime. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the lawsuit filed by Democratic leaders and explains why the threat matters even if Trump loses in court. The threat of federal agents at the polls serves to intimidate and discourage voters from showing up to cast their ballots.

For the 25th consecutive time, Donald Trump's Department of Justice has lost its case attempting to access sensitive voter data. With just over 40 days left until Election Day, Americans are thinking about how to afford the skyrocketing cost of living – but Donald Trump's only focus is disenfranchising voters in order to tilt the scales in his favor. In this video, Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias explains why free and fair elections are the biggest threat to Trump's authoritarian goals.

Everywhere Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias goes, he's asked two questions: what is Trump going to do next, and is he worried? The first one is easy, because Trump has said, over and over, that he plans to seize control of vote counting in the 2026 midterms. The second one is harder — and it's the one that's been keeping him up at night.

Donald Trump just did something extraordinary on stage at the RNC convention: he made Republicans raise their right hand and pledge to him personally — then pledge that they're going to "cheat like hell," whether they're registered to vote or not. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down why this moment matters and why it confirms what he's been warning for months: Trump's plan for the midterms isn't to win a fair fight, it's to make it harder for you to vote and easier for Republicans to cheat.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. — appointed by Donald Trump — just blocked the U.S. Postal Service's new mail-in voting rule, delivering another major setback to the administration's effort to restrict how Americans vote just 50 days before the midterms.Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias breaks down the ruling in DSCC v. Trump, handed down late Sunday by Judge Carl Nichols. This ruling is separate from the related mail-in voting case out of Massachusetts, which is still pending before the Supreme Court. Marc walks through how the two cases differ, what a Trump appeal could look like next and what voters need to know as ballots start going out.