🚨BREAKING: U.S Department of Justice files voter suppression lawsuit targeting North Carolina voter registration. The weaponization of DOJ for political gain is here. Subscribe to Democracy Docket to stay informed. https://hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
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Great question. Decency is gone, even when we’re back in office. Corruption runs deep and I hope for our future generations that they get control of this asap.
They just stole the board of elections and..https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/north-carolina-election-board-state-supreme-court-race-griffin-boliek-riggs/
Just like Vance and the Gulf, but not trans people, they will just change their name on a whim and expect everyone to go along with it with a snap of their fingers.
Like I have said before, midterms are going to be controlled by trump and his goons before we even get there. They have planned for everything. Trump has no intention of leaving the White House. Plan accordingly.
how do you fight a facist government between elections. Our system of laws do have a tool called BIVENS ACTIONS - the question are "damages".. we may want to talk about the dmages of a corrupt government in history & globaly for those damages.
Let's hope this backfires as tariffs jack up prices and seniors learn about the possibility of cuts MEDICARE if PAYGO is triggered by a ballooning deficit. There's also the attempted shackling of the judiciary's power to charge this administration with contempt. Education about the truth is key.
Damnit! So tired of the attacks on us from every angle. We cannot let democracy die in NC. Thank you, Mr. Elias for having our backs and fighting for NC voters!
But other than presidential elections it’s each individual state that is responsible for elections and the state legislature passes the voting laws for the state. NC was the state that was gerrymandered with surgical precision according to one court and SCOTUS won’t take it up
We at least broke the veto proof majority in the state legislature, but just barely. NC is a 50/50 state among registered R’s and D’s but you would never know it by the make up of our state legislature
NC has been 3/4 gone for years now. Watching from Virginia, I've seen democrats win only to be trampled on by the corrupt gqp. They're an abomination, but they've been fairly effective.
We also need to work together on defending ourselves. I do not have enough people looking to work with me are we going to do as a united when this comes to our doorsteps. I reach out to others and don't get much back.
May I suggest someone try to get this information on all the 6:30 pm news broadcasts on @nbcnightlynews.bsky.social @cbsnightlynews.bsky.social & @abcworldnews.bsky.social?
I don’t quite get the outrage if the department of justice says that there was voter suppression in North Carolina why wouldn’t you want it investigated?
Yeah, some of those it’s quite confusing saying the department of justice is investigating I read a bunch of comments saying the government’s coming to take away all rights so the government would be the Department of Justice. The whole thing is quite confusing.
I haven’t seen the suit, but I imagine it’s because one of the losing NC Supreme Court candidates just spent six months trying to get 60,000 voters disenfranchised over a technicality, but lost a case about it in federal court and finally conceded.
illegally tipping the election scales is their goal to keep all their seats-that is how republicans have been strong armed into standing behind everything trump wants-even this enormous ridiculous egotistical "birthday parade" for trump-all paid for with tax payer dollars not his own money
Thank you Marc for all your work. It is all so exhausting but we all have to stand up for democracy whenever we can. Indivisible has another national day of protest planned for Jun 14-
Thank you Marc for getting on this! We rest easy knowing you are fighting for us! It’s here and you’ll knock it out so we don’t get locked into their bs.
As a North Carolinian I am certainly not surprised. The GOP here is incredibly corrupt and I’m sure are pushing this forward with the regime. However we won’t roll over
Thank you for reporting this. We need to keep our eyes on what will win the voters: the economy, specifically the economy for workers--of all types. They will have trouble getting jobs, trouble buying groceries and paying utilities, trouble getting healthcare.
That #14 tho...
Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of Fascism
Historian Lawrence Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet and found they had 14 elements in common; these are the identifying characteristics of fascism https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/
They want to ensure that the party who is now refusing them federal disaster aid doesn’t face voters in a fair election. The GOP and their unpopular, reactionary policies can’t win a fair election anymore, which is why they’ve been working on disenfranchisement for decades.
Well, I'm about to register as a Dem there. I will work to GOTV and register as many young people as I can. DOJ is a ghoulish death squad. They should wear the Deaths Head caps of the Nazis.
Real IDs are also a poll tax. In North Carolina is takes months, many many months, just to make an appointment. In the meantime if you don’t have a passport you can not fly. The NC GOP legislature made sure to break the DMV
DOJ targeting NC with lower vote margins than he's lie? What did DT say about weaponization of the DOJ? By his actions, "It's weaponization if you oppose me legitimately, but it's okay if I weaponize the DOJ against you for any reason and to anyone because you disagree with me."
This lawsuit is BASED on an Executive Order?!?!?
This ‘EO carry weight’ crap has got to go. There is ZERO Executive Order power in the constitution-period.
It is as made up as corporations are people- bullshit!
Same SCOTUS that made corporations have more rights than actual humans though. Very dark days are here and getting darker. Is it time for the torches and pitchforks yet?
We need both houses with 10+ majority to fix this shit.
1st -13 federal jurisdictions means there should be 13 justices- period. Add 4 seats immediately. Preferably the KBJ model.
Unbought, unbossed!!!!
US Department of INjustice filed a lawsuit against the State of North Carolina +the North Carolina State Board of Elections for "failing to maintain an accurate voter list"
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Corrupt DOJ alleges the State of NC used a voter registration form that "did not meet" their felonious [BS] GOP 'standards' ?
I just moved from NC after 14 years. The repugnicans are SO corrupt in NC they actually thought that a self-proclaimed "black NAZI" would make a good Governor! 😅
The OM (orange menace) screamed "election interference" about every issue, but in reality, he spends all energies on suppressing the vote in order to have a chance to win with his disastrous, cruel, and destructive regime.
I think the boundaries will be changing one way or another. We can't remain a single nation like this for much longer.
It's unlikely that those who are brainwashed by the right will have a change of heart in time.
The division is systemic and irreconcilable. We'll split up eventually.
The MAGAt bs is a symptom of their Christo-Fascist ideology IMO. Which is the biggest divide that I see. They may wake up from the Trump MAGAt BS but that Christo-Fascist crap won't change anytime soon.
Just another after the fact attempt by Republicans to cheat. The Republicans have the majority in our state legislature. They already redrew the district map and even admitted that they did it to favor Republicans and probably responsible for keeping the majority in the House
I was born and raised in Columbus and the type of politicians I remember were more like Tim Ryan than Jim Jordan. Governor Dewine seemed to start out as a more moderate Republican, but not anymore. Even though I no longer live in Ohio I sent donations to Sherrod Brown
And Charleston actually voted for a Democrat to be mayor. Hopefully Mace’s district will see that she’s no different than Gaetz or MTG. Publicity whores looking to build their brand and not legislating. Mace is pretty pathetic and doesn’t care about her constituents
I’ve lived in NC since ‘87 and I’m grateful for the Yankees moving south. The old south is dying. Just not fast enough. Greenville has been disappointing. I caught a more liberal vibe, unless the influence of Bob Jones university is stronger than I thought
It’s worse than that—she is contemptuous of us and verbally abusive as well. We must vote in numbers to make the voter suppression shenanigans irrelevant.
The DOJ and the GOP will rig upcoming elections, so the GOP will win. I hope every voter in NC calls their legislator and tells them you don't like what they are doing to voter registration, and you won't vote for leaders that cheat. These voting citizens are your friends and neighbors.
Try calling Democratic members of Congress - all of them not just your own. Ask them to do townhalls and set up volunteers to help register people to vote. Then call the republicans and tell them you'll fund anyone that runs against them if they continue to suppress the vote. Call often.
Americans need to stop participating. Stop. No work, no buying. Shut everything down for as long as it takes. Otherwise they will bully us until we give up
I feel the same. I do not understand how so many people are just sitting idly by and watching as they attempt to dismantle everything that makes our country so wonderful.
In NC the @northcarolinagop.bsky.social has a supermajority. We need to change that. WTP know that they are racist and classist, meaning that they discriminate openly. Real people need to be voted in.
We knew this was coming! If you listen to what he said about never having to vote again, and watch the unhinged way he is turning our democracy into an autocracy! And Musk has already done shady things in the 2024 election and special elections. They’re all over it. Democratic politicians stand up!
It is no longer the GOP and we need to start calling it what it is - MAGA.
When "GOP" members, like my Congressman Don Bacon, talks like a GOP but votes for every MAGA piece of shit legislation, they can no longer be considered anything but what they are. MAGA.
Trumps administration is nothing but corrupt and must, at all costs be STOPPED in its tracks. This is pure treason and the American people have to show up and defend our Nation and Constitution!
Our longtime Republican State legislature has us so hogtied by gerrymandering that sometimes it's hard to see the point in voting. Maybe one of these days...
Agree 100%. I’ll gladly jump In a line of people geared up and ready to drag current corrupt politicians and their billionaire backers off to the guillotines but jumping in a voting line currently is fucking pointless. It’s EXACTLY like Charlie Brown trying to kick Lucy’s football.
Definitely not. People waiting to turn it around in 2026 during the midterms haven't noticed things that happened in 2024 and things happening now. Not saying not to vote, VOTE! Only that it will take far more. We should be in the streets marching daily.
We know the drill by now: Give a deadline to fix the registration forms - Don't do a good job of giving notices before that deadline to the people affected - Try to then boot these same people from the voter rolls when they don't respond - A federal judge then has to put a stop to it - Repeat. (1/2)
The thing is, even with this blatant attempt to amplify the Gerrymandering effect, the current polls in NC suggest that it wouldn't make a difference. For some reason, being screwed out of your SS and Medicaid to give the rich a tax break doesn't seem to sit well with the average American...🤔 (2/2)
Rick Scott was the CEO of a healthcare company that pled guilty to the largest Medicare fraud EVER & pled the 5th multiple times in the case. He the got elected 2x for Governor & as US Senator! That is even he proposed a GOP platform with drastic Medicare cuts. So…
Yep. Jom Trafficant in Youngstown, Ohio, I guess now 40 years ago, had his hand so deep in the mob's pocket that he was in jail, got elected from there I think. He's Trump 1.0.
Watch them target everywhere the democrats have won. They came with their plans and they are executing them whether legal or not they are putting the work. Democrats are the only suckers that like to play by the rules and wants the o be nice.
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The White Nationalist cult can’t win if people show
https://youtu.be/tDvZLjnEewo
If we can't, we'll have to fight our way out of this dictatorship!
How do you know that she isn't doing anything?
Keep doing what you're doing to fight the DC Monsters.
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#selfreform
https://chng.it/HhS9tDDsZv
https://thecommoncoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TheCommonCoalitionReport_5.14_NM.pdf
https://www.wral.com/story/trump-doj-sues-north-carolina-over-election-claims-similar-to-jefferson-griffin-lawsuit/22026229/
http://www.nokings.org/
Anybody listening? The end of democracy is coming. Move your lazy asses if the sofa, stop texting and get into the streets.
Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of Fascism
Historian Lawrence Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet and found they had 14 elements in common; these are the identifying characteristics of fascism https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/
DOJ.
https://chng.it/jYJjGSrXLf
At this point, The GOP a cliché. The Republicans Party since The New Deal was institutionalized by FDR.
We the People NEED another FDR moment. This time it needs protections in place against Oligarchs violations.
This ‘EO carry weight’ crap has got to go. There is ZERO Executive Order power in the constitution-period.
It is as made up as corporations are people- bullshit!
1st -13 federal jurisdictions means there should be 13 justices- period. Add 4 seats immediately. Preferably the KBJ model.
Unbought, unbossed!!!!
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Corrupt DOJ alleges the State of NC used a voter registration form that "did not meet" their felonious [BS] GOP 'standards' ?
“The most violent element in society is ignorance”.
-Emma Goldman
Disgusting!
Way to fucking go.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-help-america-vote-act-lawsuit-against-north-carolina-inaccurate
The sane states should become independent Nations and then form a Union like the EU with us 🇨🇦.
Divorce your MAGAty abusers.
It's unlikely that those who are brainwashed by the right will have a change of heart in time.
The division is systemic and irreconcilable. We'll split up eventually.
Project 2025 is moving ahead
'voter suppression'
The Supreme Court is corrupt.
How many times a day do you sigh and say 'what a freakin dumbass'?
How will America ever stand proudly on the world stage again?
We're in dire times
I sure appreciate you and your team, @marcelias.bsky.social
Sorry to hear about Bo. Too soon, man. Too soon.
Instead please share how you might help us in your own unique way.
“You only lose if you quit. Do not settle.”
why??
is it their ports?
trump needs NC to go red or else his election fraud in that state sends him to prison
https://bsky.app/profile/surgemar82.bsky.social/post/3lhrqopkdds26
https://bsky.app/profile/whosyourmimi.bsky.social/post/3lpsixsfqbk2n
I'm trying to not be a doomer, but it's all so bleak.
if you’re a doj lawyer how do you respect yourself with loss after humiliating loss
showing up like a kid who didn’t do the book report
If not , it's not even newsworthy.
Not one post.
Why are they even here at all? I’m not being snarky. I’m confused!
https://thecommoncoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TheCommonCoalitionReport_5.14_NM.pdf
When "GOP" members, like my Congressman Don Bacon, talks like a GOP but votes for every MAGA piece of shit legislation, they can no longer be considered anything but what they are. MAGA.
*If you're packed 65-35%, the 35% can still win on turnout because the other side feels safe.
*They get nervous when it's close.
*Refusal to comply in advance.
*Sheer contrariness.
Even after they’ve lost over and over they always pull some crap because they cant stand losing.
It’s pathetic and shameful.
@marcelias.bsky.social
I’ll take 1,000 paywalls for you to have more time with Bode. 💔
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