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USA TODAY: Fair elections in 2020 are under attack. Here’s how we can protect the vote.

The public should be prepared for the fact that they likely won’t know the winner of the presidency on election night as absentee counting may take several days to complete. The freedom to vote is a foundation of our democracy. Preserving it depends on Americans being able to vote, knowing their vote will be counted and having…

Richard Gephardt, Trevor Potter and Tim WirthSeptember 4, 2020

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The New Yorker: Who Gets to Vote in Florida?

With the election hanging in the balance, Republican leaders continue a long fight over voting rights. Betty Riddle grew up in Sarasota, Florida, in a segregated neighborhood that people back in the nineteen-sixties called Black Bottom. She was raised by her mother, Idella, in a wooden house on Central Avenue. When she was twelve, Idella…

Dexter FilkinsAugust 31, 2020

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The New Yorker: What Happens if Donald Trump Fights the Election Results?

This election is probably going to reflect our greatest Constitutional challenge since the Civil War, and we must preserve our Democracy. Our votes are the way we speak and how we select our leaders.

Tim WirthAugust 21, 2020

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Newsweek: How to Defeat Trump’s Plan to Overturn the Election

Since we wrote the piece "How Donald Trump Could Lose the Election and Still Remain President," it has become even more apparent that Donald Trump will attempt to create massive chaos and uncertainty following the November election, even if it is abundantly clear he has lost it. His repeated false statements about mail-in ballots creating…

Tom Rogers and Tim WirthAugust 20, 2020

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USA TODAY: If we don’t dispel the falsehood of an election ‘delay’ now, we risk chaos in November

President Trump is ramping up his attacks on mail-in voting by insisting election results “must” be known on election night. “No more big election night answers?” he tweeted last month. “Ridiculous! Just a formula for RIGGING an Election . . .”

Tim WirthAugust 19, 2020

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The New York Times: The Hijacking of Homeland Security

A former leader of the department says Trump is politicizing the agency and putting the nation at risk.

Keep Our Republic StaffJuly 28, 2020

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The Washington Post: As Trump demurs, an unimaginable question forms: Could the president reach for the military in a disputed election?

President Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the results of the November election, paired with his penchant for plunging the military into the partisan fray, has prompted scholars and legal experts to ask a once-unthinkable question: How would the armed forces respond if pulled into a disputed election?

Keep Our Republic StaffJuly 28, 2020

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The New York Times: How Powerful Is the President?

Surely, regardless of party or candidate preference, we can all agree there is no justification for a president to have dictatorial powers kept secret from Congress, the press and the American people.

Gary HartJuly 23, 2020

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The Boston Globe: Keep America safe for democracy

As the republic with the oldest written constitution still in use, the United States is the world’s beacon of democracy. These days the beacon has been dimming.

Gary Hart, Joel McCleary, Mark Medish and Tim WirthJuly 13, 2020

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NEWSWEEK: How Trump Could Lose the Election—And Still Remain President

It is increasingly looking as if Joe Biden can beat President Donald Trump in November. The president seems more and more out of step with the national mood, from his handling of the pandemic to his response to racially biased policing, not to mention a wide array of other issues. Even in key swing states, Trump is losing…

Tim Wirth and Tom RogersJuly 3, 2020

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Brookings Institute: Could Donald Trump claim a national security threat to shut down the internet?

“I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about,” Donald Trump told a reporter in a 2020 Oval Office exchange. One of those powers is his authority to shut down radio, television, both wireless and wired phone networks, and the internet. An obscure provision tucked at the back of…

Tom WheelerJune 25, 2020

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POLITICO: How Trump Could Use Political Chaos to Upset the Election

The 2020 election faces unparalleled risks to its conduct and integrity. Foreign actors are working to interfere in the election. Conservative groups have filed lawsuits to remove hundreds of thousands of voters they say are ineligible from voter rolls. One civil rights group found that almost 300 counties in the South reduced polling places in the years since 2012. On…

Tim Wirth, Joel McCleary, Mark Medish and Gary HartJune 9, 2020