Like I said, not cool.

#FAA reducing #AirTraffic by 10% across 40 'high-volume' markets during government #shutdown

#Trump #OrchestratedShutdown #TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-airlines-faa-e39c423facec2b0dcc2544af48de0fa1?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-05-Breaking+News

But the #Trump admin has taken other aggressive steps to assert more sway over #elections.

#DOJ, for instance, is compiling the largest set of national #voter roll data it has ever collected, an effort to try to prove unsubstantiated claims that large numbers of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally, The Times previously reported.

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/trump-voter-registration-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

…The moves by #Trump to elevate #election deniers portends escalating #legal battles over how much #power his admin wields over balloting across the country.

Already this year, #courts have affirmed that the president has no legal authority over #elections, which have long been the domain of #state & #local governments. Judges have largely blocked an executive order that Trump issued in March requiring, among other changes, documentary proof of citizenship to vote.

#law #coup #TrumpCoup2

McCarthy’s appointment comes as nearly all of the #election experts at #CISA have been placed on administrative leave or reassigned this year amid a large-scale *downsizing* of the agency, which had played a leading role in deterring attacks on elections systems & combating #disinformation about voting.

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

Another activist, #MarciMcCarthy, who spread debunked claims about voting machines in Georgia when she was the chairwoman of the DeKalb County #Republican Party, was named in May to be the director of public affairs at the #Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, or #CISA, which is housed in #DHS.

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

…The idea of *reinvestigating* the 2020 election gained steam recently with the White House’s decision to hire #KurtOlsen, a lawyer who has been tasked with *examining* the 2020 vote & other #election matters, acc/to a White House official. The hiring of Olsen, who has worked closely for years with the pillow entrepreneur #MikeLindell to promote false stolen-election #ConspiracyTheories, was first reported by WSJ.

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/white-house-hires-stop-the-steal-lawyer-to-investigate-2020-election-claims-6395d322

“And therefore, we [would] have some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” Honey said in March, according to a recording reviewed by The New York Times from someone who joined the call, “and therefore, we can take these other steps without #Congress & we can mandate that states do things & so on.”

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

On a call with #FarRight activists in March, before her appointment to #DHS, Honey suggested that the new #Trump admin could declare a “national emergency” & justify dictating new rules to state & local governments. She said this could be based on an “actual investigation” of the 2020 election if it showed there had been a “manipulation” of the vote.

[There have been countless exhaustive investigations]

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #US

In the past few months, #Trump has elevated multiple proponents of his false fraud claims into high-level admin jobs. Now, as government insiders, these activists could wield their newfound power to discredit future results or rekindle old claims to argue for a federal intrusion into locally administered voting systems.

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates