National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://www.aribermanauthor.com/https://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mwtka4tjys2o🚨Really important voter registration deadlines coming up: 10/4 - Alaska, Rhode Island & South Carolina 10/5 - Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas Make sure you're registered & spread the word01 Oct 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtka4tjys2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mwedb5boyc2pDHS SAVE database has long and documented history of producing false positives of non-citizens voting, leading to sensational headlines of alleged voter fraud that turn out to be untrue on closer inspection. In St. Louis County, MO, for example at least 81% of the names flagged were incorrect [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Sep 2026 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwedb5boyc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mweaybaj4s2sThanks to SCOTUS GOP-appointed majority (same ones who attended Trump's state dinner last night), Trump admin will use faulty & inaccurate data to wrongly label eligible voters non-citizens & pressure states to remove them from rolls. Sets a chilling precedent https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/supreme-court-save-database/25 Sep 2026 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mweaybaj4s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mwe65xjcys2vThis means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Sep 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwe65xjcys2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mw6z4xib7c2rBy destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/supreme-court-jim-crow-voting-rights-act-history-cleo-fields-louisiana-callais/23 Sep 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6z4xib7c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mvjjmck4uk2sUSPS blatantly illegal and unconstitutional scheme to steal the midterms for Trump would've disenfranchised millions of voters For once SCOTUS got it right on voting rights https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/supreme-court-blocks-trumps-mail-ballot-scheme/15 Sep 2026 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjjmck4uk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mtue2owiu22kSCOTUS GOP-appointed majority has ruled for Trump in 90% of shadow docket cases and is clearly signaling they’re not going to stop him from interfering in midterms by approving, at least temporarily, blatantly unconstitutional EO to restrict mail voting https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/scotus-hands-trump-a-temporary-win-in-his-crusade-to-restrict-mail-voting/24 Aug 2026 22:28 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtue2owiu22khttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mtucdnurjc2vSCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now says it's too soon for states to challenge Trump EO restricting mail voting even though midterms 70 days away. Justice Jackson rightly calls it "Kafkaesque nightmare" [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Aug 2026 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtucdnurjc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3msg3zx2yqk2461 years ago LBJ signed Voting Rights Act. He called it "a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield." But now the Supreme Court has effectively killed it after John Roberts spent 40 years working to destroy the country’s most important civil rights law06 Aug 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3msg3zx2yqk24https://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mqtyor2cec2uTrump's speech was a total dud but he's still going to use it as pretext to interfere in midterms. In particular the discredited allegations of Chinese interference are intended to lay groundwork for fake national emergency. That's the real threat https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/trump-election-security-speech-china-national-emergency-declaration/17 Jul 2026 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqtyor2cec2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mqsqh73vic22Trump claimed in speech DHS found 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote. Turns out that number was 10,716 based on report they just released. Even that # likely wildly inflated due to false positives & inaccuracies in SAVE database17 Jul 2026 02:49 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqsqh73vic22https://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mqsltgje2k26All the ways Trump has gutted efforts to stop foreign election interference: -laid off a third of CISA employees -disbanded FBI task charged with combatting foreign election interference -eliminated DHS teams combatting foreign disinformation -fired all the EAC commissioners17 Jul 2026 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqsltgje2k26https://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mqsll4r7ak2pTrump claims 278,000 non-citizens on voter rolls. That’s laughable. Utah recently audited 2 million people on voter rolls and found just 27 noncitizens registered, amounting to .00135% of registered voters17 Jul 2026 01:22 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqsll4r7ak2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mqslbozaz22eTrump was in charge in 2020 when all the foreign interference he alleges happened17 Jul 2026 01:16 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqslbozaz22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mqsl47uu6s2aNational Intelligence Council 2021 report directly contradicts Trump's lies about alleged Chinese interference: “We assess that China did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US presidential election"17 Jul 2026 01:13 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqsl47uu6s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mqsd6mhfr22bLikely a wildly inflated number, given that none of these states handed over their voter rolls & DHS provided no evidence to support such claims [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Jul 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqsd6mhfr22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mq5rqksmpk2oSCOTUS destroying Voting Rights Act Trump openly planning to interfere in midterms DOJ threatening to prosecute election officials I discussed how all these threats to democracy fit together on @nprfreshair.bsky.social today. Please listen https://www.npr.org/2026/07/08/nx-s1-5884918/scotus-trump-election-barriers-ari-berman08 Jul 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq5rqksmpk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mph5sezdps2b"Every major study has shown that mail-in voting is safe and secure, but the fact that four justices signed on to Trump’s crusade to get rid of mail-in ballots is highly disturbing and could embolden the president to attempt to take even more drastic steps to make it harder to vote" [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jun 2026 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mph5sezdps2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mpgqvvdnyk2yGood news that SCOTUS preserved mail ballot grace periods but very disturbing that 4 justices led by Alito amplified Trump's conspiracies about mail voting, including debunked claims of "voter fraud" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/in-a-rare-blow-to-trump-the-supreme-court-just-saved-mail-in-voting-for-now/29 Jun 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgqvvdnyk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ariberman.bsky.social/post/3mpgnsvfnak2yBreaking: SCOTUS in 5-4 ruling by Barrett upholds Mississippi law allowing ballots to be counted if postmarked by Election Day but received after. Major disaster averted. A ruling the other way would've disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters in 2026 https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1260_g3cn.pdf29 Jun 2026 14:05 +0000at://did:plc:cmg4nrddvaevd22aba2zpigy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgnsvfnak2y