Defending Democracy

After making it through almost an entire week of accepting Republicans' massive losses in the midterm elections, Donald Trump has returned to form and is now calling into question the legitimacy of the blue tsunami that washed over electoral politics last Tuesday. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias discusses why this shouldn't come as a surprise, and why we are far from the ...

Exit polls from the midterms show that 33% of voters named the state of democracy as the most important issue facing the country. By comparison, health care, foreign policy and crime all registered in the single digits. Only the economy ranked higher, at 39%. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias explains that candidates considering a run for president or other office in 2028 m...

With less than a week before the final midterm election ballots are cast, Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias has been inundated with questions about what issues are putting him on alert. In this episode Marc outlines his top five concerns, from most immediate to most dire - including meddling by the Trump administration and the servile red state officials that seem willing t...

When reporters asked Attorney General Todd Blanche if the Justice Department might try to block states from certifying midterm results, he didn’t say no. “Of course there are scenarios that we could all come up with hypothetically — some doomsday scenario,” he said. The federal government has no power over state certification. But this administration keeps leaving the door op...

On the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, hours before the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took the stage at Donald Trump’s rally and told the crowd, “We will not quit fighting.” Now he’s running for the U.S. Senate.
Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias walks through Paxton’s record of attacking free and fair elections. He sued to throw out the results...