Knowing He’s Set to Lose Next Year’s Mid-Term Elections, Trump Fiddles with the Goal-Posts
Fiddling is perhaps too tame a word, but it’s a known fact that if you torture statistics sufficiently, they will confess to anything, and our current president is a world-class torturer of statistics.
Hence, the definition: “A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters.” Moving on to ‘parameters,’ for further clarity, we come up with “any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance.”
Voila! The fox is in the hen house. Our president has, and is implementing, a plan to disenfranchise those who would vote against him.
And, for the most part, American citizens, and the media charged with informing them, are sleeping through the run-up to a massive fraud, believing “oh, that’s just Trump being Trump, and what are we having for dinner tonight?” Meanwhile, our precious America is slipping through our fingers, including our Constitution, reverence for the rule of law, and international reputation.
These are not only wearying times. Our nation’s system of checks and balances is under existential threat. Stay with me, dinner can simmer on the back burner for a while.
Here’s both the plan and the timeline:
· (Jan 20, 2025) White House issues “Holding Former Government Officials Accountable for Election Interference and Improper Disclosure of Sensitive Governmental Information.” Part of the administration’s framing around election integrity and the use of executive authority in the electoral sphere.
That part about ‘use of executive authority in the electoral sphere’ is particularly troublesome.
· (Mar 25, 2025) President Trump signs Executive Order 14248, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.” This EO orders several sweeping changes: requiring documentary proof of citizenship on the federal mail registration form, new rules for ballot receipt deadlines, and structuring greater federal oversight of state election processes.
Who has documentary proof of citizenship? Who has a passport or anything beyond a birth certificate in America? Certainly unlikely among the working classes and minorities.
· (June 2025) Department of Justice begins contacting states about voter registration lists & election data. Multiple state election offices report letters and emails from the DOJ’s Civil Rights & Criminal Divisions seeking full voter rolls, personal identity data, list-maintenance procedures, and information sharing agreements.
Civil rights and criminal divisions? Is there a pattern here, targeting those who most probably voted against Trump?
· (Aug 2025) Illinois declines to provide sensitive information to DOJ. The state provides only what is publicly disclosable under state law, resisting broader demands for driver’s license info, SSN fragments, etc.
Good on ‘em, my home state.
· (August through September, 2025) Washington secretary of state publicly resists DOJ requests & denounces dismantling of election-security supports, saying the state will not “compromise the privacy” of voters. Also notes the federal shutdown of certain election-security programs. DOJ officially demands Washington’s full voter database, including private fields, and gives 14 days to comply.
The DOJ sues Oregon & Maine for refusing to provide requested voter data, alleging violation of the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act, and Civil Rights Act for refusal to hand over unredacted voter rolls and list-maintenance records. A compilation of state responses & pushback shows some states resist, while others partially comply. Many states emphasize state constitutional and privacy protections.· South Carolina fires its election director amid data-request tensions, while the state negotiates with federal demands. The firing adds institutional instability.
· The DOJ seeks access to voting equipment in Missouri. Its Civil Rights Division requests access to voting machines from the 2020 cycle. The State clerk pushes back, citing legal & security concerns.
States Rights no doubt kick in somewhere here, as the Constitution gives the states many individual rights entirely outside federal jurisdiction, and the DOJ is a federal agency.
What follows is a projected forward-looking timeline between now and the mid-term elections in 2026, based on current policies, litigation calendars, and likely political and electoral dynamics. It’s not mere speculative fiction, but built upon legal filings, agency calendars, and how these federal interferences generally work out.
Think of this as a watchlist of what’s likely to happen leading up to the 2026 midterm. Keep in mind that anyone who makes predictions based on the current president is very apt to be caught with his or her pants down.
· (Oct 2025) DOJ deadlines for voter-data compliance approach in multiple states. Those refusing to hand over full voter rolls may face lawsuits or threats of funding cuts. If the DOJ wins in court (an unlikely outcome), a national database of voter data, including partial SSNs, license numbers, and citizenship status could be built, no doubt used to justify “fraud investigations” or voter-purge campaigns.
Don’t kid yourself, voter purge campaigns are the purpose.
· (Oct–Dec 2025) Federal appeals courts will hear challenges to proof-of-citizenship, and ballot deadlines. These rulings will determine whether new federal restrictions will prevail for 2026 registration and voting. A Supreme Court appeal is almost certain, with emergency stays possible.
· (Nov–Dec 2025) Draft rules from the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) will be circulated with as little fanfare as possible for public comment. Then, if the EAC actually adopts proof-of-citizenship on the national registration form, states will have to overhaul their systems, potentially causing confusion and disenfranchisement among legitimate voters.
Confusion and disenfranchisement among those who have fought (and often died) to become enfranchised, is the goal of the Republican Party, make no mistake.
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
-Anatole France
· (Dec 2025) DOJ will likely announce “election integrity task forces.” These could target nonprofit voter-registration groups, sanctuary-city jurisdictions, or mail-in ballot programs, either cooling down participation or triggering politically motivated prosecutions.
This smells, darkly, of 1933 Germany and Hitler’s complete takeover of the Reichstag. Interestingly, immediately after Trump returned from his Alaska meeting with Putin, he issued executive orders banning both mail-in ballots and computerized voting results. Putin had told him he would have won the 2022 election if these elements had been removed.
· (Feb 2026) CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) budget & staffing cuts will be finalized for FY 2026. If those cuts are successful, many states will go into the election with reduced federal cybersecurity and physical-security support, increasing their vulnerability to ransomware or foreign intrusion
· (Mar 2026) The DOJ may begin “pilot” prosecutions or investigations of alleged non-citizen voting. Even a handful of indictments could be weaponized to justify new purges or sow distrust. Watch for selective prosecution in swing states.
· (Apr 2026) Court rulings on state voter-purge policies expected. These could encourage large-scale removals from voter rolls, potentially hundreds of thousands, often with limited notice or recourse.
· (Jul 2026) Potential rollout of federal “election integrity” grants, with compliance strings attached. States that resist voter-data sharing or citizenship checks might lose funds for polling-place staffing or security, indirectly affecting voter access.
Happy 4th of July, the nation’s 250th Birthday.
· (Aug 2026) The Supreme Court is expected to rule on key EO 14248 provisions. A ruling upholding proof-of-citizenship, or shortened ballot deadlines, could change voting procedures weeks before registration deadlines, causing confusion and legal scrambling.
· (Sep 2026) Getting close now, folks, time for final voter roll maintenance deadlines, a potential wave of last-minute purges, which often disproportionately affect urban, younger, and minority voters (because that’s what they are designed to do). Legal challenges are likely, but it’s pretty damned late for remedies.
· (Oct 2026) Early voting begins in many states. I will have sent my mail-in ballot from Prague (if that’s still possible). If not, it will be my first election to miss since Eisenhower. Look for targeted DOJ investigations, lawsuits, or “integrity sweeps” timed to suppress turnout. Also expect renewed cyber probing of state systems.
· Nov 3, 2026) Election Day, and away we go. Potential flashpoints include DOJ-led fraud task forces, issuing high-profile charges. There will be disputes over rejected mail ballots, and legal challenges to certification in closely contested states.
Any attempt to federalize state recounts or override results would probably trigger a constitutional crisis, but that’s okay for our Man in the Oval Office, if it means he keeps control.
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2024 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday that if they vote for him this November, “in four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”
If that doesn’t send a chill down your spine, I guess you have no spine.
But he’s serious and, like The Wizard of OZ, he’s behind the curtain, ringing the bells and blowing the whistles.
We can’t let it happen and, by election day, it will be far too late. In August of next year, be out there demonstrating, in front of the Supreme Court.