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Earlier this week, President Donald Trump threatened to do two things that are (stop me if you’ve heard this before) extremely illegal: ban mail voting and end the use of voting machines in U.S. elections. In a lengthy, erratically capitalized post on Truth Social , Trump bemoaned the “MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD” ostensibly inherent in these practices and promised to sign an executive order to ensure the “HONESTY AND INTEGRITY” of the 2026 midterms. The post is alarming because it casually makes threats against free elections and also because, in the context of an ongoing military quasi-occupation of Washington, it’s probably not even the president’s most autocratic act

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