Donald Trump announced Sunday that Republicans plan to dispense a large “Election Integrity Army” to every single state for the 2026 midterms – invoking his debunked claims that the United States does not have fair elections. In a message on his Truth Social platform the president appeared to attribute his “Historic Election in 2024” to the fact that the Republican National Committee sent thousands of volunteers across the country to poll watch or assist with election litigation through a volunteer program. “During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote. We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger,” Trump wrote. Trump did not elaborate on who would be part of the “Election Integrity Army” or how large it would be.

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    invoking his debunked claims that the United States does not have fair elections.

    If they are not fair, then how the fuck is he even in office?

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      Because liberals believe he won a fair election. Only leftists really believe our elections are unfair, and the right wing seized an opportunity.

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      Election fraud lol

      No one really covered all the stolen mail in votes and burned mailboxes by MAGA citizens

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    Illegal.

    And fascism.

    America was warned. America didn’t listen. Now we get to do things the hard way. Maybe it’ll only last 17 years like it did for Hungary.

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    So, election interference then, eh. He knows the Rs will never win again with the shit they’ve already pulled, but it won’t matter if you can’t actually vote anymore.

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    Where the state militias who supposedly are allowed to exist to defend against tyrannical governments

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    So elections are canceled. They can shoot me as much as they want and I will reanimate and drag my carcass to the piles to vote against the pedo traitor.

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    How are you guys who stayed home feeling? You could have helped prevent this bullshit from happening, and you did nothing.

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      Something something Kamala bad

      Something something Zionist-Hitler “dems are as bad as real nazis” generic tankie cope, etc

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      They’re as bad or worse than MAGAts.

      But “something something genocide blah blah blah”.

      Anyone that thinks genocide in another part of the world is worth sacrificing democracy in their own country is a fool not worth speaking to.

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        They are worse in my mind.

        They know trump is bad. They know the actions of the republican party are bad.

        They, in their ‘wisdom’ are too stubborn, entitled, or lazy, to actually do something against these forces. Instead, they’d rather spend their time online evangelizing their own pet causes and attacking anyone who actually does anything against these people.

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          Yep. Fuck these types and their moralizing and their purity tests and their little gotcha games they think they are winning. Infuriating.

          They act like some perfect candidate/party will just emerge if they stamp their feet hard enough.

          Sure, the redcaps are dangerous and annoying in their own way - I would imagine a lot of them are functionally illiterate - ~20% of American adults are functionally illiterate.

          But focusing only on 2023, 28% of adult Americans are at level 1 or below in literacy and 34% in numeracy. And only 44% and 38%, respectively, are at or above level 3 in these domains.

          ^ From Patheos. I’ve seen others claiming about 21%. I’ll say 20% just to be conservative. In any case, it is bad and I bet a sizeable amount of people are terrible at critical thinking and/or spotting logical fallacies, as well. Not to mention those with overactive amygdalas creating far too much emotionalism and a thirst of simple “solutions” driving them into the arms of Republicans. It’s hard to get them to accept basic reality, never mind actually having some understanding.

          But a whole lot of these often overly-online people don’t seem to fall into this nexus per se. They seem to have galaxy-brained their way into thinking they are this rare breed of the truly morally superior creatures and no one else has ever noticed the flaws of the Democratic party/certain candidates. 🙄

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        And she was a GENOCIDER. She was actually GENOCIDING.

        GENOCIDE GENOCIDE GENOCIDE…oh fuck Donald Trump is president again. Uh…GENOCIDE.

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        ‘The democrats didn’t run a primary 4 months before the general election, so I’m going to sit out because the VP of the current president stood down because I was mad that he had a debate and did poorly whilst being sick and being jet lagged. The democrats also said I couldn’t be a member of the Pink Pony Club and I didn’t like that.’

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          'That’ll show ‘em! We owned the libs harder than the actual conservatives! And since I’m in no way a lib, this all has zero repercussions for me!’

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      They are still insisting that they are in the right.

      I say that a movement that can’t be bothered to vote, or even spoil its ballot, is not credible in doing the higher order civil disobedience.

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        They literally expect people to fight a civil war against the Republicans, then they expect to have a seat at the table in the restructuring of the government.

        They are literally the reason this shit is happening. Fuck the Idle Left. They do nothing but complain.

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        They are still insisting that they are in the right.

        Of course they are. They’re petulant children.

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    I already said it. There’s not going to be a real election. And the media will call it a “miracle Red Wave.”

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    The real “problems” will be in contested purple areas. No need to bother in secure blue state areas. They only need to exert as much effort as needed to maintain control.

    But who knows. Maybe a little extra brutality in blue states just for funsies is probably on their radar.

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    If you see someone intimidating voters at your voting office, it is your patriotic duty to SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD.

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    Hopefully the citizen coalition will have their own observers with recording devices as well.