Donald Trump and Republican-controlled states are trying to rig the elections by making it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat.

But one question I get every day is what people living in blue states can do.

Well, the truth is, every state, including those controlled by Democrats, can take steps to improve their own voting laws to prevent

disenfranchisement, voter suppression, and election subversion.

In this video, I walk through the seven laws every blue state can and should enact immediately

to ensure free and fair elections in 2026 and beyond.

And at the end, I have an additional bonus suggestion

that is as important as all the others.

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Number one, the top idea that every Democratic state

should enact today is a statutory right to vote for every eligible citizen

in the state. Okay, this may seem like something very simple, but it is actually the most

important thing that every blue state could do right now. Why? Because through a series of court decisions, mostly at the U.S. Supreme

Court and the federal courts, the right to vote, which by the way does not exist in the U.S.

Constitution. There's actually no place in the U.S. Constitution where it provides a right to vote.

In a lot of cases that have been decided over time, the courts have basically balanced

the citizens' right to vote against a bunch of other interests. So usually what the courts are saying

is that they have to balance the right of a person to vote against the administrative needs or the convenience

of the state. So what does that look like in practice?

If there is a law, for example, that makes it harder to vote by mail, what a court does

is they say, well, what are the interests that the state have that may be more important

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