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Election News Is Great! Election LAW News Is... Mixed.

Opening Arguments

Opening Arguments Media LLC

Law, Opinion, Politics, News, Liberal, Legal, Supremecourt, Harvard, Atheist

4.33.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

OA1236 - Elections grab bag! Election news has been accumulating, so Jenessa helps us get caught up on what’s going on. Who’s winning elections? What’s going on with redistricting? Heard something confusing about the mail? Trump back on his bullshit again? Good news, mixed news, debunking alleged bad news, bad news with plans for how to turn things around; we’ve got it all.

Updates since we recorded: The SAVE America Act passed the House. Also the affidavit for the warrant in Georgia was unsealed. We’ll talk about it soon, but the short version is these people really still believe in election conspiracy theories. It’s gross. We’ll survive.

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0:00.0

Your vote does matter.

0:04.3

Another couple elections and your vote might not matter.

0:07.0

So use your last few votes wisely.

0:13.5

34 point swing is really hard to explain.

0:20.1

It's just like a Republican stayed home and a Democrat showed up, you know.

0:24.3

That's big.

0:31.5

Hello and welcome to opening arguments.

0:33.4

This is episode 1236.

0:35.6

I'm Thomas.

0:36.7

That over there is Janessa. How are you doing?

0:38.7

Doing pretty good. I'm excited to talk about some positive news today. There's been definitely some things that are not great that are going to require a fight, but there's also some good laws getting passed. There are definitely some good election results

0:57.1

coming out, court cases that are going well. So yeah, I'm optimistic. And this is your bread and

1:03.4

butter. Yes. Yeah, I've been working in election law for three years now. So this is

1:07.9

pretty comfortable for me. Awesome. Well, I'm excited to get to the potentially good news.

1:13.8

So I guess we should get to it.

1:15.9

Now, you said that pretty much we're going to, you have infinite stuff, and we're just

1:19.7

going to see how much we can get through and save the rest for later.

1:22.3

Yeah, yeah.

1:23.5

Yeah, elections never stop happening.

1:25.8

Yeah, yeah.

1:26.9

Well, we'll take our first break. Please support the show, patreon.com slash law. You can get the lot of them movies out now. That was a lot of fun. Kim Kardashian's insane new show. And it's not just Kim Kardashian. That's underselling it. The actors that are in that, it has like an all-star cast, seriously. And it is terrible. It is so bad. But it's bad in

1:47.5

a fun way. Like it's just insanity. You got it. You got to listen. It's so much fun. That is up as we

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