Trump’s War with Iran | The Plot To Rig The 2026 Midterms
Defending Democracy with Marc Elias
Democracy Docket
4.9 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The 2026 midterms are the greatest threat to Trump's power -- and he knows it. Marc Elias exposes Trump's three-pronged plot to protect his majority: False claims of foreign government election interference, a DOJ push to obtain your voter data, and a leaked executive order that would let Trump dictate voting rules to every state.
This is the most dangerous threat to your vote in modern American history.
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00:00 The 2026 Election Power Grab
01:09 Trump’s Election Strategy and Fear of Voters
04:41 Iran, Foreign Interference Claims, and National Security
09:05 Executive Orders and Control Over Voting
11:24 DOJ’s Push for Sensitive Voter Data
16:38 Media Silence and Institutional Failure
18:06 AI, Surveillance, and the Anthropic Clash
21:54 Connecting the Dots to 2026
26:12 What You Can Do to Fight Back
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| 0:30.0 | Donald Trump will use his attack on Iran to justify an unconstitutional power grab over |
| 0:35.4 | voting in the 2026 midterms. |
| 0:37.8 | His Department of Justice, well, they're expanding their strategy to get your sensitive |
| 0:42.7 | voting information, including your vote history and partisan and personal data. |
| 0:47.0 | His Department of Defense, they're threatening Anthropic, one of the leading AI companies, |
| 0:52.5 | that unless they allow the mass surveillance of U.S. citizens, |
| 0:56.7 | they'll be caught out of doing work with the federal government. |
| 0:59.5 | And while all of that is going on, he's getting ready to issue a broad executive order |
| 1:04.4 | where he's going to try to dictate to the states how they count votes and who gets to cast ballots |
| 1:09.9 | in 2026. |
| 1:11.3 | Look, the fact that all of this is illegal and violates the Constitution doesn't mean anything |
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