URGENT: Trump Demands Congress Pass Radical SAVE Act
Defending Democracy with Marc Elias
Democracy Docket
4.9 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Trump is threatening to bypass Congress entirely to impose voter ID before the 2026 midterms — and to make matters worse, the Save America Act just got a lot more extreme. Marc Elias breaks down Trump's late-night social media rants, why his panic over Democratic victories is driving this voter suppression push, and why Trump is living in a constitutional delusion.
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00:00 Trump’s New Push for the “Save America Act”
01:32 Separating Trump’s Noise From the Real Threat
04:18 Trump’s Truth Social Demands and the Filibuster Fight
07:44 Trump Threatens to Block All Other Legislation
10:06 What the Bill Would Do to Voter ID and Citizenship
16:23 Who These Voting Restrictions Actually Target
20:36 Why Congress Can’t Pass Trump’s Plan
26:02 Why the Real Check on Trump Is the Courts and Voters
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| 0:29.8 | Donald Trump has made a political career out of lying about elections. So it was no surprise that when he |
| 0:35.9 | came to office, he would promote new lies and |
| 0:38.6 | new ways to prevent people from voting. Last April, that took the form of the SAVE Act, |
| 0:43.1 | a voter suppression bill that had kicked around the Republican Congress for more than a year, |
| 0:48.2 | and targeted voter registration. It had passed the Republican House in 2024 and then again in |
| 0:53.5 | 2025, but both times it then quietly died. |
| 0:57.6 | Well, this January, Donald Trump realized his party was set up to lose the midterm elections. |
| 1:03.0 | So right on cue, he fired up the right wing voter suppression war machine and got working. |
| 1:08.7 | The result was a new bill, the Save America Act. That's right, |
| 1:13.1 | the Save Act, but with America in the middle. It has the same terrible provisions on voter registration, |
| 1:18.7 | but it added even more ways to disenfranchise voters. Now, here we are in March, and Donald |
| 1:24.6 | Trump is in a stone cold panic. His poll numbers are plummeting, |
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