cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51479153
ICE’s effort to create a national voter database is part of a much broader effort within the Department of Homeland Security and the Trump administration to undermine trust in the upcoming midterm elections. For more than a year, the Department of Justice has been seeking to create a national voter database by demanding states hand over unredacted voters rolls. States and courts, however, have pushed back.
DHS has already demanded states comply with its investigations. The agency has also said it would withhold emergency preparedness and counter terrorism funding from states who refused to implement White House policies on elections. And the agency has gone after voters directly, threatening to deport those suspected of voting illegally even when they have no criminal convictions. Despite assertions from DHS and the Trump administration, incidents of noncitizens voting are vanishingly rare, with an investigation in Georgia this week finding very few examples.
DHS also announced a new surge to investigate alleged voter fraud in certain states ahead of the midterms, to “pursue investigative leads, conduct field interviews, and support timely prosecutorial review,” according to internal DHS guidance that was first reported by CNN this week.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Hey y’all. A fascist regime got Congress to ultra-fund something that they’re now using for completely unrelated purposes.
This is your democracy coming to an end.
I recommend buying guns while you can.
Can’t end if it never started. If you weren’t looking sideways at the American Democracy since Bush v Gore, nevermind Operation Eagle Eye, idk man. Feels like far too many people don’t realize what kind of country they’ve been living in. Trump’s just a wakeup call.
Adventurism: The history of Russian Social-Democracy teems with tiny groups, which sprang up for an hour, for several months, with no roots whatever among the masses (and politics without the masses are adventurist politics), and with no serious and stable principles. In a petty-bourgeois country, which is passing through a historical period of bourgeois reconstruction, it is inevitable that a motley assortment of intellectuals should join the workers, and that these intellectuals should attempt to form all kinds of groups, adventurist in character in the sense referred to above.
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Though there were no few honest and conscientious Social-Democrats in these groups, they proved adventurist in the sense that they had no stable or serious principles, programme, tactics, organisation, and no roots among the masses.