August 25, 2026

Authoritarian Drift Report: The Feds Want Your Ballot List, Your Visa, and Apparently a Spare Country

Dick Bulger2 months ago2 months ago05 mins

Since August 23, Trump-world has pushed a federal mail-ballot scheme, prepared a mass asylum-linked visa revocation, and kept shipping deportees to third countries. Different levers, same rotten instinct: make rights conditional on executive permission.

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Authoritarian Drift Report: The Feds Want Your Ballot List, Your Visa, and Apparently a Spare Country