Dan Curran @djcctr

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This is the same thing the Nazis did to the Germans. Federal Agents Were Told F.B.I. Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days. nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/…

As we built Democracy Docket, we are protected from outside pressures to pull our punches or tone down our coverage. In other words, we are proudly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy. That decision is more important today than ever before. newsletters.democracydocket.com/why-im-asking-…

🚨BREAKTHROUGH: Stanford scientists may have unlocked the biggest advance in arthritis research in decades by regrowing damaged cartilage instead of replacing joints. Here's how it works. 🧵

The Cherokee Nation has become the first Native American tribe in the United States to preserve its ancestral seeds in the Arctic. Nestled deep within a mountain on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, approximately 810 miles (1,300 kilometers) from the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault functions as the planet’s foremost safeguard for agricultural heritage. Constructed to shield crops against warfare, natural disasters, diseases, and the impacts of climate change, the facility maintains duplicate seed samples contributed by nearly every country around the globe. In 2020, the Cherokee Nation earned the distinction of being the first U.S. based Native American tribe invited to deposit its traditional heirloom seeds into the vault. The tribe placed nine culturally significant crop varieties inside, including Cherokee White Eagle Corn, regarded as its most sacred variety, along with Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans, Cherokee Long Greasy Beans, Cherokee Turkey Gizzard Beans, and Cherokee Candy Roaster Squash. These seeds represent far more than planting material. They embody generations of agricultural wisdom, cultural heritage, and historical continuity handed down through Cherokee families. The invitation followed the Cherokee Nation’s 2019 discussion of its heirloom seed preservation efforts with NPR. The tribe maintains its own seed bank, which distributes traditional varieties to Cherokee citizens. This initiative helps protect crop diversity that might otherwise be lost while strengthening connections between families and their agricultural roots. Inspired by these efforts, the Global Crop Diversity Trust extended the invitation for the Cherokee Nation to deposit backup copies of its seeds in Svalbard for long term security. The vault is excavated roughly 400 feet (120 meters) into solid bedrock, where consistently low temperatures supplemented by refrigeration systems preserve seeds for decades or even centuries. It currently houses nearly one million seed samples and possesses capacity for approximately 4.5 million distinct crop varieties. Crucially, the Cherokee Nation maintains full ownership of its deposited seeds. The vault operates much like a secure safety deposit box. Only the tribe can request retrieval of its materials should the need ever arise.

Garland didn’t START his investigation until we had our first of the summer hearings, a YEAR into our investigation. And now he’s incredibly silent, won’t even come out to defend his career prosecutors who got fired. Despicable

Reggie B. @reggiebblue

2 days ago

Hunter Biden: "The single greatest mistake of my father's administration was the leadership of Merrick Garland. Did you not see these people storming the Capitol? You didn't see a president and know that there was a concerted and planned effort? He doesn't do anything. We don't

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Republicans have dismissed another lawsuit challenging the lawfulness of counting mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterwards. This has been a major battle line in the fight for free and fair elections and one we are winning in state after state.

@dchapdelaine @Jeopardy Ha super easy

While Trump continues to lie about the 2020 election, the motive behind this address was to rig the election right before our eyes. His speech was the latest escalation in a fight Trump has been waging for more than a year. newsletters.democracydocket.com/trumps-speech-…

Actually, ended up being a big loss for DOJ. Its 16th in a row to be precise. My law firm remains undefeated however...

🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia

6 months ago

Big win for election integrity in Connecticut: A federal judge orders Connecticut to show cause why it hasn’t violated federal law by illegally hiding its voter rolls. What does Connecticut have to hide? Cheers to @AAGDhillon and her all-star team.

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Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. Thanks. demdock.com/4wbp1va

I feel like some White House reporter needs to ask Trump about the fact that his DOJ has lost 16 straight cases to access state voter rolls and that in 7 of the cases it was before judges he nominated. Oh and point out that I am still not tired of winning.

Putin Last night Donald Trump released a declassified document that says his own intelligence community identified Putin as personally running an operation to defeat my father in 2020, built around a fake Burisma corruption scandal centered around me and executed through prominent Americans. Trump tasked his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to fly to Kyiv and meet a known Russian agent. The Americans who ran, laundered, and legitimized the operation: Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani. John Solomon. Joe DiGenova. Victoria Toensing. Lev Parnas. Igor Fruman. Chanel Rion. Sean Hannity. Steve Bannon. Miranda Devine. Ken Vogel. Ron Johnson. Chuck Grassley. James Comer. Jim Jordan. To name a few. An operation formally sanctioned by Trump's own Treasury Department on September 10, 2020, and expanded to include more named actors on January 11, 2021. Oh, and don't forget the Russian-linked FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who later pleaded guilty to making the entire Burisma bribery story up. The record exists and we have all the receipts, and more.

Things conservatives told me when I was in my 20’s: *Character counts *Crony capitalism is bad *Russia is our enemy *Tariffs are taxes *The Constitution is sacrosanct *Government power should be limited, restrained, and checked by congress. Guess they were just joking.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES lawsuit to compel Connecticut to provide the DOJ its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-16 in cases to gain access to state voter files. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. democracydocket.com/cases/connecti…

California has free, fair, and secure elections and we will fight for them. Try us.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

3 days ago

Mullin says that election officials in states that don’t cooperate with the Trump administration may face jail time

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State election officials widely condemned President Donald Trump’s Thursday night speech, which pushed debunked election lies alleging foreign interference in the 2020 election. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/th…

Americans can’t buy houses because Wall Street keeps outbidding them. The biggest Wall Street landlord in America is Invitation Homes — roughly 80,000 single-family houses, bought up and rented back. Donald Trump owns $100,000–$250,000 of it. He also owns Blackstone, the firm that created it after the 2008 crash bought up foreclosed American homes by the thousands. The President owns the company that owns your landlord.

Trump has gutted the FBI’s election protection task force, DHS election teams, ODNI cells, and the EAC. If he’s so concerned about the security of our elections… …why is he systematically dismantling the tools to protect them? 🤔