North East Bexar County Democrats

06/19/2026

FOCUS ON VOTE BY MAIL THIS MONTH: EXECUTIVE ORDER POISED FOR JUNE 30.

Friday, June 19

Donald Trump’s mail-in voting executive order could disenfranchise tens of thousands of Americans — and that’s why the administration is determined to push it through before the midterm elections.

The news on the executive order has been moving fast. While I wish legacy media was more focused on this, they are not. At the end of a critical week, I want to give you my latest take.

On Wednesday, my team and I asked a federal appellate court to urgently block Trump’s “flagrantly unlawful” order as the administration has been taking steps to implement its anti-voter proposals.

A day later, the administration proved our point.

According to a newly disclosed Department of Human Services memo, the first phase of Trump’s national voter list is expected to be implemented by June 30. Recall that Trump’s goal is to prevent anyone not on that list from being allowed to cast mail-in ballots.

If Trump succeeds, voters will have little recourse or even information about why they might not be on the list. I suspect most who are disenfranchised will be entirely unaware that the list even exists and will simply be confused when they don’t receive mail-in ballots.

Concerningly, state election officials will have access to the list and the data underlying it before voters are able to check if the government’s records are even accurate. That means voters may not be able to take corrective action in time to receive a mail-in ballot.

You won't get this kind of inside perspective anywhere else. Top voting rights attorney Marc Elias brings decades of election and voting legal experience to every analysis.

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Meanwhile, the U.S. Postal Service — which is supposed to serve the entire nation — is also taking steps to abide by Trump’s orders, creating a new records system to track mail ballots. Even as lawsuits surrounding the order continue, USPS is laying the groundwork to see Trump’s marching orders through.

All these activities heighten concerns about the midterm elections. However, there was some good news on Thursday.

A federal judge in Massachusetts said Democratic state attorneys general and pro-voting organizations can continue their bid to block Trump's executive order before the midterms. The judge said that if the order is implemented, it will directly harm states’ ability to carry out elections this November.

The law is on our side, and we have pro-democracy attorneys taking up the fight to protect our elections. Stay alert, stay informed and stay ready to vote this November.

06/15/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/us-army-major-trump-lost-the-iran?r=ec44&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

We have been warned!

06/13/2026

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Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” On Friday, according to FCC records, it booked nearly $400,000 worth of broadcast television ads attacking Cait Conley, a Democratic ...

06/13/2026

06/13/2026

There are two documents on Earth I know to be batsh*t crazy, The Turner Diaries and the Republican Party of Texas’ platform.

This is the document that will drive the 2027 Legislative session.

06/12/2026

The billionaires’ latest idea to “save” Social Security is a classic bait-and-switch. Instead of lifting the cap on income that gets taxed for Social Security — so billionaires finally pay Social Security taxes on all of their earnings — the ultra-rich want to impose a new “cap” on the benefits retirees can receive.

By deliberately co-opting the word “cap,” they are hoping to create enough confusion that most people won’t notice the switch from taxing more at the top, to paying out less to everyone else.

Right now, income above a certain threshold isn’t subject to Social Security taxes. Real reform would fix that by lifting or eliminating the income cap, ensuring high earners contribute fairly. Instead, billionaires are trying to protect this loophole by redirecting the conversation.

Their proposal, which would cap annual retirement payouts at $50,000 per person or $100,000 per couple, looks almost reasonable at first glance. But in reality, it’s a diversion designed to keep their taxes low while cutting benefits for others.

Here’s the key trick: the proposed benefits cap would not be indexed to inflation, so its real value would shrink year after year. At first, it might affect only a small number of retirees. But over time, as costs rise and the cap stays fixed, more and more people would be pulled into its limits. What begins as a narrow change will gradually erode Social Security over generations.

Tell Congress: Don’t cut any Social Security benefits or allow them to lose value through a fixed maximum benefit! Instead, make the super-wealthy pay their fair share by lifting the income cap.

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This is why calling it “fairness” is so misleading. The burden won’t fall on the wealthy — it will fall on younger workers and future retirees, whose benefits would steadily lose value. Meanwhile, billionaires continue shielding large portions of their income from Social Security taxes, untouched by the so-called “cap” they’re promoting.

At its core, this is about avoiding responsibility. The most straightforward way to strengthen Social Security is to require high earners to pay into the system on all of their income. But that’s exactly what the ultra-rich are determined to block. So they offer a substitute that sounds similar, but does the opposite — protecting their wealth while weakening everyone else’s security.

This “six-figure limit” isn’t reform — it’s misdirection. It allows billionaires to pose as if they were fiscally responsible, while actually engineering a long, slow rollback of benefits.

Social Security is an earned benefit, built on decades of contributions from working people. The solution is to strengthen and expand it so it keeps pace with real-world costs — not to let its value erode while the wealthiest pay less than they should.

Tell Congress: Tax the rich, don’t cut Social Security!

Thank you for protecting Social Security, today and for future generations.

Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action

06/12/2026

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