Ari Berman

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National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

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Ari Berman·Apr 2

Seven polling sites in Milwaukee ran out of ballots due to "historic turnout" according to city election director. More ballots are being printed and on way. Very important to remind voters that if they're in line when polls close at 8 CT they get to vote. Do not leave. Please spread the word

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Ari Berman·Aug 11

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

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Ari Berman·Apr 1

Musk's pac now offering $50 to people who "snap a picture outside of a voting location with a WI resident holding a photo of" Brad Schimel It's illegal in Wisconsin to "engage in electioneering" within 100 feet of polling place

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61 years ago LBJ signed Voting Rights Act. He called it "a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield." But now the Supreme Court has effectively killed it after John Roberts spent 40 years working to destroy the country’s most important civil rights law

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Ari Berman·Jul 17

Trump's speech was a total dud but he's still going to use it as pretext to interfere in midterms. In particular the discredited allegations of Chinese interference are intended to lay groundwork for fake national emergency. That's the real threat www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Ari Berman·Jul 17

Trump claimed in speech DHS found 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote. Turns out that number was 10,716 based on report they just released. Even that # likely wildly inflated due to false positives & inaccuracies in SAVE database

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Ari Berman·Jul 17

All the ways Trump has gutted efforts to stop foreign election interference: -laid off a third of CISA employees -disbanded FBI task charged with combatting foreign election interference -eliminated DHS teams combatting foreign disinformation -fired all the EAC commissioners

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Ari Berman·Jul 17

Trump claims 278,000 non-citizens on voter rolls. That’s laughable. Utah recently audited 2 million people on voter rolls and found just 27 noncitizens registered, amounting to .00135% of registered voters

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Ari Berman·Jul 17

Trump was in charge in 2020 when all the foreign interference he alleges happened

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Ari Berman·Jul 17

National Intelligence Council 2021 report directly contradicts Trump's lies about alleged Chinese interference: “We assess that China did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US presidential election"

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Ari Berman·Jul 16

Likely a wildly inflated number, given that none of these states handed over their voter rolls & DHS provided no evidence to support such claims

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Ari Berman·Jul 8

SCOTUS destroying Voting Rights Act Trump openly planning to interfere in midterms DOJ threatening to prosecute election officials I discussed how all these threats to democracy fit together on @nprfreshair.bsky.social today. Please listen www.npr.org/2026/07/08/n...

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Ari Berman·Jun 29

"Every major study has shown that mail-in voting is safe and secure, but the fact that four justices signed on to Trump’s crusade to get rid of mail-in ballots is highly disturbing and could embolden the president to attempt to take even more drastic steps to make it harder to vote"

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