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  DASS Legal Fund · [email protected]
August 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM

John, Marc Elias isn’t holding back…

  John, Marc Elias isn’t holding back: Trump just pledged to end mail-in voting and claimed he’ll sign an executive order to ban it nationwide.  And he says he got the idea straight from Vladimir Putin, who told him that: “your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting.” …
  Marc Elias · [email protected]
August 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Re: defending democracy in the courtroom

  Hi John, it’s Marc Elias. I’m proud to be one of the leading lawyers in the ongoing fight to defend democracy and protect voting rights in the face of Republican extremism. Right now, we’re seeing Donald Trump and his cronies launch an assault on our government and the rule of law.…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM

BREAKING: Trump wants to ban mail voting (again)

  ➤➤ Trump is trying to kill vote-by-mail — again — even though he uses it himself You should know this, John: Donald Trump has voted by mail multiple times during his time in the White House.  But now, just days after promising Vladimir Putin he’d crack down on “Democrat voting mac…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM

Trump just gutted our election safety net. Again.

  ➤➤ BREAKING: Election workers just lost critical protection from cyberattacks John. This is exactly what election officials feared. Donald Trump’s administration just slashed vital CISA support for state and local election offices – cutting off cyber threat intelligence, emergency…
  DASS Legal Fund · [email protected]
August 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM

John, Marc Elias isn’t holding back…

  John, Marc Elias isn’t holding back: Trump just pledged to end mail-in voting and claimed he’ll sign an executive order to ban it nationwide.  And he says he got the idea straight from Vladimir Putin, who told him that: “your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting.” …
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM

BREAKING: Trump leans on Putin to justify banning mail-in ballots

  ➤➤ BREAKING: Trump leans on Putin to justify banning mail-in ballots This is appalling, John. This past weekend at the Alaska summit, Donald Trump stood beside Vladimir Putin and echoed his claim that mail-in voting makes elections “dishonest.” He even suggested that he agrees wit…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM

OFFICIAL POLL: Where do you get your news?

  ➤➤ OFFICIAL POLL: Where do you get your news? John, We’re conducting a quick internal poll, and we’d love to hear from you. With trust in news sources under constant attack, we want to know: Where do you go for the facts? Whether it’s a newspaper, cable network, podcast, social medi…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM

NEW: Trump Says He’ll ‘Lead a Movement’ to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots

  BREAKING: President Trump Says He’ll ‘Lead a Movement’ to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots John, Donald Trump still can’t process that he lost the 2020 election.  It’s why he refused to concede.  It’s why he sent a mob to the Capitol. And now, it’s why he’s now calling to eliminate mail-…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM

CISA is being gutted. Election offices are on their own.

  ➤➤ URGENT: Trump dismantling election security from the inside Trump is ramping up his efforts to undermine our elections, John. The federal agency responsible for defending our elections from cyberattacks and disinformation, CISA, is being gutted. Reports from across the country …
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM

This is what our election officials are facing:

  John, Last month, a failed candidate who blamed Dominion Voting Systems for his loss threw a Molotov cocktail into a Colorado election office – directly targeting the room where ballots are counted. Longtime critic of voting machines charged in firebombing of Colorado electio…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM

straight out of an authoritarian playbook

  John, Donald Trump has just deployed hundreds of National Guard troops and federal agents to Washington, DC – seizing control of local law enforcement under the false pretense of rising violent crime. It’s something straight out of an authoritarian playbook: Checkpoints in Washing…
  Adam Schiff · [email protected]
August 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM

I won’t back down

  This is Adam Schiff. I have some news, John: Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham broke the news last week that Trump had successfully badgered the Justice Department into targeting me with a criminal investigation. This kind of baseless abuse of the justice system is just what dictators …
  Adam Schiff · [email protected]
August 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM

Trump has successfully badgered the DOJ into opening a criminal investigation against me

  This is Adam Schiff. I have some news, John: Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham broke the news last week that Trump had successfully badgered the Justice Department into targeting me with a criminal investigation. This kind of baseless abuse of the justice system is just what dictators …
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM

The internal checks are gone

  John, In 2020, 2022, and 2024 – despite a pandemic, death threats to officials, and constant misinformation – our elections held. But we’re not exaggerating when we say this time is different. Now empowered by an administration filled with election deniers, the threat to free and fa…
  Adam Schiff · [email protected]
August 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM

I have some breaking news

  This is Adam Schiff. I have some important news to share with you, John — Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly asked a corrupt DOJ official named Ed Martin to lead a baseless investigation against me. Ed Martin, if you don’t remember, was the Interim U.S. Attorney for the Di…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM

NEW: Senior Agent Who Helped Oversee F.B.I.’s Response to Jan. 6 Is Fired

  John, this is serious. Donald Trump and his allies are PURGING the FBI of those deemed “disloyal.” This even includes senior counterterrorism and intelligence agents.   Senior Agent Who Helped Oversee F.B.I.’s Response to Jan. 6 Is Fired Not only are those who stormed t…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM

The internal checks are gone

  John, In 2020, 2022, and 2024 – despite a pandemic, death threats to officials, and constant misinformation – our elections held. But we’re not exaggerating when we say this time is different. Now empowered by an administration filled with election deniers, the threat to free and fa…
  DASS Legal · [email protected]
August 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM

a federal takeover of elections

  John, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is demanding states turn over election data – including entire voter rolls. Trump’s DOJ wants states to turn over voter lists, election info So far, nearly a dozen states – including most battleground states – have received swe…
  Jolanda Jones · [email protected]
August 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM

I ain’t afraid of no ghost 👻💪🏾

  Greg Abbott is making up fake laws to try to scare me and my colleagues into giving up; he’s even calling for our arrest. But we’re not afraid and we’re not backing down. I’ve been a lawyer for 30 years and counting, and I know that the Governor’s threats have no legal backing. I’…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM

SIGN NOW: Stand with Texas Democrats blocking Trump’s redistricting power grab

  ➤➤ BREAKING: Texas Democrats flee to block Trump‑backed redistricting — GOP retaliates Dozens of Texas House Democrats have fled the state – traveling to Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts – to deny Republicans the quorum needed to pass a mid-decade redistricting plan backed by…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
August 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Maine Sec. of State: “Go jump in the Gulf of Maine”

  ➤➤ BREAKING: Shenna Bellows tells Trump’s DOJ to “Go jump in the Gulf of Maine.” We’re not going to sugarcoat it, John: Trump’s DOJ is launching a full-blown assault on state election systems -- demanding access to voter rolls, targeting Democratic-led states, and trying to intimi…
  DASS Legal · [email protected]
August 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM

a federal takeover of elections

  John, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is demanding states turn over election data – including entire voter rolls. Trump’s DOJ wants states to turn over voter lists, election info So far, nearly a dozen states – including most battleground states – have received swe…
  Marc Elias · [email protected]
August 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM

Re: defending democracy in the courtroom

  Hi John, it’s Marc Elias. I’m proud to be one of the leading lawyers in the ongoing fight to defend democracy and protect voting rights in the face of Republican extremism. Right now, we’re seeing Donald Trump and his cronies launch an assault on our government and the rule of law.…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM

➤➤ BREAKING: Texas GOP plans new congressional map—without even checking census data

  ➤➤ BREAKING: Texas Republicans are redrawing the congressional map – without checking the census data We just confirmed: the chair of Texas’s redistricting committee admitted he hasn’t even looked at the 2020 census data, even though GOP lawmakers are racing to redraw the congress…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM

OFFICIAL POLL: Where do you get your news?

  ➤➤ OFFICIAL POLL: Where do you get your news? John, We’re conducting a quick internal poll, and we’d love to hear from you. With trust in news sources under constant attack, we want to know: Where do you go for the facts? Whether it’s a newspaper, cable network, podcast, social medi…
  DASS Legal · [email protected]
July 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM

a federal takeover of elections

  John, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is demanding states turn over election data – including entire voter rolls. Trump’s DOJ wants states to turn over voter lists, election info So far, nearly a dozen states – including most battleground states – have received swe…
  Roy Cooper · [email protected]
July 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM

I’m in.

  Hello, John. I’m Roy Cooper, and I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina. I believe that our brightest days are still ahead, but we have to work together to fix what’s broken in Washington. Politicians in DC are running up our debt, ripping away our health care…
  DASS Legal · [email protected]
July 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM

Trump’s DOJ just backed the right-wing voter purge playbook

  ➤➤ NEW: States file lawsuit to stop Trump’s election power grab This is urgent, John. A GOP group is suing to force the state of Illinois to PURGE its voter rolls.  Their argument? That Illinois isn’t kicking enough people off the rolls – and the DOJ just backed their central c…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM

Re: NPR and PBS

  John, Earlier this month, House Republicans voted to permanently extend tax breaks for billionaires – and to fund them, they slashed Medicaid and SNAP by over a trillion dollars. Now they’ve done it again – cutting over $1 billion from public broadcasting – including NPR, PBS, and o…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM

Re: Colbert

  John, CBS just announced it’s canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert… just three days after Colbert called out Paramount – CBS’s parent company – for quietly paying Trump $16 million to settle a lawsuit. And it doesn’t end there: Paramount is seeking approval from the Trump Ad…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM

➤➤ BREAKING: NC GOP tries to outlaw voter outreach

  ➤➤ BREAKING: North Carolina Republicans want to ban election officials from encouraging turnout This isn’t subtle, John. North Carolina GOP lawmakers are pushing a new bill that would criminalize nonpartisan voter outreach by election officials — including efforts like reminder ca…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM

straight from the authoritarian playbook…

  ➤➤ BREAKING: Trump shares a fabricated AI video of Obama’s “arrest” Donald Trump just posted a grotesque, AI-generated video on Truth Social — depicting former President Obama being dragged from the Oval Office in handcuffs and thrown in jail. It even includes audio of the Village…
  DASS Legal · [email protected]
July 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM

re: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s warning…

  Ketanji Brown Jackson just issued a dire warning: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson didn’t mince words. She warned that some recent rulings pose an existential threat to the rule of law. She’s urging Americans to stay alert, stay engaged, and fight back – because if we don’t, no one el…
  DASS Legal · [email protected]
July 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM

NEW: DOJ Jumps Into Another Anti-Voting Lawsuit >> 

  NEW: DOJ Jumps Into Another Anti-Voting Lawsuit >>  This is urgent, John. A GOP group is suing to force the state of Illinois to PURGE its voter rolls.  Their argument? That Illinois isn’t kicking enough people off the rolls – and the DOJ just backed their central claim. …
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM

Re: Epstein

  Trump promised to drain the swamp. Instead, he’s flooding it. This time, he’s refusing to release the Epstein files – documents that could expose powerful abusers and shed light on one of the darkest criminal conspiracies in history. Trump tells supporters not to 'waste time'…
  DASS Legal · [email protected]
July 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM

➤➤ BREAKING: DOJ officials urged to defy court orders

  ➤➤ BREAKING: Whistleblower says DOJ leadership told staff to defy court orders This is urgent: a former DOJ attorney has revealed explosive allegations that senior Trump administration officials encouraged ignoring court orders to carry out mass deportations. Emil Bove, a Trump…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM

CISA is being gutted. Election offices are on their own.

  ➤➤ URGENT: Trump dismantling election security from the inside Trump is ramping up his efforts to undermine our elections, John. The federal agency responsible for defending our elections from cyberattacks and disinformation, CISA, is being gutted. Reports from across the country …
  DASS Legal · [email protected]
July 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s warning…

  Ketanji Brown Jackson just issued a dire warning: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson didn’t mince words. She warned that some recent rulings pose an existential threat to the rule of law. She’s urging Americans to stay alert, stay engaged, and fight back – because if we don’t, no one el…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM

➤➤ BREAKING: DOJ wants to criminalize election officials

  ➤➤ BREAKING: DOJ exploring criminal charges against election officials This is shocking, John:  The Department of Justice, under Trump’s directive, has begun investigating state and local election officials for potential criminal wrongdoing, simply for doing their jobs.  They’ve s…
  Marc Elias · [email protected]
July 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM

Re: defending democracy in the courtroom

  Hi John, it’s Marc Elias. I’m proud to be one of the leading lawyers in the ongoing fight to defend democracy and protect voting rights in the face of Republican extremism. Right now, we’re seeing Donald Trump and his cronies launch an assault on our government and the rule of law.…
  DASS Legal · [email protected]
July 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM

Trump’s DOJ just backed the right-wing voter purge playbook

  ➤➤ NEW: States file lawsuit to stop Trump’s election power grab This is urgent, John. A GOP group is suing to force the state of Illinois to PURGE its voter rolls.  Their argument? That Illinois isn’t kicking enough people off the rolls – and the DOJ just backed their central …
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM

CISA is being gutted. Election offices are on their own.

  ➤➤ URGENT: Trump dismantling election security from the inside Trump is ramping up his efforts to undermine our elections, John. The federal agency responsible for defending our elections from cyberattacks and disinformation, CISA, is being gutted. Reports from across the country …
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM

Trump’s latest move: weaponizing DOJ to intimidate election officials

  ➤➤ BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ continues attack on Colorado’s election integrity John, The Trump administration’s Department of Justice is demanding every single record from Colorado’s 2024 election — and ordering officials to preserve everything from 2020 as well. This isn’t a normal…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM

This voter suppression tactic just became law in Iowa

  ➤➤ BREAKING: Iowa signs citizenship challenge law into effect This is one of the most brazen voter suppression laws we’ve seen this year. Iowa’s governor just signed legislation allowing poll workers to challenge a voter's citizenship status, based on nothing more than suspicion. …
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM

Naturalized citizens under attack

  ➤➤ BREAKING: DOJ launches denaturalization task force The Trump administration just directed the Department of Justice to prioritize stripping citizenship from naturalized Americans. That’s right — instead of focusing on civil rights enforcement or protecting voters from intimid…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM

26 key races on the line

  URGENT: 26 key races on the line John, We’re staring down the most critical Secretary of State elections in more than a decade.  In 2026, 26 Secretary of State races will shape the future of our elections, redistricting in 2030, and the outcome of the 2028 presidential race. Repub…
  Marc Elias · [email protected]
July 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM

Re: defending democracy in the courtroom

  Hi John, it’s Marc Elias. I’m proud to be one of the leading lawyers in the ongoing fight to defend democracy and protect voting rights in the face of Republican extremism. Right now, we’re seeing Donald Trump and his cronies launch an assault on our government and the rule of law.…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM

Trump’s latest move: weaponizing DOJ to intimidate election officials

  ➤➤ BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ continues attack on Colorado’s election integrity John, The Trump administration’s Department of Justice is demanding every single record from Colorado’s 2024 election — and ordering officials to preserve everything from 2020 as well. This isn’t a normal…
  Team DASS · [email protected]
July 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM

This is the moment we feared

  ➤➤ BREAKING: Trump’s "Big Beautiful Bill" clears final hurdle After an eight-hour stand led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” has officially passed the House. Donald Trump will now sign it into law, cementing one of the most dangerous federal …
  Ariel Hayes · [email protected]
July 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM

Why I said yes to leading this fight.

  John, Ariel Hayes here. I just joined DASS as Executive Director because the stakes have never been higher – and what happens in the next year and a half could shape the next decade. Over the past few years, we’ve seen just how fragile our democratic institutions can be when they’re…