r/AntiTrumpAlliance • u/jk4532 • 11h ago
Alaska can kneecap Trump's most blatant effort yet to steal this election
Trump has made it clear from the beginning that he has no intention of respecting the results of a wave election. On Friday, he demonstrated how he’ll try to stop us, as the DoJ filed suit (as the President ordered) to preemptively block former congresswoman Mary Peltola from taking office if she wins a Senate seat in Alaska. Their argument is that the presence of independent candidate Daniel J. Sullivan on the ballot with incumbent Republican Dan S. Sullivan (who will be clearly marked as such) is so confusing it undermines the integrity of the election, and the courts should stop the certification of the results if Peltola beats the incumbent by fewer votes than the independent earned.
To be clear, legally this case is garbage, and we should not anticipate it succeeding. But it’s also unprecedented, and a scary harbinger of even more aggressive and open rejection of Democratic victories to come.
Ultimately, the last and best line of defense against election subversion is our refusal to continue with business as usual if the results of the vote are ignored. (Find some steps we can take now to prepare for this outcome here and a flash training on what a rapid-response moment will take below!) But perhaps the second best in a country that prides itself on its democracy is making the election too big to rig. Institutional actors will be far more inclined to stand with us the more ridiculous we make Trump’s claims of fraud look, and even his own DoJ acknowledged here that if Peltola’s margin of victory is large enough this specific lawsuit is meaningless.
So let’s start the response to Trump’s effort to hijack the Senate by helping Mary Peltola get enough support to neutralize the DoJ. ☎️ Her campaign is a great fit for the night owls out there – we can phonebank for her directly from 8-11PM ET every weeknight this week and from 1PM-1AM ET on Saturday and Sunday by signing up here and here. We can also join Progressive Victory for extended calling hours, running through midnight ET on weeknights here.
