We're watching Trump's latest coup attempt

We're watching Trump's latest coup attempt

By Kelvin Wade

Mr. Stop the Steal is trying to steal the 2026 midterm elections.

Donald Trump has never liked elections. He repeatedly spoke about the 2016 election being rigged before the election and after, even putting together a commission to investigate it. It disbanded finding zero evidence of fraud. We all know the fake elector scheme, vice-president arm twisting and siccing an insurrectionist mob on the Capitol to steal the 2020 election. His corruption knows no bounds.

Now, he is underwater on every issue. His approval rating is down to a paltry 37%. Democrats have been walking away with special elections including a stunning recent shellacking in a deeply red Texas district where a Democrat defeated the Trump-backed Republican candidate by 14 points. Trump had carried the district by 17 points in 2024 and to add insult to injury, in this special election, more than 50% of the voters were Republican.  These are just the first waves of a blue tsunami that’s going to drown MAGA in November, and he knows it.

Just this past January, in a meeting with Republicans Trump said his policies are so good that the country “shouldn’t even have an election.” That’s a wannabe authoritarian Putinesque speech. 

He’s working hard to make that a reality. He started by pushing red states to do mid-decade gerrymandering to try to ensure Republicans hold the House. The Trump administration is suing 24 states plus the District of Columbia to obtain their unredacted voter roll information so they can purge the rolls and suppress the vote. Attorney General Pam Bondi even sent a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz saying if he handed over the voter roll information among other things, the “chaos” meaning the surge of ICE agents into the state would end.

Then last week we saw the administration improperly use the FBI to raid Fulton County, Georgia and walk off with 700 boxes worth of voter information. His Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was present at the raid. Why? She has no law enforcement role. It just shows Trump is using everyone and everything at his disposal to try to avoid the ass-kicking coming his way this fall. 

This past Tuesday, Trump appeared on Dan Bongino’s podcast and said, “The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over, we should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” In a later NBC interview he listed Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta as places the federal government needed to take over. What do they have in common? Heavy black populations that stand in strong opposition to his Make America White Again agenda.

Donald Trump wants all voter information in his hands so he can rig the midterms. 

But there’s that pesky little Constitution standing in his way.  Article 1 Section 4 says "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations..." 

The president has no seat at that table.

Trump isn’t being subtle. This fascist president, installed by sycophantic and politically illiterate voters, is actively planning on stealing the 2026 elections because he doesn’t want to be held accountable. He doesn’t want his corrupt business dealings, the gifts he’s received, the UAE royal family investing in his cryptocurrency and receiving access to powerful AI chips in return, his murky control of Venezuelan oil, his odd deference to Vladimir Putin, his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, his destruction of the East Wing and potential destruction of the Kennedy Center, his seizure of Congressional approved funds and so many other things investigated by a Congress that has the balls to do their Constitutional duty. He fears being impeached for the third time.

Large scale voter fraud, especially that would change the result of an election, is not a thing in the United States. This has been investigated extensively. In fact, the 2020 election was probably the most examined election in history and it was found to have no large-scale vote fraud that would’ve changed the outcome of the election. Trump’s own cybersecurity election chief Chris Krebs said it was the most secure election in history and Trump fired him for saying it. He’s since ordered Barrister Barbie and her fully weaponized DOJ to investigate Krebs. 

The numbers expose mass voter fraud for the tinfoil cult conspiracy theory it is. The conservative Heritage Foundation has only documented 1,400 cases of proven voter fraud in the past half a century out of billions of votes cast. A 2025 Michigan Department of State audit found 16 fraudulent votes out of 5.7 million cast. An October 2025 Texas review flagged 2,724 individuals as “potential noncitizens” in a pool of 18 million voters. Upon further review, many of the people flagged turned out to be naturalized citizens. And lastly, a 2024 Georgia audit found that 20 non-citizens successfully registered to vote out of 8.2 million voters. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning while winning the Powerball than finding widespread fraud.

Now, there was one documented case of election fraud swinging an election. It happened in 2018 in North Carolina. But in that case, the fraudster was a Republican operative cheating for a Republican candidate. 

Things like the SAVE Act, a Republican proposal to require birth certificates or passports in order to register to vote, are a solution in search of a problem. The act is designed to suppress the votes of minorities and the poor, the largest demographics without ID. Obtaining identification documents costs money. The 24th Amendment forbids charging for the right to vote.  The only way it passes constitutional muster is if they make obtaining identification free, which is what most states that require these documents do. Otherwise, this is a poll tax with a fresh coat of paint.

You’re more likely to find Bigfoot riding a unicorn than widespread voter fraud and Trump knows it. His MAGA cultists and Republican sycophants keep pretending the 2020 election was stolen and that there’s massive fraud out there. There is. The fraud is the guy who ran a fraudulent university, fraudulent charity, fraudulent business and is a convicted felon.

Just like he concocted a scheme to try to steal the 2020 election, he’s in full swing using the power of the Executive Branch to try to steal the 2026 midterms. This week, Steve Bannon boasted that the administration would station ICE at polling places in November. They’re going to pull out all the stops to try to derail the blue freight train coming down the tracks.  

This is an autocratic fascist coup attempt we’re watching in real time. Do they really think we’re going to quietly stand by and let a wannabe dictator steal our democracy? We’re fully awake now. We’re woke. If he trashes our Constitution and tries to steal our votes, he’s going to need to invoke the Insurrection Act. That’s not a threat. It’s a spoiler. Bet.