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A Judge Protected The People Counting Our Votes
On October 23, two federal agents walked into Francisco Diaz’s office in San Benito County, California, and showed their federal badges. They hand-delivered a DOJ letter listing 33 of his voters as “suspected likely aliens” and gave him 48 hours to hand over their Social Security numbers and driver’s license information. Diaz didn’t blink: “We will not be intimidated by agents with guns for simply doing our jobs.”
Diaz runs the elections for around 40,000 voters. In his sworn statement in federal court, he said he “did not know whether I might be arrested or what might happen next.” So he made “an emergency plan for how my office would run if I were not there.”
For months, the DOJ has been threatening to prosecute election officials. In October, it told California counties to set ballots aside or risk criminal charges. Meanwhile, their voter fraud claims kept shrinking. In July, DHS claimed there might be as many as 190,832 noncitizens registered to vote in California. By October, it was down to around 20,000 ballots the DOJ wanted set aside. Federal prosecutors charged 28 people, and a number of them don’t even appear to have voted.
On Friday, US District Judge Trina Thompson found “the record shows that Defendants intimidated, threatened, or coerced election workers,” which likely violated the Voting Rights Act, and ordered them to stop. That was already against the law. Now the DOJ and DHS are under a court order.
Through November 16, they can’t threaten election workers in any state with prosecution for legally counting ballots, and they have to tell every county they sent those letters to that the threats are dead. That same day, a federal appeals court refused to let the regime set aside the 20,000 ballots in California.
Diaz never stopped: “Despite all of this, my office is continuing to run the election.” Trump tried to set aside ballots and sent armed agents after the people who count our votes, but two courts told him no on the same day. Good.
Colorado Kept Trump’s Monitors 100 Feet Away
On October 20, the DOJ asked Colorado to let federal monitors inside the voting centers in Adams County, north of Denver, on Election Day. Secretary of State Jena Griswold had just changed the rules 11 days earlier, requiring official election observers to get the state’s permission before they walk into any voting center.
On October 29, Griswold stood her ground. She allowed the monitors to come in, but only while being escorted by a state-appointed observer the entire time. They had to stay in a designated area, where they could watch and take notes. They weren’t allowed to talk to voters, touch the voting equipment, or take any photos or recordings.
The DOJ gave up there. “Our monitors will remain outside of polling places and not come within 100 feet of the building,” it wrote back, citing Colorado state law.
This is the second time Griswold sent them packing. Last year, she refused to give the Trump regime Colorado’s private voter file. When the DOJ sued, a federal judge tossed the lawsuit in August. And she’s not alone this week. Election officials in Kentucky are keeping the monitors out of polling places in Louisville and Lexington. In Arkansas—a state Trump won by 30 points—the Washington County Election Commission voted 3-0 to do the same.
Trump wanted his monitors in the room with Colorado voters. Instead they’ll be standing outside—at least 100 feet away.
Houston Charged The ICE Agent
On October 10, Miguel Parra Hernandez was on his way to work in Harris County, Texas, his family says, when ICE agents started chasing him. He’s 48, works construction, and has lived in Texas for more than 30 years with no criminal record. He ran. Prosecutors say ICE Agent Mario Alberto Morales then steered his Jeep into him and ran over both of his legs. The man ICE claimed it was chasing that day? His daughter says he’s been dead since 2017.
Morales had his body camera on. “You ran over me,” Parra Hernandez cried in Spanish. Morales can be heard saying, “He got hit with a car, bro.” ICE, of course, claimed Parra Hernandez ran in front of the vehicle. But when another agent showed up, Morales told him, “I was coming in and I hit him with the car.”
Then the agents drove the Jeep back to an ICE office before local investigators could look at it. A judge signed a search warrant for it. On October 23, investigators reported back to the court: “Access to 2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee has not been provided—no search of vehicle.”
On Friday, a Harris County grand jury indicted Morales for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony that carries two to 20 years in prison. His lawyer said he’d turn himself in this morning. District Attorney Sean Teare didn’t hold back: “An ICE badge does not give you free rein to injure, kill, or violate the constitutional rights of anyone.”
ICE has spent the last two years acting like its agents answer to nobody. Harris County just proved them wrong.
Alaska Just Threw Trump’s Lawsuit Out
On October 22, the DOJ sued Alaska to stop the state from certifying its Senate race if Sen. Dan Sullivan narrowly loses to Mary Peltola. Trump bragged it was his idea.
Their excuse was the fact a second Dan Sullivan is on the ballot—a retired teacher who finished third in the primary with 2.47%. The DOJ wanted ballots marked for him pulled aside and certification held up “pending an investigation” into which Dan Sullivan people actually meant to vote for.
On Sunday, two days before the election, US District Judge Sharon Gleason threw the whole case out. “The absence of any explanation from the United States … is telling,” she wrote. And pulling aside ballots so law enforcement can look into who cast them “is not a remedy that this Court can or should order as it clearly violate[s] Alaskans’ right to a secret ballot.”
She also pointed at the US Attorney’s Friday press conference, where he stood between the Alaska State Troopers and the FBI and said they were “working to make sure that your vote counts in a way that you meant and intended it to count.” Voters hearing that, the judge wrote, “may well have concerns regarding the secrecy of their ballot.”
How Alaska runs its election is the responsibility “of the State, not the executive branch of the federal government.” She closed the case and wouldn’t let the DOJ rewrite it. Trump tried to block the election results before a single vote was tallied. A federal judge in Alaska just said no. The DOJ says it’s appealing. But for now, Alaska counts every ballot.
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Onward!
Scott
When are you voting tomorrow, or did you already?
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Election Day is tomorrow, and a federal judge just threw out Trump’s bid to freeze Alaska’s count. Let’s finish strong with four letters before you go vote:
Stop Trump’s next grab for your state’s elections:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trumps-move-to-take-over-state-elections/
Keep armed agents away from our polls:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trump-from-sending-troops-to-our-polling-places/
Impeach John Roberts:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts/
Push Pete Hegseth’s impeachment letters past 15,000:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-pete-hegseth/
Tell me below which ones you sent.
Almost there. Whatever happens tomorrow, I’m proud we showed up the whole way. Let’s see it through.