{"id":8679,"date":"2026-06-28T07:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:43:24","slug":"your-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/your-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Politics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look, in the end governing is about politics.\u00a0\u00a0And politics is about winning elections.\u00a0\u00a0If we want to change America, we have to win elections.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, of course, it\u2019s really not that simple at all.\u00a0\u00a0Because as today\u2019s Congress and the last three Presidential elections show, America is on an electoral razor\u2019s edge.\u00a0\u00a0Four Senate seats, five House seats, and about two percent of the overall votes, and Democrats control the Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court for the last decade.\u00a0\u00a0The American \u201cstory\u201d would be very different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not \u201cnew news\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;But it does explain much of the current MAGA attacks on the vote.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their electoral math is pretty simple.\u00a0\u00a0If MAGA can drive down the number of Democratic voters, they can win.\u00a0\u00a0The theory is this:\u00a0\u00a0MAGA Republicans are highly motivated voters. We\u2019ll see if that\u2019s still true after two years of the second Trump Administration and without Trump himself on the ballot.\u00a0\u00a0But the expectation is that those stalwarts will  show up.\u00a0\u00a0Efforts to make voting more difficult:\u00a0\u00a0stop mail-in voting, consolidate polling places into \u201cwarehouses\u201d, make voting identification arduous, send ICE to the polls; all have a greater impact on Democratic leaning voters than on Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Just an aside:\u00a0\u00a0the proper labeling is \u201cDemocratic voters\u201d not \u201cDemocrat voters\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The shortened version is a Republican talking point, designed to diminish the stature of Democrats and to emphasize the \u201crat\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0My suggestion might be in this \u201ctit for tat\u201d environment, call all Republicans \u201cPubs\u201d, pronounced with a \u201clong U\u201d. But I happen to like \u201cpubs\u201d (short U), at least in the beer tap sense.\u00a0\u00a0So, when motivated I replace my Dad\u2019s Republican Party with the letters MAGA.\u00a0\u00a0Sounds like maggot.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Make It Count<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another way to drive down the vote, is to make voting inconsequential.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cRed Map\u201d Gerrymandering scheme, which pre-dates Trump and MAGA, pushed both Red and Blue states to draw the least politically competitive districts possible, with pre-ordained political outcomes.\u00a0\u00a0Who cares to vote, when you already know who your state legislators and Congressmen will be?\u00a0\u00a0If, as Tip O\u2019Neil, Democratic Speaker of the House in the 1980\u2019s said, \u201cAll politics are local\u201d; then if all local elections have pre-determined outcomes, fewer will come to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We saw the extreme of that with Trump\u2019s current demand of Red states to \u201cpush the envelope\u201d of Gerrymandering, squeezing every possible MAGA House seat out.\u00a0\u00a0Some Democratic states responded (unexpectedly).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The people of California \u201cchecked\u201d the legislature of Texas, at least equaling the balance.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But other states,\u00a0Missouri, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Tennessee did their best to keep the House of Representatives in MAGA hands.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Of note:\u00a0\u00a0some states on both sides either chose or failed to respond.\u00a0\u00a0New York, Virginia and Maryland did not change for the Blue, and Indiana and Nebraska for the Red.  Ohio, as usual, pretended to &#8220;not Gerrymander&#8221;, but at least two more seats that were likely Democratic are now vulnerable.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drowned in Paper<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then there\u2019s the Save Act.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s a series of steps to \u201csecure the voting\u201d nationally.\u00a0\u00a0The Act would establish difficult proof of citizenship requirements, some of which could potentially disenfranchise millions of women voting in this country (<a href=\"https:\/\/nwlc.org\/how-the-save-act-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-married-women-and-trans-voters\/\">NWLC<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0The goal of the Save Act is to keep non-citizens from voting in American elections.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s a solution without a problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation (author of Project 2025) has some of the best illegal voting information in their own database.\u00a0\u00a0It shows the true extent of illegal voting in America.\u00a0\u00a0In data for every state going back forty-four years, there is a total of 1,382 criminal convictions for voter fraud.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s an average of 31.4 a year (<a href=\"https:\/\/electionfraud.heritage.org\/search\">Heritage<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0Just counting Presidential elections over that time, over 1.4 Billion votes were cast. The number of illegal votes is vanishingly small (about one 10 millionth of a percent).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So why make voters jump through all of these hoops:&nbsp;&nbsp;a paper trail of birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce decrees, legal name changes, and residency proofs to \u201csolve\u201d a non-existent illegal voting problem?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For two reasons.\u00a0\u00a0First, a MAGA\u00a0\u00a0\u201cfundamental truth\u201d is that \u201cReal America\u201d would never have voted for Biden (or Harris, Clinton, or Obama).\u00a0\u00a0So the elections must be \u201crigged\u201d, and they must stop the \u201csteal\u201d (heard that before?). In order to maintain that fiction, MAGA political leaders MUST be seen trying to prevent the next \u201csteal\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, all of this incessant paperwork will have the net effect of driving down the vote, by making voting even more difficult.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s especially true for those with less access or time to find that paperwork; minorities and poorer voters.\u00a0\u00a0Some just won\u2019t try.\u00a0\u00a0And since a large proportion of them vote Democratic, the Save Act helps MAGA suppress the \u201cBlue\u201d vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your Voice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, the Republican Senate has not succumbed to Trump\u2019s pressure to pass the Save Act.\u00a0\u00a0As Republican Senator Thom Tillis said, it\u2019s far \u201clate in the game\u201d to change the voting rules for 2026.\u00a0\u00a0But that doesn\u2019t mean they still won\u2019t try.\u00a0\u00a0Save Act or not, Gerrymandering or not, it is essential that Democrats show up in November.\u00a0\u00a0Even if their state legislative and Congressional seats are Gerrymandered, their votes for statewide office, including Senators are not.\u00a0\u00a0And sometimes even the best laid Gerrymandering districts are flawed.\u00a0\u00a0Texas, and even Ohio, may elect more Democrats than they planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The people\u2019s voice has a way of overwhelming all opposition. November of 2026 is the time to start having a say.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use your vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Look, in the end governing is about politics.\u00a0\u00a0And politics is about winning elections.\u00a0\u00a0If we want to change America, we have to win elections.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s as simple as that. 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