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MAGA Is Preparing to Steal 2026 — and Beyond

The “Russia Hoax” was not so much a hoax as a trial run for what Trump hopes to accomplish in the coming years.

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Julie Roginsky
Jul 23, 2025
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by Julie Roginsky

The 2020 election wasn’t stolen — but that’s not because MAGA didn’t want it to be once it became a convenient talking point.

If Donald Trump keeps pushing the lie that he was deprived of a second term five years ago, the president and his acolytes can simply say that they are fighting fire with fire by doing whatever they can to steal it back. They didn’t start it — the Democrats did. But they are going to end it by instituting “election security” or whatever they are going to call their assault on the electoral process.

This is not just some random fear-mongering story. It is based on concrete steps that the Trump Administration is taking right now — right this very moment — to strip the franchise from some voters. But it is also about so much more than that. It is about creating an information vacuum that only MAGA will be able to fill. Combine these two phenomena and it will be that much harder for Democrats to regain control of Congress next year and the White Hou…

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