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EPISODE · May 12, 2026 · 14 MIN

Trump just announced an “election integrity army” at the polls in November

from Hope For America with Heather Delaney Reese · host Heather Delaney Reese

While much of the country was celebrating Mother's Day, the President of the United States locked himself away inside the White House and spent the day rage-posting his grievances on social media. He attacked Supreme Court justices he personally appointed, threatened to "pack the court," and announced something far more dangerous: an "election integrity army in every single state" for the November midterms. He did not say who these people will be, how they will be deployed, whether they will be in uniform or plain clothes, or if they will be armed. And that vagueness is the threat.Based on the events of 5-10-2026The Breakdown:Trump announced an "election integrity army in every single state" for the 2026 midtermsHe did not name who they are, how they will be trained, or whether they will be armedWhy this language is an invitation, not a policy, and who is listeningThe 1981 New Jersey "Ballot Security Task Force" that put armed officers in Black and Latino neighborhoods, leading to a 35-year federal consent decree on the RNCThat consent decree expired in 2018, and what has happened at polling places sinceArmed men in tactical gear filming voters at an Arizona ballot drop box in 2022How the authoritarian playbook works: accuse your opponents of doing what you are about to doTrump's rambling attack on Justices Gorsuch and Barrett for ruling against his tariffsHis threat to "pack the court" and the message behind being "the first President in History to attend a Supreme Court session"Trump turning on Fox News for letting Congressman Ro Khanna speak on airA late-night flood of self-glorifying memes, including a doctored Mount Rushmore imageWhy every single state means every single one of us has a role to playWhat contacting your representatives, volunteering as a trained poll worker, and supporting independent media actually accomplishes right nowWhy hope is not lost even if the worst happens, and why it is a choice we make every morningMothers give. He takes. Mothers protect. He threatens. Mothers hold families together. He tears a country apart. They cannot take hope from us. They can only take it if we hand it over. And we are not handing it over. Ever.

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