Trump's War on Iran Looks to Be Used as Pretext for Midterm Voter Purge

Voting rights activists may face toughest tests as Donald
Trump's administration attempts a brazen voter obstruction 
project aimed at stopping millions from voting in midterm 
elections. Trump claimed Iran interfered in 2020-24 elections,
a pretext to take charge of elections, as Trump declares his 
intention to nationalize administration of state elections, 
in violation of U.S. Constitution. Photo is from In These Times.

Voting liberties to be slaughtered like so many Iranian children

Madison, Wisconsin — The U.S. Dept of Defense, and Dept of Justice will likely be used by Donald Trump to attempt to obstruct voting liberties of millions of eligible Americans.

President Trump referenced this coming escalation against the voting public on Feb. 28, when he falsely linked the illegal American-Israeli invasion of Iran with American midterm elections.

Trump seeks power, and Americans who vote present huge barriers to his sustaining power. 

Notes election law and voting rights expert, Marc Elias of Democracy Docket, who has brought this story to the public, while corporate media has imposed a black-out of Trump's plan: Trump has made public his intention to subvert American elections while pursuing war against Iran, then using the war as the basis to declare elections illegal.

Crazy plan, but Trump appears to have every intention of pursing this madness.

Said Elias of Democracy Docket:

At 2:30 a.m. on Saturday morning (Feb 28), Donald trump posted a video on Truth Social to announce that he had ordered the bombing of Iran. As crazy as that was, that he announced a war on Truth Social in the middle of the night, it's even crazier that two hours later, he wrote: 'Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States.'
That's right. the very next social media post, back-to-back with the one announcing the war, was him tying a connection between this alleged interference in 2020 and 2024 and the war that he had just launched.'
These two posts tell you everything you need to  know about where Donald Trump is going for the next eight months, [until Election Day, November 3].

Elias, a civil liberties attorney, will fight this coming Trump action in court, Elias vows.

Elias notes Trump's unhinged social media posts follow Trump's effort to obtain state voting rolls so the administration can purge eligible Americans from voting because of voters' suspected non-Republican sentiment.

Streets of Minneapolis — Springsteen

Madison, Wisconsin — The power of the righteous, love for liberty and empathy have taken our country far.

I love the people of Minneapolis for what they have done in the face of fascism, murder and mayhem.

They have fought with truth and honor.

In times of moral crisis, we need the voice of artists and writers.

Bruce Springsteen has stepped forward again with Streets of Minneapolis.

We really needed this, Bruce. Peace. 

Streets of Minneapolis

Through the winter’s ice and cold
Down Nicollet Avenue
A city aflame fought fire and ice
‘Neath an occupier’s boots
King Trump’s private army from the DHS
Guns belted to their coats
Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law
Or so their story goes
Against smoke and rubber bullets
By the dawn’s early light
Citizens stood for justice
Their voices ringing through the night
And there were bloody footprints
Where mercy should have stood
And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets
Alex Pretti and Renee Good

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Here in our home they killed and roamed
In the winter of ’26
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis

Trump’s federal thugs beat up on
His face and his chest
Then we heard the gunshots
And Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead
Their claim was self defense, sir
Just don’t believe your eyes
It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Crying through the bloody mist
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis

Now they say they’re here to uphold the law
But they trample on our rights
If your skin is black or brown my friend
You can be questioned or deported on sight

In chants of ICE out now
Our city’s heart and soul persists
Through broken glass and bloody tears
On the streets of Minneapolis

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
Here in our home they killed and roamed
In the winter of ’26
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis 
 

ICE Shoots Another in Cold Blood in Minnesota

NFL great and human rights
activist, Alan Page, protesting 
ICE killings and abductions,
is pictured above.

Democracy Dies
Democrats, Cops Supine in Response

Commentary

Watched video of second ICE shooting Saturday morning. 

Sick ICE bastards.

We no longer live in a classical liberal democracy. 

At moment, ICE is bombarding citizens in Minneapolis with gas after ICE shot and killed a man on the sidewalk.

"They're not cops; they're not ICE; they're NAZIs," a witness told Status Coup News.

Facebook videos below show some eight ICE personnel shooting another protester. Another video shot multiple ICE shootings, as an ICE conspirator claps. 

Trump Invades Venezuela; Arrests President Maduro and Wife

US President Donald Trump speaks at press conference at 
Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, January 3, 2026.
(Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) 
"We are going to run the country," Trump said.

Trump Declares U.S. 'In Charge' of Venezuela

Democrats Offer Weak Response

Netanyahu Calls Trump 'Bold and Brilliant'

Commentary

UPDATED - Madison, Wisconsin — President Trump launched another illegal U.S. regime-change war and invasion of a sovereign country — Venezuela.

Israel's radical Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar praised the invasion that followed the latest U.S. visit by Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu with Trump, and Christian Zionists.

Netanyahu dubbed Trump a leader for Peace this week.

Congressional Democrats' reaction is muted, often veering into legality and calls for Congressional movement, avoiding moral condemnation prominent among the American people.

Wisconsin's Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin (D) is silent today, obeying her political instinct to gauge the political terrain first before commenting.

Jake Johnson in Common Dreams reports on exceptions to Baldwin's timidity:

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he will force a Senate vote next week on a bipartisan War Powers Resolution to block additional US military action in Venezuela.
'Where will this go next?' Kaine asked in a statement. 'Will the president deploy our troops to protect Iranian protesters? To enforce the fragile ceasefire in Gaza? To battle terrorists in Nigeria? To seize Greenland or the Panama Canal? To suppress Americans peacefully assembling to protest his policies? Trump has threatened to do all this and more and sees no need to seek legal authorization from people’s elected legislature before putting servicemembers at risk.'

Quagmire Seen

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin), an AIPAC political foe, writes:

Trump continues to ignore the US Constitution and lie to Congress and the American people. Bombing and occupying Venezuela is an illegal act of war against a sovereign nation.

Only Congress has the ability to declare war, but Speaker Johnson and the Republican majorities in the House and Senate have rolled over and gave up our Article One powers. 

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth told Members of Congress their illegal attacks on boats was not about regime change, but capturing a sitting leader is the literal definition of regime change. Trump and his band of misfits seem to have no endgame to this potential quagmire.

— Rep. Mark Pocan (@RepMarkPocan) January 3, 2026

House Democrat Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, and Israel-first supporter, put out a mealy-mouthed statement this morning.

This is so fucking weak. https://t.co/rwOQsqt0wQ

— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) January 3, 2026

Mainstream corporate press and social media have blacked out Israel, which controls U.S. foreign policy, and its political work with Trump for this latest military action.

🇻🇪 Venezuela President Maduro on Israel:

“They have sown an ideology more dangerous than Nazism.

They justify raids, extermination, genocide, and atomic bombs"

they'll come for the Christians, Catholics."

This is why he had to go.
pic.twitter.com/lyFDd60kxG

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) January 3, 2026

The Democratic governor of Colorado joins several Democratic House members in praising Trump's regime change operation in Venezuela.

Nothing unites the two parties like new wars and regime changes. It's beautiful DC bipartisanship at its most inspiring: https://t.co/9TL5KENuaj

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 3, 2026

Congratulations, President @realDonaldTrump for your bold and historic leadership on behalf of freedom and justice. I salute your decisive resolve and the brilliant action of your brave soldiers.

— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) January 3, 2026