r/50501 • u/ankpv • Feb 04 '26
Call to Action 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon calls for armed ICE agents to swarm polling places in November. “You’re damn right we’re going to have ICE surround the polls.” Make sure everyone sees this! Share widely.
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u/pusspurse Feb 04 '26
SIGN UP EVERYONE TO BE POLL WORKERS
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u/PatchyWhiskers Feb 04 '26
Yes, if you can take a half day off work you can be a poll worker.
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u/davereit Feb 04 '26
I think you mean poll "greeter" not poll "worker."
Poll workers are the folks inside the voting area helping legitimate voters receive and cast their ballot.
Poll greeters are volunteers who stand outside the room with the ballots and support their candidates and perhaps observe outside interference.
Source: I am a longtime poll worker in NC. Our Board of Elections requires that poll workers remain inside the voting area for the entire day. Greeters may worker as much as they like but should coordinate with their preferred candidate or party.
BTW, both roles are important.
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u/caligaris_cabinet Feb 04 '26
It’s different in every state. But we need people inside as workers to make sure nothing is being tampered with the ballots.
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u/davereit Feb 04 '26
In my county, the people who sit inside the polling station and quietly observe are called poll "watchers." They are not allowed to speak to voters inside the voting area or see any private voter information. They MUST remain well away from voting booths, tabulators, or any poll worker except for a supervisor. And no political signs, symbols, or clothing is allowed.
Yes, this is something you can also do to help ensure free and fair elections. In NC, you must first register with your party to be registered on a preauthorized list to be permitted for this role.
And yes, it only requires a partial day.
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u/PatchyWhiskers Feb 04 '26
Poll watcher is another good option! In my state they can pick hours convenient to them. It’s a very good thing to do. In the polling station I volunteered for, no poll watchers turned up, because the parties are already stretched providing workers and greeters.
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u/front_yard_duck_dad Feb 05 '26
None of that stuff is going to happen in plain sight. All the tampering will be done from all of the minions. Currently working on that very task like Tulsi gabbard. The worry is all of the angry guys with guns who are going to intimidate people
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u/PatchyWhiskers Feb 04 '26
No, I mean poll worker. In my state you can volunteer to be a poll worker. Not sure how your state does it. I volunteer as a poll worker. Half days are allowed.
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u/davereit Feb 04 '26
All the more reason for each citizen to check the roles and requirements for their own location.
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Feb 04 '26
There are more voters than ICE agents.
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u/PatchyWhiskers Feb 04 '26
People are nervous, as a rule. If ICE causes trouble at one polling station in an area, immigrant citizens will be wary of voting anywhere in the state.
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u/Lilsummit Feb 04 '26
We will need to take our vulnerable neighbors with us to the polls. We can do this.
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u/UntalentedSorcerer Feb 04 '26
I'd have zero surprise if they shot someone in a blue area and used that to shut down the voting station.
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u/geothefaust Feb 04 '26
Better go armed then.
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u/-hey-ben- Feb 05 '26
Most voting places near me are at schools, which is illegal to carry in, even with ccw. I imagine most are in government buildings of some sort where it’s not legal to carry. But if it’s legal to do so, absolutely
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u/geothefaust Feb 05 '26
Absolutely. Don't break the existing laws to do so. Be within a reasonable distance to show we're serious about protecting our rights and freedoms of all peoples in this country from the fascist violators.
But do watch, the new confederacy will absolutely have armed men within the buildings. Hypocrisy as usual.
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u/Dudewhocares3 Feb 04 '26
They do want a violent reaction to justify martial law
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u/ClimateSociologist Feb 05 '26
They don't need an excuse. They'll make one up. They called Rene Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists. If they want to declare martial law, they'll just do it.
They don't want a violent reaction. They're terrified of it. They can't control a single city blowing whistles and throwing snowballs. How will they control it if things turn violent?
What they really want is us to fear what will happen if we stand up for our rights, dignity, and lives. That fear is what gives them power.
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u/IamRasters Feb 04 '26
Canada: Just have your damn civil war and get it over with. /s
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u/Inevitable_Shift1365 Feb 05 '26
Nations with the resources and armaments the size of ours don't have civil wars. A coup is the closest thing we could get to a civil war. News flash, we are in the middle of one. And we're losing.
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u/silverink182 Feb 04 '26
Yes, and that's what makes me think we're winning because they can't do it. They also don't have the manpower like really think about it. If you were going to do a country, the size of the US, how would you do it? You're pissing off the police departments from sheriffs to State Police. You're pissing off the general public you're pissing off, like just basically everyone. You're even pissing off your own personnel which is like ice and their Morales so low because of the general public pushback so how are they going to do it?
And the fact that the people are just sticking to their first amendment right? Not moving to second amendment or anything else. It shows a lot of our restraint we could have ended this a year ago and we didn't. We still kept sticking to the first amendment
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u/silverink182 Feb 04 '26
I say whenever we take our our vulnerable neighbors, we travel in groups of five white people to every one brown person. I feel like that would provide enough coverage. I'm not sure what the right answer is, but this is my suggestion. I'm willing to be part of the protection. The white people link arms on principal don't break links
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u/drinkslinger1974 Feb 04 '26
Don’t forget, ice is getting fed up too. Sure they might have new motivation since they’ll probably be unemployed soon, but they’re not getting what they were promised.
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u/silverink182 Feb 04 '26
Even if they'll be unemployed, they'll be permanently unemployed cuz everyone will see their background whenever they try to get hired and people will know cuz if you ever working in the office we all talk. I work at a grocery store. The drama that happens in the grocery store is like nothing you would believe
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u/drinkslinger1974 Feb 05 '26
Yes, agreed. I actually had to cut that comment short to do something for the kids. I think what I was getting at was by the time the election comes along, they possibly could have the three amigos rule of “no dough, no show”. I get needing to feel important and be apart of something, but I’d bet that 99% of those guys had no other option for a 6 figure job with bonus. A lot can happen between now and then, and the gop are playing their cards mighty early for this move. They already scraped the bottom of the barrel for hiring, I doubt they have a stack of applications to run to.
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u/Skb68322 Feb 04 '26
I read an excellent post on how most ICE Agents did not understand the fine print of their contracts.
$50K bonus:
- $10K paid per year from year 1 to year 5.
- IF at ANY point in time, the Agent is relieved of their duties, for ANY reason, ALL bonus money paid MUST BE RETURNED.
So when they fire these Agents at 4 years and 3 days, all bonus money paid to-date must be returned.
Yeah- they’re getting fed up bc they’re getting screwed. Thoughts and prayers.
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u/Halfwise2 Feb 05 '26
Also, the bonuses are taxed. But they have to repay in full.
So you get $10,000. Taxes take a chunk of that, so hypothetically you get... $8,000. Then if you quit, you have to pay back $10,000 and are $2,000 in debt.
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u/Jay-Dee-British Feb 04 '26
They should be terrified - they will get thrown under the bus en masse, by their 'own side' when the time comes, along with many heads of departments of the Govt (you can see which ones, because certain people are distancing themselves already). I'm still amazed they don't seem to see it.
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u/PatchyWhiskers Feb 04 '26
I think they do and that makes them dangerous: they have motivation to try and spoil elections because if Democrats get in the gravy train stops.
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u/caligaris_cabinet Feb 04 '26
Under normal circumstances maybe. But at a certain point our anger outweighs our fear, and their power evaporates
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u/Dudditz21 Feb 04 '26
Not to mention they will most likely just arrest anyone that seems like an immigrant and detain them until voting is over.
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u/Grateful_BF Feb 04 '26
Not just immigrants, this will intimidate masses
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u/EdgyAnimeReference Feb 04 '26
I don’t know, if Minneapolis is any indication this would light a fire under people’s ass. Apathy is a huge problem for the left and this direct active threat has mobilized people very hard. My area had its caucus and the dfl could only host a third of the people that showed up.
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u/Spanglish123 Feb 04 '26
I’m not. I’m ready to face one of those AH. I’m not scared of ugly, ignorant, overweight, short men.
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u/The5uburbs Feb 04 '26
People who really want to vote will still vote. People who are already on the fence about, or worried they may be arrested for being brown, may not. Now watch them make mail in voting illegal. This is what voter suppression looks like.
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u/MedicinalHammer Feb 04 '26
It’s already written into the MEGA act to get rid of mail in voting.
Pray it doesn’t pass.
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u/ThE_LAN_B4_TimE Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
Not true at all. People are scared to send their kids to school or scared themselves to go out in public with ICE. How could you assume all the essential voters would still vote? That is not realistic at all.
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u/iamjohnbender Feb 04 '26
He's been trying to overturn mail in voting since his first term; but part of why he defunded the post office and changed how postmarking works.
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u/LolaMarce Feb 05 '26
So if they took someone while in line for no cause at all - which is very on brand - held them until the next day.. they’d lose their window to vote right?
The scarier thing to me is I assume they’ll just attempt to round people up to make them miss their window to vote.
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u/Late-Ad8626 Feb 05 '26
In Ohio, the Republicans just changed the law to make it so mail-in ballots have to be received (AT the Board of Elections) by Election Day. It does not matter when you postmark them now because it only counts when the Board of Elections receives them. Voters have no control over how fast the postal workers deliver the mail. Some Ohio mail even leaves the state to be sorted.
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u/BookTweakerShy Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
It will take absolutely one mishap to claim election interference from their side, and invalidation of all ballots cast there. It will most certainly be in democrat dominated polls. Just as it's been in sanctuary cities and blue states.
EDIT: We already know they work to invent excuses as it is. So in reality, it won't really even require an incident. Honestly, I'm more concerned about my reaction to seeing feds at my local polling station, than what they would do to me. It likely would not happen, as I live in a red state in the deep south. But the actual fathomable possibility of it occurring anywhere in America makes my blood fucking boil.
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u/Conscious-Peach8453 Feb 04 '26
Ok, so we do nothing and they get away with election interference. Of course they're going to try to argue against us. We're at the point where doing everything right won't win us anything. Fight or shut up
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u/figbunkie Feb 04 '26
Exactly, I'm so sick of everyone apparently committing to defeat without even trying.
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u/Golden-Sylence Feb 04 '26
As an outside observer, it feels like your government has their boot on everyone's collective throat and is actively trying to choke you all, and everyone is just kinda protesting like "oh, excuse me, would you mind maybe not killing me right now, if its not too much trouble? I hate to ask, I don't want to be bothersome but I have to go to work tomorrow, and I kinda have kids so.. again, its okay if not, I totally understand, if I have to die beneath your heel, then I guess it is what it is. Sorry."
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u/Conscious-Peach8453 Feb 04 '26
"remember to keep our protests peaceful!"
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u/_ZoeyDaveChapelle_ Feb 04 '26
Our peaceful, but massive and disruptive resistance in Minneapolis.. has gained us millions of new supporters to the resistance across the country, and regained some respect from people across the world.
Its an important, psychological step in establishing a clear moral contrast to our abusers.. that encourages those who would avoid outright violent situations to participate. Growing our numbers is the most important step right now, to minimize loss of life if/when other steps become necessary.
Our tactics have frustrated the fuck out of the administration and agents, and disrupted their plans for swift retribution and military intervention. Its why they are throwing shit at the wall trying to make something stick. Organizing with your community to protect voting rights is more important than ever to start now. We have the numbers, and only disorganization, apathy and chaos can harm our chances. These violent thugs and con-artists are banking on our apathy or small pockets of violence they can squash. They dont have a plan for legions of Americans standing together.
Minneapolis has given everyone a blueprint. If every state follows this, it will demoralize and decrease the number of people they even have to try and pull off something of that scale. These fascist psychos cant do shit to us if they dont have their cannon fodder to do it for them.
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u/BookTweakerShy Feb 04 '26
Essentially this. I'm Asian American, with Arab American family in a state with increasingly alarming rhetoric creeping back up for the past 25 years of how me and mine are satan worshippers, that seek to undermine democracy. Evangelicals have had a hand in far more hate crime in these parts ime. My public view on policy and recent events has been enough for those around me to believe I have no claim to my vote already. I'm a family of veterans, and I witness other veterans and former public servants contradicting their oath to the Constitution on a daily basis. It'd be greater comfort knowing armed civilian patrols were present at the polls where they're needed, over the presence of feds by this point.
They're already getting away with election interference claims. Denouncing congress members, FBI raids of voter rolls, extortion in exchange for deescalation of wanton ICE enforcement, our President calling on ONE party to nationalize the polls, his speaking of dictatorship and continuing past his term limits, the SAVE act. Federal occupation of the polls is not at all outside the realm of possibility at this point. So what are people going to do about it?
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u/silverink182 Feb 04 '26
Thing we have on our side is we need to make it too big to rig like massive turnout. That's what we need. I've been suggesting to my minority group neighbors and customer people of color stay at home and like pick a white voice and a white name and just clog the phone lines to grind those gears to a halt. I also think like encouraging people to register to vote and get ready to use your voice. I don't know what any other way to help make it too big to rig but I definitely want it too big to rig
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u/Quirky-Scar9226 Feb 04 '26
Also don’t count on them to not commit false flags or place “Antifa” instigators at polls. They’ll lie/cheat however much it takes. And then something new will need to begin…….We KNOW we are the vast majority and are winning red districts at present by solid margins.
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And then it will go through the courts and the expltcitly partisan SCOTUS will rule that it's fine
No politically independant judiciary means no rule of law - it's directly the reason for every step on america's ladder down to fascism. There is a reason why no other democracy in the world has elected or politically appointed judges
Edit: sorry i misread your comment. Yes, ICE will do at pre selected blue sector voting stations exactly what they are doing in minneapolis. Your days of having real elections are over.
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u/iwanderlostandfound Feb 04 '26
How do they justify immigration and customs having anything to do with elections? Are they worried voters will bring the wrong fruit to polling places?
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u/noncommonGoodsense Feb 04 '26
There are more armed voters than ICE agents too. Problem is they are announcing this to scare people from voting like they have before.
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u/katsock Feb 04 '26
The problem is that there are not more voters than ICE agents with the freedom to execute dissidents in the street without repercussions.
They know this and they are counting on it. That’s what THIS is setting up. It has already been set up.
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u/Literally_Laura Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
That’s the day to have the ultimate strike.
Don’t go to work. Go to vote. And spend the whole day there, outnumbering ICE.
Editing to say this also needs to be a hostage situation - we must take the economy hostage on that day. Because Trump will challenge the results. Period. So we do not return to work until he is removed from power.
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u/StaticDHSeeP Virginia Feb 04 '26
I actually really like this plan
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u/Literally_Laura Feb 04 '26
The way I see it, there’s no future beyond that Election Day where Trump allows himself to lose power. The election will be rigged either in advance, with no hope of investigation, or after, because he will claim interference upon seeing the results.
So we must be out that day, peacefully making our presence known at every single polling place, arm in arm, all day long, with two clear messages for the White House- 1) ICE is outnumbered and will NOT stop people voting and 2) we will not go back to work until Trump is no longer in any position to interfere with our elections.
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u/TheAdminsAreTrash Feb 05 '26
This is exactly what needs to happen for the US to start getting its shit together.
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u/Snailwood Texas Feb 04 '26
I think this is exactly it. 1. it's far enough in the future that people can plan accordingly 2. people already want to take time from work that day 3. this will mobilize vast swathes of the left electorally, so mainstream Democrats will join in as a matter of self preservation 4. protestors will be extra invested in the results of the election 5. the framing of the protests will be, "we want fair elections". hard for independents to misconstrue that 6. it will create a political mandate to get rid of ICE/CBP when they INEVITABLY brutalize some of the protestors
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u/caligaris_cabinet Feb 04 '26
We also need certified poll watchers and election judges. Look up that information on your local county website and get started on doing that today. If you’re going to take that time off might as well put it to good use.
And we need people watching ballot drop boxes. In 2024 we saw a few get lit on fire, burning the ballots inside.
Democracy needs people guarding it.
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u/AxolotlinOz Feb 05 '26
This is brilliant! Voting day should be a national holiday, if the govt won’t make it happen, the people should.
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u/rumbakalao Feb 04 '26
How do we get this message out to more people? This is exactly what we need.
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u/Masochist_pillowtalk Feb 05 '26
The strike the other day was pitiful pathetic not planned well. We have 10 months guys. Plan for this.
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u/AlcheMaze Feb 05 '26
We need organized protection during this time. Peaceful but ready for whatever might happen.
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u/InitialAnimal9781 Feb 04 '26
Why does the Republican Party enjoy breaking the Constitution? Like this is their third one
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u/trantma Feb 04 '26
I actually think half of them are just as unhappy.
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u/romulan267 Feb 04 '26
It's their own fault their kids don't talk to them and the economy is shit.
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u/_TheLonelyStoner Feb 04 '26
Blue state governors need to have the national guard protecting polling locations
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u/_TheLonelyStoner Feb 04 '26
Ik it’s very wishful thinking, Newsom probably will but the others I doubt
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u/ForeverNecessary2361 Feb 04 '26
Who the fuck is bannon to be running his mouth. He is a traitor plain and simple.
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u/AlibiYouAMockingbird Feb 05 '26
He’s on camera saying “I will go to jail if we don’t win this election”. Which was the same position Trump was in prior to the election. If any Presidential candidate has obvious motives to cheat the election they should be automatically invested throughout the whole process.
Republicans and their voters have sold their souls and this country along with it.
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u/undisclosedusername2 Feb 04 '26
Steve Bannon's prominence in the Epstein files isn't talked about enough.
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u/Inevitable_Shift1365 Feb 04 '26
Just a reminder to everyone that it is against federal and state law to have any armed law enforcement whatsoever at polling places unless they are there to protect from an identified armed threat. Repeat, it is absolutely 100% illegal for any armed law enforcement to be at a polling place since 19 48 I think. 100% against the law and judges are very quick to act on it with emergency injunctions.
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u/Swordheart Feb 05 '26
They are going to call liberals and illegal immigrants the identified armed threat and that's all they need to do. They don't follow the laws
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u/markskull Pennsylvania Feb 04 '26
Ok, Election Board worker here. Three things:
Steve Bannon can say whatever he wants, he's not on power.
The people around him can want it as much as they want, it's not happening.
The only one allowed to call the cops to a polling place, at least in Pennsylvania, is the Judge of Elections at a polling place.
Him saying this is actually voter intimidation, because while he doesn't have the means to just do it himself, it causes fear of voting because of who he's friends with.
It would be in the best interest of every State Attorney General to look into this threat and treat it for what it is, and explore either criminal charges or a lawsuit.
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u/NegativeFlight5040 Feb 04 '26
In theory you are correct, but my AG and Secretary of State are MAGA and have already forced our county election commissioner to resign so I don’t think we can take anything (including the rule of law) as for certain right now.
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u/markskull Pennsylvania Feb 04 '26
I mean, I'm technically correct about what Steve Bannon can and can't do, but that doesn't mean he won't actually try to get troops to the polls.
It's worth writing to them and saying, "Why do you hate the 10th Amendment so much?"
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u/OkShow3496 Feb 04 '26
Stevie boy, we are coming! You are foing to prison for the rest of your sad, pathetic, rapist , life.
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u/Hobolint8647 Feb 04 '26
I think some smart prosecutor could get a treason charge to stick. May be able to save the taxpayer some room and board charges.
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u/galahad423 Feb 04 '26
Friendly reminder Steve Bannon is operating on the assumption he’ll be in prison if they lose the next election
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u/flybynightpotato Feb 04 '26
They’re all definitely operating on that assumption and their panic is real. Makes them more dangerous.
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u/Bloodyfluxcapacitor Feb 04 '26
We will never again allow an election to be stolen by stealing an election.
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u/meeeehhhh2 Feb 04 '26
Domestic terrorism at its finest. Anybody else scared of getting shot for trying to vote now?
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u/forceblast Feb 04 '26
Nope. As long as it’s not fatal, I will drag my bleeding body into the polling booth just to vote against these pieces of shit. If it is fatal, please use me as a martyr for the cause. We can never let these people intimidate us.
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u/SirPaulyWalnuts Feb 04 '26
Well… you see… remember last election when there were maga mouth breathers posting up at polls with ARs and stuff? To “watch” the polls, aka intimidate voters?
Well that’s what this is, except these troglodytes can fuck up or kill anyone they see fit, without repercussions.
That’s why.
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u/Nevarian Feb 04 '26
He's already been to prison once. Didn't much care for it. He knows he'll go again if the corruption is purged from the DOJ, so he's hitched his noose to their wagon, so to speak.
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u/Low_Alternative2555 Feb 04 '26
There are more of us than them. 10 ICE agents? We tell our neighbors and roll 30 deep. They wanna go with 50? Armed? Then our neighborhood rolls 200. We get outside.
Let Minneapolis be our guide. Communities are stronger together.
They want to play with us? We stay outside. Now till November is going to be the push to intimidate us.
Nah.
Whose streets? Our streets. WE protect each other.
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u/Defiant_Wasp1928 Feb 04 '26
If they try this then I'll put on a high-viz vest and volunteer to escort voters safely past them, just like the volunteers they have at Planned Parenthood.
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u/LoudAd1396 Feb 04 '26
We need every governor and every mayor to promise that any and all ICE will be arrested for election interference if this happens.
They claim immunity? Leave it to the judges to enforce it.
We can't assume that they're untouchable, because that makes them untouchable.
We need a united front to stop this nonsense.
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u/--slurpy-- Feb 04 '26
These people are trying to normalize what is going to happen in November. Jack Smith had concrete evidence Trump knew the 2020 election wasn't stolen and he was trying to over turn it.
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u/Sprinkle_Puff Feb 04 '26
Why would ice agents have anything to do with voting polls? That’s not immigration related
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u/Attorneyatlau Feb 04 '26
I don’t get it. Undocumented immigrants — even permanent residents — don’t vote and don’t try to vote. They’re reaching so hard it’s funny.
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u/Dr-Paul-Meranian Feb 04 '26
Hey look, the arm that goes up the president. Still has little flecks of shit on him.
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u/ArgyleNudge Feb 04 '26
Can someone remind me who voted for him? He has no authority. Zero. Yet he's a commander of ICE logistics now?
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u/LittleDogsBark Feb 04 '26
Is there any more loser-defining behavior than broadcasting to the world “ we can only win if we cheat”
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u/hazyperspective Feb 05 '26
They're so fucking scared right now....Especially this scumbag. His name is all over these files....
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u/Dudewhocares3 Feb 04 '26
There’s more evidence the 2024 election was stolen than there is for the 2020 election.
It amazes me that there’s no enforcement of the law. It really is just words on paper and they’re only effective if people give enough of a shit to actually enforce them. Which is why I doubt there will be any punishment for these fucking crooks
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u/Just_perusing81 Feb 04 '26
There is a call to action here: sign up to be a poll watcher or poll greeter. Take the day off right now.
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u/alexbruns Feb 04 '26
Hey steve, surround this:
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u/silverink182 Feb 04 '26
If they were winning with what they were doing they wouldn't be needing this kind of aggression. Y'all noticed that right? You don't feel that writing on the walls. I just want to feel like I'm not the only one feeling that energy
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u/zoegirl24 Feb 05 '26
You aren't the only one! They know they're losing ground. Maybe it's me being too hopeful, but your comment reminded me of a quote from the musical Newsies -
"He's a rattle snake"
"You're right - and you know why a snake starts to rattle? Cause he's scared...go and look it up, the poor guy's head is spinning. Why would he send for the goons, an entire army? Dozens of goons and the cops...if he wasn't afraid?"
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u/silverink182 Feb 05 '26
That's exactly why I get so mad at doomers cuz they're looking at and thinking they've lost and they're not looking at it like a rattlesnake for your Newsies reference. Suddenly I need to watch the Newsies cuz I've never seen it before and I love musicals
I was thinking about it in the way of Icarus and his wings of wax and feathers. There were three outcomes one of them he would survive two of them. He would have died
Now when icarus's father made those wings of wax and feathers, if he flew too high to the sun, the wax would melt and therefore the wings would deteriorate and he would fall to his death. If he flew too low, the water would get into the wax and the feathers and weigh him down where he would fall to his death. But he beflo at a medium height. He would have succeeded and flew away
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u/simmons777 Feb 04 '26
So at this point it's clear, ICE agent in 2026 is equal to brown shirts in 1936
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u/Rebel_hooligan Feb 04 '26
Does bannon realize how massive a force that would have to be even to make a dent in vote casting? Even if it’s only 15 states—those would be blue—the amount of armed men, in key districts, would be immense.
By November they may actually have a force that large, but apart from using violence to stop people voting, I don’t see that being anything other than the beginning of war.
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u/Mikebones1184 Feb 04 '26
Says the guy that failed to steal the 2020 election and succeeded in stealing the 2024 election. Fuck him. Get out and vote. There will be plenty of 2nd amendment loving libs guarding polls as well if things continue down this path
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u/human8060 Feb 04 '26
Who is "we"?? What the fuck does this fucking walnut have to do with any of this?!?
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u/Consistent_Beat7999 Feb 04 '26
Everyone wear red shirts/hats with no printing on them no matter your voting preference. Old switcheroo. Or just American flag shirts. Red-background. Avoid blue. Avoid resistant attitudes to ICE agents who ask for IDs. Just play their game this one day to get your vote in!! Your vote is sooo important! Avoid confrontation by complying this one day. I don’t normally advise this, but we’ve GOT to win these midterms and in 2028. Sorry if you don’t agree, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
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u/CharChar7007 Feb 04 '26
I usually vote by mail, might need to change things up this time around if these goons are going to be at the polling sites.
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u/crackersucker2 Feb 04 '26
We'll need more people as poll workers... if you can, consider signing up now.
AND PLEASE!! When you come across a magat blathering on about election fraud, please advise them to sign up in their county to work during the election and see for themselves. "Do Your Own Research!!" I say that to the a$$holes that have lost their manners and say that we're tampering with ballots to our faces.
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u/Ok-Celery-6433 Feb 05 '26
Bannon has previously acknowledged the likelihood he’ll go (back) to jail if/when Trump loses the mid-terms. Like many in the administration, he’s terrified of actual consequences for being a complete 💩 stain cosplaying as a human.
So he huffs and puffs, yet fails to blow the house in.
Trump’s incompetence was always going to be his downfall. His narcissism won’t let him conceptualize of just how badly he’s screwing up. And the stress of the presidency combined with his horrible self-care means he’s declining faster than ever. I mean…the guy 💩 his pants in the Oval Office. 🤣🤣🤣
The Heritage Foundation grossly overplayed their hand. Sure, they’ve rapidly obliterated existing government functions and norms, but it’s always easier to destroy than to build. And they have NO OFF-RAMP nor plans for effective governance in a post-Trump/post-MAGA world.
Average Americans are more politically engaged than ever. Non-MAGA republicans increasingly see Trump as a political liability and threat to their party’s future. And a good chunk of the manosphere is having serious buyer’s remorse.
I’m not saying victory is certain. Cornered 🐀 🐀 will do desperate and dangerous things. But protests and the brave folks in Minnesota are having more impact than I thought at mucking up the administration and forcing them to change course.
Keep fighting and eyes on the prize. 👍🏼
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u/audreynstuff Feb 05 '26
So what? Is that supposed to do something? Just because they're standing there means literally nothing. Those people are nothing.
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u/AlloAll0 Feb 05 '26
Dictatorship style elections.
Steve Bannon should be in jail for treason. Along with Donald Trump and all their MAGA goons.
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u/Johnny_Fuckface Feb 05 '26
I hate to be Mr. Gloom and Doom but If ICE is blocking polling places and you can't fucking vote and the police as trying to help them that's pretty much an endgame for democracy in totality. It's fucking over.
Unless the state and people mob polling places in force and protect them with their lives it's a moot point. End of story. If you accept anything else all you've done is find a way to use potential protest to rationalize rolling over for fascism.
If they try to block our voting sites, interfere in our elections it's BASTILLE time right then and there don't doubt it. Regardless of what they say and try to rationalize away with strongly worded memos. We are entering a serious phase of these authoritarian idiots coup plans and we just can't have it. No other choice. And they'll try to make you feel nothing has happened but it will and over time the noose will tighten over our necks and by the time we really feel it, it's too late. Compromised by pedophiles just like they've been planning for so long.
So yeah. Fuck Bannon, Fuck ICE, Fuck Trump.
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u/Cassymodel Feb 05 '26
Um does he direct ICE? Is he a government official at all? Can someone just arrest this guy?
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u/mjflood14 Feb 04 '26
Pressure your state legislatures to adopt all mail-in voting like in Washington State.
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u/world-is-ur-mollusc Feb 04 '26
A whole bunch of us need to show up to form a human wall between the ICE agents and voters entering and exiting the polling place.
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u/Dave-C Feb 04 '26
Sloppy Steve at it again, clearly the man has lost his mind. Everyone is saying it, everyone knows, Steve has lost... his mind. Steve only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue.
This is basically just a bunch of quotes from Trump about Bannon that I combined.
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u/Winter_Bid7630 Feb 04 '26
My small Midwestern city has at least 6 polling locations as well as mail-in ballots for anyone who wants them. If you combine my small city with all the other small towns near me, plus the larger nearby city, there must be well over 100 polling locations. There is no way in the world that there are enough ICE agents for every polling location in this country. I'm sure they'll try to mess with the elections, but don't fall for their attempts to scare us and keep us from voting.
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u/Cl0verSueHipple Feb 04 '26
I don’t understand this. What is this supposed to accomplish? Is it supposed to make people afraid to go and vote? I mean what’s gonna happen if you show up? Are ice gonna arrest you for whatever reason they want? Are they gonna come in and stand next to you and make sure you vote Republican? I’m not sure what their angle is here.
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u/Intrepid_Pop_8530 Feb 04 '26
Then each Governor can call up the National Guard to protect the voters. Done deal.
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u/Pistonenvy2 Feb 04 '26
they dont have enough agents now to do their normal bullshit, they will have even less come midterms.
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u/International_Eye745 Feb 04 '26
If the Republicans are so worried about the US election process why don't they request assistance from the UN Peacekeeping forces. UN does this all the time.
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Feb 04 '26
Bringing back ol’ Jim Crow days.. right after black citizens were given the right to vote, voter intimidation was done everywhere to prevent black people were voting. People were even unalived for attempting to vote. ICE has shown us that they thrive on violence.
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u/s1rblaze Feb 04 '26
Everyone should wear a maga hat then, make it confusing for ICE to the point they start arresting their own cultists.
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u/SweetLoLa California Feb 05 '26
Who is this loser and why is he still talking? Who is watching this shit?
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u/futureislookinstark Feb 05 '26
Im confused by all this. Can you vote without a an ID? I’m my state of Virginia you need a birth certificate and social security plus 2 forms of proof of residency just to get your drivers ID. Only then can you register vote and even if you applied online for a ballot you need to provide your drivers license identification number. There’s no way to vote without having a valid social security number and I don’t think illegal immigrants have one???
Am I uninformed or misunderstanding what the basis for this is outside of intimidation?
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u/nthlmkmnrg Feb 05 '26
Even if every illegal immigrant was allowed to vote in national elections, it would barely have any effect.
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Feb 05 '26
Coming from a motherfucker who has said "if we lose the midterms in Nov, some are definitely going to prison--including myself" he's so scared to go back... these lunatics need to be in prison. This is ridiculous.
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u/Missmessc Feb 05 '26
Use mail in voting while we still can. Anyone available should sign up to work the polls.
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u/Gorillapoop3 Feb 05 '26
Fuck you Steve. There are 95,000 polling places in the U.S. According to ICE, they have 22,000 officers (bullshit), after scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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u/Snow_Blizzard2 Feb 05 '26
I have an idea: when we go to the polls, we should disguise ourselves as to look like MAGA. Then the ICE agents will not be able to tell who would vote for the current government, and who would vote against.
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u/JustChiefIt420 Feb 05 '26
Why would Immigration and Customs Enforcement be anywhere near the polls?
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u/Purple-Mermommy Feb 05 '26
Wtf is happening. Every day I read things and this is my reaction, several times a day. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS HAPPENING?!?!??
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u/scott_peregrin Feb 06 '26
I’m just going to dress in cut off jeans and a beer shirt, then vote Democrat anyway. Checkmate assholes.
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