Hawley violated state law in his 2018 election campaign

The ruling issued by a Republican judge against @HawleyMO in the public records case won by @MarkPedroli, where as AG, Hawley knowingly and purposefully violated state law by withholding public records that were maintained on a private server is absolutely devastating.
— Tony Messenger (@tonymess) November 15, 2022

WHOAAAA. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-100 Meter Dash) found by Missouri court to have been *illegally* concealing documents from the public when he ran for Senate in 2018 – and that his campaign consultants were using the Attorney General's office to violate the law. 🔥🔥⚖️⚖️ https://t.co/caqQr6emBz
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) November 15, 2022

NEW: Missouri judge finds @HawleyMO’s office GUILTY of using private emails to skirt transparency laws when he was MOAG. https://t.co/MHh6q5ANWh
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 17, 2022

“It’s a stunning decision that exposes the worst kind of abuse of the public trust by a politician — hiding public records that might have had an impact on his election.”https://t.co/Zmc9R7jDMM
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 22, 2022

Trump’s disgraceful attacks on Twitter

He’s mad because they fact-checked him on one of his thousands of lies. Twitter is better than Facebook which has done nothing. They let Trump lie all the time.

Twitter has taken the unprecedented step of adding fact-check warnings to two of President Trump’s tweets. Why did Twitter act now, and how does it decide when to use such warnings?https://t.co/mUHEhZYxOB
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 28, 2020

Your regular reminder that much of the top performing content on social media is from right-wing media. If companies like Facebook are trying to “silence conservative voices,” they’re doing an incredibly lousy job. https://t.co/SNaELVDfmK
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 27, 2020

Twitter grants Trump every possible exception from its rules and offers a relatively mild corrective — a link to fact checks already on Twitter — and he responds as if they had deleted his tweets and terminated his account. https://t.co/DrbXlLwlII
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 27, 2020

Trump's latest lies about Twitter and voter fraud aren't just deranged. They're an *abuse of power.* Trump is threatening retribution to facilitate voter suppression *and* to discourage the sharing of concrete information that could save lives. New piece:https://t.co/A9qM2Zq7RY
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 27, 2020

He’s going to go through some things.

In which Kellyanne Conway gives marching orders to trolls to swarm, harass and shake down a private citizen in the name of free speech https://t.co/X5POj0qRbF
— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) May 27, 2020

Trump Campaign Manager:

"There are many reasons we pulled all our advertising from Twitter months ago, and clear political bias is one of them."#FactCheck: Twitter banned all political ads in 2019.

Even their response is a lie.
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) May 27, 2020

FWIW, the first link to a story that I see when I click on Twitter's fact-check is to The Hill, which is owned by Jimmy Finkelstein, a longtime friend of Trump's. https://t.co/Qt8RMvf49v
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 26, 2020

I saw your threat just now.

What are you going to do to punish @Twitter for simply warning its users that you're lying?

Tell everyone. We're listening. https://t.co/iyRasCr4D2
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) May 26, 2020

Twitter is like Susan Collins. https://t.co/lx2Jaf2DyC
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) May 26, 2020

Republicans try recalls to invalidate election results

Republicans were unwilling to accept election results in Wisconsin and elsewhere so they limited the power of the governor. Now, they are trying recalls to invalidate legitimate election results. Disgraceful.

Republicans in some Western states use recall elections as a way to reclaim political power, @jandersonAP https://t.co/xRLvv0kumv
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) July 21, 2019

The Republican Party in 2018

This is a good summary. I have written posts on most of these.

The GOP in 2018:
FL: Block campus voting
GA: Purge thousands of voters
KS: Close precincts in Hispanic areas
MI: Strip power from new governor
NC: Election fraud
ND: Restrict Native Americans from voting
TX: Close polling site on HBCU campus
WI: Strip power from new governor
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) December 6, 2018

Trump implies elections are rigged again

He insinuated there was something wrong. This is a preview of what he will do to undermine the 2020 results if he loses. Republicans should defend the integrity of the elections but of course they won’t.

What makes the widespread Republican subscription to asinine conspiracy theories about election stealing especially dangerous is that they feed Trump's inability to accept electoral setbacks as legitimate. @ed_kilgore writes https://t.co/Uks0tV4KiY
— Intelligencer (@intelligencer) April 3, 2019

Trump tells House Rs to be “more paranoid than they are” about elections and implied midterms were rigged.

“Hey, you gotta be a little bit more paranoid than you are. We have to be a little bit careful, because I don't like the way the votes are being tallied” @nikkicarvajal
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 2, 2019

How ignorance => conspiracy thinking:
-Trump tells mtng tonight it’s fishy/rigged that close House races mainly broke Dem.
-Great majority of those races last fall were in Calif.
-This is *a known reality* of late-counted vote in CA. It skews D > R. https://t.co/8bPmJxGXM3
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) April 3, 2019

President Trump, speaking to the NRCC, seemed to imply the 2018 midterms were rigged: "we have to be a little bit careful, because I don't like the way the votes are being tallied. You don't like it either, you just don't want to say it because you're afraid of the press."
— Nikki Carvajal (@nikkicarvajal) April 2, 2019

Trump administration/Republicans override voters’ decision in Utah

Utah voters approved Medicaid expansions. The Trump administration will let Utah Republicans go against the will of the voters and limit it.

Republicans keep saying elections matter when we express concern about the Supreme Court. However, they didn’t respect the election here.

The Trump administration granted a request for a more limited Medicaid expansion in Utah, effectively short-circuiting a ballot measure approved by voters in November https://t.co/DbKUrcVCl6 pic.twitter.com/V6s0aPKxiq
— CNN (@CNN) March 29, 2019

background:

Utah voters chose Medicaid expansion. Republican politicians decided they knew better.https://t.co/3kRDUlMovD pic.twitter.com/LtUztrCElL
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) February 14, 2019

It’s official: Utah GOP lawmakers will shrink the Medicaid expansion that voters approved just 97 days ago. https://t.co/H7CN3CaKVc by @rachanadixit
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) February 11, 2019

North Carolina House district NC-09 update

In addition to the new election, here are some other developments.

The main guy who committed election fraud has been indicted.
McConnell lied and treated this as voter fraud, not election fraud by Republicans. He did this to blame Democrats which is totally wrong.

Charges were filed in North Carolina in what is expected to grow into one of the most sweeping criminal investigations ever of fraud in a federal election.

By @amyegardner https://t.co/viPkHgBCqC
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) February 27, 2019

A Republican operative behind an illicit voter-turnout effort in North Carolina was indicted on obstruction of justice charges https://t.co/OZ8fc6Z0Ee
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 27, 2019

McConnell, with a straight face: "Now that an incident of very real voter fraud has become national news and the Republican candidate seems — seems — to have benefited, these long-standing Democratic talking points have been really quiet." https://t.co/RF2DmtTnrB
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 26, 2019

Mitch McConnell is easily the most cynical force in American politics, and has been for two decades. https://t.co/EhuhrhkzBj
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) February 26, 2019

Dan McCready’s statement in response to Senator Mitch McConnell’s floor speech about #NC09 @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/9YLaouhlnV
— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) February 26, 2019

Republicans are gearing up for an uncertain and potentially crowded primary in the new election for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, while Democrat Dan McCready is already coalescing support from his party for the re-vote https://t.co/oqqL9OBlTj
— POLITICO (@politico) February 23, 2019

Trump won’t condemn North Carolina election fraud

He compared them to phony voter fraud claims in Texas and California.

Donald Trump on Friday declined to condemn the strong evidence of mass election fraud in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, instead pointing to other questionable examples of voter fraud https://t.co/g3darLK1RF
— POLITICO (@politico) February 22, 2019

"Trump has been hypocritical on many things including this," says the Chair of N. Carolina's Democrats.

"He and the Republicans nationally and in North Carolina talked about voter fraud. This was election fraud. It appears that political karma kicked in." https://t.co/P54qwRgljo pic.twitter.com/3Xsm2gYC0Z
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) February 22, 2019

Wow. Asked about election fraud in North Carolina, Trump immediately pushes false equivalency with made up election fraud in California

"I condemn any voter fraud of any kind, whether it's Democrat or Republican," he says. pic.twitter.com/wSoTwDbrfj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 22, 2019

Trump just claimed, falsely, that there were 1 million illegal votes in California. When the reporter tries to correct him, he shuts her down.

Trump effectively uses his “excuse me!” line to cut reporters off who try to hold him accountable for a lie. They shouldn’t stop. pic.twitter.com/8C2Vyw28sI
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) February 22, 2019

Trump, on why he hasn't condemned GOP fraud in NC: "I condemn any election fraud & when I look at what's happened in CA with the votes…There was just a case where they found a million fraudulent votes."

Reporter: "There haven't been those cases. This is an actual case, sir."
— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) February 22, 2019

Trump lays some of the ol’ ‘both sides’ on alleged election fraud in North Carolina https://t.co/oCdODcWUTF
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) February 22, 2019

New election to be held for NC-09 House representative

Even Republicans finally understood all their efforts to rig the election were not acceptable. Trump says nothing.

The midterms still aren't over, folks. https://t.co/mMC5gkzJIN
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 21, 2019

Trump has routinely warned about massive voter fraud.

Yet he remains silent on North Carolina, where even the Republican with more votes now admits there's enough concern to warrant a new election.
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) February 21, 2019

N.C. board declares a new election in contested House race after the GOP candidate admitted misspeaking under oath https://t.co/MrVAgripxw
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 21, 2019

Breaking News: A Republican in North Carolina whose congressional campaign is facing an inquiry into fraud allegations has called for a new election https://t.co/NqFoARS0nS
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 21, 2019

Protip to @USAToday: Don't use "voter fraud" when you mean election fraud committed not by voters but by political operatives, candidates, or elected officials.
North Carolina's disputed House election and charges of voter fraud: What to know https://t.co/xOq0NasoZl
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) February 21, 2019

Thousands of volunteers worked on North Carolina House races like #NC09 despite unfair Republican gerrymandering. New evidence suggests that wasn’t enough for Mark Harris—so he cheated. https://t.co/4LeZwEp7OK
— Swing Left (@swingleft) February 21, 2019

Hearing on North Carolina illegal election activity

Looks like Republican fraud to me. I recommend a new election.

An investigation into the NC-9 election has found a "coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme" in two counties carried out by a political operative hired by the Republican candidatehttps://t.co/mTgTEYMDnC
— Axios (@axios) February 18, 2019

Something new we learned today- apparently McCrae Dowless always uses speakerphone. That’s how Sandra knew about the call with Mark Harris and Lisa Britt knew about the call with Andy Yates #NC09
— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) February 18, 2019

Worker details alleged ballot fraud in North Carolina election board hearing https://t.co/pQ8He2yHhx pic.twitter.com/J2s9jB7zd9
— CNN (@CNN) February 18, 2019

Good morning from Raleigh, where the North Carolina State Board of Elections will meet to consider evidence of fraud in the Ninth Congressional District. Background here: https://t.co/rj3WlF9FgI pic.twitter.com/dN6sqFs5ZR
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) February 18, 2019

The North Carolina board of elections is beginning a public hearing to investigate allegations of illegal election activity in the state's congressional district. You can watch the hearing here: https://t.co/7WecL3JqA9
— Sam Levine (@srl) February 18, 2019

News: The director of the North Carolina board of elections said they believe they have evidence showing a "coordinated" and "substantial" unlawful absentee ballot scheme
— Sam Levine (@srl) February 18, 2019

North Carolina’s board of elections will dig into fraud allegations in the state’s disputed 9th Congressional District on Monday https://t.co/fEK9lSAJmO
— POLITICO (@politico) February 18, 2019