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MAGA activists are pushing for President Trump to resort to extraordinary measures -- including martial law -- if they believe the midterm elections are "rigged."

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".. extraordinary measures -- including martial law -- if they believe the midterm elections are 'rigged.'" @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/16/t ...

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-- Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 10:54 AM · Oct 16, 2026

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On a Sept. 30 video call for MAGA election activists streamed on Rumble, speakers warned of widespread election security breaches they believe will occur in November " and urgently pushed for remedies.

Ticktin, Trump's childhood friend, said on the call "there would have to be martial law in the event... [of] another rigged election."

"They'll probably need to be commandeering of ballots and election equipment to make sure that we can get to the bottom of it before anything further occurs," he later told Axios.

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"The big picture: Skepticism about the 2020 election extends into Trump's administration, including officials now involved in election integrity.

Heather Honey, most known for denying the results of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania and Arizona, is now the Homeland Security Department's deputy assistant secretary for election integrity and senior advisor to the ICE Director.

White House adviser Peter Navarro continues to promote his own report of mass election fraud and irregularities around the 2020 election."

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Of course, the only attempt to rig the 2020 Election is when DJT told his DOJ to send a Letter to States saying they could change the Results from Biden to Trump... as his DOJ testified under Oath.

Which might have werked had his DOJ not threatened to Resign en masse.

Why is why his Criminal Defense Atty now runs the DOJ.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-16 06:35 PM | Reply

Good luck with that MAGA'ts.

#2 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-10-17 12:49 AM | Reply

Whistling past the graveyard...their guy is clearly in cognitive decline, and it is clear to all but the most unworthy that for the good of the country, Trump must step down.
Goodness knows he will not rule over Congress for the next two years as he has for the last.

#3 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-10-18 06:25 AM | Reply

The same kooks were just projecting when they said Obama would declare martial law and cancel elections.

#4 | Posted by anton at 2026-10-18 07:02 AM | Reply

Whistling past the graveyard...

#3 | Posted by Hughmass at 20

Even an attempt would cost lives and damage this nation for generations.

Where do these people come from? Somehow we managed to raise them.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-18 08:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

In regards to what's wrong with America: Homeschooling is a fraud.

People who homeschool are either fanatics of some stripe, but more likely parents who are too lazy to get their kids up in the morning.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-18 08:49 AM | Reply

The people will take up arms if that happens.

MAGAs don't even have to actually believe fraud or "rigging" has occurred. They simply have to say it enough times for the stupids to fall for it. Lord knows this scare-tactic approach has worked for them up till now.

The problem is, most people know it's all BS and are fed up.

#7 | Posted by cbob at 2026-10-18 08:48 PM | Reply

Trump and his billionaire buddies don't need martial law.

They own all our media sources. They control the narrative.

They just need to announce republicans won and the Supreme Court can block any challenges.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-18 08:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You say " activists" as if we're supposed to believe you after the other lies...

I'LL BE SPECIFIC...

--Michigan senator Elissa Slotkin tells reporter that she wants maga prosecuted to discourage young conservatives to become politically involved...

- and you puked up dog diarrhea call us Facist.

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-10-19 02:34 PM | Reply

--Michigan senator Elissa Slotkin tells reporter that she wants maga prosecuted to discourage young conservatives to become politically involved...

- and you puked up dog diarrhea call us Facist.

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan

What's fascist about prosecuting criminals?

What's fascist is giving pardons to terrorists because their terrorism was in an effort to help you steal an election.

#10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-10-19 03:10 PM | Reply

10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

What an ignorant response....

--some woke freak like low-T would decide what the law was and who broke it.... sound familiar to you dopes ?? Sounds like the gestapo or KGB.

--and you want to amend the 1st amendment....and only allow accepted leftist perversions and criminalize anti state speech...

But we're the fascist.
BWAAAAAAAA

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-10-19 08:18 PM | Reply

What's fascist about prosecuting criminals?

Are you saying Nayib Bukele isn't a fascist?

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-10-19 08:36 PM | Reply

What's fascist is giving pardons to terrorists because their terrorism was in an effort to help you steal an election.

That's not fascism you moron.

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-10-19 08:36 PM | Reply

@#10 ... What's fascist is giving pardons to terrorists because their terrorism was in an effort to help you steal an election. ...

A lot about those pardons indicates a level of fascism in the White House's Oval Office.

Pres Trump seems to have said and, time and time again, shown his willingness to say, if you support me (and/or give me money) I will give you a pardon in return.

For starters, just look at his sweeping pardon for all the J6 rioters, including those who assaulted law enforcement officers.

Trump offers long-promised pardons to some 1,500 January 6 rioters (January 20, 2025)
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... President Trump issued pardons for some 1,500 defendants who participated in the siege on the U.S. Capitol four years ago, including the leader of a far-right group, fulfilling a campaign promise to exercise executive clemency on behalf of people he's called "patriots" and "hostages."

"We hope they come out tonight," he said in a signing ceremony at the Oval Office on Monday evening.

The order would grant "a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021." That means a pardon for Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman, who had been sentenced to 22 years in the federal penitentiary.

The proclamation posted on the White House website also included commutations for 14 people, including Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers group. The move paves the way for the release of Rhodes and Tarrio, who were both convicted of the rarely used charge of seditious conspiracy.

Trump also directed the Justice Department to dismiss scores of pending cases that stem from the attack on the Capitol.

Rhodes had been sentenced to spend 18 years in prison after a judge said he presented "an ongoing threat and peril to this country ... and to the very fabric of our democracy." ...




#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-19 08:42 PM | Reply

Stinky's fascists left a trail of dead cops in support of the orange diaper sniper.

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-10-19 08:46 PM | Reply

--some woke freak like low-T would decide

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan

What is with your cult's obsession with testosterone all of a sudden? SO GAY.

#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-10-20 12:57 PM | Reply

But we're the fascist.
BWAAAAAAAA

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Yes you are. And you meant to say "Baaaaa."

Many historians and political scholars argue that MAGA fits the core pattern of fascism. They don't mean a carbon copy of 1930s Europe; they mean a distinctly American version of the same political dynamic. Fascism, on this view, is less a fixed doctrine than a style of politics. It is obsessed with national decline and humiliation. It builds a cult around a strongman who alone can restore greatness. It treats internal enemies as threats to the nation's purity. And it is willing to discard democratic limits and tolerate political violence to hold power. Critics argue MAGA shows every one of these traits. They point to its founding promise to "make America great again," the refusal to accept the 2020 election, the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and rhetoric calling political opponents "vermin" and "the enemy within."

Myth of decline and rebirth: It casts America as fallen and degraded, then promises a return to a mythic, glorious past.
Cult of the leader: Personal loyalty to Trump is the test of belonging, captured in "I alone can fix it."
Scapegoating outsiders: Immigrants are described as invaders "poisoning the blood" of the country.
Opponents as enemies: Rivals and critics are labeled "vermin" and "the enemy within," and there are calls to prosecute them.
Rejection of elections: It refused to accept the 2020 results and used fake electors and January 6 to try to overturn them.
Excusing political violence: January 6 participants were pardoned en masse and celebrated as patriots.
Attacks on independent institutions: The press is called "the enemy of the people," and courts, universities, and the civil service face sustained pressure.
Domestic use of force: Troops have been deployed into American cities over the objections of local officials.

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-10-20 12:59 PM | Reply

That's not fascism you moron.

#13 | Posted by oneironaut

That's absolutely fascism you trump sucking cult member.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-10-20 12:59 PM | Reply

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