There has been ample coverage of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ongoing attempts, immediately to seize authority over elections. But this coverage has seldom indicated what Trump’s latest unconstitutional executive order, combined with his demand that Congress pass the SAVE America Act before any other business, is intended to do: enable the suppression of enough votes to SAVE the GOP in the November 2026 elections.
Most of the coverage has focused on one of the two purposes of the illegal executive order: stopping mail voting, except for those serving in the military and a few other, small categories of voters. The other purpose—to stop as many immigrants as possible from voting—is not being reported. The executive order attempts to command that the Department of Homeland Security compile the states’ voter rolls for them! It instructs the Department of Homeland Security, working in conjunction with the Social Security Administration, to “compile and transmit to the chief election official of each State, a list of individuals confirmed to be United States citizens who will be above the age of 18 at the time of an upcoming Federal election and who maintain a residence in the subject State.”
This attempt at complete usurpation of the states’ Constitutional power to determine the “time, place, and manner of elections,” clearly has the objective of determining, not only “who can vote by mail,” but who can vote at all—vote suppression.
States have already begun lawsuits to stop this executive order. Dozens will sue or have already sued. Trump is attempting to do by executive order, what he has failed to do, so far, with the SAVE America Act (the Senate is likely eventually to pass SAVE with a universal voter ID requirement but without federal purges of voter rolls); and with Department of Justice lawsuits against states, demanding their voter rolls for DOJ to purge them, which suits are being thrown out by the courts for the most part.
