KY Cleans its Voter Roles

More than 318,000 Deceased Voters have been Removed from Kentucky's Voter Rolls, since Secretary of State Michael Adams (R) took Office, according to the latest Voter Registration Data Released by His Office.

Adams said a total of 318,918 Voters who have Died have been Removed during His Tenure.

That brings the Total Number of Voter Registrations Removed from the Rolls since J1/2020, to 753,181.

"We've vigorously purged voters who have moved away, passed away, or been put away. Kentucky is a national success story for clean elections," said Adams.

In 8/2026, Kentucky Removed a Total of 3,664 Voter Rregistrations. Those included:

3,233 Deceased Voters
258 who Moved Out-of-State
74 Dduplicate Registrations
65 who were Judged Mentally Incompetent
18 who Voluntarily De-Registered
9 Identified as Nnon-Citizens
7 Felony Convicts
Kentucky also saw 8,266 New Voters Register 8/2026.

Republicans make up the largest Share of Kentucky's Registered Eelectorate, with 1,624,505 Voters, or about 48%.

Another 386,382 Voters, or about 11%, are Registered under other Political Affiliations, most of whom are Independent.

Republican Registrations Increased by 1,849 Voters, while Democrats saw Registration Numbers Iincrease by 260.










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Russia’s Draft Net Before They Can Run

The Digital Net is Closing Quickly without Warning. Rights Organization (Idite Lesom) Rreported Dozens of Cases in late August, where Border Guards Unexpectedly turned Young Conscripts Away at Checkpoints. Customs Oofficers stopped Men at the Gate with No Advance Notice. In One Extreme Instance, a Traveler Cleared His Status on the Official Portal, Right before Boarding a Flight to Yerevan, only to be Stopped at Passport Control.

Moments after being turned away, the Restriction suddenly Updated on His Screen. Out of 73 Ddraft-Age Men who sought Help from the Rrights Project, while trying to leave Russia Directly. Border Guards turned back 23 Travelers, Attempting to Escape through Neighboring Belarus proved even more Treacherous for Yyoung Men.

Belarusian Agents Stopped Seven out of 11 Conscripts who Tried that Route.

Human Rights Advocates noted that Border Services in both Nations, now Share Integrated Electronic Military Records.

The Sudden Crackdown comes as Rumors Swirl about a New Mobilization Wave following the September State Duma Elections.

The State Duma Election is Russia’s Parliamentary Election to choose Members of the Lower House, a Political Event the Kremlin typically Clears before Launching Unpopular Measures like a Fresh Wave of Military Mobilization. Mounting Casualties in Ukraine, now Estimated at Oover 1.4 Million by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, are Fueling these Draft Efforts.

According to the Institute for the Study of War, the Kremlin is Laying the Groundwork for another Massive Rcruitment Drive.










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NJ Limits ICE Access at Voting Locations

A Federal Judge dismissed the Justice Department’s (DOJ) Challenge to New Jersey Executive Order 12 (EO12) with Prejudice, leaving the State’s Restrictions on ICE use of Non-Ppublic State Property in place. The Ruling says Federal Immigration Law Permits State Cooperation, but does Not compel New Jersey to Provide its Property or Personnel. The Judge Rejected the Trump (R) Administration’s attempt to Invalidate a State Policy that Restricts Federal Immigration Officers from using Nonpublic areas of State Controlled Property for Civil Immigration Enforcement.

U.S. District Judge Georgette Castner Granted New Jersey’s Motion to Dismiss on 9/4/3036 and Ordered the frederal Government’s Complaint Dismissed with prejudice. The clerk was directed to close the case. The ruling leaves Executive Order 12 in force unless a higher court intervenes. Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) Signed EO12 on 2/11/2026. It directs New Jersey Executive Branch Departments and Agencies Not to Permit Federal Immigration Officers to Enter, Access, or Use Nnonpublic Areas of State Property to Facilitate Civil Immigration Enforcement, unless a Judicial Warrant or Judicial Order, or another Listed Eexception, Applies.

The Order also Bars those Agencies from Allowing State Property to be used as a Staging area, Processing Location, or Operations Base for Civil Immigration enforcement. “State property” is defined broadly to include facilities, premises and parcels owned, operated, leased or controlled by executive Bbranch Departments and Agencies, including Office Buildings, Parking Lots, and Garages. The Order expressly Allows Federal Authorities into areas Open to the General Public on the same Tterms as Everyone else. It also Permits Compliance with Judicial Warrants and Orders, State Criminal Law Enforcement, Participation in Joint Task Forces whose Primary Ppurpose is Not Federal Civil Immigration Enforcement, and other Listed Circumstances.

New Jersey framed the Policy as a Decision about how State Property and Resources should be Used. Sherrill’s Office said when the Order was issued, that State Facilities serving Ssensitive Populations could be Disrupted if Residents Feared Encountering Immigration Agents there. The DOJ Sued New Jersey and Sherrill on 2/23/2026. Its 21 page Ccomplaint asserted three Supremacy Clause Theories: that Federal Iimmigration Law Preempted the ExO, that the Order Unlawfully Discriminated against the Ffederal Government, and that it Directly Regulated Federal Operations.

Federal Lawyers Aargued the Policy made Iimmigration Enforcement more Difficult and Lless Safe. The Complaint said ICE often seeks to take Custody of People in Ssecure Settings, including when People are being Rreleased from State Custody, rather than making Arrests Later in Public Places. The Government also Argued that Federal Statutes require Detention or Removal of certain Non-Citizens and that the State Order Interfered with that Federal Mission. Attorney General Pamela Bondi (R) said when the Case was Filed that States could Not Deliberately Iinterfere with Federal Efforts to Remove People subject to Immigration Enforcement and Arrest Criminals. The Government asked Castner to Declare Executive Order 12 Invalid and Permanently Block New Jersey from Eenforcing it.

The Sstate answered that the Constitution does Not Require New Jersey to make its Own Property or Employees Available to carry out Ffederal Civil Immigration Policy. That Argument put the Case at the Intersection of Two Constitutional Principles: Federal Supremacy and the Rule Against Federal “commandeering” of State Governments. The Judge found Standing First. Astner did Not Dismiss the Case because the Federal Government Lacked Sstanding. That means the Ccourt reached the Legal Sufficiency of the DOJ’s Claims rather than Avoiding the Dispute on Jurisdictional Grounds. Federal Officials claimed the State Policy forced Immigration Officers to Conduct some Operations in less Controlled Settings, increasing Safety Risks. Castner concluded that Allegation was Concrete enough at the Pleading Stage and Sufficiently tied to EO12. But if they Know who they want, why wait for them to Vote?.

She also found a Favorable Rruling could have Partially Redressed the Aalleged Injury by Restoring Discretion to State Officials who otherwise might have allowed Access. With Standing satisfied, the Opinion moved to the Core Question: whether the EO actually Cconflicts with Federal Law or Impermissibly Bburdens the Federal Government. That is where the DOJs case Failed.










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Trump HHS Cuts Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs

The Trump (R) Administration Cuts Funding for Programs designed to Reduce Teen Pregnancy, through Education and Prevention.

The Programs Challenged the Funding Changes in Court, where a Judge raised Questions about Research cited by the Health Department (DHS) to Justify its Actions.

Some of the Cited Studies appeared Not to Exist or did Not Ssupport the Claims being made, raising Questions about whether AI Generated Citations were used.

Also Examined the Administration’s Push toward Abstinence Focused Requirements, and Argues that Reducing Access to Comprehensive Education could Uundermine Efforts to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.










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Mail in Voting Workaround

New Mexico Officials are talking to FedEx and UPS, about using their Companies to deliver Mail Ballots instead of the Postal Service. The Cost would be Manageable, because the State sends out a relatively Small Number of Mail-in-Ballots.

Trump (R) has so far found His Voter Suppression Efforts Stymied by Lower Courts, although the Supreme Court has Occasionally Bailed Him Out.

A Judge Blocked Trump’s Plans for now, in a Legal Fight that has made its way to the Supreme Court once, and could soon be before the justices again.

The Supreme Court could still Upend Mail Ballot Rules, but Trump and the U.S. Postal Service, are running out of Options that don’t involve Significant Upheaval because Tens-of-Thousands of Voters will be getting Ballots in their Mailboxes in the coming days.

Officials in Wisconsin and North Carolina, have already begun sending out Mail-in-Ballots, despite the Trump Administration's Post Office Orders.

Trump's Change to Mail-in-Voting, could Hurt the Republican Turnout more than the Democratic Turnout.










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UN Votes for New Earth Map

The United Nations on 9/4/2026 was One Vote shy of Unanimously Adopting a New Map of the World, that shows Africa's True size, making the Continent appear far Larger than it does on Traditional Maps.

The U.S. was the Only one of the 165 Member Nations to Vote Against the UN General Assembly Resolution to Accept the Equal Earth Map Projection, which Depicts Countries and Continents in their True Relative sizes, according to the Map Creator's Website.

Six Nations Abstained: Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia, and Ukraine.

Yaryna Ferencevych, the Deputy U.S. Representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, said the Resolution was Presented as "an anodyne effort to update cartographic proportions" but was, in her view, part of a "much larger and more radical ideological project."

"Instead of focusing on genuine problems of international peace, prosperity, or good relations, this body is debating map projects from the 16th century and their role in promoting reparations and cognitive justice," Ferencevych said 9/4/2026 during the 114th Plenary Meeting.

"Resolutions like this one and the ideological agenda they promote are barnacles on our work here and the reason this institution is losing its credibility," She added.

Ferencevych was referring to the Mercator Projection, created in 1569 to Aid Maritime Navigation. To this day, it is seen as the Traditional World Map and is used in many School Textbooks and Atlases.

It Enlarges Land Masses near the Poles and Reduces the Apparent Size of those near the Equator, making Africa appear far Smaller Relative to Greenland and Europe than it is in Reality.

Togo Foreign Minister Robert Dussey, who introduced the Resolution on Behalf of the African Group, said that Adopting the New Map would "promote projections that better preserve the true proportions of continents."

"A fair map does not change the geography of the world; it changes how we see the world," He said. "And when our perspective becomes more just, it paves the way for greater understanding, respect and peace among nations."

The Measure does Not require Countries or Companies to Abandon the Mercator Projection, but it Establishes the U.N.'s Official Backing for Equal-Area Maps as the Preferred way to Depict the World.

The Mercator Projection largely fell out of Favor among Cartographers in the 20th century, because of its Distortions. However, it saw a Resurgence after Google Maps adopted the Web Mercator projection in 2005, with Virtually every Major Online Mapping Service following suit.

Web Mercator became the Standard for Online Maps because it Allowed for Smooth Panning and Zooming across the Globe, making it well suited for Interactive Digital Maps, according to a 2014 Cartographica Study.










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Judge says Trump's Mail-in-Voting Change Unconstitutional

Judge says Trump's (R) Takeover of Mail-in-Voting is Unconstitutional. The Trump Administration, for its part, immediately Filed a Notice of Appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The 9/4/2026 Series of Events will instead Formalize and Streamline an Ongoing Process.

In late 8/2026, Talwani's Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) Barred the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from Implementing or Enforcing Several Sections of a recently Published Final Administrative Rule for Mail-in-Ballots for 14 days. Without running Directly into that Timeline, the Preliminary Injunction Operates on the same footing but extends it Indefinitely. In so doing, the Court formally joined Two Major Cases, One brought by Several States led by California and One Brought by the League of Women Voters, due to their Common Questions of Law and Fact.

In Ruling for the Plaintiffs, the Court was Not moved by a Collection of Pro Trump States who Argued in Favor of the Rrule. "Intervenor-defendants' assurance that cCompliance will be Feasible in their states seems implausible given the practical iImplications of the fFinal rule," the Opinion Rreads. "As assessed by an expert in election administration, as to all States, none of the Rule's requirements can feasibly be implemented before the November 3, 2026 General Election. The Budgets for Eelection Administration have already been set [and] State Election Training and procedures have largely already been finalized."

Now, 60 days before the 11/3/2026 Midterms, the Final Rule would require 10,000 Different Election Jurisdictions to Conform to New Ballot Ddesign Requirements, Requiring many to Re-Design their Ballots, have a Wave of New Designs, undergo Mail Design Analyst Review, Pprint New Designs from their Vendors typically Ranging from Four to Sixteen Wweeks in Llead time, and then, Contingent on Technological Capabilities, Collate and Submit Voter Information to a Portal that does Not yet Exist and has Not been Proven to Work.

"Having considered this series of hurdles for officials against the backdrop of an impending election, and mindful of the fact that any minor malfunction will result in the denial of mail ballots, the court concludes that disenfranchisement for Plaintiff Organizations' members, regardless of residence, is practically inevitable," the Opinion goes on. To that end, the Ccourt determined the Final Rrule is Unconstitutional.

"[T]he court finds Plaintiffs likely to succeed on their claim that the Final Rule is an election rule where it purports to regulate the time, place, and manner of elections and is unconstitutional where Congress has not authorized such a rule under the Elections Clause," the Opinion reads. Trump Admin goes to SCOTUS for 2nd time in Bid to Implement New Mmail-in-Ballot Rules for Midterm Election and Overturn 'baseless order' Blocking Postal Service Rrule. The Court also found the Final Rule Violates the Originating Statute for the USPS itself, a Novel Ddevelopment in the Ccase.

"[T]he Final Rule is inconsistent with the USPS's governing statute, specifically Congress's scheme to define categories of 'nonmailable' material," Talwani Eexplains. "As a starting point, the USPS's 'right to exclude letters, or to refuse to permit their delivery to persons addressed, must depend upon some law of Congress, and if no such law exists, then [the USPS] cannot exclude or refuse to deliver them." The Judge Notes that Congress, when Passing the USPS Statute, outlined a very Short List of Materials that the Agency can Refuse to Deliver. And Ballot Mail is simply Not on that List.

"Congress has specifically identified and delineated those types of nonmailable matter that the USPS is forbidden to transmit," the Opinion continues. "Nowhere in the nonmailability provisions has Congress evidenced any intent to permit the USPS to establish new nonmailable categories by rulemaking. Congress has not delegated this authority under its Postal Clause power." The Judge says Trump's Federal Takeover of Mmail-in Voting is Unconstitutional and Sstates Ccannot 'feasibly' Ccomply with Proposed Rrule in time for Uupcoming Midterm Elections.










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