...our elected leaders to not acquiesce or treat as legitimate any of the efforts Trump and the administration may try to make. That means no matter what: Hold elections, protect access to the polling precincts, certify the results and seat the elected, come hell or high water.

We shouldn't let it dissuade us from voting and organizing for those votes, but I do think we need to start thinking of and preparing for any potential vector of attack against the franchise that Trump may try to launch this year so we're ready to resist, and that we spend the year pushing...

Now again: These are all *blatantly* illegal, none of these are powers the president *actually* legally has over elections. But I don't think at this point any of that *matters* to this administration and the ghouls in it.

...states the GOP holds power in to ask them to intercede against the elections and this time finding favorable partners to play ball with interceding against elections.

Other parts of the pool involve using ICE/CBP/Guard to intimidate/interfere with polling place access to keep people from voting, or doing what he said on the 11th he regretted not doing and seizing machines/ballots to interfere that way, or what he's done before with calling up GOP officials in...

...pocket judge who's willing to referee the blatant Calvinball bullshit. That's at the *shallow* end of the "Blatantly Illegal attempts to subvert the midterm elections" pool.

…proceed to hash things out, and we should be prepared to head them off and demand our states and localities refuse to acquiesce to any of it: that no matter what they do, elections WILL be held and our elected representatives WILL be seated, no matter what Trump and his pocket judges say.

you can't actually suppress away a wave of discontent. (relatedly, i think a lot of you have no idea how large this country is and how small its various military and security forces are relative to its population)