This Is It: Trump Is Openly Saying He Wants to Seize Control of American Elections

We can stop him now, or the American constitutional republic will be over.

Feb 09, 2026

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Robert S. McElvaine is a historian and the author of 11 books, including The Times They were a-Changin’: 1964—The Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn. Subscribe to his Musings & Amusings Substack.

“The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over. We should take over the voting ... in at least many, 15 places. The Republica…

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Robert S. McElvaine

Author, historian, feminist, believer in democracy—placing current developments in historical context. Author of 11books. Current book project: “An Agreed-Upon Fiction—The creation of the ‘Inferior’ Sex: Hoe It Misshaped History & the Present.”