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Jamil Smith

What is happening in Fulton county is a warning to America

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Tulsi Gabbard arrives as the FBI conducts a 'court-ordered search warrant' at the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections Hub and Operation Center in Georgia on 28 January 2026. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA

What in the hell were FBI agents doing in an election facility in Fulton county, Georgia, last week? They surely weren’t investigating a crime. Nor were they serving the public.

Justifying Donald Trump’s “big lie” about winning the 2020 election may seem like his own lost cause – but like his Confederate forebears, he is weaponizing it, damage be damned. Not even his subsequent election victory has quieted Trump’s appetite for more power, earned or otherwise.

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