As President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has said it plans to send election monitors to Arizona and other swing states, community organizers are focusing on training hundreds of locals on how to be election observers — with an emphasis on what to do if the National Guard or immigration agents arrive at the polls.

“The threats facing our democracy are not theoretical,” Vivian Serafin, a member of Living United for Change in Arizona, told members of the press that gathered for a roundtable discussion about the training on Saturday.

LUCHA, along with the Arizona Center for Empowerment, organized training events in Phoenix’s heavily Latino Maryvale neighborhood and in Tucson Between the two events over 250 people received the training, according to LUCHA.

As reporters sat in a reception hall in west Phoenix that usually hosts weddings and quinceañeras, LUCHA displayed a heat map showing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Maricopa County alongside past and future polling locations.

Legislative districts with large Hispanic populations showed more frequent ICE enforcement operations. Many were near  past or future polling locations, something that guided the training, LUCHA said.

Those enforcement actions, and the deadly consequences they have brought, were also center stage Saturday: The training session featured a memorial for people shot and killed by immigration agents in recent months.

“The Trump administration is laser-focused on making it harder for regular folk to vote,” LUCHA Executive Director Alejandra Gomez told reporters. “They want chaos, because chaos suppresses turnout.”

That “chaos” is coming in the form of observers from a Department of Justice that has embraced election conspiracy theories and the administration’s firing of key election administration officials ahead of the midterms, Gomez said.

“We are not being dramatic — we are reading the signals,” Gomez added. “We are here because democracy is not protected by hope alone. It is protected by people.”

The event, dubbed “Congreso 2026,” is about “turning concern into action” and empowering communities that are impacted by the Trump administration’s push to seize control of election administration so they can inform their neighbors of their rights when it comes to voting, according to Gina Mendez, one of the organizers.

“That way, when elections happen, they are able to defend voters in their neighborhood,” Mendez said.

And the defense LUCHA is preparing voters for is the likelihood of Trump sending the National Guard or immigration agents to polling locations.

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At its core, this training is to help us learn how to lean on our neighbors more,” Rodriguez said.

Early voting has already begun for the primary election with the last day to mail-in your ballot being July 14. If you miss that deadline or are not on the early ballot list, you can vote in person up until election day which is July 21.

Hope it stays that way, but it can happen anywhere.

Stay vigilant.

My posts get removed from the community if I point this out in the post. Thank you for doing it.

Maybe?

I’m not trying to play games. I’m trying to share news.

All fascists in military fatigues are the threat to the public.

Totally agree, but I think there is importance to keep the focus on the immediate cause of harm to the people.

I think it is more odd that a Fascist Paramilitary is murdering and terrorising people in the streets across the USA

Lol, thanks. Fixed

I thought so too until I saw posts being removed for quoting 11/14 paragraphs. I’m not too good at math but I think 11/14ths of a thing is not equal to 1

I am legitimately happy for that, however there is a lot you cannot say or do in many countries in the EU/UK I have seen people be imprisoned for holding up signs there.

I feel like my whole life I was lied to about what rights we have.

Anyway, reddit speech deserves shame, but you are allowed to give me gold.

I did, it has died

Police said there was no threat to the public.

The police and other fascists in military fatigues are the threat to the public.

Sir, this is Lemmy

Apparently, quoting the article means it breaks the rules of the community, so I will not be quoting the article at all in the hopes more people see the terror the regime is inflicting on our communities.

The new 2000 person a day quota has really ramped up abductions. The more these abductions happen the more the communities are terrorized and the more people are harmed. The screenshots in the picture are just a few examples of these violent abductions, one of which included a murder, and the witnesses are going to face a lot of violence.

Edit: I wrote this before a discoved they killed another person today in Maine.

https://www.wmtw.com/article/significant-police-presence-pool-street-biddeford-maine/71917201

I have chosen my words carefully.

The regime has said they are under invasion by immigrants, mirroring white supremacist talking points. And using this as justification for billions to be spent on a internal war. I am reflecting that back, trying to evoke an emotional response from both sides.

You are simply arguing semantics of a word and if it should be plural or not. I have a much larger reason, and I think it is still factually correct.

The first country Hitler invaded was Germany. What this regime is doing in America is no different.

The game itself still needs to run the cachy proton, it is unclear if they are setting any proton version or just using the steam default

What version of proton are you running? Cachy has its own version that works great, I’m using it on arch via the AUR altho I don’t run cachy. Idk what bazzite comes with.

Do you only see this issue on bazzite?

There are other arch based distros you might have better mileage on if you keep having this issue with bazzite but want something different than cachy, like endeavorOS.

Also protondb you can filter by hardware to get even better results.

It is one unified effort.

Don’t be a grammar Nazi when someone is complaining about neo-Nazis.

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