Krystal Kyle & Friends Episode 250: Max Flugrath
Nov 4, 2025
Max Flugrath, the communications director at Fair Fight Action and an expert on election integrity, joins to discuss alarming threats to U.S. elections. He outlines GOP gerrymandering tactics and how misinformation campaigns target mail-in voting. Flugrath highlights troubling efforts to infiltrate local election boards and weaponize the DOJ to undermine trust in election processes. He stresses the coordinated nature of these tactics as a significant danger to democracy, calling for strategic actions to protect voting rights ahead of the 2026 elections.
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Nationwide Gerrymandering Push
- Republicans are coordinating a multi-state gerrymandering campaign to lock in seats before 2026.
- A conservative Supreme Court decision could supercharge their ability to create many additional safe Republican districts.
Fight Gerrymanders In Courts And States
- States can and should challenge partisan maps in court and redraw maps in response when possible.
- Organize locally and use legal strategies to blunt Republican map-making before 2026.
Planting Operatives To Manufacture Fraud
- The administration places election-denying operatives into federal and local roles to manufacture claims of fraud.
- Those operatives can coordinate false narratives with DOJ access to state voter data to justify sweeping changes.