This Week in Democracy – Week 80: Musk Plans to Spend $100 Million to Help GOP in Midterms and ICE Ramps Up Airport ArrestsElon Musk speaks during a town hall meeting at the KI Convention Center on…

This Week in Democracy – Week 80: Musk Plans to Spend $100 Million to Help GOP in Midterms and ICE Ramps Up Airport Arrests (substackcdn.com)Elon Musk speaks during a town hall meeting at the KI Convention Center on March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty ImagesWe’re less than 100 days from the midterms, and things are looking worse and worse for Donald Trump and his Republican allies. The MAGA president and his cronies know it and appear increasingly desperate, as Trump kicked his effort to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the midterms to his pals on the Supreme Court this week and as Elon Musk prepared to spend big to help the GOP in November. The president, however, doesn’t seem desperate enough to do what voters actually want. Instead of reigning in immigration enforcement (pbs.org), ICE began arresting (nytimes.com › ice arrests airports visa overstay) people who overstayed their visits, including spouses of U.S. citizens who have active applications to stay in the country, at airports. Trump appears no closer to ending the war in Iran, even as his own base begins (apnews.com) to sour on it. And instead of acknowledging the anxiety Americans feel about the economy, Trump’s lackeys continue to insist everything is “amazing (independent.co.uk › trump kevin hassett economy poll b3025444).”This is what ‘democracy’ looks like in Donald Trump’s America.Subscribe now (zeteo.com › subscribe?)From hundreds of thousands of Haitians losing their legal status to be in the country to new revelations about the administration’s effort to imprison the president’s perceived enemies, here’s more of what Trump and his allies did this week that harmed democracy, undermined the Constitution, and hurt societies worldwide:Saturday, July 25 – Brazil Accuses Trump Admin of Election System ‘Ploy’Brazil’s Foreign Ministry confirmed (washingtonpost.com) it rejected visas to two senior State Department officials, whom the Trump administration said were planning to meet with “authorities involved in the election process.”Brazilian officials told the Washington Post they suspected that the trip was part of a “ploy” to meet with election skeptics to produce a report designed to undermine the integrity of Brazil’s electronic voting systems ahead of its upcoming election in October.Sunday, July 26 – ICE Expected to Target Haitians as TPS Ends for 300,000CBS News reported (cbsnews.com) that ICE is planning to expand operations to arrest and deport Haitians as hundreds of thousands of people from the country, which is experiencing widespread unrest, are set to lose their legal status following a Supreme Court ruling (bbc.com › c4g8ym422lko) in June allowing the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status programs for Haitians and Syrians.Share (zeteo.com)Monday, July 27 – Trump Asks Supreme Court to Restrict Mail-In VotingThe Trump administration filed (supremecourt.gov) an emergency appeal asking the Supreme Court to allow the president’s March executive order (whitehouse.gov › presidenti