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Jackie Calmes: Trump latest warning sign: Stacking election posts with Big Lie supporters

What Donald Trump is saying is bad enough: For 13 months, history's sorest loser has been repeating his lie that he was robbed of reelection, and undermining the faith of millions of Americans in their democracy, including three out of four Republicans who buy his poison.

What Trump and his allies are doing, however, is perhaps worse: They're working to rig the next presidential election for him.

This activity, while mostly out in the open, has been little noted because seeing the full picture requires connecting dots in swing states nationwide,

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