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The news cycle doesn’t slow down, and neither does The Bulwark. Bulwark Takes brings you bite-sized takes on the news of the day from the entire Bulwark team, including Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, and Bill Kristol, and more.
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True90% confidence6 sourcesSep 15, 2026Countries that use mail-in voting include Canada, Germany, Iceland, South Korea, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Poland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.Said by BThe ten countries named match the International IDEA list of countries that allow all voters to vote by postal ballot, as reported by FactCheck.org, Snopes, Statista, and IDEA's own page, all before the 2026-09-15 posting date. The claim's wording departs only trivially from the passage ("include" versus "The other countries include"), which does not change the substance; sources differ on whether Denmark belongs on the all-voter list, but that does not affect the ten named countries.True85% confidence6 sourcesSep 15, 2026In August 2025, Donald Trump revealed a world leader who suggested the idea of mail-in ballot restrictions to him.Reuters and other tier1 outlets confirm that in August 2025 Trump told Hannity that Vladimir Putin had said mail-in voting cannot produce a fair election, and Trump then moved to end mail-in ballots. Fact-checkers dispute Trump's account of Putin saying the 2020 election was rigged, but that dispute concerns the content of Putin's remark, not whether Trump revealed that Putin raised the idea.Can’t tell60% confidence4 sourcesSep 15, 2026Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that the 2020 U.S. election was rigged because of mail-in voting.Said by 2CThe only account that Putin said this comes from Trump's own description of their Alaska meeting, which Reuters, NBC, PolitiFact and others report without independent confirmation of Putin's words. Fact-checkers do reject the underlying claim that the 2020 election was rigged by mail-in voting, but no source confirms or refutes that Putin said it.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell50% confidence7 sourcesSep 15, 2026Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that if Trump had won the 2020 election, there would not have been a war in Ukraine.The only source for the private exchange is Trump's own account on Hannity, which the claim relies on, and the Kremlin did not confirm it. Putin did publicly say in January and August 2025 that the Ukraine crisis might not have happened had Trump been president or his 2020 victory not been stolen, so the sentiment is documented even though the private conversation is not.