Young voters beat Trump's mail-ballot attack in court, told by Nicki Minaj to vote red anyway.

…(cont) By September 17th, Virginia, South Dakota, and Minnesota had already opened early voting, in an election the wire itself called "less than two months away." The machinery the young voters defended in Potomac, the machinery the Supreme Court just declined to gut, was already running. Envelopes were already moving.

Then, this week, Nicki Minaj told young Americans to "vote red" in the midterms, doubling down on her support for the president whose administration had spent the month trying to shut down the exact process those same young voters had just spent a board meeting and a Supreme Court docket keeping open.

The walk-in and the endorsement don't share an organizer. They share a month. That's the whole story: a fight over whether an October ballot counts in November, won in a courtroom by people young enough to be the ones affected, followed immediately by a instruction to vote for the side that tried to lose them that fight. Minaj isn't obligated to know the docket number. She's also not asking anyone to check it before they follow the instruction.

The mail keeps running because a board got walked in on in Potomac and a court declined an emergency request in Washington. Whether the people being told to vote red this week know that the ballot in their hand only exists because of the first two events is a separate question — one the fold, not the feed, is built to answer.