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Democratic states have prepared for months to fend off election interference from the Trump administration. But some of the toughest battlegrounds are blue cities in Republican states where local election workers know the governor or attorney general won’t be coming to their aid.
Five states have measures on the ballot this year that would amend their constitutions to ban noncitizens from voting. Because noncitizen voting is already illegal under both federal and state law, the measures have largely been seen as having little effect — other than perhaps boosting GOP turnout for the midterms.
After failing to take control of U.S. elections over the past year and a half, President Trump may take more drastic measures to stave off expected Republican losses this November.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) took its latest blow in a failing voter roll crusade as a federal judge Thursday dismissed its case targeting Washington, D.C. This marks a 0-21 record for the DOJ.
The legacy media has pounced on the story of New Jersey’s voter registration error. But the volume and tone of the news coverage have been embarrassingly out of proportion to the scale of the issue.
The Trump administration and GOP responded to New Jersey’s glitch with outrage. What happened in California should have been a much bigger scandal.
Arizona’s primary results offer a stark reminder that Republican voters in this key swing state remain in thrall to Trump’s election denialism.
President Trump may use a primetime address tonight to crack down on the use of electronic voting machines, perhaps by ordering the decertification of machines over alleged vulnerabilities.
When Harmeet Dhillon, the Department of Justice (DOJ) civil rights chief, announced that her agency would be sending election monitors to 15 jurisdictions in six states during the 2026 primaries, she was quick to note that previous Democratic administrations have likewise sent observers to monitor primaries.
The fight over the NVRA’s quiet period goes beyond one state law or lawsuit. It is a fight over whether eligible voters will have meaningful protection from being wrongly removed from the rolls at the moment when the consequences are hardest to undo.
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