Matt is a senior reporter covering elections, voting rights and threats to democracy. He’s covered far-right extremism, dark money and state and local elections as an investigative reporter at The American Independent and Mother Jones. Prior to reporting on politics, Matt cut his teeth as a local reporter in D.C. at the Washington City Paper and DCist.
Prominent right-wing figures are calling for the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero who’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud.
Believe it or not, democracy persisted this year — a lot.
An avalanche of anti-voting laws could be coming to the Peach State in 2026.
“College students can just roll out of bed, vote, and get back into bed,” Cleta Mitchell said, falsely claiming that “students are going to vote 95 percent [for] one party.”
“In-person voting on Election Day should be primary,” Mitchell said at the annual Election Integrity Network fall summit.
There’s little the Trump administration can do to free Peters since she was convicted on state charges.
Trump has installed election deniers and conspiracy theorists all over his administration — from the DOJ and DHS to Voice of America.
The senators cited reporting from Democracy Docket in their letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have all won another 10-year term in a high-stakes retention election that saw a major GOP push to reshape the state’s highest court.
The developments add fuel to a tense election atmosphere in the Garden State.