Virginia Supreme Court allows ruling blocking redistricting vote to stand — for now
The state’s highest court is weighing whether to nullify the vote for good.
Matt Cohen
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.
Emails reveal DOJ officials planned to share voter rolls with DHS much earlier than they admitted
Internal emails between U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) personnel suggest that, from the very outset of the effort to obtain sensitive voter data from states — much earlier than previously known — officials there planned to share it with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The emails also suggest that, for months afterwards, at […]
Trump, MAGA are already claiming Virginia’s redistricting vote was ‘RIGGED’
By Wednesday morning, the skepticism of the election results evolved into a full-blown conspiracy centered on Fairfax County, a Democratic stronghold in the northern part of the state.
New lawsuit aims to block Trump DOJ from building national voter database via state voter roll grab
The lawsuit calls the effort “a key component of the Trump Administration’s attempts to take over elections from states and subvert the 2026 midterms.”
Ahead of midterms, Trump’s DOJ is targeting voting in three of the most pivotal swing-state counties
“They’re basically acknowledging they got nothing,” one elections expert said. “It’s going to be used for propaganda and PR. And DOJ’s law enforcement powers aren’t supposed to be used for propaganda and PR.”
DOJ wants do-over for ‘legally deficient’ demand for state voter rolls
The pleas for a re-do were derided by one state as a bid “to rescue their current, legally deficient demand.”
Louisiana sues key federal election agency to implement its anti-voting law
When Louisiana passed its proof of citizenship law in 2024, the state asked the EAC to approve state-specific language for the federal voter registration form that explains applicants need to provide the appropriate documentation when registering to vote.
Wyoming attorney seeks criminal probe of election chief for handing DOJ voters’ data
“When Secretary Gray released the unredacted [voter rolls] to DOJ, he willingly and knowingly released information that was confidential under Wyoming law,” the lawyer alleges.
National anti-voting group inspired California ballot seizure
Key figures from the group whose flawed, conspiracy-driven data led to Bianco’s ballot seizure were trained by Unite4Freedom, a national anti-voting group that has filed scores of lawsuits promoting false conspiracy theories about mass voter fraud.
The election deniers and anti-voting activists who want to run their states’ elections
Given their records of embracing election lies, there’s reason to fear that some of these candidates could try to do exactly that — lending crucial support to Trump’s ongoing campaign to undermine fair elections.