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Our team has been digging in on what’s probably the most important ongoing voting story of 2026, which will shape the voting access landscape for the midterms: the unprecedented push by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain state voter rolls.
The federal government has now filed lawsuits against 21 states, plus D.C., demanding registrants’ unredacted private information — including driver license numbers, social security numbers and dates of birth — in a campaign decried by local officials and legal experts as an unconstitutional attack on states’ authority to run elections and an illegal attempt to create an unprecedented national voter database.
This week, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) broke new ground in its dangerous campaign to take control of elections and promote baseless conspiracy theories about voting. And we tracked them every step of the way.
It’s the latest example of DOJ hiring a lawyer for its voting section with a record of promoting false conspiracy theories about voting.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded that officials in Fulton County, Georgia, hand over ballots and other election records from the 2020 presidential vote in an attempt to revive President Trump’s fraudulent claims that the election was stolen.
Even many Republican-led states are resisting the Trump administration’s sweeping demands for unredacted voter records.
“Harmeet Dhillon has served notice she is coming for the Fulton County ballots,” Mitchell posted on X Thursday. “Praying it happens today.”
Georgia’s election board has agreed to stop conducting its business in secret after a settlement with a government watchdog group. The deal represents a major win for transparency as Republican election deniers on the board ramp up efforts to restrict voting ahead of the 2026 election.
As the 2026 election approaches, the GOP’s Trump-driven gerrymander campaign isn’t just unfolding in state legislatures. It’s also playing out in federal courtrooms where challenges to new congressional maps will be decided.
Few could miss that election eight delivered a cascade of victories for our democracy. And while national attention understandably focused on statewide races and high-profile ballot measures, smaller contests carried an outsized impact.
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