‘This is a big blow to the SAVE America Act’: Trump uses Lindsey Graham’s death to push stalled anti-voter bill
The president said he talked to Graham about the bill hours before his death.
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This week at Democracy Docket: Trump is doing everything he can think of to control voting. But states aren’t backing down
Trump’s crusade to take over voting continues to falter in the courts. So he’s pulling out a range of dangerous new strategies to exert control.
Trump fired the entire Election Administration Commission. Now what?
President Donald Trump launched his latest attack on voting last night when he ousted the three remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The defenestration leaves the bipartisan and mostly advisory federal agency, which was created to help states administer elections, without leadership just months before the 2026 midterm elections. But while the […]
‘Dangerous … reckless … desperate’: Trump’s firing of EAC leaders escalates his war on voting, election chiefs and lawmakers warn
Without four commissioners leading the agency, it leaves states with a huge resource gap as they prepare for the midterm elections.
In sweeping attack on elections, Trump fires leadership of key federal voting assistance commission
President Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission, a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections.
This week at Democracy Docket: A rare pro-voting ruling from the Supreme Court — and a revealing shift among election deniers
In the biggest voting news of the week, the Supreme Court rejected a Republican attempt to restrict mail voting by barring states from accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day.
This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s attack on mail voting advances, while Georgia Republicans retreat
The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on mail voting is heating up. And Democracy Docket is covering it more closely than any other news outlet.
States to get citizenship lists before voters can check for errors, new memo on Trump’s anti-voting order makes clear
The first phase of President Donald Trump’s executive order to build a national voter list is expected to be implemented by June 30, according to a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo.
Trump threatens to take over D.C. if voters elect progressive mayor
President Trump said he would take over the nation’s capital if Janeese Lewis George, a progressive candidate for the District of Columbia’s mayor, wins the upcoming Democratic primary.
Trump taps Jay Clayton, prosecutor who echoed California election lies, as intel chief
President Trump said he will nominate Jay Clayton, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, to be the next director of national intelligence just days after the attorney endorsed false conspiracy theories about California’s still-ongoing primary vote count.
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