Here is Trump’s blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms
We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime.
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Exclusive: Another election denial leader, hired by DHS, drafted letter threatening states over voting audits
The letter is the latest evidence that key figures from the election denial movement are helping drive, from the inside, the Trump administration’s efforts to assert control over voting as the midterms approach.
USPS pushes final rule on restricting mail voting forward
The federal postal service acknowledges the new rule will impose burdens on states, but says its necessary to help law enforcement hunt for voter fraud.
Exclusive: Trump DOJ appears to have hired lawyer convicted of hacking election sites to check ‘integrity’
A Florida lawyer who pleaded guilty after illegally accessing government election websites appears to have joined President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) — and taken part in a recent DOJ election monitoring operation in Minnesota.
The election deniers influencing Trump’s anti-voting policy from the outside
A group of activists operating outside the government, but very much plugged into Trumpworld, is directly influencing administration efforts to undermine elections.
Trump attempts to use U.S. Census Bureau to revive 2020 election lies, advance attack on voting
President Trump and the White House are pushing a statistically dodgy U.S. Census Bureau report that claims thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 election as part of Trump’s latest attempt to revive false claims that he won the long-settled race and argue for new federal voting restrictions.
ICE backs off exclusive voter fraud contract with Thomson Reuters after public outcry
Critics alleged ICE could use Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR database in an attempt to verify false allegations of voter fraud by noncitizens.
Trump signals openness to unconstitutional plot to take over elections
President Trump signaled Tuesday he’s willing to declare a national security emergency in an attempt to take over American elections.
Sen. Cassidy’s ‘existential anxiety’ about whether Blanche will uphold the constitution on elections
Decisions about confirming Blanche for attorney general and whether he’ll abide by the Constitution are “not black-or-white,” said Cassidy.
This week at Democracy Docket: We caught DOJ in a glaring double standard on its voter rolls crusade
Since the Trump administration started demanding state voter rolls last year, we’ve tracked the effort more closely than any other news outlet.
That’s what allowed us to produce the reporting we published this week.
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