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The fights over how Americans vote: mail ballots, voter rolls, redistricting, fraud claims, and attempts to change the rules before the midterms.

112 articles · Started 2026-06-12 · Last updated 2026-10-12

Oct 12, 2026 Feds Raid Ilhan Omar's Home 22 Days Before Election, Cite 'No Rule' Against It

Feds Raid Ilhan Omar's Home 22 Days Before Election, Cite 'No Rule' Against It

Fifteen to twenty Homeland Security agents walked out of Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home on Monday morning, 22 days before she faces voters in the midterm...
Oct 12, 2026 Feds Raid Ilhan Omar's Home 3 Weeks Before Midterms Over Her Dad's Immigration Forms

Feds Raid Ilhan Omar's Home 3 Weeks Before Midterms Over Her Dad's Immigration Forms

Federal agents in Homeland Security Investigations jackets searched a sitting congresswoman's Washington home on Monday morning, and the first outlet to put...
Oct 08, 2026 Tina Peters' Lawyer Says She Urged Trump to Seize Ballots, Floats 'Civil War'

Tina Peters' Lawyer Says She Urged Trump to Seize Ballots, Floats 'Civil War'

Tina Peters, the disgraced Colorado election clerk and professional election denier, reportedly sat down with President Trump this week and urged him to seize...
Oct 06, 2026 Trump's DOJ Civil Rights Division Now Employs a Vegas Massacre Conspiracy Theorist and a Convicted Election Hacker

Trump's DOJ Civil Rights Division Now Employs a Vegas Massacre Conspiracy Theorist and a Convicted Election Hacker

The Justice Department's civil rights division, once the place where the country's best legal minds went to defend voting rights and hold abusers of power to...
Oct 04, 2026 Wasserman Schultz Took a Black District's Seat While Its Candidates Argued Over Who Should Keep It

Wasserman Schultz Took a Black District's Seat While Its Candidates Argued Over Who Should Keep It

For 33 years, Florida's 20th congressional district sent a Black representative to Washington. Then Ron DeSantis redrew the map, Debbie Wasserman Schultz saw...
Oct 03, 2026 LA Mails Out Ballots While MAGA Screams the Sky Is Falling

LA Mails Out Ballots While MAGA Screams the Sky Is Falling

Los Angeles County has started mailing ballots for the November 3 general election, and if you think that's going to happen quietly, you have clearly not been...
Sep 29, 2026 Trump Wants Your Passport Data to Decide If You Can Vote

Trump Wants Your Passport Data to Decide If You Can Vote

The Trump administration wants to take the private data of every American who has ever applied for a passport and run it through a voter eligibility check...
Sep 28, 2026 Hegseth Just Put the Military in Charge of Your Election

Hegseth Just Put the Military in Charge of Your Election

Pete Hegseth, the man who was confirmed as Defense Secretary despite everything, has now ordered military personnel to deploy artificial intelligence and cyber...
Sep 25, 2026 Supreme Court Lets Trump Cross-Check Voter Rolls With Social Security Data

Supreme Court Lets Trump Cross-Check Voter Rolls With Social Security Data

The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a significant pre-midterm gift on Friday, lifting restrictions on a federal voter database that can...
Sep 23, 2026 Trust in USPS Ballot Delivery Cratered 13 Points — Back to COVID Lows

Trust in USPS Ballot Delivery Cratered 13 Points — Back to COVID Lows

The U.S. Postal Service is running a 97.94% on-time score for election mail. It is also hemorrhaging public trust at a rate that should alarm anyone who cares...
Sep 23, 2026 Trump Won't Rule Out Troops at Polls, and His Options Are 'Dwindling'

Trump Won't Rule Out Troops at Polls, and His Options Are 'Dwindling'

With less than 50 days until the midterm elections, the President of the United States will not rule out deploying the military to polling places, and his...
Sep 17, 2026 Trump Tells NC Hurricane Survivors He'll Cut Their Aid If His Guy Loses

Trump Tells NC Hurricane Survivors He'll Cut Their Aid If His Guy Loses

Donald Trump stood in front of hurricane survivors in Gastonia, North Carolina, and told them he might not send their disaster relief money if his preferred...
Sep 17, 2026 Trump Floats Sending ICE to Polling Places. That's Illegal.

Trump Floats Sending ICE to Polling Places. That's Illegal.

The Trump administration is floating the idea of sending ICE agents to polling places during the 2026 midterm elections. This is not a gray area. This is not a...
Sep 14, 2026 DHS Employees Ordered to Illegally Access State Voter Databases, Whistleblower Says

DHS Employees Ordered to Illegally Access State Voter Databases, Whistleblower Says

The Department of Homeland Security allegedly instructed its own employees to dig into state voter databases in ways that a whistleblower says break state law....
Sep 09, 2026 Trump Wants to Erase Race, Immigration Status, and Gay People From the 2030 Census

Trump Wants to Erase Race, Immigration Status, and Gay People From the 2030 Census

The Trump administration just proposed the most radical changes to the U.S. census in its 240-year history, and the plan essentially boils down to: count fewer...
Sep 07, 2026 Trump's DOJ Is Sending 1,000 'Voter Fraud' Monitors to Midterms

Trump's DOJ Is Sending 1,000 'Voter Fraud' Monitors to Midterms

The Justice Department division that has spent decades protecting Black, disabled, and non-English-speaking voters from discrimination at the polls is about to...
Sep 06, 2026 Trump Loses Mail Ballot Fight Again, Runs to SCOTUS Crying

Trump Loses Mail Ballot Fight Again, Runs to SCOTUS Crying

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's mail voting restrictions for the third time in as many tries on Friday, and by Sunday the administration was...
Sep 04, 2026 Trump's Big Voter Fraud Bust: 5 People, 3 States, 330 Million Americans

Trump's Big Voter Fraud Bust: 5 People, 3 States, 330 Million Americans

After a sweeping multi-state federal investigation, repurposing an agency that used to chase cartels and terrorists, and filing lawsuits against nearly 30...
Sep 04, 2026 Nigel Farage's Party Caught on Camera Arranging Illegal Foreign Donations

Nigel Farage's Party Caught on Camera Arranging Illegal Foreign Donations

Nigel Farage's Reform UK had a plan for their annual conference: a triumphant reset after a rough summer, the populist faithful cheering, good vibes all...
Sep 02, 2026 Texas GOP Cuts 92 Polling Sites in County That Could Flip the State

Texas GOP Cuts 92 Polling Sites in County That Could Flip the State

Republican commissioners in Tarrant County, Texas just voted to eliminate 92 Election Day polling locations ahead of the 2026 midterms, stripping more than a...
Sep 01, 2026 USPS Whistleblower: New Ballot System Could Reject Thousands, Built in Weeks

USPS Whistleblower: New Ballot System Could Reject Thousands, Built in Weeks

A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower is alleging the agency defied court orders and hammered together a new ballot-processing system in a matter of weeks, a...
Sep 01, 2026 DHS Chief: ICE Will Enter Polling Places 'If We're Serving a Warrant'

DHS Chief: ICE Will Enter Polling Places 'If We're Serving a Warrant'

The Secretary of Homeland Security went to a press conference in New York on Tuesday and, apparently without hearing himself, announced that ICE agents will...
Sep 01, 2026 USPS Built a Ballot Screener So Broken That One Glitch Kills Tens of Thousands of Votes

USPS Built a Ballot Screener So Broken That One Glitch Kills Tens of Thousands of Votes

Someone inside the United States Postal Service watched the agency build a ballot-screening system designed to protect election integrity, realized it could...
Aug 29, 2026 Mike Lindell Lost by 45,000 Votes and Won't Accept That Either

Mike Lindell Lost by 45,000 Votes and Won't Accept That Either

Mike Lindell spent years screaming that Donald Trump had the 2020 election stolen from him by voting machines. Now the MyPillow guy has lost his own race by...
Aug 29, 2026 SCOTUS Just Made It Nearly Impossible to Prove Racial Gerrymandering

SCOTUS Just Made It Nearly Impossible to Prove Racial Gerrymandering

The Supreme Court didn't repeal the Voting Rights Act. They just made it functionally useless by requiring plaintiffs to prove something nearly impossible to...
Aug 26, 2026 Trump's Mail-In Voting Ban Just Cleared a Big Legal Hurdle

Trump's Mail-In Voting Ban Just Cleared a Big Legal Hurdle

A federal judge in Boston just handed Donald Trump a significant win in his ongoing crusade against mail-in voting, clearing the way for the U.S. Postal...
Aug 26, 2026 24 States Sue USPS Over Mail Vote Rules That Could Blow Up the Midterms

24 States Sue USPS Over Mail Vote Rules That Could Blow Up the Midterms

The United States Postal Service, an agency historically responsible for delivering your Amazon packages and birthday cards from grandma, has been conscripted...
Aug 25, 2026 KBJ Calls Supreme Court's Trump Voting Ruling a 'Kafkaesque Nightmare'

KBJ Calls Supreme Court's Trump Voting Ruling a 'Kafkaesque Nightmare'

The Supreme Court just handed the Trump administration a win on mail-in voting restrictions two months before the midterms, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson...
Aug 25, 2026 DHS Admitted Its '250,000 Noncitizen Voters' Number Was Made Up

DHS Admitted Its '250,000 Noncitizen Voters' Number Was Made Up

The Trump administration went on primetime television and told America it had found more than 250,000 noncitizen voters on the rolls of just four states. Then,...
Aug 25, 2026 California Sheriff Refuses to Return 650K Seized Ballots, Tells State Supreme Court to Pound Sand

California Sheriff Refuses to Return 650K Seized Ballots, Tells State Supreme Court to Pound Sand

A California sheriff has been sitting on 650,000 ballots from a completed election for the better part of a year, the state's top lawyer is furious, and the...
Aug 24, 2026 Lindell Has $825K for Recount But Won't Pay It

Lindell Has $825K for Recount But Won't Pay It

Mike Lindell lost a Republican primary by more than 45,000 votes, promised on election night to personally pay $825,000 for a recount, and has now declined to...
Aug 24, 2026 SCOTUS Clears Trump to Start Wrecking Mail Voting Before Midterms

SCOTUS Clears Trump to Start Wrecking Mail Voting Before Midterms

The Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a partial victory Monday, clearing the way for his administration to begin implementing an executive order that gives the...
Aug 21, 2026 Trump Said 16,000 Non-Citizen Voters in Nevada. DHS Found 185.

Trump Said 16,000 Non-Citizen Voters in Nevada. DHS Found 185.

Donald Trump went on primetime television and told the country there were roughly 16,000 non-citizens on Nevada's voter rolls. The actual number his own...
Aug 21, 2026 Trump's 1,000 Election Monitors: Experts Say It's Just More Guys With Clipboards

Trump's 1,000 Election Monitors: Experts Say It's Just More Guys With Clipboards

The Trump administration is promising to flood November's midterm elections with 1,000 Department of Justice monitors, which it's calling potentially the...
Aug 20, 2026 A 21-Year-Old Made Up Election Polls and Karen Bass Bragged About Them

A 21-Year-Old Made Up Election Polls and Karen Bass Bragged About Them

A 21-year-old recent college graduate built a fake polling website using AI, published completely fabricated election data for three states, and watched a...
Aug 19, 2026 Man Voted in Someone Else's Name, Then Reported the Victim for Voting

Man Voted in Someone Else's Name, Then Reported the Victim for Voting

A Massachusetts man allegedly voted in the 2024 presidential election using his former landlord's identity, then anonymously reported the landlord to federal...
Aug 17, 2026 Trump Voted by Mail Again. He Has an Executive Order Against That.

Trump Voted by Mail Again. He Has an Executive Order Against That.

Donald Trump, the man who signed an executive order in March restricting mail-in voting and has spent six years falsely claiming it's a vector for mass fraud,...
Aug 17, 2026 GOP States Are Banning Student IDs at Polls With Zero Evidence of Fraud

GOP States Are Banning Student IDs at Polls With Zero Evidence of Fraud

A federal judge looked at Indiana's ban on student IDs at polling places and wrote that it "looks more like a solution in search of a problem." That's the...
Aug 14, 2026 Judge Tosses Nevada Fake Electors Case, Calls Fraud 'Political Theater'

Judge Tosses Nevada Fake Electors Case, Calls Fraud 'Political Theater'

Six Nevada Republicans signed a fraudulent certificate handing Donald Trump electoral votes he did not win, broadcast the whole thing on video, and a judge...
Aug 11, 2026 Judge Blocks Trump From Using USPS to Kneecap Mail-In Voting Nationwide

Judge Blocks Trump From Using USPS to Kneecap Mail-In Voting Nationwide

A federal judge in Boston just told the U.S. Postal Service it cannot help Donald Trump decide which Americans get their ballots delivered and which ones...
Aug 09, 2026 Senate Democrats Are War-Gaming Election Armageddon Scenarios

Senate Democrats Are War-Gaming Election Armageddon Scenarios

Chuck Schumer and a roomful of senior Senate Democrats recently sat down with legal experts to plan their response to scenarios including AI deepfakes of voter...
Aug 06, 2026 Tennessee Gerrymandered Its One Blue Seat Out of Existence, Then Dared Democrats to Win It Back

Tennessee Gerrymandered Its One Blue Seat Out of Existence, Then Dared Democrats to Win It Back

Tennessee Republicans redrew their congressional map, carved Memphis into three separate Republican-leaning districts, forced the state's only Democratic...
Aug 06, 2026 DeSantis Gerrymandered Her District. She Just Moved and Raised $2M.

DeSantis Gerrymandered Her District. She Just Moved and Raised $2M.

Ron DeSantis ripped apart her congressional district in the middle of a campaign, presumably expecting the Democratic field to scatter. Pia Dandiya looked at...
Aug 05, 2026 Trump's DOJ Is 0 for 31 in Voter Roll Lawsuits and Still Going

Trump's DOJ Is 0 for 31 in Voter Roll Lawsuits and Still Going

The Trump Justice Department has now sued 30 states plus Washington D.C. to force them to hand over sensitive voter data, and judges appointed by both parties...
Aug 04, 2026 Missouri's GOP Secretary of State Trashes 300K Signatures to Save Trump's Gerrymander

Missouri's GOP Secretary of State Trashes 300K Signatures to Save Trump's Gerrymander

Over 300,000 Missourians signed a petition asking to vote on their own congressional map. The Republican official in charge of elections waited until the...
Aug 01, 2026 Everyone Hates the Filibuster Until They Need It

Everyone Hates the Filibuster Until They Need It

The Senate filibuster is either a sacred guardrail of American democracy or an unconscionable obstruction of the people's will, depending entirely on whether...
Jul 31, 2026 Red States Found a New Way to Undo Your Vote Before You Cast It

Red States Found a New Way to Undo Your Vote Before You Cast It

Republicans in Missouri and Kansas kept losing ballot measures on abortion, marijuana, and Medicaid. So they did what any sore loser with a legislative...
Jul 31, 2026 FBI Is Pulling Voter IP Addresses Now. Let That Sink In.

FBI Is Pulling Voter IP Addresses Now. Let That Sink In.

The FBI has started pulling the IP addresses of people who registered to vote online, and state officials are just handing them over. According to documents...
Jul 30, 2026 Both Parties Now Fear the 2026 Midterms Will Be Stolen

Both Parties Now Fear the 2026 Midterms Will Be Stolen

A new Gallup poll commissioned by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation finds that most Americans, across party lines, are genuinely afraid the November midterm...
Jul 30, 2026 Trump Says China Stole 220M Voter Files. Experts Say They're Free Online.

Trump Says China Stole 220M Voter Files. Experts Say They're Free Online.

The Trump administration is accusing China of staging 'the largest compromise of election data in history' by collecting 220 million American voter...
Jul 30, 2026 GOP Voter Suppression Is Backfiring Spectacularly in the South

GOP Voter Suppression Is Backfiring Spectacularly in the South

The Republican Party spent the better part of this year frantically redrawing congressional maps to dilute Black political power across the South, and the...
Jul 27, 2026 Trump Wants SCOTUS to Kill Mail Voting in 23 States Before November

Trump Wants SCOTUS to Kill Mail Voting in 23 States Before November

Donald Trump signed an executive order in March giving himself the power to decide who gets a mail ballot in America. Two courts have now told him to go pound...
Jul 25, 2026 Brazil Boots Trump's Election Cops Before They Can Land

Brazil Boots Trump's Election Cops Before They Can Land

Brazil just told two U.S. State Department officials to stay home, denying their visa requests days before a planned trip to Brasilia to discuss 'election...
Jul 25, 2026 Federal Court Tells Trump His Mail Ballot Power Grab Can Wait Until After Midterms

Federal Court Tells Trump His Mail Ballot Power Grab Can Wait Until After Midterms

A federal appeals court told the Trump administration to sit down and think about what it's done, refusing by a 2-1 vote on Saturday to let the White House...
Jul 24, 2026 Republicans Are Using an Olive Garden Pasta Pass to Argue for Voter ID

Republicans Are Using an Olive Garden Pasta Pass to Argue for Voter ID

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise went on Fox News this week to make the case that American democracy deserves at least the same level of identity...
Jul 23, 2026 Six States Just Carved Up Black Voting Power, On Purpose

Six States Just Carved Up Black Voting Power, On Purpose

Six Republican-led states have spent the last year methodically chopping up majority-Black congressional districts, scattering Black voters into majority-white...
Jul 22, 2026 Congress Is Writing a $95B Bill to Fund the Iran War and Ban Mail-In Voting

Congress Is Writing a $95B Bill to Fund the Iran War and Ban Mail-In Voting

House Republicans have decided that the best time to try banning mail-in ballots nationwide is while simultaneously funding a $95 billion war and writing...
Jul 22, 2026 House Passes $1.15T War Bill With Voting Restrictions Stuffed Inside

House Passes $1.15T War Bill With Voting Restrictions Stuffed Inside

The House of Representatives just passed a $1.15 trillion defense policy bill with voting restrictions buried inside it, in the middle of an unauthorized war...
Jul 21, 2026 NJ Software Glitch Registered 6,600 Noncitizens to Vote — Trump Will Lose His Mind

NJ Software Glitch Registered 6,600 Noncitizens to Vote — Trump Will Lose His Mind

A software glitch in New Jersey accidentally registered roughly 6,600 self-identified noncitizens to vote, and fewer than 400 of them actually cast a ballot....
Jul 21, 2026 NJ's Own Software Registered 6,600 Noncitizens to Vote — and Then Said Nothing

NJ's Own Software Registered 6,600 Noncitizens to Vote — and Then Said Nothing

New Jersey's own Motor Vehicle Commission software secretly registered roughly 6,600 noncitizens to vote between 2023 and 2024, and apparently nobody in state...
Jul 17, 2026 Trump's '250K Illegal Voters' Number Is Made Up and He Knows It

Trump's '250K Illegal Voters' Number Is Made Up and He Knows It

The Trump administration is claiming that 250,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in four states, a number so alarming it prompted a nationally televised...
Jul 17, 2026 GOP Redraws Alabama Map, Erasing the District That Finally Gave Tuskegee a Voice

GOP Redraws Alabama Map, Erasing the District That Finally Gave Tuskegee a Voice

A 19-year-old in Tuskegee, Alabama recently decided to let a gashed, bleeding arm go untreated rather than travel to the nearest hospital and pay a bill he...
Jul 17, 2026 Trump's Midterm Speech Was a 2020 Rerun Nobody Asked For

Trump's Midterm Speech Was a 2020 Rerun Nobody Asked For

Donald Trump gave a primetime address to the nation this week and spent it relitigating a six-year-old election he lost. With November's midterms approaching...
Jul 17, 2026 Trump Held a Primetime Address to Show Zero Evidence of Voter Fraud

Trump Held a Primetime Address to Show Zero Evidence of Voter Fraud

Donald Trump commandeered primetime television Wednesday night to warn America that its elections are vulnerable to being "rigged and stolen" -- and then...
Jul 17, 2026 Trump Says China Rigged 2020. China Says He's Making It Up.

Trump Says China Rigged 2020. China Says He's Making It Up.

Donald Trump stood in front of the country Thursday night and told them China spent years trying to destroy his presidency, that the intelligence community...
Jul 17, 2026 Trump Gives Primetime Speech Blaming China for 2026 Election Loss He Hasn't Had Yet

Trump Gives Primetime Speech Blaming China for 2026 Election Loss He Hasn't Had Yet

Six years after losing to Joe Biden, Donald Trump took to primetime television to relitigate 2020, accuse China of stealing it from him, and declare the entire...
Jul 17, 2026 Trump's Big Election Fraud Speech Had One Problem: The Fraud

Trump's Big Election Fraud Speech Had One Problem: The Fraud

Donald Trump commandeered primetime television Thursday night to tell America its election system is a catastrophe, backed by a fresh dump of newly...
Jul 17, 2026 Trump's Primetime Speech Blames China for 2020 — His Own Intel Said Otherwise

Trump's Primetime Speech Blames China for 2020 — His Own Intel Said Otherwise

Donald Trump stood in the White House Thursday night, in front of his assembled cabinet, with no journalists allowed to ask questions, and delivered a...
Jul 16, 2026 Trump Claims Intel Agencies Hid China's 2020 Election Meddling

Trump Claims Intel Agencies Hid China's 2020 Election Meddling

On Thursday night, Donald Trump stood in the White House and told America that its own intelligence agencies have been lying to everyone about China and the...
Jul 16, 2026 Trump's Prime-Time Election Speech Is Built on Intel His Own Agencies Debunked

Trump's Prime-Time Election Speech Is Built on Intel His Own Agencies Debunked

Donald Trump took over prime-time television Thursday night to tell America, once again, that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and to promise new...
Jul 16, 2026 Trump Gives Primetime Election Speech While Refusing to Say He'll Accept Results

Trump Gives Primetime Election Speech While Refusing to Say He'll Accept Results

The man who has spent six years lying about losing the 2020 election is giving a primetime address tonight about election integrity. When a reporter asked his...
Jul 16, 2026 Republicans Want to Backdoor Voter ID Into the Budget. Again.

Republicans Want to Backdoor Voter ID Into the Budget. Again.

Lindsey Graham died, and before he did, he apparently told Donald Trump that the SAVE America Act was all set. Nobody knows what that means. But Senate...
Jul 15, 2026 Trump's 'Really Big' Election Speech Is Exactly What You Think It Is

Trump's 'Really Big' Election Speech Is Exactly What You Think It Is

Donald Trump, a man who has now been president twice and still cannot stop relitigating an election he lost six years ago, will deliver a primetime address...
Jul 14, 2026 Lindsey Graham Dies, Takes Trump's Voter ID Bill With Him

Lindsey Graham Dies, Takes Trump's Voter ID Bill With Him

Lindsey Graham wasn't just a cheerleader for Trump's voter ID legislation. He was the Senate Budget Committee chair, the one person holding together the...
Jul 14, 2026 Republicans Want 60% to Pass Amendments, But 51% to Pass Theirs

Republicans Want 60% to Pass Amendments, But 51% to Pass Theirs

Republican lawmakers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Missouri are asking voters this year to make it harder for those same voters to pass...
Jul 13, 2026 FBI Fired Analysts Who Said Its Own Georgia Election Probe Was Bullshit

FBI Fired Analysts Who Said Its Own Georgia Election Probe Was Bullshit

The FBI just fired two of its own analysts for saying out loud what everyone with a functioning brain already suspected: the bureau's investigation into the...
Jul 12, 2026 Trump Uses Graham's Eulogy to Lobby for His Own Voting Bill

Trump Uses Graham's Eulogy to Lobby for His Own Voting Bill

Lindsey Graham died on Saturday. By Sunday morning, Donald Trump was on national television explaining how inconvenient that was for his voting bill. The...
Jul 11, 2026 Trump Lets Housing Bill Become Law Without His Signature to Own the Senate Over Voter ID

Trump Lets Housing Bill Become Law Without His Signature to Own the Senate Over Voter ID

Donald Trump just let a bill that passed the Senate 85-to-5 become law without his signature, not because he opposes it, but because the Senate won't pass a...
Jul 10, 2026 They Stole a City: The 1898 Coup America Still Won't Reckon With

They Stole a City: The 1898 Coup America Still Won't Reckon With

In 1898, a group of white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina overthrew a democratically elected multiracial government, murdered Black residents in the...
Jul 10, 2026 Trump Fires the Whole Election Commission While Iran and Israel Simmer

Trump Fires the Whole Election Commission While Iran and Israel Simmer

The United States struck 170 targets in Iran over two days, Iran shot back at U.S. bases in the Gulf, and then both sides apparently decided to take a...
Jul 09, 2026 Trump Fires the Entire Election Watchdog Board 4 Months Before Midterms

Trump Fires the Entire Election Watchdog Board 4 Months Before Midterms

Four months out from the midterm elections, Donald Trump just fired the entire leadership of the federal agency responsible for certifying voting systems and...
Jul 09, 2026 DHS Will Yank Billions in Safety Grants From States That Won't Audit Voter Rolls

DHS Will Yank Billions in Safety Grants From States That Won't Audit Voter Rolls

The Department of Homeland Security has figured out a creative new way to bully states into compliance with Trump's election security agenda: hold disaster...
Jul 08, 2026 SCOTUS Gutted Voting Rights. Now Trump Wants Your Birth Certificate.

SCOTUS Gutted Voting Rights. Now Trump Wants Your Birth Certificate.

The Supreme Court spent its spring session systematically dismantling the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Donald Trump watched that happen and thought: great...
Jul 08, 2026 DOJ Threatens to Criminally Charge State Election Officials Over a Problem That Doesn't Exist

DOJ Threatens to Criminally Charge State Election Officials Over a Problem That Doesn't Exist

The Department of Justice just threatened to criminally prosecute election officials in all 50 states and DC for allowing noncitizens to vote. There is no...
Jul 02, 2026 FBI Mobilizes 260 Agents to Relitigate Georgia 2020 Race Trump Lost Twice

FBI Mobilizes 260 Agents to Relitigate Georgia 2020 Race Trump Lost Twice

The FBI has ordered every field office in the country to send analysts to Atlanta to help dig through 2020 Fulton County election records, mobilizing 260...
Jul 01, 2026 Polis Fired the Board Members Who Told the Truth About Tina Peters

Polis Fired the Board Members Who Told the Truth About Tina Peters

Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted the prison sentence of election denier Tina Peters after pressure from Donald Trump. His own clemency board...
Jun 29, 2026 Supreme Court Saves Mail-In Ballots 5-4, Roberts and Barrett Break With MAGA

Supreme Court Saves Mail-In Ballots 5-4, Roberts and Barrett Break With MAGA

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to five business days later, handing the...
Jun 28, 2026 Trump's Secret Web Team Tracked You on Voter and Passport Sites

Trump's Secret Web Team Tracked You on Voter and Passport Sites

A secretive White House office staffed by DOGE veterans quietly rebuilt some of the most sensitive websites the American government operates, then installed...
Jun 25, 2026 GOP Operative Wrote a Pro-Voter-Suppression Op-Ed and Called It 'Good Government'

GOP Operative Wrote a Pro-Voter-Suppression Op-Ed and Called It 'Good Government'

A Republican political consultant published an op-ed in the New York Post this week arguing that the US Postal Service should require states to hand over voter...
Jun 25, 2026 Judge Blocks Trump's Scheme to Hold Mail Ballots Hostage to Voter Data

Judge Blocks Trump's Scheme to Hold Mail Ballots Hostage to Voter Data

The Trump administration had a plan: give us your voter rolls or your constituents don't get mail ballots. A federal judge in Boston looked at that plan on...
Jun 25, 2026 House Conservatives Freeze the Floor Until Senate Passes Voter ID Bill Nobody Can Pass

House Conservatives Freeze the Floor Until Senate Passes Voter ID Bill Nobody Can Pass

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida has effectively shut down the House floor to force the Senate into passing a voter ID bill that the Senate's own Republican...
Jun 25, 2026 Trump's Mail-In Voting Crackdown Gets Smacked Down in Boston

Trump's Mail-In Voting Crackdown Gets Smacked Down in Boston

A federal judge in Boston just threw a wrench into one of Trump's more constitutionally adventurous projects: using an executive order to rewrite who gets to...
Jun 24, 2026 Judge to Trump: The Constitution Says You Don't Run Elections

Judge to Trump: The Constitution Says You Don't Run Elections

A federal judge in Boston just made it official: Donald Trump does not get to rewrite how Americans vote, and the Constitution was pretty clear about that the...
Jun 24, 2026 Texas May Hand Election Control to a 34-Year-Old Pastor Who Thinks Voting Machines Are 'Screwed Up'

Texas May Hand Election Control to a 34-Year-Old Pastor Who Thinks Voting Machines Are 'Screwed Up'

Texas is about to hand control of elections in the second-largest state in the country to a 34-year-old megachurch pastor who has never run a polling place,...
Jun 24, 2026 Trump Kills Bipartisan Housing Bill to Demand Voter ID Law Instead

Trump Kills Bipartisan Housing Bill to Demand Voter ID Law Instead

Donald Trump had a bipartisan housing bill sitting on his desk, ready to sign, and he spiked it. Not because of anything in the bill. Because he wants Congress...
Jun 22, 2026 Judge: Trump's Voter Database Broke Three Laws and Got Citizens Purged

Judge: Trump's Voter Database Broke Three Laws and Got Citizens Purged

The Trump administration built a secret national database stuffed with Social Security numbers and citizenship data, fed it to states, and watched as those...
Jun 22, 2026 Utah Just Got a Safe Blue Seat and Democrats Are Already Fighting Over It

Utah Just Got a Safe Blue Seat and Democrats Are Already Fighting Over It

Utah, the state that last sent a Democrat to Congress in 2018 by the skin of his teeth, has somehow been handed a congressional seat rated D+12 by Cook...
Jun 21, 2026 Only 30% of New 18-Year-Old Voters Will Be Registered This November

Only 30% of New 18-Year-Old Voters Will Be Registered This November

Four million Americans will turn 18 this year. Fewer than a third of them will be registered to vote by November. That's not an accident, a mystery, or a...
Jun 19, 2026 Maryland's Senate President Blocked Redistricting. Now He's Fighting for His Life in a Primary.

Maryland's Senate President Blocked Redistricting. Now He's Fighting for His Life in a Primary.

Bill Ferguson has run Maryland's state Senate for years without facing a serious primary challenge. Then he blocked his own party's redistricting push, told...
Jun 19, 2026 Maine's Ranked Choice Votes Are In, and Democracy Actually Worked

Maine's Ranked Choice Votes Are In, and Democracy Actually Worked

Maine counted all its ranked-choice votes overnight and somehow produced a coherent result by Friday morning, which in 2026 feels like a minor miracle worth...
Jun 17, 2026 The Lawyer Who Beat Jim Crow Warns 2026 Is Worse

The Lawyer Who Beat Jim Crow Warns 2026 Is Worse

A lawyer who spent decades dismantling Jim Crow's structural remnants in federal court is now saying the machinery being assembled ahead of the 2026 midterms...
Jun 17, 2026 Trump Holds Intel Chief Hostage Until Congress Passes His Voter ID Bill

Trump Holds Intel Chief Hostage Until Congress Passes His Voter ID Bill

Donald Trump has decided that the person running the entire United States intelligence apparatus is a bargaining chip. On Wednesday, Trump announced he's...
Jun 17, 2026 Trump Gets His Guy in Georgia: Ossoff vs. an Election Denier in November

Trump Gets His Guy in Georgia: Ossoff vs. an Election Denier in November

Georgia Republicans looked at their options Tuesday and said: yes, we want the January 6 apologist, please. Representative Mike Collins, a Trump-backed...
Jun 16, 2026 Trump Is Rigging the Refs Before the Midterms and Barely Hiding It

Trump Is Rigging the Refs Before the Midterms and Barely Hiding It

The Trump administration is using the Justice Department, the FBI, and a presidential executive order to systematically dismantle American voting rights before...
Jun 16, 2026 AI Deepfake Attack Ads Are Everywhere Now and Nobody Has to Tell You

AI Deepfake Attack Ads Are Everywhere Now and Nobody Has to Tell You

Political campaigns are now running AI-generated attack ads that place their opponents in completely fabricated, compromising situations, and here is the...
Jun 16, 2026 Trump Put an Election Denier in Charge of Protecting Elections

Trump Put an Election Denier in Charge of Protecting Elections

The man now responsible for securing American elections spent years pushing debunked conspiracy theories about Venezuela stealing the 2020 election, voted not...
Jun 16, 2026 SCOTUS Killed Black Voting Rights and Might Have Handed Democrats the Midterms

SCOTUS Killed Black Voting Rights and Might Have Handed Democrats the Midterms

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Republican legislatures immediately started carving up Black congressional districts like a Thanksgiving...
Jun 15, 2026 FBI Raids Ohio Voter Group HQ While Ohio Has a Live Election

FBI Raids Ohio Voter Group HQ While Ohio Has a Live Election

The FBI showed up at the Ohio Organizing Collaborative's headquarters on June 11, seized electronic devices, fanned out across the state to interrogate staff...
Jun 15, 2026 A Retired Teacher Named 'Dan Sullivan' Just Got Booted Off Alaska's Senate Ballot

A Retired Teacher Named 'Dan Sullivan' Just Got Booted Off Alaska's Senate Ballot

A retired schoolteacher with no Republican history filed to run in Alaska's Republican Senate primary under the name 'Dan Sullivan,' which is also the name of...
Jun 13, 2026 FBI Raids Ohio Voter Registration Group Two Months Before Midterms

FBI Raids Ohio Voter Registration Group Two Months Before Midterms

The FBI showed up at a voter registration group's office in Cleveland on Thursday, seized their computers and phones, and sent agents to knock on the doors of...
Jun 13, 2026 Fox Pays $787M to Avoid Saying Out Loud That It Lied

Fox Pays $787M to Avoid Saying Out Loud That It Lied

Fox News just wrote a check for $787.5 million to make a defamation lawsuit go away, and the most expensive part of the deal was the part they didn't have to...
Jun 12, 2026 FBI Raids Ohio Voter Registration Group 5 Months Before Midterms

FBI Raids Ohio Voter Registration Group 5 Months Before Midterms

The FBI raided a grassroots voter registration group in Cleveland on Thursday, seizing computers and phones and fanning out to the homes of affiliated members...