October 2025

In an expert brief published on August 3, 2025, the Brennan Center for Justice’s Jasleen Singh outlines the Trump Administration’s unprecedented actions to undermine the upcoming and future elections. She outlines four main areas. In this first post, we will outline the first area — attempting to rewrite rules to take control over states’ role

State and local election officials have counted on the federal government to protect elections. They can no longer rely on this support as voters can no longer rely on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to protect their voting rights. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA was one of the first federal agencies on