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Federal Threats to the Upcoming 2026 Midterm Elections

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

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No Longer Protecting Voters and the Election Process

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

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The Trump Administration’s Support for Election Deniers

There are many examples in the current administration of support for election deniers and conspiracy theorists. Four or more people in the current administration have denied the results of the 2020 presidential election. In addition, one of the first acts of Donald Trump in his second administration was to pardon 1,500 individuals on trial for

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Trump Administration Targets Election Officials and Others

Acting on President Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, his administration is targeting law firms, organizations, officials, and individuals who maintain the fairness of the 2020 elections. The administration has established agencies within the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged with searching out supposedly widespread voter fraud, a problem that does not exist.

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The Trump Administration Plan to Undermine Elections

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

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Sowing Chaos Before the 2024 Elections

With the 2024 national elections now less than six months away, election officials and security experts are working tirelessly to ensure that these elections will be safe, fair, and accurate — free from misinformation and disinformation both foreign and domestic. They clearly have their jobs cut out for them. Officials are attending conferences designed to

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How’d We Get Here, Again?

A whirl of endless disinformation…60% of Republicans variously committed to insurrection supporters or the Big Lie…endless filter bubbles…”pink slime” in place of local journalism… The wonders do not cease. It didn’t happen overnight, and it wasn’t caused by the neoliberal conviction that we didn’t need no steenking Fairness Doctrine. It took much more to get

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