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Senior prosecutor Kurt Olsen has resigned from the Justice Department's "grand conspiracy" investigation, marking the second high-profile prosecutor to quit the probe in less than a month. Olsen, a Trump loyalist with no prior prosecutorial experience who previously pushed to overturn the 2020 election results, stepped down following security clearance complications that hindered his access to classified materials relevant to the inquiry. His departure follows the sudden exit three weeks prior of lead prosecutor Joseph diGenova, who resigned after DOJ leadership grew impatient with his delay in bringing charges, as well as the departure of a lead FBI investigator and the earlier removal of a career prosecutor who found insufficient evidence for charges. Read Article

National: This White House Plan Threatens Funding for Disabled Voters | Lisa Song/ProPublica

A proposed Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rule would prohibit organizations from using federal grant money for voter registration drives or related non-partisan registration activities. Spearheaded by OMB Director Russell Vought, the administrative policy change targets federal grants, including accessibility funding awarded under the Help America Vote Act that non-profit advocacy groups rely on to assist disabled and elderly voters at nursing homes and care facilities. Read Article

National: As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: ‘How will voters know what’s true?’ | George Chidi/The Guardian

Political strategists, advocates, and lawmakers warn that the proliferation of hyper-realistic digital fabrications is fostering a pervasive environment of skepticism where voters struggle to distinguish authentic news from computer-generated disinformation. Compounding the challenge, patchwork state regulations governing AI disclaimers face serious enforcement hurdles and First Amendment legal challenges, such as a federal judge halting Montana’s deepfake law, leaving federal regulatory vacuums that allow deceptive campaign materials to spread across digital platforms virtually unchecked. Read Article

Texas officials knew of issues with its voter registration web portal in March, records show | Natalia Contreras/Votebeat

Texas state officials were warned as early as March 2026 about severe defects in the Department of Public Safety's (DPS) online voter registration portal, long before a massive backlog of at least 500,000 delayed voter records was dumped on local county election administrators right before the November midterm election. Despite DPS's assurances in March that a programming error had been resolved, warnings from voting rights groups continued through the summer, revealing that software updates to DPS systems were dropping critical registration data and leaving many voters unknowingly unregistered when they attempted to cast ballots. With county officials now scrambling to manually process the backlogged records to avoid forcing affected voters onto provisional ballots, state lawmakers from both parties are launching inquiries into the communication breakdowns and lack of system testing between DPS and the Texas Secretary of State's Office. Read Article

National: Election officials across the country prepare to fight any Trump administration interference in the 2026 midterms | Carter Walker and Dion Nissenbaum/Votebeat

Each year, election officials prepare for the worst: A bomb threat at a polling place, power outages, natural disasters. But this year, they are wrestling a potential threat they have never before considered: the possibility that the federal government might disrupt the administration of November’s elections. It’s not clear what action, if any, the Trump administration may take to interfere with the 2026 midterms, but election officials from jurisdictions large and small are preparing for everything from immigration officers at the polls to federal attempts to seize ballots. They’re also acknowledging that most standoffs with the federal government would likely end in court, and they’re talking to lawyers and preparing legal filings in case they prove necessary. Read Article

National: Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds | Dustin Volz, Julian E. Barnes and Steven Lee Myers/The New York Times

The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence in November’s midterm elections, using a familiar playbook in an attempt to inject chaos into the voting season, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Classified U.S. intelligence assessments from recent months have determined that the Kremlin has again authorized a digital influence campaign to peddle content across social media in hopes of seeding or amplifying domestic divisions around the election season, the officials said. The assessments did not find evidence of attempts to take aim at voting machinery in a way that could compromise the actual voting process, the officials added. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss classified information, did not specify the efforts to influence attitudes online. But experts in Russian disinformation have spotted some social media campaigns in recent weeks that use artificial intelligence to create fake videos of Hollywood celebrities talking about key battleground Senate races. Read Article

National: Civil Rights Groups Sue to Keep Armed Agents Away From Voting Sites | Amy Qin/The New York Times

Civil rights groups and labor unions sued the Trump administration on Friday, asserting that its aggressive immigration enforcement and suggestions that it could send armed agents to polling sites amounted to voter intimidation and violated the Voting Rights Act. Brought by a coalition of Black, Asian and Latino civil rights groups and unions, including the N.A.A.C.P. and the Service Employees International Union, the lawsuit seeks to block any effort by the Trump administration to deploy federal agents at voting locations, which the groups contend can deter citizens trying to legally vote. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argues that President Trump, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin and other members of the administration had created a climate in which “voters, especially voters of color, are intimidated and fearful of engaging in the democratic process.” The White House and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent on Friday morning. But in the past, Mr. Mullin has said that opponents were fear-mongering and that ICE was not patrolling polling places. “The only reason why we would be at polling places is if there is a threat to that polling place,” he said, “or we’re serving a warrant.” Read Article

National: 40 days to midterms, election officials say new US cyber plan comes too late | Ali Swenson/Associated Press

The nation’s cybersecurity agency on Thursday released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms, laying out potential threats to election systems and listing services it would offer to election officials to protect the vote. Election officials said the plan is both inadequate and belated after the administration gutted the agency’s election security work last year, prompting the officials to pay for private services to ensure they were prepared for the upcoming elections. “For them to come in five weeks before the election, yeah, nice effort,” said Nevada’s Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, who added that he would have liked to see the federal government provide more funding for cybersecurity, rather than Nevada taxpayers having to pay for it. Read Article

National: CISA pledges election security support after cuts weakened ties with states | David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is pledging to strengthen threat sharing and coordination with election officials ahead of the midterms, following administration cuts that state officials say weakened those relationships and their access to federal cybersecurity expertise. The 2026 Election Infrastructure Security Plan, released Thursday, identifies CISA’s 10 regional directors as election security advisers and describes a free information-sharing platform connecting election officials, state intelligence hubs and federal partners. The document offers one of the clearest public accounts to date of how the second Trump administration intends to support election security. But its emphasis on sustained cooperation comes after staffing and program reductions disrupted the federal support network, and as the administration has proposed eliminating dedicated election security funding and adviser positions. Read Article

National: A new DHS email raises questions about Trump election plans | Miles Parks, Jude Joffe-Block and Ximena Bustillo/NPR

An internal Department of Homeland Security email raises new questions about the agency's efforts to hunt for non-U.S. citizens who may be on state voter rolls or have cast ballots in the past. In the email — which was sent last year, but is newly acquired by NPR — DHS personnel shared a 78-page document listing counties and states that offer election materials and ballots in non-English languages. The list of jurisdictions was attached alongside a Department of Justice criminal checklist outlining requirements for prosecution of voter-related charges. The email was released as part of a tranche of materials after the Democratic National Committee filed suit over a public records request, and was then shared with NPR. Democrats fear that the Trump administration's efforts to root out noncitizen voters will entangle or intimidate eligible voters and dampen turnout in this year's midterms. DHS has surged resources to investigate noncitizen voting, even as prior audits have found such fraud to be extremely rare. Read Article

National: Voting groups sound alarm on funding shortfalls that they say could affect midterm turnout | Matt Brown/Associated Press

Several of the nation’s largest left-leaning voter engagement and racial justice organizations are facing steep funding shortfalls and staffing cutbacks just as voting is getting underway in an election that will determine control of Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s term. The shortfalls are setting off alarms among Democratic strategists, who are betting on high turnout and robust voter protection efforts to boost the party’s chances this fall. They are worried that many grassroots groups will not be able to mount effective registration and get-out-the-vote efforts, much less protect against the possibility of election interference from the Republican administration. America Votes, a coordinating hub for more than 400 progressive groups, has fallen “well below” the level of funding it had during the 2022 midterms, Daria Dawson, America Votes’ executive director, said in a statement to The Associated Press. America Votes has acted as a nerve center for the voter mobilization efforts of groups such as the NAACP, Planned Parenthood, the League of Conservation Voters, the AFL-CIO and SEIU labor unions, as well as local groups focused on racial justice, climate and civil liberties. Read Article

National: Trump Quietly Dumps Longtime Election Observer Group | Edith Olmsted/The New Republic

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, which has sent observers to monitor every U.S. federal election for the past two decades, has yet to receive an invitation from the Trump administration, the group told Democracy Docket Thursday. The group typically plans a “needs assessment mission” in order to evaluate the environment, preparations, and electoral processes ahead of an upcoming federal election in the United States. With less than a month before early voting begins in some states, the organization says it’s still waiting for a call. “The Office sends a needs assessment mission upon receiving an invitation from the OSCE participating State where the elections are occurring,” a spokesperson for the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights said in a statement. “We are currently waiting on that invitation from the United States.” Read Article

National: The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms | Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Michelle Sherer/The Atlantic

Of all the outside advisers urging President Trump to seize control of federal elections this fall, the attorney Peter Ticktin can claim the deepest ties; the two men went to military school together as teenagers. In 2022, Ticktin helped Trump sue Hillary Clinton. This year, he pushed Trump to secure a pardon for Tina Peters, a former Colorado clerk convicted of charges related to tampering with election equipment. Which is why it might be worth listening when Ticktin says that Trump could do something soon to take over elections. “He’s the only one that I know for sure has the understanding of the severity of it,” Ticktin told us this month before taking the stage at an election-skeptic conference in Las Vegas. The way Ticktin sees it, there are three possible outcomes this fall. The first—a smooth election—won’t happen in his view because, he claims without evidence, Democrats already cheated in the primaries. The second is that Trump takes action before the election to prevent cheating. The last option is that Trump tries to declare martial law on or around November 3. “Either martial law, or step aside,” he told us about Trump’s choices in the last scenario. When we asked about the prospect of riots if Trump tries to overturn the election results, Ticktin said he was not concerned. “Believe me, our armed forces are a lot bigger than they are,” he said. Read Article

National: Supreme Court rejects Trump’s mail ballot limits before elections | Lindsay Whitehurst/Associated Press

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterm elections, capping a flurry of last-minute legal action with voting already underway. The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots under the same processes they’ve used for years and have accounted for nearly a third of votes cast. It represented a stark defeat for Trump on an issue he consistently has emphasized as vital to ensuring election integrity even though there is virtually no evidence of fraud with mail ballots. The Supreme Court majority wrote that the administration’s push to implement the restrictions this year is likely to lose in court, though the brief emergency order didn’t detail its reasoning. Two justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, publicly dissented. Read Article

National: Hundreds of Election Deniers Will Be on the Ballot This November | David Gilbert/WIRED

On November 3, when voters across the US go to the polls, almost 200 election deniers will be on the ballot. Many of them have repeatedly undermined the very process they are participating in, and they will be looking to win some of the most powerful elected positions in the country—positions that would help determine how voting goes in future elections. These numbers include a sitting US congressman who voted against certifying the 2020 election results; a former state representative who integrated QAnon conspiracy theories into election denialism; and local election officials who have actively sought to undermine election results by pushing baseless conspiracy theories about noncitizen voting. But for election experts and officials, one of the biggest concerns ahead of the midterms is the possibility that these election deniers could obtain oversight of the 2028 presidential election process. The data shows there are already 27 election deniers in 20 states who hold a statewide office with election oversight, like secretary of state or attorney general—positions that allow the holder to set voting rules or prosecute those they believe are cheating at the ballots. In November, 33 election deniers will seek to secure similar positions in states across the country. Read Article

National: Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search for Voter Fraud | Nick Corasaniti and Hamed Aleaziz/The New York Times

Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation’s voter rolls, according to a federal whistle-blower’s account released on Monday. The authorities also required agents to meet quotas, which afforded them a mere 12 minutes to review each voter record. The effort has relied on questionable data, and has likely improperly flagged U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote, the whistle-blower said in a nearly 30-page report. The whistle-blower report, provided to Senators Chuck Schumer and Alex Padilla, both Democrats, offers an inside view of the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” The New York Times revealed last month the existence of the operation, which has deployed hundreds of federal agents to scour voter rolls managed by the states in a widespread hunt for evidence of voter fraud. The investigation stems from President Trump’s longstanding fixation on noncitizen voting, despite decades of research showing the practice is vanishingly rare. Read Article

National: ‘Theatrical’ litigation: Republican AGs fight for Trump voting rules that their election officials say they can’t implement | Tierney Sneed and Jerey Herb/CNN

Republican attorneys general have shown their support for President Donald Trump’s election agenda by pressing courts to greenlight his proposed crackdown on mail voting. But election officials in at least half of those states have said that they won’t be able to comply with proposed US Postal Service mandates in time, according to court filings and interviews with CNN. Moreover, in those states, Republican-leaning counties may ultimately face steeper hurdles than Democratic ones, election officials of both parties say. In several of the states, local officials have received no guidance from their state election chiefs on how they should prepare for the possibility that the new rules – which could require the replacement of thousands of ballot envelopes and a major reallocation of staff resources so that voter lists can be submitted to USPS – would suddenly be imposed. Read Article

National: Trump’s Effort to Assert Control Over Elections Continues, Despite Court Loss | Zolan Kanno-Youngs/The New York Times

The Supreme Court on Monday dealt President Trump a major blow when it blocked his executive order to restrict mail ballots. But Mr. Trump’s battle to assert control over the election process is far from finished. The stymied attempt to have the U.S. Postal Service screen mail ballots was just one piece of a broader effort involving the full power of the federal government to take more control of state-run elections. Just days before the Supreme Court blocked Mr. Trump’s mail ballot order, the Justice Department sent threatening letters to at least 30 top election officials across the country, escalating a fight to gain access to private voter data and election records. Federal agents are scouring voter rolls managed by states for noncitizens, despite a lack of evidence of widespread fraud. Mr. Trump’s homeland security secretary recently pushed for an investigation into whether a commonly used voting machine can be trusted, casting doubt on digital voting systems. “This is far from over,” said Benjamin Hovland, who was ousted from the independent, bipartisan Election Assistance Commission by the Trump administration this year. Mr. Hovland acknowledged that the Supreme Court’s decision mitigated “real-world impact” on voters and election workers, particularly since voters in some states had already begun to mail in their ballots. But he said Mr. Trump’s actions were alarming. Read Article

National: Election officials prepare for chaos as Trump seeks to tilt the midterms to Republicans | Peter Eisler, Ned Parker, Linda So and Mike Spector/Reuters

Two months before Americans vote in midterm elections that could reshape the balance of power in Washington, local and state officials across the country are rehearsing for a crisis that once seemed unthinkable: What if the U.S. president tries to use the power of the federal government to tilt the vote his way? In California, officials have gamed out what would happen if Donald Trump dispatches federal agents to polling places, intimidating voters and suppressing turnout. In Michigan, state officials are advising local clerks how to respond if the federal government demands access to voting machines. And coast to coast, election officials are bracing for legal battles over everything from ballot seizures to voter-fraud investigations. Reuters interviewed more than 50 state and local election officials from both political parties, including a dozen secretaries of state, the top election officials in their states. Nearly all said they are adopting new strategies to prepare for political interference, misinformation, cyber attacks and even threats of violence ahead of the midterms. Their efforts span jurisdictions large and small, in areas controlled by Trump’s Republican Party as well as the opposition Democratic Party. Read Article

National: Americans’ increased belief in voter fraud is a scary prospect in 2026 | Aaron Blake/CNN

President Donald Trump messing with the 2026 midterms beforehand — as he’s trying to do by sharply restricting mail ballots — is only part of the potential threat he’s posing to US elections. The other is his demonstrated tendency for claiming elections have been stolen after the fact, which resulted in the largest attack on the US Capitol in 200 years. New polling suggests Trump has kept that soil fertilized with a large portion of the country. Indeed, the president on Friday posted on social media the 5-year-old video of him telling January 6, 2021, rioters to go home and repeating his false claim that he won in 2020. And amid his repeated claims of widespread voter fraud, the polling suggests that soil might be even more fertile than its been in recent years, which is a scary prospect. Read Article

National: The new threat election officials fear: Trump’s federal government | Patrick Marley and Laura Meckler/The Washington Post

The activists staking out the ballot drop boxes in suburban Phoenix wore body armor and face coverings. With guns at their sides, they recorded residents as they deposited their votes during the last midterm elections. Voting-rights groups sued, and a federal judge put a stop to them, ruling they had to stay at least 250 feet away while armed to ensure voters were not intimidated. Four years later and 100 miles to the south, Pima County Attorney Laura Conover is treating the 2022 incident as a lesson on the importance of moving quickly this fall if anyone — including Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — tries to interfere with the election’s administration. For her county along the U.S.-Mexico border, Conover has drawn up court papers so she can immediately file litigation to protect the vote. “When it comes to preparing for elections, we are on overdrive,” she said. Read Article

National: Ballot seizures seemed impossible. But judges and officials are prepping for them now | Miles Parks/NPR

The idea of federal law enforcement seizing ballots in the middle of an active election would have once been considered impossible. Now, as President Trump continues his unprecedented hunt for voter fraud, ballot seizures and search warrants are scenarios voting officials and the legal community are actively preparing for. One state election official, who did not have permission to speak publicly, told NPR their office has led three separate statewide trainings this year to prepare for the possibility of law enforcement seeking to take possession of ballots or election materials while the election is ongoing. And UCLA's Safeguarding Democracy Project released a guide Wednesday, shared first with NPR, to help judges navigate search warrant affidavits related to the voting process. "Lots of things that were off the table are now on the table," said Rick Hasen, the director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project, and the guide's lead author. Read Article

Manufactured Chaos: How a Rushed USPS IT System Threatens the Midterms | Alexa Raad/Verified Voting

A serious operational hazard recently brought forward by a whistleblower reveals a critical flaw in election readiness: mandating a brand-new federal tracking portal and rigid ballot envelope intake standards across thousands of decentralized county election offices weeks before an election violates fundamental principles of sound systems engineering. In large-scale IT and logistics systems, the most damaging failures rarely announce themselves with sudden, dramatic crashes. They happen quietly at the seams—where two independent databases fail to sync, an unhandled exception drops a queue of records, or an intake scanner misreads an address and halts delivery without triggering a clear alert. While national attention has focused on the constitutional tug-of-war over Executive Order 14399—culminating in a federal preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani and an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court—the immediate crisis is not purely legal. It is an operational hazard that would disenfranchise a significant number of voters and throw the midterms into disarray. Read Article

National: Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Has Voters Baffled. That May Be the Point. | Anna Griffin, Rebecca Fairley Raney, Kendal Asbury and David Iverson/The New York Times

President Trump’s legal and rhetorical assault on voting by mail — and the flurry of contradictory court decisions around it — has left voters confused and local officials scrambling just eight weeks before November’s critical midterm elections. The contortions have county registrars dusting off Election Day contingency plans developed for natural disasters like floods and wildfires. They have struggled to make it through planning meetings before the latest version of the rules change, and many are encouraging voters to avoid the U.S. Postal Service all together. Among voters, confusion abounds. Read Aricle

National: Justice Department directs states to preserve 2024 election records | Josh Kelety, Alanna Durkin and Gary Fields/Associated Press

The Trump administration is ordering officials in more than two dozen states to preserve records from the 2024 election as part of a campaign to force states to turn over detailed voter records despite repeated court losses. The preservation demand could set the stage for the Justice Department to seek access to the states’ election records as part of the administration’s hunt for fraud. The FBI has already obtained records or election equipment related to either the 2020 or 2024 elections from the most populous counties in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia and Michigan without saying what it was searching for. The letters escalate a fight between the Trump administration over access to the sensitive voter information. Federal officials have said they need the voter data to ensure that states are complying with federal election laws related to maintaining voter registration lists, even though states already have detailed processes to do that. Read Article

National: Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Primary Election Ballots, Audit Finds | Jen Fifield/ProPublica

This year’s primary elections, according to a new audit from the agency’s Office of Inspector General. Election experts say the findings call into question the agency’s ability to meet even greater demands for the November election that are under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. The audit, which is dated Sept. 4 but has not been previously reported, found a lack of training for post office staff on how to properly and expeditiously handle mail ballots, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays, all of which risked ballots having incorrect postmarks or otherwise arriving late to election officials, which could lead to their rejection. The identified failures increase “the risk that Election and Political Mail is not handled, documented, monitored, and reported in accordance with Postal Service policy,” the audit said, though it noted that “most facilities we visited generally adhered to Postal Service’s election-related policies and procedures” and that nearly 99% of ballots reached election officials in a timely manner. Read Article

National: D.O.J. Escalates Threats to States in Battle for Election Records | Nick Corasaniti/The New York Times

The Department of Justice sent threatening letters to at least 30 top election officials across the country, expanding its efforts to gain access to private voter data and election records. The letters warned states not to destroy any records related to the 2024 election, explaining that their chief election officials “are currently under investigation” and subject to “ongoing litigation.” The notices come amid a barrage of efforts by President Trump and his administration, which have been fruitless so far, to find evidence of widespread voter fraud. It is not clear what the department is investigating, nor whether its probe is criminal or civil in nature. The letters do not cite any criminal statutes. Instead, they point to some of the same claims made previously as part of the administration’s ongoing effort to identify fraud in the nation’s elections, including machine anomalies and noncitizen voting. In court, the Justice Department has tried to force states to hand over unredacted voter lists, including personal information like driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. The Justice Department has sued 30 different states for this data. They’ve lost 23 of those cases and have won none. Decisions are pending in the rest. Read Article

National: Voters Are Turning to AI for Election Help. The Answers Aren’t Always Right | Naomi Nix/Time Magazine

After years of Google restricting Gemini’s ability to answer users’ questions about major elections, the tech giant is shifting tactics. Google announced Wednesday that the company would add credible election information about the upcoming midterms—including details about where and how to vote—to its Gemini app, along with AI-generated responses in its search products. The company said it would share information on polling locations and voter registration instructions from state and local governments and the voting information group, Democracy Works, along with race results from The Associated Press. As Gemini wades deeper into politics, the risk of the chatbot giving voters misleading, biased, or outdated election information will only grow. A Pew Research Center study earlier this year found about half of adults under 50 rely on chatbots to search for information, while a smaller share use them to read news. “We know that voters are going to turn to chatbots more and more,” said Valeria de la Fuente, a digital research analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue who recently co-authored a report on election-related misinformation from chatbots. “So the quality of the responses that we found is concerning.” Read Article

National: Trump’s Commerce Secretary under pressure to use his powers to block voting machines | Gabe Cohen, Jeremy Herb, Sean Lyngaas, Phil Mattingly/CNN

President Donald Trump’s election fraud crusade has an unlikely new vehicle: the Commerce Department. Long known for more mundane work like promoting economic growth, shaping trade policy and producing federal statistics, under Secretary Howard Lutnick, Commerce is proving to be a useful ally in Trump’s efforts to reshape the country’s election systems ahead of the November midterms. In recent months, the department has produced disputed Census Bureau findings on noncitizen voting and pressed the US Postal Service to adopt stringent new mail-ballot rules. Sources tell CNN that Commerce officials worked quietly behind the scenes to advance both initiatives, and that Lutnick has become a key partner in the White House’s election agenda. Now, prominent Trump allies — including some inside the administration — are pressing Lutnick to use his department’s sweeping authorities over supply chains to ban certain voting machines, arguing that Chinese-made components could leave them vulnerable to hackers. Some have invoked those concerns to push Trump to declare a national emergency and seize greater federal control over November’s midterm elections. Read Article

National: The Election Deniers’ Long Game | Toluse Olorunnipa/The Atlantic