The House’s passage of the SAVE Act last week is the culmination of Donald Trump’s election-denial movement, which has pushed hundreds of laws around the country targeting non-existent voter fraud based on Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. The SAVE Act — which requires documentary proof …
Read More »Election Workers Are Facing Immense Pressure to Back Trump's Lies
Throughout the 2024 campaign, federal law enforcement and election officials from both sides of the aisle have consistently sounded the alarm about the cascade of right-wing, Donald Trump-inspired threats that election workers are facing as they attempt to perform the basic, essential task of administering America’s democratic elections. Now, Election …
Read More »My Undercover Quest to Expose Right-Wingers and Make America Gonzo Again
People often ask me why I do what I do. Why go undercover to expose extremist Republicans like Senator Ron Johnson, Trump coup attorney John Eastman, or Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito? Can’t you just ask them for an interview? To give you a fuller context for my motivation requires …
Read More »Big Pharma Is Teaming Up With MAGA Groups to Restrict Voting
This article is being published in partnership with the watchdog groupDocumented. Washington’s top pharmaceutical lobby oversaw the adoption of model legislation that would restrict voting access at the most recent meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is an influential organization that brings together state legislators, private-sector corporations, …
Read More »The Latest MAGA War on Democracy
This article is being published in partnership with the watchdog group Documented. An organized and well-funded network of right-wing groups is spending countless millions attacking a bipartisan election reform that could threaten the MAGA political project. Ranked-choice voting — which allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, rather …
Read More »The GOP Is Pushing to Steal Students' Votes
Last week in Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could invalidate the state’s comically, ludicrously, preposterously gerrymandered maps. If the court strikes those maps down, it will likely mean the end of the GOP’s decadeslong domination of the statehouse — and it will be because …
Read More »Trump's Former Lawyer Is Recruiting Right-Wing Activists to 'Monitor' Elections
Cleta Mitchell, one of a handful of lawyers who attempted to get the 2020 presidential election overturned on behalf of then-President Donald Trump in part by making baseless allegations of fraud, is now working with right-wing organizations to recruit an “army of citizens” in order to monitor elections, The New …
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