More Than 50 Election-Denying Candidates Running for Positions to Oversee Voting

As President Donald Trump continues to push Republicans to aggressively gerrymander ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a new analysis has found more than 50 candidates running for key offices who have in the past engaged in efforts to nullify election results. As reported by NPR on Monday, election watchdog States United Action has released a report showing that election-denying candidates…
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“This Is Blackmail”: Critics Slam Pam Bondi’s Demand for Minnesota Voter Rolls

As Minnesota residents and people across the U.S. were reeling from the killing of protester Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents on Saturday — the second fatal shooting by federal immigration agents in the city in less than three weeks — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Governor Tim Walz, telling him it is in his power to “restore the rule of law” in his state.
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Texas Hands Over Its Entire Voter Registration List to the Trump Administration

Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter roll to the U.S. Justice Department, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, complying with the Trump administration’s demands for access to data on millions of voters across the country. The Justice Department last fall began asking all 50 states for their voter rolls — massive lists containing significant…
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Official Says 11 States Open to Stopping Residents From Voting at DOJ’s Request

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls. The agreement — called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU — would hand the federal government a major role in election administration…
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Michigan Republicans Want to Share Full Voter Roll With Trump Admin — Unredacted

Nearly two dozen Michigan House Republicans have signed on to a resolution calling for Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to share the state’s complete voter rolls with the Trump administration, without redactions of potentially sensitive identifying information. Michigan is one of several states being sued by the U.S. Justice Department over their refusal to share unredacted voter rolls in…
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