Matt is a senior reporter covering elections, voting rights and threats to democracy. He’s covered far-right extremism, dark money and state and local elections as an investigative reporter at The American Independent and Mother Jones. Prior to reporting on politics, Matt cut his teeth as a local reporter in D.C. at the Washington City Paper and DCist.
Internal emails between U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) personnel suggest that, from the very outset of the effort to obtain sensitive voter data from states — much earlier than previously known — officials there planned to share it with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The emails also suggest that, for months afterwards, at […]
By Wednesday morning, the skepticism of the election results evolved into a full-blown conspiracy centered on Fairfax County, a Democratic stronghold in the northern part of the state.
The lawsuit calls the effort “a key component of the Trump Administration’s attempts to take over elections from states and subvert the 2026 midterms.”
“They’re basically acknowledging they got nothing,” one elections expert said. “It’s going to be used for propaganda and PR. And DOJ’s law enforcement powers aren’t supposed to be used for propaganda and PR.”
The pleas for a re-do were derided by one state as a bid “to rescue their current, legally deficient demand.”
When Louisiana passed its proof of citizenship law in 2024, the state asked the EAC to approve state-specific language for the federal voter registration form that explains applicants need to provide the appropriate documentation when registering to vote.
“When Secretary Gray released the unredacted [voter rolls] to DOJ, he willingly and knowingly released information that was confidential under Wyoming law,” the lawyer alleges.
Key figures from the group whose flawed, conspiracy-driven data led to Bianco’s ballot seizure were trained by Unite4Freedom, a national anti-voting group that has filed scores of lawsuits promoting false conspiracy theories about mass voter fraud.
Given their records of embracing election lies, there’s reason to fear that some of these candidates could try to do exactly that — lending crucial support to Trump’s ongoing campaign to undermine fair elections.
These ideas haven’t made it into legislation — yet. But they’re growing in popularity among far-right Christian nationalists, many of whom are motivated by a belief that women should have no role at all in public affairs.
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