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This page is part of a resource collection on Authoritarianism & Bigotry in the Second Trump Administration.
Resources
Brennan Center for Justice: Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections.
Cross Cultural Solidarity: Get Out the Vote Resources.
News: 2026
January 22. Vittoria Elliott: DHS’s Data Grab Is Getting Citizens Kicked Off Voter Rolls, New Complaint Says.
January 26. Abby Vesoulis & Ari Berman: DOJ’s “Ransom” Letter to Minnesota Reveals How Trump Plans to Rig the Midterms: After a Border Patrol agent killed Alex Pretti, Attorney General Pam Bondi tells Minnesota to hand over its voter roll to “bring an end to the chaos.”
January 29. Ari Berman: From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s Plans to Interfere in the Midterms Are Becoming More Dangerous.
January 29. Andrew Egger & Jim Swift: Trump Is Still Obsessed with Stealing Elections: The FBI’s seizure of Georgia ballots is as much about future elections as past ones.
February 2. Ari Berman: Trump Goes Public With Plan to “Take Over” Elections: After the FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots in Georgia, the president calls on Republicans to assert control over voting “in at least 15 places.”
February 3. Alexandria Jacobson: Alarm over Trump-fueled election threats as ‘under siege’ officials leave in droves.
February 4. Matt Cohen: Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections.
February 5. Eileen O’Connor: “Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data: At least 10 states have handed over their full voter files to the Justice Department.
February 5. Ari Berman & Abby Vesoulis: Trump’s FBI Raid Could Lead to a Takeover of Elections in Georgia’s Largest County: Trump wants control “over the voting in at least 15 places.” He could start in Fulton County, Georgia.
February 6. Anne Applebaum: How Autocrats Meddle With Elections.
February 8. Kate Starbird: Effective outrage: Defusing and redirecting threats of “ICE at the polls!”
February 9. Hayes Brown: Trump wouldn’t just undo the Voting Rights Act. He’d reverse it. In hinting at “nationalizing” elections, Trump suggests a world in which minorities would have more difficulty voting than any time since 1965.
February 10. Ari Berman & Abby Vesoulis: The FBI’s Fulton County Raid Was Based on Debunked Claims By Election Deniers.
February 11. Ari Berman: The GOP’s “Show Us Your Papers” Bill Is the Latest Effort to Help Trump Take Over Elections. “If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted.”
February 11. Matt Cohen: ‘DOJ doesn’t have authority to run a state’s elections’: West Virginia’s GOP election chief pushes back on voter roll grab.
February 12. Sean Morales-Doyle: Trump Says He Wants to Cancel Elections, but Here Is the Real Threat.
February 13. Andy Craig: Worry, Don’t Panic, Over Trump’s Efforts to Subvert the Elections. America’s system is quite foolproof but he can still try to delegitimize it.
February 16. Sara Braun: Civil rights groups sue to protect voter data FBI seized from Georgia office: Fulton county office was raided in January amid Donald Trump’s claims that 2020 election was fraudulent.
February 26. Caleb Bedillion: Mississippi’s Black Voters Brace for SCOTUS to Gut Their Political Clout.
February 28. Adam Gabbatt: Joe Biden warns that Donald Trump will try to ‘steal’ midterm elections: In a rare public address, former president said US is experiencing ‘dark days’ and urged Americans to vote.
News: 2025
March 12. Sue Halpern: Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections.
April 1. Ari Berman: Elon Musk Tried to Buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. He Lost.
April 11. Stephen Fowler & Jude Joffe-Block: How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives.
April 14. Lawrence Norden: How the Federal Government Is Undermining Election Security: By cutting critical funding, coordination, and support from numerous agencies, the administration is making it harder for states to guard against threats to their election systems.
April 28. Sam Levine: Trump’s justice department appointees remove leadership of voting unit. Section is responsible for enforcing laws designed to prevent voter discrimination, raised alarm about voting rights enforcement.
April 29. Sean Morales-Doyle & Lauren Miller Karalunas: What’s Next for Elections Under the Project 2025 Agenda.
May 6. Ari Berman: Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks GOP Plot to Steal North Carolina Election.
May 29. Ari Berman: Trump Is Weaponizing the Justice Department to Advance His Voter Suppression Plans.
June 11. Miles Parks: Trump’s DOJ makes its most sweeping demand for election data yet.
July 2. Devlin Barrett & Nick Corasaniti: Justice Dept. Explores Using Criminal Charges Against Election Officials.
July 28. Brian Klaas: The Death of Democracy Promotion: Despots and human-rights abusers can rest easy now that America has gotten out of their way.
August 3. Jasleen Singh: The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election.
August 3. The Associated Press: The Justice Department seeks voter and election information from at least 19 states.
August 5. Jim Saksa: Why The Voting Rights Act’s 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last.
August 5. Julie Tsirkin & Brennan Leach: Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin urges fellow Democrats to ‘go nuclear’ in redistricting fight: Slotkin told NBC News that she, like many Democrats, wants nonpartisan congressional maps.But if Republicans redraw the lines in Texas, Democrats should go on offense, she said.
August 6. Jamelle Bouie: The Death of the Fourth American Republic.
August 8. Carter Walker: Justice Department widens its request for Pennsylvania election information.
August 10. Julia Simon: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn’t vote.
August 26. George Chidi: NAACP sues Texas over congressional redistricting, saying it strips Black voters of political power.
August 26. Doug Bock Clark: She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
August 29. Maanvi Singh: Missouri governor calls special session to redraw congressional maps to aid Republicans: State follows Texas’s lead in Trump’s push to gain more House seats for Republicans in 2026 midterms.
August 31. Michael Sainato: Trump says he plans unconstitutional executive order to mandate ID for voters.
September. Ari Berman: Project 2026: Trump’s Plan to Rig the Next Election. From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents,the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favor.
September 1. Lauren Gambino: Utah emerges as a pivotal battleground amid race to redraw congressional maps.
September 2. Ashley Lopez: Trump administration blocks groups from voter registration at naturalization events.
September 11. Jude Joffe-Block & Miles Parks: 33 million voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check.
September 14. NPR: Trump administration requests to access voting machines worries election officials.
September 15. George Chidi: Election deniers now hold posts on local US election boards, raising concerns for midterms.
September 17. Miles Parks: The Justice Department sues Maine and Oregon, ratcheting up demands for voter data.
September 27. Ari Berman: The Justice Department Is Ramping Up Trump’s Election-Rigging Efforts.
October 11. Miles Parks & Scott Simon: Analyzing Dominion Voting Systems sale to firm run by ex-Republican elections official.
October 15. Sam Levine: US supreme court appears poised to weaken key pillar of Voting Rights Act.
October 15. Pema Levy & Ari Berman: Republican Justices Appear Poised to Destroy What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act.
October 28. David A. Graham: Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way.
October 28. Andrew Howard: Red states are preparing for an end to the Voting Rights Act: An end to the Voting Rights Act would free up Southern states to dramatically overhaul their congressional map.
November 9. Andrew Gumbel: Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom: ‘A wholesale attack on free and fair elections.’
November 12. Mona Charen: It’s Time to Pivot to 2026 Election Security: Don’t underestimate how Trump and his allies will attempt to control the outcome of the midterms.
November 14. Abby Vesoulis & Ari Berman: New Docs Show DHS Gathering Driver’s License Data in Voter Fraud Crusade.
December 4. Mark Sherman: Supreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026.
December 4. John Light & Khaya Himmelman: Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Map.
December 5. Abby Vesoulis & Ari Berman: Your Private Data Is Building Trump’s Voter Purge Machine: The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
Election Subversion Leading Up to the 2024 Elections
October 17. Matt Shuham: GOP’s ‘Election Integrity’ Lawyer Says U.S. Needs ‘Cleansing’.
October 23. The Washington Post: Over 230 Republican candidates have cast doubt on the 2024 election.
October 25. Natalia Contreras: Voter faces felony charge after assaulting poll worker.
October 25. Brookings Institution: The counties that may try not to certify the 2024 election.
October 28. Lisa Hagen: Ballots set on fire in three states as Election Day approaches.
October 28. Tess Owen & Dell Cameron: US Intel Says Insider Threats Are ‘Likely’ During the Election.
October 29. David Gilbert: Election Fraud Conspiracy Theories Are Already Thriving Online:Pro-Trump groups have spent years building election denial networks that, combined with Big Tech’s hands-off approach and continued foreign interference, have created a toxic information ecosystem.
October 29. Sarah Ellison & Adriana Usero: Spanish-language election misinformation has a mass audience — and a long shelf life. Latino voters look to YouTube and WhatsApp for their news and can find unchecked conspiracy theories that align more with their cultural histories than current American.
October 30. David Gilbert: ‘We’re a Fortress Now’: The Militarization of US Elections Is Here. From bulletproof glass, drones, and snipers to boulders blocking election offices, the US democratic system is bracing for violent attacks in 2024.
November 1. Tess Owen: Election Violence Is Already Here:With bombs, brawls, and stolen mail-in ballots already in play, the 2024 election is shaping up to be exceptionally chaotic. WIRED is tracking these incidents as they unfold.
November 1. Sergio Olmos: Election workers quit in Shasta as self-appointed observers roam office.
November 9. Will Carless: Domestic extremist activity during election didn’t happen, but extremists are busy.