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Exclusive: Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked an executive order restricting voting by mail in ways that could have thrown the upcoming midterms into chaos. But the White House originally had far more disruptive plans, ProPublica has learned. 🧵
Visual representation of the judges that have shut down the Trump administration's demands for confidential voter data.
DOJ is 0 - 26, with four pending. Eight of the judges were appointed by Trump. via @peterelkind and Lucas Waldron @propublica. 🔗 in thread.
Scroll through timeline to see how judges - many appointed by Trump - eviscerated Trump's DOJ voter roll lawsuits, even as DOJ's argument for demanding the voter rolls changed over time: projects.propublica.org/trum…
In NV, DOJ said it found 16K noncitizen voters. When NV asked for a list, DOJ sent 185. NV checked those and found all of them were actually citizens.
In CA, DOJ first said it found 190K noncitizen voters. Now, it says 20K. Told CA officials they had 48 hours to check, then sued
.@USAttyEssayli for @USAO_LosAngeles to @FoxNews on the complaint against California over its voter list: “When we're telling them you have 20,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls, you're going to be diluting the votes of American citizens. Their response is, ‘It's too late; we already mailed the ballots.’ That's not how the law works, and we're going to go to court. This is a matter of law…All we are asking them to do is sequester the ballots.”
Our story uncovered the methods that DHS is using to try to identify noncitizen voters using public voter rolls, which insiders warned would produce an "ungodly" number of false positives: propublica.org/article/nonci…
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Breaking: More than 100 suspicious letters were sent to state election officials and other election-adjacent people (including a pollster) across the country. votebeat.org/national/2026/1…
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The Tohono O’odham Nation straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, and thousands of members live in Mexico.
The Trump administration’s 62-mile border wall would be an attack on tribal sovereignty, members and leaders say.
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Not going to try to influence your vote here, but also vote for Paper Trail @propublica vote.signalaward.com/PublicV…
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🚨 Reuters SCOOP
DOJ gave California 48 hours to match its voter rolls with a thumb drive that got dropped off on Tuesday with the names of suspected noncitizen voters.
DOJ says it may sue to throw out ballots if California misses the deadline.
reuters.com/world/us-justice…
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"Homeless families told ProPublica that they had been removed from the waitlist for shelter because they stayed in a hotel."
Incredible and heartbreaking reporting by @nicolesantacruz @propublica propublica.org/article/maric…
"Homeless families told ProPublica that they had been removed from the waitlist for shelter because they stayed in a hotel."
Incredible and heartbreaking reporting by @nicolesantacruz @propublica propublica.org/article/maric…
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Sen. Collins faced Troy Jackson last night in their Maine Senate debate.
On stage, Collins inaccurately described ProPublica’s story about an FBI anticorruption investigation that probed the conduct of her & her staff until Trump’s DOJ shut it down. Let’s get into the facts…
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Christa is the first person in the U.S. to survive a lethal injection.
The outcome is unprecedented but what went wrong isn’t — and shows how easily another botched execution could occur.
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UPDATE In statement to 12News, Postal Service refutes @azjustinheap's claim that central Phoenix processing center was shut down & early ballots being routed thru San Diego. Heap hasn't retracted claim.
Why is GOP Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap already blaming Postal Service for early ballot delays? 12news.com/article/news/poli…
Important story from @lisalsong out today.
An idea that the White House Office of Management and Budget has quietly proposed will have far-reaching implications on voter registration drives propublica.org/article/disab…
More results from federal SAVE tool Trump admin is encouraging states to use to find noncitizen voters: 87% of voters flagged by tool as noncitizens in Maricopa County were actually citizens.
Supreme Court ruled last week that states can begin using the tool again.
White House spokesperson Lauren Bis denied the administration had interfered improperly with the Postal Service. Bis also rejected the idea that the certified-mail proposal was “unworkable,” saying this played no part in the administration’s decision “to go in another direction.”
A Postal Service spokesperson declined to comment on the agency’s internal deliberations about the EO and said it was the Board of Governors’ policy not to discuss them. He referred ProPublica to an earlier statement by Postmaster General David Steiner: about.usps.com/newsroom/stat…
"It soon became obvious the White House had other ideas, including requiring ballots to be sent by certified mail...
Postal workers would have to conduct millions of identity checks, crippling timely delivery."
NEW: Trump’s Mail-In Voting Plan Was Originally Far More Extreme, with @peterelkind @propublica propublica.org/article/trump…
