<p>Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ele</span><span class="invisible">ction-denier-summit-trump-midterms?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/election/" rel="tag">#Election</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/midterms/" rel="tag">#Midterms</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
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<p>NEW: Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say<br>---</p><p>Unlike in Fulton County, Georgia, where actual ballots were seized, a federal grand jury subpoenaed digital data related to a partisan audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-arizona-election-records-fbi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-arizona-election-records-fbi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/mar</span><span class="invisible">icopa-county-arizona-election-records-fbi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/arizona/" rel="tag">#Arizona</a> <a href="/tags/election/" rel="tag">#Election</a> <a href="/tags/phoenix/" rel="tag">#Phoenix</a> <a href="/tags/maricopacounty/" rel="tag">#MaricopaCounty</a> <a href="/tags/vote/" rel="tag">#Vote</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/fbi/" rel="tag">#FBI</a></p>
<p>Oregon voters overwhelmingly approved limiting campaign contributions in 2020. Four years later, the Legislature finally adopted limits, but an advocate for tighter controls says recent changes render Oregon’s contribution limits “illusory.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-campaign-finance-reform-legislature-loopholes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/oregon-campaign-finance-reform-legislature-loopholes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ore</span><span class="invisible">gon-campaign-finance-reform-legislature-loopholes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oregon/" rel="tag">#Oregon</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/election/" rel="tag">#Election</a> <a href="/tags/campaign/" rel="tag">#Campaign</a> <a href="/tags/finance/" rel="tag">#Finance</a> <a href="/tags/reform/" rel="tag">#Reform</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>
<p>Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress<br>---</p><p>Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. The candidate’s father-in-law happens to be the U.S. secretary of transportation. <br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-congress-transportation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-congress-transportation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/sea</span><span class="invisible">n-duffy-michael-alfonso-congress-transportation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/wisconsin/" rel="tag">#Wisconsin</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/ethics/" rel="tag">#Ethics</a> <a href="/tags/transportation/" rel="tag">#Transportation</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/election/" rel="tag">#Election</a></p>
<p>In 2024, Trump won Idaho by one of the largest margins in the country.</p><p>Now, its secretary of state is resisting the administration’s efforts to gather sensitive voter data ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-voter-data-trump-justice-department?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/idaho-voter-data-trump-justice-department?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ida</span><span class="invisible">ho-voter-data-trump-justice-department?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/doj/" rel="tag">#DOJ</a> <a href="/tags/idaho/" rel="tag">#Idaho</a> <a href="/tags/vote/" rel="tag">#Vote</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/election/" rel="tag">#Election</a> <a href="/tags/midterms/" rel="tag">#Midterms</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a></p>
<p>This Louisiana prosecutor...<br>• Was forced to resign from the DA’s office for submitting false paperwork<br>• Withheld evidence in at least 3 death row cases<br>• Compared a Black teen to a dog and told the jury to “get rid of it”</p><p>Now he’s running for judge.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/hugo-holland-louisiana-judge-race-controversies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/hugo-holland-louisiana-judge-race-controversies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/hug</span><span class="invisible">o-holland-louisiana-judge-race-controversies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/louisiana/" rel="tag">#Louisiana</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/legal/" rel="tag">#Legal</a> <a href="/tags/courts/" rel="tag">#Courts</a> <a href="/tags/election/" rel="tag">#Election</a> <a href="/tags/neworleans/" rel="tag">#NewOrleans</a> <a href="/tags/shreveport/" rel="tag">#Shreveport</a></p>