| 2026-10-30 | Chutkan Sets a Saturday TRO Hearing on DHS's Voter-Data Policy as the Government Tries to Tie the Case to Boasberg's
3 src Department of Homeland Security · League of United Latin American Citizens · Electronic Privacy Information Center | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-30 | Ninth Circuit Denies DOJ's Emergency Bid to Make California Sequester Flagged Mail Ballots, Over a Dissent
2 src Department of Justice · State of California | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-29 | Acting Deputy AG McCotter's Letters Warn State Election Officials of Prison Over Record Preservation, Votebeat Reports
1 src Trent McCotter · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-29 | Intercept Analysis: AI Super PACs Put Only 5 Percent of Direct Spending Into Contested General-Election Races
1 src Leading the Future · Anthropic · Alex Bores | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-29 | Unions and Voting-Rights Groups Sue DOJ and DHS in N.D. Cal. Over Threats to Prosecute Election Workers
2 src Service Employees International Union · AFSCME · League of United Latin American Citizens · NAACP · +4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-27 | Hasan Piker Sues Scott Jennings for Defamation in D.D.C.: Complaint Pleads Defamation Per Se, Defamation by Implication and False Light
2 src Hasan Piker · Abdul El-Sayed | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-27 | Vance Rallies for Rogers in Howell, Michigan: Ties El-Sayed to the Paris Riots and Hasan Piker; Michigan Advance Says He Avoided the Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Others Used, the Guardian Calls His Attacks an Escalation
2 src JD Vance · Abdul El-Sayed · Mike Rogers · Hasan Piker | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | Trump Offers $1 Million Reward for Voter-Fraud Reports Leading to Arrest and Conviction; White House Gives No Funding Details
2 src Donald Trump · White House | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | The Intercept: Fellowship PAC Routed $600,000 Through Bo Hines's Nxum Group to Support Democrats Torres, Goodlander and Warner
1 src Bo Hines · Tether · Cantor Fitzgerald · Ritchie Torres · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-22 | AG Blanche, Asked in Norfolk Whether DOJ Could Block a State From Certifying, Says He Won't Say There Are No Circumstances
3 src Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Kash Patel | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | AG Blanche on NY Post Podcast Calls DOJ-White House Independence a "Misperception": "I Work for President Trump"
2 src Todd Blanche · Merrick Garland · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | FT Reports Trump Blocked Netanyahu's Multi-Day Iran Bombing Campaign Planned for Oct. 10 Ahead of the Midterms
1 src Benjamin Netanyahu · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Himes and Warner Say Classified Report Shows Russia Opposes Pro-Ukraine Candidates, Prepare for Trump to Claim Foreign Meddling
2 src Mark Warner · Jay Clayton · Office of the Director of National Intelligence · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | NYT Report: India-Based Accounts Paid to Spread Undisclosed Haley Stevens Videos in Michigan Senate Primary; Hirer Won't Name Client
2 src Haley Stevens · Abdul El-Sayed | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Rep. Thompson Letter Demands Mullin Stop DHS Door-Knocking, Calling It Voter Intimidation
2 src Bennie G. Thompson · Markwayne Mullin · Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | PRRI American Values Survey Released Oct. 20, 2026 Finds 35% Agree the President Should Order Federal Agents to Seize Ballots and Take Over Vote Counting
3 src Brookings Institution · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Russian Operation Storm-1516 Seeds AI Deepfake Videos on X Fabricating Abuse Claim Against Texas Senate Candidate Talarico
5 src James Talarico · Graphika · X | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-19 | DOJ Seeks a TRO in United States v. California With HSI and USCIS Declarations on the List of Just Over 20,000 Voters
6 src U.S. Department of Justice · R. Trent McCotter · Homeland Security Investigations · Shirley Weber | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-19 | Operation Protect the Vote: Federal Prosecutors Charge 28 Lawful Permanent Residents in California and Arrest 11; DOJ Says All Are on Its List of More Than 20,000
5 src U.S. Department of Justice · R. Trent McCotter · Homeland Security Investigations | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-19 | Talarico names Musk at Denton event: "Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas"
2 src James Talarico · Elon Musk · Ken Paxton | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-18 | Dhillon Tells 60 Minutes Counting and Certifying Should Not Be Interrupted Absent Some Shocking Contingency
2 src Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-17 | Bloomberg Investigation (Baker and Bengani) Finds Matryoshka Bots Inflating View Counts on Fake Videos Against Democrats in 20 Senate and 29 Governor Races
2 src Graphika · Bloomberg News · X | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-17 | Bloomberg Review: Russian Matryoshka Bot Network Inflates Fake Videos Targeting Democratic Candidates in Midterms
2 src Bloomberg News · Graphika | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-17 | CBS News Schedules Primetime Town Hall With Vice President Vance in Michigan
5 src JD Vance · CBS News · Bari Weiss | | reported |
| 2026-10-16 | All Parties Tell Judge AliKhan Consolidation Is Appropriate in Three D.D.C. Polling-Place Suits Against DHS and ICE
1 src Judge Loren L. AliKhan · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · League of United Latin American Citizens · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-16 | DOJ Files Notice of Appeal and Motion for Stay Pending Appeal of Sooknanan's Voter List Maintenance Vacatur in Common Cause v. DOJ
2 src Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan · Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Common Cause | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-16 | NAACP Sues Blanche, Dhillon and DOJ in D.D.C. Under Voting Rights Act Section 11(b) and the APA Over the "Poll Monitoring Program," Seeking to Bar Prosecutors and Agents From Serving as Monitors
2 src NAACP · Todd Blanche · Harmeet Dhillon | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-16 | NAACP v. DHS: Plaintiffs' Reply Says Government Does Not Deny the Two Requested DHS Directives Exist; Opposition Does Not Say They Do
2 src Judge Loren L. AliKhan · Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · NAACP | | reported |
| 2026-10-15 | FEC Q3 reports confirm Musk's $158M to SLF, $82.8M cash to America PAC, $20M to CLF and $10M to Lone Star Liberty PAC; $74.8M more to America PAC Oct 6-14
3 src Elon Musk · America PAC | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-15 | Padilla, Durbin and Whitehouse Ask AG Blanche to Rule Out Seizing Ballots Before Certification, Answers Due Oct. 29
2 src Alex Padilla · Dick Durbin · Sheldon Whitehouse · Todd Blanche · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-14 | Government Appeals CNN v. Trump Press-Pass Injunction to D.C. Circuit, No. 26-5356; No Stay Motion on District Docket
2 src Donald Trump · Sean M. Curran · Susan Wiles · Steven Cheung · +4 | | reported |
| 2026-10-14 | X Says It Suspended More Than 13,000 Accounts in Three Suspected Iran-, Russia- and China-Linked Influence Operations Ahead of the Midterms
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-13 | Tarrant County, Texas District Judge Denies Temporary Injunction That Would Have Kept 92 Polling Locations Open for the Midterms
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-12 | NYT: Musk Has Given $276 Million to Republican Groups Since July, About $366 Million This Cycle
1 src Elon Musk · America PAC · Ken Paxton | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-10 | DOJ Antitrust Division Investigates ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News Over Pool Boycott After White House Barred CNN
3 src DOJ Antitrust Division · ABC News · CBS News · CNN · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-09 | Judge Sooknanan Vacates DOJ's Voter List Maintenance Policy in Common Cause v. DOJ: Vacatur Only, With No Order on Data Already Transferred
3 src Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan · Department of Justice · Department of Justice Civil Rights Division · Homeland Security Investigations · +2 |
| reported |
| 2026-10-06 | TikTok USDS Joint Venture Publishes Its Midterm Election Plan, With an Election Mission Control Center and a Ban on Paid Political Ads
3 src Oracle · ByteDance |
| reported |
| 2026-10-05 | White House Bars Politico From Air Force One Print Pool for Trump's Nebraska Campaign Stop; Other Outlets Decline the Seat
2 src Politico · CNN · CBS News · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-02 | NAACP Sues Dhillon in D.D.C. Under FOIA and Mandamus for Records on DOJ Election Monitors, Including Their "Legal Authority, If Any"
3 src NAACP · Harmeet Dhillon · Civil Rights Division · Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-01 | Brennan Center October Roundup: 22 States Enacted 47 Restrictive Voting Laws Since 2024; 32 States Enacted 61 Expansive Ones
1 src Brennan Center for Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-01 | Tina Peters' lawyer Peter Ticktin tells Joe Oltmann her plan is to 'grab' ballots and hand-recount, and that Trump 'is not going to relinquish control again' in a 'nightmare' scenario
4 src Peter Ticktin · Tina Peters · Donald Trump · Ed Martin | | reported |
| 2026-09-30 | Peter Ticktin says 'there would have to be martial law' in 'another rigged election' on a Steve Stern-hosted Rumble call for election activists, later reported by Axios
4 src Peter Ticktin · Tina Peters · Cleta Mitchell | | reported |
| 2026-09-28 | In a TIME Interview, Trump Answers "Haven't Thought of It" on ICE at Polling Places and "I Don't Rule Anything Out or In" on a Pre-Midterm Emergency
1 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | NYT Publishes Audio of Paxton Telling Donors Trump's Dallas Convention 'Dropped Our Numbers'
2 src Ken Paxton · Donald Trump · James Talarico | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | ODIHR and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly State the U.S. Has Not Invited the OSCE to Observe the 2026 Midterms, the First U.S. Federal Elections Since 2002 Without an Invitation
3 src United States | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-21 | Graphika Publishes Its Own Assessment That Operation Overload and the Prigozhin-Founded R-FBI Produced Fake Videos Against US Midterm Candidates
1 src Graphika | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-19 | Newsom Signs SB 884 'Protect Our Polls Act,' Barring Arrests Within 200 Feet of California Polling Places
6 src Gavin Newsom · California Legislature | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-18 | Trump-Aligned Super PACs Have Reserved Over $150 Million in Midterm Ads in Two Weeks, Much in Trump-Won Seats
4 src MAGA Inc. · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-17 | Politico Reports Democratic Consultants Privately Telling Battleground Candidates Not to Go Hard on AI
1 src Leading the Future · Abdul El-Sayed · Pramila Jayapal · Anthropic · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-17 | USPS Halts Development of Ballot-Verification System and Tells Staff It Will Not Enforce the Mail-Ballot Rules in 2026, Postmaster General Steiner Says
2 src David Steiner · United States Postal Service · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-16 | Leading the Future Announces $2 Million in General-Election Ads for Four Republican Senate Candidates
2 src Leading the Future · Greg Brockman · Andreessen Horowitz | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | Patel Refuses Under Oath to Rule Out FBI Agents at Polling Places in the November Midterms
4 src Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Richard Blumenthal · Raja Krishnamoorthi · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-14 | Democratic State Parties Launch 'New Battlefield Project' to Place 10,000 Poll Monitors Against Feared Federal Interference
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-14 | Supreme Court Blocks Trump's Mail-Ballot Rules 7-2 for the 2026 Midterms, Kavanaugh Resting It on Timing Rather Than Authority
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Brett Kavanaugh · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-13 | Judge Nichols Reverses Himself and Enjoins the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, Holding the Postal Reorganization Act Gives USPS No Such Authority
1 src United States Postal Service · Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Donald Trump | | reported |
| 2026-09-11 | MS NOW reports Matryoshka (Storm-1679) campaign of CNN-branded, voice-cloned celebrity videos urging a vote against Democrats ahead of the 2026 midterms
2 src CNN | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-10 | DOJ Sends 29 States and DC Election-Record Preservation Letters Warning of Criminal Sanctions
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-10 | LULAC, UnidosUS, Common Cause and Denver Sue DHS Over Armed ICE Officers at Polling Places
5 src League of United Latin American Citizens · Common Cause · City and County of Denver · Markwayne Mullin · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-10 | Trump Led RNC Midterm Convention Crowd in a Pledge That Included the Line 'I'm Gonna Try and Cheat Like Hell Like They Do'
3 src Donald Trump · Republican National Committee | | reported |
| 2026-09-09 | Jimmy Kimmel Live Does Not Broadcast Talarico Interview and Moves It to YouTube; Kimmel Says the FCC Has Threatened His Show
2 src James Talarico · ABC · The Walt Disney Company · Federal Communications Commission · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-09 | Trump Promises $5,000 'Dividend' to Every Adult Citizen, Conditioned on Republicans Holding Both Chambers
5 src Donald Trump · JD Vance · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-07 | Ballotpedia Logs 27 Article III Vacancies as the Court-Expansion Debate Resurfaces Before the Midterms
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-04 | Talwani Preliminarily Enjoins the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, Citing a Final Rule Issued Fewer Than Seventy Days Before the Election
4 src Indira Talwani · United States Postal Service · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-04 | Trump Tells Reporters in the Oval Office He Is Allocating Probably $400 to $500 Million of MAGA Inc. Money
1 src Donald Trump · MAGA Inc. · Campaign Legal Center | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-02 | House Defeats Keep Nine Amendment 212-206, Far Short of the Two-Thirds Needed
3 src Mike Johnson · Hakeem Jeffries · U.S. House of Representatives | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-01 | Dakota County MN Commissioners Asked to Pledge Noncompliance With Federal Mail-Ballot Restrictions; Two of Seven Respond, No Vote Taken
1 src United States Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-01 | DHS Launches HSI Voter-Fraud Surge in Nine States Through Mid-October
6 src Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-01 | Mullin Tells Reporters in New York ICE Would Be at Polling Places Only for a Threat or a Warrant
2 src Markwayne Mullin · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | reported |
| 2026-09-01 | USPS Whistleblower Alleges Ballot-Vetting System Built in Weeks and Work Continued After Court Order
4 src Richard Blumenthal · David Steiner · U.S. Postal Service · Indira Talwani | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-31 | Joint Chiefs Chairman Tells Sen. Slotkin the Joint Force Has No Plans to Send Troops to Polling Places in 2026
1 src Dan Caine · Elissa Slotkin | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-28 | HSI Domestic Operations Broadcast to All Special Agents in Charge Launches Voter-Fraud Surge at AD Krol's Request; Now in the California Nurses Amended Record
1 src Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security | | reported |
| 2026-08-28 | OMB Approves Pentagon Emergency Removal of the Never-Resided Checkbox From the Overseas Voter Form; DNC Sues Oct. 1
2 src Democratic National Committee · Pentagon | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-26 | Five-State Documentary Proof-of-Citizenship Picture Fractures Ahead of Midterms: New Hampshire Enjoined, Ohio's Separate BMV Requirement Also Blocked, EAC Still Headless
10 src Brennan Center for Justice · Election Assistance Commission · League of Women Voters · Deidre Henderson |
| reported |
| 2026-08-18 | ABC and Disney Sue FCC for First Amendment Retaliation Over Early License Renewals; Complaint Says No Candidate Has Appeared on The View Since February
3 src American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. · The Walt Disney Company · Federal Communications Commission · Brendan Carr · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | CBS Reports DOJ Plans 1,000 Monitors for the November Midterms, Citing Dhillon's Bloomberg Remarks; 289 in 2022, 714 in 2024
6 src Harmeet Dhillon · Civil Rights Division · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | X's open-sourced For You code lists two 2026 ranking changes: a July mutual-follow boost and an August Brazil election filter; no US-election rule appears
1 src X · xAI | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Hennepin County Says It Denied a DOJ Request to Send Staff Into Polling Places for the Aug. 11 Primary; DOJ Monitors to Stay Outside a 100-Foot Boundary
1 src Hennepin County Attorney's Office · Mary Moriarty · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-31 | GEO Group Subsidiary GEO Reentry Services Has Given Trump-Aligned Super PAC MAGA Inc. $4.4 Million; Latest Payment July 31, 2026
3 src MAGA Inc. | | reported |
| 2026-07-16 | Trump Declassifies Intelligence on China and U.S. Voter Data in Prime-Time Address; Nextgov Review: Records Do Not Show Altered Votes
3 src Donald Trump · Bennie Thompson · John Ratcliffe | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-22 | Gov. McKee Signs H7434/S3339, Barring ICE Agents Within 200 Feet of Rhode Island Polling Places
5 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-14 | Mullin on CNN: ICE Could Respond at a Polling Station if a Threat Arose, Citing a Bomb Threat as the Example
1 src Markwayne Mullin · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | reported |
| 2026-05-29 | Time Publishes a Projection That 2026 Gerrymandering Hits 45 on a Newly-Created Index, Driven Entirely by New Maps
2 src Gavin Newsom · State of California | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-19 | Common Cause Moves for Partial Summary Judgment to Block DOJ's National Voter Database
6 src Common Cause · American Civil Liberties Union · Protect Democracy · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-15 | Connecticut Enacts Public Act 26-42, Barring Federal or State Force Within 250 Feet of Election Sites
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Florida Circuit Judge Lee Marsh Disqualified From Redistricting Challenge After State Officials' Motion
6 src Ron DeSantis | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-12 | ICE Asks DOJ for State Voter Registration Lists for an HSI 'Voter Fraud Initiative'; DOJ Civil Rights Division Gives a DHS Counterpart Access Six Days Later
2 src Harmeet K. Dhillon · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-09 | Gov. Lujan Grisham Signs SB 264, Barring Federal Troops or Armed Agents From New Mexico Polling Places
3 src Michelle Lujan Grisham | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-27 | AI Industry Super PACs Deploy $125 Million to Target Pro-Regulation Candidates in 2026 Midterms
7 src Greg Brockman · OpenAI · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-04 | Trump to NBC's Llamas on Elections: Federal Controls Instead of State Controls if Elections Cannot Be Done Honestly and Timely, Then Something Else Has to Happen
1 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |