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Jessica Huseman

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Editorial director at Votebeat, managing special projects and newsroom enthusiasm. Prev: ProPublica. You need a corndog, I can tell. Texan. jhuseman at votebeat dot org.

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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Weekend scoop from me for @votebeat.org: Two GOP members of Georgia’s State Election Board say Executive Director James Mills sent letters to DOJ and DHS without telling the board or getting approval — and that the letters went beyond what the board voted to request. www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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Georgia election board director allegedly goes rogue, asks feds to crack down on state voting equipment
Two members of the Georgia State Election Board say their executive director sent unauthorized letters to the Trump administration.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Covering the 2026 elections? We built the thing I wish every election reporter had: one place to ask vetted election officials, lawyers, academics and voting-tech experts the very specific questions that come up on deadline. The Votebeat Expert Desk is free: www.electionexpertdesk.com
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Election Expert Desk - Votebeat Election Expert Desk
Election stories move fast. Election law is technical. Local procedures vary widely. And the loudest voices about voting systems are not always the people who understand them. Votebeat’s Expert Desk i...
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Journalists! Do you want access to more than 100 sources in elections: cybersecurity, former officials, lawyers, academics? Do you want to ask them on the record questions and get answers for your stories? DO YOU WANT ALL OF THAT FOR FREE?! GOOD NEWS.
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Josh Douglas @joshuaadouglas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm looking forward to participating in the Votebeat Expert Desk again this year!
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Votebeat @votebeat.org · 14/09/2026
🗓️ TOMORROW, get your election questions answered! Votebeat's experienced election reporters @jessicahuseman.bsky.social, @alexandershur.bsky.social, @hayleyharding.bsky.social, and @sashahupka.bsky.social will explain what mail voters need to know, election security basics, and more.
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Will the midterms happen? Your election questions, answered | Part 2
Submit your election questions to Votebeat reporters, and they’ll answer them live on Sept. 15 at 1 p.m. EDT.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Covering the 2026 elections? We built the thing I wish every election reporter had: one place to ask vetted election officials, lawyers, academics and voting-tech experts the very specific questions that come up on deadline. The Votebeat Expert Desk is free: www.electionexpertdesk.com
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Election Expert Desk - Votebeat Election Expert Desk
Election stories move fast. Election law is technical. Local procedures vary widely. And the loudest voices about voting systems are not always the people who understand them. Votebeat’s Expert Desk i...
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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 27/08/2026
Thank you to our lawyers at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for representing me and AP to fight to bring these records to light #foia www.rcfp.org/rfk-samoa-gu...
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RFK Jr. lied to Congress about 2019 trip to Samoa, according to documents obtained by The Guardian, AP
The records were released in response to a lawsuit Reporters Committee attorneys filed on behalf of the AP.
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Votebeat @votebeat.org · 10/09/2026
On Tuesday, get your midterm election questions answered. Submit a question to @jessicahuseman.bsky.social, @alexandershur.bsky.social, @hayleyharding.bsky.social, and @sashahupka.bsky.social here: www.eventbrite.com/e/will-the-m...
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Turns out that, when it wants to, the Supreme Court can move quickly. Here's a piece from @votebeat.org, explaining how all the chaos before the decision played out for Missouri election administrators: www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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Supreme Court ends Missouri map uncertainty as ballot deadlines approach
Missouri election officials say switching congressional maps was manageable. The real risk came from prolonged uncertainty as voting drew closer.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Journalists, welcome to Dallas. I'm sorry about the heat. Let me know if you need restaurant recommendations.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 03/09/2026
No Dem has served on the TX Railroad Commission in over 30 years. Will one of the most extreme candidates running on the GOP's statewide ticket change that? I interviewed the man who hopes to stop an open "Great Replacement" theory proponent from helming the RRC www.texasobserver.org/railroad-com...
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Who Stands Between Texas and a Fascist Railroad Commission?
This man here—and a plurality of voters if he can find them
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Election conspiracies aren’t confined to the right. In anti-Trump corners, a UMichigan professor’s fraud model has become evidence that something went wrong in 2024. @bycarterwalker.bsky.social and I look at what the model actually shows — and what it doesn’t. www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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Inside an academic model used to question Trump’s win in the 2024 election
A statistical model claims there were enough fraudulent votes in 2024 to cast doubt on Trump’s win in Pennsylvania. Experts say the model is fundamentally flawed.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@bycarterwalker.bsky.social and I worked on this piece for nearly a year. I hope you give it some of your time.
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Votebeat @votebeat.org · 03/09/2026
A statistical model claims there were enough fraudulent votes in 2024 to cast doubt on Trump’s win in Pennsylvania. Experts say the model is fundamentally flawed.
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Inside an academic model used to question Trump’s win in the 2024 election
A statistical model claims there were enough fraudulent votes in 2024 to cast doubt on Trump’s win in Pennsylvania. Experts say the model is fundamentally flawed.
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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In academia, a working paper is provisional. Online and in court, Walter Mebane’s working paper turned into evidence that the 2024 election might be flawed. Our story is about what got lost in translation. With @jessicahuseman.bsky.social www.votebeat.org/national/202...
votebeat.org
Inside an academic model used to question Trump’s win in the 2024 election
A statistical model claims there were enough fraudulent votes in 2024 to cast doubt on Trump’s win in Pennsylvania. Experts say the model is fundamentally flawed.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Votebeat’s Expert Desk is back for 2026. It’s free for journalists and connects reporters with vetted election officials, lawyers, researchers and voting-tech experts for fast, on-the-record help with election coverage. Sign up: www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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Covering the 2026 midterms? Sign up for Votebeat’s free Expert Desk
Ask election questions in Slack, get on-the-record answers from vetted experts and use a new AI research tool to search election laws and source material.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I just put on my 1st work away message since 2023. If no one could make any voting news while I’m in Scotland for the next two weeks, that would be excellent. St. Andrews recommendations welcome! My bf is teaching in a law abroad program, so he’s working, but I am very much not.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/07/2026
📣 Local investigative journalists! There are less than five days left until the deadline to apply to ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. Newsrooms from 26 states can apply. Check your eligibility and submit here by July 27 at midnight ET 👇
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Local Reporting Network Fellow
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Folks, after two days of searching the only foster I have found is willing to take only the babies and not the mother. I could make this happen, but it makes me sad. Do I do this? Do I leave them as they are? These are the only two choices.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 21/07/2026
🚨 Dallas foster folks, head's up.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Folks, a mama cat has given birth to four kittens in my bf’s Not At All Safe garage in oak cliff in Dallas. We cannot foster (leaving the country in 5 days), and I doubt my ability to capture any of them. If you are in Dallas and have experience fostering cats, please reach out.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
President trump, of course, often casts his own ballot by mail.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tony Dokoupil and Major Garrett started off the network’s "Special Report" by attempting to preemptively debunk the election lies Trump would tell before going airing the speech live.
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump: shut down news outlets that don't report what I tell them to
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
y'all want to hear something funny i have technically had the last four days off work.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Come to this @jessicahuseman.bsky.social piece for the ongoing federal threat to the integrity of American elections. But stay for DOJ's bumbling incompetence:
At least 13 other states, including Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, received letters containing identical language. More states likely received the letter as well but may not have immediately realized it; in several states, the Justice Department sent the letter to the generic email addresses listed on agency websites for use by the public.

“I had to go look for it,” said one state election official, who asked not to be named.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This reporting is brought to you by @jessicahuseman.bsky.social of @votebeat.org. Their nonpartisan work is indispensable in these times. Support them.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Breaking from @votebeat.org: Trump has fired all three remaining commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the only federal agency that touches election administration without any leadership. www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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Trump fires all commissioners of federal election agency
Months before the midterms, the only federal agency dedicated solely to election administration is now unable to do anything.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Trump administration threatens state election officials with criminal charges if they have noncitizen voters
The letters threaten criminal liability, but election officials and experts say they look more like political pressure than prosecution.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
New from @votebeat.org: The DOJ has sent letters to several states warning they could face criminal prosecution if non-citizens are knowingly left on the rolls. None of the election administrators I've spoken to seem particularly worried. www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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Trump administration threatens state election officials with criminal charges if they have noncitizen voters
The letters threaten criminal liability, but election officials and experts say they look more like political pressure than prosecution.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Meet Conway, a cat who showed up in my front yard and then got stuck under my sister's car yesterday and who now runs my life and has already cost me hundreds of dollars.
A small tuxedo cat sits on a couch, while Walter (a terrier mix) looks on skeptically.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
bf out here making data journalism jokes
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Excellent news from @votebeat.org: We're doing the Expert Desk again this year. It will be bigger, better and simpler to use. This year, @zacknewsman.bsky.social will join us as the community editor, onboarding sources and journalists and moderating the space. I'm so excited.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Every time @votebeat.org has an event - or any time we send a newsletter - among the most frequently asked questions is "Will the midterms even happen?" Yes, they will. But we've heard you, and we're doing a whole event about just that on July 13 at 5pm eastern.
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Schrodinger's Slush Fund www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump says he doesn’t know whether the $1.8 billion payout fund is dead
In his first comments since the apparent collapse of the plan, the president was less definitive than acting attorney general Todd Blanche was a day earlier.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
god bless the moment you spend so long deciding whether to reply to an email that it stops being useful to reply at all and you can finally mark it as read
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Imagine if pete buttigieg did this
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
dispatch from the family group chat
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
ICYMI, I took an early look at this fall's races for the top election official in each state (usually—but not always!—the secretary of state): www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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The most important 2026 elections no one is talking about
The 2026 midterms will determine who will oversee the 2028 presidential election in 29 states.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
If Jim Acosta kicks my ass outside a Hampton Inn, that will make me an actual victim, unlike the girls who were “trafficked” and “raped” by Jeffrey Epstein. by Michael Tracey
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Last week a teenage DSW clerk informed me socks are visible again. I’ve tried it twice, and I don't like it, but I'm committed to being hip I think.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We just did an event about the 2000 election, and got a show and tell of a Palm Beach County voting machine. I was ... pretty jazzed.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I have purchased a 5 year old girl an ant farm. It, obviously - now that I have it in my hands - didn't come with any ants. Where the hell do you buy live ants for an ant farm in Dallas?
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
You cannot understand the next election unless you understand the 2000 election. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/how-the-20...
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
You cannot understand the next election unless you understand the 2000 election. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/how-the-20...
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody. @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.
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