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Voters pick our leaders — not the other way around. We fight voter suppression, protect voting rights, and help defend free and fair elections.

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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: Federal court BLOCKS Dept. of Justice policy of collecting unredacted voter rolls, checking them against federal citizenship databases, and urging states to remove voters flagged as ineligible.
democracydocket.com
🚨 Common Cause v. U.S. Department of Justice
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 09/10/2026
🚨 NEW: An election denier told her followers to apply for jobs running Maricopa County’s elections — including early voting center supervisor and IT project manager. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/10/2026
Trump has claimed that states are “merely an ‘agent’ for the federal government” and they must do what the president tells them. “Almost nothing in that statement is correct as a matter of law,” Marc Elias says. Keep an eye on the people trying to rewrite the rules: demdock.com/4rSKLdE
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: Election deniers are mining records to manufacture fraud claims — A Georgia GOP election task force member is projecting 31,000 illegal votes in November, from numbers Georgia’s Republican secretary of state says aren’t accurate.
thecentersquare.com
Tens of thousands of illegal votes could be cast in Georgia, analyst warns
(The Center Square) – Vulnerabilities in Georgia's voting system could allow tens of thousands of potentially illegal ballots to be cast next month by people no longer living at their
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 08/10/2026
Trump’s DHS sicced ICE on volunteers with clipboards. A year of federal investigations. Hundreds of nonprofits. 82 in Pennsylvania, 41 in New Jersey. They found nothing on a single one — then discussed sending undercover agents to “dismantle” them anyway.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 08/10/2026
The Trump administration won’t let neutral international observers near the midterms. It’s sending 1,000 of its own Justice Department monitors instead — from a department now hiring people like a man convicted of hacking an election system. Observers out. Theirs in.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 08/10/2026
A smoking gun document from inside ICE. It shows the agency weaponized against progressive groups that register voters — investigated over and over, cleared every time, then marked for undercover infiltration anyway. While it built a database of nearly 50 million voters.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 08/10/2026
We obtained records showing ICE’s attempts to silence voters. The Trump-Vance admin should not be using the power of the federal govt to undermine confidence in our elections. But in America, voters choose their leaders. We’ll continue to use all legal tools to expose threats to elections.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 08/10/2026
OUTRAGEOUS: Trump's DHS thugs spent months digging through more than 150 voter registration groups, came up empty, and still wanted to send undercover agents to take them down.
thedailybeast.com
Trump Goons’ Secret Plot to Infiltrate Voter Groups Exposed
More than 150 organizations have been investigated.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 08/10/2026
The theory is that voting machines were rigged to steal 2020, and might be rigged to steal 2026. Somehow they weren't rigged in 2024. "It's not a question that they've ever been able to answer. There's no logic to it, because it is BS."
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 08/10/2026
Election denier Tina Peters was reportedly in the Oval Office Monday to discuss "election security." She was convicted of breaching her own county's election equipment. "Her actions made our last election less secure, not more."
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 07/10/2026
ICYMI: @democracyforward.org President @skyeperryman.bsky.social on Morning Joe, on 166 documents the group obtained through FOIA: DHS and ICE have been collecting records on individual Americans from "unknown sources" — "over 48 million of those records."
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 07/10/2026
ICE's criminal investigations division obtained more than 48 million records from Heather Honey — a right-wing activist who backed Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election. She is now DHS's deputy assistant secretary for election integrity.
the-independent.com
Election deniers are helping ICE investigate voter registration groups, docs reveal
Newly published internal documents reveal Trump administration is targeting nonprofits in massive voter fraud probe
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 07/10/2026
Trump sicced immigration agents on groups that help people register to vote. New documents show ICE's investigators combed through 120+ voter registration groups in PA and NJ and weighed going undercover. ❌ They found nothing.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 07/10/2026
DHS officials discussed how to deport up to 400 noncitizens in New Jersey who voted in elections after being accidentally registered through a state software error, according to internal government documents made public Wednesday.
democracydocket.com
ICE officials strategized how to deport 400 noncitizens who voted in New Jersey as a result of state error
ICE officials discussed how to deport up to 400 noncitizens in New Jersey who voted in elections after being accidentally registered through a state software error, new internal government documents s...
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 07/10/2026
NEW: Internal DHS documents show the department has investigated more than 150 organizations and considered sending undercover agents to “disrupt activities.”
nytimes.com
Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups
The Trump administration is investigating nonprofits that it says may be recruiting noncitizens for voter registration, documents show, even though noncitizen voting in the United States is rare.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 07/10/2026
"Donald Trump wants to intimidate you. He wants to make you afraid. He wants to give you every reason not to vote." Sen. Cory Booker, asked what he tells people who come to him shaking about Election Day: "Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's stepping up regardless of that."
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 07/10/2026
NEW: Anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote.
democracydocket.com
Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/10/2026
NEW: Nearly 150,000 California mail ballots were thrown out in June's primary — most for arriving too late. Midterm voting starts TODAY. Don't let your ballot be next. Mail it by Oct. 27 or use a drop-off location. Here's what you need to know:
democracydocket.com
California early voting starts today. Here’s what you need to know
Californians are voting amid an unusually turbulent fight over how ballots are cast, delivered, counted and protected.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 06/10/2026
A convicted election tamperer was reportedly in the Oval Office Monday talking "the plans" for November with Trump. Tina Peters was convicted on 7 counts over a breach of her county's voting equipment. Americans are already voting. Those ballots decide this election.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 05/10/2026
"People who are serious about election security don't inject chaos in the 11th hour." That's Georgia's secretary of state's office, responding to a letter asking Trump's DOJ to intervene in the state's voting systems — two weeks before early voting.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 05/10/2026
"He does whatever the hell he wants." That's the GOP chair of Georgia's election board on its own director, James Mills, who sent letters to Trump's DOJ demanding changes to Georgia's voting machines weeks before Election Day. The board never approved them. Fire James Mills.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/10/2026
BREAKING: In a win for voters, a California court sided with voters with print disabilities, finding that the inability of plaintiffs to “independently return their paper ballots without assistance” violates the law. The court will hold a hearing later this month to discuss the appropriate remedy.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 05/10/2026
In March, Trump said "Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating." Days later he mailed in his own ballot. In July he called mail ballots "inherently corrupt." Saturday he posted a video telling Republicans to vote by mail. Request your ballot today.
nytimes.com
Trump Urges Republicans to Vote By Mail After Criticizing Practice
It was the latest mixed messaging from President Trump, who regularly votes by mail, but has made baseless claims that the practice is “inherently corrupt.”
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 03/10/2026
Tarrant County, Texas has 92 fewer Election Day polling places than in 2022. 224 left. In one ZIP code that's 89% nonwhite, 4 of 5 sites were cut. Voters sued this week to get them back. No ruling yet. Tarrant voters: confirm your polling place now.
democracydocket.com
Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority communities
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026
North Carolinians are facing a confusing stream of letters warning voters they must update missing personal information by the Oct. 9 deadline. The mailers are another barrier to voting that makes some voters question whether they should bother casting a ballot at all: demdock.com/4rTwVrB
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 03/10/2026
Monday, Oct. 5 is the voter registration deadline in Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Ohio. Not Election Day. Monday. Check your registration today. If you've moved, re-register. Voters pick our leaders. Not the other way around. vote.org
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 02/10/2026
"You see them trying to make voting harder or intimidating Americans out of voting," Mally Smith of Try and Stop Us said on MS NOW. Trump and his allies are not trying to win the argument on their policies. They are trying to shrink the electorate instead.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 02/10/2026
38 states and D.C. let U.S. citizens born abroad vote — even if they've never lived here. Democracy Docket reports the administration stripped the guidance that told them so. You still qualify. Request a ballot: fvap.gov
democracydocket.com
Exclusive: Trump administration removes resources to help U.S. citizens born abroad vote
The move could make it harder for a small but significant group of American citizens abroad to understand their voting rights. It’s part of a sweeping attack by the administration on access to the bal...
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: A Reuters investigation found that a Trump administration lawyer ran a sprawling, multi-agency hunt for evidence the 2020 election was stolen — pulling in the FBI, DOJ, DHS and the intelligence community — and came up with nothing.
reuters.com
How Trump’s obsession with ‘rigged’ voting machines spread across US government
What began with a search for evidence inside a Puerto Rico voting machine grew into a vast quest involving intelligence agencies, election deniers and White House officials. It failed — but Trump dieh...
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 01/10/2026
🚨NEW: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections.
democracydocket.com
GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/10/2026
WIN: The DOJ has no right to Georgia’s sensitive voting records —a judge ruled — delivering the department’s 26th consecutive loss in their nationwide hunt for voter data. The judge noted Georgia repeatedly offered its public voter roll, which is available to anyone: demdock.com/4yKtyWN
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 01/10/2026
"You have to have all those pieces." Lawyers in court. Organizers at the door. Comms that doesn't read like a legal brief. Watch Brad Woodhouse and @robflaherty.bsky.social discuss Try And Stop Us on Nobody Knows Anything podcast:
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 01/10/2026
"Every time President Trump loses an election, he claims fraud. And it is complete BS." Try And Stop Us Senior Advisor Mally Smith lays into Trump: He lost in 2020 and called it fraud. No court found it. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 01/10/2026
TIME asked Trump if he'd declare a state of emergency before the midterms. "I don't rule anything out or in. We'll see." On the Insurrection Act: "I've never used it. I could use it." 33 days out. No emergency statute gives a president power over your ballot.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 01/10/2026
A federal judge just dismissed Trump's DOJ suit demanding Georgia's unredacted voter rolls. Judge Victoria Marie Calvert: nothing in the Civil Rights Act shows "Congress's intent to preempt states' voter privacy laws." That's loss number 26.
cbsnews.com
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/09/2026
Trump is going to try to normalize the deployment of armed federal agents at and around the polls. Let us be clear: this is completely abnormal. “The risk here is that they are going to try to wage a campaign of fear,” Marc Elias says. This isn’t over. Stay close: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 30/09/2026
The people urging Trump to declare martial law over the midterms: A conspiracist attorney. Jerome Corsi. Wayne Allyn Root. Patrick Byrne. And Tina Peters, the former county clerk convicted over a breach of her own county's voting equipment. That's the list.
democracydocket.com
Could Trump take over voting by declaring a ‘national emergency’?
Advocates agree such an attempt would be blatantly unconstitutional but still worry that such an emergency order could suppress voting nonetheless.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 29/09/2026
This is what election sabotage looks like in real time. Three MAGA members of Georgia’s election board just invited the Trump administration to stick its hands into the state’s voting system two weeks before early voting starts, not because there’s a problem, but because they want to create one.
georgiarecorder.com
SEB asks Trump administration to push for election system updates • Georgia Recorder
The resolution passed in a 3-2 vote Monday, roughly two weeks before Georgia residents begin heading to the polls for early voting.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026
🎉 WIN: States and local governments won’t have to run voter rolls through a flawed DHS database — or adopt other anti-voting measures — to get funding meant to prevent terrorist attacks. A judge found the Trump administration likely violated federal law: demdock.com/4dFytQ2
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 29/09/2026
"The stories about fraud are baseless. We've never seen that." That's Mary McCord on MS NOW, relaying what election officials across the country are saying out loud. 35 days out, they're the ones to listen to. Start by checking your own registration.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 29/09/2026
In Arizona, Maricopa County's Republican prosecutor confirmed the SAVE database's supposed noncitizen-voting hunt failed 87% of the time — flagging 60 voters, only 8 of whom turned out not to be citizens.
azmirror.com
Maricopa County investigated 60 suspected noncitizen voters. 52 are citizens, 8 are not.
Most Maricopa County voters flagged as potential noncitizen by an error-prone federal system are actually citizens, according to prosecutors
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 28/09/2026
Nevada's Secretary of State on Trump, after every one of the 185 Nevadans DHS flagged as a possible noncitizen turned out to be a citizen: "Our president wants to choose his voters rather than the voters choosing him." Cisco Aguilar is right. Voters pick our leaders.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 28/09/2026
Trump's DHS claimed 15,903 noncitizens were on Nevada's voter rolls. Then it quietly cut that to 185. Then Nevada checked all 185 — every one a citizen. Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar: "We went from 16,000 to 185 to zero." Nevada did the work. The number was zero.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026
🚨 FACT: There is a federal criminal law that prohibits any armed agent of the federal government from being at the polls. There is only one exception. Marc Elias explains. Stay in the know: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 25/09/2026
More: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump’s Supreme Court majority gave him a green light Friday to turn a federal immigration database into a voter purge tool, lifting a lower-court order that found the scheme trampled the privacy rights of American citizens.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 25/09/2026
Trump's DHS claimed 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada's voter rolls. Then it shrank to 185. Then Nevada checked: all 185 are U.S. citizens. 16,000 became 185. 185 became zero.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 24/09/2026
DHS said nearly 16,000 noncitizens were on Nevada's voter rolls. It handed over 185 names it claimed to have confirmed. Nevada checked all 185. Every one was a citizen. From 16,000 to 185 to zero.
nytimes.com
From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Try And Stop Us @tryandstopus.org · 24/09/2026
Sen. Warnock: We have an American president who doesn't believe in America — he doesn't believe in democracy. And we're seeing a desperate man trying to hold on to power, and he's willing to do anything. This attack on voting rights is about a failed president.
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