‘Nowhere I feel safe’: Election officials recount threats
‘Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?’ one Georgia election worker asked in an emotional testimony.
By Associated Press - June 22, 2022‘Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?’ one Georgia election worker asked in an emotional testimony.
By Associated Press - June 22, 2022The January 6 select committee released a text message from the Wisconsin Republican senator’s staff trying to submit fraudulent electors.
By Josh Israel - June 21, 2022In footage released by the House committee, an unidentified man walked toward the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, holding a flagpole that appeared to have a sharpened end, which he said was ‘for a certain person.’
By Associated Press - June 15, 2022State Sen. Doug Mastriano hired ex-Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis as a legal adviser for his Pennsylvania gubernatorial bid.
By Emily Singer - June 13, 2022A newly released email shows that Robert Sinners, now on the staff of Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, directed would-be false GOP electors to operate with ‘complete secrecy and discretion.’
By Emily Singer - June 10, 2022Nine candidates are vying for the nomination that will pit them against incumbent Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in November.
By Adrian Cole - May 20, 2022Republican State Rep. Ron Hanks said he’d ‘do whatever needs to be done’ to help Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who allegedly helped someone impersonate a county elections worker.
By Nick Vachon - May 18, 2022Former President Donald Trump’s handpicked candidate has pushed false claims about the 2020 election.
By Josh Israel - May 18, 2022Tennessee attorney G. Kline Preston IV said Russia is ‘much better’ at running elections than the United States.
By Matt Cohen - May 10, 2022Incumbent Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said of one of his primary opponents, ‘Jody Hice is lying.’
By Emily Singer - May 02, 2022Matthew DePerno and Kristina Karamo, who believe the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen’ from Donald Trump, would be in charge of running elections and defending election law in Michigan.
By Emily Singer - April 25, 2022Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker apparently isn’t as certain about what happened in 2020 as he used to be.
By Josh Israel - April 22, 2022The MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist, who is spending millions of dollars to ‘prove’ the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, endorsed Jim Marchant in the GOP primary for Nevada secretary of state.
By Emily Singer - April 21, 2022A loss by David Perdue in Georgia’s May 24 gubernatorial primary could be particularly embarrassing for Donald Trump.
By Associated Press - April 16, 2022Dustin Byron Thompson’s defense team was the first to argue that Donald Trump and those connected to him were responsible for the actions of the mob on Jan. 6, 2021.
By Associated Press - April 15, 2022In his post-presidency, Trump’s main agenda seems to be relitigating the 2020 election.
By Adrian Cole - April 08, 2022Republican Angela Rigas was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
By Emily Singer - March 28, 2022Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks told a crowd in August 2021 to look past the 2020 presidential election.
By Emily Singer - March 23, 2022The One Georgia PAC is funding candidates and groups that say the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
By Nick Vachon - March 15, 2022The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on behalf of the state chapter of the NAACP, the League of Women Voters and Mi Familia Vota.
By Associated Press - March 12, 2022Conservative legislators in the state have proposed expensive legislation that aims to prevent nonexistent election fraud.
By Nick Vachon - March 10, 2022The House committee investigating the riot at the Capitol said it has evidence that the defeated Republican president and his associates engaged in a ‘criminal conspiracy’ to prevent Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.
By Associated Press - March 06, 2022Republican electors who tried to steal the 2020 election for former President Donald Trump have donated big to GOP candidates and politicians.
By Josh Israel - February 17, 2022The executive director of Kevin Nicholson’s nonprofit group signed a fake certificate that would have awarded Wisconsin’s electoral votes to Donald Trump in 2020.
By Nick Vachon - February 17, 2022‘Nobody cares about your topics. Right now nobody cares about 2020, nobody,’ Fox News host Brian Kilmeade told Donald Trump.
By Oliver Willis - February 08, 2022Widespread threats against those who oversee elections soared after former President Donald Trump and his allies spread false claims about the outcome of the 2020 election.
By Associated Press - February 06, 2022Only one leading Republican candidate for governor in the most competitive states this cycle has said that the 2020 election was legitimate.
By Nick Vachon - February 03, 2022‘I don’t know how in the world another audit is going to satisfy conspiracy believers,’ said one Michigan county clerk.
By Matt Cohen - February 01, 2022Nevada Republican Jim Marchant is leading a coalition of Trump-backed secretary of state candidates to oversee elections in key 2024 swing states.
By Josh Axelrod - January 31, 2022New polling finds strong disapproval among swing voters of their own elected officials’ attempts at rejecting President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
By Josh Israel - January 07, 2022