Alabama voters navigate primary election confusion after 11th-hour gerrymander

• As Alabama voters head to the polls tomorrow to choose primary nominees for the 2026 midterm elections, confusion reigns.
  
  
• Some will be voting normally. But others have seen races postponed since Republicans took the astonishing step of changing the congressional map after absentee voting in the primaries had already begun. Meanwhile, litigation over other races is also ongoing.
  
  
• Read more about the GOP gerrymander’s voting chaos >>>

Trump must fire 2020-denier Kurt Olsen from election integrity post, Democratic senators demand

• Democratic senators demanded the White House immediately end Kurt Olsen’s tenure as President Donald Trump’s director of election security and integrity Monday.
  
  
• Led by Senate Rules and Administration Committee ranking member Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), the senators decried Olsen’s appointment to begin with, saying they warned he would peddle conspiracy theories when he was first named to the temporary post.
  
  
• The letter alleges that Olsen, an architect of Trump’s 2020 election denialism, had exceeded the 130 day limit to serve as a “special government employee.”
  
  

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Georgia panel targets Dem-backed state supreme court candidates ahead of key election

• Just two days before supreme court elections in Georgia, a judicial watchdog group composed of GOP appointees accused two liberal candidates of violating conduct rules, in part because they expressed their positions on abortion rights.
  
  
• Democrats are describing the move as “dirty work” aimed at improperly tarnishing the liberal candidates’ image ahead of the vote.
  
  
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More on Georgia’s primaries:

• Voting rights have become one of the most pressing issues facing Georgia voters as they head to the polls tomorrow to cast their ballots in the state primaries.
  
  
• Georgia remains one of the few southern states that hasn’t moved to immediately eliminate its majority-Black, Democrat-leaning congressional districts ahead of the midterms after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in its ruling on Louisiana v. Callais. However, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has called a special session to redistrict for the 2028 elections.
  
  
• What’s at stake in Georgia >>>

Trump seeks passage of SAVE America Act via housing and FISA bills

• Trump wants his voter suppression bill, the SAVE America Act, to pass by attaching it to housing and foreign intelligence surveillance legislation currently pending before Congress.
  
  
• The bill, which would potentially disenfranchise millions of voters through its provisions, would be a giant step toward the Trump administration’s goal of taking control of voting from states.
  
  
• How Trump is pressuring lawmakers >>>

Attorney general touts ‘ton of evidence’ for phony election fraud claim, but won’t promise ‘definitive answer’

• During a recent segment on Fox News, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said that there’s a “ton of evidence” that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump.
  
  
• Despite that, Blanche couldn’t explain why the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) hasn’t released any evidence to the public yet. He even suggested that no criminal charges could be forthcoming.
  
  
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Federal judge rejects GOP effort to overturn decision that created majority-Latino district in Washington

• In one of the first rulings outside the South in response to Callais, a federal judge in Washington rejected a GOP effort to overturn a decision that created a majority-Latino district in the state.
  
  
• The judge denied the request for lack of standing.
  
  
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Trump-backed primary challenger unseats Louisiana Sen. Cassidy, who voted to convict during impeachment

• Sen. Bill Cassidy (R), who voted to convict Trump for “incitement” of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, was defeated by Trump-backed Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) and Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming (R) in the state’s GOP primary.
  
  

• Cassidy’s loss is another signal of the president's expansive control over the Republican Party. In his concession speech, Cassidy made a subtle jab at Trump. 

   

• Letlow has said she would have voted against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election won by former President Joe Biden.
  
  

• What do the primary results mean? >>>

Coming up tomorrow

• A federal appeals court will hear an anti-voting lawsuit seeking to compel California to provide the DOJ with access to its statewide voter registration data. The lawsuit is part of the DOJ’s efforts to obtain unredacted voter rolls from states across the country.
  
  

• Learn more about the case >>>