Trump accepts midterm results as system holds up against election interference efforts

Perhaps he had no choice. “It was essentially too big to rig,” an unnamed Trump adviser told CNN. But even before the results were known, many of Trump’s election interference attempts simply never materialized…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/05/trump-election-interference-midterm-results

 

Supreme court rules against Trump over bid to force California to set aside ballots

The supreme court on Monday ruled against the Trump administration and its attempts to force California election officials to segregate and not count ballots from people that the justice department claims are non-citizens. The ruling follows several lower courts siding with California officials, who argued the federal government was seeking to interfere in state elections…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/02/supreme-court-trump-california-ballots

 

How Trump and his allies seek to interfere in the US midterm elections

The administration’s efforts have raised concerns among experts about potential disruptions after Election Day…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/31/trump-allies-interfere-us-midterm-elections

 

Putin Is Meddling in the Midterms to Help Trump by Spreading False Sex Abuse Claims – Mother Jones

One of numerous examples: 

On Tuesday, an X account attributed to a Texas man named Zyron Lewis posted a video of Lewis claiming that in 2012, when he was a middle school student, he was sexually assaulted by James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas. This allegation—which zapped across the internet—was quickly debunked. Talarico was indeed a middle school teacher at that time, and a Zyron Lewis had been a student of his. But the Zyron Lewis in the video was not the real Zyron Lewis. The real Lewis told a factchecking site he had never been abused by Talarico, and X subsequently suspended the interloper…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/putin-russia-meddling-interference-us-midterm-elections-helping-trump-sex-abuse-fake-videos-talarico-walz-disinformation-campaign/

 

Auchter's Art: Elon bonds with Michiganders

“Musk is donating to Republican candidates all over the country, including Michigan and especially to bolster Mike Rogers here. Does this have anything to do with the people of Michigan? Heck, no. Musk doesn't have any significant business interests here. His companies don't build cars, design rockets, or factory-produce propaganda in Michigan. But Republicans keeping control of the Senate would mean protection for his benefactor, Donald Trump, which would keep that sweet, sweet government money flowing in…”

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/opinion/2026-10-16/auchters-art-elon-bonds-with-michiganders

 

Filmmaker Alex Gibney warns that Tesla is "overpromising" on its vehicles

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NZoALcXK3-w

 

Trump is Trying to Interfere in the Election, Here's How You Can Stop It

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhnk6EUkpbs

 

He’s calling his bluff

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eK_4ggiaNZc

 

Sen. Booker BLASTS 'serial cheater' Trump for sowing election doubt

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i5mCmz15HZk

 

Trump officials abandon effort to investigate election threats, experts warn

The first day after Pam Bondi won Senate confirmation as attorney general, she eliminated the FBI’s foreign influence taskforce, which had been investigating influence campaigns waged by China, Russia and other adversaries. 

 Administration leaders fired or reassigned personnel working on foreign election interference at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa). They also defunded Cisa’s training program for local officials to monitor and coordinate threats through the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/trump-us-election-threats

 

Trump allies could use ‘counting window’ to disrupt results, experts warn

Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/27/trump-midterms-counting-window

 

Lula says Trump wants to ‘colonize’ and capture Brazil’s resources by meddling in election

“Flávio Bolsonaro is Trump’s candidate and what Trump wants is to colonise Brazil, take our riches, steal our future and leave us in the dust,” the female narrator tells viewers in the minute-long video…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/25/lula-says-trump-wants-to-colonise-and-capture-brazils-resources-by-meddling-in-election

 

California Supreme Court orders seized ballots returned in Riverside County case - POLITICO

The California Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a Southern California sheriff to return hundreds of thousands of ballots he had seized in a probe of alleged voting improprieties, siding with Democrats in a case that highlighted larger concerns about election interference. 

In a unanimous decision, the high court said Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco had unlawfully taken custody of some 650,000 ballots cast in a 2025 special election. A second unanimous ruling affirmed Attorney General Rob Bonta’s authority to wield oversight over county sheriffs after Bonta sued to halt Bianco’s probe…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/24/california-supreme-court-orders-seized-ballots-returned-riverside-county-01092045

Cyber agency unveils national election security plan weeks before the midterms - POLITICO

It’s unclear how state and local election officials will respond to CISA’s plan. Many have pointed to last year’s rollbacks as evidence that they are on their own to secure elections and told POLITICO they are increasingly concerned about moves by the Trump administration that they say could interfere with the midterms, such as FBI raids on state election offices and the Justice Department’s demands for states to turn over their voter rolls…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/24/cisa-election-security-plan-midterms-01091843

Quid Pro Quo Plan for Territory

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WiBDCPVCVH4

 

Democrats to train tens of thousands to monitor polls amid election interference fears

Project will prepare volunteers across US to monitor polls, encourage early voting and respond to disinformation…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/14/democratic-poll-monitors-prevent-republican-election-interference

 

Claims of noncitizens on voter rolls leave states baffled : NPR

Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin answers questions from reporters on July 17 after remarks about his agency alleging that more than 250,000 non-U.S. citizens are on the voter rolls in just four states. Those states dispute that tally.

 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5906708/trump-claim-noncitizens-midterms-election-interference-voter-rolls

 

CNN's first reactions to Trump's primetime election speech

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ZAwSOI408

 

Trump accidentally proves HE MADE IT ALL UP

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-pjc2Zxt1Y

Five claims the president made in primetime address not backed up by evidence

…The Department of Homeland Security did not reveal its methodology for identifying the noncitizens and how confident they were in their assessment. The tool the Department of Homeland Security uses to flag noncitizens on the voter rolls is known to be inaccurate. 

Letters from the Department of Homeland Security sent on Thursday to Nevada and Pennsylvania obtained by the Guardian also suggest that the government is much less certain that the people identified are actually noncitizens. The Nevada letter says the department identified as many as 15,903 noncitizens who were registered to vote, including 8,576 whose name, date of birth, address and social security number matched that of a noncitizen in its files. It did not say how it flagged the remaining potential noncitizens. .

“These numbers are wildly speculative at best and the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t shared anything that backs it up,” Cisco Aguilar, the Democratic Nevada secretary of state, said in a statement…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/trump-claims-primetime-address