Virginia circuit court judge blocks results of redistricting referendum a day after voters narrowly approved map that would favor Democrats in 2026 midterms.
Virginia voters approve mid-decade redistricting referendum 51-49, potentially flipping four Republican House seats after GOP states redrew maps for Trump.
Texas AG Paxton sues ActBlue over alleged foreign donations weeks before his own GOP Senate primary runoff.
Justice Department demands all 2024 ballots from Wayne County, Michigan, a Detroit-area Democratic stronghold Trump lost despite winning the state.
Trump calls on Alaska voters to repeal ranked choice voting ahead of 2026 ballot measure, calling the system “very fraudulent.”
Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit demanding Massachusetts hand over voter names, birth dates, and partial Social Security numbers.
California Supreme Court unanimously orders Riverside County sheriff to pause investigation and stop reviewing 500,000 seized election ballots.
California mail ballot rejections quadrupled after Postal Service reduced rural pickup trips, with voters following the same habits that worked for years.
Erika Kirk’s Turning Point USA runs door-to-door ballot collection for an Arizona election after her late husband spent years demonizing the practice.
Colorado appeals court upholds Tina Peters’ election equipment breach conviction but orders new sentence, ruling the judge improperly weighed her speech.
Democrats sue to block Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting, arguing it violates five constitutional amendments and exceeds presidential authority over elections.
Trump signs executive order directing DHS and Social Security to compile national voter lists by citizenship status, with DOJ ordered to prosecute noncompliant election officials.
Riverside County Sheriff Bianco pauses seizure of hundreds of thousands of ballots after California AG and voting rights groups petition courts to halt probe.
South Dakota governor signs law requiring proof of citizenship for new voter registrations, effective immediately before the June primary.
Deputy AG Blanche endorses sending ICE to polling places despite federal law barring government forces during elections.
California sheriff seizes a second batch of ballot materials from 2025 election as state attorney general sues to halt his investigation.
Trump defends his mail ballot at cabinet meeting, saying his presidency makes in-person voting impractical, while pushing Congress to restrict the practice for everyone else.
Wisconsin jury convicts Harry Wait on felony identity theft and two misdemeanor election fraud counts for requesting absentee ballots in the names of the Assembly Speaker and Racine’s mayor.
Trump rejects a bipartisan deal to end the 38-day DHS shutdown, demanding Democrats first pass the SAVE America Act voting restrictions bill that lacks Senate votes.
Trump casts a mail ballot in a Florida special election while calling mail voting “cheating” and demanding Congress pass the SAVE America Act to restrict it.
Trump says he will block any DHS deal until Democrats pass the SAVE America Act, keeping ICE at airports “for as long as it takes.”
GOP governor candidate Sheriff Chad Bianco uses his law enforcement authority to seize more than 500,000 ballots from a 2025 California election over a roughly 100-vote discrepancy.
Senate Democrats block Republican amendment to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports for the fourth time as GOP attaches it to voting restrictions bill.
Pearl Jam urges fans to call their senators and vote no on the SAVE America Act as Senate begins marathon debate on the nationwide voter ID bill.
Maryland Democrats field candidates in every legislative race for the first time since 1974, betting Trump backlash will reach deep-red districts.
Smartmatic calls DOJ bribery case political retaliation, noting the administration dropped other foreign bribery prosecutions as policy while pursuing this one.
FBI subpoenas Arizona Senate records from debunked 2020 election audit, the second swing state targeted after January’s Georgia raid.
Trump tells House Republicans the SAVE Act will “guarantee the midterms,” demands expanded bill with mail-in ballot restrictions and transgender sports ban before he signs any legislation.
Trump announces he will refuse to sign any legislation until Senate passes the SAVE Act, demanding federal control over state-run elections with mandatory voter ID, proof of citizenship, and near-elimination of mail-in ballots.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) retires after nearly 25 years as the 34th House Republican not seeking reelection, the second-highest exodus in nearly a century.
Montana Sen. Daines withdraws from race two minutes before filing deadline to clear path for Trump-endorsed handpicked successor, blocking other Republicans.
Virginia Supreme Court clears way for redistricting referendum a second time, allowing early voting to begin Friday despite Republican legal challenges.
Supreme Court preserves New York City’s only Republican congressional district after Justice Alito calls state court’s minority voting rights remedy “unadorned racial discrimination.”
Former National Security Adviser Flynn convened summit where 2020 election deniers and six federal officials discussed declaring emergency to seize control of midterms.
DOJ sues five more states for unredacted voter rolls with Social Security data, bringing total past two dozen, four of the five states voted for Trump.
DHS election integrity official with ties to the 2020 election denial movement tells state election chiefs that ICE agents won’t appear at polling places, as secretaries of state say they’re unconvinced.
Federal judges reject Republican effort to restore a congressional map that split Salt Lake County four ways after voters created an independent redistricting commission.
Gov. Spanberger signs Virginia Democrats’ proposed congressional map favoring 10 of 11 seats, sending it to an April referendum still blocked by a state court judge.
NAACP and civil rights groups sue to prevent Trump administration from using Fulton County voter data seized by FBI to purge rolls or intimidate voters.
Alaska signed a confidential agreement letting DOJ flag individual voters for removal from state rolls, one of at least 12 states that quietly complied while judges ruled against DOJ in every related lawsuit.
Trump declares voter ID requirements will be in place for midterm elections “whether approved by Congress or not,” promising an executive order after the Senate stalled his SAVE America Act.
DHS deployed a federal voter citizenship tool before adding key databases, causing persistent errors that temporarily banned hundreds of citizens from voting in at least five states.
State Department orders roughly 1,400 nonprofit public libraries to stop processing passport applications, threatening closures and layoffs in states where most libraries are nonprofit entities.
Virginia Supreme Court allows Democrats to hold an April 21 special election on a proposed 10D-1R congressional map while a legal challenge to the redistricting effort continues.
House passes SAVE America Act 218-213, requiring in-person proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote, but Senate Republicans say they lack the votes to break a filibuster.
Trump-appointed federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit seeking Michigan voters’ Social Security numbers, dates of birth and driver’s license numbers.
Unsealed FBI warrant reveals the Fulton County ballot seizure was based on years-old claims about missing ballot images from the 2020 election that have been repeatedly disproven.
Trump directs U.S. spy agencies to share classified intelligence with a campaign lawyer investigating whether the 2020 election was stolen, who calls the president whenever he is rebuffed.
FBI invited state election officials to a February call about 2026 midterm preparations, prompting Colorado’s secretary of state to say she is “deeply skeptical” after Trump’s push to nationalize elections.
Virginia Democrats release congressional map proposing 10 of 11 districts favor their party, moving forward despite a court order halting the redistricting process.
