House GOP committee wants classified briefings on Trump’s election fraud claims

• Despite Trump offering no new evidence, and an array of false claims, in his primetime speech earlier this month, some Republicans are still trying to exploit it.
  
  
• The chairman of the House Administration Committee sent letters to the president’s cabinet asking for classified briefings and documents related to Trump’s false claims about Chinese interference.

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Trump broke the ‘old normal.’ This is how we create a ‘new normal’

• If we want democracy to survive, here’s what we need to understand: Trump is actually acting normal. Marc explains in a new video the important distinction between abnormal and immoral, why the courts should do away with the presumption of regularity, and what Democrats need to do to create a better, moral “new normal.”

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Kansas Supreme Court protects mail ballot grace period

• The Kansas Supreme Court dealt a final blow to the GOP’s effort to disenfranchise voters whose ballots arrive after Election Day but are postmarked on or before it.
  
  
• The ruling keeps in place a three-day grace period for those ballots, protecting voters from having ballots tossed due to postal delays outside their control.

➤ What you need to know about Kansas

Election denier Cleta Mitchell keeps granting DHS official Heather Honey a lot of money

• Anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell keeps giving money to Heather Honey, an election conspiracy theorist who was hired last year by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for a new “election integrity” post.
  
  
• Honey and Mitchell have a long track record of working together to undermine election security and spreading false claims of voter fraud. Honey founded the anti-voting Pennsylvania Fair Elections group, which is part of the Election Integrity Network (EIN) run by Mitchell.

➤ Inside their financial relationship

Who will stand up to Trump?

• If you haven’t signed up to join our community on Reddit, you should consider doing so now. You’ll see posts like this one, where Marc asks “Who today in the Republican Party will stand up to Donald Trump?”

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Keep an eye on next week for some major news

• Next week, Maryland lawmakers will convene to consider putting a redistricting amendment before voters in November. It’s the first step toward redrawing the state’s congressional map to dismantle its lone red district.
  
  
• We will have more coverage next week, but in the meantime, here’s what you need to know.

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New Jersey decisively rebuffs DOJ voter data grab

• The Garden State delivered two major wins against the Trump DOJ’s effort to seize private voter data.
  
  
• Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) formally refused DOJ’s demand for personal information about thousands of noncitizens affected by a state registration error, saying the request had “no legal basis.”
  
  
• A federal judge then dismissed DOJ’s lawsuit seeking New Jersey’s unredacted voter rolls, bringing the department’s record in voter roll cases to 0–18.
  
  
• Together, the developments protect sensitive voter information and reinforce that the federal government cannot use isolated errors to justify sweeping demands for the private records of millions of voters.

➤ The latest on the wins in New Jersey

Trump’s anti-mail voting order remains blocked in 23 blue states and D.C., DOJ turns to Supreme Court

• A federal appeals court declined to pause a ruling blocking Trump’s executive order targeting mail voting in 23 Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C.
  
  
• The order would have let USPS refuse to deliver mail ballots unless states handed over sensitive voter data. DOJ has asked the Supreme Court to intervene, but for now, courts continue to protect mail voting and state control over elections.

➤ What to know about Trump’s anti-mail voting order