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Trump pressed states for info on millions of voters in the midterms. It’s mostly failed.

Published Oct 13, 2026, 5:39 PM

Three weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge. The blistering court decision comes after the Department of Justice pressured or sued states for their voters’ information and then, according to court […]

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