Try and Stop Us Digest — July 14, 2026

Axios: Trump plans “potpourri” prime-time speech Thursday. A senior White House adviser tells Axios that Trump's Thursday prime-time address will cover election integrity, an update on Iran, and “whatever else he deems important.” The adviser described it as “a potpourri.” Trump plans to present findings from his intelligence officials about their review of the 2020 election.

Reuters: Trump to assert voting machine vulnerabilities in Thursday speech. An administration official told Reuters that Trump will use Thursday's address to assert that voting machines contain vulnerabilities that could permit foreign cyber intrusion — a claim election officials and the federal cybersecurity watchdog have consistently rejected.

MS Now: Trump election task force to begin releasing classified intel documents. Thursday's speech is part of a broader, coordinated effort: a new White House task force is expected to begin releasing thousands of pages of classified intelligence documents within weeks, purporting to show irregularities in past U.S. elections. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence — led by acting chief Bill Pulte — will be part of the effort. Election security experts say the release is designed to flood the information ecosystem with debunked conspiracy theories about 2020. Jonathan Diaz of the Campaign Legal Center called it “a new frontier,” warning: “I don't think we've ever seen an administration that is this hostile to voting rights and free and fair elections.”

The New Republic: Trump loses 13th straight attempt to get state voter rolls. The Trump Justice Department has filed 31 lawsuits to force 30 states and D.C. to hand over their unredacted voter rolls. Its record is now 0-13. A George W. Bush-appointed judge in West Virginia dismissed the latest attempt Monday, finding DOJ had failed to provide the “factual basis” and “statement of purpose” required by the statute it invoked. In a scathing footnote, the judge wrote that “one is left to wonder what the real purpose was for the Justice Department to go to the trouble of filing civil actions like this one all around the nation.” Protect Democracy has described the effort as “an unprecedented and unconstitutional incursion” aimed at setting the stage for “purges of eligible voters, election subversion in 2026, and the invasion of fundamental privacy rights.”

Democracy Docket: DHS relaunches voter purge database in 4 red states. Even as courts block its voter roll lawsuits, DHS is exploiting conflicting court orders to quietly restore access to the controversial SAVE citizenship database for Florida, Ohio, Iowa and Indiana. DHS told a D.C. judge it was complying with her order shutting the database down, while simultaneously providing a “technical workaround” to restore bulk access for the four states. The League of Women Voters, Democracy Forward, the Fair Elections Center and EPIC asked the D.C. judge to block the carve-out. A hearing is set for July 20.

Media Matters: MAGA media's laughable propaganda about Trump's popularity is instrumental to the plot to subvert elections.

NPR: Some states will ask voters to make it harder to pass constitutional amendments.