Try and Stop Us Digest — July 21, 2026
Your daily brief on the fight for the vote: Trump's DOJ launches an “election integrity” website riddled with fabricated data, election officials in more than 30 states spend the weekend debunking his speech, and even Trump concedes the full SAVE Act won't survive the budget process.
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Trump's DOJ Built an “Election Integrity” Website — Full of Fabricated Data
Democracy Docket: The DOJ's new election integrity site logged “completed” enforcement actions in states weeks before those actions were scheduled to happen. The site claimed voter roll inspections in Florida, Kansas and South Dakota were “completed” on Aug. 14 — a date that, as of launch, was still a month away. It also invented a Massachusetts county that doesn't exist, and misdated a North Carolina lawsuit to make it look faster and more decisive than it actually was. The site omits that DOJ has lost all 16 voter roll cases decided so far.
Election Officials in More Than 30 States Spent the Weekend Debunking Trump
Democracy Docket: Republican and Democratic election officials across the country independently rebutted Trump's claims within days of his speech. Georgia's Republican elections chief said the state's own audit found exactly one noncitizen on its rolls. Idaho's Republican secretary of state called DHS's “4,000 dead voters” finding routine, not scandalous. Connecticut's secretary of state and election officials in Virginia, Maryland and Florida all separately said their systems are secure and Trump's China data claim is meaningless because that voter file “is everywhere.”
Even Trump Is Admitting the Full SAVE Act Won't Survive the Budget Process
Talking Points Memo: Trump conceded in a Truth Social post that the SAVE Act can't be fully stuffed into the reconciliation bill Republicans are trying to pass without Democratic votes. Budget reconciliation rules bar provisions unrelated to spending, so House Republicans are instead offering states $10 billion in grants to voluntarily adopt Trump's voter ID and citizenship-proof rules — which Democrat-led states can simply decline. Senate Republicans and leadership sources are already calling the plan “half-baked” and “not viable.”
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The Hill: Warner rails against Trump's primetime speech: “This guy is not looking for a secure election”
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Democracy Docket: Voting rights groups seek to shut down voter purge database in four GOP-led states
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