Try and Stop Us Digest — July 23, 2026
Your daily brief on the fight for the vote: Trump celebrates as election deniers sweep Arizona, Senate Democrats rehearse for midterm attacks, the SAVE Act passes the House riding on the defense bill, and officials in both parties say the feds have walked away from election security.
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Trump Celebrates as Election Deniers Sweep Arizona
NOTUS: “MAGA candidates won everything,” Trump crowed. Trump took a victory lap after his favored election denier candidates won Republican primaries in Arizona.
Democracy Docket: Election denial keeps a hold on the Republican party. Arizona's primary results offer a stark reminder that, over half a decade after the 2020 election, Republican voters remain in thrall to Trump's election denialism.
Democrats Rehearse for Attacks on the Midterms
MS Now: A dozen senators just spent two hours rehearsing for National Guard troops at polling places and AI-generated disinformation on Election Day. “If every time Trump did one of these things we just froze, he'd win,” Schumer said. Elections lawyer Marc Elias, who took part, said Trump's speech confirmed the threat is real: “After all of their digging and all of their lies, they don't actually have anything new.”
The SAVE Act Passed the House Attached to the Defense Bill
NOTUS / CBS: The House raced to pass a defense bill that has Trump's voter suppression law riding on its back. Speaker Johnson merged the already-House-passed SAVE America Act onto the NDAA to quell a hardline GOP revolt. The bill passed 216-212 and now heads to the Senate with the SAVE Act attached. House Speaker Mike Johnson called it the GOP's “best shot” to enact as much of the SAVE America Act into law “as possible.”
Election Officials in Both Parties Say the Feds Have Walked Away From Election Security
NOTUS: Georgia's Republican secretary of state used to get 30 federal election-security briefings a year. This year: zero. “We benefited from that regular coordination with CISA,” Brad Raffensperger said. Washington's Democratic secretary of state was blunter: “The federal government knows that there are nation-state actors desperately trying to come after us and cause chaos in our elections, yet, they are reducing resources.”
In the States
New Jersey: DOJ Demanded the Names of 6,600 Accidentally-Registered Noncitizens in 5 Days — but Legal Experts Say Prosecuting Any of Them Would Fail in Court
Reuters / Politico NJ Playbook / NOTUS / Fox News: Two election law attorneys told Politico there's no evidence of criminal intent — the registrants had correctly told the state they weren't citizens. Meanwhile, the software vendor IDEMIA is blaming the state, and Rep. Josh Gottheimer wants a federal audit of the company's other government contracts.
Georgia: Raffensperger's Office Pushes Back on Federal Demands, Says Non-Citizen Registrations Couldn't Happen There
AlterNet: “Georgia is a recognized leader in citizenship verification,” his office wrote in response to the same DOJ threat letter every state received, pointing to the state's REAL ID compliance and regular citizenship audits.
What Experts Are Saying
Vanita Gupta, former Associate Attorney General: “There's the flip side where people can only see the threats and then decide, ‘you know what, I'm too scared. I'm not going to vote. I'm going to stay home.' Voters need to feel confident.” (MS Now)
Headlines
Trump's Attacks on Voting
Media Matters: After Trump's address, election deniers claim vindication and say that voting restrictions and arrests are next
Wired: Conspiracy theorists think Trump's speech paves the path to the Insurrection Act
Congress
Rep. Ayanna Pressley: Pressley, Welch reintroduce bill to expand the right to vote and end felony disenfranchisement
In the States
Democracy Docket: Kansas elections chief launches legal full-court press against mail ballot grace periods
Democracy Docket: Judge keeps block on New Hampshire's proof of citizenship law in place, for now
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