Try and Stop Us Digest — July 24, 2026
Your daily brief on the fight for the vote: election officials build a national war-room network for Election Day, 25 states sue over Trump using disaster funding as election leverage, and a Trump-appointed judge tosses the DOJ's lawsuit for Kentucky voter data.
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Election Officials Build a National War Room Network for Election Day
New York Times: State AGs and secretaries of state ran tabletop drills for FBI raids, federal troops at polls, and Trump declaring an election emergency. “The sad reality now is that the federal government is our biggest concern,” said Washington AG Nick Brown. Two years ago, disruption scenarios “would have seemed like a joke,” he said. “Now they are very real.”
CNN: Republican officials from three states told CNN Trump's declassified documents contained nothing they hadn't already seen. “A lot of laughing emojis, and like, ‘you got to be kidding me?'” said Colorado's Matt Crane, describing his bipartisan group chat. Georgia officials found only 20 of the 2,549 people DHS flagged had ever actually voted.
25 States Sue Trump Administration Over Using Disaster Funding as Election Leverage
NOTUS: DHS is withholding 20% of anti-terrorism grant money from states that won't adopt Trump's preferred voting rules. More than $1 billion is at stake. “The conditions DHS is trying to impose would require states to make sweeping changes to the way we conduct elections,” said Illinois AG Kwame Raoul.
In the States
Arizona: GOP Nominee for Governor Andy Biggs Won't Say if Katie Hobbs Legitimately Won in 2022
AZFamily: “Andy Biggs is an election denier — we all know that,” Hobbs responded.
Kentucky: A Trump-Appointed Judge Just Tossed DOJ's Lawsuit for Sensitive Voter Data
Kentucky Lantern: “Kentucky's elections are secure, and so is your personal information,” said GOP Secretary of State Michael Adams.
New Jersey: Gov. Sherrill Won't Hand Over Noncitizen Voter Data DOJ Wants; Software Vendor Blames the State for Errors
Wall Street Journal / Politico: “We are not in the practice of turning this kind of personally identifying data over to the federal government because we have seen them weaponize it,” Sherrill said. Software vendor IDEMIA's VP says the noncitizen data “was recorded correctly and always available” — the state just failed to act on it for two years.
What Experts Are Saying
Strength In Numbers / Verasight poll: On how the more people learn about the SAVE Act, the less they like it: “Support actually peaks among registered voters who've heard just a little about it — 58% back a documentary citizenship requirement, vs 35% oppose it. Among those who've heard a lot, on the other hand, it's nearly a coin flip: 53% support to 45% oppose, a net of just +8. It is usually a bad sign when the people paying the closest attention to your bill aren't its most supportive, but the largest detractors.”
Raymond La Raja, Professor of Political Science, UMass Amherst: On why SAVE Act support collapses under scrutiny: “A substantial portion of the law's own supporters express reservations about its potential real-world consequences for denying the vote to eligible citizens, such as people of color, students and older people. Americans may support the principle of citizenship verification in the abstract while remaining genuinely uncomfortable with who gets caught in the net.” (Democracy Docket)
Headlines
Trump's Attacks on Voting
Democracy Docket: “Cut off at the knees”: Election chiefs fear long-term damage from Trump's EAC firings
Congress
NOTUS: John Thune and the White House are openly fighting over the SAVE Act
Courts
Democracy Docket: Judge says Trump's attack on mail voting is ‘unconstitutional,' legal challenge can continue
In the States
KXXV: Election errors found in Texas voter database ahead of November election
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