Try and Stop Us Digest — July 27, 2026
Your daily brief on the fight for the vote: an appeals court blocks Trump's mail-voting order in 23 states — with even a Trump-appointed judge agreeing — his 250,000-noncitizen claim collapses to 118,003 unexplained matches, and prosecutors can't turn the fraud claims into real cases.
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Appeals Court Blocks Trump's Mail-Voting Order in 23 States — Even a Trump-Appointed Judge Agreed
AP / New York Times / Reuters / Guardian: An appeals court upheld the block on Trump's order to create a national voter list and restrict mail ballots, ruling that it “sows confusion and threatens disenfranchisement.” Trump's order directed federal agencies to compile a national citizenship list and required USPS to deliver mail ballots only to people on it. Even the Trump-appointed judge on the panel agreed the order threatened “concrete injury” to legal voters. DOJ says it's weighing a Supreme Court appeal.
Trump's Alleged 250,000 Noncitizen Voters Number Doesn't Add Up
Votebeat: DHS letters only document 118,003 actual matches — less than half of what Trump claimed. The letters don't explain where the rest of the number comes from. “There is no reason to trust anything in the order of that 250,000 number,” said Aaron Blacksberg of the Institute for Responsive Government. “That will absolutely fall apart under any scrutiny.”
Prosecutors Can't Turn Trump's Fraud Claims Into Real Cases
Washington Post: One noncitizen who registered had Alzheimer's. Another didn't know he was on the rolls at all — real cases keep collapsing into innocent mistakes. Prosecutors have investigated and declined to charge multiple cases where noncitizens registered by accident or misunderstanding. DOJ has meanwhile dismantled the Public Integrity Section that used to keep politics out of election cases, handing them instead to political appointees, some of whom have pushed 2020 conspiracy theories themselves.
“A Nuclear Bomb to Kill an Ant”
NOTUS: New Jersey is leaning into transparency on its voter error while the White House tries to weaponize it for the SAVE Act. “It's 400 voters in the state of New Jersey after a glitch,” said election expert David Becker. “They're trying to use a nuclear bomb to kill an ant.” Sherrill fired back at Trump directly: “Donald Trump has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity.”
In the States
Texas: Talarico Says the State's Anti-Fraud Crusader Has Been Committing Fraud the Whole Time
Texas Tribune: Paxton voted from an address he no longer lives at in six straight elections, per ProPublica/Tribune reporting. “That smacks of rank hypocrisy,” said a UT San Antonio political science professor.
What Experts Are Saying
Justin Levitt, Loyola Law School: On why noncitizen voting cases are nearly impossible to prosecute: “It's the opposite of a perfect crime. It's the least perfect crime. It's leaving a paper trail for the crime.” (Washington Post)
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Fox News: DOJ official blasts NJ scandal, vows ‘broken window' approach to prosecute every noncitizen voting case
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