Try and Stop Us Digest — July 30, 2026

Courthouse News: Twelve Republican-led states just asked the Supreme Court to let Trump restrict mail voting nationwide. Missouri leads the Republican coalition, arguing states have “a concrete interest” in Trump's order taking effect. The filing comes days after DOJ made its own emergency request — and after the 1st Circuit found Trump's order would “sow confusion and threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters.” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has set an August 3 deadline for the 23 Democratic-led states to respond.

CBS News: The administration's follow-up “fact sheet” doesn't specify what private voter data China allegedly obtained, which states were affected, or how China got it — but insists it's a major threat anyway. An administration official told reporters intelligence agencies believe China “purchased, stole or hacked” the files but “cannot confirm what percentage was taken through those methods.” Election experts note that voter registration data is often publicly available in the first place — meaning “hacking” it would be unnecessary. The government's own 2021 assessment found no foreign actor altered any technical aspect of the 2020 election.

Democracy Docket: Nevada's secretary of state is asking DHS the questions nobody else has gotten answered: how many matches are exact, did DHS use AI, and did it rely on a database courts have already found unreliable. DHS claimed nearly 16,000 suspected noncitizens on Nevada's rolls without identifying a single one. “DHS does not dispute that the SAVE system has erroneously flagged citizens as noncitizens,” Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar's letter notes. He gave DHS until July 30 to respond.

NJ Spotlight News / Politico: An early review found “a number” of the roughly 6,600 flagged registrants “may be citizens” after all — 2,100 names are now under county review specifically to make sure no lawful voters get disenfranchised. Separately, a federal judge dismissed DOJ's lawsuit for the state's unredacted rolls, the 18th straight loss for the administration's nationwide data grab. DOJ says it will appeal.

Semafor: Midterm election fears run high, poll finds