‘I Don’t Trust You’: Trump Administration Election Security Call Gets Testy as Democratic State Officials Push Back on Federal Pressure.

Tensions boil over on Trump administration’s election security call

Democratic election officials criticized Homeland Security leaders on a call Monday for lackluster support as the midterm election looms. (Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)Tensions between state election officials and the Trump administration are rising as we head into the heart of the midterm election season. Frustrations boiled over on Monday during a rare election security call hosted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secur…

Tensions reach boiling point on election security call for state leaders

Adrian Fontes in January 2026. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Tensions between state election officials and the Trump administration are rising as we head into the heart of the midterm election season. Frustrations boiled over on Monday during a rare election security call hosted by the Cybersecu…

Tensions reach boiling point on Trump administration's election security call for state leaders

There were 321 ballot drop boxes across Oregon ahead of the 2026 primary election, including this one at the Albany Public Library. (Photo by Mia Maldonado/Oregon Capital Chronicle)This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Tensions between state election officials and the Trump administration are rising as we head into the heart of the midterm electi…

Trump admin's $1 billion election ultimatum immediately sparks new legal war

The Department of Homeland Security was dragged into federal court this week after threatening to withhold $1 billion in anti-terrorism funding for several states if they don't change election rules.In Nashville vs. DHS, a bombshell federal lawsuit filed Monday by the Brennan Center and co-counsel on behalf of cities and counties challenging DHS's demand warned that the Trump administration's coercive move would not go down without a fight. The …

‘I don’t trust you’: Tensions boil over on Trump administration’s election security call

Adrian Fontes in January 2026. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)Tensions between state election officials and the Trump administration are rising as we head into the heart of the midterm election season. Frustrations boiled over on Monday during a rare election security call hosted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for state officials. During the call, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes unloaded on the agen…

Trump Administration Readies 1,000 Election Monitors

“The Justice Department plans to send 1,000 monitors to watch voting during the midterm elections in November, a historic figure for a Republican administration,” Bloomberg reports.