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The Election Deniers Who Could Become Governor

“Political figures who took leading roles in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election appear on track to win the Republican Party’s nomination for governor in several of t...

On CNN, Democrat 'Election Deniers' Get a Pass

In many states, election-denying candidates are running to control voting

In 23 states, including five presidential swing states, candidates who have denied election results are running for offices that have a direct role in certifying future elections,...

An Election Denier is the GOP Front-Runner in Georgia

New York Times: “Burt Jones, the Republican front-runner in the Georgia governor’s race, presents his considerable efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss in 2020 as a bad...

Republicans who denied 2020 election results could be governors next year

Winners will have oversight of 2028 elections in swing states like Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

Election denial is a fault line in Republican primary for Georgia secretary of state

ATLANTA (AP) — The specter of the 2020 election — when President Donald Trump refused to accept his loss to Democrat Joe Biden — continues to haunt Georgia and casts a long shadow...

The Next Attorney General Will Probably Be an Election Denier

Pam Bondi's DOJ left election deniers frothing for more. Potential candidates for the attorney general job could give them what they want.

In the Georgia Governor’s Race, an Election Denier is the G.O.P. Front-Runner

Burt Jones, the leading G.O.P. candidate for governor, worked with Trump allies to try to overturn the election, and even talked to the president himself.

Tom Tiffany doubles down on 2020 election denialism

The Republican candidate for governor endorses Trump’s FBI “investigation” in Wisconsin and still won’t say who won that race. (It was Biden.) The post Tom Tiffany doubles down on...

Unrepentant Election Denier Tina Peters Granted Clemency By Dem Governor

A former county clerk turned election denier, Tina Peters, was granted clemency by Colorado’s Democratic governor for a completely unknown reason. Peters is a huge Trump supporters...

Question of the Week: Tiffany’s 2020 election denialism

The Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor has a solid insurrection-adjacent record of quotes and votes. Does it matter? It's our newsletter Question of the Week for May 28. T...

Climate Deniers’ Ball

Steve Brodner Are YOU the doctor? The post Climate Deniers’ Ball appeared first on The Nation.

‘When You Think of It, We Shouldn’t Even Have an Election’

Who will keep the 2026 ballots straight?

2020 election misinformation continues to ripple through Wisconsin politics

As the long tail of the 2020 presidential election continues to reverberate through Wisconsin politics, a bipartisan pair of former elected officials sought to deliver a message of...

Election Conspiracies Are Moving From Rhetoric to Government Action

Attacks on the legitimacy of U.S. elections are no longer confined to conspiracy theories circulating online—they are increasingly shaping government action at the local level. In...

Republicans Try To Overturn Election After Virginia Makes Trump's Gerrymander Backfire

First, Trump screamed fraud about the Virginia special election and then Republicans found a conservative judge who invalidated the will of the voters, but an appeal is coming.

Peru candidate alleges election fraud amid tight electoral race

Peruvian presidential candidate Rafael Lopez Aliaga of the ultra-conservative Renovacion Popular party alleged fraud on Sunday regarding the country’s April 12 general elections an...

US court orders resentencing for Colorado clerk involved in election scheme

Former clerk Tina Peters has become a cause celebre for the election denial movement and President Donald Trump.

The liars, the deniers, and the aggressively ignorant

Individual responsibility and public accountability are casualties of the modern GOP.

Instead of Losing Democratic Elections, What If We Just Stopped Having Them Altogether?

“The Texas gerrymander freakout: What’s happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy.” — The Washington Post Editorial Board, 8/20/25 “For months, Democrats crafte...

I Was Talking To…

[Essay]Reality hit me!I was talking to a conservative who believes that there are riots in New York City because of the mayor, Zohran Mamdani... and that the news media is hiding i...

Democrats Have Completely Normalized Their Threats To Democracy

Republicans, take note: While it’s supposedly a major party foul to question the results of an election (at least when Republicans do it), it’s apparently just fine to undo the res...

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Tina Peters Edition!

It's absolutely bonkers how this saga keeps twisting like a pretzel in a political funhouse mirror. Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk, was convicted by a jury in a deep-red...

Election denier Tina Peters set for release after Colorado governor commutes sentence

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced Friday that he’s commuting the prison sentence of Tina Peters, a former county clerk and 2020 election denier who was sentenced to nine years be...