At least $1 billion from anonymous donors is flowing into the midterm elections. Dark money is not new, but it now permeates nearly every major contest. nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/po…

What the Evidence Actually Shows Trump's foundational claim that mail-in voting is systemically fraudulent has no evidentiary support from election officials, courts, or independent researchers. A Pew Research Center poll found that 58% of Americans favor allowing voters to cast ballots by mail if they want to. Republican Party officials at both the state and national levels have practically begged Trump to stop making this claim because they want the GOP base to use mail-in voting. MS NOW On his repeated assertion that the U.S. is "the only country" using mail-in voting: Data from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance found that 34 countries or territories allow mail-in voting. The U.S. has had voting by mail since the Civil War. Australia introduced postal voting more than a century ago, and all Canadians are eligible to use it. UCLA election law professor Rick Hasen called Trump's broader claims about controlling federal elections "wrong and dangerous," writing that "the Constitution does not give the President any control over federal elections." PBS Bottom Line: Trump has voted by mail at least four documented times — twice during his first term, twice in his second — while publicly calling the practice corrupt, fraudulent, and a form of "cheating." His stated justification applies to millions of Americans he simultaneously seeks to restrict. No U.S. court, election official, or nonpartisan researcher has found evidence of widespread mail-in voter fraud. His own administration officials confirmed this after 2020. nitter.cf/DemocracyDocket/status…