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Dispatch Live: Election Night is on. Steve Hayes and Sarah Isgur on the results as they come in, with @DavidAFrench, @JonahDispatch, @GraysonLogue, @asymmetricinfo, @McCormackJohn, @stephen_richer, @markbsawyer, @MichaelRWarren, and Kevin Williamson.
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Don’t miss our newsroom breaking down the election results live! I’ll be on at 9:30 to discuss how the actual voting process went across our roughly 100k polling sites and what to pay attention to over the coming days re: election security and certifying the final results.
Election results are rolling in. At 9 p.m. ET, co-hosts Steve Hayes and Sarah Isgur make sense of them on Dispatch Live, joined by voices from across the newsroom (and some special guests). Open to all viewers, here on X and on YouTube.
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Another L for the DOJ in its last-minute litigation over its allegations of 20k noncitizen voters on California’s voter rolls.
"We decline the United States’s invitation to contravene the Elections Clause by undermining the Constitution’s plain text."
In other words, the Ninth Circuit majority says no thanks to the Trump regime's anti-Constitutional request to sideline 20,000 California ballots based on 11th hour, spurious claims of "likely" noncitizen voting.
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Over its 33 years of covering Russia, six of Novaya Gazeta’s journalists have been killed. Now, this renowned independent newspaper is being forced to shut down. The announcement’s headline reads: “They killed us.” novayagazeta.ru/articles/202…
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NEW: My midterms cheat sheet features 670+ races—up and down the ballot, & why they matter.
Now it's in PDF, printable form!
Save it, print it, give it to your kids to color the Senate map, & use it your worksheet on election night.
Find it here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ba…
Judge Carter minces no words in denying DOJ's request in its 20k ballot suit against CA. Yikes.
"If Plaintiff’s last-minute request for relief were granted, either party could create chaos for their own political purposes to disrupt the election process."
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“These folks don’t have magical powers. They have the authority, the legal authority, that any member of the public has to observe.” - Justin Levitt | Article by @markbsawyer
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DHS will do an election security “debrief” and consider making changes after the midterm elections, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told CISA personnel Tuesday. With @johnnysaks130 for Pros: subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
Lawmakers "stressed that any political figure supportive of Ukraine — on both sides of the aisle — was likely on Russia’s radar... the U.S. [IC] has not seen evidence that Russia has tried to hack election infrastructure or political campaign networks." politico.com/news/2026/10/21…
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NEW: Trump called Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on a military-grade version of Starlink in Ukraine that the SpaceX chief had throttled, U.S. officials said.
The system was working more normally Thursday, shortly after their conversation, per Us and Ukrainian officials
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BREAKING: Federal authorities are investigating letters with "suspicious substances" that have been mailed to congressional and election offices nationwide. apnews.com/article/fbi-posta…
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When Ukraine hit Russian data centers earlier this month, some suspected it disrupted Russian bot networks on social media. A review of our data found no evidence that's actually the case.
I talked to @markbsawyer about what we're (not) seeing: thedispatch.com/article/ukra…
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When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks. cfl.re/3VQ5uTA
NEW: Have you ever wondered what you'd see on X if you could unmask all the Russian bots at once? This week, it seemed like we got a taste of that reality after Ukrainian drone strikes disabled Yandex data centers. If only it were that easy.
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As @ichbinilya noted, "it's hugely important for those of us who support Ukraine to practice good epistemic hygiene." It's an emotionally satisfying narrative after a hard week for Ukraine, but you can be sure Russia will weaponize it to sow more doubt. xitter.cf/ichbinilya/status/2109…
Last night I was struck — really, almost radicalized — watching in real time as experts at the heights of their careers boosted emotionally satisfying narratives that were pretty much entirely wrong.
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For example, the Russian Matryoshka network is already on it. xitter.cf/antibot4navalny/status…
Yesterday Matryoshka bots showed an early preview of how the "Ukraine missile silenced Yandex bots" viral hoax can be weaponized in the coming months.
If pro-Ukraine officials, media and opinion leaders were deceitful about bots, the Kremlin claims they are also: ⤵️
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SCOOP: The North Carolina State Board of Elections plans to send letters next week to 1,599 voters flagged earlier this year as potential noncitizens by the SAVE database. NCSBE spox told me that these voters will have no change to their registration status before E Day. #ncpol
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Tyson said the Board of Elections compared the initial list of 1,599 potential noncitizens produced by the SAVE database with their records and NC DMV records, but said that process did not validate the citizenship of any of the 1,599 voters.
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Lists generated by uploading voter rolls to the SAVE database have had high rates of false positives in other jurisdictions, including TX, MO, and AZ. Tyson says the NCSBE is not as worried about this because they are using a voluntary response process.
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