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Last Friday, September 18, Trump banned a handful of news organizations from the White House.

By Saturday morning, Secret Service officers were turning reporters away from entering and even confiscating some press passes and disabling others.

By Monday the five major TV networks that operate the White House TV, Fox News included, stopped supplying shared footage of presidential events.

And by Monday night, the White House launched their own Trump TV.

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Judge Timothy Kelly (-Trump appointee) is scheduled to hear the emergency request today at 3:30 p.m. Eastern. (09/23/26)

What happened: Why Five Networks Suspended White House Coverage

Five networks ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC take turns recording presidential events and sharing footage with other news organizations. When the White House removed CNN from its regular scheduled assignment on September 21, the other networks banned together and refused to replace it and suspended their shared coverage of presidential events, even Fox…

Fox News joined the decision. Its Washington bureau chief, Bryan Boughton, who chairs the television pool this quarter announced the suspension.

During a White House helicopter pad ribbon cutting ceremony, the absence of pool microphones left Trump’s remarks largely inaudible. C-SPAN couldn’t carry the event without its usual feed, while Newsmax aired the government’s video without usable audio.

Trump TV Launched but Independent Reporting Continues

Trump TV Launches as the Press Access Dispute Escalates:

Hours after the September 21 lawsuit was filed the White House launched Trump TV , a 24/hour YouTube stream featuring presidential speeches and administration highlights.

Official government footage can be a valuable primary source. But Trump TV’s programming is selected by the Trump administration, unlike independent journalism, who can investigate official claims, question officials, and report info absent from official communications.

The limits of the White House ban became clear on Tuesday when Trump objected to CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins covering his arrival at the United Nations:

“The United Nations allowed us in, sir,” Collins replied before continuing her question. The UN issues its media credentials, allowing the affected news organizations to continue reporting from its events.

Can the White House Ban Journalists Over Their Reporting?

What the Law Says About Banning Journalists

The Trump administration is saying that the White House access is a privilege, not a constitutional right, and the president can restrict access for national security reasons. CNN, MS NOW, and Politico argue that they’re excluded because of their reporting, violating First Amendment rights.

In 2018, federal Judge Timothy Kelly (a Trump appointee) ordered the White House to temporarily restore CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s press credentials, citing due process concerns. Kelly is also overseeing the current lawsuit.

The judge is scheduled to hear the news organizations emergency request on September 23 at 3:30 p.m. Eastern. This ruling could temporarily restore access.

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The 1917 Information Campaign: A Lesson From American History

When the U.S. Government Produced Its Own News in the past

In April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson created the Committee on Public Information to build public support for World War I.

Led by former journalist George Creel, the agency provided government produced stories to newspapers and published a daily newspaper, the Official Bulletin.

By Creel’s estimate, its news division placed material in 20,000 newspaper columns weekly. The government restricted journalists access to various wartime information, making official accounts an important source of coverage.

The committee demonstrated how government produced news shapes public understanding when access to independent information is limited.

Five Tools to Fact-Check Your Government

Public records, recordings, and independent reporting can help you separate official statements from verified facts.

We’ve created a free guide with five tools to help you find full recordings, read White House pool reports, examine executive orders, verify claims, and request government documents that you can find on our community network site: 50501.co

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ABC News, Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House

CNBC Trump snaps at CNN at United Nations

Variety Major TV Networks Suspend White House Pool Coverage of Trump

CNN Major TV networks stand with CNN, decline to replace its White House pool crew

MS NOW White House pool suspends TV coverage of Trump after CNN ban

NPR White House launches Trump TV after ban on major news outlets

WUSA9 What is Trump TV?

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On September 1, two new political groups were formed.

One called No Going Back PAC and the other called Safety and Affordability PAC… Neither with a previous history of political spending under those names.

Fifteen days later the Associated Press reported that Trump aligned groups reserved more than $130 million in midterm advertising.

No Going Back accounted for $98.5 million of that.

Safety and Affordability accounted for $27 million.

Both share a treasurer with MAGA Inc, which held more than $400 million as of late July.

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1. How Political Donors Give Millions Despite Contribution Limits

When we donate to another person’s campaign, the law caps it.

For the 2025-2026 cycle the Federal Election Commission set that cap at $3,500 per candidate per election.

Primaries and general elections count separately, so someone who gives the max in both has given $7,000 to one candidate across the cycle.

And candidates can spend unlimited amounts of their own personal funds on their own campaigns.

The FEC reported that between January 2025 and March 2026, congressional candidates raised $2.127 billion combined. Over the course of fifteen months, PACs raised $6.3 billion. This is roughly 3 times what all congressional candidates raised.

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2. How Super PACs Secured Power to Raise Unlimited Money

Most of us have heard of Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that lets corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money independently to support and oppose candidates. A few months later, an appeals court decided SpeechNow.org v. FEC . The court ruled that groups making independent expenditures only, couldn’t be subject to contribution limits.

Together these decisions helped establish the modern super PAC: An organization that can raise unlimited money from donors and spend it independently to support & oppose political candidates. However, super PACs can’t contribute directly to candidates or coordinate their independent spending with candidates campaigns.

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3. What Is Dark Money and How Does It Work?

Not every organization involved in an election is a political campaign: many are nonprofits. The tax status determines what political activities they’re able to conduct and if they have to publicly disclose their donors.

Now return to the business owner with $10 million: Instead of donating directly to a super PAC, where her name would appear, imagine she donates to a 501(c)(4), the nonprofit independently decides to contribute money to the super PAC, without the donor directing that transaction.

The super PAC’s filing identify the nonprofit as its donor but the nonprofit doesn’t have to publicly identify the people who fund it (the transfer is visible but the original donor might not be.)

This is one way dark money works. The public can see which organization provided money without knowing who funded the organization.

Making a contribution in someone else’s name is also prohibited and a nonprofit can legally make certain political contributions but can’t serve as a front for a donor seeking to evade campaign finance disclosure requirements.

This is why some advocacy organizations maintain separate 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) entities, each handling activities permitted under different legal structures.

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4. Political Ads Are Getting Millions While Voter Outreach Faces Funding Shortfalls

According to September 19 reporting by the Associated Press, progressive voter organizations are experiencing funding shortages ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Voter outreach organizations fund events/activities like registration drives, voter education and transportation assistance. These programs depend on nonprofit funding, grants, and donations.

America Votes , who coordinates more than 400 progressive organizations, reported funding levels below those of the 2022 midterms. A July fundraising memo cited by the AP found that voter mobilization groups it examined raised nearly 40% less than at comparable points in the 2018 and 2022 election cycles.

Vamos a Votar, a Latino voter engagement initiative operating across 10 states and 17 House districts, reported $5.4 million shortfall against its $27.5 million fundraising goal.

For perspective, the $5.4 million gap represents about 5.5% of the $98.5 million in advertising reservations reported for the newly formed No Going Back PAC.

In response, some organizations have reduced staffing and adjusted their outreach strategies, incorporating AI-assisted voter information, social media partnerships, and ride sharing programs to maintain services with smaller budgets.

5. How to Find Out Who Pays for Political Ads

Political ads and campaign finance records are publicly accessible, although disclosure requirements vary by organization.

Here are 3 ways to look into who’s funding political activity:

1. Check the advertisement

Federal law requires political ads to identify who paid for them and if a candidate authorized the message. An ad stating that it was “not authorized by any candidate” identifies spending outside a candidate’s campaign. Click here to read more about this.

2. Search the FEC database

At fec.gov/data you can search federal candidates to check out reported contributions, expenditures, and disclosed donors.

Candidate committees must publicly identify individuals whose contributions exceed $200 during an election cycle . For PACs and party committees, this threshold applies to contributions exceeding $200 during a calendar year.

Newly formed committees might not have filed their first financial reports. The next regular quarterly filing deadline is October 15, 2026 , however some committees have additional reporting-obligations.

3. Research nonprofit funding

The IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search lets you view available nonprofit financial filings including information about revenue, expenditures, and grants.

Most tax exempt organizations aren’t required to identify their donors. If a super PAC receives funding from a nonprofit, the financial records might identify the organization without revealing the individuals who originally provided the money.

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Put What You've Learned Into Practice

The next time you see a political ad… check its disclaimer.

Who paid for it and was it authorized by a candidate?

Use the FEC database to find the organization behind the ad, including its reported contributions, expenditures, and disclosed donors.

For official voting information, visit Vote.gov to find your state’s registration requirements, deadlines, and election resources, or for a state by state guide, click here.

You can help by checking your voter registration and sharing these resources with your communities.

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SUMMARY

Who controls the systems we use to vote, speak, and to be counted? The Court declined to let the Postal Service impose new mail ballot rules as states were beginning to send ballots, Reuters found election officials in both parties preparing for possible federal intervention, and Disney asked a judge to stop the FCC from reviewing eight broadcast licenses more than two years early.

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Monday

More than 30% of voters used mail ballots in 2024, and the Court left the existing system in place

In an unsigned order on Monday night, the Supreme Court refused to let the Postal Service enforce new mail ballot requirements for the November election. The rule would have required states to submit lists of eligible mail voters through a federal portal and use USPS approved ballot envelopes with identifying barcodes, and letting USPS decline to deliver ballots that didn’t comply.

The Court said the government was “unlikely to succeed on the merits.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed separately, writing that if the Postal Service ultimately has statutory authority to issue such a rule, state and local election officials didn’t have enough time to reasonably implement it before November.

Two lower courts already blocked the rule, including a second preliminary injunction issued late Sunday by Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee.

According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, about 30 percent of ballots in the 2024 election were cast by mail, with more than 47 million mail ballots counted.

The Supreme Court’s ruling leaves the new USPS requirements blocked for the 2026 election.

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Tuesday

More than 650 boxes of election files, seized

Reuters published an investigation Tuesday from interviews with more than 50 state and local election officials from both parties, including a dozen secretaries of state. Nearly all described adopting new strategies to prepare for political interference, cyberattacks, misinformation and threats of violence.

California officials have gamed out federal agents appearing at polling places, and Michigan is advising clerks on how to respond to federal demands for voting machines. More than a dozen officials told Reuters they hired outside attorneys or sought legal training for possible demands involving sensitive voting records or equipment.

On January 28, FBI agents seized more than 650 boxes of ballots and other records from the 2020 election from Fulton County, Georgia as part of a federal investigation into alleged election irregularities. Reuters reported that the allegations underlying the investigation included claims that had previously been rejected by courts and audits.

Georgia’s 2020 presidential results were counted 3 times, including once by-hand, with each count affirming Joe Biden’s victory.

Fulton County sued to recover the records but lost that effort in May, when District Judge J.P. Boulee ruled the federal government could keep materials while its investigation continued.

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A shoutout to Compassion Corner Chronicles for documenting what they witnessed outside the Burlington, Massachusetts ICE office on Wednesday. Their account included families searching for detained relatives, a seven-year-old whose grandmother is facing deportation, and a DoorDash driver who said he had just been released after 67 days in detention.

These firsthand accounts put faces and families behind immigration enforcement stories that can otherwise become statistics. Compassion Corner is continuing to show up and help people navigate frightening situations. 💛

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Wednesday

Up to $177 billion in federal grants have been cut, frozen, or delayed

On Wednesday, a new database attempted to put a number on the federal funding disruptions that have been happening across the country.

The Trump administration has cut, frozen, or delayed as much as $177 billion in federal grants, according to an analysis reported by the Associated Press.

The funding reached all 50 states and Washington, D.C., with some of the largest disruptions involving health care, nutrition, environmental programs, and disaster relief.

Among the affected programs were maternal-health funding in Michigan, education research in Mississippi, and assistance for minority farmers in Iowa. California, Texas, New York, Illinois, and North Carolina had the highest dollar amounts of interrupted funding.

The figure comes from Lost Funds, a database created by the States United Democracy Center and Grant Witness using federal spending data. The organizations estimate the disrupted grants represent nearly 10 percent of federal discretionary spending.

Some funding decisions remain tied up in court, meaning the final amount could change as lawsuits and administrative actions continue.

Macklemore turned the tour controversy into a $1 million donation

After being removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour, Macklemore announced he would donate the entire $1 million in net earnings he received from the tour to six organizations supporting Palestinians and humanitarian relief.

He also challenged New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to match the contribution.

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The Guardian reported Wednesday that Macklemore said he wanted to redirect attention away from himself and toward Palestinians affected by the conflict.

By then, all 4 of Ed Sheeran’s opening acts had withdrawn from the tour following Macklemore’s removal.

The controversy had started as a fight over one performer’s comments. (Read by clicking here.)

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Thursday

34.8 million, now in a different congressional district

A new report from Protect Democracy found 34.8 million people, (roughly one in ten), now live in a different congressional district than they did in the 2024 election cycle. About a fifth of the country lives in a district where more than a quarter of the voters are new.

The current redistricting fight began when Trump urged Texas Republicans to redraw their congressional map to benefit the party. California responded with a voter approved map designed to benefit Democrats, and other states followed.

The Associated Press described the result as an unprecedented wave of mid-decade redistricting and reported that the new maps create a partisan advantage for Republicans but the actual effect on House seats will depend on election results.

The Constitution requires national census every ten years but it doesn’t restrict states to redrawing congressional districts only once per decade.

Eight licenses, pulled forward from 2028

Disney and ABC told a federal judge Thursday that the FCC should be blocked from early review of eight ABC station licenses, arguing that Chair Brendan Carr is carrying out presidential directives aimed at curbing speech critical of the administration.

Those licenses were not due for consideration until October 2028. Carr ordered the reviews in April, the first time the FCC had ordered this kind of early review in more than 50 years, one day after the president called for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel.

A hearing is currently set for October 6. Broadcasters need FCC licenses to use public airwaves. License revocations are extremely rare, but critics argue that even the threat of losing a license can put pressure on broadcasters and raise First Amendment concerns about government interference in editorial decisions.

Disney says the early reviews are retaliatory and intended to punish broadcasters for speech the administration dislikes. The FCC disputes Disney’s case and has asked the court to dismiss it, arguing in part that the agency is entitled to investigate allegations involving the stations.

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Friday

Trump says CNN, MS NOW and Politico are banned from the White House

Trump just announced that CNN, MS NOW and Politico are banned from the White House “effective immediately,” accusing them of reporting what he calls “fake news.” Reuters reported that Trump also said the ban could extend to additional news organizations.

“I don’t want them here,” Trump told reporters, adding that he would take the ban “as far as you can.” The administration hasn’t explained how the restriction would work yet, and the Associated Press reported that journalists from the affected outlets remained on White House grounds Friday afternoon.

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Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3.

In person voting opens this Friday in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Virginia, and 50501’s No Kings: Vote Early day of action is Saturday, Oct. 17. Registration cutoffs start as early as Oct. 2.

Many states let you register the same day you vote and several states changed their rules this year, and the Supreme Court kept new mail-ballot restrictions from taking effect this fall.

Check your registration ASAP, even if you’ve voted at the same address for decades. Scroll to your state below.

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Yesterday was National Voter Registration Day 🗳️

On Friday, Idaho, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Virginia become the first states to open in-person voting for the 2026 midterms.

According to 2020 Census data, as many as 1 in 4 eligible Americans are not registered to vote or are not sure if they’re even registered. Most registration deadlines land in the first three weeks of October.

So here’s a full list we wish every voter had. It covers every state plus D.C., with the registration cutoff, the early voting window, and anything that changed this year.

Screenshot your state because you might need it in a few weeks.

Before you find your state below:

Check your registration today. Look yourself up at vote.org, even if nothing has changed for you. Some states are now running their voter rolls through a federal citizenship database that flagged people who turned out to be citizens.

Update it if something in your life changed like a new address, new last name, or moving to a new state.

If you vote by mail, send it back early! In 2024, over 100,000 ballots were rejected for arriving too late. Many states only count ballots that arrive by Election Day, so a postmark won’t save a late ballot. California’s Secretary of State recommends mailing at least seven days ahead. If your state counts postmarks and you have to mail on Election Day, ask for a hand postmark at the post office counter.

Know what ID to bring. Vote.org keeps a state by state voter ID guide you can view here.

Alabama

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 19 online, in person, or by mail (postmarked).

🗳️ No early voting. If you have an approved excuse, you can cast an absentee ballot in person with your county’s absentee election manager through Thursday, Oct. 29.

Alaska

📝 Register by Sunday, Oct. 4 online, in person, or by mail (postmarked). Since the deadline falls on a Sunday, online is the easiest.

🗳️ Early voting starts Monday, Oct. 19, and runs through Election Day. Hours vary by location, and mailed ballots must be postmarked by Nov. 3.

Arizona

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 5 (11:59 p.m.) online, in person, or by mail (postmarked).

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 7 through Oct. 30. Some counties offer emergency voting through Nov. 2. Mail ballots must arrive by 7 p.m. on Election Day.

⚠️ Arizona runs a two tier system. Voters whose citizenship can’t be verified and who haven’t provided documentary proof of citizenship can vote in federal races only.

Arkansas

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 5 in person or by mail (postmarked). Arkansas has no online registration.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 19 through 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2.

California

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 19.

✅ If you miss it, you can still register and vote at your county elections office or a voting location through Election Day.

🗳️ Every active voter gets a mail ballot, sent by Oct. 5. Drop boxes open Oct. 6, and vote centers open Oct. 24 in Voter’s Choice Act counties.

Colorado

📝 Register online or by mail (postmarked) by Monday, Oct. 26.

✅ You can register in person at a voter service and polling center through Election Day.

🗳️ Every active voter gets a mail ballot. In-person voting centers open Oct. 19 and run through Election Day.

Connecticut

📝 Register by Friday, Oct. 16.

✅ After that, use same day registration at your town’s designated location during early voting or on Election Day.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 19 through Nov. 1.

Delaware

📝 Register by Saturday, Oct. 10 at 11:59 p.m. State election offices are open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. that day.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 22 through Nov. 1, with no voting on Sunday, Oct. 25.

⚠️ Absentee voting requires an eligible reason, and ballots must arrive by 8 p.m. on Election Day.

District of Columbia

📝 Register online or by mail by Tuesday, Oct. 13 (must be received).

✅ Same day registration is available during early voting and on Election Day with proof of residence.

🗳️ Every active voter gets a mail ballot. Early vote centers are open Oct. 26 through Nov. 1, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Florida

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 5.

🗳️ Every county holds early voting Oct. 24 through Oct. 31. Counties can add days, starting as early as Oct. 19 and running as late as Nov. 1.

⚠️ Florida’s new proof-of-citizenship law does not take effect until Jan. 1, 2027, so it does not apply to this election.

Georgia

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 5.

🗳️ Early voting runs Tuesday, Oct. 13, through Friday, Oct. 30. Mail ballots must arrive by 7 p.m. on Election Day.

⚠️ If the state can’t confirm your citizenship through driver’s license data, you might be asked for documents. Check your status early.

Hawaii

📝 Paper registration forms are due by Monday, Oct. 26.

✅ You can register online any time or at a voter service center through Election Day.

🗳️ Hawaii votes by mail, and ballots should arrive by Oct. 16. Voter service centers are open Oct. 20 through Election Day, closed Sundays. Ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day.

Idaho

📝 Register online or by mail by Friday, Oct. 23 at 5 p.m. (must be received).

✅ After that, you can register at an early voting site or at your polling place on Election Day with proof of identity and residence.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 13 through Oct. 30 in counties that offer it. Some counties start later, so check yours.

⚠️ Mail ballots must reach your county clerk by 8 p.m. on Election Day. Postmarks don’t count.

Illinois

📝 Register by mail (postmarked) by Tuesday, Oct. 6, or online by Sunday, Oct. 18.

✅ After that, grace period registration lets you register and vote in person through Election Day, usually at your local election office.

🗳️ Early voting runs Sept. 24 through Nov. 2, with more locations opening closer to Election Day.

Indiana

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 5.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 6 through noon on Monday, Nov. 2.

⚠️ Indiana flags voters who registered with a temporary ID for citizenship checks. If you get a notice, you have 30 days to respond.

Iowa

📝 Register online or by mail (postmarked) by Monday, Oct. 19.

✅ Same day registration is available during early voting and on Election Day. Bring a photo ID and, if it lacks your current address, proof of residence.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 14 through Nov. 2.

Kansas

📝 Register by Tuesday, Oct. 13.

🗳️ Advance voting can start as early as Oct. 14, depending on your county, and runs through noon on Monday, Nov. 2.

⚠️ A new Kansas law requires periodic citizenship checks against a federal database. If you are flagged, you’ll need to prove citizenship to stay registered.

Kentucky

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 5.

🗳️ Early voting for everyone runs Thursday, Oct. 29, through Saturday, Oct. 31. Voters with an eligible excuse can vote early in the days before that.

⚠️ Kentucky’s 2026 election law creates a process that requires voters flagged by federal citizenship checks to prove citizenship, but that process doesn’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2028.

Louisiana

📝 Register in person, by mail, or at the OMV by Monday, Oct. 5, or online by Tuesday, Oct. 13.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 20 through Oct. 27, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Sunday, Oct. 25. Voting by mail requires an eligible reason.

⚠️ Louisiana has another election on Saturday, Dec. 12. It includes a runoff for any U.S. House race where no candidate tops 50% on Nov. 3, plus other races that may be on your ballot. Register for it by Nov. 12 (online by Nov. 21). Early voting for that election runs Nov. 28 through Dec. 5, closed Sunday, Nov. 29.

Maine

📝 Mail and online registrations must be received by Tuesday, Oct. 13 (online closes at 5 p.m.).

✅ You can register in person at your town or city office through Election Day. Bring proof of identity and residence.

🗳️ In person absentee voting at your town or city clerk’s office runs Oct. 4 through close of business Thursday, Oct. 29.

Maryland

📝 Register online or by mail (postmarked) by Tuesday, Oct. 13.

✅ Same-day registration is available during early voting and on Election Day with proof of address.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 22 through Oct. 29, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Massachusetts

📝 Register by Saturday, Oct. 24 online, in person, or by mail (postmarked).

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 17 through Oct. 30.

Michigan

📝 Register online or by mail (postmarked) by Monday, Oct. 19.

✅ After that, register in person at your city or township clerk’s office through 8 p.m. on Election Day with proof of residency.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 24 through Nov. 1. You can also vote an absentee ballot in person at your clerk’s office.

Minnesota

📝 Register online or by mail by Tuesday, Oct. 13 (must be received).

✅ Same-day registration is available during early voting and on Election Day.

🗳️ In-person absentee voting starts this Friday, Sept. 18, at select election offices. Every county adds early voting sites on Oct. 16, and early voting runs through Nov. 2.

Mississippi

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 5 in person or by mail (postmarked). Mississippi has no online registration.

🗳️ Mississippi has no early voting open to everyone. Voters with an approved excuse can vote absentee in person at the circuit clerk’s office through noon on Saturday, Oct. 31.

⚠️ A new law requires yearly citizenship checks against a federal database. If you get a notice, you have 30 days to send proof.

Missouri

📝 Register by Wednesday, Oct. 7.

🗳️ No-excuse early voting runs Oct. 20 through Nov. 2. Bring a photo ID.

⚠️ Missouri has run its rolls through a federal citizenship database that flagged hundreds of people who turned out to be citizens. Check your status now.

Montana

📝 Register by mail (postmarked) by Monday, Oct. 5. Montana has no online registration.

✅ After that, late registration is available in person at your county election office through Election Day. Check your county’s cutoff time.

🗳️ Early absentee voting runs Oct. 5 through Nov. 2.

Nebraska

📝 Register online or by mail (postmarked) by Friday, Oct. 16, or in person by Friday, Oct. 23.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 5 through Nov. 2.

Nevada

📝 Register by mail or in person by Tuesday, Oct. 6. Register online by Wednesday, Oct. 21 to get a mail ballot.

✅ Same-day registration is available at voting sites during early voting and on Election Day.

🗳️ Every active voter gets a mail ballot. Early voting runs Oct. 17 through Oct. 30. The state recommends mailing your ballot back at least a week before Election Day.

New Hampshire

📝 Register at your town or city clerk’s office before Election Day. The last pre-election session falls 6 to 13 days before Nov. 3, depending on your town.

✅ You can also register at your polling place on Election Day.

🗳️ No early voting. Absentee voting requires an eligible reason.

⚠️ A federal judge blocked the state’s proof-of-citizenship requirement in May, so new voters can sign a sworn citizenship affidavit. You still need proof of identity, age, and where you live. The state is appealing, so confirm current rules with your town clerk.

New Jersey

📝 Register by Tuesday, Oct. 13 online, in person, or by mail (postmarked).

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 24 through Nov. 1. Mail ballots go out by Sept. 19 to voters signed up for one.

New Mexico

📝 Register online or by mail (postmarked) by Tuesday, Oct. 6.

✅ Same-day registration is available at your county clerk’s office, participating early voting sites, and polling places on Election Day.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 6 through Oct. 31.

New York

📝 Register by Saturday, Oct. 24 (must be received).

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 24 through Nov. 1. On Oct. 24, the first day, you can register and vote in the same trip.

⚠️ Mail ballots must be postmarked by Nov. 3 and reach your county board by Nov. 10.

North Carolina

📝 Register by Friday, Oct. 9 at 5 p.m.

✅ Same day registration works during early voting. It is unavailable on Election Day.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 15 through 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31. Request a mail ballot by Oct. 20 and return it by 7:30 p.m. on Election Day.

North Dakota

📝 No registration required. Bring a valid ID showing your name, current North Dakota address, and date of birth.

🗳️ Early voting varies by county, opening as early as Oct. 19 where it is offered. Any voter can vote absentee.

Ohio

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 5.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 6 through 5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1. Regular absentee mail ballots must arrive by 7:30 p.m. on Election Day.

⚠️ A federal judge put Ohio’s proof-of-citizenship rule for BMV registrations on hold in August, and the state is appealing. Registering online never required it.

Oklahoma

📝 Register by Friday, Oct. 9.

🗳️ Early voting runs Wednesday, Oct. 28, through 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31.

Oregon

📝 Register by Tuesday, Oct. 13 online (until 11:59 p.m.) or by mail (postmarked).

🗳️ All voting is by mail, and ballots go out starting Oct. 14. Return yours by 8 p.m. on Election Day, or mail it so it is postmarked by Nov. 3 and arrives within seven days.

Pennsylvania

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 19 (must be received).

🗳️ No traditional early voting. Once ballots are ready, and no later than Oct. 20, you can request, fill out, and return a mail ballot in one visit to your county election office, through 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27.

⚠️ Completed mail ballots must reach your county by 8 p.m. on Election Day.

Rhode Island

📝 Register by Sunday, Oct. 4 online, in person, or by mail (postmarked).

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 14 through 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2.

⚠️ Rhode Island’s Election Day registration only applies to presidential races, so it will not help this year.

South Carolina

📝 Register in person by Friday, Oct. 2 at 5 p.m., online by Sunday, Oct. 4, or by mail (postmarked) by Monday, Oct. 5. That in-person cutoff is the earliest on this list.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 19 through Oct. 31, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Sunday, Oct. 25. Voting by mail requires a qualifying reason.

South Dakota

📝 Register in person or by mail by Monday, Oct. 19 (must be received). South Dakota has no online registration.

🗳️ In-person absentee voting starts this Friday, Sept. 18, at your county auditor’s office and runs through Nov. 2.

⚠️ New registrants must show proof of citizenship or they get a ballot for federal races only. Photocopies work for most documents, but people using a driver’s license or a state or tribal ID are being told to register in person. A lawsuit filed in August challenges the rollout.

Tennessee

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 5.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 14 through Oct. 29. Voting by mail requires an eligible reason.

⚠️ Tennessee checks voter citizenship against state and federal data. If you get a notice, you have 30 days to send proof, and photocopies are accepted.

Texas

📝 Register by Monday, Oct. 5 in person or by mail (postmarked). Texas has no online registration.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 19 through Oct. 30. Voting by mail requires an eligible reason, such as being 65 or older.

⚠️ Texas has been checking its rolls against a federal citizenship database. This week, state officials referred 117 people for investigation and confirmed that nearly 600 other flagged voters are citizens. Check your status now.

Utah

📝 Register online or by mail by Friday, Oct. 23 (received by 5 p.m.).

✅ You can register at an early voting site or on Election Day and vote a provisional ballot. Bring two forms of ID.

🗳️ Every active voter gets a mail ballot. Early voting starts Oct. 20, and end dates vary by county.

⚠️ Under a new law, voters without documentary proof of citizenship get a federal-only ballot. If you don’t have a valid Utah driver license or ID, bring proof when you register.

⚠️ Mail ballots must reach your county clerk by 8 p.m. on Election Day. Postmarks no longer count.

Vermont

📝 You can register through Election Day. If you register online or by mail, leave a few days for processing.

✅ Election Day registration is available at the polls with proof of residence.

🗳️ Ballots are mailed to every active voter by Oct. 1. You can vote early in person at your town or city clerk’s office once ballots are available, through Nov. 2.

Virginia

📝 Register by Friday, Oct. 23 (5 p.m. in person, 11:59 p.m. online, or postmarked by mail).

✅ After that, you can register in person and vote a provisional ballot through Election Day.

🗳️ Early voting starts this Friday, Sept. 18, and runs through 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31.

Washington

📝 Register online or by mail by Monday, Oct. 26 (must be received).

✅ You can register in person through 8 p.m. on Election Day.

🗳️ All voting is by mail. Ballots go out by Oct. 16, and voting centers are open from then through 8 p.m. on Election Day.

West Virginia

📝 Register by Tuesday, Oct. 13.

🗳️ Early voting runs Oct. 21 through Oct. 31.

Wisconsin

📝 Register online or by mail (postmarked) by Wednesday, Oct. 14.

✅ After that, register in person at your clerk’s office until Friday, Oct. 30, or at your polling place on Election Day. Bring proof of residence.

🗳️ In-person absentee voting runs Oct. 20 through Nov. 1. Dates and hours vary by town.

Wyoming

📝 Register by mail or at your county clerk’s office by Monday, Oct. 19.

✅ After that, register and vote absentee in person Oct. 20 through Nov. 2, or register at your polling place on Election Day.

🗳️ Early absentee voting runs Oct. 6 through Nov. 2. Mail ballots must arrive by 7 p.m. on Election Day.

⚠️ New for 2026, you must show proof of U.S. citizenship and 30 days of Wyoming residency to register. A Wyoming driver’s license or ID, U.S. passport, original or certified birth certificate, naturalization certificate, or Tribal ID all count.

Sources & Additional Reading

Vote.org, Voter Registration Deadlines & Calendar

Ballotpedia, Voter registration deadlines, 2026

Ballotpedia, Early voting dates, 2026

Center for Election Innovation & Research, Dates for 2026 Early In-Person and Mail Voting

VOTE411, League of Women Voters state voting guides

50501, Events

National Voter Registration Day

Nonprofit VOTE, National Voter Registration Day

Votebeat, Supreme Court blocks mail ballot restrictions for November

SCOTUSblog, the Watson v. Republican National Committee ruling

Bipartisan Policy Center, Watson v. RNC and late mail ballots

Bipartisan Policy Center, the SAVE America Act

National Association of Counties, House advances SAVE America Act

Democracy Docket, House budget framework with election grants

Fox News, Senate recess without passing the SAVE America Act

Center for American Progress, state proof of citizenship laws

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No Kings: Vote Early is set for October 17

The next No Kings national day of action is planned for Saturday, October 17. These events will be focused around checking registrations, learning voting rules for your state, finding polling locations, requesting ballots, making plans to vote, and helping others do the same. What October 17 looks like will vary depending on where you live.

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Monday

The midterms enter the final stretch

With 8 weeks remaining before the November 3 election, Republicans entered the final campaign stretch trying to protect their congressional majorities while facing voter concerns about the economy and Trump’s low approval ratings.

Reuters reported Monday that Democrats held an enthusiasm advantage and were favored by analysts to compete strongly for control of the House, while the Senate remained much less certain. Competitive Senate races stretch from Georgia and Michigan to traditionally Republican states including Texas.

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Tuesday

No Kings: Vote Early

The No Kings coalition officially announced October 17 as No Kings: Vote Early, a nationwide day of coordinated, nonpartisan action centered on early voting and voter participation.

Local events could include block parties, rallies and walks to polling locations, depending on voting rules.

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Wednesday

Trump promises $5,000 payments if Republicans win Congress (Which is why you NEED to vote)

Trump made one of the biggest talking points of the week during the Republican midterm convention in Dallas: a $5,000 “Trump dividend” for every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans hold control of both the House and Senate.

Reuters estimates that sending $5,000 to roughly 240 million adult citizens would cost about $1.2 trillion. Congress would have to authorize the spending before the checks could happen.

Trump and JD Vance have suggested tariff revenue could help pay for the plan but numbers don’t currently come close. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the government has collected about $167 billion in tariff revenue during the current fiscal year, compared with the estimated $1.2 trillion cost of the proposed checks.

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Thursday

Lawsuits challenge armed ICE enforcement at polling areas

LULAC, Common Cause, UnidosUS and the City and County of Denver filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy that they say allow armed ICE officers to enter polling places to conduct immigration enforcement.

The lawsuit followed comments from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin saying ICE officers could enter polling locations to serve warrants or conduct other immigration and customs enforcement activity. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C..

The plaintiffs point to an 1865 federal law that generally prohibits federal officials from ordering armed personnel to places where elections are being held, except to repel armed enemies of the United States. They argue that armed immigration enforcement at polling places could also intimidate voters and interfere with local election administration.

Appeals court keeps new mail ballot restrictions blocked

The First Circuit Court of Appeals declined Thursday to allow a new Postal Service rule tightening requirements for election mail to take effect while litigation continues.

The rules include requirements involving voter lists, approved ballot-envelope designs and unique barcodes. The appeals court left the lower court’s injunction in place after citing the risk of voter disenfranchisement.

The Justice Department has already asked the Supreme Court to intervene, so the rule’s ultimate fate remains unresolved.

DOJ tells 29 states to preserve 2024 election records

The Justice Department directed election officials in 29 states and Washington, D.C., to preserve records from the 2024 election as it continues litigation seeking access to detailed voter-registration information.

The Associated Press reported that the information sought in those cases can include addresses, dates of birth, driver’s-license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.

DOJ says preservation notices are standard during litigation. State officials have questioned the scope of the administration’s requests and raised privacy concerns, while federal judges have repeatedly dismissed some of the department’s lawsuits seeking detailed voter information.

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Friday

Flock keeps facing public skepticism

1,000 Americans found significant skepticism toward Flock Safety’s automated license-plate cameras. according to a recent Reuters poll.

When respondents were divided by age, party, gender and education, adults 55 and older and Republicans were the only groups in which a majority supported Flock technology in their communities. Among adults ages 18 to 34, support was just 21%.

Flock now operates about 120,000 license plate readers across every state except Alaska, but government scrutiny is growing.

Florida stopped new Flock installations on state highways on September 3, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott paused state funding for the technology on August 28.

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Print one and keep it with you. The national nonpartisan Election Protection coalition provides voting assistance at 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683).

Spanish-language assistance is available at 888-VE-Y-VOTA (888-839-8682). Asian-language assistance is available at 888-API-VOTE, and Arabic assistance at 844-YALLA-US.

Printable Election Protection Card Sheet: Please print, cut and share as a reference resource for your community members!

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The next No Kings day has officially been announced, but October 17 will look a little different.

Save the date: Saturday, October 17, 2026.

This isn’t meant to be another march:

We’re taking protest energy and putting it toward voter turnout.

If you’re expecting a day of marches and rallies, there will still be plenty of events to choose from: 50501.co has a map of events being added so check it regularly (Save 50501.co in your favorites or a bookmark tab if you can)

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Printable wallet cards: Share and take them with you!

Free printable voter wallet cards in both English and Spanish: You can download them from 50501.co, print a stack, and share them anywhere and everywhere, online or in person. Leave some with businesses that are willing to share them, bring them to community events, hand them out to friends and family or post the digital versions in your local groups. They’re completely free to download, print, and share widely!

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Register for the Kickoff Call

October 17 will be used to make sure every eligible voter has a plan to vote!

We need to make sure everyone understands their voting options and is prepared to make their ballot count.

This could be a march for your community but could also be a block party, cookout, voter registration event, walk to the polls with a small group, human chain, community gathering or another locally organized action. This is all up to your local organizers, if you have an idea or want to organize: you can also visit 50501.co to start a group.

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A quick shoutout to the people building 50501.co

You’ve put an incredible amount of work into making this site safe, useful, accessible, and valuable, not just for 50501 groups, but for organizers and communities across this movement.

I especially appreciate the philosophy behind it: no gatekeeping. If a tool can help people organize safely, connect locally, and strengthen this movement, it should be useful to everyone doing it. We are stronger, together.

Thank you for the hours, the problem solving, the safety work, and everything happening behind the scenes to make 50501.co better every day.

You all know who you are, thank you!

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October 17 is 17 days before Election Day

After more than a year of showing how many people are willing to stand up for democracy, No Kings and coalition partners like 50501, are asking communities to turn that energy into participation at the ballot box because voting really can make a difference if enough of us show up. Knowledgeable action is power.

But I can’t vote early on October 17…

Not every person will be able to vote early on the 17th.

Early voting works different in each state. October 17 can be a day to help make sure you have a voting plan when the time comes, or your community might be planning a big march.

Depending on where you live, your event might look like one of the following:

• Checking that your voter registration is correct

• Finding out when early voting begins in your state

• Locating your early voting or Election Day polling place

• Requesting an absentee or mail ballot

• Checking your state’s voter ID requirements

• Making transportation plans

• Helping others to make voting plans

Don’t wait until November 3 to figure out how you’re voting.

Sources + Get Involved

• No Kings: Vote Early kickoff call

• No Kings voting resources

• No Kings partners list

• Find a 50501 event

• Find a 50501 chapter

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This Labor Day May Day Strong is focused on training

More than 500 labor and community organizations participated in the May 1 mobilization this year. For Labor Day, the coalition focused on training.

From August 28 through September 14, May Day Strong is encouraging everyone to attend or host trainings, actions and “Solidarity Schools” designed to build organizing skills and prepare communities to coordinate during future campaigns and crises. The coalition is committed to lawful, nonviolent action and de-escalation.

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What is “Solidarity School”?

People who want to participate in pro-democracy movements need opportunities to learn how to organize.

Depending on the event, Solidarity School means: trainings, workshops or discussions focused on building strong communities.

May Day Strong is encouraging local groups to host trainings and they also provide Labor Day host toolkit, communications materials and event directory for those who want to participate.

What some of you might not know about May Day

The May Day labor tradition is closely tied to the American campaign for an 8 hour workday.

In 1886, workers across the US organized strikes and protests demanding shortened work hours, with Chicago being of the center of the movement.

That helped make May 1 a international day associated with workers and labor organizing. May Day is sometimes treated in the United States as foreign, a big part of its history grew from American workers organizing for rights that many of us take for granted.

How to participate

May Day Strong currently has an interactive map of trainings and actions happening around the country through September 14.

Find a May Day Strong action near you

Click here to see the Labor Day host toolkit and organizing resources

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If there were a Solidarity School near you, what would be useful: how to organize, how to get more people involved, protest safety and de-escalation trainings, workplace organizing?

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We are 60 days from the midterms!

Monday

Flock backlash is spreading in Michigan

Metro Detroit is another example of the growing battle over Flock plate readers, Westland is letting its contract for 10 Flock cameras to expire and bipartisan legislation pending in Michigan that would regulate how license plate reader data is used and disclosed. Ferndale already ended its Flock contract, while the ACLU of Michigan told Axios that grassroots opposition to the cameras has been “exploding” in recent months.

Shoutout to Cedar Springs, Michigan for showing up weekend after weekend and using their signs to get people talking about issues. Check out this heartfelt post by Diane💙

Tuesday

HSI began its election fraud surge

Homeland Security Investigations began a coordinated voter fraud initiative this week across 9 states. Agents have been directed to investigate leads, conduct interviews and help develop cases for federal prosecutors. Additional reporting has shown that USCIS investigators are also assisting with election related work, which is why our Wednesday article focused on how several parts of the federal immigration system are now being pulled into election enforcement less than two months before the midterms.

A Florida police department has been sharing plate data nationwide

Records obtained by the Miami News Times showed that the Hollywood Police Department in Florida shares license plate reader data with 365 law enforcement agencies across the country, as well as federal agencies. Hollywood Police use a combo of license plate reader technology from Flock and other companies. Records show the city bought 60 Flock cameras in 2024, making it another example of how locally collected vehicle data can become accessible beyond the community where the cameras are being installed.

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Wednesday

DOJ expanded immigration reporting requirements across state governments

The Justice Department announced a new legal interpretation saying that states participating in TANF and SSI require all parts of state government to report people they know are unlawfully present in the United States to DHS, not just agencies administering these programs. The new opinion withdraws a 1998 Justice Department opinion that interpreted the reporting requirement more narrowly, applying it to only specific state agencies administering TANF or SSI.

Under DOJ’s new interpretation, the requirement in Section 404 of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act applies across the entire state government, which could include agencies like state universities and motor vehicle departments. DOJ says failure to comply could lead to consequences including loss of program funding. This applies going forward and states will not be penalized for relying on the old interpretation.

Danbury Connecticut responded to ICE

After more than 100 immigration arrests were reported across Connecticut, with more than half occurring in Danbury, more than 60 businesses closed on Wednesday for a Day Without an Immigrant and over 1,000 people marched through the city that evening. Local community members of Danbury have been helping families find detained relatives and documenting encounters.

For people in the Greater Danbury area, the Unites for Immigrants has local legal resources, family preparedness information and a rapid response line: 475-237-7351.

Thursday

The White House Launched an Arcade About Trump’s Agenda

This looks like satire at first glace. The White House launched a game arcade Thursday, including “Build the Wall,” which tells players to “Protect the border from the coming horde,” and “Rio Run,” a Snake style game in which a Trump like character moves through the Rio Grande gathering people representing border crossers. Other games promote administration policies involving legislation, school food standards and Trump Accounts.

See for Yourself: White House Arcade

Flock is teaching police how its technology could monitor No Kings protests

404 Media published footage Thursday from a Flock training webinar held last year in which company personnel showed law enforcement how FlockOS and real time crime centers could be used to monitor planned events including parades, bike races and protests, using a No Kings peaceful protest as an example. The webinar isn’t new, the disclosure is. It adds evidence that protest surveillance was a capability Flock actively demonstrated to police instead of than merely an unintended use discovered by individual departments.

The mail-ballot battle reached the Supreme Court again

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Thursday to revive new Postal Service requirements for mail ballots after a federal judge temporarily blocked them, including requirements involving voter lists, ballot envelope designs and unique barcodes. The Supreme Court has not approved the rules. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson requested responses by September 8, while AP reported that the online portal states would need to use was still not operational Thursday.

Shoutout to EmpowHERed in Olney, Maryland for showing up week after week! This is sustained local action, neighbors getting organized, being visible, and getting loud! 💙

Friday

Today is the deadline Trump set for federal State Citizenship Lists

Trump’s March 31 election executive order requires DHS, working with USCIS and the Social Security Administration, to compile State Citizenship Lists from federal citizenship, naturalization, Social Security, SAVE and other government records and transmit updated versions to state election officials at least 60 days before a regularly scheduled federal election, for the November 3 midterms, that deadline is today.

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Investigators have been instructed to follow leads and help move cases to federal prosecutors.

The operation is set to start about two months before Election Day and planned to continue into the period when early and mail voting will be well underway in many parts of the country.

HSI is part of ICE but different from the part of ICE, its investigators work cases involving crimes with human trafficking, drug smuggling, financial crimes and child exploitation.

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Some immigration officers are being pulled away from their normal jobs

The Washington Post reported that hundreds of USCIS officers who usually investigate fraud & security concerns in immigration applications are now reassigned to review voter-data for noncitizens. DHS didn’t confirm the number, but a USCIS spokesperson confirmed the voter-data operation.

Immigration databases are participating in this

Trump has spent much of his second term directing federal agencies to use government records to identify possible noncitizens on voter rolls. A March 2025 executive order instructed DHS to compare state voter records with federal immigration databases and pointed the Justice Department to focus enforcement of laws against noncitizen voting.

Then came a second executive order, March 31, 2026 that took it further…

It directed DHS, working through USCIS and the Social Security Administration, to create a federal list for every state containing people the government can confirm are U.S. citizens, at least 18 years old and residents of that state, the Trump administration calls these “State Citizenship Lists.”

The order says the lists must be sent to state election officials at least 60 days before a scheduled federal election and for the November 3 midterms, federal court records calculate that deadline as September 4.

A May opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded that federal law allows DOJ to obtain statewide voter lists and share them with DHS, including HSI, so those records can be checked against federal databases.

What has the Government Found?

An August investigation by ProPublica looked at the federal government’s noncitizen-voting effort from January 2025 through May 2026.

Despite tens of thousands of leads, ProPublica found that less than 150 alleged noncitizen voters had been referred for prosecution. Forty one were charged with voting illegally or related election crimes, and prosecutors obtained convictions or guilty pleas in 14 cases through May.

It also shows why a database “match” shouldn’t be used as evidence that someone illegally voted, DHS says more than 250,000 potential-noncitizens have been identified on voter rolls in California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. State election officials questioned the numbers and how they were produced.

DHS initially suggested that nearly 16,000 noncitizens could be registered in Nevada.

After further review, federal officials told Nevada that they had confirmed 185 people as noncitizens, while more than 14,000 cases still required additional review, according to records reported by The Washington Post.

ProPublica reported that HSI personnel themselves warned internally that comparing voter lists against immigration databases without strong unique identifiers could generate large numbers of false matches.

Is all of this legal?

The legal concern is how voter information is collected and how much authority the president has on election administration and what states can be required to do.

A federal judge previously blocked portions of Trump’s March 2026 election order but on August 24, the Supreme Court stayed that injunction while litigation continues, allowing the administration to move forward

The Supreme Court said that the executive order directs federal agencies to create and transmit citizenship information but doesn’t require states to use the lists.

This is also Unusual Timing

The Justice Department recognizes that federal election investigations can influence elections just by becoming public.

Justice Manual says investigators generally should avoid overt criminal investigative steps involving alleged ballot fraud until an election is over because doing otherwise can chill legitimate voting and inject law enforcement into an ongoing political battle.

Exceptions can be approved. Read the Justice Department election-investigation policy

The DOJ policy addresses types of ballot-fraud investigations, and federal officials can investigate other election-related crimes before an election.

🗳️ Do This: Check your voter registration

Double check: Confirm your registration, address and other information by clicking here:

Update Voting Registration

Does something look off?

The Election Protection hotline is here to help you with registration problems, voting rules and more:

Call or text 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683).

Election Protection Help

Important Dates:

(And one to be announced soon… ❌👑❌)

September 4: Trump’s executive order requires DHS to transmit its State Citizenship Lists 60 days before the midterms.

September 8 New Hampshire Primary

September 9 Rhode Island Primary

September 15 Delaware Primary

Mid October: The new nine state HSI voter-fraud surge is scheduled to wind down.

November 3: Midterm Election Day.

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Sources & Additional Reading

Reuters: DHS launches voter-fraud investigation surge
Washington Post: immigration officers diverted to voter-fraud effort
ProPublica: Inside Trump’s effort to find noncitizen voters
Associated Press: examining the administration’s noncitizen-voting claims
DOJ: legal opinion on obtaining and sharing statewide voter rolls
Supreme Court: Trump v. California
White House: Executive Order 14399

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64 days until the November 3 midterms. Are we ready?

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Congress has new articles of impeachment

Rep. Al Green of Texas filed H.Res. 1486 on August 24, new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The resolution accuses Trump of abusing his presidential powers by allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to operate without accountability, assault civilians and cover up killings, including the deaths of Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

Green joined Texas state Rep. Christina Morales and Houstonians for Justice at an August 28 press conference supporting H.Res. 1486 and discussing accountability over ICE and CBP enforcement.

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FLARE USA & The Declaration of Support for Impeachment

USA, is the organization that maintained a protest and lobbying presence near the Capitol, they created a Declaration of Support for Impeachment you can check out by clicking here.

From the Declaration of Support for Impeachment, you can enter your address and identify your members of Congress.
It creates 3 declarations, one for your House representative and one for each senator.

After you electronically sign them, FLARE’s team will deliver the declarations to the congressional offices on your behalf.

Declaration of Support for Impeachment

FLARE is planning a three day congressional lobbying effort in Washington from October 6 through October 8, including an organizing kickoff, mass lobbying at congressional offices and follow-up accountability visits.

FLARE is doing great work and this is just few of the many examples of their incredible organizing.

The Midterms

First, Trump’s mail-ballot restrictions are blocked again

The Trump administration has been trying to impose new federal requirements involving mail ballots and the Postal Service, the Postal Service issued a 95-page rule requiring states to provide information on voters receiving mail ballots and comply with new envelope and barcode requirements. States that fail to comply could have ballots rejected from the mail system but then U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani temporarily blocked that rule. 🎉

Talwani found that the challengers were likely to succeed in arguing that the rule was unlawful and noted that the government had not shown evidence of mail-voting fraud that justified the requirements.

Talwani scheduled another hearing for September 3 to consider to issue a longer-term preliminary injunction.

More than 30% of voters cast ballots by mail in 2024, according to Reuters.

Justice Department officials showed up to Wyoming polling locations

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon requested an investigation after 2 Justice Department officials appeared at polling locations in Laramie County during their August 18 primary. Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee said the officials sought information about poll worker training and wanted to interview voters and asked to examine election equipment, Lee refused some of those requests.

Now Wyoming Attorney General Keith Kautz is conducting a fact finding investigation to what occurred. The Justice Department says its personnel were monitoring compliance with federal voting rights laws.

There’s currently no allegation that the officials changed votes or affected the primary’s outcome but why are federal officials there and what authority were they operating under?

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The administration is escalating claims about noncitizen voters

Hundreds of USCIS fraud and national security officers have reportedly been redirected from immigration case work to examining voter information for possible noncitizen registrations.

DHS claimed that nearly 250,000 noncitizens may be registered across four states, but the agency hasn’t publicly substantiated that figure and state election officials have questioned the underlying data.

State election officials examining the info have questioned how reliable those numbers are. Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt, a Republican, said federal officials acknowledged they didn’t have high confidence that thousands of Pennsylvania names DHS identified actually represented improperly registered noncitizens.

Massachusetts votes Tuesday

Massachusetts has its primary tomorrow, Tuesday, September 1, 2026.

The Massachusetts ballot has a few major Democratic contests, including incumbent Sen. Ed Markey against Rep. Seth Moulton, there is also 2 congressional races that stand out to us.

Jeromie Whalen and Patrick Roath

Whalen is challenging longtime Rep. Richard Neal in Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District and Roath is challenging longtime Rep. Stephen Lynch in the 8th District.

Massachusetts ballot and voting

Coming up after Massachusetts:

September 8 New Hampshire Primary
September 9 Rhode Island Primary
September 15 Delaware Primary
**November 3 Midterm election.

Between the Protests

An article from our 50501 St. Louis chapter shared: “Between the Protests,” to 50501.co, the article goes over the less visible work that sustains a local group between major protests and it focuses on the organizing that happens behind the scenes such as research, coalition building, public meetings, campaigns and day-to-day work of maintaining community connections. Read the full post here:

Between the Protests

The perspective of this article is especially relevant as we continue developing groups and campaigns across the country, if you’re interested in learning more about organizing, give it a read.

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TLDR

• Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.”

• The Department of Homeland Security social media account posted a portrait of Trump asking, “Did you remain loyal?”

• Hundreds of federal immigration fraud officers were reportedly redirected from reviewing legal immigration cases to searching voter data for potential noncitizen registrations.

• Newly released government data showed ICE arrested 49,571 people in July, the highest monthly total of Trump’s second term.

• Asheville, Pflugerville, Kendall County, Wylie, Tempe and St. Paul all took major steps this week toward ending or removing Flock license-plate surveillance systems from their communities.

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Monday

The Supreme Court opened a path for Trump’s mail voting restrictions

The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration a procedural victory Monday in the fight over his executive order restricting mail voting and the Supreme Court didn’t rule that Trump’s mail-voting order is constitutional.

The court said that the states challenging the order sued too early. The majority specifically said its decision didn’t mean that whatever the administration later did to implement the order would be lawful.

The Postal Service now issued rules implementing parts of Trump’s order, including new requirements involving voter lists and mail-ballot processing. New lawsuits followed and on Thursday, the Postal Service said its requirements were now in effect while those court challenges continue.

The wife of an active-duty Army sergeant was deported

Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo was deported to Honduras Monday while her husband, Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez, remains stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas, they have a 6 year-old daughter.

Villafranca-Trejo has no known criminal record.

She entered the United States in 2016 and received a removal order in 2017 after missing an immigration hearing. However, her husband says she never even received any notice of the hearing.

The Associated Press identified over 50 cases involving immediate family members of active-duty U.S. troops being placed in federal immigration detention after the Trump administration rolled back protections for military families.

Villafranca-Trejo is at least the seventh spouse or parent of an active duty service member to be deported. Her husband is now trying to balance military service with raising their daughter on his own.

DHS would like to know if you “remained loyal”

On Monday, the official Department of Homeland Security account posted a picture of Trump accompanied by:

“Did you remain loyal?”

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August 23, about 150,000 mostly Trump supporters converged on Washington, DC, to watch Indy

Cars whiz around downtown. Today’s “Grand Prix” concluded Trump’s Freedom 250 series, clearly designed to engage and mobilize his base.

Every time I spotted Freedom 250’s tagline, “Celebrating 250 years of freedom,” I was reminded of how inextricably entrenched our nation is in white supremacist ideologies. Only deniers of African American history would defend that tagline when 4,000,000 African Americans weren’t free until 1865.

So, also today, “International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition” (UNESCO), we stood against MAGA’s whitewashing of our nation’s gravest crimes against humanity and honored the ancestors to whom all Americans are indebted.

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Tuesday

Federal immigration officers are being redirected toward Trump’s voter fraud effort

Hundreds of officers inside U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services who normally investigate fraud and security concerns in legal immigration applications have been reassigned to examine voter data for possible noncitizen registrations, according to reporting from The Washington Post.

The officers work in USCIS’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate.

Three former officials told the Washington Post that the reassignment caused their regular work screening immigration applications for fraud and possible security threats to effectively come to a halt.

The administration says it’s lawfully cross referencing voter information to check for people who may not be eligible to register.

But this is happening within a larger federal effort around voter data. Homeland Security Investigations also sought contractors capable of collecting and securely delivering voter-registration and voter history files.

The administration is taking personnel whose job was investigating immigration applications and moving them into election-related work less than three months before November’s Midterms.

ICE arrests reached 49,571 in a single month

New government data analyzed by the Associated Press showed ICE arrested 49,571 people in July. That was the highest monthly total of Trump’s second term.

The number was 15% higher than June and about 70% higher than February, when ICE recorded 29,241 arrests.

The Trump administration moved away from relying as heavily on highly visible tactics that drew major protests earlier this year and increasingly used traffic stops, local law enforcement, and lower-profile arrest strategies.

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Wednesday

Families in Danbury reported parents being detained around school bus stops

Immigrant-rights groups in Danbury, Connecticut, reported dozens of immigration arrests over several days this week, including parents detained in front of school-bus stops.

Danbury Unites for Immigrants told the Connecticut Mirror that at least 25 people were detained Wednesday. Connecticut Students for a Dream counted another 16 Monday and 12 Tuesday, based on arrests witnessed and reported by activists. ICE did not respond to the outlet’s request for information about the operation.

Residents reported parents getting detained in front of kids at bus stops, local rapid-response volunteers have been documenting federal vehicles, distributing know-your-rights cards, helping families prepare custody paperwork and trying to identify people after arrests.

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Thursday

Trump renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America”

On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”

The change applies to the U.S. federal geographic naming system. Trump can’t force Canada to use the name, which is an important clarification considering the United States and Canada share the lake.

This took place during the escalating trade dispute where the United States imposed 50% tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian goods and Canada responded with retaliatory tariffs.

Trump had a map behind him with “LAKE AMERICA” printed across the lake.

He then floated the possibility of renaming an ocean. 🙄

“Now, all we need is an ocean.”

He suggested maybe the Atlantic or Pacific could be next.

The original name, incidentally, comes from the Huron word oniatarí:io, translated as “lake of shining waters.” The lake had that name before the US or Canada existed.

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Senators tried to stop the Shock Gloves but ICE still bought them.

Earlier this month, we shared an article that ICE was considering spending up to $20 million on SHOCK gloves capable of delivering painful electrical shocks through direct contact with someone’s skin.

ICE Shock-Gloves

On Thursday, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and 15 colleagues urged ICE to cancel the plan, raising concerns about deploying another use-of-force device during civil immigration arrests without obvious rules and oversight.

Hours later, ICE published notice that it had awarded a $16.7 million no bid contract for 6,000 pairs of the gloves anyway. The contract includes support equipment and services over the next six months.

UPDATE: The mail-voting restrictions were blocked again, Thursday night 🎉

Late Thursday, U.S. District Judge Talwani temporarily blocked the Postal Service from enforcing Trump’s new mail-voting rule, just one day after USPS said requirements took effect.

This doesn’t permanently end Trump’s mail-voting plan, the order lasts 14 days while the court considers a longer preliminary injunction, with a hearing scheduled for September 3. The case could also quickly return to the Supreme Court.

So as of this morning, Trump’s new mail-ballot restrictions are currently blocked.🎉

Good News Regarding Flock

6 local governments moved away from Flock in about two days

Asheville, North Carolina

On Tuesday, the Asheville City Council voted 5-2 to terminate its Flock contract. City employees were ordered to stop accessing, searching or sharing data through the system, and the city requested removal of the hardware.

Pflugerville, Texas

Pflugerville voted unanimously Tuesday not to renew its Flock agreement.

The decision followed revelations from public audit records indicating that outside organizations had conducted around 1.6 million searches that included Pflugerville’s camera network over 6 months, even though the city believed its sharing was considerably more restricted. City officials said a system issue permitted nonpartner law-enforcement agencies to access the data.

A resident found it through a public-records request.

Kendall County, Texas

Kendall County commissioners voted 5-0 Tuesday against renewing the county’s Flock agreement.

Commissioners who had previously supported the cameras said concerns about access to the data, privacy protections and trust in the company ultimately changed their positions.

Wylie, Texas

Wylie City Council voted 7-0 Tuesday not to renew its Flock contract.

The city currently operates six cameras at a cost of roughly $27,000 a year. Mayor Matthew Porter said his concern was how much information was being stored and shared outside the department.

Tempe, Arizona

On Wednesday, Tempe announced that it turned off its Flock cameras and would end the contract.

The city said it wouldn’t seek another company to replace it.

St. Paul, Minnesota

Also Wednesday, the St. Paul City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for the city and Ramsey County to end their Flock contracts.

Mayor Kaohly Her and Police Chief Axel Henry then announced that St. Paul’s two city-owned cameras will be removed.

Resource for FLOCK

Investigate the Flock system where you live

Our How to Investigate Your Local Flock System guide explains how to find cameras, check retention and sharing settings, obtain logs, review contracts and renewal dates, and turn what you find into an organized local campaign. It also includes a printable worksheet:

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The midterms are November 3.

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Q & A

Did ICE deport 49,571 people in July?

No, that number refers to arrests, not deportations. ICE recorded 49,571 arrests in July, according to government data that was analyzed by AP.

Did ICE confirm 53 people were arrested in Danbury this week?

Not ICE, this number came from immigrant rights organizations documenting arrests, 16 Monday, 12 Tuesday and at least 25 Wednesday. ICE didn’t respond to the Connecticut Mirror’s request for information on the operation.

Has ICE bought the electric-shock gloves yet?

Yes, on Thursday, ICE awarded a $16.7 million no bid contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of the electric-shock gloves, along with support equipment and services over the next six months.

Is Lake Ontario now legally called Lake America everywhere?

No but the Trump’s executive order changes how the U.S. federal government identifies the lake. Canada, or any of us really, are not required to recognize the new name.

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Associated Press ICE arrests reached 49,571 in July
Associated Press Deportation of an active-duty soldier’s wife
Connecticut Mirror Danbury ICE arrests
Associated Press Trump renames Lake Ontario “Lake America”
WIRED Georgia officer’s alleged misuse of Flock
Associated Press Senators challenge ICE shock-glove plan

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What is 50501.co? (And why is it missing the “M” in .com?)

Yes, it’s .co, not .com…

The 50501 network is using 50501.co because it was an available domain. It’s short and easy to remember for the project. “.co”. It might look strange if you’re used to typing “.com.”, once you know what the name is, it’s easy to remember: 50501.co

50501.co is our new network building initiative that connects chapters, organizers, events, resources, and articles across 50501 groups. (Now over 160 listed in the directory!)

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How does 50501 benefit from this new website?

Decentralization makes the movement resilient but can also make it difficult to see and find information when hype dies down.

50501 is decentralized so chapters and organizers answer to their own communities.

For example, an organizer in in one state might have no clue what an organizer in another state is working on which means that ideas can go unnoticed in a state or group without a way to learn from other organizers or community actions. 50501.co is an attempt at connecting ideas, actions, groups, and chapters to create a strong and unified network.

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Does joining the 50501.co network mean giving up chapter independence?

Not at all, the purpose of 50501.co is connection.

Different chapters can focus on completely different issues, publish in their own style, and organize in ways that make sense to their community.

50501.co gives independent groups a shared network where work can be easier to find and collaborate if groups choose to.

Who’s building 50501.co?

A mix of 50501 organizers, chapter-site owners, technical volunteers, and regular-movement volunteers.

Is the site finished?

50501.co is still growing with 50501.

Features are still being worked on and not every chapter is using their space yet but it’s gaining momentum as more chapters are added to it.

Just in the last few weeks, there have been several major improvements as we continue to get feedback and new ideas! Let us know what you recommend, comment below.

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If your group is missing, you can help get it connected and placed on the map. 50501.co is new and the directory is still growing. Not every group is represented yet.

If there isn’t a 50501 chapter in your community, 50501.co has a start a chapter form with info on getting connected with training, resources, and experienced organizers to help get a group going.

And if your chapter already has a site on 50501.co, use it! Post an upcoming event for your group, share an lesson, publish a community update, or tell the rest of us what your community is doing.

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If you already organize with a local group, mutual-aid network, union, community organization, or another group, that can be a great way to grow your community efforts. We encourage community organizers to build relationships with existing community groups, collaborate, and co-host actions.

If you want to start or help build a 50501 chapter in your area, there’s still an onboarding process and shared movement values to follow but you don’t have to leave the other work you’re already doing.

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A federal court kept immigration enforcement from 8 houses of worship, the first deportees arrived in Liberia under a new third-country deportation agreement and newly released emails show coordination between ICE and Iranian officials.

Disney and ABC sued the FCC, Rhode Island paused the expansion of automated plate readers while communities continue to push back against Flock and heavy surveillance.

Monday

Trump’s approval fell to 33%

A Reuters poll released on Monday found that Trump’s approval rating fell to 33%, the lowest yet of his presidency. And it showed Republicans losing ground on key issues they have traditionally led for years. Their advantage over Democrats on immigration narrowed to just 2 points, compared with 26 percentage points this past January.

The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s E. Jean Carroll appeal

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to reconsider Trump’s appeal of the $5 million verdict awarded to E. Jean Carroll

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A Wisconsin officer, sentenced for misusing Flock

A Wisconsin officer was sentenced on Monday after investigators said he used Flock to search vehicles connected to a former romantic partner for non-law-enforcement reasons. Cristian Morales received three years of probation as part of a withheld sentence.

The Trump administration paused a controversial Big Bend border project

The Trump administration temporarily halted border-security construction inside Big Bend National Park on Monday following protests, lawsuits and bipartisan criticism.

Crews had begun clearing land for roads and other border infrastructure. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said construction would remain paused while he visited the area and spoke with stakeholders.

On Monday, we also shared an article on 12 things most people don’t know about Flock. (Click here to read)

We went over vehicle data and how it can be searched across multiple jurisdictions, documented cases of officer misuse, connections to immigration enforcement, and a variety of tools people can use to investigate Flock.

Tuesday

A federal appeals court restricted immigration enforcement at places of worship

A three judge panel of the Fourth Circuit upheld an order limiting federal immigration enforcement at eight houses of worship affiliated with Quaker, Sikh and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship groups.

The court concluded that the groups were likely to succeed in their argument that the Trump administration’s policy violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Rhode Island paused new license plate readers

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee called for a statewide pause on installing and activating new automated license plate readers and ordered a 60-day review of the technology.

The review will examine statewide standards involving privacy, data use, transparency and how information is shared.

Existing cameras are not being removed.

Disney and ABC sued Trump’s FCC

Disney and ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday to stop an early review of the broadcast licenses for eight ABC-owned television stations.

Disney said that the government is trying to punish the network over its programming and editorial decisions.

Reuters reported that this is the first time in more than 50 years that a major television broadcaster has been ordered into early license-renewal process.

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Tuesday night we also learned that Angie Nixon won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida and is headed to the November election. Congrats Angie!

Wednesday

69% of Americans say Trump’s businesses influence his decisions

A new Reuters poll found that 69% of Americans believe Trump uses his private business interests to influence his decisions as president.

Even half of the Republicans surveyed said his business interests influence his presidential decision making.

The poll also found that 63% of Americans said it was inappropriate for Trump and his family to profit from cryptocurrency ventures while he is president.

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On Wednesday, we also shared an article: five postcard campaigns currently looking for volunteers ahead of the November midterms. (Click here to read)

Thursday

The first deportees arrived in Liberia

The United States sent its first group of deportees to Liberia on Thursday under an agreement allowing the country to accept as many as 1,200 people being deported from the United States.

The first group included 20 people, many of who are not Liberian citizens.

This is part of the Trump administration’s expanding use of third country deportations, people are being sent to countries other than their own.

Newly released emails revealed ICE’s channel with Iran

Emails released this week show that ICE officials communicated with Iranian officials while arranging deportation flights that returned more than 100 Iranians in late 2025 and early 2026.

The records prove that discussions involving passenger lists and last-minute changes, and the AP reported that someone even appeared to have been deported mistakenly. What became public this week is the record showing how they were arranged.

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Flock Backlash Grows

This week is the National Week of Action Against ALPRs, running August 16 - 22. Communities across the country are organizing protests, taking city council actions, hosting teach-ins and other events against automated license plate readers like Flock.

The Guardian reported Thursday that at least 56 communities have rejected or canceled Flock contracts in 2026.

Some cities that leave Flock are replacing it with ALPR technology from other companies, including Axon, rather than ending mass vehicle surveillance.

And another example of potential abuse surfaced this week in Massachusetts: The town of Stow removed its Flock cameras after an officer was accused of using Flock and other law-enforcement databases to obtain information about someone he knew without a legitimate law-enforcement reason.

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Want to Know More About What Flock Is Doing in Your Community?

Reading about Flock is one thing but finding out what’s happening in your own city is where changes get made and how you give power back to your community.

This week at 50501.co, we published a new step by step guide for investigating your local Flock system. The guide will walk you through how to find local cameras, check retention and sharing rules, look for logs, request public records, track contracts, and turn what you find into something your community can work with. Your community just needs one person to shine a light on what is going on, your community could be waiting on you to do this.

How to Investigate Flock Guide

And at the end of the blog post, there’s even a printable Flock Investigation Checklist you can save, print, fill out, and share with organizers, local groups, or anyone else who wants to investigate their Flock systems.

You don’t need to be a researcher, or privacy expert to investigate this, anyone can do it! You just need to know where to look.

Start investigating your local Flock system, click here.

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Linktree to Postcard Campaigns

Voter files record if someone participated in an election, not specifically who they voted for.

Participation data is enough information for organizations to create lists of everyone in a county who voted in 2024 and skipped 2022.

Here are 5 Postcard Projects that you can help with

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Postcards to Swing States Campaign

Progressive Turnout Project will mail you postcards with a voter list and message you options that they’ve tested. You have to supply your own stamps and handwriting.

They’re running get-out-the-vote cards for key states and House districts, and a separate boosting campaign aimed towards Texas and Alaska, which both have Senate races this fall.

Their volunteers have written more than 108 million cards since 2020. Their FAQ is helpful if you’re interested in learning more about their campaign before signing up.

Your Vote Counts More Campaign

Signs of Justice gives you voters in swing states who voted in the last election and skipped the midterm.

This Postcard campaign is community-funded, so you’re buying a kit instead of getting it for free.

Field Team 6 Campaign

Field Team 6 has cards with a QR code that takes you straight to registration. You can use your own postcards or buy theirs. Their motto is “Register Democrats. Save the World,” which tells you what you need to know about who they want to win in the upcoming Midterm.

Activate America Campaign

If you want to pick the race, this is a great campaign to look into.
Activate America runs rotating campaigns and lets you choose from what’s currently live, then it sends the addresses and the script(s) for that contest. You provide the cards and the postage.

Postcards to Voters Campaign

Postcards to Voters works in small batches, so you can request a small handful if you choose. You have to be approved as a volunteer first, once you download addresses they want the cards in the mail asap, so try to get them on a day you believe you’ll be committed to sit down and write.

This campaign also rotates through campaigns around the year so when November’s midterm is over, they’ll still be going!

***We are adding another great campaign recently brought to our attention:

Cartoons for Democracy!

Cartoons for Democracy send postcards that use art and satire meant to hold someone’s attention. Their Postcard kits include the postcards, instructions and voter addresses. Most of the message is already printed, so volunteers just hand-address the card and add a short personal sentence. 10/10 for Creativity!

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**Helpful tip: Don’t waste a Forever stamp if your card qualifies for postcard postage.

You can use one, however, you’ll be paying 82 pennies instead of 65, (and across 50 cards that’s $8.50 you could spend on more cards...)

Have you done this before and have another Postcard campaign you’d recommend? Let us know about it in the comments!

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We Have 76 more days from today (8/19/26)

The postcard campaigns are on our Linktree in a collection near the top so you don’t have to search and bookmark 5 different websites.

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1. They’re not speed cameras

Flock’s plate readers don’t measure speed and can’t issue citations.

You can read about Speed Cameras and their laser technology to detect your speed by clicking here. Flock are not currently red-light cameras so nobody should be mailing you a $200 fine.

2. They read and track more than your plate

Flock tracks your plate, along with the make, model and color, plus the time and location of where you go.

Flock says that the plate readers don’t use facial recognition to identify drivers or passenger. Senator Ron Wyden’s office stated in its letter to the Flock company that agencies can search the database by more than just the plate number, they can search by make, model, and even bumper sticker(s).

3. There are more than 120,000 of them, in 49 states

Flock covers thousands of law-enforcement agencies, and Flock says that the cameras are in over 6,000 communities.

There are billions of vehicle scans stored each month. Alaska is the only state without them.

4. The ACLU says less than 1% of what they scan reaches a crime

ALPRs operate as population-scale collection systems rather than targeted surveillance tools. If fewer than 1% of scans are associated with crime or wrongdoing, more than 99% of the records involve vehicles with no identified connection to criminal activity.

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5. Your city’s data can be searched by departments you’ve probably never even heard of

Flock’s National Lookup allows participating law-enforcement agencies to search data collected by participating agencies across jurisdictional lines.

Flock told Sen. Ron Wyden’s office in 2025 that 75% of its law-enforcement customers were enrolled in the National Lookup.

In 2026, CT Insider reviewed Flocks audit records from several Connecticut towns and found thousands of out-of-state searches tied to immigration enforcement, including searches labeled “ICE,” “ICE Assist,” and “immigration.”

6. The newly added 7 day rule doesn’t automatically apply to your city in all cases

CEO Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, announced on August 13 that the retention period drops from thirty days to seven but also wrote, “Existing customers will keep their current, democratically approved retention periods.”

So if your town has a current contract, then you keep whatever you have for now which could be 30 days or more until your city or town decides to change it.

7. Flock has an ICE hotlist

Agencies can subscribe their cameras to FBI hotlists organized by topic, and one of them is “Immigration Violator.”

EFF investigator Dave Maass published this article-(click here to read) after a records campaign that includes Stolen Vehicle, Missing Person, Gang or Suspected Terrorist... and Immigration Violator and according to the NCIC operator manual is populated exclusively by ICE.

8. Some Flock alerts trace to warrants ICE issued

The FBI’s Immigration Violator includes plates associated with administrative-warrants issued by ICE agents, not judges.

Created within the executive branch and don’t carry the same authority as a warrant signed by a judge. Participating Flock cameras can compare passing plates against the federal hotlist and alert your local law enforcement when there’s a match.

9. Flock searches have been used in connection with protests

EFF went over ten months of nationwide Flock records and discovered hundreds of protest related searches by many different agencies.

The records have included searches connected to our major protests such as the February 2025 protests, the April Hands Off protests, and the June and October No Kings protests.

10. Officers have typed “hehehe” as their search reason

Flock required officers to enter a reason before searching

In September, officers at a Oregon police department entered “investigation” into a field 111 times and entered “hehehe” twenty times. The Register-Guard reported those were Medford PD searches of Eugene’s data.

Flock’s recently announced August 13, to require a case code instead of just text. MIT Technology Review pointed out last week that since Flock doesn’t verify case numbers against anything, officers can get around the new requirement roughly as easily as they got around the old one.

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11. A police department in California found 71% of its felony alerts had the wrong plate

Roseville, California reviewed 1,427 Flock alerts for vehicles identified as stolen or connected to felony crimes, in 71% of the alerts, it misread license plates.

Flock said that Roseville’s results were because some cameras used old hardware and mounted higher and farther from traffic than recommended.

A bad alert can have serious consequences, one Roseville driver was falsely flagged at least six times because the system repeatedly read a 9 as an 8 on his plate. Police encountered the error often enough that a dispatch supervisor began to recognize his plate.

12. Cities can now block outside immigration searches

Flock’s new “offense filter” lets agencies restrict what other departments are allowed to search their Flock camera data for.

The Flock company says a city could continue allowing searches for stolen cars, missing people and violent crimes while still blocking immigration-enforcement searches.

Find out if your local police department uses Flock

Search your city or agency in the Atlas of Surveillance, this will show you law-enforcement surveillance across the country. Next, check DeFlock, this is an open-source-crowdsourced map of ALPR Flock cameras.

Look up if your local agency uses Flock

Look for the department’s Flock Transparency Portal

Eyes on Flock indexes Flock transparency portals. Depending on if your local agency publicly publishes, the portals can show you the camera count, data-retention policies, sharing relationships/connections, search activity and permitted or prohibited use.

Search Flock Portals

You can search your plate on “Have I Been Flocked”

Have I been Flocked is an independent database built from publicly obtained Flock logs and lets you search a plate to see if it appears in audit records.

Check to see if you have been Flocked

If you want to view records that your department doesn’t publish publicly, you can file a public records request.

EFF published a specific template for requesting records about the NCIC Immigration Violator hotlist. You can send requests directly to your police department or use MuckRock to file and track requests. DeFlock also has a useful public-records guide with examples of ALPR requests

The ACLU’s Get the Flock Out Toolkit walks you through identifying ALPR, researching local programs and challenging or restricting them through the local government.

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Monday

Columbus spent hours confronting its Flock camera problem

Columbus residents and city officials spent around six hours on Monday debating the city’s use of Flock Safety cameras.

Council members questioned Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant and other public safety officials and residents about privacy, data sharing, and if the city should keep using the technology at all.

A recent audit found that Columbus Flock network had been searched 15,577 times for reasons that could have involved immigration enforcement.

The audit found searches from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Border Patrol, other federal agencies, and law enforcement departments that participate in ICE’s 287g program. Under that program, ICE gives participating state and local officers more federal immigration enforcement powers.

Flock allows thousands of law enforcement agencies to search and share license plate data across jurisdictions and a camera that your local police department bought to investigate stolen cars can become part of a larger system that other departments search from somewhere else.

After the audit, Mayor Andrew Ginther ordered Columbus police to stop statewide sharing of the city’s Flock data. Police already restricted broader nationwide sharing.

Earlier this month, we looked at communities across the country cutting ties with Flock and challenging license plate surveillance.

Would you feel comfortable knowing Flock cameras are tracking you?

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Tuesday

Trump left reporters on the decoy plane

This happened July 8, but we learned the details this week. Trump was preparing to leave the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, when the Secret Service received information about a possible missile attack. A source briefed on the situation told Reuters that the Secret Service considered the threat credible and imminent.

Security officials didn’t have much time to respond.

Trump quickly boarded Air Force One while officials secretly moved him and a small group of aides through an airport catering truck and transferred them to a small C 32A government aircraft. So, Air Force One left Turkey separately.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House staff, and the traveling press corps remained aboard.

Most of the people on the plane didn’t know Trump left them.

Reuters reporters who were aboard said officials ordered the press to close their window shades during the flight. They knew the request was unusual, and didn’t know they were traveling on what effectively was, a decoy plane.

When reporters later asked Trump why they were told to close the shades, he joked:

“But if I go, you go. Right?” Except Trump didn’t go with them.

Trump wanted the Justice Department to take another look at the Reflecting Pool

Trump’s White House asked the Justice Department to examine if prosecutors could bring new charges connected to alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The Justice Department already prosecuted former Olympic canoeist David Hearn over damage to the pool liner. However, prosecutors dropped Hearn’s case after reviewing that evidence.

The Justice Department concluded that rushed and flawed renovation work caused problems with the liner, not vandalism.

Trump repeatedly blamed vandals for the damage and even after new evidence emerged, he criticized the decision to drop the case and urged U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to reconsider it.

The White House pushed the Justice Department to revisit a prosecution after the department’s evidence undercut Trump’s public explanation of his theory.

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Wednesday

We learned that progressives scored a big win in Minnesota primaries

Peggy Flanagan defeated Rep. Angie Craig for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Official Minnesota results show Flanagan won 59.01 percent of the vote to Craig’s 39.39 percent. AP called it another major victory for the party’s progressive wing. Flanagan ran with support from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, called for dismantling ICE, rejected corporate PAC money, and said she would reject money from AIPAC.

DSA’s marquee candidate Francesca Hong came within a few thousand votes of becoming the Democratic nominee for governor, but Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly defeated her. Her platform included abolishing ICE, taxing billionaires, and temporarily stopping new data centers. Trump took a big loss here: Minnesota Republicans rejected his endorsed candidate Mike Lindell for governor and nominated state House Speaker Lisa Demuth instead.

ICE plans on spending up to 20 million dollars on shock gloves

We shared a full article going over this on Wednesday that you can read by clicking here.

DHS published an acquisition forecast stating that ICE has a new requirement to purchase the shock gloves.

The name stands for ‘Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter.’

The gloves are like tactical gloves until an officer activates its electric-shock mode. The officer has to make direct skin-to-skin contact, and then the gloves will deliver a painful electrical stimulus intended to gain compliance.

DHS estimates the contract at $10 million to $20 million and that ICE intends to issue the device to officers and agents in Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement and Removal Operations.

The manual guide says the shock gloves shouldn’t be used against vulnerable groups, including children, pregnant people, the elderly, and those with severe disabilities and it also warns against using the device just because someone is verbally defiant or as punishment.

A pending lawsuit alleges that a 43 year old died when officers at a Kentucky jail shocked him 27 times with shock-gloves and another 13 times with a Taser in 2024.

That 2024 investigation found two shock-glove activations that lasted 45 seconds and 99 seconds while the manufacturer recommends a maximum activation of 15 seconds.

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Thursday

After many months of backlash, Flock is making adjustments

Flock made new changes to their rules governing its license plate readers. Flock says it will reduce its standard retention period from 30 days down to 7 days.

Flock will start requiring law enforcement to use an auditing feature designed to identify abnormal searches and officers will additionally have to connect searches to codes from their records management systems, tying the search to a specific case.

Flock will now give cities and police departments more control over the types of investigations outside-agencies can conduct using the data, so a city can block outside searches tied to immigration enforcement.

More than 50 agencies or jurisdictions have canceled, suspended, rejected, or deactivated Flock systems since the beginning of 2026 🎉

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Friday

Operation Puppet Master

Court documents filed on Thursday reveal a federal operation that targeted progressive organizations, labor unions, and groups protesting the immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

Federal officials are calling it Operation Puppet Master.

The documents became public through a criminal case involving 15 people. The Justice Department charged 15 defendants in June with crimes that include conspiracy to impede federal officers, assault, threats, stalking, and destruction of government property.

These are allegations and the defendants haven’t been convicted.

Department of Homeland Security officers entered meetings in churches, schools, and parks while working undercover. Agents also monitored activist chat groups and used plate numbers to identify people who attended gatherings.

One Homeland Security page titled “The Conspiracy” listed 18 organizations, ranging from a Minneapolis bicycle repair collective to the AFL-CIO.

At a January 31 meeting in Minneapolis, an undercover Homeland Security officer listened as Sunrise Movement supporters discussed sit-ins, de-escalation, safety-marshals, and even having a police liaison at events.

The officer’s report said the group focused on peaceful protests.

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Some Good News!

Look at what happened in Columbus this week

Residents and city officials spent six hours questioning police and a Flock representative about privacy, immigration enforcement, and who should have access to the city’s license plate data. Public comments favored removing the cameras and city Council member Emmanuel Remy said “everything is on the table” as Columbus decides if it will renew its Flock contract in December.

More than 50 agencies or jurisdictions have now canceled, suspended, rejected, or deactivated Flock systems since the beginning of 2026, according to a tracker cited by the AP. Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation to restrict FLOCK, while civil liberties groups and communities across the country have raised alarms about immigration enforcement, warrantless tracking, and police using the system for personal searches.

Flock responded on Thursday with some major policy changes. The company is going to cut its standard data retention period from 30 days to 7 days. Police will have to connect searches to specific case-codes and Flock will also require an auditing system designed to detect unusual searches and temporarily lock users out while departments investigate them. Cities will also gain more control over the types of investigations outside agencies can conduct with their data, including the ability to restrict searches related to immigration enforcement.

A year ago, most people never even heard of Flock and now city councils are holding hours long hearings about the cameras. Lawmakers from both parties are questioning it and communities are uniting to canceling contracts.

If your community uses these FLOCK cameras, you have the power to raise your voice. Your city decides to buy them or not and if they plan to renew their contracts. Visit out Linktree for Anti-FLOCK action!

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Q & A

Has ICE already bought the electric shock gloves?

No contract award appears in the public procurement record. DHS lists the shock gloves as a new ICE requirement with an estimated value of $10 million - $20 million and an anticipated award later in fiscal year 2026. Click here to read our latest post on the shock gloves.

Did ICE search Columbus Flock cameras 15,577 times?

A Columbus audit showed that up to 15,577 searches could have been related to immigration enforcement, however, it was never proven that searches were from ICE.

Did Flock ban immigration enforcement searches?

No it didn’t. Flock lets customers restrict which offense categories outside agencies can use when searching data. A local agency can use that feature to block outside immigration related searches.

Did Trump ride in a catering truck this week?

No, the Washington Post revealed the operation this week, Reuters confirmed additional details.

Did Minnesota records prove that groups under surveillance committed crimes?

No. Prosecutors charged 15 people with crimes related to interference with immigration enforcement. The released records show us that federal surveillance extended to a broader group of organizations and meetings, including gatherings where people discussed peaceful protest.

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If federal agents attended a peaceful organizing meeting in your community undercover, would that make you less likely to attend the next one or more determined to show up?

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DHS is planning a $10 million to $20 million ICE contract for electric-shock gloves. What could go wrong?

This past Monday on August 10, the Department of Homeland Security posted and published a procurement forecast saying that ICE has a new requirement to purchase the CTG-5 G.L.O.V.E., Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. DHS is saying that it is “Conductive Distraction and De-escalation Device” and would be given to ICE agents in Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement and Removal Operations.

What will the glove do?

According to Compliant Technologies, the company that makes it, the CTG5 can be activated in 1 second using a switch on the glove. The manufacturer shows a voltage of 324 to 362 volts.

Current, pulse duration, where it’s applied, how long it’s being used for and the current health of the person being subjected to it is all important.

The company says that the gloves are designed to create painful distraction rather than the prolonged neuromuscular incapacitation associated with some other electrical weapons. Associated Press reporting describes the effect as a painful stimulus delivered through direct contact with the skin.

The gloves user manual says that no more than two gloves should be applied to one person at a time and sets a 15-second activation limit for one category of use and the manual also warns: “any use of force, including CD3 deployment, may cause or contribute to death or serious injury.”

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ICE have been involved in multiple fatal shootings with a reputation for abusing power. Reuters documents distinctions in its review of fatal shootings by federal immigration agents.

The ACLU reviewed more than 1,200 immigration-enforcement incidents from 8 states during 2025 and classified more than 400 as involving misconduct. The review documents hundreds of incidents involving pushing, tackling, pinning people, chemical irritants, racial profiling and other conduct.

What happens when thousands of shock gloves are handed to ICE after repeated, documented abuse of power?

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A firearm is noticeable, or a baton is easily seen and has to be reached for. Those actions are obviously visible and easy to catch on video. The CTG5 glove is already on the officer’s hand and relatively hidden.

The glove manufacturer advertises the G.L.O.V.E. as an “invisible partner” and that the CTG5 can be switched on in 1 second.

Consider what this looks like during an ICE arrest:

Someone is surrounded by ICE officers and frightened. They might not understand what’s happening and they might speak limited English. They might be crying, panicking, or tensing up or instinctively pulling an arm away when they are grabbed. An officer is already holding them… And with another use-of-force weapon, witnesses may see the officer reach for something. With this device, the transition from holding someone to electrically shocking someone could occur through a switch on a glove already holding that person. Misuse will be less obvious and harder to catch.

ICE still has unresolved problems with transparency

Especially when we look at ICE’s current body camera system.

ICE is expanding body cameras, which provide evidence when force is used. However, its policy gives the agency broad discretion over what we get to see. ICE’s policy says footage of shootings and other incidents causing death or serious injury will be promptly released only after the agency determines that doing so is in its “best interests.”

Q & A

Are ICE agents currently wearing the gloves?

At this time, there’s no evidence that the shock gloves have been given to ICE agents.

Does 362 volts mean these gloves can kill someone?

The manufacturer says the device is non lethal and uses short electrical pulses BUT its safety documentation says that any use of force involving this technology may cause or contribute to death or serious injury.

Isn’t an electric glove better than an officer shooting someone?

Potentially, and this is the strongest argument in favor of the gloves. But we all know how ICE moves at this point and are highly skeptical if this will actually have any positive outcome. AP news interviewed an expert who sees potential benefits while acknowledging the possibility of misuse.

Can an agent shock someone just because they are arguing or refusing to cooperate?

The manufacturer’s guide says the gloves shouldn’t be used as punishment because someone is verbally defiant or belligerent.

Will there be a record every time an officer uses the glove?

The gloves have “Event Recording Capability” as a feature with stored information. Regardless, it’s up to ICE if they decide to share the recordings with the public.

Has ICE bought $20 million worth of gloves already?

Not yet. The DHS document lists an estimated contract range of $10 million to $20 million and describes the acquisition as a “New Requirement.” AP reports that the potential purchase could involve thousands of devices. Click here for the official DHS statement.

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Sources

Department of Homeland Security | CTG-5 G.L.O.V.E. Acquisition Forecast

Compliant Technologies | G4/G5 G.L.O.V.E. User Manual

Associated Press | ICE plans to give officers gloves that deliver electric shocks

Reuters | Death rate in ICE detention more than doubles

ACLU | Review of more than 1,200 immigration-enforcement incidents

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Community Spotlight: Dripping Springs, Texas

Shoutout to Dripping Springs, Texas, where people were back on the corner this weekend with signs, flags, and letting their voices be heard! ✨ Local organizers are starting to show up with their communities every Saturday across the country!

This is what decentralized organizing can look like and why it’s needed. Local organizers can hold monthly, daily, or weekly rallies, recurring actions, marches, meetings, or whatever makes sense with your community. If nothing is currently happening locally, that can also be a great reason to start something.

Every community is different, but opportunity is everywhere. You just have to look for it.

Local action grows through consistency. Two or three people can become five or six, and before long, dozens of community members will be showing up regularly. This is how a support network becomes strong, through relationships and a consistent routine.

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Tiny Billboards ($$$) in Your Wallet

Here’s a creative idea you can engage in next time you have a pen and cash: “Tiny billboards”!

By adding pro-democracy messages, people have shared examples to us ranging from “Vote Blue” and “Free Speech” to messages about ICE, Trump, democracy, and the election. One community member said they took the idea on a cross-country road trip and intentionally spent their marked money along the way, while others said they’ve been doing different versions of this for years.

Is writing on money legal? Generally, yes. Federal law prohibits mutilating or defacing U.S. currency with the intent to make it unfit to be reissued. Writing a message on a bill doesn’t violate that law, provided the bill remains usable. Make sure to keep bills usable, never alter their denomination or obscure identifying information like the serial number and do not write on the bill to promote a business or as an advertisement.

Cape Cod Covering 3 Overpasses!

The Cape Cod community shared photos with us from a Cape Cod action where organizers took their message directly to passing traffic. On a busy changeover day, they covered three overpasses with signs reading “America Is Not for Sale” and “End the Trump Grifting.” The drivers response was overwhelmingly positive, with plenty of visible support and, according to the organizers, only one single person shouting “Communist.” 😂

Local groups are finding more simple and visible ways to get loud for democracy.
A few signs, an overpass, and a committed group of people can put a message in front of thousands of drivers and visitors moving through the town/city.

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Small Acts Can Make a Big Difference

One of our 50501 members recently shared how they spent a Saturday evening by writing a few letters. One of the letters to hold an elected official accountable (Rand Paul) and the other, offering support and gratitude to someone they felt deserved to hear it (Dr. Fauci). It’s a small action, but it’s something almost anyone can do from home.

You can:

• Write a postcard

• Call your senator

• Email your governor

• Thank an organizer or someone speaking up

• Contact an official about an issue you care about

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Do you have a favorite podcast? Here is what some of our 50501 community members recommend:

A recent post in our FB group asked “What podcasts do you listen to for information and encouragement?”, We want to share a few of the favorites and to see if Substack (you!) has any more recommendations to leave us in the comments.

is the most recommended by our community so far, receiving by the strongest response and several additional mentions throughout the thread. is another favorite, along with @Rachel Maddow. Our community also gave a lot of love to What’s the Plan, hosted by ’s Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, and with , which came up a handful of times. More popular recommendations includes Sisters-In-Law, Secular Talk with , , and @Pod Save America.

What are your top 3 podcasts?
(Bonus points if you link or tag them!)

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