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Investigator Overseeing Probe Into Trump Opponents Breaks Silence On Abrupt Exit (opens a new window)

  • September 11, 2026
  • Huff Post

Beau Tremitiere, deputy director of Impact Programs and counsel for Protect Democracy, told HuffPost that diGenova’s resignation signals a larger problem brewing for the administration.

“Yet again, Trump’s efforts to translate his personal vendettas into actual criminal punishment are failing. Joe diGenova’s resignation fits the broader pattern of this administration: noisy threats about prosecuting serious lawbreaking, followed by delay, inaction, and quiet retreat once actual evidence is required and the guardrails of the legal system kick in,” Tremitiere said.

Court blocks OPM ‘loyalty question’ from use in agency job applications (opens a new window)

  • September 11, 2026
  • Fed Scoop

“Federal hiring for career jobs is supposed to be based on merit, not politics,” said Ori Lev, co-counsel at the nonprofit Protect Democracy. “You want the best people in the jobs, regardless of whether they’re Democrats or Republicans or independents, and that’s true regardless who’s in office. That’s the system that Congress set up, because that’s the system that produces results for the American people.”

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‘Here’s my secret’: Republican plot flagged as way to terrorize voters — and ‘sow chaos’ (opens a new window)

  • September 11, 2026
  • Raw Story

The goal is “make people afraid and sow chaos,” said Anna Dorman, a lawyer with Protect Democracy, a nonprofit that is suing to prevent the Trump administration from building a federal voter database. The point of the chaos, she said, is to lay the groundwork to challenge election certifications if, as predicted, Republicans lose the House, and possibly even the Senate.

“That certainly fits the playbook and strategy of sowing these lies so they can have these zombie issues that they can resurrect,” Dorman said. “Here are answers to questions that they manufactured to create chaos so they could use that to delay certification.”

Friedman: Two nations. Two democracies at stake. (opens a new window)

  • September 11, 2026
  • The Santa Rosa Press Democrat

“Right now, Trump is unpopular and therefore weak,” said Ian Bassin, the executive director of Protect Democracy, a nonprofit that fights for election integrity. “The assumption is that his project has failed politically — that he’s yesterday’s news.” But if Republicans win, “that changes the incentive structure for everyone,” Bassin said, from Republican lawmakers to Silicon Valley bros. They all will be even more supine, enabling Trump to be even more unrestrained.

“That to me is the gravest danger,” Bassin said.

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Cops Won’t Fight Federal Election Interference—So Citizens Will Have To (opens a new window)

  • September 8, 2026
  • Mother Jones

Others are bolstering communication among election administrators, police forces, and civil society groups to quickly coordinate and respond to threats, including any from federal officials. That sounds boring, but it’s critical. Beau Tremitiere, a deputy director at Protect Democracy, notes that while Los Angeles–area residents organized heavily against ICE’s June 2025 surge there, state and local officials struggled to support that response. By contrast, Minneapolis’ successes in community resistance were sustained by clear city and state communication and coordination, developed after protests over George Floyd’s murder.

Labor Day Is More Essential Than Ever (opens a new window)

  • September 7, 2026
  • Contrarian

Laying out the challenge ahead, Ian Bassin, executive director of the nonpartisan Protect Democracy, told me, “One of the biggest errors the democracy movement made over the past decade was to respond to Trumpism by moving into a defensive posture. …The problem was: the system wasn’t working for people.” In setting out a pro-democracy vision for the future, the Resistance’s task will be to “focus not on what we need to preserve but on what we need to change and what we need to create: a democratic system that is more representative and more responsive to the American people — not just those at the top, but more importantly, those in the middle and those at the bottom.”

What You Need to Know About Election Threats This Fall (opens a new window)

  • September 6, 2026
  • Washington Monthly

Yet there’s no need to panic, argues Beau Tremitiere of the nonprofit Protect Democracy. “We have never seen the scope and scale of mobilization that civil society is currently engaged in to take this threat on,” he says. “Folks are not going to be caught off guard because they see what’s coming.”

I interviewed Beau for the latest episode of the Monthly podcast, which you can watch in this preview in Substack. He offered a wealth of advice about what citizens can do this fall to safeguard the right to vote. Here are his top three tips: