This guidance offers a structured way to evaluate requests to use Guard forces during election season, organizing the analysis around five questions.
September 21, 2026
Our 2026 election calendars map the whole sequence from before votes are cast through to final certification.
September 18, 2026
Our new report quantifies the practical costs of the forever redistricting wars on American voters.
September 17, 2026
The president’s corruption can be directly connected to his election interference efforts, and his broader work to consolidate power.
September 14, 2026
Election certification is the process through which the canvass – the process of counting and aggregating ballots, and ensuring that every ballot is accounted for – is concluded.
August 3, 2026
Under proportional representation, gerrymandering is prohibitively difficult. The system would end the redistricting wars for good.
July 22, 2026
The last four months have seen the president's election interference strategy accelerate, even as resistance to that strategy has kept pace.
July 14, 2026
Covering political violence and violent extremism can be a fraught endeavor for the media. Guidance for political violence reporting.
July 10, 2026
Claims of foreign interference in recent elections are much more likely to be designed to undermine the credibility of past and future elections than they are to be legitimate.
July 2, 2026
In this cycle, election interference from the United States government could be an even greater threat than those poised by any foreign power.
June 18, 2026