Donald Trump issued a Trump mail-in voting executive order that claims powers over federal elections he does not have. Ballots have already started to be sent out, and less than two months remain until Election Day for the midterms.
The U.S. Postal Service is trying to ram through a rule that would make voting by mail more difficult while requiring states to turn over sensitive voter data. The Postal Service says it is taking those steps so federal law enforcement can conduct criminal investigations of alleged voter fraud.
Marc on 2026
Marc wrote that the stakes for this election are too high not to share the piece with everyone. He also wrote, “Donald Trump’s plan is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for him to cheat.”
“Now we know what that will look like in 2026,” Marc wrote. The piece says the situation will look like this in 2026, with the threat to free and fair elections growing more serious by the day.
Postal Service and DOJ
A series of smaller changes at the U.S. Postal Service has already produced slower mail service and delayed postmarks on envelopes. Separately, the Department of Justice continues to sue for access to states’ complete voter files, and the head of the Civil Rights Division is threatening to deploy 1,000 federal agents to monitor polling places in the midterm elections.
The Department of Homeland Security is readying state citizenship lists to send to states, while the Department of Homeland Security will launch a massive witch hunt to investigate evidence of nonexistent, widespread voter fraud. Under Trump's direction, the Department of Justice will now target state election officials under the guise that they have permitted illegal voting.
Supreme Court and voter purges
The Republican National Committee joined the Trump administration in asking the Supreme Court to gut a federal law that limits last-minute voter purges. The piece says election offices are being overrun and infiltrated by election deniers trying to sow doubt from the inside.
That mix of rule changes, record requests and court pressure puts new weight on ballots already moving through the system. For voters who use mail ballots, the practical fight now sits in the rules that govern postage, postmarks and voter-file access before Election Day for the midterms.
