Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth Announces Use of Military Cyber Command Assets Against Foreign Election Interference, Backstopping Gutted CISA

Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth Announces Use of Military Cyber Command Assets Against Foreign Election Interference, Backstopping Gutted CISA

The Department of Defense has released a September 22nd memo from Secretary Pete Hegseth, directing the U.S. Cyber Command to combat foreign interference in the November election. Such protections were formerly conducted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, gutted by the administration in 2025.
California Updates: County Sheriff Must Return the Ballots He Seized; County Registrar Under Scrutiny After Alleging Primary Ballot Stuffing

California Updates: County Sheriff Must Return the Ballots He Seized; County Registrar Under Scrutiny After Alleging Primary Ballot Stuffing

We have updates from California today, where Riverside County’s sheriff was ordered to return over 650,000 2025 ballots he seized earlier this year, and state and federal officials are investigating after Shasta County’s chief election officer and known election skeptic made allegations of ballot stuffing because the paper didn’t ‘feel right’.
U.S. Supreme Court’s Majority Allows Use of Social Security Data for SAVE Database, But Limits Scope Close to the Election; Case Sent Back to DC Circuit

U.S. Supreme Court’s Majority Allows Use of Social Security Data for SAVE Database, But Limits Scope Close to the Election; Case Sent Back to DC Circuit

There’s been a decision in a U.S. Supreme Court voting rights & data privacy case we’ve been following. Sept. 25th, the high court’s majority allowed Social Security data to be used in the Trump administration’s SAVE database, over the strenuous objection of pro-voter and civil rights groups and several states.