1. United States
2. Iowa
3. Letter

I am writing to demand that you defend our state’s constitutional authority over elections. Under the 10th Amendment and Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution, election administration belongs to the states — not the federal government. The Trump administration is openly violating that boundary. The DOJ has sued more than 20 states to seize voter files and election records. The FBI raided Fulton County’s election headquarters and took ballots, voter rolls, and digital data. Attorney General Bondi threatened to pull ICE cooperation from Minnesota unless the state surrendered its voter registration records — that is extortion, using immigration enforcement as leverage to coerce a state into giving up data it is under no obligation to provide. There is no legal authority for the federal government to nationalize voting. These are not aggressive policy positions — they are unconstitutional power grabs that directly threaten every voter in this state. I expect you to publicly condemn the DOJ’s unlawful demands for state voter records, refuse any directive to surrender our state’s election data, and use every legal tool available to protect our elections from federal overreach. Your constituents are watching how you respond to this. Your action — or your silence — will be remembered.