1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

On Monday, ProPublica released a massive new investigation breaking down how Donald Trump has dismantled federal guardrails that stopped him from overturning his 2020 election loss. Career officials who protected elections are gone – election deniers have taken over. ProPublica found that at least 75 career officials across several agencies who played key roles in safeguarding the 2020 election have been fired, resigned, or reassigned. They have been replaced by roughly two dozen political appointees Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections. Many are election deniers and ten actively worked to reverse Trump’s 2020 loss. Federal programs designed to safeguard elections have been dismantled. Since Trump took office, nearly all federal election protection programs have been eliminated, severely defunded, or had nearly all their staff removed or reassigned: CISA election team NSC election security group ODNI Foreign Malign Influence Center DOJ Public Integrity Section DOJ Civil Rights Division’s voting section FBI Public Corruption Team FBI Foreign Influence Task Force FBI and DOJ Election Day command posts There is a systematic attempt now embedded within the federal government to disrupt, cast doubt on, and perhaps even attempt to manipulate our elections. This is not hyperbole. This is proven fact. The federal government is demanding voter rolls. Demanding that states use the federal system to determine who is a legitimate voter. A system that has proven to be inaccurate in the past, throwing valid voters off the rolls. False claims about elections are being used at the highest levels of government to justify seizing ballots and targeting voter rolls. Attempts to kill vote-by-mail are ongoing. Attempts to kill electronic voting are ongoing. Attempts to kill voting period are ongoing. When will you break with tacit endorsement of the BIg Lie that spawned all this perversion of our voting rights? What are you doing to protect our votes in 2026?