1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

I am writing ahead of the President's planned Thursday night address, in which he is expected to claim that newly declassified intelligence shows foreign interference in the 2020 election and that voting machines are vulnerable to foreign intrusion. These claims have already been tested and rejected. More than 60 lawsuits challenging the 2020 results were dismissed by state and federal courts. Ballot audits, state election officials of both parties, and the President's own first-term Justice Department found no evidence of fraud that could have altered the outcome. The federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency called 2020 the most secure election in American history. The timing is not a coincidence. With the midterms four months away, recasting 2020 as illegitimate lays the groundwork to contest results this November and to justify federal intrusion into state-run elections, including the President's stated goal of ending mail-in voting. Millions of Americans, including every voter in states like Washington, Oregon, and Colorado, vote entirely by mail. Federal courts have already blocked the President's attempts to rewrite election law by executive order. I ask you to do three things: 1. Publicly affirm, on the record, that the 2020 election was legitimate and that no evidence supports claims of outcome-altering fraud or foreign vote manipulation. 2. Demand that any newly declassified intelligence cited in the speech be released in full to the relevant congressional committees, with the underlying sourcing, so its claims can be independently verified rather than selectively characterized. 3. Oppose any federal action, legislative or executive, that restricts mail-in voting, imposes new documentary proof-of-citizenship requirements, or transfers state election administration authority to the federal government. Election administration belongs to the states under the Constitution. Selective declassification in service of a six-year-old grievance is not oversight. It is a pretext, and Congress should treat it as one. Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter.