1. United States
2. Iowa
3. Letter

I am writing as your constituent to urge you to take an immediate public stand against a direct threat to our democracy. This is not speculation — it is breaking news reported today by the Washington Post. Pro-Trump activists who say they are coordinating with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order designed to give the president extraordinary power over how Americans vote. The order uses debunked claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election as the basis for declaring a national emergency — one that its own authors admit would be unconstitutional. One advocate of the order told the Washington Post directly: "Under the Constitution, it's the legislatures and states that really control how a state conducts its elections, and the president doesn't have any power to do that." They are asking him to do it anyway. If signed, this order could be used to ban mail-in ballots, eliminate voting machines, and place federal control over elections that the Constitution explicitly reserves for the states. This comes on top of an ongoing DOJ campaign to seize private voter data from all 50 states — a campaign federal courts have already called "unprecedented and illegal." Our elections belong to the people of this state — not to the White House. I am asking you to publicly oppose any executive order that would grant the president emergency powers over voting, and to use every legal tool available to protect our state's authority to run free and fair elections this November. Will you stand up and say clearly: the president does not have the power to take over our elections? Respectfully, A Constituent