Yesterday, the Department of Justice sued the states of Maine and Oregon to gain access to their unredacted copies of the voting rolls. As our guest Ari Berman explains, this is a very unusual move from the federal government.
Together, Ari and Jen discuss the gerrymandering attempt in Missouri, the ongoing propaganda campaign claiming that illegal voting is a common occurrence, and the larger voting disenfranchisement that Trump may have planned for 2026.
Read Ari’s latest piece in Mother Jones: Project 2026: Trump’s Plan to Rig the Next Election
Ari Berman is Mother Jones' national voting rights correspondent. He’s the author of the new book Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It, as well as Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.
