We should keep doing what we're doing with integrity and courage. They should be ashamed, not us. Keep registering where you can. Keep checking your registration. Help 3 people check theirs. Vote early. And get ready to fight.

The administration is calling for investigations and weighing undercover agents against voter registration groups. It'd be easy to let that shame us into silence. But what's real is they're the bad guys, not us.

Remember, we keep us safe. Folks connected to this administration are targeting immigrants, our Muslim fam and other faith leaders who are registering people in marginalized and targeted communities. Don't. Take. The. Bait.

Get ready for what comes after the election. Nearly 100 million records, almost half from a 2020 election denier with no stated source, are being run by HSI to identify "high-value targets." That's the raw material for claiming noncitizens decided close races. Tell people now.

As I read it, the goal is to get groups to stop registering voters before Nov. 3. These investigations are built to make us pull back. The way to make that fail is to keep registering voters wherever registration is still open: carefully, documented, and in public.

What I'm watching for: this machinery can produce claims, after the votes are counted, that noncitizens decided close races. When those claims show up, you'll already know where the numbers came from and how they were built.

Who reads the results: HSI's weekly fraud report covering this work was prepared for a "VP Task Force" in June. In July, ICE set it up to go to White House staff.

Where the voter data goes: state voter rolls get run through an HSI data lab, then entered by Palantir into ELITE, a system used by ICE's deportation office. By July, voter data from six states, including Georgia, had been processed and was waiting to be entered.

The data: HSI took in 50.6 million records from the Justice Department's voter rolls and 48.4 million more records obtained by Heather Honey, a 2020 election denier who is now DHS's point person on "election integrity," "through independent sources." The documents don't say what those are.

Migliore says the state has sent her voter registration solicitations for years. One she kept, from the Louisiana Department of Health in April 2025 after she updated her Medicaid address, came with an enclosed voter registration form.

In Louisiana, Denise Migliore, born in Australia, has been in this country for almost three decades and says her citizenship application was pending. She checked "yes" to the citizenship question online and says she didn't know she couldn't vote. She now faces federal felony charges.

In NJ, ~6,600 people told the motor vehicle agency they weren't citizens. The state registered them to vote anyway, through what Gov. Sherrill called a software error. ~400 voted. A senior ICE lawyer wrote it appears it happened through "no fault of their own," and those who voted are deportable.

Their own numbers: as of late May, HSI had opened 418 voter fraud cases, and 318 had not been referred for prosecution. When Nevada checked 185 people federal officials said were vetted and identified as noncitizens, every one was a citizen.

That report describes how undercover agents could contact voter registration groups and, if they find a group recruiting noncitizens to register, "gather evidence, disrupt activities, and trace financial backing." The released documents don't show a single group doing that.

In New Jersey, a June 1 HSI report says it checked the voter registration groups against its own databases and found "no derogatory information" on any of them. The same report still lists New Jersey, along with Pennsylvania, as a focus for possible undercover operations.

The groups: 82 were reviewed in Pennsylvania, about 44 in New Jersey, and 26 more were flagged through a tip line. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), ICE's investigative arm, runs the work. Orgs led by people that I love and respect are being targeted...

The New York Times reported this morning that Homeland Security has investigated more than 150 organizations in a hunt for groups it says may be helping noncitizens register to vote. The documents came out through a records lawsuit by Democracy Forward. Here's what's in the 166 pages. 🧵

I talked with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about how our communities can defend the voting process this November. Some folks reached out and asked me if I could make an episode about this subject because they were tired of simply being told to vote harder and wanted to know what more we could do. ❤️

Good mornin’, good people, Haymarket Books is offering discounted tickets to this conversation with Angela Y. Davis. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Sarah Haley, and Ula Y. Taylor about the Combahee River Collective and its legacy for activism today.