Thread by @weareoversight

More than 6 months after the presidential election, the lies about a stolen election & voter fraud haven't stopped circulating.

Last week, we learned more about the former president’s attempt to overturn the election and the ongoing effort to undermine faith in democracy. THREAD

Last week, new emails released to Congress revealed the extent to which the Trump White House exerted pressure on DOJ and acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to support baseless claims of widespread voter fraud and even bring a case to SCOTUS. 2/
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The emails showed that in December 2020, when Attorney General William Barr was on his way out the door, Trump’s assistant forwarded Rosen a report, later debunked, alleging a conspiracy about election machines in a rural Michigan county. 3/

Two weeks later, on behalf of the president, the same assistant sent a draft Supreme Court filing challenging the election results in six states. 4/

Meanwhile, Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows was also pushing DOJ to investigate outlandish claims, including a theory that military satellites controlled in Italy had tampered with voting machines. 5/
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These latest emails add further color to the already damning picture of a sitting president’s and his supporters’ attempt to reverse the election. But just because Rosen and his deputy Richard Donoghue stood firm against those lies does not mean those lies died there. 6/

We can see them in the Arizona Senate’s sham “audit” of votes cast in Maricopa County, spearheaded by Senate President Karen Fann who, as revealed in documents we obtained, had been in contact with Trump & Rudy Giuliani in the weeks after the election. 7/

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Our requests and active litigation against the Arizona Senate continue to produce new records. Records we obtained further show the role of Fann in preparing for the operation and reveal new details about the involvement of various outside companies. 8/
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In Wisconsin, the speaker of the state Assembly, Robin Vos, said he was hiring three former police officers to investigate the 2020 election. Records we recently obtained show that Vos and allies have been laying the groundwork for this investigation for at least two months. 9/

Vos met in early April with one of those former police officers — Mike Sandvick, who once wrote a discredited report on voter fraud in Milwaukee and who has previously worked with a voting-restriction group. 10/
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