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Feb 24 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
On Nov. 19 2020, Texas Gov. Abbott asked then-President Trump for continued funding and authority for Covid-19 support from the Texas National Guard, a letter we obtained shows.

The same day, Abbott refused to impose new business restrictions as cases soared. Image
In the Nov. 19 letter, Gov. Abbott acknowledged that Covid-19 cases were surging across his state.
He wrote that the National Guard extension was “critical to ensuring the safety and health of our citizens as Texas aggressively responds to this surge in Covid-19 cases.”
americanoversight.org/document/texas…
Despite this acknowledgement, Abbott said at a news conference that same day, "It is important for everybody in the state to know that statewide we’re not gonna have another shutdown."
texastribune.org/2020/11/19/tex…
We’re been investigating the response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Learn more about what we’ve uncovered here:
americanoversight.org/areas_of_inves…

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Feb 23
The partisan and problematic (and pricey) Wisconsin election review initiated by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is still ongoing. Here’s recent news about the election review — and how we’re investigating.
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Feb 23
We’ve seen for months — years, in fact — how lies about widespread voter fraud have fueled calls for new voting restrictions. Arizona has been a hotbed of those proposals. Here’s recent news about the Big Lie in Arizona — and how we’re investigating.
Last week, an Arizona Senate committee approved bills that would increase the monitoring of voter-registration rolls; direct county clerks to submit records of felony convictions for the purpose of canceling registrations; and prohibit electronic voting.
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Feb 22
In the weeks before Trump supporters in seven states submitted fake electoral certificates, legislative leaders in Arizona & Wisconsin appear to have sought legal advice about whether state lawmakers could alter the selection of electors after an election.
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It isn’t clear whether Fann or Vos sought the guidance in furtherance of such a plan or whether it was to dismiss calls from the Trump campaign and members of their own party to take action to overturn the popular vote in their states.
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Feb 18
This week brought a lot of news related to investigations into former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the attempt to stop the certification of the election on Jan. 6, 2021. Here are some of the stories we’ve been tracking:
On Tuesday, the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack issued more subpoenas to individuals involved in the fake-elector scheme, including Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano and Arizona Rep. Mark Finchem.
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Feb 18
In September 2020, the USPS sent American households a mailer with instructions for requesting vote-by-mail ballots, but the information was inaccurate in many states.

Records we obtained show some state officials were “absolutely apoplectic” about the mailer.

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The mailers told voters to "request your mail in ballot... at least 15 days before Election Day." But that’s inaccurate for Americans living in the nine states and District of Columbia that automatically mailed ballots to registered voters.
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Colorado Sec. of State Jena Griswold sued USPS, arguing the mailer attempted to disenfranchise voters with misleading information. We asked the Colorado State Dept. for emails with USPS in anticipation of widespread use of mail-in ballots in the election.
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Feb 17
We previously obtained emails sent by Jeff Sessions, Trump’s first attorney general, regarding the Trump administration’s family-separation policy. Sessions praised the policy’s results and
discussed religious justifications for the harsh policy.
americanoversight.org/in-emails-jeff…
In June 2018 — two months after Sessions announced the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy — former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein forwarded Sessions an email that indicated a decline in U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehensions of undocumented people at the border.
“Thanks,” Sessions responded. “I’m very interested in this. Keep on it. Every decline in entry’s is huge reducing those who got past border too. With the decline and continued prosecution numbers the percentage goes up and we are in virtuous cycle.”
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