As the midterms approach, the Trump administration has launched an attack on voting rights and our election infrastructure in an effort to seize more power.
But the good news is that they’re failing in the courts. Here’s a rundown of the latest pro-voter victories.🧵
On June 22, a federal judge in Maryland rejected the DOJ’s attempt to obtain the state’s confidential voter data.
This was the ninth federal judge to hand the Trump admin a loss in a case aiming to force states to turn over legally protected voter data. aclu.org/press-releases…
Then, we won in our case seeking to block the DHS from using its massive database illegally consolidating millions of Americans’ sensitive info to purge voters and enable baseless investigations. citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
A rare earth company was given a $620 million loan from the DOD just three months after Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm invested in it—raising many ethics questions.
Here’s what you should know.
In November, the Office of Strategic Capital announced a joint $700 million loan to two small rare earth companies. But the loan given to Vulcan Elements in particular stood out due to its ties to Trump Jr. war.gov/News/Releases/…
A recent ProPublica investigation revealed more details about what may have actually transpired for that deal to happen. propublica.org/article/donald…
President Trump recently pardoned Stephen Buyer, a former member of Congress convicted of insider trading. For those keeping track at home, this makes *22* politicians convicted of corruption charges granted clemency by President Trump. nytimes.com/2026/06/06/us/…
In 2023, Buyer was convicted of insider trading on four counts of security fraud and served 22 months in prison.
Trump’s pardon of him says everything about how he feels about corruption: It deserves a free pass!
This pardon also brings Trump’s count of second term acts of clemency for corrupt politicians to a dozen.
Now that he’s granted twelve corrupt politicians clemency, he’s already let more corrupt politicians off the hook in this term than his first, just a year and a half in.
Back in March, we reported that an Indian conglomerate called Reliance Industries—owned by the richest person in Asia—paid Trump $10 million before he took office, and kept getting wins from the Trump admin this year. Well…the plot thickens 🧵
Here’s our story about how Reliance got a Venezuelan oil license and then a shoutout from Trump for investing in a new oil refinery in Texas developed by a company America First Mining: citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
New reporting from @ProPublica shows how it’s even more corrupt than we knew.
Don Jr., President Trump’s son, reportedly secretly became an investor in America First Mining, alongside Reliance: propublica.org/article/trump-…
It’s not like Trump needed another vehicle for presidential profiteering.
He’s made at least $4 billion during his first year back in office through his merch store, foreign real estate deals, media company and—most of all—crypto. newyorker.com/news/a-reporte…
This is a big deal and it’s flying below the radar—Trump’s DOJ just gave him a huge gift in the form of a legal opinion declaring that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional.
Let’s be clear: that’s nonsense. We’ll break it down 🧵
Congress passed the Presidential Records Act of 1978 after Watergate to establish that presidential records are the property of the American people, not individual presidents.
In nearly 50 years, no president has claimed that it is unconstitutional.
Trump has a long history with the PRA, including multiple warnings from the National Archives that he was violating the law during his first term.