Election problems

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just announced that our military’s cyber forces – the U.S. Cyber Command – will work with the Department of Homeland Security to defend our elections from any foreign interference. But Trump has gutted critical election security infrastructure since he entered the White House – including the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) that was designed to ensure our elections are free, fair, and safe.

As one expert put it:

“If the administration was serious about assisting state and local election officials, they shouldn’t have dismantled all of the federal government’s election cybersecurity capacity and fired all their experts in early 2025.” - Former DOJ Attorney David Becker

This is the same administration that has pushed countless conspiracy theories about our election system – that Trump won the 2020 election, that our elections are "rigged" against him and MAGA Republicans, and that there's widespread voter fraud.

So with the midterms approaching, voters have every right to ask what this announcement is really about – and whether putting a close Trump ally like Pete Hegseth in charge of "watching" our elections will protect them or put them at risk.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just announced that our military’s cyber forces – the U.S. Cyber Command – will work with the Department of Homeland Security to defend our elections from any foreign interference.

….This is the same administration that has pushed countless conspiracy theories about our election system – that Trump won the 2020 election, that our elections are "rigged" against him and MAGA Republicans, and that there's widespread voter fraud.

So with the midterms approaching, voters have every right to ask what this announcement is really about – and whether putting a close Trump ally like Pete Hegseth in charge of "watching" our elections will protect them or put them at risk.