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Who Controls the Ballot Box? The Fight for Federal Control |
Voting stickers at an election operations facility in Martinez, California, in May Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images
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When: Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 4 p.m. Eastern Where: Virtual event
Over the last year, ProPublica has published a series of in-depth investigations into the Trump administration’s attempts to assert federal control over elections, an effort that has increasingly defined Donald Trump’s second presidency.
Reporters on our election team have dug into the administration’s attempts to sharply restrict mail-in voting and interfere with the U.S. Postal Service’s efforts to deliver election mail in a timely manner, which a White House spokesperson has denied.
They’ve also brought readers inside the administration’s failed hunt for noncitizen voters, as well as how the main tool the government was using, known as SAVE, was highly inaccurate and had misidentified hundreds of eligible voters in Missouri and Texas as potential noncitizens.
The team has also examined how the Trump administration had systematically demolished the institutional guardrails that held — barely — when Trump tried to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in 2020. The Trump administration maintained its actions would make elections fairer and more secure, keeping those prohibited from voting, especially noncitizens, from doing so.
Join us for a virtual event to learn how the Trump administration has dismantled guardrails meant to protect the vote and what it all means for the midterm elections. |
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Making America Healthy? Examining the Raw Claims and Real Risks of MAHA.
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Illustration by Matt Rota for ProPublica
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When: Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. Eastern Where: Virtual event
The information landscape is flooded with social media influencers stoking mistrust in basic medical safeguards — like vaccines, pasteurization and vitamin K shots for newborns — while promoting dangerous trends as alternative medicine. In stunning ways, U.S. health policy and politics are diverging from established scientific standards, led by a Health and Human Services secretary who has long seeded doubts about vaccinations and who champions unpasteurized milk.
The consequences are already unfolding: measles cases reaching highs not seen in 35 years. Infants bleeding to death after their parents rejected a single preventative shot. Outbreaks of E. coli in raw milk leaving children with permanent kidney damage. It could get worse. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine agenda risks a resurgence of deadly childhood diseases.
In this session, ProPublica deputy Midwest editor Steve Mills will lead a discussion with ProPublica investigative reporters to uncover how these changing federal priorities impact children.
The health department did not respond to ProPublica’s questions about Kennedy’s stance on unpasteurized milk or the vitamin K shot, but said vitamin K at birth remains the standard of care. A department spokesperson said vaccine mandates contributed to a loss of trust in health institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic and that Kennedy believes in rebuilding trust through honesty, transparency and respect for individual choice. Join us for a virtual event to learn how the Trump administration has dismantled guardrails meant to protect the vote and what it all means for the midterm elections. |
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