Ben Rhodes

That said, there's one federal agency that's just getting bigger and bigger under Donald Trump, and that, of course, is the sprawling, scandal-ridden Department of Homeland Security.

Here's a heads-up about that.

There's been quite a bit of attention recently to the fact that the FBI and DOJ have been targeting elections administrators in multiple states, most infamously the FBI raid and Fulton County, Georgia's elections office in January, where they seized hundreds of thousands of ballots from the 2020 election.

But here's something to keep an eye on, because we are now also seeing Homeland Security being used to target elections administration.

And this is something worth keeping an eye on.

A couple weeks after that Fulton County raid, the White House ordered HSI, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, to start working on elections issues.

Then The Atlantic was first to report that HSI was conducting an investigation into the 2020 elections in the state of Arizona.

Now, just a few days ago, CBS has reported that Minnesota elections officials have received a grand jury subpoena for Minnesota voter records as part of an investigation being run in part by the Department of Homeland Security.

CBS also reports that DOJ is close to finalizing a deal to hand over whatever voter data it manages to get from the states to the Department of Homeland Security.

Who knows what they will do with it?

But if President Trump is looking for ways to use muscle, to use force, to mess with the November elections, to undermine trust, to scare people away or worse, then this might be the way he is doing it.

It's not just the FBI they are using.

It is not just weird Tulsi Gabbard lurking in the wings while the FBI is doing stuff.

He is also using the Department of Homeland Security.

His scandal-ridden, utterly incompetent, controversial, fear-inducing, flush-with-cash Department of Everything and Anything,

is being applied to the elections too.

Watch this space, please.

Watch this space.

Every small d democratic muscle that we have is flexing.

We got a little taste of what it's like to have a compliant state media with a Fox & Friends weekend anchor as your secretary of defense.