Tanya Mosley

I want to delve into your reports about the deployment of the military.

We've seen the acceleration, as you said, that many experts didn't expect until 2028.

Can you delve a little bit deeper into how that acceleration happened?

You write about this striking irony.

So Trump talks constantly about election security, but he's gutted the agency that actually protects it.

He cut a third of CISA's workforce, the people who help local officials defend against hackers.

The administration has also slashed millions in funding.

And then he appointed this woman, Heather Honey, to oversee election integrity.

Remind us who she is and what this tells us about what she's been given as her directives.

Let's talk about the power of the courts for a moment.

You've pointed out that most election-related cases are actually decided in lower courts where Trump and his allies haven't had much success historically.

But if election-related cases are appealed and make their way to the Supreme Court, which has shown a willingness to defer to executive authority at times, what kind of timeline could we be looking at as we think about the midterm elections?

Could cases tied to the 2026 midterms realistically be resolved before votes are cast or counted?

Let's take a short break.

If you're just joining us, my guest is David Graham from The Atlantic.

And we're talking about his reporting on election systems and political power ahead of the 2026 midterms and what those efforts reveal about the current state of American democracy.

We'll be right back after a short break.

This is Fresh Air.

I want to play a clip from a speech President Trump gave at a conservative turning point action summit in the summer of 2024, where he talks about voting.

Let's listen.