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A photo of Boris Yeltsin sitting at a desk looking over papers.

America and Russia in the 1990s: This is What Real Meddling Looks Like

It’s hard to imagine having more direct control over a foreign country’s political system — short of a straight-up military occupation.
by Yasha Levine via yasha.substack on August 27, 2020
Map of 1796 presidential election electoral votes by state.
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The Founders Knew That Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections was Dangerous

The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.
by Jordan E. Taylor via Made By History on October 7, 2019

Foreign Interference in US Elections Dates Back Decades

2016 was not the first election in which a foreign power tried to interfere – Nazis and Soviets tried it too.
by Bradley W. Hart via The Conversation on January 22, 2019
LBJ at his desk writing.
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Foreign Powers Interfered in the 1968 Election. Why Didn’t LBJ Stop Them?

Was his disdain for his vice president greater than his desire for Democrats to win?
by Arnold A. Offner via Made By History on November 4, 2018

The U.S. Needs to Face Up to Its Long History of Election Meddling

Russian electoral interference has renewed the temptation for American leaders to do the same.
by Peter Beinart via The Atlantic on July 22, 2018

Dermokratiya, USA

With rampant talk of Russian interference, it's worth recounting Washington's role in undermining Russia's 1996 election.
by Sean Guillory via Jacobin on March 13, 2017

Yes, We’ve Done It Too

A history of the United States meddling in the elections of other countries.
by Jess Engebretson via KQED on March 2, 2017
Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, hands bound, sits in the bed of an army truck under guard of Congolese soldiers on Dec. 2, 1960, one day after his arrest by troops loyal to Col. Joseph Mobutu.

Open the Congo Files and Face Up to What the CIA Did

When Congo gained independence during the Cold War, secret U.S. actions undermined its young democracy. It’s time to make up for that.
by Stuart A. Reid via Washington Post on October 24, 2023
Donald Trump behind bars made of the US Constitution

The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again

The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.
by Laurence H. Tribe, J. Michael Luttig via The Atlantic on August 19, 2023
Former President Donald Trump with his attorneys inside the courtroom during his arraignment at the Manhattan Criminal Court on April 4, 2023.

A Brief History of the Ku Klux Klan Acts

These 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump.
by Joseph Kelly via The Conversation on August 4, 2023
M. Roland Nachman Jr., William P. Rogers and Herbert Wechsler, the lawyers in "New York Times v. Sullivan."

Keeping Speech Robust and Free

Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.
by Jeffrey Toobin via New York Review of Books on July 7, 2023
Scale, with pile of U.S. states weighing down one end, and the U.S. on the other.

How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy

Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?
by Andrew Marantz via The New Yorker on June 5, 2023
Iranian hostages exiting a plane with a sign that reads "Welcome back to freedom."

It’s All But Settled: The Reagan Campaign Delayed the Release of the Iranian Hostages

Suspicions have long swirled around unscrupulous campaign manager William Casey. We believe the evidence is now overwhelming.
by Stuart E. Eizenstat, Jonathan Alter, Kai Bird, Gary Sick via The New Republic on May 3, 2023
Edgar Allen Poe.

Did Voter Fraud Kill Edgar Allan Poe?

The death of mystery writer Edgar Allan Poe is its own mystery. But new research suggests election fraud may have contributed to his demise in Baltimore.
by Randy Dotinga via Retropolis on March 26, 2023
Table of election returns printed in newspaper in 1796.

Collusion, Theft, Violence, and Lies: Lurid Tales of American Elections

1796, the first contested presidential election.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on March 3, 2023
Portraits of white men.

How 155 Angry White Men Chained Alabama to Its Confederate Past

Their plan required not only a social and legal division along racial lines but a political one, too — a separation that persists today.
by Kyle Whitmire via al.com on December 5, 2022
4 photo collage illustrating the partnership between the White League and the Ku Klux Klan in engaging in vigilante terrorism and racial violence

Colfax, Cruikshank, and the Latter-Day War on Reconstruction

Unearthing the deep roots of racialized voter suppression—and explaining how they shape ballot access today.
by David Daley via The Forum on August 3, 2022
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Dictators and Civil Wars: The Cold War in Latin America

Driven by fears of the rise of communism, the U.S. intervened in elections across the globe. In Latin America, the consequences are still being felt.
via Retro Report on February 25, 2022
Protest sign reading "We never left Jim Crow."

Voter Fraud Propagandists Are Recycling Jim Crow Rhetoric

The conservative plot to suppress the Black vote has relied on racist caricatures, then and now.
by Nick Tabor via The New Republic on February 4, 2022
The Electoral Commission of 1877 holding a secret session by candle-light.
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The Electoral Count Act Is Broken. Fixing It Requires Knowing How It Became Law.

Trump tried to exploit flaws that were embedded in the law from the start.
by Rachel Shelden, Erik B. Alexander via Made By History on October 8, 2021

U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again

The nation’s poverty and chaos has been shaped by Washington for decades.
by Jonathan M. Katz via Foreign Policy on July 13, 2021
Roger Stone

How to Steal an American Election

From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Nixon and more: meddling, fixing, rigging, fraud, and violence.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on January 28, 2021
Side-by-side of Josh Hawley and David Atchison

Josh Hawley Is Not the First Missouri Senator with Blood on His Hands

The Bleeding Kansas parallels with our current moment get weirder and darker.
by Steven Lubet via Tropics of Meta on January 13, 2021
Photo of people protesting and demanding all votes are counted the day after Election Day at McPherson Square, near the White House.
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President Trump’s False Claims About Election Fraud Are Dangerous

Trump’s campaign to delegitimize the vote has a familiar ring. It evokes an egregious example of election fraud in the 1890s.
by Sid Bedingfield via Made By History on November 5, 2020
Black and White photo of JFK and Richard Nixon

The Time Nixon’s Cronies Tried to Overturn a Presidential Election

The gambit was cynical and disruptive, but in the end it didn’t work.
by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on October 10, 2020
Police Officers observing and guarding.

Trump's War on Election Integrity Follows a Racist Playbook Used in 1980s Orange County

As Trump calls for legions to, as he proclaimed, 'go into the polls,' we should recall the sordid episode of voter intimidation that happened in Orange County.
by Gustavo Arellano via Los Angeles Times on October 1, 2020

Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” Plot Was Real After All

A batch of quietly released documents confirms what many have long suspected.
by Branko Marcetic via Jacobin on January 21, 2020
Senators Joseph McCarthy and Kenneth Wherry.

Democracy and Misinformation

The Cold War and today.
by Jennifer M. Miller via Perspectives on History on June 10, 2019
Anna Chennault with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
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The Natl. Security Adviser who Colluded With Foreign Powers Decades Before Michael Flynn

New documents reveal that Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign colluded with a foreign government far more than historians thought.
by Shane O'Sullivan via Made By History on December 26, 2018
Henry Kissinger and Otis Pike shaking hands.
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How Partisanship and Distrust Leave Congress Vulnerable to Hacking

Congress isn't safe from foreign interference. It never has been.
by KC Johnson via Made By History on October 2, 2018
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