MAY 2026 – Doug Bock Clark and Jen Fefield of ProPublica in April 2026 followed up on the 2020 election and found that, if the same election were held today, the institutions that ensured clean elections are likely no longer capable of carrying out clean elections in 2026 and 2028. “If faced with the same tests today, the guardrails and people that held the line would largely be missing, an examination by ProPublica found.” It’s a sweeping, and largely persuasive, piece, which examines all the staffing cuts and firings at agencies whose job it it to protect clean elections.