The story of True the Vote highlights how exploiting Trump’s Big Lie has become a lucrative enterprise, growing from a cottage industry to a thriving economy.
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She Helped Create the Big Lie. Records Suggest She Turned It Into a Big Grift.
A review of thousands of pages of documents paints the picture of True the Vote as an organization that enriches insiders rather than rooting out voter fraud.
Inside the GOP’s Purge of Local Election Officials in Michigan
Proponents of Trump’s Big Lie have “been able to infiltrate the Republican Party right down to the precinct level in a way that I’ve been astounded by,” says a former GOP head.
Campaigning on the Big Lie
Across the nation, many Republicans are campaigning on the lie that the 2020 election was stolen and promising to change the way elections are run in the future.
How the Christian Right Embraced Voter Suppression
Abortion isn’t the only victory conservative evangelicals have won in 2021.
Inside the vote count chaos in Detroit
Election volunteer Candice Fortman describes rising tensions in a ballot counting room as voters delivered Michigan to Joe Biden.
The American divide
Reveal host Al Letson talks to a first-time voter, whose struggles reflect the divisions this country faces after a historic election.
John Johnson isn’t dead: How claims of voter fraud in Florida fell apart
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative nonprofit, has a long history of claiming voter fraud but getting its facts wrong.
A warning from Wisconsin
Tens of thousands of mail-in ballots were rejected on technicalities in a pandemic primary in a key swing state.
Whose vote will count?
From problems with vote-by-mail systems to voter suppression, we examine the potential for chaos in the 2020 elections.