AP: Federal proposals that would have significantly boosted security funding for election offices and heightened penalties for threatening their staff failed to advance this year, leaving state officials looking to their legislatures for support. The massive budget bill that passed… Continue reading

Release.

NYT deep dive.

Nick Riccardi for AP: Congress on Friday gave final passage to legislation changing the arcane law that governs the certification of a presidential contest, the strongest effort yet to avoid a repeat of Donald Trump’s violence-inflaming push to reverse his… Continue reading

Analysis from Bolts.

AP: An Alaska lawmaker with ties to the far-right Oath Keepers group is eligible to hold office, a state judge ruled Friday. Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna issued the ruling after overseeing a trial this month in the case against… Continue reading

Arizona Republic: Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee F. Jantzen denied Friday Republican attorney general candidate Abe Hamadeh’s election challenge. Hamadeh trailed 511 votes behind Democrat Kris Mayes in one of Arizona’s closest statewide elections. Frantzen ruled from the… Continue reading

Nevada Independent: Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske sits for a rare interview in her high-ceilinged office in the historic state capitol building, wearing a sweater adorned with a sparkling Christmas tree. Nevada’s top election administrator has just wrapped up her staff holiday… Continue reading

Carl Hulse NYT tick-tock.

ADN: Arguments in a trial over Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman’s eligibility to hold office concluded Wednesday, leaving it up to Anchorage Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna to determine whether Eastman’s membership in the Oath Keepers precludes him from serving… Continue reading

Michael Wagner: In 2023, I predict that a backlash is coming — we will be increasingly likely to hear that pro-democracy reporting is biased, dangerous, and un-American. Some of the backlash will come from folks favoring a more traditional journalism… Continue reading

CNN: The final straw for former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson with her first attorney, paid through allies of former President Donald Trump, came when he told her to stop cooperating with the January 6 select House committee… Continue reading

List here. Here’s a snippet of Eastman’s deposition:

The report is now expected Thursday.