Corrections Log
This is the complete, continuously updated record of substantive factual corrections Citizen Analyst has made to previously published content.
Every entry states when the correction was published, which document it applies to, what was corrected, and the sources supporting the revised material. The corrected article itself also carries a dated notice at the top, so a reader who arrives at the article rather than at this log sees the same information.
Corrections to legal claims are listed first. When something we published about a person’s charges, conviction, court findings, or legal exposure turns out to have been wrong, that is the most consequential kind of error we can make, and it is not going to be filed in date order alongside a misspelled county name.
Minor changes — typos, formatting, broken links, and rewording that does not change the meaning of a claim — are made without a formal notice and do not appear here. That is the policy described in Corrections & Transparency.
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83 published corrections, 11 of them to legal claims. Each entry is one review pass on one document; where a pass corrected several related claims they are listed together.
Corrections to legal claims
Corrections to what we published about a person’s charges, conviction, court findings, or legal exposure.
2026-09-10 · Brad Raffensperger — Political Accountability Profile — correction to a legal claim
- Clarified that the January 6 Committee issued formal criminal referrals to the Justice Department rather than directly recommending criminal charges.
- The quotation “the data you have is wrong” was attributed to Ryan Germany, general counsel to the Secretary of State’s office. Raffensperger said it: “Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong”.
- Raffensperger’s closed-door appearance before the House Select Committee was dated June 14, 2021. The Committee was not created until June 30, 2021 (H.Res. 503); the interview, lasting roughly four hours, took place on November 30, 2021.
Sources: Rev.com, “Donald Trump Georgia Phone Call Transcript with Brad Raffensperger,” January 3, 2021; CNN, “Georgia secretary of state spoke with January 6 committee about election lies,” November 30, 2021
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Texas — correction to a legal claim
- Mischaracterised the federal criminal charges against a named member of Congress (Rep. Henry Cuellar), describing the indictment as involving ‘carjacking/bribery’. The characterisation was unsupported and the table containing it also relied on pre-2025-map district data; it has been removed.
- Named Jane Nelson as Texas Secretary of State. Nelson resigned in July 2026 and Robert S. Howden was appointed interim Secretary of State, subject to Senate confirmation in 2027.
- Stated that Texas was cooperating with DOJ voter-data demands. Texas was never sued by DOJ; it entered a separate USCIS data agreement voluntarily.
Sources: https://www.votebeat.org/; https://www.texastribune.org/; https://statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/our-work/tracker-doj-lawsuits-seeking-states-sensitive-voter-data
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Pennsylvania — correction to a legal claim
- Described the DOJ voter-roll lawsuit against Pennsylvania as continuing in active litigation. The suit was dismissed on 2026-06-27; the matter is on appeal to the Third Circuit.
- Named Eugene DePasquale as Pennsylvania’s Attorney General and as leading the state’s defense against the DOJ voter-roll lawsuit. DePasquale lost the 2024 election; the Attorney General is Dave Sunday (R), in office since January 2025. Pennsylvania joined the multi-state USPS suit through Governor Shapiro, not through its Attorney General.
- Listed Susan Wild (D) as the sitting member for PA-7 with a ‘narrowly won 2024’ note. Wild lost in 2024; the incumbent is Ryan Mackenzie (R).
- Listed Matt Cartwright (D) as the sitting member for PA-8. Cartwright lost in 2024; the incumbent is Rob Bresnahan (R).
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Sunday_(politician); https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/; https://statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/our-work/tracker-doj-lawsuits-seeking-states-sensitive-voter-data; https://www.vote.pa.gov/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Montana — correction to a legal claim
- Described HB 176, eliminating Montana’s same-day voter registration, as subject to ‘ongoing challenges’. HB 176 was permanently struck down by the Montana Supreme Court in March 2024. Same-day registration is available. A 2025 replacement (SB 490) is preliminarily enjoined.
Sources: https://dailymontanan.com/
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2026-09-07 · 35 state election-defense playbooks — correction to a legal claim
- 35 published state election-defense playbooks cited the 2026 Supreme Court decision on mail-ballot receipt deadlines with the parties reversed, as “RNC v. Watson”. The case is Watson v. Republican National Committee: Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson was the petitioner, defending the state’s five-business-day receipt grace period, and the Court reversed the Fifth Circuit. Separately, 15 of those documents gave the reporter citation as “602 U.S.”, which is the wrong volume. A reversed caption misstates which party sought review and which position prevailed, and a wrong citation sends a reader to the wrong case. Corrected across every affected document in the 2026-09-07 currency refresh.
Sources: https://votingrightslab.org/; https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/
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Documents affected: 35
2026-08-28 · Andrew J. Block — DOJ Senior Counsel Defending the January 6 Slush Fund — correction to a legal claim
- The article previously implied the fund’s operations ended due to a court-ordered injunction, but it was actually ended by an administrative rescission driven by Senate confirmation politics, not a judicial order.
- The fund’s rescission is now described as resulting from political pressure rather than a court order, and it is clarified that the promised sworn declarations of termination were never actually obtained.
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2026-08-21 · Sidney Powell — Political Accountability Profile — correction to a legal claim
- Corrected the description of Michael Flynn’s federal case, clarifying it concerned his 2016 contacts with Russia’s ambassador rather than a Logan Act charge.
- Clarified that her reputation as a federal prosecutor was specifically in the appellate context.
Sources: DOJ docket, United States v. Flynn, No. 1:17-cr-00232 (D.D.C.)
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2026-08-21 · Gregory Bovino — Border Patrol Commander-at-Large, Trump Immigration Crackdown — correction to a legal claim
- The claim that a federal court found Bovino committed perjury was overstated; he actually admitted in deposition that a prior public account was wrong, which a district court’s preliminary injunction order described as him having ‘admitted that he lied,’ and that injunction was later vacated on mootness grounds.
- Removed the characterization of Bovino’s sworn statements as criminal ‘perjury’ and the claim that a federal judge specifically ruled his conduct violated the First Amendment, replacing these with more accurate, less legally definitive descriptions of false deposition testimony and court proceedings.
- The heading no longer states that a federal judge found Bovino committed perjury, reflecting that the Seventh Circuit vacated the district court’s findings on appeal.
- Corrected the description of the Seventh Circuit’s ruling to clarify it blocked a specific daily court-appearance requirement for Bovino via writ of mandamus, rather than broadly pausing the injunction as overbroad.
- Clarified that the ongoing matters were proceedings rather than formal investigations.
- The claimed court finding of perjury and related injunction in Chicago Headline Club v. Noem were vacated by the Seventh Circuit and the case was dismissed, so the finding no longer stands.
- Clarified that Bovino’s Border Patrol career began in El Paso and included postings in Yuma, Blythe, and New Orleans before he took command of El Centro, rather than his career being built primarily in the El Centro sector.
- Clarified that the internal investigation into the antisemitic remarks was conducted by DHS and CBP, not DHS alone.
- Updated Bovino’s status to confirm his retirement actually took effect, rather than remaining just an announced intention.
- Added the specific start and end dates for Bovino’s Commander-at-Large title.
Sources: Noem v. Ellis, No. 25-2936 (7th Cir. 2025); Chicago Headline Club v. Noem, district court dismissal without prejudice (January 22, 2026); Seventh Circuit order vacating preliminary injunction and factfinding (March 5, 2026); NYT exit interview, published March 2026
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2026-07-07 · 81 withdrawn documents — correction to a legal claim
- 81 published documents were withdrawn from the site after review; 75 of them made criminal-conduct claims that lacked a verifiable citation.
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Documents affected: 81
2026-05-18 · Stephen Miller – Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy — correction to a legal claim
- The section previously asserted Stephen Miller was responsible for warrantless immigration arrests that violated the Fourth Amendment, but that claim has been withdrawn and replaced with a different allegation about a disinformation campaign.
- Removed the claim that Miller directed ICE to conduct warrantless arrests in systematic violation of the Fourth Amendment, as this legal assertion could not be substantiated.
- Removed an unsupported claim that Miller personally ordered mass warrantless ICE arrests in violation of the Fourth Amendment, replacing it with a documented statement about Miller labeling the Democratic Party a domestic extremist organization.
- The heading no longer implies the enforcement actions ended in January 2026, clarifying that they are ongoing.
- Corrected the claimed increase in ICE arrest targets from a tenfold rise to the accurate nearly five-fold increase (to 3,000 arrests per day from a 660 daily average).
- Removed an unsupported claim that Miller had backpedaled in response to the killings, and specified the operation name and more precise dates.
Sources: Fox News interview, May 2025; The Nation, September 3, 2025
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2026-05-18 · Pam Bondi — Political Accountability Profile — correction to a legal claim
- Removed a claim that Pam Bondi faced Florida Bar disbarment proceedings and an American Bar Association complaint, as no such proceedings or complaint have been established.
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All other corrections
September 2026
2026-09-17 · Citizen Analyst — Spokesperson Misinformation Assessment (SMA)
- Clarified that the required legal disclaimer applies to every Spokesperson Misinformation Assessment section, not just Format A profiles, since it is triggered by the assessment heading rather than a numeric score.
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2026-09-17 · Citizen Analyst — Malice Evaluator (Democratic Malice Assessment)
- Clarified that the legal disclaimer is required for every Democratic Malice Assessment section, including those with no score assigned (Designation: None), not just ones bearing an actual malice score.
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2026-09-17 · Citizen Analyst — Dangerous Rhetoric Assessment (DRA)
- Clarified that the previous disclaimer template omitted the case citations Section 9 relies on, which could have caused the publish guard to block DRA entries.
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2026-09-10 · Will Huff — Anti-Voting-Machine Consultant and Political Operative
- The profile stated as established fact that Will Huff managed Conrad Reynolds’s 2022 Republican primary campaign in Arkansas’s 2nd Congressional District. The only source for that claim is Reynolds’s own campaign site, which could not be retrieved on verification (September 10, 2026) and which no independent outlet reviewed for this profile corroborates. The claim is now marked single-source and unverified, and is no longer relied on as a basis for inclusion or for any accountability finding.
Sources: Documented Action 1
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2026-09-10 · Sigal Chattah — Unlawfully Appointed Nevada Acting US Attorney
- Clarified that Chattah ordered the FBI probe to open in July 2025, and corrected the date the FBI closed the inquiry from July 2025 to late January 2026.
Sources: CBS News, “FBI closes 2020 election fraud inquiry ordered by Nevada’s top federal prosecutor,” March 12, 2026
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2026-09-10 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: South Carolina
- The guide told South Carolina voters that the State Election Commission does not accept a concealed weapons permit as photo ID and to “not rely on it.” The Commission’s own Photo ID Requirements page lists the SC Concealed Weapons Permit under the SC DMV ID card category. In a strict-photo-ID state this advised voters away from a valid ID.
Sources: SC State Election Commission, “Photo ID Requirements.” https://scvotes.gov/voters/photo-id-requirements
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2026-09-10 · Conrad Reynolds — Arkansas Voter Integrity Initiative Founder, Anti-Voting-Machine Advocate
- Clarified that the pending misdemeanor charge against Reynolds is not a basis for the article’s inclusion criteria, correcting the earlier framing that listed it alongside conduct that does justify inclusion.
Sources: Ark. Code § 7-1-103; Documented Action 3
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2026-09-09 · Voting Rights Guide: Vermont (VT)
- Replaced an incorrectly listed law firm with the correct organization (ACLU of Vermont) that actually provides voting rights litigation and voter assistance in the state.
Sources: https://www.acluvt.org
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2026-09-09 · Voting Rights Guide: Illinois (IL)
- Replaced an incorrectly listed law firm with the organization that actually provides voting rights litigation and voter assistance in Illinois.
Sources: https://www.aclu-il.org
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: Wisconsin (WI)
- Stated that Wisconsin does not use traditional provisional ballots. Wisconsin issues them in two situations under Wis. Stat. section 6.97 — a voter without acceptable photo ID, and an Election Day registrant who cannot supply a driver-licence number. Both carry cure deadlines after the election. A voter told no such ballot exists would have left without casting one.
- Stated that a recent court ruling requires citizenship verification for Wisconsin voter registration. Wisconsin has no documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement and no back-end verification program; AB 595, which would have created one, was vetoed on 2026-04-08.
Sources: https://elections.wi.gov/
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: Rhode Island (RI)
- Stated that photo ID is required to register to vote in Rhode Island, with an ‘accepted IDs’ list consisting of three identification NUMBERS (last four of a Social Security number, Rhode Island licence number, Rhode Island ID number). A number is not a photo ID. Photo ID is required for in-person voting, not for registration.
Sources: https://elections.ri.gov/voter-registration/voter-id
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: Puerto Rico (PR)
- Gave Puerto Rico’s registry-closing period as 45 days. Article 5.11 of Ley 58-2020, as amended by Ley 39-2026, closes the electoral registry 50 days before a general election or primary.
Sources: https://ww2.ceepur.org/
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: Northern Mariana Islands (MP)
- Expressed the CNMI registration deadline only as the formula ’60 days before election’. For the November 3, 2026 general election that deadline was 4:30 p.m. on Friday, September 4, 2026, which had already passed when this correction was filed. The CNMI offers no same-day or late registration and the register does not reopen, so a formula that reads as current forever concealed a closed window from readers who could no longer act on it.
Sources: https://www.votecnmi.gov.mp/
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: New Mexico (NM)
- Gave the New Mexico absentee-ballot request deadline as ’17 days before (varies)’. The deadline is 14 days: applications must be received by October 20, 2026.
Sources: https://www.sos.nm.gov/voting-and-elections/
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: Minnesota (MN)
- Stated that Minnesota requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, citing ‘recent legislative changes referenced in section 200.035’. Minnesota requires no documentary proof of citizenship at registration and operates no back-end verification program. The likely origin is a conflation with automatic voter registration, which enrols only people whose driver-services record already contains citizenship documentation — an eligibility condition for AVR, not a requirement placed on registrants. The statement would have sent Minnesotans to gather documents they do not need and could have deterred a lawful registration.
- Instructed readers denied at the polls to ask for a provisional ballot. Minnesota issues no provisional ballots at all — it is one of three states exempt from the HAVA requirement because it offers Election Day registration. A voter following this would have argued for a document that does not exist while the polls closed, instead of using one of the seven same-day registration routes that would actually have let them vote.
Sources: https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/register-to-vote/; https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/provisional-ballots
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: Maryland (MD)
- Gave the mail-ballot return rule as ‘postmarked or delivered by 8pm on election day’. Both halves are wrong. Maryland requires a ballot to be postmarked by Election Day AND received by the second Friday after it (November 13, 2026); the 8 p.m. Election Day cut-off applies only to hand delivery and drop boxes. The same text was also used as the ballot REQUEST deadline, which is October 27 (mail/fax) or October 30 (emailed link).
Sources: https://elections.maryland.gov/voting/canvassing.html; https://elections.maryland.gov/voting/absentee.html
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: Louisiana (LA)
- Gave Louisiana Election Day polling hours as opening at 7 a.m. Polls open at 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. (Saturday elections, including the December 12 runoff, open at 7:00 a.m.).
Sources: https://www.sos.la.gov/ElectionsAndVoting/
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: Indiana (IN)
- Stated that a photo ID is acceptable for voting if it expired after November 7, 2023. Indiana’s rule keys on the most recent general election, which is November 5, 2024. The published date was a year early and would have told a voter whose ID expired in, for example, March 2024 that it was still valid at the polls.
- Stated in the mail-voting section that Indiana requires no excuse to vote absentee, while the absentee section of the same document correctly said an excuse is required. Indiana requires a statutory excuse to vote absentee by mail. A voter who applied without a qualifying reason would have been refused; the no-excuse alternative is early in-person voting.
Sources: https://www.in.gov/sos/elections/voter-information/photo-id-law/; Indiana Secretary of State, Absentee Voting (IC 3-11-10-24)
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: Hawaii (HI)
- Stated that a paper voter-registration application must be postmarked by the deadline. Hawaii requires the application to be RECEIVED by the County Elections Division by 4:30 p.m. HST on October 26, 2026; a postmark does not preserve it. Several widely-used third-party guides repeat the postmark framing, but the Office of Elections does not.
- Stated that photo ID is required to vote in Hawaii, and separately that photo ID is required to register. Neither is true: no provision of Hawaii law requires a voter to present ID whether voting by mail or in person, and registration asks for a licence number, state ID number, or the last four digits of a Social Security number rather than a document.
Sources: https://elections.hawaii.gov/register-to-vote/registration/
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: Guam (GU)
- Gave Guam’s voter-registration deadline as 10 days before Election Day. The Guam Election Commission’s own 2026 calendar sets it at 15 days: October 19, 2026. A reader following the published figure would have attempted to register on October 24, nine days after the register closed.
- Linked repeatedly to guamelection.org as the Guam Election Commission, including as the contact point for registration and absentee voting. That domain no longer belongs to the Commission and now serves an unrelated commercial content farm. Every reader who followed a link to their election authority was sent off-site. The Commission is at gec.guam.gov.
- Stated that Guam mail voting requires no excuse. Guam conditions a mailed absentee ballot on one of seven statutory grounds under 3 GCA section 10101. What requires no excuse is early in-office absentee voting under section 10107 — a different process with different dates. The two were filed under one heading.
Sources: https://gec.guam.gov/
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: Connecticut (CT)
- Stated that photo ID is required to vote in Connecticut. It is not. The Secretary of the State’s own FAQ answers ‘Is a driver’s license or photo ID required to vote in Connecticut?’ with ‘No.’ Most voters may present a non-photo document, and a voter with no ID may sign an affidavit and cast a regular ballot. The document’s own laws section said so while the field above it said the opposite.
Sources: https://portal.ct.gov/sots/election-services/voter-information/voter-faqs
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2026-09-08 · Voting Rights Guide: American Samoa (AS)
- Stated that mail voting is not available in American Samoa and that no ballot return deadline applies, while the same document described a live absentee process. A.S.C.A. section 6.1105 requires absentee ballots to be RECEIVED by 1:30 p.m. on Election Day — four and a half hours before polls close, and unusually early. Readers were given no deadline for a deadline that exists.
Sources: https://asbar.org/
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2026-09-08 · USPS and Mail Ballot Interference: What Changed and What You Can Do
- Identified Louis DeJoy as the sitting Postmaster General and attributed current USPS election-mail policy to him. DeJoy has not been Postmaster General since 2025; David Steiner has held the office since 2025-07-15 and is the official who issued the mail-ballot rule at issue. DeJoy remains correctly associated with Delivering for America, from which the underlying operational changes descend, but not with the election rule.
Sources: https://www.votebeat.org/
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2026-09-08 · Sigal Chattah — Unlawfully Appointed Nevada Acting US Attorney
- The article wrongly stated that Chattah had departed her DOJ post and that her role ended in January 2026, when in fact she remains in office in a different title while the ruling against her acting designation is on appeal.
- Clarified that Sigal Chattah’s disqualification is currently stayed pending a Supreme Court petition rather than being a final, enforced ruling.
Sources: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, August 17, 2026; Ninth Circuit stay order, August 21, 2026
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2026-09-08 · Rules of Engagement: Federal Forces at Polling Sites
- Asserted that of 60+ competitive U.S. House seats, the majority sit in states with Democratic governors who would refuse consent to a National Guard deployment. The claim was unsourced and unverifiable, and House composition figures for this period are contested across sources. Removed rather than softened.
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2026-09-08 · Mike Johnson — U.S. Representative (LA-4), Speaker of the House
- The case name was written backwards and has been corrected to Watson v. Republican National Committee.
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Interference Defense: Complete Guide
- Stated that Speaker Johnson delayed seating Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva for 36 days. The delay was 50 days: she won on 2025-09-23 and was sworn in on 2025-11-12. The document also presented the episode as a live 2026 threat; the suit was voluntarily dismissed on 2025-11-14 and no court reached the merits.
Sources: https://ballotpedia.org/; https://www.democracydocket.com/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Wyoming
- Named Bridget Hill as Wyoming’s Attorney General. Hill left the office in spring 2025 on appointment to the Wyoming Supreme Court; Keith Kautz is Attorney General.
Sources: https://ag.wyo.gov/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: West Virginia
- Stated that West Virginia has no mail-ballot grace period and that ballots must be received by the close of polls. West Virginia RETAINS its grace period: HB 4600, which would have eliminated it, passed the House 79-17 but died in the Senate. A ballot postmarked by Election Day and received during the statutory canvass window still counts.
Sources: https://westvirginiawatch.com/; https://ballotpedia.org/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Virginia
- Told readers that same-day registration is ‘Not available in Virginia’. Same-day registration IS available: a voter may register in person after the October 23 deadline, through and including Election Day, and cast a provisional ballot. A reader who missed the deadline and relied on this statement would have concluded they could not vote at all.
- Gave Virginia’s voter-registration deadline as ’22 days before Election Day’. The deadline is 11 days before — Friday, October 23, 2026.
- Stated that Senator Mark Warner is retiring and that Virginia has an open U.S. Senate seat in 2026, and built part of the state threat assessment on that premise. Warner is on the ballot seeking a fourth term.
- Listed Derrick Anderson (R) as the incumbent in VA-7. The incumbent is Eugene Vindman (D), who won the seat in 2024.
Sources: https://www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/; https://www.elections.virginia.gov/casting-a-ballot/candidate-list/upcoming-elections.html; https://www.elections.virginia.gov/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Utah
- Instructed Utah voters to postmark their mail ballot by the day before Election Day. House Bill 300 (2025) eliminated Utah’s postmark grace period: under Utah Code § 20A-3a-204 a mail ballot must be RECEIVED by 8:00 PM on Election Day, November 3, 2026. The document separately claimed the 2026 Supreme Court mail-ballot decision ‘reinforces’ Utah’s postmark approach — an approach Utah had already abolished. A voter posting a ballot on November 2 in reliance on this text would very likely have been disenfranchised.
Sources: https://vote.utah.gov/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Oregon
- Named LaVonne Griffin-Valade as Oregon’s Secretary of State. The Secretary of State is Tobias Read, who publicly responded to the September 4, 2026 USPS preliminary injunction on the state’s behalf.
Sources: https://sos.oregon.gov/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Ohio
- Gave Ohio’s mail-ballot return rule as ‘postmarked by the day before Election Day and received within 10 days’. Both halves are wrong for 2026: Senate Bill 293 (effective 2026-03-20) eliminated Ohio’s four-day post-election grace period, and ballots must now be RECEIVED by 7:30 PM on Election Day, November 3, 2026. A voter relying on the prior text could have mailed a ballot that arrived too late to count.
- Named Dave Yost as Ohio’s Attorney General. Yost resigned in 2026 and Governor DeWine appointed Andy Wilson (R) to succeed him.
Sources: https://www.ohiosos.gov/elections/voting-schedule/; https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Nevada
- Told readers that Nevada requires ID for in-person voting and listed acceptable forms. Nevada does NOT require photo identification to vote in person; Governor Lombardo vetoed AB 499, which would have imposed one. Nevada verifies identity by signature matching, with three narrow exceptions (same-day registration, online registration within 14 days of the election, and HAVA first-time mail registrants). Telling a voter without ID that they need one is likely to deter an eligible voter who would in fact have been able to vote.
Sources: https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/elections
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: New Jersey
- Named Matt Platkin as New Jersey’s Attorney General. Platkin left office 2026-01-20; Jennifer Davenport was confirmed Attorney General on 2026-02-24.
Sources: https://www.njoag.gov/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: New Hampshire
- Stated that New Hampshire is a plaintiff state in the USPS mail-ballot litigation and that its mail-ballot access was therefore ‘preserved for now’. New Hampshire is neither a plaintiff nor an intervenor in that litigation. The prior text attributed to the state a legal protection it had not sought.
- Listed Ann McLane Kuster as the NH-2 member with her seat ‘potentially open (retirement possible)’. Kuster retired in 2024; the incumbent is Maggie Goodlander.
Sources: https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/08/28/trump-mail-voting-executive-order-2026-midterms-court-updates; https://www.sos.nh.gov/elections
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: North Dakota
- Stated that Lieutenant Governor Tammy Miller succeeded Doug Burgum as Governor of North Dakota. Kelly Armstrong won the 2024 election and holds the office; Miller lost the primary to him.
Sources: https://www.governor.nd.gov/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: North Carolina
- Gave North Carolina’s absentee return deadline as ‘received by 5:00 PM on Election Day (or postmarked by Election Day and received within 3 days)’. Both the time and the postmark grace were wrong: the ballot must be RECEIVED by 7:30 PM on Election Day and there is no postmark grace period.
- Stated that North Carolina requires one witness signature on an absentee ballot. North Carolina requires TWO witnesses or one notary. A ballot returned with a single witness would be deficient.
Sources: https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/vote-mail/detailed-instructions-vote-mail
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Missouri
- Named Andrew Bailey as Missouri’s Attorney General. Bailey resigned in September 2025 to join the FBI; Catherine Hanaway has been Attorney General since 2025-09-08.
Sources: https://ago.mo.gov/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Michigan
- Listed Paul Junge (R) as the freshman incumbent in MI-8. Junge lost to Kristen McDonald Rivet (D) by 6.7 points in November 2024; she is the incumbent.
Sources: https://www.michigan.gov/sos
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Maine
- Stated that Maine has an open U.S. Senate seat in 2026 because Angus King is retiring, and treated that as a driver of the state’s threat tier. King’s seat is not on the 2026 ballot; the Maine Senate seat up in 2026 is Susan Collins’s, and she is seeking re-election.
Sources: https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Louisiana
- Described Louisiana as operating a ‘jungle primary’ system in which all candidates appear on one ballot with a runoff if none exceeds 50 percent. Louisiana moved to closed party primaries for 2026, and Act 7 (HB 842, signed 2026-05-14) then returned only U.S. House races to an open primary held on November 3 with a general on December 12. The November 3 ballot is therefore a hybrid — a Senate general alongside a House open primary — and for many voters the decisive congressional round is in December. The prior description would have left readers unaware of a second, deciding election.
- Directed organisers to monitor a ‘new LA-6 congressional district’. The majority-minority configuration of that district was dissolved by SB 121, signed 2026-05-29, following Louisiana v. Callais, and the incumbent subsequently announced he would not seek re-election.
Sources: https://www.sos.la.gov/elections-voting/election-dates; https://ballotpedia.org/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Indiana
- Gave Indiana’s absentee ballot arrival deadline as noon on Election Day. The deadline is 6:00 PM on Election Day. The prior text understated the available time by six hours.
Sources: https://www.in.gov/sos/elections/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Georgia
- Stated that Attorney General Chris Carr was term-limited. Georgia’s Attorney General is not subject to term limits; Carr declined to seek reelection in 2026 and ran unsuccessfully for governor instead. He remains the sitting Attorney General.
- Stated that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was running for reelection in 2026 against election-denier challengers. Raffensperger ran for governor and did not win the nomination; his term ends January 2027.
- Gave Georgia’s county certification deadline as ‘the 2nd Friday following the election’. Certification is due 5:00 PM Monday, November 9, 2026 under O.C.G.A. §§ 21-2-493(k) and 21-2-497 — four days earlier than the stated rule. The state deadline is the seventeenth day (November 20), not the ‘third Friday’; that rule produced the right date only by coincidence this cycle. Counsel staffing a certification-refusal response from the prior text would have prepared for the wrong date.
Sources: https://ballotpedia.org/Chris_Carr; https://www.ajc.com/; https://www.brennancenter.org/; https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/election-results-canvass-and-certification-deadlines
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Florida
- Stated that Florida’s narrowed voter-ID rules and student-ID restrictions were ‘enacted and in force’, and told student voters that only Florida public university IDs would be accepted. HB 991’s proof-of-citizenship and ID-narrowing provisions do not take effect until 2027-01-01. Student IDs from any institution — along with retirement-centre, neighbourhood-association, public-assistance, debit/credit-card and government-employee IDs — remain valid through 2026-12-31 and therefore for the November 3, 2026 election. The prior text would have deterred eligible voters from using valid identification.
- Named Ashley Moody as Florida’s Attorney General. Moody was appointed to the U.S. Senate; James Uthmeier (R) has been Attorney General since February 2025.
- Recorded a ‘SAVE Act vote: Yes’ for a sitting U.S. Senator. The SAVE America Act passed the House in February 2026 and has never received a Senate passage vote, so no such vote exists to attribute to any senator. The only related roll call was a 2026-04-23 motion to attach it to reconciliation, which failed 48-50.
Sources: https://ballotpedia.org/; https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id; https://floridaphoenix.com/; https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/senate-rejects-bid-to-revive-save-america-act-but-the-war-isnt-over
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: District of Columbia
- Identified Monica Evans as Chair of the DC Board of Elections. Evans is the Board’s Executive Director, a staff role; the Board Chair is Gregory McCarthy.
Sources: https://dcboe.org/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Connecticut
- Stated that Connecticut expanded no-excuse absentee voting in 2023. The 2024 constitutional amendment only authorised it; the implementing statute (HB 5001) was enacted in May-June 2026, making November 3, 2026 the state’s first general election held under no-excuse absentee voting.
Sources: https://www.courant.com/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Arizona
- Attributed the refusal-to-seat litigation to ‘Rep. Raúl Grijalva’ and dated it to June 2026 as live litigation. The member was Adelita Grijalva (AZ-7); the suit was filed 2025-10-21, she was seated 2025-11-12 after a 50-day delay, and the suit was voluntarily dismissed 2025-11-14. A resolved 2025 matter was presented as active 2026 litigation.
- Named Ben Toma as Arizona House Speaker. The Speaker is Steve Montenegro (R-Goodyear).
Sources: https://azmirror.com/; https://azcapitoltimes.com/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Arkansas
- Named John Thurston as Arkansas Secretary of State. Thurston left the office for State Treasurer in January 2025; Cole Jester is the appointed Secretary of State.
Sources: https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Alabama
- Stated that Alabama implemented in-person early voting in 2024 following legislation signed in 2023, and built its threat assessment on that premise (‘Alabama’s recent adoption of early voting partially mitigates Election Day bottlenecks’). Alabama does NOT offer early in-person voting. Per the National Conference of State Legislatures (April 2026), 47 states plus DC and the territories offer it and only three do not — Alabama, Mississippi and New Hampshire. No such enabling act could be sourced and the claim appears to have been fabricated. A voter planning to vote early in Alabama would have found no such option.
- Told readers Alabama allows no-excuse absentee voting. Alabama requires a specific statutory excuse to vote absentee, and the returned ballot must be notarised or witnessed by two adults. Alabama is one of 13 excuse-required states per NCSL. A voter who requested an absentee ballot without an excuse in reliance on this text would have been rejected.
Sources: https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/early-in-person-voting; https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-1-states-with-no-excuse-absentee-voting
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2026-09-08 · 2026 Election Defense Playbook: Alaska
- Named Treg Taylor as Alaska’s Attorney General. Taylor resigned in August 2025; Cori Mills has been Acting Attorney General since 2026-05-14, after the Legislature rejected the nominee.
Sources: https://law.alaska.gov/
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August 2026
2026-08-31 · Patriot University — User Manual
- Platform statistics throughout this manual were refreshed to the figures current on 2026-08-31. The knowledge base total moved from 1,433 to 1,456 published documents (1,653 to 1,710 indexed), and the AI skills figure from 88 to 93 published articles. Per-section counts for People, Investigative Toolkit, About Us, Organizations, Context & Backgrounders and Commentary & Opinion were corrected to match. Two figures were materially wrong rather than merely out of date: the number of accountability profiles carrying public-records trail blocks was understated as 110 and is 299, and a profile count attributed to the public-corruption-ombudsman skill matched no measured quantity and has been removed rather than restated.
Sources: Measured from the platform’s own publish manifest and knowledge-base index (kb-index.json) on 2026-08-31
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2026-08-27 · Safra A. Catz — Board Member Accountability Profile
- Updated Safra Catz’s board role to reflect her additional director position at Paramount Skydance following the 2025 merger, which the earlier version omitted.
- Corrected the description of Catz’s outside board service to accurately name Paramount Skydance Corporation rather than an unspecified reference to Bellevue-based companies.
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2026-08-11 · Paul K. Martin — Fired Inspector General, U.S. Agency for International Development
- Clarified that the ‘Pattern of Democratic Malice’ designation applies to the officials who fired Martin, not to Martin himself, who is the victim of the retaliation being scored.
- Clarified that the misconduct score applies to the officials who carried out the removal, not to Martin or the removal action itself.
Sources: Trent Morse — Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel
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2026-08-01 · Yusuf Tamboli — Data Architect
- Updated the knowledge graph’s typed edge count from 5,303+ to 19,766 to reflect the correct figure.
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2026-08-01 · Knowledge Graph and LLM Wiki Architecture
- Corrected the total number of edges reported for the knowledge graph.
- Updated the counts of profile extractions and typed edges in the entity graph data file to reflect the correct figures.
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2026-08-01 · Building Patriot University: A Case Study in Human/AI Collaboration
- Updated the entity graph edge count to the correct figure.
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2026-08-01 · Building a Personal AI Knowledge System — A Primer for Journalists, Editors, and Writers
- Updated the entity-graph edge count to the correct figure.
- Corrected the reported size of the entity graph from 6,789 nodes to 8,616 nodes.
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July 2026
2026-07-31 · Marco Rubio – Secretary of State
- Corrected the scheduled next review date for this article.
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2026-07-28 · John Lauro — Trump Jan. 6 Defense Attorney, Political Surrogate, “Aspiring Dictator” Strategist
- John Lauro — Trump Jan. 6 Defense Attorney, Political Surrogate, “Aspiring Dictator” Strategist was withdrawn from publication after review.
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2026-07-21 · Managing Director profile
- Updated the number of AI-powered specialists on the team from 55 to 69.
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2026-07-21 · Patriot University — Organization Chart
- Updated the count of AI-powered specialists and divisions to reflect the current organizational structure.
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2026-07-17 · Building a Personal AI Knowledge System — A Primer for Journalists, Editors, and Writers
- Corrected the count of advisor personas from 101 to 102.
- Corrected the number of advisor personas from 101 to 102.
- Corrected the stated number of AI personas on the Board of Advisors from 101 to 102.
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2026-07-02 · Larry Ellison — Individual Accountability Profile
- Corrected the description of Larry Ellison’s political contributions, clarifying that roughly $45 million went to an undisclosed nonprofit while $30 million-plus was in disclosed Super PAC giving, rather than $25 million or more solely to Super PACs.
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2026-07-02 · Brett Kavanaugh — Judicial Impact Analysis, Pragmatic Conservatism
- Brett Kavanaugh — Judicial Impact Analysis, Pragmatic Conservatism was withdrawn from publication after review.
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2026-07-01 · The One Big Beautiful Bill’s SNAP Cuts — What Republicans Said vs. What Happened
- The reported time period for the 4.3 million SNAP participation drop was corrected from February 2025–February 2026 to January 2025–January 2026.
Sources: ABC7, May 2026: https://abc7news.com/post/43-million-people-are-no-longer-receiving-food-stamps/19114026
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June 2026
2026-06-10 · 2026 Midterm Election Threat Landscape — Voter Suppression, Federal Overreach, and Democratic Defense
- 2026 Midterm Election Threat Landscape — Voter Suppression, Federal Overreach, and Democratic Defense was withdrawn from publication after review.
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2026-06-05 · January 6th Pardons Tracker: Recidivism and Accountability
- Corrected the range of days used to describe medium-tier recidivism cases.
- Corrected the time range for high-tier post-pardon recidivism cases, which had understated the shortest interval before reoffending.
- Updated the tally of HIGH tier cases and profiles to include newly added individuals, correcting the previous undercount of cases and category totals.
- Updated the count of pardoned January 6 defendants facing new charges from at least 33 to at least 97, reflecting newer data rather than an error in the original figure.
- The section labeled for Daniel Ball had mistakenly displayed unrelated criminal case details belonging to different individuals (David Daniel and Andrew Taake), and this has been corrected to link to Daniel Ball’s own profile.
- Changed a claim that new crimes occurred after pardons in at least two documented cases to at least some cases, which is a less specific and more accurate count.
Sources: Katherine Pompilio, “The Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges?” Lawfare, June 4, 2026. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-jan-6-pardons–how-many-clemency-recipients-have-faced-other-charges; daniel-ball-profile.md; Lawfare Interactive Database; federal court records; Lawfare, “The Justice Department Throws Out the Proud Boys and Oath Keeper Cases,” June 2026
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2026-06-02 · Kellyanne Conway — Former Senior Counselor to the President
- Updated to reflect that Conway did in fact take on a formal advisory role, at Freedom 250, rather than remaining outside any formal position.
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May 2026
2026-05-30 · Trump Family Financial Network — Cross-Cutting Analysis
- Corrected the total figure for defense-related family financial exposure, replacing an inaccurate dollar estimate with a specific breakdown of investments and a $620M loan figure.
- Clarified that the $2B USD1 stablecoin purchase and the roughly $500M equity stake involved separate Abu Dhabi transactions/entities rather than a single buyer doing both.
- Clarified that Donald Trump’s benefit came specifically through an insider allocation rather than a general direct payment.
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2026-05-30 · Peter Navarro — Former Trump Trade Advisor
- Updated to reflect that Peter Navarro returned to government, serving as Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing in Trump’s second term, rather than remaining out of government.
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2026-05-19 · Tulsi Gabbard – Director of National Intelligence
- Tulsi Gabbard – Director of National Intelligence was withdrawn from publication after review.
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