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American Oversight Sues DHS for Records on Secretive ‘Unlawful Voter Initiative’ as Trump Administration Pledges to Scrutinize Voter Records After Election

American Oversight Lawsuit Seeks Quotas, Training Materials, and Data Sources After Whistleblower Alleged Officers Misrepresented Themselves to Acc…

voting rights

November 12, 2026

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Press Release

Watchdog Sues to Expose What DOGE Did With Americans’ Social Security Data

American Oversight Lawsuit Seeks Records on Whistleblower Warnings Response, Government Admissions, and Thumb Drive Allegations

Trump administration accountability

November 11, 2026

Pete Hegseth sitting at a long conference table

Press Release

Watchdog Slams House Leaders for Again Sidestepping Hegseth Impeachment Vote

American Oversight issued a statement after House Republican leaders sidestepped a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Trump administration accountability

November 10, 2026

In the News

GOP reshapes North Carolina’s voting rules ahead of key Senate race

CNN

In the case of Jackson County, for instance, Woodhouse urged Thompson to “stand strong” against efforts to add the voting location on the Western C…

September 17, 2026

In the News

Fears grow that Trump could use military to influence the upcoming election

NPR

Chioma Chukwu is the executive director of American Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group that obtained the memo. The memo, which NPR has read, d…

September 17, 2026

In the News

Trump’s Commerce Secretary under pressure to use his powers to block voting machines

CNN Politics

According to emails obtained by the non-profit government watchdog American Oversight and shared exclusively with CNN, Wiles discussed election sec…

September 10, 2026

In the News

Watchdog Demands Federal Records Over Disputed CDC Measles Death Data

Tampa Free Press

A government watchdog group filed federal public records requests Thursday seeking communications between top health officials regarding recent cha…

September 3, 2026

In the News

TSA hands your flight data to ICE — and it’s already cost hundreds of travelers their freedom

The Latin Times

New cases in California, Texas and Florida show ICE increasingly relying on TSA passenger data to detain travelers at check-in counters, boarding g…

September 3, 2026

In the News

Veterans and faith leaders will swarm election sites to block ‘intimidation’ from Trump’s poll-watcher squads

The Independent

A coalition of civil rights groups are planning to deploy hundreds of poll watchers in several key states to combat alleged threats of election int…

September 2, 2026

Press Releases

American Oversight Sues DHS for Records on Secretive ‘Unlawful Voter Initiative’ as Trump Administration Pledges to Scrutinize Voter Records After Election

Watchdog Sues to Expose What DOGE Did With Americans’ Social Security Data

Watchdog Slams House Leaders for Again Sidestepping Hegseth Impeachment Vote

In the News

GOP reshapes North Carolina’s voting rules ahead of key Senate race

CNN

Fears grow that Trump could use military to influence the upcoming election

NPR

Trump’s Commerce Secretary under pressure to use his powers to block voting machines

CNN Politics

Watchdog Demands Federal Records Over Disputed CDC Measles Death Data

Tampa Free Press

TSA hands your flight data to ICE — and it’s already cost hundreds of travelers their freedom

The Latin Times

Veterans and faith leaders will swarm election sites to block ‘intimidation’ from Trump’s poll-watcher squads

The Independent

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