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He Was Hired To Catch Election Fraud. Then He Reported His Republican Boss.
Also: a search-history ban, an insurance industry forced to pay, and 151 vetoes in one session
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They Took His Badge. He Went In Anyway.
The Republican who runs elections in Missouri is Secretary of State Denny Hoskins. The man he hired to guard against election fraud, Nick La Strada, now says Hoskins’ office plotted to present fake evidence to a federal judge—and that he refused to go along.
La Strada is a Republican who ran Pettis County elections as county clerk for 14 years before Hoskins hired him in January 2025. In February, his boss told state lawmakers he was “an invaluable asset.” Eighty-four days later, he was fired. On Monday, he sued.
The lawsuit states that on April 15, La Strada was pulled into a meeting that wasn’t on anyone’s calendar with three of Hoskins’ senior staffers and a fourth on speakerphone. Their alleged plan was to draft a fake whistleblower complaint attacking Missouri’s voter-registration system. They would then hand it to a federal judge as evidence—routed through an IP scrambler and sent from a burner phone so it was untraceable.
La Strada took it to the office’s own lawyer, who said it could be a federal crime. Then he took it to Hoskins—twice.
A federal judge had ordered him to appear at a hearing. Days before it, his badge stopped opening the Capitol doors. An aide met him outside the hearing room and said he wasn’t needed. He walked in anyway and told the judge everything. Only 19 minutes after he got off the stand, he received a text telling him Hoskins wanted to talk before he came back in. He was fired only four days later.
What isn’t in dispute is what he did. He refused, he testified, and it cost him his job. That’s the only reason any of this is public—one Republican, under oath, against another.
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Now They Can’t Ask Who Searched It
The police sometimes investigate by demanding search engine records showing everyone who typed a word or phrase they name. You could end up in a criminal file because of something you searched.
The state of Delaware just banned the practice, becoming the first state in the country to do so, according to the ACLU. Gov. Matt Meyer signed the bill on September 9 and it took effect the same day.
No Delaware police officer can ask for these lists, and no Delaware judge can order them to be handed over. Except in the most serious felony cases, where a search turns up five names or fewer. And if police get the information anyway, a judge has to throw it out.
The bill came from state Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, who calls the tactic a digital dragnet.
The Trump regime has spent two years building deportation machinery out of databases, and they’d love to dig up anyone who typed the wrong sentence. The ACLU says that’s exactly what this law was passed to stop.
The state of Delaware closed the door on it this month—we need to be asking the 49 other states when they’ll do the same.
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The Insurance Company Doesn’t Decide
Anymore
Around 20 months after the Eaton Fire in California, more than 13,000 insurance claims involve houses that never burned.
Of around 40,000 overall claims from those Los Angeles firestorms, a third are for smoke damage—homes that are still standing with the walls intact. But there is now lead and asbestos from the burnt neighborhood settled into the carpet and flowing through the ductwork. No state had standards for how those houses got tested or cleaned after wildfire smoke. And it left only the insurer to decide what happened next.
On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed four bills while standing with fire survivors. California will now write the country’s first standards for testing and cleaning after wildfire smoke contamination. Insurers will have to foot the bill for the testing, restoration of the home, and a place for residents to live until it’s safe to occupy again.
Assemblymember John Harabedian represents neighborhoods that burned. He said, “Science, not an insurance company’s opinions, will determine whether a home is safe.”
Two of the four bills handle mortgages. Survivors can pause payments under the state’s disaster rules, for up to two years instead of one. And the payments they miss don’t all come due at the end of the pause—they’re pushed to the back end of the loan.
Testing, cleaning, and the cost of both will be the insurer’s responsibility—not a recovering homeowner’s argument to win.
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An Emergency Room Is Not A Checkpoint
I think we can all agree that if you have to go to an emergency room, they shouldn’t be forced to check your immigration status, right? Republicans in Arizona passed that bill this year, but when it reached Gov. Katie Hobbs’ desk—she vetoed it.
Hobbs said she’d killed the same bill before, adding that federal law “recognizes that everyone gets sick.” It requires hospitals to provide emergency care to people, no matter where they’re from or if they can pay.
There was another bill Hobbs vetoed that would have forced police to report people they arrest to federal immigration agents if officers believe they’re undocumented. She killed one going after school librarians, calling it “a shameful and misguided attack.” And she vetoed ten election bills—more than any other governor in the country had vetoed as of August.
Republicans filed a record 2,116 bills this session, at least 87 of them Hobbs had rejected before. Of everything that made it to her desk, she vetoed 151. That’s 541 since she took office in 2023.
Those ten election bills were Republicans trying to rewrite how Arizona runs its elections. She said no to every one. Thankfully, Arizona has a fighter like Hobbs standing in the way of that nonsense—and she’s only there because a governor’s race came down to 17,000 votes out of more than two million. Less than one percent.
That’s the margin between a hospital that treats you and one that asks for your papers. November is coming.
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One of the Most Important Elected Roles
The read I’d give anyone who thinks the Senate map is the whole story with 46 days left. We last looked at these races on August 17. Here’s what's moved since.
Secretaries of state keep the voter rolls for most states, set the rules for vote-counting, and sign the paperwork that makes a presidential result official. Twenty-six of them are up for election this year. These four sit in swing states, where the secretary of state actually runs the election.
Arizona. Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is running for a second term. Republicans nominated state Rep. Alex Kolodin, a lawyer who worked on 2020 election challenges. He also wrote an ID-for-every-ballot amendment voters will see in November. Louis Jacobson, who rates these races for Sabato’s Crystal Ball, moved this from a coin flip to Likely Dem when Kolodin won the primary.
Nevada. Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar is defending his role against Jim Marchant, who founded a national coalition of candidates that ran to take over election offices based on the debunked conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen. Aguilar beat him by about 23,000 votes in 2022. GOP Gov. Joe Lombardo backed someone else in the primary. This also was moved to Likely Dem.
Michigan. It’s an open seat with Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson running for governor. Democratic Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist is facing Republican Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini. It’s the one true coin flip of the four.
Georgia. This is the only seat Republicans hold on this list, and it’s open. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger gave it up to run for governor, where GOP voters handed him 14% and last place. Republicans picked Gov. Brian Kemp’s former Chief of Staff Tim Fleming to run against Democrat and former judge Penny Brown Reynolds. Sabato rates this one Leans Republican, though Democrats are hoping Ossoff at the top of the ticket puts it in play.
The Bottom Line: Arizona and Nevada were moved to Likely Dem for nominating election deniers. Eight rating shifts this cycle, all eight toward Democrats. Michigan is the coin flip, Georgia would be a pickup.
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Nick La Strada had a good job and threw it away rather than go along with something he knew to be wrong. Have you ever done that at work? What did it cost you?
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