Don't let Trump spark panic about election monitors

In July 2026, President Donald Trump's Department of Justice reportedly dispatched six federal prosecutors to oversee Arizona's primary elections, according to Democracy Docket, which cited records it had reviewed. The prosecutors were reportedly sent to the state's two most populous counties, Maricopa (home to Phoenix) and Pima (home to Tucson). This comes as the DOJ's Civil Rights Division said it will dispatch 1,000 monitors to the polls for the midterm elections, and as FBI Director Kash Patel continues to equivocate about whether FBI agents will be sent to the polls (even though federal law explicitly bans armed officers from polling sites)...