After months of reporting and investigation, the truth is undeniable: Attorney General William Barr is weaponizing the Justice Department to steal the election.
Barr is openly refusing to enforce federal voting rights laws, thereby giving local election officials a green light to purge voter rolls and shut down polling places in low-income and majority African American precincts.
He’s echoing Donald Trump’s totally unfounded claims about vote-by-mail fraud, giving Trump the pretense he needs to refuse to concede election results. And Barr is dropping hints almost daily about an “October surprise” from his politically motivated investigation into the FBI’s actions during the 2016 election.
The health of our democracy depends on dogged, fearless investigative journalism that brings dark deeds like Barr’s to light. But with reporting budgets slashed at outlets across the country, most political journalism has become an exercise in “he said, she said” horse-race punditry.
The Intercept depends on the support of readers like you to continue digging into attacks on the integrity of our elections. But over the last two months, we’ve had a worrying decline in donations. If that continues throughout the election season, it could threaten our ability to reveal critical facts that voters need to know as they cast their ballots.
