The hacking threat to the midterms is huge. And technology won’t protect us.

Join Our Midterm Election Protection Program

In 2026 we are building our strongest election protection program ever, in all 50 states. We’re going to bring Indivisible’s grassroots organizing force out to ensure that whatever tricks they try to hold onto power, we’ll be ready.

Opinion | To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software (Published 2017)

The threats to elections have never been more serious, and the security of election machinery has never been more important.

We Shouldn’t Wait Another Fifteen Years for a Conversation About

With high-profile hacks in the headlines and government officials trying to reopen a long-settled debate about encryption, information security has become a mainstream issue. But we feel that one

AI backlash is coming for elections

Americans are worried about AI — but how it will play into the midterms is less clear.

How Trump’s obsession with ‘rigged’ voting machines spread across US government

The effort to prove the 2020 election "stolen" failed. Diehards remain undeterred.

Election Defense Scenarios - Freedom Trainers

Election Defense Scenarios is a field guide for protecting democracy. This resource walks readers through eighteen detailed scenarios — from voter roll purges and redistricting attacks to armed intimidation at polling places and post-election certification battles — giving organizers, poll workers, community leaders, and everyday citizens the knowledge they need before a crisis hits. Each […]

Hands Off Our Vote - Elections 2026

Hands Off Our Vote Messaging guidance for protecting our vote in the 2026 midterm elections Introduction The regime now in office has us in what’s known formally as competitive authoritarianism; the narrative and organizing strategies we’ve used in the past to ensure votes can be cast and coun...

Opinion | Internet Hacking Is About to Get Much Worse (Published 2018)

We can no longer leave online security to the market.

Tech Influence Watch

Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.

David Dill: Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy

​A Stanford computer scientist says Internet voting would be "a complete disaster."

How to Responsibly Report on Hacks and Disinformation

The run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election illustrated how vulnerable our most venerated journalistic outlets are to a new kind of information warfare. Reporters are a targeted adversary of foreign and domestic actors who want to harm our democracy. And to cope with this threat, especially in an election year, news organizations need to prepare for another wave of false, misleading, and hacked information. Often, the information will be newsworthy. Expecting reporters to refrain from covering news goes against core principles of American journalism and the practical business drivers that shape the intensely competitive media marketplace. In these cases, the question is not whether to report but how to do so most responsibly. Our goal is to give journalists actionable guidance.

Cambridge Analytica and the end of elections

The latest Cambridge Analytica leaks show just how compromised voting - one of the pillars of democracy - has become.

The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far (Published 2018)

For two years, Americans have tried to absorb the details of the 2016 attack: spies, leaked emails, social media fraud — and President Trump’s claims that it’s all a hoax. The Times explores what we know and what it means.

Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy

We now know the apparatus of repression has been attached to the democratic state, but our struggle for privacy is far from hopeless. By Eben Moglen

Data Center Watch

Free weekly updates on the political risks facing American data center projects