Tag: Elections
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Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, Volume 1: Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure
Russian hackers scanned election systems in at least 21 states and breached voter registration databases in two, the Senate Intelligence Committee found. This Russian election infrastructure report explains why warnings failed.
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Fact-Checking the Kansas Senate Debate: Marshall vs. Hamilton Claims
Roger Marshall and Adam Hamilton cited dozens of statistics at their Kansas State Fair debate. We checked 20 of their claims against government data and independent reporting — including a fresh New York Times investigation into Marshall’s record.
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2026 Kansas U.S. Senatorial Debate, September 12 at Kansas State Fair
Verbatim transcript of 2026 Kansas U.S. Senatorial Debate, September 12 at Kansas State Fair. Candidates are Roger Marshall and Adam Hamilton.
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Psychological and Rhetorical Analysis: Kansas Governor Candidates Masterson and Holscher
Ty Masterson and Cindy Holscher took the same stage, one question apart, at a Kansas oil and gas forum. This two-track analysis decodes their psychological signatures and the persuasion architecture behind their answers — from statistical overload to populist repetition.
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Trump’s Election Integrity Evidence
On June 16, 2026 President Donald J. Trump delivered a speech concerning election fraud. In conjunction, the White House released documents to support his claim. The documents were presented in four separate zip files, or folders. I asked Claude AI to summarize each.
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Power, Resentment, and the Trump Shield: A Political Psychology Analysis of the 2026 Kansas Republican Governor’s Debate
Trump’s endorsement was less a credential than a weapon — Ty Masterson wielded it across nearly every topic at the 2026 Kansas Republican governor debate. A two-track analysis decodes all four candidates’ psychology and persuasion before August 4.
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Kansas Republican Governor Debate Transcription June 5, 2026
Transcription of the formal 2026 Republican gubernatorial primary debate portion of Debate Night in Kansas, hosted by John Holt at Johnson County Community College on June 5, 2026.
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Claude AI Looks at an Election
On March 3, 2026, the City of Wichita held a special election. I asked Claude, a popular AI platform, to examine the election results.
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Utah Citizenship Voting Review Update
Utah’s Lieutenant Governor reports that a statewide citizenship review of voter rolls found more than 99.9 percent of registered voters are U.S. citizens, identified very few confirmed noncitizens, corrected systemic weaknesses, and emphasized the need to balance election integrity with protecting eligible voters’ rights.
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Kelly v. Kobach: A High-Stakes Battle Over Kansas’s Election Fraud Prosecution Authority
Governor Laura Kelly challenges Attorney General Kris Kobach’s authority to prosecute election fraud cases in a high-stakes separation of powers dispute before the Kansas Supreme Court. The case asks whether the Legislature can grant the AG criminal prosecution authority or if this unconstitutionally transfers executive power from the Governor.
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Insights from The New GOP: Survey Analysis of Americans Overall, Today’s Republican Coalition, and the Minorities of MAGA
Analysis of a comprehensive Manhattan Institute survey reveals troubling patterns within the Republican and Trump voter coalition. With 45% more likely to believe conspiracy theories when experts reject them, 51% believing the 2020 election was fraudulent, and significant majorities questioning the loyalty of minority Americans, the data suggests an epistemological break that fundamentally challenges democratic…
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Supreme Court Redistricting Decision: Texas Gerrymandering Case (Abbott v. LULAC)
The Supreme Court granted Texas’s emergency request to use a congressional map that a district court found violated the Constitution through racial gerrymandering. This analysis explains the 6-3 decision, the evidence of race-based line-drawing, and implications for 2026 elections.