Dan Tully Talks Elections

<p>Dan Tully left the U.S. Department of Commerce in protest of the administration&#39;s destructive foreign policy approach. Dan&#39;s background as a Judge Advocate in the Army Reserve gave him experience advising on counter-Chinese influence efforts in the Indo-Pacific. While Dan was building an anti-corruption program for Ukraine&#39;s Ministry of Reconstruction, the administration abandoned critical partnerships, echoed Kremlin talking points, and berated Ukraine&#39;s President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House. </p><p><a href="https://dantully.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Dan</a> is now running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Chicago, Illinois, where he hopes to implement his <a href="https://dantully.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Tully-Trump-Accountability-Plan-3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Trump Accountability Plan</a> and restore the rule of law by wielding Congress&#39;s power of inherent contempt and puncturing sovereign immunity for federal agents acting outside the scope of the law. </p><p>As we approach the midterm elections, the election conspiracies of 2020 and 2024 are making a comeback alongside threats of voter suppression and intimidation from the <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/does-president-trump-have-the-authority-to-nationalize-voting/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">White House</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-youre-damn-right-were-gonna-have-ice-surround-polls-come-november" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">MAGA-sphere</a>. In this episode, we cut through the noise of election conspiracies. We discuss how same-day voter registration led to false claims of &quot;<a href="https://www.votebeat.org/wisconsin/2024/11/07/more-ballots-than-voters-oak-creek-turnout-baldwin-hovde-race/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">more votes than voters</a>&quot; during the 2024 elections. We also explain how a voter fraud prevention tool led to false claims of one state having &quot;<a href="https://www.votebeat.org/wisconsin/2026/01/29/donald-trump-wisconsin-peter-bernegger-voter-rolls-not-sign-of-fraud/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">more registered voters than voting-age population</a>.&quot;</p><p>We round out our examination of election fraud conspiracies by explaining why the <a href="https://reason.com/2025/09/29/the-conspiracy-theorists-who-claim-kamala-harris-really-won-in-2024/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Election Truth Alliance</a>&#39;s conspiracy theories masked as statistical analysis did not prove voter fraud in the 2024 presidential race. We discuss how misinterpreting <a href="https://websites.umich.edu/~wmebane/pm23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">academic research</a> and ignoring important <a href="https://nationalpress.org/topic/walter-mebane-eforensics-election-fraud-2024/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">methodological distinctions</a> to justify demands for hand counts doesn&#39;t begin to address the actual threats voters could face at the polls in 2026, such as the weaponization of federal law enforcement as recently seen in <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-fulton-county-voting-records-search-warrant" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Fulton County</a>, Georgia.</p><p>As the executive branch tramples constitutional boundaries in an effort to centralize power, we discuss the constitutional remedies available to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/23/congress-shutdown-dhs-immigration-ice-money/88765192007/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Congress</a>, the <a href="https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb627" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">States</a>, and the <a href="https://www.vote.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">People</a>, as well as legislative proposa