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AXIOS (Brittany Gibson) - Trump's "election integrity" threat: Defunding state and local police

State and cities nationwide are rebelling against the White House's push to withhold millions of dollars in police and anti-terrorism funding unless they impose new voting rules. Why it matters: President Trump's effort to impose election policies that he hasn't been able to get through Congress has now drawn two lawsuits from state and local governments that accuse the administration of threatening to defund the police unless Trump gets his way. - "They are trying to defund public safety and counterterrorism," Harris County (Texas) Attorney Abbie Kamin told Axios. - Harris County, which includes Houston, and the other jurisdictions stand to lose millions in public safety grants unless they impose the controversial voting rules Trump…

YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - ‘Devious… doesn’t even go far enough’: Lawyer on Trump’s new mail-in voting rules

“This is the President using USPS to try to seize control of who is able to vote by mail and impose a tracking system to then be able to track individual ballots. That’s insane. The President has no authority to do this… We’re going to get this overturned. It is illegal.” Jacquelyn Lopez, political law partner at Elias Law Group dives into Trump’s new voting rules and more. Lopez, and Representative Joe Morelle of New York, who is leading House Democrats’ work on election security and voting rights, join The Weekend to discuss. #Election2026 #VotingRights #Trump

NYTIMES (Matthew Cullen) - Iran’s Leadership Suffers a Double Blow

Also, the Senate begins a bitter debate about voting rules. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.