“Republicans who are pushing misinformation about the election are running for state office across the country. And they’ve had two years to prepare to sow chaos this week,” Vice News reports.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution obtained 59 pages worth of texts from Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s (R-GA) iPhone, offering a rare peek into Loeffler’s private deliberations during her final weeks in office as she fought to hold onto her Senate seat.

“As allies of then-President Donald Trump made a final push to overturn the election in late-December 2020, one of the key operatives behind the effort briefed then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about his attempts to gain access to voting systems in key battleground states, starting with Arizona and Georgia, according to text messages,” CNN reports.

“The messages, which have not been previously reported, shed new light on how Waldron’s reach extended into the highest levels of the White House and the extent to which Meadows was kept abreast of plans for accessing voting machines.”

“Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, and his wife, Mercedes, a former director of strategic communications in the Trump White House, are hosting Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for Senate in Arizona, at a high-dollar fundraiser on Wednesday,” the Washington Post reports.

“The couple are prominent allies of former president Donald Trump. Matt Schlapp told The Post that they are also hosting an event for Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, on Tuesday night and a cigar reception for Adam Laxalt, the Senate nominee in Nevada, after Wednesday’s event with Masters.”

A federal lawsuit against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) calls for Michigan to “re-run” the 2020 presidential election over unproven and debunked claims of election fraud nearly two years after Michigan voters elected now-President Joe Biden by more than 150,000 votes, the Detroit Free Press reports.

“Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed lawmakers to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory not only in Arizona, as previously reported, but also in a second battleground state, Wisconsin, according to emails obtained under state public-records law,” the Washington Post reports.

The wife of a Supreme Court justice trying to subvert the U.S. Constitution is problematic on many levels.

The Cook Political Report downgraded its outlook for Republican gains in the House from 20 to 35 seats to 10 to 20 seats.

“Republicans don’t need gale force winds at their back to reclaim the House; they only need to net a minuscule four seats. By our estimates, they are likely to pick up roughly three seats off the bat from redistricting alone, owing to New York’s top court torpedoing Democrats’ gerrymander and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signing a brutal GOP gerrymander into law.”

“That was once a tiny component of Republicans’ potential House gains. Now, it looks like a critical GOP insurance policy in a highly fluid political climate.”

Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign rejected an offer to buy President Biden’s daughter’s stolen diary, Axios reports.

Instead, the Trump campaign told them to take the material to the FBI.

A Wisconsin judge found that former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 presidential election that has not produced any evidence of substantive voter fraud “accomplished nothing,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

From the ruling: “It recorded no interviews with witnesses… It gathered no measurable data… It organized no existing data into any analytical format… It generated no reports based on any special expertise.”

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) fired Michael Gableman on Friday, “more than a year after he hired the former Supreme Court justice to probe the 2020 election and three days after Vos barely survived a primary challenge Gableman supported,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

Associated Press: “The firing of Michael Gableman capped a 14-month ride that began when Vos hired him to look into the election under pressure from Trump. But as the probe progressed under bipartisan criticism, Vos’ relationship soured with both Trump and Gableman.”

New York Times: “Ms. Kleefisch’s predicament illustrates how Mr. Trump’s supporters have turned fury over his 2020 election loss and the misguided belief that its results can be nullified into central campaign issues in the Republican primary for governor in Wisconsin, a battleground state won by razor-thin margins in the last two presidential elections. G.O.P. candidates have been left choosing whether to tell voters they are wrong or to engage in the fiction that something can be done to reverse Mr. Trump’s defeat.”

“Dozens of Republican voters and activists interviewed across the state in the last week said they wanted to see lawmakers decertify the state’s election results and claw back its 10 electoral votes, something that cannot legally be done. Nearly all of them pointed to a July decision from the conservative-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court, which ruled that drop boxes used to collect ballots during the pandemic were illegal under state law, as evidence that hundreds of thousands of 2020 votes should be thrown out.”

“At least five Republican primary winners in battleground states won by Joe Biden embraced Donald Trump’s baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen,” CBS News reports.

“Several took action to try to overturn the 2020 election results when Trump lost their states, and if elected in November, they could have the power to block or delay the certification of election results in their states in the 2024 presidential election.”

Bill Kristol weighs in on the last 24 hours:

Good: Republicans cave as Congress passes health care for veterans, Pelosi goes to Taiwan, Zawahari dead, and the grand jury subpoenas Pat Cippolone.

Not so bad, or at least better than the alternative: Eric Schmitt beats Eric Greitens in Missouri.

Bad: Peter Meijer defeated in Michigan primary. 

Really, really ugly: Arizona. What’s in the water out there?

A Wisconsin judge said that a Republican-ordered, taxpayer-funded investigation into the 2020 election found “absolutely no evidence of election fraud,” but did reveal contempt for the state’s open records law by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and a former state Supreme Court justice he hired, the AP reports.

“Sorry, Jared, there is nothing I can do.”

— Rupert Murdoch on the phone to Jared Kushner, quoted by the New York Times on Election Night 2020.

“The husband of a Colorado woman who has been missing for more than two years pleaded guilty on Thursday to casting her mail-in ballot for Donald Trump during the 2020 election,” the New York Times reports.

Barry Morphew told FBI agents: “I figured all these other guys are cheating.”

Wisconsin Speaker Robin Vos (R) told WISN that Donald Trump called him “within the last week” still seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Said Vos: “I explained that it’s not allowed under the constitution. He has a different opinion.”