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Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections

Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.

Published: October 7, 2025
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Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

This year, a new threat to free and fair elections has emerged: the federal government. 

Since day one of his second term, the Trump administration has attempted to rewrite election rules to burden voters and usurp control of election systems, targeted and threatened election officials and others who keep elections free and fair, supported people who undermine election administration, and retreated from the federal government’s role of protecting voters and the electoral process.

This interactive timeline tracks actions the administration has taken in each of these categories. Together, they represent a concerted strategy to undermine U.S. elections. For more detailed analysis, see The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election and What to Expect Next in the Trump Administration’s Strategy to Meddle with the Vote.