Inside Philanthropy: Going Forward, Democracy Funders Can’t Ignore Surveillance

November 4, 2026

“A lawsuit filed by the League of Women Voters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the League of United Latin American Citizens, which are being represented by Democracy Forward and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, further alleges that DHS obtained voter registration records from at least 47 states and combined them with information from commercial data brokers. (Earlier this week, a judge filed a preliminary injunction ordering the Department of Justice and DHS to stop sharing lists of alleged noncitizen voters with election administrators.)”

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