I’m doing something I don’t normally do – sharing an excerpt from an internal memo sent to me by our Senior Attorney Bob Popper in response to increasingly dangerous threats to the integrity of our elections.

Bob joined us in 2013 after leaving the US Department of Justice where he served as Deputy Chief of the Voting Rights Section.

He is one of America’s top election law experts and he now heads up our election law legal team.

Like most followers of Judicial Watch’s work, I expect Election Integrity matters a great deal to you, so I thought you would be interested to read his message to me first-hand.

MEMORANDUM
To: Tom Fitton
From: Bob Popper, Senior Attorney and Election Law Initiative Director
Date: December 1, 2025
Re: Legal Battle Plan for Fair and Honest Elections in 2026 and Beyond




I’m looking at the election law battles now in progress across the country, and I’m seeing more than 200 active cases underway in state and federal courts. To me, it’s clear radical leftist groups and their political operatives are pushing harder than ever to alter US election procedures in advance of the 2026 congressional midterm elections.




Their intentions are also clear: To undermine and/or demolish any legal safeguard designed to ensure fair and honest elections.




Especially at the state level. Many of the parade of bad federal bills they introduced in Congress during the Biden years, but couldn’t get through the Senate, are resurfacing as laws or proposed laws in some states...including dangerous provisions like these:

• Making permanent COVID-related accommodations like unsecured mass balloting and ballot harvesting
• Failing to comply with federal law that requires states to take reasonable steps to keep their voter rolls clean
• Even supporting new initiatives to allow NON-CITIZENS to vote.

I believe 2026 could be decisive in determining if fair and honest elections persevere in America, or whether the Left will succeed in so corrupting our electoral processes that they will destroy public faith in them. I certainly hope not.

I ask that as we help educate Americans in the months ahead, please impress upon our supporters the vital nature of our work fighting for fair and clean elections in courtrooms.

Bob leads our Election Law team of attorneys (along with over a dozen investigators) who together make Judicial Watch the most effective independent conservative litigator in the ongoing battles to keep American elections honest.

Since starting our election integrity program, Judicial Watch’s honest elections legal team has filed federal lawsuits against nearly 20 states.

And we have filed suits and given notice to many other states breaking federal law by not cleaning their voter rolls, which has led to more than 5 million ineligible names being removed.

Just this year, Bob’s team has also presented oral arguments and secured approval for case review, respectively, in two Election Integrity cases before the United States Supreme Court.

Because of our success, I firmly believe the Left will stop at nothing to corrupt our elections in an effort to reclaim power in 2026 and beyond.

That’s why we have set an ambitious goal of raising $9.6 million dollars more by December 31.

We must fill our war chest to fight back, and I would like to ask you to contribute.

Can you make a generous, tax-deductible gift today to help ensure our Election Law team stays on track through year-end and begins 2026 strong?

You joining Judicial Watch as a financial supporter will provide the resources needed to keep America’s most effective election integrity unit fighting, and to support all our work fighting government corruption.

Thank you for reading Bob’s memo, and for considering a first-time gift to Judicial Watch.

Sincerely,

Tom Fitton
President, Judicial Watch

P.S. I cannot overstate the importance of your decision to join our work. The Left is boosting efforts to overturn state election safeguards, enable non-citizens to vote, and steal elections in 2026. Judicial Watch is the one organization in America with the track record to counter them, so I deeply hope you will join with us today by making a first time, tax-deductible contribution.