The Hound | Jan. 29

Hi there,

It’s Thursday. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced her run for governor after Gov. Tim Walz dropped out earlier this month. Meanwhile, House Democrats who voted for ICE funding are facing the wrath of their constituents back in their home districts. And Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered concepts of a plan to Congress on how the United States is managing its regime change in Venezuela.

In this incredibly busy time, you may have missed the FBI executed a search warrant at an election office in Fulton county, Georgia — ostensibly for records related to the 2020 election. But, the FBI’s search of the Fulton County Election Office is not a routine law-enforcement matter—it is a high-stakes action with direct implications for voting access and election administration in 2026. That framing ignores how investigations, raids, and law-enforcement scrutiny have been used as tools to sow distrust, justify federal or state takeovers of election systems, and chill the work of election officials ahead of major elections. Without this context, the public cannot understand how voter suppression actually operates.

🖊️ Add your name to call on news organizations to cover the FBI’s Fulton County search as potential groundwork for voter suppression—by examining who benefits, how it fits into broader efforts to undermine election administration, and what risks it poses to free and fair elections in 2026.

Read about this, and more, with today’s stories:

FBI executes search warrant at election office in Fulton county, Georgia (The Guardian)

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured (The American Prospect)

A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign (ProPublica)

MS NOW’s Jen Psaki Hammers ‘Toxic’ Trump Over Looming Failure of Melania Movie (Mediaite)

Marco Rubio tells senators Venezuela transition won't be fast or easy (NPR)

Protesters Deliver Diapers to Democrat Who Voted to Fund ICE (The New Republic)

Democratic Sen. Klobuchar says she’s running for Minnesota governor after Gov. Walz dropped out (AP News)

George Washington's vision for American identity tested 250 years later (PBS)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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