The Hound | Oct. 1

Hi there,

It’s Thursday. The White House Office of Management and Budget wants to ban federal grant money from being used for voter registration drives — threatening funding that 57 nonprofits use to help disabled Americans vote in every state and territory. Russell Vought is now moving to kill it by executive fiat, in direct defiance of Congress's constitutional power of the purse. A Stanford law professor was blunt: even if the rule wasn't designed to disenfranchise disabled voters, "it's going to have that kind of effect."

🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover the OMB's proposed rule not as a bureaucratic grant policy story, but as a deliberate attack on the voting rights of disabled Americans — veterans with brain injuries, nursing home residents, people who cannot drive to a registration office 30 miles away.

Vought himself has admitted his goal: he condemned Biden's voter access efforts for increasing registration "especially among Democratic Party supporters." The target is not fraud. The target is turnout. The public deserves reporting that names who gets silenced when this funding disappears and connects it to the administration's broader campaign to make voting harder for everyone it can't win over.

In addition, Republicans sound the alarm on Trump’s escalating trade wars against Canada — worried the economic fallout will impact their midterm prospects. And an analysis of State Rep. Angie Nixon’s campaign for Senate, and whether a Democratic Socialist can win in deep-red Florida.

Read about these, and more, in today’s stories:

“A Massive Power Grab”: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote (ProPublica)

Trump’s Fury at Canada Takes Darker Turn as GOPers Quietly Sound Alarm (The New Republic)

Can a Democratic Socialist Win in Deep-Red Florida? (Mother Jones)

Who will be the UN's next secretary-general? What to know about the selection process (PBS)

Fetterman Sole Democrat Against Investigating His Constituent’s Killer (The Intercept)

FBI hunting the hackers who stole its employees' sensitive data (NPR)

Study of Groundwater Near Fracking Sites Finds Low Radium Levels, but Raises Concerns About Increased Salinity (Inside Climate News)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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