On Monday afternoon, an “election integrity” call organized by conservative podcaster Steve Stern featured a who’s who of election deniers rehashing years-old conspiracy theories about rigged elections and hijacked voting machines.

These kinds of calls have happened for years. But unlike similar calls I listened to in 2021 and 2022, which were filled with then-unknown activists mostly shouting into the void, this call was stacked with people who are alleged to have been part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. They claim to still have the ear of the president when it comes to trying to undermine democratic elections in the US.

And as Trump prepares to pick his next attorney general following his decision last week to fire Pam Bondi, some of these figures claim to have already weighed in.

A number of the speakers complained that for all the benefit of having Trump in office, the Department of Justice was dropping the ball when it comes to making real changes as to how elections are run in the country—a matter reserved, under the Constitution, for the states and Congress.

“The fact that this stuff isn't being investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent possible”—the “stuff” he was referencing were claims that voting machines were used to rig elections—“is deeply troubling to me, because it means that some folks on our side or purportedly on our side, are literally doing drop, block and tackle,” said John Eastman, the architect of the effort to overturn the 2020 election, who is now a senior fellow at the influential far-right Claremont Institute think tank, announced on Monday’s call.

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