{
  "id": 2937,
  "url": "https://cyberscoop.com/trump-administration-eac-firings-doj-election-officials-threat",
  "title": "States are building their own election defense networks as federal support evaporates",
  "summary": "Election officials are facing an impossible choice: follow federal directives they don’t trust, or risk becoming targets of a criminal investigation. The post States are building their own election defense networks as federal support evaporates appeared first on CyberScoop .",
  "authors": "djohnson",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "misinformation,military-security,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-13T20:59:31.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
  "source_slug": "x-cyberscoop",
  "source_name": "CyberScoop",
  "source_homepage": "https://cyberscoop.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2937",
  "original_url": "https://cyberscoop.com/trump-administration-eac-firings-doj-election-officials-threat",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}