Hi Friend —
We're just weeks away from the public release of TRAPPED, and we're not waiting quietly!
Last week, we put a piece of the Michigan story in front of the public every single day — the posts, the addresses, the documents. What follows is a selection of our social media posts, in order. Then the records underneath it. Then a call to action.
This story is moving daily, sometimes hourly — to follow it as it breaks, click any of the social icons at the bottom of this email. One click, and you're in it with us.
Because what's happening in Michigan isn't staying in Michigan.
Why Michigan? Why now?
Michigan in 2026 isn't just another battleground — it's a convergence point. An open U.S. Senate seat. An open governor's office. An open attorney general. An open secretary of state. All 38 state Senate seats and all 110 state House seats — on one ballot, in a state decided by whisper-thin margins, election after election. Whoever wins Michigan doesn't just govern ten million people. They control the election administration, the legal machinery, and the voter rolls of the state that decides presidencies.
And the machinery is already speaking. A whistleblower inside the Secretary of State's own office now alleges the state's software registers noncitizens to vote when they apply or change information on their drivers licenses or IDs . A sheriff has referred it to the Department of Justice. Local clerks — the people responsible for overseeing local elections — are asking the Federal government for help verifying their own voter lists, because the state's system won't let them do it themselves.
Every American — whatever their politics — has a stake in whether Michigan's elections can be verified. And the same software runs the motor vehicle systems in half the states in this country.
Georgia. Arizona. Pennsylvania. Wisconsin. Nevada. Texas. Decided by the same thin margins, choosing this same year the officials who will run their elections. What we found in Detroit, we'll be looking for everywhere.
TRAPPED starts in Michigan. It doesn't end there.
Aug 16–24 · What we found, and who found it
Aug 16 — Every voter record has a story behind it. In TRAPPED: Detroit, Advocate Ramon Jackson and Pastor Lorenzo Sewell walk the neighborhoods, listen to residents, and expose what data alone can't show — the real conditions behind the numbers.
Aug 18 — Proud to stand with the faithful of Detroit. They've never stopped believing their community was worth fighting for — and neither have we.
Aug 19 — Detroit's voter rolls have a problem. TRAPPED tells the story through the people living it. Watch the trailer. Then ask why this isn't front-page news.
Aug 21 — Every vote has a story. Don't let yours get lost in the system. scancheckprotect.org
Aug 23 — This is what we call a voter trap house: an address with an unusual or unexplained concentration of registered voters. This house is vacant. Yet 13 voters are registered here — 9 of them voting from overseas. And it isn't an isolated address. Detroit has thousands of vacant homes.
Aug 25–28 · The scale, and the state's answer
Aug 25 — 6 voters. 6 empty or fictitious parcels. 44 Americans' votes canceled out. We've identified thousands of voters registered to empty lots, leveled addresses, and fictitious parcels in Wayne County alone. How many more are there nationwide?
Aug 28 — There's plenty of spin around noncitizen registrations in Michigan. The evidence is clear: the failure sits at the Secretary of State's office, and Michigan's clerks know it. They're sounding the alarm, asking the federal government for help, and being left to carry a problem they did not create — with no way to stop it on their own. Download The 611 Project: truethevote.org/the-611-project
Aug 28 — Michigan's CARS database — the Secretary of State's driver and ID system — automatically generates voter registrations. Sheriff Dar Leaf says it just cost a man who was doing everything right: Homeland Security suspended his citizenship application because the state had registered him to vote, for years, without his knowledge. Local clerks flagged the missing signature. The state kept him on the rolls anyway. Automatic isn't the same as accurate.
Aug 28 — MDOS doubles down: the rolls are "secure and accurate," noncitizens are auto-filtered before registration. And in the same breath, MDOS admits its own CARS citizenship data "is not, on its own, a reliable way to determine if a person is an eligible voter." Michigan clerks are begging for help.
Aug 29 · Now they want the records gone
Aug 29 — "46 votes. That's literally all the election was." Ramon Jackson on how corruption in local government hides in plain sight — until the numbers get this close.
Don't take our word for it
That was the week. These are the documents behind it:
The lawsuit. Secretary Benson is sued after ordering Michigan clerks to delete election records within 7 days — federal law requires certain federal election records to be preserved for 22 months. Bridgewater Township Clerk Michelle McQueer sued rather than break federal law — and the court ordered the files preserved. (Michigan Court of Claims, Aug 12, 2026, No. 2026-000172-MZ) → Read
The report MDOS is waving. It makes two claims at once. First: the rolls are 99.99% complete and 99.7% matched to the driver database. Second: the state's own citizenship data "is not, on its own, a reliable way to determine if a person is an eligible voter." "Complete" isn't the same as eligible. The state, by its own admission, can't measure citizenship or determine eligibility. → Read
The CARS allegation. Sheriff Leaf's account comes from a confidential informant working inside the Secretary of State's office. The informant provided evidence that CARS registers noncitizens to vote and was told clerks would catch it — a backstop that doesn't exist, because clerks only see the record after registration, and the voter file has no citizenship field. Leaf has referred it to the DOJ. → Read
No one needs to stay trapped
Not the residents of Detroit. Not the clerks begging for help across the country. Not you. The way out starts here:
Check Yourself and Your Household. Verify your records at scancheckprotect.org.
Ask. Contact your clerk to ask about your local process - here's a sample script.
"Hi, my name is ___, I'm a registered voter in (local jurisdiction). I've been reading about the situation in Michigan where their DMV system may be automatically registering people to vote during address changes without citizenship being verified, and I wanted to ask a few questions about how it works here.
When someone does a transaction at the DMV — like changing their address — and a voter registration comes over to your office, what do you actually see? Do you review it before it goes on the rolls, or does it come to you already registered?
And can you see anything on that record that verifies citizenship, or do you have to take it as-is from the state?
If you did spot a registration you had questions about, what's your process — can you hold it or remove it yourself, or does that have to go through the state?
Last thing — do you know what software system our DMV uses, or who at the state I'd ask about how the registration handoff works on their end?"
(Note: Be kind. Clerks aren't the problem — most are begging for the tools to fix this — but if what is happening in Michigan can easily be happening in other parts of the country, and you need to know!)
Let Us Know. Let us know what you find out!
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Keep the faith. Never quit. Ephesians 6 FTW!
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