This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Friday, February 6th.

I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYCN, Gothamist Newsroom.

Happy Friday, everybody.

I'm filling in for Brian today.

There were more troubling signs this week that President Trump is bringing the weight of the

federal government to meddle in the upcoming midterm elections. Perhaps you heard about Trump's

appearance on Dan Bungino's podcast, where he said Republicans should nationalize voting.

And that's not even the most worrisome part of it.

There was also the FBI search of the Fulton County Georgia election office.

Of course, Georgia is a swing state that Trump has insisted falsely that he won in the 2020 election,

even calling the Republican Secretary of State there

asking him to find votes. But now Trump is getting organized even earlier, sending in his

director of national intelligence to be part of that recent search, and even briefing the president

afterwards along with some of the FBI officers who were there.

For anyone who cares about free and fair elections, your blood pressure might be rising.

I haven't even mentioned how the Justice Department has tried to tie together its immigration crackdown in Minnesota with demands for access to voter rolls.

Now, this is what we know is already happening, but my next

guest warns it's the seemingly unimaginable that we need to be thinking about. David Graham is a

staff writer at the Atlantic where he writes the Atlantic Daily Newsletter. Last October, he wrote a

lengthy piece that became the cover of the December issue headlined, Donald Trump's plan to subvert the midterms is already underway.

And this week for the newsletter, he wrote about these latest events, Trump's new threats

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