🗞️ Story file #992
DOJ charges 48 noncitizens in election-related crimes
Oct 26, 6 PM ET to Oct 28, 7 AM ET
- 9outlets carried it
- 🫏0 · 1 · 8🐘left · center · right
- 1.5 dayson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 3 minof TV captions
- 7 of 7parts of a saga
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 26, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Newsweek
- Oct 26, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 27, 1 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “Myth”
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Red State (2 wordings): “The 'Myth' of Noncitizen Voting Strikes Again: 48 Foreign Nationals Charged” → “Election Integrity The 'Myth' of Noncitizen Voting Strikes Again: 48 Foreign Nationals Charged Teri Christoph”
- The Gateway Pundit (2 wordings): “Trump DOJ Charges 48 Non-U.S. Citizens Across Five States for Illegal Voting and Fraudulent Registration” → “Watch Live: Trump DOJ Charges 48 Non-U.S. Citizens Across Five States for Illegal Voting and Fraudulent Registration and More! The WAR Zone Podcast With Wayne Allyn Root Presented by The Gateway Pundit”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating
Newsweek
47 Green Card Holders Charged by Trump DOJ With Illegal Voting: Full List Oct 26, 6 PM ET
The Epoch Times
Dozens of Immigrants Charged With Illegal Voting, Fraudulent Voter Registration Oct 26, 2 PM ET
Washington Examiner
DOJ charges 48 noncitizens with federal voting crimes, including 28 in California Oct 26, 12 PM ET
New York Post
DOJ files charges against 28 alleged noncitizen voters snared in massive California ballot fraud bust Oct 26, 3 PM ET
Newsmax
DOJ Charges 48 Noncitizens in Election Crimes Oct 26, 2 PM ET
OAN
DOJ announces charges against 48 noncitizens for election-related crimes, including voting in elections from 2020 to 2026 Oct 26, 6 PM ET
Red State
The 'Myth' of Noncitizen Voting Strikes Again: 48 Foreign Nationals Charged Oct 26, 11 AM ET
The Daily Wire
EXCLUSIVE: 48 Foreign Nationals Accused Of Playing American Voter. DOJ Steps In. Oct 26, 9 AM ET
The Gateway Pundit
Trump DOJ Charges 48 Non-U.S. Citizens Across Five States for Illegal Voting and Fraudulent Registration Oct 27, 1 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- DOJ: MIGRANTS CHARGED IN ALLEGED ELECTION CRIMES Fox News, 74 s
- DOJ TO SEND ABOUT 1,000 ELECTION MONITORS TO ALL 50 STATES CNN, 51 s
- B. AAG MCDONALD: 130 ALIENS CHARGED W/ILLEGAL VOTING Fox News, 18 s
- DOJ CHARGES 48 NONCITIZENS WITH FED VOTING CRIMES Fox News, 9 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: California Green Card Holders Justice Department Noncitizen Voters
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 California noncitizen ballot dispute
DOJ warns California election officials of legal risks for counting suspected noncitizen ballots
Oct 17, 9 PM ET
DOJ sues California over 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters
Oct 14, 11 AM ET
DOJ charges 28 noncitizens in California voter fraud case
Oct 19, 2 PM ET
Justice Department seeks court order over alleged noncitizen voters in California
Oct 21, 12 PM ET
Judge questions doj's claims of noncitizens on California voter rolls
Oct 23, 9 PM ET
Appeals court rejects DOJ's bid to set aside California mail ballots
Oct 25, 10 PM ET
DOJ charges 48 noncitizens in election-related crimes (this story)
Oct 26, 6 PM ET