The Trump Justice Department just indicted 10 people in Minnesota for voting as noncitizens — the same crime the establishment press spent years telling you doesn't exist.
Attorney General Todd Blanche and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced the charges Wednesday, the sixth such rollout in September alone. At least 24 individuals have now been charged across 10 states since early September. All 10 Minnesota defendants are lawful permanent residents who allegedly made false claims of citizenship or cast ballots as noncitizens in the 2022 election. For Americans who were told this was a conspiracy theory, the question is straightforward: if it never happens, why are prosecutors bringing cases?
The Guardian covered the indictments — and then immediately dismissed their significance. The outlet called Trump's voter fraud allegations "unfounded" and "unsubstantiated" in the same article reporting that the Justice Department had just filed criminal charges. The Guardian cited the Heritage Foundation's database of 100 documented noncitizen voting cases from 1982 to 2025, then framed that figure as a rounding error — 0.000008% of the 1.3 billion votes cast in presidential elections over that span. The outlet also quoted a Center for Election Innovation & Research report calling sweeping allegations of noncitizen voting "misunderstandings, mischaracterizations, or outright fabrications."
But the Guardian buried the number that matters. New Jersey recently found more than 6,000 noncitizens falsely registered to vote between June 2023 and June 2024 due to a system error. Fewer than 340 of them actually cast ballots — which is to say, 340 more than the press told you could ever happen. The Bipartisan Policy Center acknowledges that 0.04% of federal voter verification cases are returned as noncitizen. In an era of razor-thin margins — Blanche noted Wednesday that "elections today are often decided by a small number of votes" — even fractional percentages can flip a result.
Breitbart focused on Blanche's broader fraud crackdown, including a new fraud division and the administration's push to recover billions in misallocated taxpayer funds. Blanche warned that even small-scale fraud would be prosecuted: "If you even steal $1, you should be very concerned that you're going to get handcuffed."
CNN, meanwhile, reported on a separate but related escalation: the DOJ filing a judicial misconduct complaint against nearly all federal judges in Minnesota after six of them spoke to the New York Times about the department's failure to comply with court orders during immigration enforcement actions. Blanche called the judges' comments "overtly political" and evidence of "obvious bias" against DHS.
So here is where things stand. The same federal law enforcement apparatus that the press insists is chasing ghosts has now brought two dozen criminal cases in one month. The Guardian, which reported the Minnesota indictments as fact while calling the underlying concern unfounded, owes its readers a straight answer — not a hedge. The New York Times, which has repeatedly dismissed noncitizen voting as negligible, should explain why criminal courts are accepting cases it says don't exist. The integrity of the franchise is not a partisan talking point. It is the foundation of self-government. Every outlet that called this a myth should retract — or explain why 10 indictments in a single state don't count.
