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MONTGOMERY, Ala. —President Trump in his first term proved a windfall for the Southern Poverty Law Center, the antiracism nonprofit famed for its courtroom wins against the Ku Klux Klan decades ago. In 2017, the same year Trump took office and a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., turned violent, annual contributions and grants to SPLC surged from $50 million to more than $130 million and have remained above $100 million nearly every year since.

Nuns in Erie falsely accused of perpetrating voter fraud. A suburban Philadelphia election-line snafu amplified worldwide in under half an hour. A Tuesday night rallying cry by Donald Trump: “They have already started cheating in Lancaster.” Across Pennsylvania, local and state officials are warning that efforts by Trump and his supporters to call into question the integrity of the presidential election in the crucial swing state are ramping up—before a single ballot has been counted. The state’s top election official, Republican Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt, said Wednesday that in just the previous 24 hours, several widely disseminated videos...

Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis will announce “charging decisions” this summer arising from her election-interference investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies, according to a letter she sent to local law-enforcement agencies warning of the potential for violent reactions to that key milestone in her two-year probe. In the letter addressed to Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat, Ms. Willis said she would be announcing charging decisions relating to the investigation sometime between July 11 and Sept. 1. Ms. Willis said she wanted to give law-enforcement agencies sufficient time to prepare for the “significant public reaction” her announcement could...

VALDOSTA, Ga.—President Trump tried to use his unsupported claims of widespread voting fraud to boost turnout in two Senate runoff elections next month, urging supporters at a rally here to re-elect two senators but oust other local officials he blames for his own election loss.