当FBI今年1月在佐治亚州富尔顿县的一个仓库出现，以扣押数百箱2020年选举记录时，县委员达娜·巴雷特认为这看起来更像是政治闹剧而非刑事调查。
When the FBI showed up at a warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia, to seize hundreds of boxes of 2020 election records this past January, County Commissioner Dana Barrett thought it looked less like a criminal investigation and more like political theater.
自选举以来已过去五年多，结果已经多次被调查，选票也被反复计数、重新计数。
It’s been more than five years since the election, the results already had been investigated multiple times, and the ballots had been counted, recounted, and recounted again.
然而，2020年选举被窃取的谎言仍在持续。“停止窃选”运动的最狂热支持者如今掌握着前所未有的权力，包括在关键摇摆州佐治亚州原本平静的州选举委员会中的职位。一位以愿意处理长期选举案件著称的律师，从默默无闻的私人执业律师，升至白宫职位，负责监督全国选举诚信工作——尽管他曾因对投票问题发表“明确虚假”的言论而被法院制裁。与此同时，运动中的普通成员也在试图改变他们认为破碎的系统——尽管这样做可能实际上正在破坏它。
The lie that the 2020 election was stolen has persisted. And the “Stop the Steal” movement’s most ardent believers now hold unprecedented positions of power, including on the once-sleepy State Election Board in the important swing state of Georgia. A lawyer known for his willingness to take on long-shot election cases went from a little-known private practice attorney to a role in the White House, overseeing the country’s election integrity effort—despite being sanctioned by a court for making “unequivocally false” assertions around voting. And everyday members of the movement are trying to change what they fervently believe is a broken system—at the risk of actually breaking it in the process.
本周，节目中的记者Abby Vesoulis和的Najib Aminy探讨了2020年选举阴影的长期影响如何被武器化，以及这对2026年中期选举意味着什么。
This week on , reporter Abby Vesoulis and ’s Najib Aminy examine how the long shadow of doubt over the 2020 elections is being weaponized and what it means ahead of the 2026 midterms.