Anti-Immigrant Election Deniers Have Turned Their Online Following Into an Army of Activists

A coordinated effort called “National Only Citizens Vote” week has been rolling out since Monday .

The campaign has been coordinated by a network of election denial groups.

It's the culmination of the last six months of work from groups like Cleta Mitchell , a former Trump adviser and attorney who was on the infamous call in 2020 when Trump asked state officials to reverse the election results.

Noncitizen voting accounts for a vanishingly small fraction of a percent of the votes cast in US elections, experts say.

The GOP push to suggest this is a problem echoes much of the rhetoric around the great replacement conspiracy, which falsely suggests that a “cabal of global elites” is encouraging people of color to immigrate and replace white voters.

Activists behind Only Citizens Vote week claim the initiative is meant to be about protecting US democracy.

The group has also posted a number of “explosive” undercover videos claiming to show how noncitizens can obtain fake documents.

Last month , officers from Texas attorney general Ken Paxton ’s Election Integrity Unit raided the homes of Latino civil rights activists.