Democrats and voting advocates are going on the offensive against the Trump administration’s threats to send armed federal agents to the polls as voters cast their ballots in the 2026 midterm elections.

Federal law bans armed civil or military officers from voting locations, but administration officials have repeatedly suggested they could still be deployed.

With Election Day just over a month away, Democrats and civic groups have filed two lawsuits that aim to bar federal law enforcement at the polls. Meanwhile, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) on Wednesday introduced a bill to restrict them from coming within a quarter-mile of voting sites, and some states have advanced their own protections.

The Baldwin measure, in particular — though unlikely to pass into law — suggests Democrats are looking not just to head off any attempt to deploy law enforcement to voting sites themselves, but also to focus attention on what may be an even bigger threat to voting access: potential efforts to snarl traffic and create broader disruptions in urban, Democratic-leaning areas that could make it harder for voters to get to the polls in the first place.

Taken together, the lawsuits and legislation amount to a growing campaign to resist one of the Trump administration’s most alarming threats to the election.