Last December, Richard Molina was ousted as mayor of Edinburg, Texas.
Why should you care? Because what happened to Molina in Edinburg could be coming to a town near you. Our cautionary tale begins where many of our recent scary stories begin: the 2016 general election.
As you may recall, President Donald Trump chirped about "voter fraud" for months after his inauguration because he couldn't handle the fact he had lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. In an attempt to validate his unsubstantiated claims that millions had voted illegally, in May 2017 Trump established the Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. He asked the Republican-led, 11-member committee to find proof of the widespread corruption that didn't exist.
