Your 2026 Election Integrity Reading List

By Kristine Christlieb, MFEI News & Commentary Editor

December 31, 2025

	The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (And Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care, Adam Schrager and Rob Witwer. Wondering how progressives flip a state from red to blue? This book answers that question. And in case you find your enthusiasm for conservative politics flagging, this book will light a fire under your fanny.
	Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul Alinsky. This is the book about which Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis at Wellesley. It is also the book that is dedicated to "Lucifer, the first radical." It is a basic text for the radical left.
	From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, Gene Sharp. This book is less well known than Rules for Radicals but also includes strategies, specific actions, groups can take to undermine a tyrannical government. There's a list at the end of nearly 100 actions to take. If you want to understand minority politics, you'll need to read this.
	The Battle for Florida: An Annotated Compendium of Materials from the 2000 Presidential Election, By Lance deHaven-Smith. Many of us remember the hanging chads in Florida's Palm Beach and Dade counties and the Supreme Court ruling that decided George W. Bush would be President. If you want to be a student of election integrity, this is a good place to start.
	Rigged: How Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, Mollie Hemingway. Mollie Hemingway is editor-in-Chief at The Federalist, a Fox News contributor, and a Senior Journalsim Fellow at Hillsdale College. Every list of books about election integrity includes Rigged. Published in June 2022, it has nearly 4K reviews on Amazon with an overall rating of 4.8/5. Not a single one star rating. I confess, I haven't read it yet; but by golly, in 2026, I'm going to.
	Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote, John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky. Written by two preeminent political commentators, Our Broken Elections is also required reading for EI students. Fund was a columnist for National Review magazine and von Spakovsky is Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. These are sober-minded, political thinkers associated with prestigious organizations.
	Stolen Elections: The Takedown of Democracies Worldwide, Ralph Pezzullo. Here's the book about the Venezuela connection to the 2020 election in the United States, but it connects the dots with elections shockers in other parts of the world.
	The 2020 Coup: What Happened, What We Can Do, Patrick Colbeck. Written by Michigan's very own Patrick Colbeck, The 2020 Coup is essential reading for Michiganders who have the memory of pizza boxes being taped over the windows at the TCF Center seared into their brains. This is an eyewitness account. Colbeck's unique perspective, as a former legislator and engineer, set this book apart.
	Conspiracy Theory In America, Lance deHaven-Smith. DeHaven Smith is responsible for creating the term "state crimes against democracy" or SCADs. He argues there are actors within government committing crimes against the people's government, acts once known as "high crimes and misdemeanors" but now called "conspiracy theories." Written in 2014, de Haven-Smith manages to articulate what most of us only began to accept post-COVID.