1. It began like any parent’s worst nightmare. When Jenette Torres Odena’s three-year-old son woke up feverish days after receiving a measles-rubella shot, she didn’t immediately panic. Children get fevers. But then his condition worsened, and soon a photograph of her sick little boy was everywhere—except it wasn’t being used to wish him well. It had been turned into a weapon. Across Facebook, the image was shared in videos and posts claiming the vaccine had killed him. “I felt like crying,” Odena later recalled. “I kept praying for my son to recover and suddenly they were killing him on Facebook.”…

Election security is often talked about in technical terms—firewalls, databases, threat actors, and infrastructure. But at its heart, it is something far more personal. It is about whether ordinary people feel safe showing up to vote, whether they trust that their ballot counts, and whether they believe the system still works for them. In a time of deep social unrest and rising political tension, safeguarding elections means more than protecting machines and networks; it means protecting the very idea that every American voice matters. To better understand this complex landscape, I spoke with Mike Rogers, Chief Security Analyst at International…