The woman behind the SAVE Act

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https://www.salon.com/2026/03/19/the-conservative-woman-cracking-down-on-conservative-women/

The conservative woman cracking down on conservative women
Cleta Mitchell’s election integrity crusade behind the SAVE America Act could overly affect Republican women
By Russell Payne
Published March 19, 2026 1:30PM (EDT)

With the SAVE America Act before the Senate, a bill that could radically transform elections, Cleta Mitchell is approaching the apex of her influence. At the same time, the “election integrity” movement that she has often spearheaded, fueled by years of conspiracy theories about widespread non-citizen voting, may be about to turn on its own base: conservative voters.

Mitchell initially rose to prominence as a prominent denier of President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, participating in efforts to overturn the results and acting as one of the attorneys who helped assemble the Republican legal strategy in their failed attempt to help Trump cling to power.

Since then, Mitchell and other GOP activists have been organizing in the hopes of reshaping American elections in their image, most visibly via the SAVE America Act, which Trump and his allies have rallied behind, with Trump promising that the act would guarantee Republican victories for the next 50 years.

Chioma Chukwu, the executive director of American Oversight, a watchdog group that has followed Mitchell closely since 2020, told Salon that Mitchell has wielded a level of influence within the conservative and Republican legal infrastructure that she should have at least as much name recognition as characters like Mike Lindell and Sidney Powell, two notorious Trump allies and conservative activists whose influence has waned since 2020.

“I don’t think people can appreciate how she is very much the connective tissue to a lot of what we are seeing that has taken place,” Chukwu said. “She just took credit for pressuring to bring the SAVE Act to the floor because of the consistent pressure campaign that they’ve been mounting behind the scenes.”

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1. I hope the Democrats have forces fighting this

because they will just keep the pressure coming.