The 2022 midterm elections were in many ways a referendum on the future of American democracy, and in key states candidates who spread lies about the 2020 election and could have used their power to overturn future elections lost. In the six major battlegrounds where Donald Trump tried to reverse his defeat, election-denying candidates for governor, secretary of state, and attorney general all lost. But it would be naive to conclude that the threat to free and fair elections has disappeared or even dissipated.