True the vote, the electoral denialist group responsible for the discredited film 2000 mules who falsely alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election, is preparing to release a new film. As President Donald Trump continues to threaten the midterm elections, the new film will re-litigate the 2020 election, making allegations about systemic voter fraud in Black communities, allegations that have already been dismissed by multiple courts.

It’s true that Vote appears to be working with Lorenzo Sewell, a Detroit pastor who spoke at Trump’s inauguration last year. Sewell told WIRED that the documentary, which he has not yet seen, is called Trap—”because people are trapped”—and will be released “in the next month or so.”

The film will repeat many of the claims first made in a 2024 lawsuit filed by Detroit political activist Ramon Jackson, who claimed that Democratic election officials, including Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey, orchestrated a scheme to register former Detroit residents and cast votes with false registrations in elections dating back to 2017. The court case was dismissed for lack of standing and for failing to present sufficient evidence. However, after Trump visited Sewell’s church in June 2024 as part of an effort to court black voters, the pastor partnered with Jackson to continue pushing these claims.

“There’s a pattern going on in our country right now where Democrats are voting for poor black people without their knowledge,” Sewell says, without evidence. “They are changing their vote and they do it when someone moves out of state.”

Sewell believes the same plan was happening in cities that, like Detroit, have large low-income black populations, citing places like Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis, New Orleans and Philadelphia as examples. While Sewell admitted he had no evidence to support these claims, he says, “I can, in any election, detect and determine cheating, period. Democrat or Republican, I have a proven system.”

Sewell says his system involves examining lists of people who have voted in an election and seeing how and where people voted. “Black people don’t vote absentee,” Sewell says. However, a study released this week says voting by mail is more common among black voters in communities with high rates of hate crimes.

Sewell says he also points out entries that “do not favor our community names.” As evidence, Sewell sent WIRED images of voting envelopes cast by people with names he claims are not real. Sewell provided WIRED with copies of 10 affidavits he and his team have collected so far from voters who claim their address or identity has been falsely used to cast ballots in recent elections. WIRED was unable to independently verify the claims made in the affidavits. Sewell did not provide details about how figures like Benson, Winfrey or other election officials allegedly identified the people involved, how they falsely registered names at their addresses or how they cast absentee ballots in their names.

Benson and Winfrey did not respond to requests for comment.

Sewell did not say when True the Vote became involved in the project, simply saying they had heard about it because “I’m famous.” The group and its co-founder Catherine Engelbrecht did not respond to multiple requests for comment. However, the group and its management have acknowledged that they are making a documentary focused on Michigan.

In a True the Vote newsletter sent to followers last week, Engelbrecht wrote about “filming a documentary in Detroit” but did not provide any other information. Its co-founder Gregg Phillips, who once claimed he teleported into a Waffle House and was recently ousted from his leadership position at FEMA, has also referenced the documentary several times on Truth Social.