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- Twenty-eight arrests. Three weeks to the midterms. This is The Gospel Briefing. I'm Charles King. Here's the question for today: when trust in our elections is fraying, what do Christians owe the truth, and what do we owe our neighbor? The Justice Department announced Monday it has charged twenty-eight people in California with election-related crimes. Unlawful voting by a non-citizen. False claims of U.S. citizenship to register. Some of those charged are green card holders. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said the twenty-eight came from a larger list. Twenty thousand names the DOJ sent to California last week, flagging people the department suspects are not citizens but were mailed ballots anyway. California officials have pushed back hard. The L.A. County Clerk refused to open the thumb drive the DOJ sent, saying it arrived with the password written on a sticky note. His words. McCotter would not rule out charging election workers who processed those registrations. Election experts still say non-citizen voting is extraordinarily rare. More than one hundred fifty million people voted in the last presidential election. So two things are true at once. Election integrity matters. And the scale of the alleged problem is being contested in good faith by serious people. Scripture does not take sides in a federalism fight. But it speaks to how God's people handle disputed facts. Zechariah seven, verse nine. "Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another." True judgments. Not convenient ones. Not tribal ones. If you want to sit with that today, open Bible Copilot and read Zechariah seven alongside the briefing. It's shorter than you think. A pregame ceremony turned into a tragedy this weekend. Before kickoff at the University of Texas at San Antonio, a U.S. airman died in a rappelling incident during a military tribute. The airman has now been identified. CBS News is still reporting the details. A man went to honor his country before a football game. He did not come home. Pray for that family. Pray for the teammates and the crowd who watched it happen. Pray for wisdom today before you repeat what you have heard. Second story. In Mississippi, the state attorney general has ruled that a Senatobia police officer was justified in firing into a moving car during a shoplifting call back in June. A one-year-old boy, Kohen Wiley, was killed in that car. The officer's attorney says the driver tried to kill him. The family's attorney, Ben Crump, points to a preliminary independent autopsy suggesting Kohen was shot from the side, not the front. Body camera footage has not been released. There is no clean take here. A child is dead. Officers responded to what they believed was a shoplifting call for diapers and baby clothes. Everyone in that story bears the image of God. Everyone. The faithful response today is not a hot take. It is prayer for that family, and a steady insistence that the footage be released. Transparency is not a political posture. It is a biblical one. This episode is presented by Bible Copilot. Open Bible Copilot and start with today's Verse of the Day from Zechariah seven. You'll be walked through it as a guided study — what the passage says, what it means, what it teaches about God, and how to live it. Three questions a day are free. Start at mybiblecopilot dot com slash gospel. That's mybiblecopilot dot com slash gospel, or search Bible Copilot in the App Store. Here is today's verse. Zechariah seven, verse nine. "Thus says the Lord of hosts, render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another." True judgments. Kindness. Mercy. Hold any one alone and you'll get it wrong. Thanks for listening to The Gospel Briefing. The headlines are loud, but the Lord of hosts is not shaken. Neither are you. I'll see you tomorrow.