Dominion Dropped Its $1.3 Billion Suit Against Mike Lindell After a GOP Buyout.

The voting machine company formerly known as Dominion Voting Systems dropped its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell on June 24, 2026, eight months after a former Republican election official bought the company, CBS News reported.

What Dominion Sued Over

Dominion sued Lindell, the MyPillow CEO and Trump ally, in 2021. The company alleged that Lindell knew there was no evidence the 2020 election was stolen but spread the claim anyway, naming Dominion’s machines, while selling pillows off the publicity.

It was one of several defamation suits Dominion filed against people and outlets that pushed the stolen-election story.

The Company Changed Hands First

In October 2025, Dominion was acquired by Liberty Vote, a St. Louis company founded by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican elections director. The company now operates under the Liberty Vote name.

Eight months later, it settled with Lindell. A spokesperson said only that “the parties have agreed to a confidential settlement.” Court filings show the case was dismissed with prejudice, and both sides will bear their own legal costs.

How This Differs From the Fox Settlement

The Lindell outcome looks nothing like Dominion’s biggest win. In 2023, Fox News paid Dominion $787.5 million to settle a similar defamation claim over the same election lies.

$787.5 million Fox paid Dominion in 2023 over election lies. Against Lindell, the company’s new owners disclosed no payment and dropped the case.

Against Lindell, the new ownership disclosed no payment, and each side walked away covering its own costs. Lindell did not retract his claims.

A Pattern, Not a Single Settlement

The dropped lawsuit is one piece of a broader unwinding. The costs that once attached to the stolen-election lie are coming off, one by one.

Fox News paid that $787.5 million in 2023 and kept many of the same voices on air. The payout did not change the programming.

In Colorado, county clerk Tina Peters was convicted of breaching her own election system to hunt for fraud that did not exist. She was released early after the president pressured the governor to free her.

The people who told the truth paid the higher price. Ruby Freeman, a Georgia poll worker falsely accused of fraud, left the home she had lived in for 20 years after a wave of threats. More than a third of election workers reported threats in 2024, and one in five quit.

Put together, the direction is consistent. The people who spread the lie face shrinking consequences. The workers who ran honest counts, and now the company that built the machines, absorb the cost.

What You Can Do Now

Use the letter below to tell Congress to protect the people and systems that run our elections. It asks for three specific things: federal protection for election workers, no clemency for election-security crimes, and transparency about who owns voting-machine companies.
Call your members of Congress at (202) 224-3121. Ask them to pass the Election Worker Protection Act, which would make threatening or doxxing an election official a federal crime, and to oppose pardons or early release for officials convicted of breaching election security.
Read how the stolen-election claim was built and spread in our propaganda explainer. Understanding the playbook is the first defense against the next version of it.
Thank your local election officials. Many run elections under threat and harassment. A call or email to your county clerk’s office tells the people who safeguard your vote that their work is seen.