Anthropic set out its preparations for the US midterms: what Claude will refuse, how election queries are routed to authoritative sources, and what it is doing about coordinated influence operations. The timing matters because the usage policy published four days later removed the blanket ban on personalised political targeting, so that legitimate civic work such as multilingual voter information and ballot cure notices is allowed. The two documents move in opposite directions on purpose: fewer categorical bans, more specific rules about deception.