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FBI raids Ohio Organizing Collaborative office, questions members statewide

newsJun 12, 2026555,340

FBI agents raided the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative on Thursday and interviewed volunteers across Ohio. Agents also visited staff and board members' homes and seized documents and electronic devices, organization members said. The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, which runs voter registration and ballot-access programs in Northeast Ohio, called the actions intimidation and vowed to keep organizing. The raids matter because Ohio is a purple state heading into the midterm cycle, and targeting a major voter-registration group could disrupt grassroots ballot access and raise civil liberties concerns.

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING MS NOW: FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative — a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, according to three people briefed on the search.

156145d ago
Dr. Ohm (Unit of Resistance)95

Straight-up Gestapo. We MUST STOP THEM.

LaurieKafka41

FASCISM IS HAPPENING RIGHT IN FRONT OF US AND NO ONE WILL STAND UP TO THIS FASCISTIC REGIME!

Max32

Republicans are fascists now, that’s it.

Arriadna 🇺🇸🗽🌻30

My god. This is a horrible development.

Missy Hubbard29

Do we need to put lamb’s blood on voting office’s doorframes to get the federal government out of our elections these days??? This is insane!!!

FoxtrotDeltaTango25

People need to recognize, this is war.

Arkancrow17

That.. that is fascism. Textbook fascism.

AncientActivist15

The complete bullshit that this fucking government engages in is so fucking out of line that my brain can't even process it anymore. Just... ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME????

SilkySullivan810

Nothing is more alarming than helping regular people vote.

epluribusfractum.bsky.social8

I wish the courts would rule such raids unconstitutional. They just don't want people to vote.

Missy Hubbard7

Can’t get the words “Heil Hitler” out of my head after reading this. 😖

Funkdafied 🌻🐸 ✊🏼📢⚖️7

I’ll just leave this here … #OHSen secure.actblue.com/donate/sherr...

irishkj55.bsky.social6

A judge had to sign off on this. What was the justification? Legitimate or not. Courts have been lied to about the justification for such requests. Follows the pattern of John Bolton and the Virginia state Senator. No charges months later. No reason given. Just intimidation tactics. Happens in the

Tangpo6

Folks, this is civil war. Violently imposing dictatorship on the most heavily armed civilian population in human history will have inevitablly violent consequences

EvilBunny Pottymouth Resists The Cultists every day!6

Trump's FBI is not our FBI anymore... It's J. Edgar Hoover's FBI again!

The Great Sipper ☕️🥂☕️🥃☕️🟧5

The Brown Shirts have arrived

🔵real opposition🇺🇸🇪🇸🇺🇦5

No more REPUBLICAN FBI DIRECTORS EVER

cozybooksonly.bsky.social5

Ohio - regime is scared and knows it’s loosing. Check your voter registration and help register a friend! @indivisibleohio.bsky.social @indivcentraloh.bsky.social

The Resistance CO5

So, Nazis raided the offices. Got it!

Kimberly5

So GOP is aftaid of democrats in OH

Mummified Yeti Hand5

Hey, at least we weren’t ageist by saying Joe Biden was obviously too old for a second term.

CarrieT 🗽 ⚖️ 🇺🇸 🐶 📚 🛩 🌏 🐘 🗳 ⛩️ 😆 🎶 🪙 🤷‍♀️5

They are targeting states that might flip the Senate. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

Trevor Dorn5

Mark this for later when some of us bring up that we’ve stated a million times: there’s no chance the criminals in power will allow free and fair elections that will absolutely result in their prosecutions and incarceration.

Spike Spiegel4

Pure intimidation. Fuck these fucking fascists!

EZTempo3

The Republicans similarly took down ACORN in 2010 because of pressure from Rethugs in Congress.

ELIZE3

Democracy in action? Or just a show of force? 🤔

Nefarious Means3

No matter what they do, Black voters will not be scared away from the polls. Other marginalized groups need to figure out how they intend to respond.

Ed Averill3

So the FBI is fakery until we have sensible leadership.

Suzanne Winland2

As @davidpepperoh.bsky.social astutely observed in his book, Ohio is at risk of autocracy. www.amazon.com/Laboratories...

Caroline Fan2

Ohio SEN got moved to toss up only yesterday *gulp*

Katie Phang
@katiephang.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump’s FBI in an act of “straight-up intimidation” raids a pro-democracy, voting organization in Ohio, with 100+ agents menacing staff & volunteers on the streets & at their schools. With Trump's DNI nominee, loyalist Jay Clayton, expect more voter intimidation. youtu.be/wQajlQlxboA?...

97145d ago
Aibo - Zonny16

The GOP/Trump scheduled the pain for after the November midterms.💰 🫀 Healthcare insurance was already unaffordable. We still paid it. Then it jumped because of Trump’s Big Ugly Bill🇺🇸. And here’s the part people need to remember: most of the bill’s pain doesn’t even hit until AFTER 2026 midterms.

krimzennial.bsky.social16

Those FBI agents should be ashamed of themselves. How fucking sad it is to see so many with no backbone or balls to stand up and say no to this wannabe King.

Moosedog6613

Makes me want to vote with a vengeance

Green Hombre11

Team Katie, this smells like Putin's NGO crackdown in 2015. He used "tax police" to bust up civil society with any overseas connections. It cut Russians off from the world. I worry Trump/Miller are going full-Putin from now until the midterms. Putinism is democracy death. Background here.

Terraformer8

They’re going to keep doing this - right up until the election - and then afterward, for “voter fraud” MAGA will *not* give up power peacefully - we’ve already seen it

Cat Skoor 🌱 💙🐕🌷🌲6

The day’s coming when nobody is going to be intimidated by these Jack-booted thugs.

Ray Woodson4

Go ahead and try to stop us voting. Go ahead.

crouse5.bsky.social4

No one hates an American citizen's right to vote as much as a Republican.

Cupatee4

All while Congress & Senate do nothing! They are all traitors!

pro2stl.bsky.social4

And republicans cry when we call them Nazis. This behavior is taught on day one of Nazi School.

Rivka4

Midterms are going to be chaos.

usagreatalready.bsky.social3

Makes you want to think after reading this, when and will there be a “tipping point” where the “people” respond and react to “the likes that no one has ever seen before”. Enough is enough.

L S D3

Too bad the once (somewhat) respectable FBI is now a fascist brigade tasked with destroying our democratic institutions and protecting pedophiles.

Fiat justitia, Ruat caelum2

trump’s 1st term I was on Twitter reading a post from Sarah Kendzior. I replied, “what do we do?” Someone answered “learn how to shoot a gun and make peace with yourself over what you’re willing to do to protect yourself “. I thought, that’s extreme. Now, I don’t know…

Rob2

I expect them to deploy ICE & encourage MAGA “poll watchers” in blue states on Election Day

Lauren 2

99% of the Hispanics in Cleveland are Puerto Rican, which makes them US Citizens, and it breaks MAGA brains It’s why Jake Paul moved there. His Westside podunk self felt like he never left home

Jennifer C
@thejenniwren.teamlh.social

Trump’s FBI showed up, without warrants, at the homes of Black and Brown voter registration canvassers in Ohio. Over 100 agents. No charges. No crime. This is federal voter intimidation, happening right now, ahead of a major election cycle in a purple state. Hell no people. We must fight back.

54545d ago
Jon G17

This should be the leading story on every news broadcast in the world!

noahs-arc0602.bsky.social9

I just checked to see if the DOJ /is sending FBI to Republican registration canvassers homes ! Nope .

Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot Text RESIST to 504099

The answer always must be, #GetAWarrant.

mat111.bsky.social8

🤬🤬🤬 I think my FU emoji is going to pass out from over use! But WTF?

lesliead717.bsky.social7

This would only serve to make me want to vote more.

marenroe.bsky.social7

Leave it to the Racist In Chief to do the stupidest things. Does he really think 1950’s tactics will be effective in 2026?

NurseGenius6

These Agents have not refused. These are Agents of Facism.

Texannh5

It’s no coincidence they went after POC. They have no iota of their culture. They think these people are “low IQ” they’re not! This is disgusting!

Niemand Belangrijk🇨🇦🇳🇱🇺🇦💙💙🇺🇸🦮5

This is a federal level, voter intimidation tactic. This is illegal. This is immoral… This is what happens when you have an incompetent & drunk asshole in charge of an investigative body Their skills get wasted. Kash Patel needs to look in the mirror, before sending agents to intimidate folks

🎼🎶🎵86-47-3094

Patel *will* pay for this. 🤬

Grateful-1.bsky.social3

This is as SICK & DISGUSTING AS IT GETS‼️...Does the Fool who runs this Rotten, NOW, Illegal Form of Government, not realize HE is NOT WHITE⁉️

n25s.bsky.social3

Where in Ohio? This state has been a red state for some years now. It doesn’t surprise me.

Lache Pas La Patate3

Get their names and keep a record.

Always Listen To Learn3

Fascism resurgent. Are we having fun yet?

Mark P Nicholls2

Jim Crow is still in place. The last 10 years have shown that it never died out.

lost-soul2

Asking them for their ID and take a pic of it and asked them since they are in the FBI do they know the laws about voter intimidation.

StuckInUsLimbo2

Always record any FBI that try to intimidate or harass you. Try to get names, plates etc.

KUNA2

that's exactly what it is. voter suppression by any other name is still voter suppression. we need to call it out for what it is

Marie 🇨🇦 🐸
@pawbaby2.bsky.social

Kash Patel’s FBI raided a VOTING RIGHTS GROUP in Ohio. Went to volunteers’ homes. Demanded devices. No fraud. There never was. This is authoritarian voter suppression. Say it clearly. #Ohio #VotingRights #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AwChDArL_TX2...

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