FBI raids Ohio voter registration nonprofit

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(Salon) The raid by the FBI of an Ohio based non-partisan voting rights nonprofit, that included the seizure of cell phones and computers, is being blasted as heavy-handed voter intimidation ahead of the 2026 midterms.

According to multiple press reports, the FBI agents not only showed up at the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a community based voter registration nonprofit, but visited the homes of people tied to the civic engagement group.

Ohio’s swing state status ended after President Donald Trump racked up eight-point wins in 2016 and 2020 that grew to an 11-point margin in 2024. The GOP holds the governorship and lopsided majorities in both houses of the state legislature.

Prentiss Haney, a member of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative’s board of trustees told the Guardian the raid was “a full-on coordinated assault weaponizing the justice department and DHS against people who are fighting for working-class voters and Black voters to make sure they have access to the ballot.” ....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/06/16/fbi-raids-ohio-voter-registration-nonprofit/

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1. Good read.

Austin noted unless they were worried about “recent polling that had former Sen. Sherrod Brown up considerably over Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, and Amy Acton, our candidate for governor over Vivek Ramaswamy.”

“If we are going to talk about partisanship and the FBI, we have to talk about fidelity and partisanship to the United States Constitution and to voting rights,” said Dr. Joseph Wilson, labor historian and union consultant. “And historically the FBI has played a diabolical role in terms of civil rights, human rights and political rights starting with Jay Edgar Hoover and his attacks and subterfuge against Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.”

Wilson, who was the biographer for A. Philip Randolph, the iconic civil rights and labor leader, said the Ohio FBI raids “were an act of desperation that will backfire and only inspire greater voter turnout.”