FBI raids Ohio voting-rights organization

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MS NOW News

Jun. 11, 2026, 11:49 PM EDT


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.

Agents also fanned out across the state, showing up at the homes of the group’s leaders and staff members, carrying some subpoenas and seeking information and electronic devices, according to the people, two of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive ongoing investigation. Members of the group had made contact with lawyers on Thursday to determine their legal options, the people said.

Prentiss Haney, a board member for Ohio Organizing Collaborative, told MS NOW Thursday night that agents approached people with connections to Ohio Organizing Collaborative, including some who had performed basic canvassing and volunteer work for the group, and began pressing them for information. Agents were “basically trying to fish for information,” said Haney.

“They had agents all across the state going to civil rights leaders and community leaders’ doors intimidating them, coming and demanding that they talk about literally anything they would ask,” Haney said, adding that agents “asked them if they’re committing voter fraud, just on their doors, in front of their houses with their children, and just following them to work and school.”. Haney said some of the people said the agents approached without warrants. “Just straight-up intimidation tactics,” he said.

Read more: https://www.ms.now/news/ohio-pro-democracy-organization-raided-by-fbi

[Lovie777]

1. Physically attacking voting rights organization?...............

Republicans are getting "more" desperate.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. hem, you read my mind . i was just going to say something about that . but u did it better than i would .

[MichMan]

16. Where does it say people were "physically attacked"?

[stopdiggin]

21. first thought here as well. either we're 'stretching' - or employing new definition of 'physical assault' - - - -(nt)-

[IbogaProject]

34. Holding people against their will is a type of assault

It isn't like there is an active disaster or is a pressing investigation about a crime which just happened. If the Feds had any probable cause they could have waited until Monday and gotten a warrant.

[stopdiggin]

39. Will repeat .... stretching and/or redefining

show me where LE showing up at someone's door is defined as 'assault'
(except when we're engaged in freewheeling 'chat' sessions ... and embellishing ... running a line ... )

And secondly - when did we arrive at the idea that LE needed a warrant to 'talk' to someone? Misleading, misinformed and misguided ...
(You do of course have the right not to speak to officers - providing you're gutsy enough to exercise ... But the idea that you have been assaulted - or subject to ''warrantless' action ... Again ... Whoooosh ! That just ain't the way it works !)

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[CivicGrief]

26. Because intimidation is not bad

enough?

[wolfie001]

28. Right! The skeptics here can be so misguided (I'm being polite, lol)

The mere presence and intimidation are appalling enough.

[ananda]

20. This means Ohio's in play.

Wow!

[liberalgunwilltravel]

24. They don't want Sherrod Brown to win

And will try anything to keep him from doing so.

[LisaL]

25. OH also has a race for governor

that appears to be competitive.

[pat_k]

2. The insanity will be ratched up each week as the midterms approach.

The are getting beyond desperate.

[Akakoji]

36. Each Day

Just saying.

[pat_k]

37. When you're right, you're right!

[everyonematters]

3. Here we go again. Does Ohio still allow paying people to register voters?

They will find a few of the workers who falsified registrants and blow it all out of proportion.

[everyonematters]

7. I looked it up. Paying people according to the number of people they register is outlawed.

That is good. This is what got ACORN in trouble. They must have changed the law.

[mdbl]

4. Has anyone told the FBI that the worst law-breakers are in the white house?

And some in the house and senate too.

[Walleye]

5. Exactly. The man who has been convicted of fraudulent business practices in a court of law.

Which is why he is looking for fraud everywhere cause he thinks everybody must do it. And they don’t need any stinking constitution

[bluestarone]

6. Well, my thoughts today are

We ain't seen nothing yet!! Wow!

[ret5hd]

8. "no warrant? fuck off!"

[orangecrush]

10. This

[LisaL]

9. Cleveland is where a lot of Democratic voters live in OHIO.

NT

[YodaMom2]

15. And recent polling suggests that Ohio is swinging back toward the Ds.

The WH can’t allow that.

This is a blatant, fascistic intimidation tactic, designed to suppress Democratic organizing and voting. The lack of warrants, the ham-handed “are you committing voter fraud” questioning, etc., are not necessarily designed to result in arrests, but to instill fear. Even if nothing BUT fear comes of this, they’ll consider it a success.

[LisaL]

17. The races for both governor and the senator

appear to be very competitive right now.

[orangecrush]

12. Straight up dictator shit

[Botany]

13. Facsism

End of story.

[70sEraVet]

14. To all of those who have been worrying that we are slipping towards fascism....

As a great novelist once wrote, "This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen".

And the question was always, "How could it have happened so FAST?"

[OMGWTF]

18. Fkin' Nazis!

[Martin Eden]

19. Fascism is here folks.

Next step is abandoning all pretense of legal rights.

[Martin68]

22. WTF? Brownshirts in action. This is scary.

[popsdenver]

29. Just wait until

election day when the Republicans swarm every voting location with battle dressed and armed ICE and Border Patrol goon Storm Troopers....

If they don't have enough they will enlist the Right Wing Militias from every state.......

The Republicans will stop at nothing to corruptly seize this election.....(once again)

[Raven123]

23. Afraid of Sherrod Brown?

[wolfie001]

27. white racist pigs

Not much else to add. I hope most Americans are appalled. And vote accordingly.

[DFW]

30. In other words Ramaswamy called Patel with a secret urgent message

I was able to intercept and decode it. It was very intricate, but if you pay close attention and read between the lines, the message becomes obvious. The full text appears below:

“Hey, Kash? HELLLLP!!”

[Ford_Prefect]

31. One of ghese days someone is gonna show up with warrants in hand demanding the FBI 'fess up

And deliver the paperwork showing who signed all the illegal and falsely brought actions.
Then they will proceed to arrest and araign all the signatories.

EVERY SINGLE DAMN ONE OF THEM!!!

[Soul_of_Wit]

32. If it's a fishing derby then direct them to the nearest river

I suggest a long walk on a convenient short pier. Just a little further. It's worth it.

[bluestarone]

33. States better have plans to deal with this bullshit, because it's coming full blast!!

How the fuck can these fuckers be stopped from doing this during a live election? We have to figure this out!!

[reACTIONary]

35. WaPo, FBI searches offices of Ohio voter registration group, seizing computers

https://wapo.st/4fICyVv, no paywall

The raid continues the Trump administration’s pattern of looking for voter fraud, which many experts say is minimal in the U.S.

[SupportSanity]

38. This is what fascism looks like.

Pure and simple. We will be seeing more of it.

[Jimvanhise]

40. ARE THESE FBI AGENTS PROUD OF WHAT THEY ARE GOING?

They have no evidence of voter fraud or they would reveal it. Conservatives don't like it when organizations help register people to vote because Republicans do nothing to help the average America and so hate the idea that more and more of them are voting. In 2016 Trump claimed that 3 million illegal aliens voted for Hillary Clinton but when attempts to prove that failed, the Trump administration disbanded the committee investigating that and refused to release the results of their investigations.