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Statement

FBI Raid on Ohio Voting Rights Group Is Profoundly Disturbing

June 15, 2026
MomsVote

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on reports the FBI raided the Ohio Organizing Collaborative office and its staff members’ homes last week:

“Those of us who believe in free and fair elections have long feared that the Trump administration, facing record levels of public disapproval due to its skewed, shameful priorities, would try to interfere with our elections. Last week’s raid of an organization in Cleveland with a long history of helping Ohioans exercise their legally protected right to vote is deeply and profoundly disturbing. We fear it is part of a widening pattern of targeting voting and civil rights groups that work with people of color. 

“Let’s be very clear: America’s moms will not accept federal law enforcement that undermines our rights and engages in any kind of thuggery or intimidation. Just as moms stood up to ICE in Minneapolis and elsewhere, we will stand up to this kind of bullying – and we will work tirelessly to ensure everyone who is eligible to vote is able to vote in primaries and in the general election in November.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.