Ohio Organizing Collaborative and its Members!
It wasn't just a possibly illegal raid on the OOC Cleveland offices yesterday. That was bad enough. But members in Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati were reportedly questioned as well. As the group has not been implicated in voter fraud in the past, the raid does appear to be a politically motivated attempt at voter intimidation. Read the Columbus Dispatch report here.
This news compounds the alert raised by Robert Reich today, with a joint statement by Richard Gephardt, who represented Missouri in the United States House from 1977 to 2005 and served as House Democratic Leader from 1989 to 2003, and Tim Wirth, who served in the U.S. House and Senate from Colorado from 1975 to 2003 and as the first U.S. Secretary of State for Global Affairs -- Warning: Trump's Rolling Coup Is Already Underway
Well-trained election workers, election watchers, voting rights advocates, and legal aid will be frontline defense this year.