06/15/2026
The Communist Party of Ohio condemns the outrageous raid on the offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative last week. OOC is a civil rights organization that leads voter registration efforts and fights for democratic rights and economic justice. Besides raiding the main OOC offices in Cleveland and seizing papers and electronic devices, Trump's FBI henchmen fanned out across the state, harassing former staff and volunteers.
We are deeply concerned that this investigation could be used as a pretext to freeze OOC's federal and state funding and grants, delaying their release until after the November midterms. Such a delay would not only hamstring OOC's own get-out-the-vote operations, but would ripple out to every subgrantee organization across Ohio that depends on that funding to register voters and turn out their communities. Whether or not this is the stated intent of the raid, it is a likely—and convenient—outcome for those who benefit from lower turnout among working people.
This brazen attempt to intimidate Ohio voters and voting rights advocates is part of a larger attempt to stifle the voice of the working class in shaping our own communities, and we will not be silenced. We stand in solidarity with the Ohio Organizing Collaborative and its affiliates, and applaud their work in our communities.
