Latest Developments

Read the Chicago Tribune’s coverage of Free Speech For People Letter Urging Illinois Officials to Investigate Trump Administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz”

On October 29, the Chicago Tribune published an article about Free Speech For People’s effort to pressure state and local prosecutors to hold Trump accountable for violations of state criminal law. The article includes responses from state prosecutors:   In letters sent this week to Gov. JB Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Cook County State’s
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“Lawless Federal Raids Demand Accountability”: Free Speech For People Calls on Illinois Officials to Investigate Trump Administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz”

New Filing Urges Attorney General, State’s Attorney, and Chicago Police Superintendent to Launch Criminal Investigations into Federal Agents for Unlawful Assaults, Detentions, and Political Retaliation Against Illinois Residents CHICAGO, IL (October 27, 2025) Free Speech For People, a national nonpartisan legal advocacy organization, today filed a formal request urging Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Cook
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New Op-Ed: Trump’s Most Reviled Voting Company Sold to a GOP Official. That’s Not the Worst of It

Read Susan Greenhalgh’s latest op-ed about the purchase of Dominion Voting Systems by a former GOP election official and what it means for election integrity in the US. The announcement that the second-largest U.S. voting system vendor would be in the hands of a self-declared partisan sparked concerns and speculation on blogs and social media.
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Free Speech For People submits comment to the EAC opposing proposed barriers to voter registration

Free Speech For People today submitted a comment to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC)—an independent government board—opposing a proposal enacting a new voter suppression policy. The proposal comes from America First Legal, a right-wing organization founded by MAGA extremist Stephen Miller. The proposed rule would force Americans to show specific, costly, hard-to-access documents like passports
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Abolish ICE; Close the Immigration Prisons; Defend our Democracy From Tyranny

Twenty-two years ago, Congress created a heavily armed militia, put it under the control of the President, and aimed it at some of our country’s most vulnerable residents. And at every turn—as refugees die in detention, children are ripped from their parents’ arms, people are dragged from their homes and cars, protesters are beaten and
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Trump is openly committing treason. He must be impeached and removed from office.

We have officially updated our articles of impeachment to reflect Trump’s treasonous war against the United States and its people. Trump is committing treason—and commanding U.S. military forces to commit treason—by mobilizing U.S. troops against civilians throughout the United States, in an effort to instill fear in the civilian population, quell lawful political dissent, politicize
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