Trump Action Archive

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• HSI considered undercover operations against voter registration groups — According to internal documents, Homeland Security Investigations considered deploying undercover agents to investigate voter registration organizations, with Pennsylvania and New Jersey as priority targets. The stated goal was for undercover agents to engage with organizations to "substantiate recruitment methods and activities related to illegal alien voter registration," gather evidence, disrupt activities, trace financial backing, and ultimately "initiate prosecutions and dismantle illicit facilitation networks." It remains unclear whether undercover operations were actually conducted.
• HSI investigated over 150 voter registration organizations — Homeland Security Investigations conducted investigations into over 150 organizations suspected of facilitating unlawful noncitizen voter registration. For the vast majority, HSI found no derogatory information. Twenty-six organizations remain under review, and two were flagged for further investigation in Pennsylvania: the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Zumiez, a skateboard and clothing retailer. HSI also investigated Black Fork Strategies, a progressive Ohio voter engagement firm, in coordination with the FBI.
• DHS documents reveal election denier Heather Honey's role in noncitizen voting investigation — Internal Department of Homeland Security documents obtained by Popular Information reveal that election denier Heather Honey is playing a prominent role in DHS efforts to find evidence of noncitizen voting ahead of midterm elections. The documents detail DHS investigations into nonprofit voter registration organizations and outline plans for potential undercover operations targeting these groups. The revelation raises questions about whether election-fraud investigations are being driven by ideological commitments rather than evidence of actual violations.

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• ICE collected tens of millions of voter records for deportation targeting — Immigration and Customs Enforcement, under direction of Deputy Assistant Secretary Heather Honey, collected approximately 48.4 million voter records through undisclosed "independent sources" and obtained an additional 50.6 million records from the Department of Justice. Records from ten states—Texas, Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey, Minnesota, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Ohio—were prioritized. The data was sent to HSI's Innovation Lab and is pending entry into Palantir's ELITE system, used to identify and locate people for deportation. This effort targets noncitizen voters, though noncitizen voting is extremely rare.

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• Trump administration demands TANF recipient data from 24 states for immigration enforcement — Twenty-four states sued to block the Trump administration from obtaining personal records of families enrolled in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a $16 billion annual program providing food, rent, and child care assistance. The administration seeks citizenship and immigration status verification data; California Attorney General Rob Bonta characterized the effort as exploiting a child-welfare program to fuel government surveillance. The administration argues the data collection is necessary to verify program eligibility.

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• Federal judge declined to certify nationwide class action on transgender medical records — On June 12, a federal judge in Maryland declined to certify a nationwide class action that would have barred the Justice Department from pressuring hospitals across the country to hand over medical records of transgender minors. Eleven families had sought the order after DOJ sent subpoenas to more than 20 major medical systems demanding records of patients who received gender-affirming care. However, the same judge had quashed DOJ's subpoena to Children's National Hospital in January, calling it a fishing expedition with no purpose other than to intimidate and harass. Courts in Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Colorado have thrown out similar subpoenas, and no reported federal decision has ruled in the government's favor on these demands.

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• Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel drops trespassing charges against Gaza protest student after media exposure — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel dismissed trespassing charges against Josiah Walker that stemmed from a May 2024 incident at a University of Michigan Gaza encampment raid. The lawsuit alleges the charges relied on a falsified trespassing report and that Nessel was encouraged to prosecute by U-M leadership with pro-Israel bias. Nessel also declined to file a resisting arrest charge after Walker was tackled and arrested at a September 2024 campus festival. The dismissal followed Guardian reporting exposing Nessel's connections to U-M leadership and defense attorney calls for a hearing into potential bias.
• University of Michigan student files federal lawsuit alleging surveillance, false prosecution, and constitutional violations tied to Gaza protest activities — Josiah Walker, a University of Michigan student and leader in Students Allied For Freedom and Equality, filed a federal lawsuit against the university and private investigators alleging a coordinated campaign of undercover surveillance, falsified police reports, illegal stalking, assault, property seizure, and malicious prosecution in 2024–2025. The suit claims the university hired dozens of undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian students, that police manipulated documents to obtain warrants for email and Google Drive access, and that Walker was falsely arrested and imprisoned on trespassing charges. Walker alleges violations of First Amendment free speech rights, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment privacy and due process protections, and seeks monetary and punitive damages.

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• Electronic Frontier Foundation documented Flock data searches targeting protest activity and abortion-related investigations. — EFF analysis of more than 12 million Flock searches logged by more than 3,900 agencies between December 2024 and October 2025 identified searches tied to February 2025 50501 protests, April 2025 Hands Off protests, and June and October 2025 No Kings protests. In Texas, law enforcement searched 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks as part of an abortion investigation with the search reason logged as "had an abortion, search for female." In California, cities including Mountain View and Santa Cruz discovered broader out-of-state and federal access than authorized and canceled contracts as a result.

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• ICE collected DNA from nearly 920,000 immigrants in 2025, most never convicted of crime — According to data from Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy and Technology, ICE collected DNA samples from approximately 920,000 immigrants in ICE custody during 2025, including samples from young children. These samples have become the largest single source of new genetic profiles added to the FBI's criminal database, despite the vast majority of people in ICE custody never having been convicted of a crime.

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• Trump Justice Department building largest voting database — The New York Times reported that Trump's Justice Department is quietly building the largest national voting database in the agency's history, which includes data from more than 30 states. Experts say efforts to collect information about individual voters, including their names and addresses, may be against the law, and have raised concerns about the data being used to revive debunked claims about the 2020 presidential election being stolen or to discredit future elections.

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• Trump administration reinstated ICE spyware contract with Paragon — ICE is set to gain access to spyware from the Tel Aviv-based company Paragon after the Trump administration reinstated its contract, which had been dropped by President Joe Biden. The spyware is designed to hack phones and both read and record private, encrypted messages. It has reportedly been used to target activists and journalists in Europe.