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When President Donald Trump told reporters on Sept. 5 he’d started looking at sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, he said it was because of something he saw on television.

He said the city was being destroyed by paid agitators. “What they’ve done to that place, it’s like living in hell,” he said, a comment that became an internet meme as some Portland residents juxtaposed it with tranquil images of the city.

Trump didn’t say which channel he watched; he said at one point he saw something “today” and at another “last night.”

The evening before, on Sept. 4, Fox News aired a two-and-a-half-minute segment spotlighting protests outside a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Portland. Similar footage aired the morning of Trump’s remarks. The president went on to announce Sept. 27 on Truth Social that he would send troops, saying that he was “authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”

He later said he’d told Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek, that “unless they’re playing false tapes, this looked like World War II. Your place is burning down.”

ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed more than 700 video clips posted to social media by protesters, counterprotesters and others in the three months preceding the Sept. 4 broadcast.

The review found that the news network repeatedly provided a misleading picture of what was happening in Portland.

As The Guardian and The Oregonian/OregonLive have reported, Fox News on Sept. 4 used footage from the 2020 protests after the police killing of George Floyd and said it was from 2025. We found two clear cases from that night as well as one that seemed to match a scene filmed at a key site of the 2020 protests. Fox also mislabeled two other dates of actions shown on screen, and one broadcast implied that a protest from elsewhere was happening in Portland.

Fox News chyrons about Portland the week of Trump’s remarks carried phrases like “violent demonstrators,” “protesters riot,” “anti-I.C.E. Portland rioters” and “war-like protests.” One host said protesters were attacking federal officers.

This portrayal of protesters as routinely instigating violence or rioting was also misleading.

As ProPublica reported last week, most clashes between protesters and police before the Fox News segment did not result in any criminal charges or arrests alleging protesters committed violence. What’s more, based on news releases from federal and local authorities, charges and arrests for assault, arson or destruction of property were almost entirely confined to a period that ended the night of July 4.

Videos after that date captured numerous images of federal officers forcefully moving in on protesters without corresponding criminal charges alleging protester violence.

A spokesperson for Fox News did not respond to ProPublica’s requests for comment.

The Department of Homeland Security did not answer requests to comment on its officers’ tactics.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said of action on the ground in Portland: “This isn’t a peaceful protest that’s under control, like many on the left have claimed, it’s radical violence. President Trump is taking lawful action to protect federal law enforcement officers and address the out-of-control violence that local residents have complained about and Democrat leaders have failed to stop.”

Here’s how Fox News’ coverage of the Portland story was misleading.

Fox News Said It Was 2025. It Wasn’t.

Protests in 2020 in the wake of Floyd’s murder by a police officer attracted large, sometimes violent crowds to Portland — along with a federal law enforcement response authorized by Trump.

The protests outside the ICE facility have typically been far smaller. Still, Fox spliced footage from 2020 into its coverage this year and claimed it was from 2025.

The Fox News correspondent in the segment that aired the night Trump was watching TV said: “On this night in late June, police used tear gas.”

The accompanying image appears to be not from the ICE building but from the federal courthouse in downtown Portland, more than a mile away. A nearly identical scene was shown in a five years earlier. Footage that aired Sept. 4, shot at a slightly different angle, blurs out spots where graffiti was visible on the building in Fox’s July 2020 broadcast.

Almost immediately after showing the courthouse scene, the segment cuts to another image as the correspondent says, “federal police used tear gas and flashbangs.”

On screen at that moment is a U.S. Navy veteran who was pepper-sprayed and repeatedly struck with a baton. But it didn’t happen in September 2025. The video was posted on social media on July 18, 2020.

The Fox News segment about the ICE protests soon shows an American flag burning.

That image was posted on social media July 16, 2020.

The location: the base of a downtown Portland statue more than a mile away from the ICE building where protests are happening in 2025.

On the webpage for its Sept. 4 video segment, Fox News added an editor’s note at least two weeks later: “This video contains footage from protests in Portland in 2020 and 2025.”

“Still Going On”

After mislabeling 2020 events as 2025, Fox’s Sept. 4 evening broadcast explicitly drew a connection between the two periods.

“The protest chaos, which began with riots aimed at social justice in 2020, has severely damaged Portland’s reputation,” the correspondent said.

The dramatic footage at this moment shows fires in the street and was broadcast on Fox on Aug. 19, 2020, the day after a crowd smashed through windows and set items on fire in the headquarters for the government of Multnomah County, where Portland is located.

We don’t know for certain which broadcast got Trump thinking about Portland. The White House did not respond to questions about what Trump watched. But the president said on Sept. 5 that what he’d seen about Portland on TV was “unbelievable.”

“I didn’t know that was still going on,” he said. “This has been going on for years.”

The reality: Portland’s 2020 social justice protests, which resulted in hundreds of arrests and continued for months, turned sporadic by early 2021. Protests in years since have led to occasional property damage, but nothing in Portland has matched the scale of events that followed Floyd’s death.

Portland police Chief Bob Day said at a Sept. 29 press conference that the city had been inaccurately portrayed through the lens of the protests in 2020 and 2021.

“What’s actually happening, and the response we’re seeing both from Portlanders and from the Portland Police Bureau,” Day said, “is not in line with that national narrative. And it is frustrating.”

A Riot That Wasn’t

In a Sept. 2 segment featuring the video from a day earlier, anchor Bill Hemmer said it shows “riots raging.” Anchor Trace Gallagher teased another Sept. 2 news segment by once again showing the video, saying, “It’s a riot outside a Portland ICE facility.”

The Sept. 4 segment shows Julie Parrish, an attorney for a neighbor of the ICE facility, accusing Portland police of saying, “Meh, we’re just gonna let violent rioters do this for 80 straight nights.”

The physical behavior of protesters that was captured on the video is not violent. The camera instead shows federal agents advancing on them. In the moments before officers tossed munitions into the crowd, videos show, one protester was blowing bubbles. The Portland police did not declare a riot, a legal designation that allows for an elevated police use of force. (They declared a riot just once, a police spokesperson said, on June 14.)

The Sept. 1 protest had “little to no energy,” according to an internal Portland police summary, before federal officers dispersed the crowd to collect a prop guillotine that had been brought. Katie Daviscourt, a Trump-aligned commentator who filmed the clips, noted on X that protesters were having dance parties and that their main problems were “not leaving restricted areas, burning a flag, and possessing a deadly object (guillotine).”

ProPublica found a similar pattern for the three months before Fox’s Sept. 4 broadcast: clashes that on most days and nights had no criminal allegations of protester violence to explain them.

After dozens of arrests and charges were announced in June through July 4, federal prosecutors accused just three people of crimes at the ICE building in the roughly two months leading up to Fox’s Sept. 4 broadcast.

During that same two-month time frame, ProPublica’s review found numerous instances of police using force: videos from more than 20 days or nights with federal officers grabbing, shoving, pepper-spraying, tackling, firing on or using other munitions on protesters.

No local arrests or federal criminal charges were announced on these days or nights, and only a handful of dates corresponded with incidents of protester aggression later asserted by federal authorities in their legal case for sending troops.

Asked whether Fox News accurately represented her footage, Daviscourt said: “I stand by my four months of accurate reporting.”

Parrish told ProPublica she had collected evidence that “shows ongoing and persistent activity” outside the facility that under statute and police directive “would be considered riotous, unlawful assembly and/or disorderly conduct.” She declined to share this evidence, saying it was privileged as part of her client’s file.

Her lawsuit on behalf of a neighbor living near the ICE facility, which sought to require police to enforce Portland’s noise ordinance, was dismissed.

The Reappearing Neighbor

A Sept. 5 “Fox & Friends” segment showed a neighbor from an apartment building confronting protesters over noise, shouting at protesters: “Turn that (bleep) down, it’s midnight! … We the people need sleep!”

Fox said it happened Tuesday, which would have been Sept. 2. Co-host Ainsley Earhardt said, “This has been going on for months now, but a lot of this since Labor Day,” as the video shown on screen sandwiches footage of the neighbor between other scenes from the Labor Day protest.

“This is a chaotic city,” co-host Brian Kilmeade said.

The next day, the clip of the neighbor appeared again on Fox News. This time, the network said the footage was from Wednesday, or Sept. 3.

In reality, the confrontation was captured on video months before. Daviscourt published the video on June 29 on X.

On the two September nights that Fox said the neighbor’s confrontation happened, ProPublica’s review found no videos of violent clashes posted on social media, and federal authorities announced no arrests.

For example, according to a Portland police email from 11:22 p.m. on Sept. 3: “There are still about 20 people hanging around but only 4 were even on the sidewalk in front of the building.”

Misrepresentations Continue After Trump’s Guard Order

On Sept. 28, the day Trump’s order was implemented, a Fox News broadcast played a clip of Kotek saying that Guard troops were not needed in Portland, then immediately cut to a clip of a hectic scene of protesters clashing with police.

“Wish she could see some of those images,” the anchor said. Sarcastically, as a co-anchor chuckled, she added: “Look at that. Just a peaceful protest.”

A small box on the screen showed the footage wasn’t from Oregon.

It was from Illinois.

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Aggression: Under President Donald Trump’s deportation mission, ICE officers are using force to detain and jail immigrants.

Impunity: The administration gutted guardrails and offices meant to rein in abusive actions.

Disappeared: Some families say they have no idea where their loved ones were jailed after immigration raids.

*These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.

Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves. There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents or imposters. In six of the calls to Santa Ana police, residents described what they were seeing as kidnappings.

“He’s bleeding,” one caller said about a person he saw yanked from a car wash lot and beaten. “They dumped him into a white van. It doesn’t say ICE.”

One woman’s voice shook as she asked, “What kind of police go around without license plates?”

And then this from another: “Should we just run from them?”

During a tense public meeting days later, Mayor Valerie Amezcua and the City Council asked their police chief whether there was anything they could do to rein in the federal agents — even if only to ban the use of masks. The answer was a resounding no. Plus, filing complaints with the Department of Homeland Security was likely to go nowhere because the office that once handled them had been dismantled. There was little chance of holding individual agents accountable for alleged abuses because, among other hurdles, there was no way to reliably learn their identities.

Since then, Amezcua, 58, said she has reluctantly accepted the reality: There are virtually no limits on what federal agents can do to achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of mass deportations. Santa Ana has proven to be a template for much larger raids and even more violent arrests in Chicago and elsewhere. “It’s almost like he tries it out in this county and says, ‘It worked there, so now let me send them there,’” Amezcua said.

Current and former national security officials share the mayor’s concerns. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force. The transformation, the officials say, unfolded rapidly and in plain sight. Trump’s DHS appointees swiftly dismantled civil rights guardrails, encouraged agents to wear masks, threatened groups and state governments that stood in their way, and then made so many arrests that the influx overwhelmed lawyers trying to defend immigrants taken out of state or out of the country.

And although they are reluctant to predict the future, the current and former officials worry that this force assembled from federal agents across the country could eventually be turned against any groups the administration labels a threat.

One former senior DHS official who was involved in oversight said that what is happening on American streets today “gives me goosebumps.”

Speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, the official rattled off scenes that once would’ve triggered investigations: “Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they’re showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can’t access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there’s a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.”

The former official paused. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”

Although ICE is conducting itself out in the open, even inviting conservative social media influencers to accompany its agents on high-profile raids, the agency operates in darkness. The identities of DHS officers, their salaries and their operations have long been withheld for security reasons and generally exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. However, there were offices within DHS created to hold agents and their supervisors accountable for their actions on the job. The Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, created by Congress and led largely by lawyers, investigated allegations of rape and unlawful searches from both the public and within DHS ranks, for instance. Egregious conduct was referred to the Justice Department.

The CRCL office had limited powers; former staffers say their job was to protect DHS by ensuring personnel followed the law and addressed civil rights concerns. Still, it was effective in stalling rushed deportations or ensuring detainees had access to phones and lawyers. And even when its investigations didn’t fix problems, CRCL provided an accounting of allegations and a measure of transparency for Congress and the public.

The office processed thousands of complaints — 3,000 in fiscal year 2023 alone — ranging from allegations of lack of access to medical treatment to reports of sexual assault at detention centers. Former staffers said around 600 complaints were open when work was suspended.

The administration has gutted most of the office. What’s left of it was led, at least for a while, by a 29-year-old White House appointee who helped craft Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint that broadly calls for the curtailment of civil rights enforcement.

Meanwhile, ICE is enjoying a windfall in resources. On top of its annual operating budget of $10 billion a year, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill included an added $7.5 billion a year for the next four years for recruiting and retention alone. As part of its hiring blitz, the agency has dropped age, training and education standards and has offered recruits signing bonuses as high as $50,000.

“Supercharging this law enforcement agency and at the same time you have oversight being eliminated?” said the former DHS official. “This is very scary.”

Michelle Brané, a longtime human rights attorney who directed DHS’ ombudsman office during the Biden administration, said Trump’s adherence to “the authoritarian playbook is not even subtle.”

“ICE, their secret police, is their tool,” Brané said. “Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.”

Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS assistant secretary for public affairs, refuted descriptions of ICE as a secret police force. She called such comparisons the kind of “smears and demonization” that led to the recent attack on an ICE facility in Texas, in which a gunman targeted an ICE transport van and shot three detained migrants, two of them fatally, before killing himself.

In a written response to ProPublica, McLaughlin dismissed the current and former national security officials and scholars interviewed by ProPublica as “far-left champagne socialists” who haven’t seen ICE enforcement up close.

“If they had,” she wrote, “they would know when our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs” and other criminals.

McLaughlin said the recruiting blitz is not compromising standards. She wrote that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is ready for 11,000 new hires by the beginning of next year and that training has been streamlined and boosted by technology. “Our workforce never stops learning,” McLaughlin wrote.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson also praised ICE conduct and accused Democrats of making “dangerous, untrue smears.”

“ICE officers act heroically to enforce the law, arrest criminal illegal aliens and protect American communities with the utmost professionalism,” Jackson said. “Anyone pointing the finger at law enforcement officers instead of the criminals are simply doing the bidding of criminal illegal aliens and fueling false narratives that lead to violence.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the Trump pick who fired nearly the entire civil rights oversight staff, said the move was in response to CRCL functioning “as internal adversaries that slow down operations,” according to a DHS spokesperson.

Trump also eliminated the department’s Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, which was charged with flagging inhumane conditions at ICE detention facilities where many of the apprehended immigrants are held. The office was resurrected after a lawsuit and court order, though it’s sparsely staffed.

The hobbling of the office comes as the White House embarks on an aggressive expansion of detention sites with an eye toward repurposing old jails or building new ones with names that telegraph harsh conditions: “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades, built by the state and operated in partnership with DHS, or the “Cornhusker Clink” in Nebraska.

“It is a shocking situation to be in that I don’t think anybody anticipated a year ago,” said Erica Frantz, a political scientist at Michigan State University who studies authoritarianism. “We might’ve thought that we were going to see a slide, but I don’t think anybody anticipated how quickly it would transpire, and now people at all levels are scrambling to figure out how to push back.”

“Authoritarian Playbook”

Frantz and other scholars who study anti-democratic political systems in other countries said there are numerous examples in which ICE’s activities appear cut from an authoritarian playbook. Among them was the detention of Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was apprehended after co-writing an op-ed for the campus paper that criticized the school’s response to the war in Gaza. ICE held her incommunicado for 24 hours and then shuffled her through three states before jailing her in Louisiana.

“The thing that got me into the topic of ‘maybe ICE is a secret police force’?” said Lee Morgenbesser, an Australian political science professor who studies authoritarianism. “It was that daylight snatching of the Tufts student.”

Morgenbesser was also struck by the high-profile instances of ICE detaining elected officials who attempted to stand in their way. Among them, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander was detained for demanding a judicial warrant from ICE, and U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a DHS press conference.

And David Sklansky, a Stanford Law School professor who researches policing and democracy, said it appears that ICE’s agents are allowed to operate with complete anonymity. “It’s not just that people can’t see faces of the officers,” Sklansky said. “The officers aren’t wearing shoulder insignia or name tags.”

U.S. District Judge William G. Young, a Ronald Reagan appointee, recently pointed out that use of masked law enforcement officers had long been considered anathema to American ideals. In a blistering ruling against the administration’s arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters, he wrote, “To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” The Trump administration has said it will appeal that ruling.

Where the Fallout is Felt

The fallout is being felt in places like Hays County, Texas, not far from Austin, where ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine children, during a birthday celebration in the early morning of April 1.

The agency’s only disclosure about the raid in Dripping Springs describes the operation as part of a yearlong investigation targeting “members and associates believed to be part of the Venezuelan transnational gang, Tren de Aragua.”

Six months later, the county’s top elected official told ProPublica the federal government has ignored his attempts to get answers.

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them,” said County Judge Ruben Becerra, a Democrat. “By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

In the raid, a Texas trooper secured a search warrant that allowed law enforcement officers to breach the home, an Airbnb rental on a vast stretch of land in the Hill Country. Becerra told ProPublica he believes the suspicion of drugs at the party was a pretense to pull people out of the house so ICE officers who lacked a warrant could take them into custody. The Texas Department of Public Safety did not respond to a request for comment.

The Trump administration has yet to produce evidence supporting claims of gang involvement, said Karen Muñoz, a civil rights attorney helping families track down their relatives who were jailed or deported. While some court documents are sealed, nothing in the public record verifies the gang affiliation DHS cited as the cause for the birthday party raid.

“There’s no evidence released at all that any person kidnapped at that party was a member of any organized criminal group,” Muñoz said.

McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson, did not respond to questions about Hays County and other raids where families and attorneys allege a lack of transparency and due process.

In Plain Sight

Months after ICE’s widely publicized raids, fear continues to envelop Santa Ana, a majority-Hispanic city with a large immigrant population. Amezcua, the mayor, said the raids have complicated local policing and rendered parents afraid to pick up their children from school. The city manager, a California-born citizen and Latino, carries with him three government IDs, including a passport.

Raids of car washes and apartment buildings continue, but the community has started to “push back,” Amezcua said. “Like many other communities, the neighbors come out. People stop in the middle of traffic.”

With so few institutional checks on ICE’s powers, citizens are increasingly relying on themselves. On at least one occasion in nearby Downey, a citizen’s intervention had some effect.

On June 12, Melyssa Rivas had just started her workday when a colleague burst into her office with urgent news: “ICE is here.”

The commotion was around the corner in Rivas’ hometown, a Los Angeles suburb locals call “Mexican Beverly Hills” for its stately houses and affluent Hispanic families. Rivas, 31, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, belongs to Facebook groups where residents share updates about cultural festivals, church programs and, these days, the presence of Trump’s deportation foot soldiers.

Rivas had seen posts about ICE officers sweeping through LA and figured Downey’s turn had come. She and her co-worker rushed toward the sound of screaming at a nearby intersection. Rivas hit “record” on her phone as a semicircle of trucks and vans came into view. She filmed at least half a dozen masked men in camouflage vests encircling a Hispanic man on his knees.

Her unease deepened as she registered details that “didn’t seem right,” Rivas recalled in an interview. She said the parked vans had out-of-state plates or no tags. The armed men wore only generic “police” patches, and most were in street clothes. No visible insignia identified them as state or federal — or even legal authorities at all.

“When is it that we just decided to do things a different way? There’s due process, there’s a legal way, and it just doesn’t seem to matter anymore,” Rivas said. “Where are human rights?”

Video footage shows Rivas and others berating the officers for complicity in what they called a “kidnapping.” Local news channels later reported that the vehicles had chased the man after a raid at a nearby car wash.

“I know half of you guys know this is fucked up,” Rivas was recorded telling the officers.

Moments later, the scene took a turn. As suddenly as they’d arrived, the officers returned to their vehicles and left, with no apology and no explanation to the distraught man they left on the sidewalk.

Through a mask, one of them said, “Have a good day.”

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The federal government shutdown is curtailing even some of the Trump administration’s more theatrical communications, even as its confrontational style persists.

With the government shutdown underway, large portions of the White House press apparatus have been furloughed, forcing delays or suspensions in routine operations.

One outcome of this development is that media requests directed to the press office now trigger an automated response warning of slower turnaround times, The Daily Beast reportedThursday.

“Due to staff shortages resulting from the Democrat Shutdown, the typical 24/7 monitoring of this press inbox may experience delays. We ask for your patience as our staff work to field your requests promptly,” it states.

“As you await a response, please remember this could have been avoided if the Democrats voted for the clean Continuing Resolution to keep the government open. The press office also cannot accommodate waves, requests or escorts at this time," it adds.

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Efforts at online provocation, ranging from memes and insulting retorts to AI‑driven caricatures, have long been central to the administration’s communications strategy.

The report noted that there have been multiple instances in which the White House responded to media queries with meme images or taunts like “Cry more, libs.” In one widely noted case, a meme of a man with a bicycle attached to his head, captioned “dOeS ThE MeMe mAkE sEnSe????????,” was reportedly sent in response to a request for comment.

The press team has also used profanity when responding to perceived slight: at one point calling a reporter “f——ing blind or stupid," the report noted.

The shutdown has not entirely silenced such messaging. On Wednesday, a looping AI‑generated video played in the James S. Brady briefing room, showing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) wearing a sombrero and mustache while a deepfake audio attributed to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) claimed “nobody likes Democrats because of woke trans bulls——."

White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson told the Washington Post: “The sombreros will continue until the Democrats reopen the government!”

Observers view these tactics as part of a broader shift in the White House’s role, from traditional press office to an aggressive rapid‑response operation that deploys memes, social media content, and confrontational messaging to shape public discourse.

While the staff-less communications unit may delay internal functions, the administration appears to be maintaining its provocative posture in the public square.

During a confrontation on the House floor Tuesday, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) pressed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) about President Donald Trump’s sharing of an AI‑generated video, which some have termed racially offensive. Johnson responded, “It wasn’t my style.”

When Dean challenged him further — calling the video “disgraceful” and “racist” and urging him to denounce it — Johnson walked away, later telling her, “I’m working on it. And personally, it’s not my style.”

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Abigail Marone drops some knowledge on the nuttiness happening on college and university campuses today. What she and Campus Reform uncover is incredible. ww...Abigail Marone drops some knowledge on the nuttiness happening on college and university campuses today. What she and Campus Reform uncover is incredible. ww...

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Communications Associate

Americans for Tax ReformAmericans for Tax Reform

Aug 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mosAug 2017 to Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

Provide comment to publications and media programs, pitch and author op-eds/blog posts, update and maintain ATR's tax reform good news list, put together and pitch new sublist ideas, assemble target media lists, write press releases, attend media hits for Grover Norquist, prepare research briefs on policy topics of interest, photograph meetings and events, assist with weekly meetings and general office tasks.

Provide comment to publications and media programs, pitch and author op-eds/blog posts, update and maintain ATR's tax reform good news list, put together and pitch new sublist ideas, assemble target media lists, write press releases, attend media hits for Grover Norquist, prepare research briefs on policy topics of interest, photograph meetings and events, assist with weekly meetings and general office tasks.

OPINION: Small Business Is Soaring Thanks To Trump’s Tax CutsOPINION: Small Business Is Soaring Thanks To Trump’s Tax Cuts

Small businesses have experienced a boom thanks to the 2017 tax reform packageSmall businesses have experienced a boom thanks to the 2017 tax reform package

The Trump Economy Smashes ExpectationsThe Trump Economy Smashes Expectations

AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM’S ABIGAIL MARONE IN WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Trump’s Tax Cuts Jolt Manufacturing Jobs

“Since President Trump signed the tax cuts, manufacturing has been booming. At least 100 manufacturers have built new facilities, purchased new equipment, hired new employees, and invested in current employees through bonuses and benefit increases. Each has cited tax cuts as the reason for their actions.”

AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM’S ABIGAIL MARONE IN WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Trump’s Tax Cuts Jolt Manufacturing Jobs “Since President Trump signed the tax cuts, manufacturing has been booming. At least 100 manufacturers have built new facilities, purchased new equipment, hired new employees, and invested in current employees through bonuses and benefit increases. Each has cited tax cuts as the reason for their actions.”

Trump's tax cuts jolt manufacturing jobsTrump's tax cuts jolt manufacturing jobs

In 2016, President Barack Obama said then-candidate Donald Trump would need a magic wand to deliver on his promise to bring back manufacturing. Turns out, Trump didn’t need a magic wand — all he needed was tax reform.In 2016, President Barack Obama said then-candidate Donald Trump would need a magic wand to deliver on his promise to bring back manufacturing. Turns out, Trump didn’t need a magic wand — all he needed was tax reform.

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Director of Political Affairs

GW College RepublicansGW College Republicans

Aug 2016 - May 2018 · 1 yr 10 mosAug 2016 to May 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

Organize events to engage members in political campaigning (door knocking, phone banking, etc.), coordinated trip to Florida to GOTV for Senator Rubio’s reelection campaign, guide and direct political affairs committee of 7 members, arrange speaker events, assist CR Board board with additional administrative tasks.

Student speaks out about 'Christian privilege' seminarStudent speaks out about 'Christian privilege' seminar

George Washington University holds a seminar on combating 'Christian privilege' in America; student Abigail Marone shares her experience on 'The Ingraham Ang...George Washington University holds a seminar on combating 'Christian privilege' in America; student Abigail Marone shares her experience on 'The Ingraham Ang...

Op-ed slams Chaffetz speech at George Washington UniversityOp-ed slams Chaffetz speech at George Washington University

GWU student calls for an open dialogue on campus.GWU student calls for an open dialogue on campus.

I’m the white woman Hillary Clinton warned you aboutI’m the white woman Hillary Clinton warned you about

During the latest stop of Hillary Clinton’s sore loser tour, the failed candidate whined to a foreign audience that white women voted for Donald Trump because they felt pressure to do so from their husbands, bosses, and sons.During the latest stop of Hillary Clinton’s sore loser tour, the failed candidate whined to a foreign audience that white women voted for Donald Trump because they felt pressure to do so from their husbands, bosses, and sons.

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Communications Intern

The American Conservative UnionThe American Conservative Union

May 2017 - Aug 2017 · 4 mosMay 2017 to Aug 2017 · 4 mos

Draft press releases, write internal briefs on current event issue areas, draft social media content (Twitter, Facebook), assist with crafting coalition letters.

Press Intern

Senator Lankford's OfficeSenator Lankford's Office

Jan 2017 - Apr 2017 · 4 mosJan 2017 to Apr 2017 · 4 mos

Washington DC-Baltimore AreaWashington DC-Baltimore Area

Draft and pitch OP-EDs to relevant media outlets, assist with press releases, photograph meetings and events for social media, maintain and update press lists, assist with administrative tasks.

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Communications/Research Intern

Republican National CommitteeRepublican National Committee

Aug 2016 - Dec 2016 · 5 mosAug 2016 to Dec 2016 · 5 mos

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Curriculum Coordinator

Champion BriefsChampion Briefs

Jul 2016 - Aug 2016 · 2 mosJul 2016 to Aug 2016 · 2 mos

Engineered 2 week long camp curriculum, for over 100 students. Managed scheduling. Guided and inspired coaching staff by providing performance based feedback. Delegated teaching assignments to staff. Briefed students on current affairs via topic seminars. Worked with students to develop public speaking, communication, and argumentation skills.

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Sales Associate and Cashier

Flynn & O'Hara School UniformsFlynn & O'Hara School Uniforms

Jul 2013 - Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mosJul 2013 to Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Summer Job - Customer service, sized and fitted customers, listened and discussed uniform options with parents and children, cleaned store at closing, took phone orders

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Sales Associate and Cashier

The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc.The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc.

Mar 2015 - Jul 2015 · 5 mosMar 2015 to Jul 2015 · 5 mos

Easton, PennsylvaniaEaston, Pennsylvania

home department, mens department, accessories department,customer service, answered customers questions, cleaned store at closing, opened and closed register, prepared store for sales by changing signs

Team Member

USA DebateUSA Debate

Oct 2014 - Jun 2015 · 9 mosOct 2014 to Jun 2015 · 9 mos

one of twelve students selected to represent the United States at international debate tournaments, attended tournaments in Germany, New Orleans, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles, presented demo debate at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

VolunteeringVolunteering

Media Operations Shift Volunteer LeadMedia Operations Shift Volunteer Lead

58th Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC)58th Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC)Jan 2017 · 1 moJan 2017 · 1 moPoliticsPolitics

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THE HILL NOTABLE STAFFERS 2024: Abigail Jackson: Communications director, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)THE HILL NOTABLE STAFFERS 2024: Abigail Jackson: Communications director, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)

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And his communications director, Abigail Jackson, was a key part in getting the measure through.And his communications director, Abigail Jackson, was a key part in getting the measure through.

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Students Offended By 'Colonial' Mascot: Abigail Marone On Fox NewsStudents Offended By 'Colonial' Mascot: Abigail Marone On Fox News

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Christian Privilege Seminar: GW Student Abigail Marone Gives Her TakeChristian Privilege Seminar: GW Student Abigail Marone Gives Her Take

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Campus Reform Correspondent Abigail Marone recently attended the 'Christian Privilege' Seminar being offered at George Washington University in Washington, D...Campus Reform Correspondent Abigail Marone recently attended the 'Christian Privilege' Seminar being offered at George Washington University in Washington, D...

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Student speaks out about 'Christian privilege' seminarStudent speaks out about 'Christian privilege' seminar

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About Abigail

Abigail Marone is an accomplished communications professional with a strong background in political strategy and media relations. She currently serves as the Deputy Communications Director at the Republican National Committee (RNC), where she has been shaping the party’s messaging and communications efforts since March 2025. Abigail's political career began during her time at George Washington University, where she worked as a DC Correspondent for Campus Reform. After graduating in 2019, she joined the political communications world, serving as a press assistant at the RNC and later as a rapid response specialist for President Trump's re-election campaign. Her ability to craft timely and effective messaging helped amplify key campaign initiatives. Most recently, Abigail served as the Press Secretary for Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), where she worked on media relations, press outreach, and strategic messaging for the Senator’s office.

Media appearances

Fox & Friends

Stories by Abigail

Only women, transgenders are allowed in GW debate tournament

The George Washington University Parliamentary Debate Society will host an April tournament open only to women and …

Feb 17, 2019

Law prof doesn't buy Trump-Russia 'collusion' narrative. Here's why...

George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley took a multi-pronged approach to discrediting the Trump/Russ…

Feb 6, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: GWU Student Bar Association labels Christian org a 'hate group'

The GWU law school's Student Bar Association, as well as the law school dean, condemned ADF in emails.

Nov 19, 2018

Notre Dame prof agrees with Don Lemon: White men are 'biggest terror threat'

A University of Notre Dame professor tweeted that he agrees with CNN host Don Lemon that white men are the "biggest…

Nov 2, 2018

GWU progressive student group demands 'fair jobs'

The Progressive Student Union at George Washington University delivered a list of demands for "fair jobs" to the of…

Oct 17, 2018

Georgetown prof: White GOP senators in Kavanaugh hearing 'deserve miserable deaths'

Georgetown prof: White GOP senators in Kavanaugh hearing 'deserve miserable deaths'

The professor recently tweeted of GOP senators, "we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine."

Sep 30, 2018

Ga. prof on Trump SCOTUS nominee: 'A Right Wing creep obsessed with overturning Roe v. Wade'

The Georgia Southern professor did not elaborate further on his comment regarding Kavanaugh being "obsessed with ov…

Sep 27, 2018

Ole Miss prof: Trump's 'juicy booty' is 'proof that god is white'

University of Mississippi professor Kiese Laymon is very upset that President Donald Trump is "impulsive, greedy, […

Sep 22, 2018

Syracuse University opens $5 million social justice center

Syracuse University opens $5 million social justice center

None of the speakers for the center's launch have a background in conservative thought or activism.

Sep 13, 2018

Democratic socialists launch 'College for All' campaign

The Young Democratic Socialists of America plan to launch a “College for All” campaign on college campuses across t…

Sep 3, 2018

Leftist profs co-chair UVA commission on segregation

The University of Virginia has selected two professors known for social justice activism and anti-Trump comments to…

May 30, 2018

Student group bars white 'allies' from forum on arming police

One day after the proposal became public, a student group convened an emergency forum to discuss the matter, but li…

May 17, 2018

Students petition to eliminate ‘offensive’ Colonial mascot

The mascot was adopted in 1926 to honor the school's namesake, George Washington, and is intended as a reference to…

May 3, 2018

GW refuses to implement BDS resolution passed by secret vote

The president of George Washington University has flatly refused to take action on a resolution passed by student g…

Apr 26, 2018

Liberal groups refuse to join bipartisan event with conservatives

The GW College Dems declined to participate in a Bipartisan Discussion Summit after members expressed “hesitations”…

Apr 23, 2018

Pro-Palestine students hold sit-in after BDS vote cancelled

George Washington University students launched a sit-in Monday night to protest the cancellation of a student gover…

Apr 17, 2018

GW issues 'action plan' for diversity after Snapchat incident

Although an internal investigation absolved the students shown in the picture, GW plans to require diversity traini…

Apr 16, 2018

GW student gov takes another crack at BDS bill

George Washington University's Student Association will soon vote on a BDS resolution that calls on the school to d…

Apr 14, 2018

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Biographical

Full Name: Abigail Therese Jackson
Gender: Female
Birthday: Nov. 18
Alternate Name: Abigail Therese Marone

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Sen. Josh Hawley(R-Mo.) may not often be found at the center of bipartisan negotiations.

But this spring, he helped shepherd a major bipartisan achievement through, co-sponsoring a bill to reauthorize and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) that passed the Senate in a filibuster-proof 69-30 vote.

And his communications director, Abigail Jackson, was a key part in getting the measure through.

The 1990 law, which expired earlier this year, financially compensates Americans exposed to nuclear radiation by the federal government during World War II and its aftermath. Hawley’s bill, co-sponsored with Sens. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), would extend the law and expand its geographical coverage.

Jackson, who joined Hawley’s office as press secretary in 2021 before taking her current position in 2023, said there were a number of moving parts to messaging around the bill.

“The biggest hurdle we had to get over at the beginning was helping people understand what RECA was,” she said. “A lot of people on the Hill hadn’t even heard of this program or weren’t familiar with it. It wasn’t a phrase that was just thrown around and everyone immediately knew what it was.”

Also key to the communications side of things was centering the voices of people who would benefit from the bill, and would suffer from its expiration, from community activists in St. Louis to members of the Navajo Nation who live downwind of former test sites.

The role of a communications staffer, she said, is “about figuring out how to get them in front of the press and just to share their stories and creating opportunities for them to be able to talk about their experiences.”

There was also a bit of good timing, she added: the release last summer of Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning biopic “Oppenheimer,” which ensured that wartime nuclear testing was already part of the cultural conversation while they were whipping support for the bill.

“That provided us kind of a natural hook to talk about, hey, everyone’s talking about Oppenheimer, but what about all of these other people who are bearing the consequences of what you’ve learned about there?” Jackson said.

Tags Ben Ray Lujan Josh Hawley

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