When the Winooski School District in Vermont raised the Somali flag to show support for its Somali students after President Trump publicly attacked Somali communities in Minnesota, the school was immediately flooded with racist slurs, threats, and calls saying ‘We’re coming for you.’ United Voices is documenting what happens when a school tries to stand with its students.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order designating CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as “foreign terrorist organizations” — a designation the federal government has not made. That same evening, he told Florida lawmakers to make it permanent law. CAIR called it unconstitutional and announced plans to sue.
Jewish leaders and Democrats are calling Florida’s proposed Shari’a ban hypocritical and unconstitutional. The bill’s sponsor and sole Democratic co-sponsor are both Jewish and pro-Israel. Critics say the bill, filed on the Oct 7 anniversary, amounts to collective punishment of Florida’s Muslim community.
Across Texas, Florida, and other states, anti-Muslim networks have been monitoring Muslim Student Association social media to track campus events — then showing up uninvited to harass students while they pray, film them without consent, and in one case burn a Quran. United Voices has written to more than 2,000 university leaders demanding immediate action to protect Muslim students.
The New York Post was forced to correct an article falsely claiming a Muslim civil rights organization funded the Zohran Mamdani mayoral campaign — the second time this year the Murdoch-owned outlet has had to walk back false anti-Muslim claims. United Voices is documenting the pattern and warning that there is a fine line between bigotry and defamation.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Florida Republicans are calling for stripping voucher funding from Islamic schools while defending billions in public money for Christian ones. AG Uthmeier calls it a national security threat. There are roughly 24 Islamic schools in a program serving 2,278 campuses.
A new wave of so-called ‘anti-Sharia’ bills introduced in Congress by Senators Tommy Tuberville and lawmakers including Randy Fine and Chip Roy are being exposed as unconstitutional legislation designed not to address any real legal threat, but to stoke fear of American Muslims for political gain. United Voices has sent a formal briefing memo to every member of Congress explaining exactly what Sharia is — and what these bills actually are.

United Voices: States Cannot Invent Their Own ‘Terror Lists’ to Target Civil Rights Groups
United Voices warns that states cannot create their own terrorist designations and says any accusation against a civil rights organization must proceed through lawful federal processes and due process protections.