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Plurality of Swing-State Voters Backs Trump Impeachment for Attacks on Constitution: Poll
“This is an existential moment for our nation and our democracy," said one progressive campaigner. "We either have a Constitution, or we don’t."
Sep 25, 2025
A new poll has found that a plurality of voters in swing districts supports impeaching US President Donald Trump, with 45% saying that they would strongly support removing him from office.
The poll, which was conducted by Lake Research Partners on behalf of progressive advocacy organization Free Speech for People, found that 49% of voters across 17 swing congressional districts supported impeaching Trump, with 44% of voters in those districts opposed.
The intensity of support for impeaching Trump was also notable, as the 45% who strongly supported removing him from office was higher than the total number of people who opposed removing him.
The poll also showed that Trump is broadly unpopular, with just 40% of voters in swing districts approving of the job he's doing and 56% expressing opposition. Fifty-four percent of respondents in these districts said they strongly opposed Trump—nearly 20 points higher than the 35% of respondents who said they strongly supported him.
John Bonifaz, president and co-counder of Free Speech For People, said that the poll results showed that many Americans understand the grave danger posed by the president to democracy and the rule of law.
“This is an existential moment for our nation and our democracy. We either have a Constitution, or we don't," he said. “Donald Trump has already engaged in multiple abuses of power. We demand that our elected officials in Congress carry out the mandate of their oath to protect the Constitution at this critical time by standing up and demanding impeachment proceedings against this lawless president."
Free Speech for People has been keeping a running tally of what it says are impeachable actions by the president, including deploying the National Guard to carry out law enforcement functions in two American cities; firing a federal prosecutor who said that there was insufficient evidence to support criminal charges against three of the president's political opponents; encouraging Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr to threaten media companies with the loss of their broadcast licenses; and his use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to "violate the rights of American residents and citizens, disrupt our communities, and silence his political opponents."
Courtney Hostetler, legal director at Free Speech For People, said that all of these actions show "Trump is actively dismantling the public institutions and constitutional protections that safeguard our democracy," and added that the president's "assault on the Constitution and the rule of law are purposeful, and they are impeachable."
Free Speech for People said Wednesday that at least one million people have signed a petition the group helped organize, demanding Trump's impeachment for "his high crimes against the state."
Trump was impeached twice in his first presidential term, once for asking the president of Ukraine to investigate his political opponent and once for inciting the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
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White House to Vet Smithsonian Exhibits to Ensure They 'Align With Trump's Interpretation' of US History'
Smithsonian exhibits should be "accurate, patriotic, and enlightening—ensuring they remain places of learning, wonder, and national pride for generations to come," the White House demanded.
Aug 12, 2025
The Wall Street Journal reports on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's White House is keeping an eye on the Smithsonian Museum to ensure that its exhibits on display for the United States' 250th anniversary "align with" the president's personal "interpretation of American history."
According to the Journal, the administration this week sent a letter to the Smithsonian announcing it was seeking what the paper describes as a "far-reaching review" of its "museum exhibitions, materials and operations" that will include everything from "public-facing exhibition text and online content to internal curatorial processes, exhibition planning, the use of collections and artist grants."
The goal of the review is to ensure the materials comply with an executive order Trump signed earlier this year that called for "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History."
The letter obtained by the Journal was signed by White House senior associate Lindsey Halligan, and it instructed the museum that its exhibits should be "accurate, patriotic, and enlightening—ensuring they remain places of learning, wonder, and national pride for generations to come."
In his original executive order, Trump accused the Smithsonian of having "come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology” that promotes “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive," and he demanded a stop to the promotion of this "improper ideology."
Earlier this month, it was reported that the Smithsonian removed references to Trump's two impeachments from its exhibit on the history of presidential impeachments in the United States. The museum returned references to Trump's impeachments last week but removed mentions of the president making "repeated 'false statements' challenging the 2020 election results" that led to "imminent lawless action at the Capitol" by his supporters on January 6, 2021.
Instead, the label on Trump's second impeachment now reads as follows: "On January 13, 2021, Donald Trump became the first president to be impeached twice. The charge was incitement of insurrection based on his challenge of the 2020 election results and on his speech on January 6. Because Trump's term ended on January 20, he became the first former president tried by the Senate. He was acquitted on February 13, 2021."
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Smithsonian Erased Trump From Impeachment Display Following 'Content Review' By White House
"'Orwellian' is a much-overused phrase," wrote one commentator, "But forcing the Smithsonian to erase the fact of Trump's impeachments is right out of 1984."
Aug 01, 2025
Caving to pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History removed references to President Donald Trump from a display on the history of presidential impeachment.
Trump is the only president in United States history to have been impeached twice—once in 2019 after he pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate his political rivals, and again in 2021 for inciting the January 6 insurrection.
But according to a Thursday report from The Washington Post, the museum removed any acknowledgment of these facts from the exhibit in July.
The Post reported:
A person familiar with the exhibit plans, who was not authorized to discuss them publicly, said the change came about as part of a content review that the Smithsonian agreed to undertake following pressure from the White House to remove an art museum director.
Prior to the change, the museum had added a temporary label acknowledging Trump's impeachments, which was added in September 2021.
But the current exhibit states that "only three presidents have seriously faced removal"—those being former Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, who were formally impeached, and Richard Nixon, who was not impeached, but likely would have been had he not resigned amid the Watergate scandal.
The exhibit's online collection likewise almost entirely omits Trump. According to The Post:
The online companion for the display briefly mentions Trump's impeachments, but does not provide any further information about the cases. And a search of the history museum's collection for "impeachment" yields 125 results for Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton—and a single "Impeach Trump" button from a 2017 environmental protest.
The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to shape institutions like the Smithsonian to flatter the president's preferred telling of American history.
In March, Trump signed an executive order forbidding the Smithsonian from hosting exhibits that "degrade shared American values, divide Americans based on race, or promote programs or ideologies inconstant with federal law and policy."
It specifically singled out exhibits containing "narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive" including at the American Art Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It also targeted any exhibits at the Museum of Women's History that acknowledge the achievements of transgender women.
Following The Post's embarrassing report, the Smithsonian reversed course and released a statement clarifying that "a future and updated exhibit will include all impeachments." It did not specify when that exhibit would be unveiled, or what it would include.
However, the museum is still facing widespread condemnation for caving to the pressure campaign in the first place.
Kavian Shroff, a political commentator and the senior advisor to the Institute for Education, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, said the Smithsonian was "erasing history to appease an authoritarian."
"Another institution caves," he added, referencing other actions by media organizations, universities, and government bodies to avoid confrontation with Trump.
"'Orwellian' is a much-overused phrase," said author and Politico magazine commentator Jeff Greenfield. "But forcing the Smithsonian to erase the fact of Trump's impeachments is right out of 1984. Did they drop that stuff down the memory hole?"
Even Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), jumped in to reaffirm the continued existence of consensus reality.
"Trump can pretend it didn't happen all he wants, but the facts don't lie—he was impeached twice," Pocan said. "I know. I was there."
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