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Growing grassroots boycotts and coordinated “blackout” actions in late 2025 specifically name a handful of major retailers — notably Target, Amazon and Home Depot — as companies activists say are supp...
Federal agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection/ICE detained two people at the Target in Richfield, Minnesota on January 8, an event captured on video and reported by multiple outlets . Multipl...
Corporate “donations” to Donald Trump’s campaigns or inaugural committee are often individual, PAC, or affiliate contributions rather than direct corporate gifts; reporting shows major national brands...
Several large retailers have publicly resisted or taken actions against aspects of President Trump’s agenda in 2025 — most visibly by joining lawsuits over his emergency tariffs (Costco among the larg...
Target has taken concrete actions that align it, at least financially and policy-wise, closer to the Trump administration: the company donated $1 million to President Trump’s 2025 inaugural committee ...
The 2025 boycott of Target was triggered mainly by the company’s January decision to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and to scale back related hiring and spending commitments ...
Videos and local reporting show federal agents detaining two people at the Richfield Target on Jan. 8–9, 2026, which prompted protests demanding Target bar ICE from its property without judicial warra...
Target’s corporate check to President Trump’s 2025 inaugural committee was unusually large and visible — $1 million — matching a $1 million contribution from Amazon and dwarfing Walmart’s $150,000 con...
Charlie Kirk made repeated, public anti‑LGBTQ remarks across speeches, podcasts and social posts—ranging from calling Pride and LGBTQ advocacy an “agenda” to using slurs, urging the burning of Pride f...
Target Corp did donate $1 million to President Trump’s 2025 Inaugural Committee, its first-known contribution to an inaugural committee, according to Federal Election Commission filings first reported...
Target’s 2025 DEI rollback sparked organized boycotts that coincided with measurable declines in foot traffic and sales and big losses in market value: Placer.ai and news reports show February–March s...
Public records and reporting show grocery and food‑industry political money comes mostly from PACs, executives and employees — not corporate treasuries — and OpenSecrets groups labeled “Food Stores” l...
Retail Thanksgiving costs overall are slightly lower in 2025 than in 2024 — the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) reports the classic 10‑person meal averaged $55.18, down about 5% from 2024 . How...
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has publicly framed the Richfield Target detentions as law-enforcement actions tied to an alleged assault on federal officers, while local elected officials, witnes...
and a smaller set of activist companies have pushed back against — sometimes mildly in public comments, sometimes in court, and sometimes by defending corporate policies such as — while many other fir...
Target’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in January 2025 triggered sustained consumer backlash that organizers turned into a nationwide boycott; the campaign coincided with ...
Major grocery chains do not, as corporate entities, directly give money to federal candidates; donations come from corporate PACs, executives and employees instead . OpenSecrets shows Food Stores PACs...
Charlie Kirk was a prominent conservative activist who consistently opposed LGBTQ rights in public remarks and policy advocacy, denouncing an “LGBTQ agenda,” opposing same‑sex marriage, and repeatedly...
Reporting from multiple outlets shows that ICE is carrying out large, visible enforcement deployments in U.S. cities that mix targeted arrests with aggressive street encounters that can look—and somet...
Charlie Kirk repeatedly framed LGBTQ+ movements and some educational content as threats to children — using language such as “grooming” and warning of a “slippery slope to normalizing pedophilia,” and...