AMHERST -- Brookline, Massachusetts recently became the 10th community around the country and the fifth in Massachusetts to formally urge Congress to impeach President Donald J. Trump, according to a report by Politico this week.

On Monday, the politics website published a story about the growing number of cities and towns engaging in such efforts. The report mentioned votes in Amherst, Pelham, Leverett, Cambridge, as well as the recent vote in Brookline.

Newsweek followed suit on Tuesday, reporting: "Last Thursday Brookline, Massachusetts, became the latest in a list of nearly a dozen American cities demanding the country's top lawmakers examine whether the president is breaking government rules barring public officials from enriching themselves with foreign money."

An opinion piece published by FOX News, meanwhile, argued that any accounts of the move to impeach the president are nothing more than clickbait.

"The news media's anti-Trump fixation has blossomed into a business model for a struggling industry. The more outlandish the headline, the more people click on it and the more ad revenue it generates," columnist Dan Gainor wrote in a post published Tuesday.

The Politico article mentions that the effort was initially organized by Free Speech for the People, which the site described as a "small but noisy liberal group in Amherst." Local attorney John Bonifaz, a co-founder of the group,

According to Politico, communities in California have taken the measure on, while Chicago's city council drafted a resolution that elicited 31 sponsors. The Chicago resolution was referred to the council's rules committee.

Despite the urging from several Massachusetts communities, none of the state's congressional representatives in the House have brought the measure to initiate impeachment proceedings.

As of Wednesday, 1,129,352 people had signed online petition calling for impeachment.

Bonifaz has been leading the campaign to impeach Trump for allegedly violating the U.S. Constitution's foreign and domestic emoluments clause and other federal laws.

The emoluments clause in Article I of the Constitution states: "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."

The firing of James Comey this month has exacerbated concerns, Bonifaz said, and more people have joined the call to impeach.