Writers for Democratic Action MN
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Writers For Democratic Action stands for democracy and freedom for all. The domestic threats are obvious. The peril, especially to those most vulnerable, is everywhere. Now more than ever, writers resist.
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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
Stacey Abrams built a great coalition of groups to stop fascism. Join here: 10stepscampaign.org
10 Steps to Freedom & Power
Democracy is Under Attack. Learn the Playbook. Join the Fight. Defend Our Freedom.
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January 22, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Stacey Abrams built a great coalition of groups to stop fascism. Join here: 10stepscampaign.org
It makes you weep. www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
www.startribune.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:24 AM
It makes you weep. www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
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Parent and community patrols in Minnesota is what we've come to. Ordinary citizens doing what politicians and law enforcement should be doing. Protecting and serving.
#goodnews #noice #iceout
#goodnews #noice #iceout
'We protect our kids': Parents and neighbors guard streets around Minneapolis schools amid ICE fears
Makeshift groups of parents are using walkie-talkies, Signal group chats and whistles to alert the community to ICE’s presence near schools in the city.
www.nbcnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
January 21, 2026 at 11:57 PM
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
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What a hypocrite! Rep. Luna cosponsored a resolution to drop charges against Julian Assange under the Espionage Act because journalists have a right to publish classified documents.
Now she wants DOJ to charge journalist Seth Harp under the act for posting a public official's name.
Now she wants DOJ to charge journalist Seth Harp under the act for posting a public official's name.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s astounding First Amendment hypocrisy | Column
In related news: The Espionage Act needs reforming.
www.tampabay.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:08 PM
What a hypocrite! Rep. Luna cosponsored a resolution to drop charges against Julian Assange under the Espionage Act because journalists have a right to publish classified documents.
Now she wants DOJ to charge journalist Seth Harp under the act for posting a public official's name.
Now she wants DOJ to charge journalist Seth Harp under the act for posting a public official's name.
It's time to join the resistance to ICE. Here's an example of cruelty. Of course they do worse things like today's arrest of a 5 year old and a 10 year old child and sending them to a Texas detention facility.
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 2:14 AM
It's time to join the resistance to ICE. Here's an example of cruelty. Of course they do worse things like today's arrest of a 5 year old and a 10 year old child and sending them to a Texas detention facility.
"The Geneva Convention requires that the wounded and sick — friend or enemy — be collected and cared for once they are hors de combat. Even war has rules about mercy. Renee Good was not at war."
www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/colu...
www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/colu...
Local View: Instinct to honor life also a victim in ICE shooting
From the column: "Even war has rules about mercy. Renee Good was not at war."
www.duluthnewstribune.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:03 AM
"The Geneva Convention requires that the wounded and sick — friend or enemy — be collected and cared for once they are hors de combat. Even war has rules about mercy. Renee Good was not at war."
www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/colu...
www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/colu...
ICE conduct continues to get worse. Now, what was Bovine saying they only arrest rapists, domestic abusers, and "the worst of the worst"? bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
ICE detains 4 Columbia Heights students, including 5- and 10-year-olds sent to Texas
Columbia Heights Public Schools leaders addressed the ICE surge into the district, saying the community is "shattered."
bringmethenews.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:48 AM
ICE conduct continues to get worse. Now, what was Bovine saying they only arrest rapists, domestic abusers, and "the worst of the worst"? bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
Clearly, the US has a problem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Trump’s claim of forthcoming deal with Nato over Greenland is ‘not real’, Danish lawmakers say – live
One Greenlandic member of Denmark’s parliament said the military alliance has no mandate to negotiate anything about the Arctic island’s sovereignty or mineral rights
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Clearly, the US has a problem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Not only Minneapolis! Many communities in Minnesota support our immigrant neighbors. We are organized.
Businesses are posting signs on their doors telling ICE to keep out. Observers are visible outside of restaurants, stores and schools. "Upstander" trainings are reaching capacity — and so are neighborhood signal chats.
In the Twin Cities, the resistance is everywhere.
In the Twin Cities, the resistance is everywhere.
In the Twin Cities, ICE resistance goes mainstream • Minnesota Reformer
The week before an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis, her 67-year-old neighbor Terri Sullivan heard that a school in nearby Richfield that serves mostly Latino students needed ...
minnesotareformer.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Not only Minneapolis! Many communities in Minnesota support our immigrant neighbors. We are organized.
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Commentary: Our city is under siege...one youth in our congregation, the child of an immigrant, texted his grandmother in the middle of the night: “I’m scared. Every day I live in fear...If you’re awake please call me.” minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/21/i...
ICE out: A church stands with immigrant congregants, neighbors • Minnesota Reformer
From the epicenter of this occupation, we send out the children’s plea: Please. Make the people who are hurting people disappear.
minnesotareformer.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Commentary: Our city is under siege...one youth in our congregation, the child of an immigrant, texted his grandmother in the middle of the night: “I’m scared. Every day I live in fear...If you’re awake please call me.” minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/21/i...
they have misjudged the ground beneath their feet: a state full of ordinary people — real estate agents, high school students, solar energy consultants — who’ve decided that watching their neighbors being dragged away is an intolerable sin." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:21 PM
they have misjudged the ground beneath their feet: a state full of ordinary people — real estate agents, high school students, solar energy consultants — who’ve decided that watching their neighbors being dragged away is an intolerable sin." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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Inside the detention center, Gibson said officers put him in a bare, metal holding cell about the size of a small conference room with around 40 other detainees. Their legs were shackled. Gibson said one person in the cell appeared to have scabies.
Minneapolis man says ICE agents took 'trophy' photos, locked him in overcrowded cell
Garrison Gibson, a Minneapolis man from Liberia, shared details of his experience with federal immigration enforcement this week at a press conference Saturday.
www.mprnews.org
January 18, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Inside the detention center, Gibson said officers put him in a bare, metal holding cell about the size of a small conference room with around 40 other detainees. Their legs were shackled. Gibson said one person in the cell appeared to have scabies.
Victor Manuel Diaz was detained in Minnesota and died Jan 1 in ICE detention in Montana.
A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention.
My story:
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My story:
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January 18, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Victor Manuel Diaz was detained in Minnesota and died Jan 1 in ICE detention in Montana.
Another US citizen of Minnesota brutalized by ICE.
Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...
St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention
Nasra Ahmed, 23, said she was taken to the hospital for an MRI with hands and legs shackled
www.twincities.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Another US citizen of Minnesota brutalized by ICE.
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In a joint statement, leaders of eight countries said they stand in "full solidarity" with Denmark and Greenland. Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen added: "Europe will not be blackmailed." n.pr/3LjGhfC
European leaders warn Trump's Greenland tariffs threaten 'dangerous downward spiral'
In a joint statement, leaders of eight countries said they stand in "full solidarity" with Denmark and Greenland. Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen added: "Europe will not be blackmailed."
n.pr
January 18, 2026 at 8:07 PM
In a joint statement, leaders of eight countries said they stand in "full solidarity" with Denmark and Greenland. Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen added: "Europe will not be blackmailed." n.pr/3LjGhfC
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ICE and other federal agencies are exploiting legal uncertainty to buy our personal information from data brokers without a warrant.
Congress must act now and protect our right to privacy.
Congress must act now and protect our right to privacy.
DHS is Circumventing Constitution by Buying Data It Would Normally Need a Warrant to Access | ACLU
Self-serving legal justification for data purchases is among documents obtained via FOIA
www.aclu.org
January 18, 2026 at 7:41 PM
ICE and other federal agencies are exploiting legal uncertainty to buy our personal information from data brokers without a warrant.
Congress must act now and protect our right to privacy.
Congress must act now and protect our right to privacy.
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Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/v...
Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week • Minnesota Reformer
Two videos add new details to what happened before and after an immigration agent shot a man in the leg in the Hawthorne neighborhood in north Minneapolis Wednesday night. One video, a livestream of a...
minnesotareformer.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/v...
Now this is just cruelty. www.startribune.com/ice-agents-e...
ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then detain workers
“Would your mama be proud of you right now?” a bystander said as agents returned at closing time to nab the workers.
www.startribune.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Now this is just cruelty. www.startribune.com/ice-agents-e...
"Fear is no match for common purpose." --Aaron J. Brown
Oppression, violence, death and competing narratives are not new to Minnesota. It's happened before - up north - and the past can show us a way forward.
Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear
As Minnesotans from metro to meadow spar over immigration enforcement, we can look to history for a lesson: A 1916 miners’ strike showed the depths of division a community can sink to — and yet recove...
www.startribune.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:44 PM
"Fear is no match for common purpose." --Aaron J. Brown
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Thank you, Minnesota
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Thank you, Minnesota
There is no greater obligation for an American than loyalty to the Constitution of the United States.
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January 18, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Thank you, Minnesota
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Support your local bookstores! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Twin Cities Bookstores Contend With ICE
As ICE agents descend on their cities, several Minneapolis and St. Paul booksellers are reporting decreased foot traffic and sales at their stores amid an atmosphere of fear—and defiance.
www.publishersweekly.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Support your local bookstores! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
If you want to help Minnesotans dealing with ICE's Metro Surge which has caused so much trauma, here is a list of worthy programs: www.standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:20 PM
If you want to help Minnesotans dealing with ICE's Metro Surge which has caused so much trauma, here is a list of worthy programs: www.standwithminnesota.com