by Paul Messersmith-Glavin | Aug 13, 2026 | Article, Economy and Inequality, Fascism, labor, Minneapolis, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, Reprint
This article was originally published by Truthout on Aug. 12, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
The U.S. government is attempting to use conspiracy charges to imprison organizers, just as it did in its war against the Black Panther Party, New Left, and other 1960s and ‘70s radicals through its counterintelligence program, COINTELPRO. Through this method, the Trump regime shares the goal of the Nixon administration of disrupting and attempting to destroy domestic opposition to its authoritarian agenda.
Two weeks after the September 2025 murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump issued the National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), entitled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” The memorandum created a category of “domestic terrorist” that, while lacking legal authority, broadly includes anyone who believes in things deemed as constituting “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.” NSPM-7 openly calls for “investigative” tactics designed to “disrupt” and “dismantle” political movements and organizations.
Following the recent use of conspiracy charges to successfully convict people in both the Prairieland case in Texas and the Spokane 3 case in Washington, 15 community members in the Twin Cities were indicted on June 16 for resisting the Trump administration’s December 2025 immigration crackdown dubbed “Operation Metro Surge.” According to the indictment, all defendants are identified as “members and associates of … Direct Action Minnesota (‘DAMN’),” which helped organize Minnesota’s resistance. That organization is now defunct in light of the arrests and revelations about government infiltration.
The primary charge against
by Chabeli Carrazana | Jul 25, 2026 | DACA, DREAMers, ICE, ICE agents, immigration, Minneapolis, News
It was a frigid January morning in Minneapolis. Alexa quietly stepped outside her apartment to heat her car for her baby, who was waiting inside in her crib. They immediately spotted her. At the edge of the complex, the doors of a van carrying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swung open. They sprinted toward her. She remembers the guns they held, and how the sight of them…
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by Max Nesterak | Jul 14, 2026 | Alex Pretti, CBP, ICE, Minneapolis, News, Operation Metro Surge, Renee Nicole Good
Minnesota prosecutors announced on Monday they obtained a trove of evidence from the federal government in the killings of two U.S. citizens — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — and the shooting of Venezuelan national Julio Sosa-Celis by federal immigration agents during Operation Metro Surge. The evidence includes body camera footage, officer statements and the Honda Pilot in which Good was killed…
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by Glen Stellmacher | Jul 1, 2026 | Anarchism, anarchists, anti-capitalism, Anti-Fascism, antifa, Criminalization, criminalization of dissent, criminalizing dissent, Dissent, FBI, Minneapolis, News Analysis, NSPM-7, Organizing, Policing, Prairieland, Protests, Repression, Resistance, Surveillance, Trump Administration
The FBI says that anti-capitalist graffiti can indicate a mobilization to violence and can be reported to the bureau, according to a counterterrorism report obtained by Prism through a public records request. The public safety awareness report, dated Jan. 30, states that “anarchist violent extremists,” dubbed AVEs by the FBI, “pose [a] persistent public safety threat.
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by Ibrahim Hirsi | Jul 1, 2026 | antifa, Criminalization, criminalization of dissent, criminalizing dissent, Dissent, Fascism, First Amendment, free speech, ICE, intimidation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, News, Prairieland, Protests, Repression, solidarity, Texas, Trump Administration
Minnesota activists and scholars are decrying the recent federal indictment of 15 people who took part in demonstrations against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities metro region earlier this year. The indictment accuses the protesters of surveilling federal agents, disrupting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations…
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by Ibrahim Hirsi | Jun 28, 2026 | Border Patrol, ICE, Immigrants, immigration, Minneapolis, Minnesota, News, Operation Metro Surge
Months after the Trump administration announced the end of Operation Metro Surge, Minnesota immigrants are still grappling with the impacts of the largest federal immigration crackdown in recent U.S. history. Lost jobs, shattered businesses, missed rent payments, mounting legal fees, family separations, emotional distress, and uncertainty about the future have become part of daily life for many in…
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