by Sasha Abramsky | Jan 22, 2026 | Department of Homeland Security, DHS, far right, Fascism, ICE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Op-Ed, Propaganda, Renee Nicole Good, Trump Administration, White Nationalism, White Supremacy
Under Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has gone on an explicitly fascist zag as it seeks to recruit 10,000 additional U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Robert Reich and others have detailed in recent weeks how ICE is now actively seeking to recruit extremist young men from gun shows, Ultimate Fight Club venues, rodeos, martial arts centers…
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by William D. Hartung | Jan 22, 2026 | Donald Trump, Latin America, Op-Ed, Regime Change, Trump Administration, Venezuela, War
The Trump administration’s exercise in armed regime change in Venezuela should have come as no surprise. The U.S. naval buildup in the Caribbean and the attacks on defenseless boats off the Venezuelan coast — based on unproven allegations that they contained drug traffickers — had been underway for more than three months. By the end of December 2025, in fact, such strikes on boats near Venezuela…
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by Lauren Parker | Jan 21, 2026 | Activism, Avelo Airlines, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Deportations, DHS, FEC, ICE, mass deportation, mass deportations, Op-Ed, PACs, Resistance, SEC, subsidies
In response to the terrifying intensification of ICE over the past year, both in their expanded presence and violence in cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles, communities are mobilizing to protect each other, publicly denounce ICE, and form campaigns to peel away corporate support of ICE to weaken the various sources of ICE’s financial, political, and reputational power.
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by Silky Shah | Jan 20, 2026 | Abolition, Alien Enemies Act, CECOT, Deportation, Deportations, Donald Trump, Guantánamo Bay, ICE, Immigrant Jails, mass deportation, mass deportations, Migrant Jails, Minneapolis, Op-Ed, Renee Nicole Good, Resistance, Trump Administration
Donald Trump’s return to the White House in 2025 has been a nightmare for immigrants and for the country. The administration’s mass detention and deportation agenda brought forth an onslaught of cruel, violent policies intended to sow fear, suppress dissent, and vilify immigrants. Taking stock of all of Trump’s actions on immigration in 2025 is nearly impossible. This is, of course, by design.
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by Earle J. Fisher | Jan 19, 2026 | Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, MLK Day, Op-Ed, Policing, Racial Justice, Surveillance, Tennessee
Every year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, elected officials quote King while standing safely at a distance from the risks he embraced. His name is invoked, his image sanitized, and his politics stripped of urgency. The U.S. celebrates a softened King who spoke about love but not power, unity but not confrontation, peace but not disruption. What we rarely confront is this truth: Martin Luther King…
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by Darakshan Raja | Jan 16, 2026 | Anti-Fascism, ICE, NSPM-7, Op-Ed, Policing, protest, Renee Nicole Good, Resistance, Surveillance, Trump Administration, War On Terror
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