Donald Trump successfully delivered on his promise to halt illegal border crossings without going to Congress. However, when deporting illegals already in the country, the president ran into something very different, something that should take priority over all other issues, namely a violent insurgency.
The insurgency’s most publicized battlefield is in Minneapolis, where ICE agents shot and killed two individuals they apparently judged to be directing deadly force at immigration cops. These two incidents grabbed the headlines, but violence against ICE usually goes unnoticed. Yet it is routine in blue cities—and it’s meticulously organized, connected to the state and local seats of power, flush with dark money and supported from abroad.
Minnesota officials, including the mayor, Jacob Frey, and the governor and former vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, talk of Minneapolis being “under siege” by the Trump Administration, which, they insist, grabs “neighbors” off the street and assassinates “protestors”.
Barack Obama, the extent of whose influence on the Biden Administration policies at the peak of the migrant invasion remains murky, picked up the “peaceful protest” trope, posting a recruitment call on social media:
In Minneapolis and many other communities across the country, we’re seeing people come together to peacefully protest and support their neighbors. If you’re looking to get involved, here are some ways to help[.]
Predictably, the talking point was amplified by the media—Time magazine made “the siege” narrative into a cover story.
Americans, skeptical of astroturf since the appearance of Occupy encampments in Obama’s second term, got the first glimpse of the extent of NGO and government involvement in anti-immigration riots with SignalGate. The scandal broke out when independent investigator Cam Higby joined the encrypted Signal chats for anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis. He tweeted:
I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them.
He discovered a professionally organized guerrilla force, structured by neighborhoods and tasks. Aside from creating physical barriers for law enforcement, they were apparently illegally scanning license plates, in effect policing their own precincts.
Extremism expert Kyle Shideler pointed out that the anarchic-communist goal is to seize and hold American territory violently, establishing neighborhood councils on a model similar to Hezbollah’s. They are quite pleased with their achievement in Minneapolis.
The Signal group allegedly received orders from the state and city elite, including Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, who appeared to coordinate the illicit activity under the alias “Flan Southside”. One Signal group screen name “Aurin Chowdhury” matches that of a Minneapolis City Council member. Minnesota state Rep. Alex Falconer admitted to being on the encrypted talk and recruiting for the operation. The chat participants implied that the County Sheriff helps out with the plate reader. In other words, it looks like the secessionist “sanctuary state” of Minnesota built up an illicit paramilitary to fight federal law.
Kash Pattel’s FBI has now opened its own investigation into the matter. Meanwhile, the independent researcher who goes on social media by “Insurrection Barbie” pointed out that one of the leaders of the ICE Out protest is a communist NGO partially financed by Neville Roy Singham. Singham, she explains “is a U.S. born tech multimillionaire, long time socialist, and resident of Shanghai who is closely aligned with the Chinese Communist Party.”
Another foreign donor is the Canadian community organizer Jonny Soppotiuk. NGO and media involvement extends to the employees of the publicly financed NPR.
The Minnesota political establishment and foreign actors manipulate vulnerable Americans, putting them in harm’s way. City Journal writer Christina Buttons infiltrated the Signal chats and discovered a sophisticated public relations operation that grinds unfortunate souls into cannon fodder. Their deaths are later leveraged for political influence as the same politicians decry the “murder” of “peaceful protesters”.
Investigative reporter and Antifa Unmasked Author Andy Ngo observed that the 2026 ICE insurgency improved on the 2020 BLM tactics, which deployed “white allies” as human shields, adding:
Again, these are not protests. They are tactical operations meant to normalize insurgent behavior on the left. In Minneapolis, city leaders and police have tolerated masked activists establishing checkpoints, forcing drivers to slow or stop while license plates are logged into their databases.
The logical question to ask is: “What comes next?” Surely, this is not the last time the insurgency will fine-tune its tactics.
An average American needs to start taking domestic terror groups seriously. While officers of the law absorb most of the blows, political violence threatens everyone. Recall that Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign, and Charlie Kirk was murdered by a trans ally—who was once a nice Utah boy. Anti-Zionist Elias Rodriguez shot two Israeli embassy staffers execution-style, and Luigi Mangione did the same to a corporate executive.
While those events are almost certainly not coordinated by any domestic terror group, we know who the violent Left despises. Should domestic disturbances escalate, the logic of revolution suggests they will come for “enemies of the people”.
For decades, conservatives laughed off the Left’s revolutionary fantasies: “If there will be a civil war, it will be the fastest civil war ever!” What can the gun abolitionists who probably don’t know how to spell the word “gym” do to us?
Let’s reconsider. Signal Gate revealed—if it wasn’t clear already—that we are dealing with disciplined jackboots. They have friends in high places, and at least some of them are armed.
Shideler argued that even if the self-styled revolutionaries themselves are under the impression that they are participating in a LARP, their bosses know what they are doing:
But perhaps a better comparison would be to “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” Yes, in one sense these people are playing dress-up. But the incantations contained in these militant direct-action “spell books” are all very real. The true revolutionaries, the ones who put the books into the hands of these apprentices, know all too well what they are trying to achieve. Reproduced accurately, these techniques can produce uprisings, insurrections—and even revolutions—as they have for generations of insurgents on every continent except Antarctica.There’s always an element of play-acting at the beginning of every insurgency. Whether it’s an ignorant campesino given a red bandana or a soccer mom given a whistle, for that hapless foot soldier it may all seem like a bit of a lark, a quaint diversion from their humdrum day-to-day lives.But though every revolution begins as a LARP, they usually end in bloodshed.
It was evident in 2020 that Antifa-BLM doesn’t have the numbers for a revolution. Today’s Melt ICE protests are also numerically unimpressive. Just a thousand people, many from outside Minneapolis, signed up with the Signal chat. Here, in the San Francisco Bay Area, rallies in support of Minneapolis are weak.
Still, the Bolsheviks were an extreme minority party, but they overthrew Russia’s liberal Provisional Government. The Democratic Socialists of America, the depository of revolutionary sentiment in the U.S., is a rapidly growing organization that now boasts 100,000 members. The insurgents are well-financed and have friends in strategic positions.
Since bumping into problems in Minneapolis, Trump appears to have scaled back. Citing “unprecedented collaboration,” border czar Tom Homan announced the withdrawal of 700 agents from the Midwestern state. Even assuming that he isn’t saving face, the administration needs to shift priorities.
As important as it is to fight the invasion, most illegals are male—they are demographic dead ends. We can pass them like a kidney stone within a few decades. Yet, the insurgency is endemic to the U.S., and it threatens the very existence of our republic. Squishing it should take priority, and it will make deportations easier.
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