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Meeting the Multilayered Threats to Our Neighborhoods (opens the original)
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Register HERE for our new training Beyond ICE Watch, Wednesday Sept. 16 6-7:30pm CT / 7-8:30pm ETICE is rounding up our neighbors at record-high rates. Rapidly ramping up their raids month-over-month since they switched tactics from the spotligh
ICE Agents Targeting Moms was Always the Plan (opens the original)
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As a Chicago mom, most mornings I spend about 20 minutes driving around my neighborhood after dropping kids off at school or summer camp. A typical morning I’ll head east for several blocks, then south, west and north. Turning round in tighter rectangles down side streets until I feel I’ve covered enough ground. I’m looking for ICE agents. Their presence lessened significantly last November when they fanned out into suburban areas and, of course, went to Minneapolis, Charlotte, and Columbus to t
Neighbors as Storytellers (opens the original)
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The election denial and disinformation machine has begun whirling into overdrive as the authoritarian movement presses towards the midterms and its election sabotage efforts. Meanwhile, ICE continues to accelerate its shadow surge, attempting to hide indiscriminate raids from public accountability. Both advance with the reverberations
The Shadow Surge: ICE’s Effort to “Turn Up the Heat” While Avoiding Accountability (opens the original)
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When asked about consequences for the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullins inadvertently articulated the Administration’s new strategy for their mass deportation machine.Doubling down on the deadly violence and chaos, Secretary Mullins appeared to be more concerned about public scrutiny of ICE actions than their deadly violence against our neighbors: “We’re t
Building a Movement Response To Authoritarian Election Sabotage (opens the original)
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If you have scrolled through the news with any regularity in the last several months, headline after headline outline the grim but very real threat to our elections. The scale and severity can be overwhelming as the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/0
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