J. Patrick Coolican, Minnesota Reformer

The winter of 2026 will go down in state history as among our finest hours.

What happened here will be studied by social scientists and historians as one of the great victories of nonviolent resistance in recent times. Minnesotans showed that brutality and sheer numbers could not overcome communities that were united in their opposition to the usurpers.

People are right to be skeptical about whether the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown here is ending, as announced Thursday by $50,000 man and border czar Tom Homan....

Donald Trump “is unfit for our nation’s highest office,” JD Vance famously said.

He’s “reprehensible,” the now-vice president said before Trump’s first election, and “an idiot.”

Trump, he said way back then, may even become “America’s Hitler.” ...

The deadly shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer Wednesday is the ninth shooting by an immigration officer in just the past four months, and all of them involved firing at people in vehicles, according to a New York Times report.

Video of the incident shared with the Reformer shows masked ICE officers approaching a Honda Pilot stopped in the middle of Portland Avenue near 34th Street. One officer tells the driver, 37-year-old Renee Good, to “get out of the f---ing car” and tries to open the door. Good then slowly backs up and then pulls forward, appearing to try to leave. An officer at the front of the vehicle fires three shots and the SUV travels a short distance before crashing into a parked car.

The deadly incident comes just days after the Trump administration began a massive deployment of 2,000 immigration enforcement officers to Minnesota, ramping up an immigration crackdown that has already caused massive disturbances in Minnesota’s immigrant communities — including the Somali Minnesotan community that is almost entirely citizens and legal residents....

President Donald Trump was once quoted by an unnamed source in the New York Times saying this about U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer’s endorsement of him in early 2024: “They always bend the knee.”

Minnesota’s senior Republican was required to add some extra enthusiasm to his genuflection to Trump. That’s because he’d had the temerity to vote to certify the 2020 election results that Joe Biden was the winner.

You might remember that day, Jan. 6, 2021, when a gang of regime partisans took over the Capitol to keep Trump in power after he’d lost the election....

Just hours after Minnesotans learned that Democratic House leader Melissa Hortman had been assassinated, right-wing influencer Collin Rugg, who has 1.8 million followers on X, posted a “report” that hinted that she’d been killed because of a recent vote on ending undocumented adults’ ability to enroll in MinnesotaCare, a subsidized health insurance for the working poor.

Mike Cernovich, another right-wing influencer who has 1.4 million followers on X, took Rugg’s post and amped it up, but in the “just asking questions” style of many conspiracy theories:

“Did Tim Walz have her executed to send a message?”...