analysis

After Border Patrol agents murdered our brother Alex Pretti on January 24, the tear gas had not yet cleared from Nicollet Ave when Governor Tim Walz called President Donald Trump to make a deal. The details of that phone call are unknowable to working class people like us. However, we can make some educated guesses. We know how the State behaved before and we can see how its behavior has changed since. We believe any concessions or cosmetic changes they are offering come not because they killed someone, but because the people fought back.

On January 17th, 2026, the Pentagon alerted 1,500 troops from the 11th Airborne Division about a potential deployment to Minnesota.  This new threat comes after a rapid series of escalations.  Homeland Security forces have occupied the Twin Cities for 50 days now. More than 2,400 of our Latino, Somali, Hmong, West African, and even Indigenous neighbors were disappeared by these fascists. Neighborhood patrollers have been attacked hundreds of times, and protestors and federal forces clash almost every night. ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered our comrade Renee Good on January 7th.