As was noted yesterday, Federal agents are in Minneapolis executing lawful warrants. This is not new. Deportations happened under most presidents if not all, and they will continue under any administration that enforces federal law.
The amount of violence is off the scale in Minnesota. This is trending towards being another “Summer of Love” there. Is this because there is far more deportation activity going on there?
Definitely not. 23% of all ICE arrests occur in Texas. Only 2.2% occur in Minnesota. Why such violence in Minnesota? Because Democratic leaders are promoting and encouraging such violence. Violence is their goal. Why?
Normalizing violence against the government is part of the plan. The narratives are spun that such violence is necessary because… The reason du jour is whatever is handy at the moment. The more outrage that can be generated the better. The truth has no place in these plans.
In one such narrative ICE is supposed to have used a five-year-old boy as bait in order to arrest his father. Supposedly the boy was forced to knock on his own door so that the agents could get his father.
The real story was that his father and alleged mother abandoned the boy when ICE came for the father. When the father was arrested, the alleged mother refused to take custody of the boy.
Over on CNN, the world’s leader in fake news, Jack Tapper allowed a guest to claim that ICE is putting people into concentration camps. The guest followed up by alluding to putting people into ovens.
On Sunday, Governor Walz, made similar claims. Tim Walz compared President Trump’s immigration enforcement operations to the Nazis’ arresting Anne Frank. “Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s going to write that children’s story about Minnesota,” he said.
These kinds of unhinged narratives are fueling outrage among people who should know better. However, they have been fed a constant stream of lies by the media and can no longer discern truth from fiction.
Now, a chilling warning has arrived from someone who knows exactly what a “war zone” looks like. Eric Schwalm, a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with years of experience running counterinsurgency ops, has sounded the alarm: what’s happening in Minneapolis isn’t a “protest”—it’s a sophisticated, domestic insurgency.
Eric says “As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
This description fits what is going on in Minneapolis to a T. Minneapolis is the current epicenter although there are offshoots in other Democratic cities as well. Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles have seen their share of such activity although on a lesser scale.
Eric Schwalm:
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
There are nine counties in the country where there are significant incidents involving ICE. All of them are run by Democrats. Some 63% of all such incidents have occurred in these counties. The other 3000+ plus counties account for the rest. These Democratic counties are the staging grounds for this insurrection.
The Democrats are using these counties to project a narrative that this administration is some kind of dictatorial regime that engages in human rights abuses. Nothing could be further from the truth. What we are seeing in Minneapolis and elsewhere is a guerrilla insurrection clothed in the pious term of activism. The deaths of people like Renee Good and Alex Pretti are anticipated ones that can be used to stoke outrage and feed the narrative.
Eric Schwalm:
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.”