Beware of ICE Activity! We’ve word that ICE and TN Highway Patrol plan to increase detentions of immigrants in the greater Knoxville area over the next 2-3 weeks. ICE was spotted in Alcoa near McCammon Ave on July 15th.  If you see something, please report it to the Knoxville Migrant Watch Hotline at 865-226-9052. If you have an Apple device, consider downloading the ICEBlock app that allows you to share information on nearby ICE activity.

Actions for Week of Feb 22, 2026

• Oppose Death Penalty for Abortions  – This past week, TN HB570/SB0738 was filed by Rep. Barrett and Sen. Pody. The bill criminalizes all abortions as first-degree homicides, punishable by life in prison without parole or the death penalty. Any fertilized egg is considered an unborn child, and no exceptions are allowed for any pregnant women, not even if the mother’s life is at risk. Note this is a caption bill, so text of the bill is not yet available on the capitol website. Although no hearing dates have been set, this bill is assigned to the House Population Health Subcommittee and the Senate State & Local Government Committee. What can you do now?

• Please contact these committee members and urge them to request the bill be withdrawn. If they are unwilling to do that, then ask that they refuse to second the bill when it is presented, so it will die immediately.

  1. Rep. Michele Carringer: 615-741-1721

  2. Rep. Shaundelle Brooks (D): 615-741-6959

  3. Rep. John Ray Clemmons (D): 615-741-4410

  4. Rep. John Gillespie: 615-741-8201

  5. Rep. Esther Helton-Haynes: 615-741-1934

  6. Rep. Sabi Kumar: 615-741-2860

  7. Rep. Iris Rudder: 615-741-8695

  8. Rep. Paul Sherrell: 615-741-1963

  9. Rep. Bryan Terry: 615-741-2180

  10. Rep. Ron Travis: 615-741-1450

  11. Sen. Richard Briggs (Knoxville): 615-741-1766

  12. Sen. Page Walley: 615-741-2368

  13. Sen. Tom Hatcher (Blount County): 615-741-0981

  14. Sen. Tood Gardenhire: 615-741-6682

  15. Sen. Ed Jackson: 615-741-1810

  16. Sen. Sara Kyle (D): 615-741-4167

  17. Sen. Adam Lowe: 615-741-1946

  18. Sen. Kerry Roberts: 615-741-4499

  19. Sen. Jeff Yarbro (D): 615-741-3291

• Contact Rep. Barrett and Sen. Pody directly and ask them to withdraw the bill.

  1. Rep. Jody Barrett: 615-741-3515, rep.jody.barrett@capitol.tn.gov

  2. Sen. Mark Pody:  615-741-2421, sen.mark.pody@capitol.tn.gov

• See the March 28th No Kings Map – Please share with friends: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible#map

• Good News!

  1. Read how the Northern Cheyenne Tribe is improving its sovereignty through solar projects and bison restoration.

  2. Minneapolis City Council allocated $1 million to help people pay rent who have been impacted by ICE.

  3. So far, transgender girl scouts have sold >71,000 boxes of cookies.

  4. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed chewing gum from lablab beans the neutralizes influenza and herpes simplex viruses.

  5. A Twin Cities MN tow truck driver is returning abandoned cars to families after ICE arrests.

  6. The regime was ordered to restore the George Washington slavery exhibit in Pennsylvania.

  7. A federal judge ruled Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot be re-detained by ICE.

• Educate Yourself

  1. The regime plans to spend $40 billion turning warehouses into detention camps.

  2. Scott Socha has been nominated to lead the National Park Service. His concessionaire company sued the service for $59 million in a contract dispute.

  3. The regime is removing super computers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder CO.

  4. See the election fraud map from 1982 - 2025 published by the Heritage Foundation that refutes the premise of widespread fraud.

  5. Instead of manufacturing electric trucks and batteries in West Tennessee, Ford is going to make gas-powered trucks.

  6. 47 issued an Executive Order promoting the production and use of the carcinogenic weedkiller, glyphosate, aka Roundup.

  7. US reached one of the biggest annual trade gaps since 1960.

• Cruelty, Oppression & White Supremacy

  1. Read how ICE and TN State Troopers targeted immigrants in the Nashville area, marked them with sharpies and bragged about hunting them.

  2. A man from Ireland had been detained by ICE for 5 months despite being married to a US citizen, having an active green card application, runs a construction business with a valid work permit, and no criminal record.

  3. A 9-year-old girl from Columbia on her way to Disneyland with a valid tourist visa was detained for 4 months by ICE.

  4. Pregnant migrant girls are being sent to a south Texas shelter ill-equipped to handle their medical care. Many became pregnant from rape and Texas has banned abortion.

  5. A marine in Minneapolis was detained by ICE at gunpoint, had his DNA sampled, and his phone cloned.

  6. A Pennsylvania man cleared of murder after 43 years in prison was immediately detained by ICE and denied bail.

  7. A MN man faces deportation to Laos for a crime he committed >30 years ago.

Actions for Week of Feb 15, 2026

• Oppose SAVE America Act (HR.7297) & PROVE Act (HR.4851) – Another terrible anti-voting bill passed the House and a third has been filed. The Save America Act makes it harder to register to vote. The Protecting Our Voter Eligibility Act would require non-military overseas citizens to prove they have a "current residence" in the United States with a verifiable mailing address in order to vote. Those who cannot prove a current U.S. residence would be designated as residents of Washington, D.C. where voting is largely symbolic. This bill would end the long-standing protections under Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.  Rep. Burchett (along with Andy Ogles of TN) is one of four cosponsors of the PROVE Act. Please contact our Senators (contact information below) and ask they oppose both bills. 

• Offer Comments on WH Ballroom  – The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting comments on the proposed construction of a 90,000 sq ft ballroom at the White House. Comments must be submitted by Noon ET, March 4, 2026. Here are instructions on how to fill out the comments, and here is the comment page (click on Submit Written Comments).

• Mutal Aid & Noncooperation – Last week, Indivisible Knoxville held a meeting outlining current actions and future tactics to combat authoritarianism. Here is the presentation made at that meeting. It provides opportunities for people to get involved and to prepare for future noncooperation actions. Also note plans for the No Kings 3 events on March 28th in the events list below.

• Good News!

  1. The House passed a resolution to terminate tariffs against Canada.

  2. The first wrongful death lawsuits have been filed against the regime over “drug” boat strikes.

  3. UAW reached an agreement with Volkswagen in Chattanooga that increased worker pay by 20% over the life of the contract.

  4. Good judicial rulings:

     • A federal judge blocked the regime’s plans to rescind $600 million in public health grants to CA, CO, IL and MN.

     • Another federal judge dismissed DOJ’s effort to obtain Michigan’s voter rolls.

     • A grand jury refused to indict 6 Congress members that filmed a video reminding military personnel they do not have to obey illegal orders.

     • A judge barred the regime from ending temporary protective status for folks from South Sudan.

     • A federal judge blocked the Pentagon’s attempt to demote Sen. Mark Kelly.

     • Judge Boasberg ordered the regime to facilitate return of Venezuelans who were sent to CECOT in El Salvador.

     • A judge ruled the regime must facilitate return of a college student who was deported over Thanksgiving.

• Educate Yourself

  1. The regime repealed use of the endangerment finding by the EPA, which will allow widespread pollution by the fossil fuel industry. It is a formal denial of climate change.

  2.  Read the comprehensive report from the CATO Institute on the contribution of immigrants to the US Fiscal wellbeing from 1994-2023. Their contributions are impressive! They also stole 30% fewer welfare benefits than US citizens between 2013-2024.

  3. More than half the drugs being sold on 47’s RX website can be obtained elsewhere for less.

  4. The regime approved the use of dicamba, a weed killer, for two common genetically modified crops.

  5. 47 directed the Pentagon to purchase more power from coal plants.

  6. The Energy Dept. is failing to meet mandated oversight requirements.

  7. ICE agents continue to lie and some cases are being dismissed. The courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE has jailed people illegally.

• Cruelty, Oppression & White Supremacy

  1. Legal observers are being abducted by ICE in Minnesota. Citizen protestors are being arrested and charged with felonies.

  2. Dozens of kids have entered foster care after ICE detained their parents.

  3. A kidney transplant recipient was detained by ICE and denied medication.

  4. Read the letters written by children incarcerated at the Dilley TX detention center.

  5. ProPublica also released this report on the starvation and death in Kenya since USAID funds were halted.

  6. The regime cut the Solar For All Program that was to provide free residential solar systems across tribal lands.

  7. Detainees at the Minnesota Whipple Federal building are sleeping on the floor with their ankles shackled and have little access to their lawyers.

Actions for Week of Feb 8, 2026

• Oppose SAVE Act –  HR 7269 passed the House recently and is on an expedited track in the Senate. The bill is a huge voter suppression billthat requires the following:

  1. Voters would have to bring their original birth certificate or passport to the polls to vote. 

  2. A REAL ID will no longer be sufficient. In only 5 states with enhanced driver licenses (i.e. MI, NY, VT, MN, WA) will REAL IDs suffice.

  3. The bill prevents all women/men who took a different last name at marriage from voting because their surname at birth differs from their current last name.  These folks would have to have a passport with them in order to vote.

  4. Voter registration by mail and voting by mail would be eliminated.

  5. States would be urged to frequently purge voters using the SAVE database created by the regime. This database is mistakenly purging some legitimate voters.   

  6. Election workers could be imprisoned for 5 years if they register someone without the correct documents, even if they are citizens.

  7. What Can You Do?  Please contact our Senators and ask them to oppose this bill. Contact information is below.

• Oppose TN HB1473 – The bill states that private citizens and organizations are not bound by the Fourteenth Amendment or the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges to recognize a marriage between individuals of the same sex. It prohibits the board of professional responsibility from disciplining or sanctioning an attorney for declining to officiate a marriage between two persons of the same sex. Unfortunately, the bill passed out of subcommittee last week and is before the Judiciary committee on Wed Feb 11th. Here is a link to all committee members’ phone numbers and emails. Several of our local representatives serve on this committee:

  1. Rep. Tom Stinnett (Blount County): 615-741-3560, rep.tom.stinnett@capitol.tn.gov

  2. Rep. Gloria Johnson (Knox County): 615-741-2031, rep.gloria.johnson@capitol.tn.gov

  3. Rep. Andrew Farmer (Sevier County): 615-741-4419, rep.andrew.farmer@capitol.tn.gov

  4. Rep. Elaine Davis (Knox County): 615-741-2287, rep.elaine.davis@capitol.tn.gov

  5. Rep. Fred Atchley (Sevier County): 615-741-5981, rep.fred.atchley@capitol.tn.gov

  6. Rep. Lowell Russell (Loudon/Monroe Counties): 615-741-3736; rep.lowell.russell@capitol.tn.gov

• Good News!

  1. ACLU and local parents have filed a suit to stop the nation’s first religious public school proposed for Knoxville.

  2. A global treaty has been adopted to provide greater protections for 70 species of sharks and rays.

  3. The clergy are organizing against ICE.

  4. Good judicial rulings:

     • A judge halted plans to end temporary protective status for 350,000 Haitians living in the USA.

     • A judge in TX ruled that the state failed to prove a Latino advocacy group is registering non-citizens to vote.

     • The misconduct complaint brought by DOJ against Judge Boasberg was dismissed.

     • A US District Court in Massachusetts ruled the regimen’s Climate Working Group, and the report it issued to overturn the Endangerment Finding violated federal law.

     • A judge ruled DHS must return 3 deported families to the USA.

     • SCOTUS will allow California to use its new congressional map in the 2026 midterm elections.

     • Another judge ruled that Noem cannot limit Congress’ access to ICE facilities, i.e. they are allowed to make unannounced visits.

     • A federal judge ordered the regime to restore funding for the Gateway Tunnel Project.

• Educate Yourself

  1. Did you know that half the world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms?

  2. The regime abducted an oil tanker captain and another officer from a Russian-flagged boat while they were in Scotland.

  3. Learn about the FBI raid at Fulton County GA’s main election center. 47 plans to prosecute people there for stealing the 2020 election.

     • The raid appears to be one more step on the part of the regime to interfere or control the outcome of midterm elections.

     • The regime intends to place ICE agents at the polls.

     • The FBI has summoned state election officials to discuss “preparations” for the midterms.

  4. The regime has exempted new nuclear reactors from environmental review.

  5. New federal policy could undercut shareholder food activism.

  6. Lays offs hit a 17-year high recently.

• Cruelty, Oppression & White Supremacy

  1. Although Liam Ramos and his father were released from a TX detention center last weekend, DHS attempted to serve them with an expedited deportation order this week. A judge has temporarily blocked it.

  2. ICE broke the car window of a family with a 1-month-old baby in the car, causing glass to shower down on the infant.

  3. HB2426, an extreme anti-transgender bill is making its way through the Kansas House.

  4. Although a federal judge restricted use of tear gas by ICE in Portland, the gassings continue.

  5. The agents who killed Alex Pretti have been identified, but prosecutors have been told not to investigate even though the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. More prosecutors from the US Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis resigned this week.

  6. Database of court filings shows a pattern of abuse by federal agents against Minnesota citizens.

  7. Did you know that a private jet owned by a friend of 47 is being used to deport Palestinians to the West Bank?

Actions for Week of Feb 1, 2026

1. Oppose TN HB1473 – The bill states that private citizens and organizations are not bound by the Fourteenth Amendment or the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges to recognize a marriage between individuals of the same sex. It prohibits the board of professional responsibility from disciplining or sanctioning an attorney for declining to officiate a marriage between two persons of the same sex. This bill is up before the Children and Family Affairs Subcommittee on Tues Feb 3rd. You can send an email to subcommittee members through this link. Individual phone numbers and email addresses are available through this link. 

2. Contact FIFA – Several European officials are calling for a boycott of the FIFA World Cup matches scheduled to be held in the USA, starting June 11, 2026, and possibly the entire event because of 47’s insults. Consider calling the FIFA regional office in Miami (786-292-4960) to request the matches be moved outside the USA to Mexico or Canada for the safety of the athletes. Also note that 47’s travel ban prevents family and friends from several nations from entering the USA to support their teams.

3. Boycott Estee Lauder Companies: According to John Bolton, Ronald Lauder, a billionaire friend of 47 first encouraged Trump to acquire Greenland in 2018. Saner heads prevailed at that time and the idea was dropped. Lauder is once again urging 47 to buy Greenland, partly because he wants to expand his business interests there. Consider boycotting Estee Lauder companies and brands, which can be found on this website. You can also call the company at 212-572-4200. 

4. Good News!

a. All Senate Democrats and 8 Republicans blocked the 6-bill funding package, allowing time to hopefully block funding of ICE.  You can support reigning in ICE by signing this petition. 

b. Good judicial rulings:

i. A federal judge in MN banned the arrest and detention of lawful refugees not accused of committing crimes. 

ii. A judge in Texas ordered the release of Liam Ramos and his father.

iii. Another federal judge blocked key parts of 47’s anti-voting Executive Order.

iv. The Ninth Court of Appeals blocked DHS from ending Temporary Protective Statue for Venezuelans. 

v. A federal judges ordered Russel Vought of OMBto reveal the regime’s exact plans for spendingcongressionally-approved funds. 

vi. The regime dropped its appeal over anti-DEI funding to schools and colleges. Too bad about those universities who caved (e.g. Columbia, Vanderbilt) or settled (e.g. Harvard) for millions.  

vii. The regime was blocked from accessing trans patients’ medical records in California.

viii. A US judge blocked the end of protective status for 8400 migrants who entered the US under the family reunification parole program.

c. Around 2000 students walked out in Knoxville Friday in opposition of ICE.

d. Because legacy media is doing a poor job of covering what is happening around the country, consider joining Threads and/or BlueSky to get live coverage from the street. For example:

i. ~100,000 marched in Minneapolis and San Francisco Friday.

ii. Tens of thousands of students walked out on Friday, and protests were held throughout the country, as well as in Denmark, Italy, and other countries. 

iii. Yesterday, dozens of bicycle rides took place in memory of Alex Pretti across the USA and Europe, as far north as Fairbanks and Finland. Do you know how tough it is to ride on snow? 

5. Educate Yourself

a. Read the report on US Science after a Year of 47published by Nature.

b. Consider reading this moving op-ed, Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong.

c. The EPA will stop calculating lives saved by air pollution control, and it also issued water rule that limits the ability of states to block projects.

d. Did you know that TN businesses laid off more people in 2025 than at any time since 2020?

e. Learn about the activist group, AnswerCoalition.org, that aims to stop war and end racism.

f. The regime is ordering USDA employees to investigate foreign researchers as possible spies.

g. The regime has agreed to turn control of some national forests in Utah over to the state.

6. Cruelty, Oppression & White Supremacy

a. Visit the national ICE Out website to see locations of ICE actions in real time. You can submit reports from our area to the website. You can also see a list of confirmed ICE agents here. 

b. Immigration actions are adversely affecting the construction business in TN.

c. TN Department of Safety and Homeland Security is requiring 8,800 holders of commercial drivers’ licenses to show proof of citizenship in person by April 6, 2026.

d. Refugees and asylum seekers will lose access to TennCare in October, and the state may also end immigrant prenatal care. Also note that infant mortality remains higher in TN than the national average.

e. ICE detained a family in Portland who was seeking emergency medical care for their child, and also tried to enter the Ecuadorian Consulate in Minneapolis. 

f. Read the story of a Navajo man detained by ice, and how ICE gave one Minneapolis man multiple skull fractures. 

g. Children are being held by ICE in unsafe and unsanitary conditions.

Actions for Week of January 25, 2026

• Defund ICE/ICE Out – Last week 7 Democrats joined with Republicans to pass an appropriations bill that extended funding for ICE. The bill has moved to the Senate and must be passed by Friday, Jan 30th or the government will shut down. In light of ICE murdering Alex Pretti in Minneapolis yesterday, it is imperative that ICE be defunded, leave MN, and eventually be abolished.

Bovino and Noem have labelled Alex as a domestic terrorist who was threatening ICE agents, but they are lying. Four videos and eyewitness statements clearly show he was directing traffic and filming with his camera; tried to help a woman who was shoved by ICE; was himself pepper sprayed; was wrestled to the ground; had his holstered gun removed by an agent; and was then shot at least 9 times.

Here are some things you can do:

1. Sign this letter sponsored by the USA Presbyterian Church to 47, Vance and Bondi, as well as sign this petition.

2. Text ICE to 63033 and Stand-Up America will send you a link to a petition directed to the Senate.

3. Call our Senators and give them feedback on the funding bill. Contact info below. If their voice mail is full today, try again tomorrow (Monday) or use ResistBot to send a fax.

4. Contact the White House and demand ICE leave MN: 202-456-7041, https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

5. Write a letter to the editor to your local paper pointing out the administration is lying about Alex’s death.

6. Donate to local (e.g. WIN-BC, Bridge Refugee Services Knoxville) and/or national (e.g. RAICES, National Immigration Project, Immigrant Defense Project,  Amica, Legal Aid Justice Center , ACLU) agencies supporting immigrants.

• Oppose TN Adult Cabaret Bill -  The TN House opened the current session on a rancorous note in passing HB884, which would classify any venue as adult-oriented if they hold one drag show or sexually-related movie or activity per year. The companion Senate bill (SB1424) is on the Senate Judiciary Committee calendar for Tues, January 27th. You can sign a petition here opposing the bill. You can also contact the 9 committee members with your feedback through this link.

• Mark Carney’s (Canada’s Prime Minister) Davos Speech  – You can read his speech here or watch it here.

• Good News!

  1. Republican TN lawmakers are pushing back against the plan to expand private school vouchers.

  2. Democrats succeeded in getting all anti-LBTQ+ riders stripped from the House appropriations bill that passed.

  3. MacKenzie Scott is donating $45 million to the Trevor Project, which maintains a support hotline for LGBTQ+ youth.

  4. Private groups have created Climate Central and resurrected the climate disaster database the regime tried to squash.

  5. A federal court rejected the GOP bid to block California’s redistricting plan.

  6. Another federal judge has blocked the USDA from cutting off SNAP funding to MN.

  7. Judges have ruled that windfarm projects off the coast of Virginia, Rhode Island, and New York that were halted by 47 can resume.

• Educate Yourself

  1. Here is a list of all the things the regime did to America’s public lands in 2025.

  2. SCOTUS ruled this past week that any candidate can challenge voting laws governing their election. That means that hundreds of lawsuits could be filed after the next elections by candidates calling into question their losses.

  3. The administration wiped out $2 billion in federal grants to addiction and mental health organizations.

  4. The House passed HR Res 140 that opens 225,000 acres of public land around Boundary Waters in MN to copper mining by a Chilean conglomerate. The Chilean magnate involved has ties to 47.

  5. 47’s removal of the US from the UN climate treaty may be illegal.

  6. RFK JR has upended the Dietary Guidelines for America by promoting dairy products and red meats. If people follow these new recommendations, tens of thousands of acres of land would have to be put into animal production, and increased production of methane would be a climate disaster.

  7. A major study has confirmed that US citizens and businesses are paying 96% of the tariffs imposed by the regime.

• Cruelty, Oppression & White Supremacy

  1. ICE is now targeting dissenters and citizens.

     • They are being denied accessed to lawyers; their possessions are being confiscated and sold; and they are sometimes released miles from anywhere without coats or proper clothing.

     • A Hmong man (and a citizen) was arrested in his house (without a warrant) and taken away in his underwear.

     • An internal DHS memos tells agents they can ignore the 14th Amendment and invade homes without a warrant.

  2. This past week, ICE used 5-year-old Liam Ramos to draw his father out of their house, arrested them, refused to release the boy to school officials, and shipped them to a TX detention center. The family members are legal Ecuadoran refugees with an active pending asylum case.

  3. On Friday, ICE detained a 2-year-old and her father in Minneapolis. The child was flown to Texas despite a court order to release her but late Friday night the child was returned to MN and turned over to her mother.

  4. Six federal prosecutors and one FBI agent have resigned over decisions to investigate Renee Good’s widow and/or not to investigate Renee’s murder.

  5. The Texas Detention Center where many folks from MN are being sent has had 3 deaths in 44 days, and one was ruled a homicide despite DHS claiming it was suicide. Dozens of complaints about physical abuse have been filed by detainees.

  6. ICE has stopped paying for medical care for detainees.

Actions for Week of January 18, 2026

• Support Bill that Bans Congressional Stock Trading – A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the House and Senate (S.1879) that requires legislators to sell individual stocks within 180 days, and newly elected members would need to divest before being sworn in. See details of the ETHICS Act here. Please contact our MoCs and ask them to support and cosponsor this bill. Contact information is below.

• Oppose Equal Representation Act – H.R. 1 would add a citizenship question to the US Census and delete anyone who is not a citizen from being counted for congressional reapportionment and Electoral College votes. Any states with large immigrant populations would not only lose federal funds, they would also lose representatives in Congress. The bill has passed out of committee in the House and will be voted on by the full House. It is strongly opposed by the League of Women Voters. Sen. Hagerty is the sponsor of this bill in the Senate. Please contact our MoCs with your feedback. Contact information is below.

• Join the Free America Walkout on Jan 20 in Knoxville. One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: ICE raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, families torn apart, attacks on our trans siblings, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It is time for our communities to escalate as well. On Jan 20 we will walk out of work, school, and commerce. We will withhold our labor, our participation, and our consent. A free America begins the moment we refuse to cooperate. This is not a request. This is a rupture. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable.  https://www.facebook.com/share/1AB7VTGzGH/

• Good News!

  1. Good judicial rulings:

     • SCOTUS decided it will not review a challenge to federal protections for subsistence rights for Native Alaskans.

     • A judge ruled the regime’s blockage of energy grants in Democratic states is illegal.

     • Another judge ruled Orsted and other wind developers can resume their offshore wind projects.

     • A federal judge ruled that HHS must restore $11 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics while AAP’s lawsuit against HHS proceeds.

  2. A new treatment using lab-grown pancreatic cells may resolve the need for insulin in type 1 diabetics.

  3. Two hospitals in Connecticut are being sued by trans youth and their families for denying them care.

  4. Learn about all the performers who have canceled shows at the Kennedy Center, as well as resignations from the board of trustees and advisory committee. The Washington National Opera is also leaving.

  5. Congress has finally recognized the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

  6. Tennessee conservation groups and landowners protected thousands of acres in 2025.

  7. Check out the driving lanes in Detroit that recharge electric vehicles as they drive.

• Educate Yourself

1. Check out Heather Cox Richardson’s new series: Journey to American Democracy. It can be watched on YouTube.

2. The Pentagon has failed its 8th audit.

3. 47 vetoed a bipartisan bill to fund a water pipeline in Colorado as retribution for Rep. Lauren Boebert voting to release the Epstein files and the state refusing to honor his pardon of Tina Peters, who was convicted of state crimes. The House refused to override the veto.

4. The regime approved a big lithium mine in Nevada that directly profits the husband of the 3rd ranking official at the Interior Department.

5. Is the Parkinson’s epidemic in farmers related to exposure to paraquat?

6. Saudi Arabia is the newest country to purchase grain from Russian controlled Crimea.

7. Alaska is seeking control of water on federally-protected lands, including within some national wildlife refuges.

• Cruelty, Oppression & White Supremacy

  1. Did you know that wait times to enter some National Parks are much longer now because every car entering is being asked whether the folks are US citizens, and some foreign tourists are being turned away?

  2. ICE arrested a Maryland mother and refused to allow her to see her teenage son before he died of cancer.

  3. The Civil Rights Division of the DOJ is not going to investigate the shooting of Renee Good, resulting in the resignation of several top officials in that section.

  4. ICE is terrorizing Minnesota

     • Thousands of agents have descended upon dozens of towns and are randomly stopping brown and black people, including in the parking lots of Mayo Clinic, Children’s Hospital, other hospitals, big box stores, etc.

     • Agents stopped a 12-13-year-old Latino boy as he approached his home. This video shows how they refused his request to get his ID from his house and instead hauled him off.

     • Watch this video on Threads of Bonino and thugs escalating interactions with protestors to film a propaganda video.

     • This video shows them attacking journalists and photographers on Monday night.

     • Employees of Hong Kong buffet in Elk River MN were detained, even without checking their immigration status.

     • One man attacked at a gas station was unconscious when hauled off and no one knows if he is alive. Witnesses were pepper sprayed and arrested. Bonino was also present for this action.

     • People detained at the Whipple MN facility are being verbally and physically abused, including US citizens

Actions for Week of January 11, 2026

• Support War Powers Resolution – A bipartisan group of Senators voted on Thursday to advance a war powers resolution to block use of US Armed forces against Venezuela unless authorized by Congress. The resolution will be voted on this week. The resolution needs 51 votes to pass, and the vote this past week was 52-47.  Please contact our Senators (contact information below) and ask them to vote for the resolution.

• Support Defunding ICE – The deadline for the next phase of funding for the Department of Homeland Security is January 30th. The Continuing Resolution must pass by that time or the government may shutdown again. Some Congressional Democrats are calling for funding of ICE to be removed from the DHS appropriation bill. So far Sen. Schumer and Rep. Jeffries are not supporting the idea. Let’s reach out to them with feedback on this idea. 

  1. Sen. Schumer: 202-224-6542, 212-486-4430, https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/message-chuck

  2. Rep. Jeffries: 202-225-5936, 718-237-2211; https://democraticleader.house.gov/contact

  3. Also sign this petition.

• Good News!

  1. The House passed a bill to extend ACA healthcare subsidies for 3 years, and it moves on to the Senate.

  2. The Senate rejected the call to cut National Park Service funding for fiscal year 2026, and it will remain flat. However, the appropriations bill strips language that affirms national parks must remain federal lands.

  3. Learn about all the performers who have canceled shows at the Kennedy Center, as well as resignations from the board of trustees and advisory committee. The Washington National Opera is also leaving.

  4. Avelo Airlines is ending its contract with DHS to deport detainees, and Spotify has stopped running ICE ads on its site.

  5. Good judicial rulings:

     • A judge ruled the acting US Attorney investigating Letitia James is serving unlawfully.

     • A judge blocked the regime from freezing $10 billion in childcare funds to 5 blue states.

     • SCOTUS did not make an expedited ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, so the state cannot eliminate one or both majority Black districts before the midterms.

     • A federal judge ruled prosecutors must turn over some documents to the defense in their case again Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

     • Another federal judge blocked key parts of the regime’s anti-voting executive order.

     • A court ruled the regime cannot slash NIH research funding.

• Educate Yourself

  1. According to the Comptroller’s report, most students using the ESA vouchers in TN are not leaving low-performing schools, and they are underperforming their public school peers.

  2. The House passed HR. 845 (Pet and Livestock Protection Act) that removes gray wolves from Endangered Species Act protections. It now heads to the Senate.

  3. State lawmakers and the EPA may try to ban abortion pills on the basis they are pollutants.

  4. Fish & Wildlife Service Director, Brian Nesvik, has ordered a comprehensive review of Wildlife refuges and related projects that is aimed at identifying sites and programs to close without public comment.

  5. Note that USPS is changing how mail is post marked and letters are no longer marked on the day they are dropped off. The new rule affects all time sensitive materials, including tax payments, charitable contributions, mail-in ballots, etc.

  6. The US factory sector contracted for the 10th straight month in December, and the latest US jobs report is bleak.

  7. Read about the 1917 Treaty of Danish West Indies that sold St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix islands to the US (i.e. US Virgin Islands) and in return, the USA agreed to recognize all of Greenland as Danish territory.

• Cruelty, Oppression & White Supremacy

  1. Texas is shutting down its civil rights commission.

  2. Read about a local immigrant family and the challenges they face.

  3. The regime’s SAVE tool that looks for noncitizen voters is flagging US citizens and cancelling their voter registrations.

  4. Sen. Mark Kelly is being censured and his retirement pay docked by Peter Hegseth because of Kelly’s public statements reminding the military they do not have to obey illegal orders.

  5. The regime has expanded the list of countries whose citizens must pay up to $15,000 bonds to apply for visas.

  6. This past Wednesday, the regime withdrew the US from 66 international treaties and organizations, endangering the planet and peoples everywhere.

  7. Five Native Americans were detained by ICE this past week in Minnesota.

Actions for Week of January 4, 2026

• Provide Feedback on Attacking Venezuela – The TN Congressional delegation has announced their support for the attack and for the capture of Pres. Maduro despite the illegal nature of the action. The action violated Article 2(4) of the UN charter and is an act of war that has not been sanctioned by Congress. The abduction of a foreign leader is a violation of international law. Please contact our MoCs with feedback. Contact information is below. Consider calling all of their offices and also using ResistBot and the 5Calls app. You can also use this link from 5Calls to reach  them.

• Jack Smith Deposition – You can watch the Jack Smith Deposition before the House Judiciary Committee here. He testifies that they have proof that 47 incited a resurrection.

• Petitions to Sign

  1. This petition opposes H.R.3898 that undermines the Clean Water Act.

  2. This petition opposes drilling in Alaska’s Western Arctic Reserve.

  3. This petition asks AT&T to stop contracting with ICE and pledges not to purchase any AT&T products until they do so.

  4. This petition opposes the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern railroad merger.

  5. This petition supports the Military in Law Enforcement Accountability Act, which denies the president the ability to militarize and deploy federal agents.

  6. This petition and this petition oppose new rules to weaken the Endangered Species Act.

  7. This petition opposes privatization of the US Postal Service.

• Good News!

  • More lawsuits:

    1. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is suing 47 over his ballroom addition.

    2. Six residents of Minnesota are suing Kristi Noem for infringing on their civil rights.

    3. Learning Resources is suing the regime over its tariffs, and the Crocs shoe company has also filed a suit.   

    4. TN Court of Appeals will hear the challenge to the National Guard deployment in Memphis.

    5. The American Association of Pediatrics is suing HHS for cutting $12 million in grants.

    6. Nineteen states have sued HHS over their plans to curtail gender-affirming care for trans youth.

    7. A Chicago nonprofit and teachers union hves sued the Dept. of Education for canceling grants and failing to spend $16 million in congressionally-mandated funds.

  • A judge has temporarily barred the regime from ending temporary protective status for South Sudanese immigrants that was due to go in effect on Jan. 6th, and another judge blocked end of TPS for folks from Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua.

  • A statue of Barbara Rose Jones, who at the age of 16 led a walkout at her segregated high school, has replaced a statue of a Confederate general in the US Capitol.

  • The US government cancelled a $760 million contract with Moderna to develop a bird flu vaccine but the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations will fund the phase three trial at a cost of $54 million.

  • Following a legal compromise, NIH will now review grant proposal frozen, denied or withdrawn by DOGE/the regime.

• Educate Yourself

  1. TN majority leader, Jack Johson, wants to establish Turning Point USA chapters in every TN high school.

  2. Ford will no longer manufacture electric trucks at Blue Oval in TN; they will build gas-powered trucks instead.

  3. Nearly 19 million rural Americans live in states with the most restricted access to abortion.

  4. Learn about outdated and dangerous antiquated laws that give the president tremendous power.

  5. NASA’s largest research library was closed on Friday, and portions of the collection may be trashed.

  6. The regime plans to close the National Center for Atmospheric Research because it reports on the effects of climate change.

  7. The regime has expanded the travel ban to more countries.

• Cruelty, Oppression & White Supremacy

  1. The American Alliance for Equal Rights has sued the Women of Knoxville and the Women Foundation for providing small loans to Black-owned businesses, claiming they discriminate against white people.

  2. Isreal barred 37 aid groups from Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders, which has never been barred before from any country. Here is a list of the banned NGOs.

  3. The regime wants to escalate denaturalization of foreign-born US citizens.

  4. Learn about Operation Irish Goodbye, the plan to arrest immigrants at the US-Mexican border who are voluntarily returning home.

  5. The CDC awarded $1.6 million in a non-bid contract to controversial Danish researchers to start an unethical study of hepatitis B vaccines in babies in Guinea-Bissau. Babies who receive the placebo will likely contract hepatitis B.

  6. Cholera deaths have surged in Sudan after USAid was cut, and Congolese rape survivors have lost access to HIV prevention medications.

  7. The House passed HR 4371 that allows ICE to detain unaccompanied children longer; house them in prison-like facilities; block their release to relatives who aren’t US citizens; and subject them to invasive strip searches for tattoos.