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Lawmakers Discusses Protest

There’s a word for what’s happening in Minnesota, and it’s not “protest.” It’s terrorism—specifically, the low-intensity, grey-zone kind that operates under the cover of activism but has the unmistakable aim of coercion through fear.

The events unfolding across the Twin Cities aren’t random or isolated outbursts. They’re part of an increasingly organized campaign designed to disrupt, destabilize, and punish anyone even tangentially associated with federal immigration enforcement. And the most chilling part? Much of it appears to be aided, cheered, or outright orchestrated by elected officials and political allies within the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party.

It’s important to grasp the nature of what we’re seeing. These are not peaceful demonstrations. These are systematic attempts to terrorize federal agents, government workers, worshippers, and innocent bystanders into submission or silence. The tactics range from psychological torment — banging pots outside agents’ homes, stalking ICE employees at restaurants, yelling into hotel lobbies, targeting hotel staff and healthcare workers — to direct, sometimes violent confrontation.


There have been riots. Beatings. Road blockades. Church invasions. And all of it is built around a singular goal: to make daily life so unbearable for federal officers and ordinary citizens that resistance collapses. When children are weeping inside churches, when mothers are afraid to let their daughters wear a badge in public, we are not looking at free speech — we are looking at coercion.

As for who’s behind it? It’s no longer just fringe agitators. Legislators and party operatives are openly involved.

Take Jamael Lundy, for instance — a DFL State Senate candidate and staffer for the Soros-backed Hennepin County prosecutor. He was literally in the crowd planning the storming of Cities Church, waving an upside-down American flag. Then there’s Leigh Finke, a DFL legislator and close ally of the governor, who has openly called for more such disruptions. And let’s not forget the Minnesota Nurses Association and SEIU, who are hosting trainings on how to obstruct ICE in medical facilities — a chilling prospect, given the risks to patient care and public safety.


All of this is happening under the approving silence — or open encouragement — of leaders like Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, both of whom are now under federal investigation. If they’ve condemned any of it, they’ve done so with such tepidness and ambiguity that their message has been lost amid the roar of their party’s street-level operatives.

And it’s not just ICE agents who are feeling the pressure. Even senior officials from the Trump administration have been harassed on the ground. Dr. Mehmet Oz and Jim O’Neill, sent to investigate fraud in state welfare programs, were tailed by cars and chased out of buildings — by civilians, in the middle of the day, for doing their jobs.

This isn’t protest. It’s state-enabled intimidation.


Ironically, even Don Lemon — unwittingly — described the nature of the threat best. He cheered the discomfort of churchgoers, saying protests “must make people uncomfortable.” But that’s not what the First Amendment protects. It protects persuasion through speech, not psychological warfare, not mobbing churches, not hounding federal employees into hiding.

When a person who has spent all day blocking traffic and filming agents suddenly panics when followed home — as one agitator reportedly did — it reveals just how potent and invasive these tactics really are. They’re terrifying, and that’s the point. And yet, Democrats continue to work shoulder-to-shoulder with those employing them.

At this point, the connections are undeniable. Legislators are attending and leading the “protests.” Party operatives are funding them. Activist groups are coordinating with campaign machines. The DFL has become not just a passive observer, but an active partner in fomenting this brand of chaos.


To call this a dangerous moment would be an understatement. We are watching elected officials help facilitate — or at the very least, excuse — the terrorizing of churches, civil servants, and law-abiding citizens. And for what? A moment of performative resistance? A surge of social media clout?

Written by Arthur Higgens - January 20, 2026