Minnesota insurrection
The Minnesota insurrection began in January 2026 when Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol (BP) were tasked by Trump 2.0 with enforcing immigration laws, during which time two US citizens were killed in separate incidents while physically obstructing federal officers' work.
Citizen journalists infiltrated the Signal chats used by opponents of ICE and BP to coordinate city-wide obstruction of their activities in a scandal that called Signal Gate. ZeroHedge published a detailed review of Signal Gate which also links to posts by other citizen journalists such as “0HOUR1” and “DataRepublican (small r)” investigating these chats' members (reportedly including local and state officials) and their donors.[2] Their work confirmed the insurrection's high degree of coordination.[3]
From rapidly shared detailed reports about their ICE's and BP's law enforcement activities to license plate readings, medical aid, and charitable support for some of the participants, there was no doubt that the insurrection was professionally coordinated at a level far beyond anything hitherto seen in the US.
A former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency operations characterized the events in Minneapolis as a "low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook." He added:
| “ | This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization… 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.[4] | ” |
Investigative journalist James O'Keefe corroborated this view, stating:
| “ | What strikes me is how organized these agitators in Minneapolis are. They have spotters everywhere in the city and suburbs, on street corners, even 30 minutes away from downtown. … I was inside what appeared to be a fully autonomous Zone. No police presence. The police were told to leave. I identified myself as Press and they said they will kill Press and will not let me leave."[5] | ” |
References
- ↑ https://youtu.be/r0L9JUjcwo0
- ↑ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/minneapolis-signal-gate-alleged-anti-ice-low-level-insurgency-command-exposed-messaging
- ↑ https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/rapid-response-networks-in-the-twin-cities-a-guide-to-an-updated-model
- ↑ https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540
- ↑ https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015260124932448533
