The Minnesota Miracle vs. The Insurrection Act - TEASER

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

They shot a woman three times in the face. Now they want to send in the Insurrection Act. Why are they targeting Minnesota? The "Minnesota Miracle" showed how great our country could be: codified abortion rights, a trans refuge, free universal school meals. The Project 2025 agenda requires covering-up that progress works.

We are watching history repeat. The crushing of "Red Vienna" by autocrat Chancellor Dollfuss in 1934 made Austria easier to invade by Hitler and the Nazis. The overthrow of a democratically elected labour government in the Spanish Civil War ushered in a dictatorship by a narcissist. Whenever progressive movements secure rights through legal means, fascists resort to illegal terror to crush those victories, desperate to hide that a better world is possible.

As we honor Martin Luther King Jr. today, on his birthday, we must heed his warning: do not sleep through a revolution. While members of Congress "huddle" and wait for the courts, we demand they use every lever of power to protect the upcoming midterms.

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0:00.0	Donald Trump has threatened now to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota.
0:03.0	What's your reaction to that? What's your message to Americans about how to prepare?
0:07.0	We knew that this was part of his plan all along.
0:10.0	And my fear, and I think the fear of a lot of members of Congress and communities across the country,
0:15.0	is that he will use the Insurrection Act during the midterm elections in order to suppress the vote.
0:21.1	We have to remain vigilant, number one.
0:24.2	Number two, peaceful protest is so important, but we can't give him more ammunition.
0:30.2	So we've got to be really careful about how we engage.
0:33.3	But also, we need communities across the country to use every tool at their disposal, including
0:40.2	lawsuits.
0:41.2	We cannot allow this to stand.
0:43.8	I'm definitely going to huddle with colleagues to see what we can do at this level.
0:48.8	But the courts right now are the most immediate way to challenge what he's doing and it has to be challenged.
0:56.2	Hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's bonus show. Our opening clip was Congresswoman Escobar of Texas,
1:04.6	sharing the news for you all, if you haven't heard it yet, that Donald Trump wants to send in the troops,
1:12.2	as Tom Cotton said in his New York Times op-ed, send in the troops, the Insurrection Act on Minnesota,
1:19.7	simply for Minnesotans doing their civic patriotic duty of trying to save lives following ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdering
1:34.2	Renee Good in cold blood, shooting her three times in the face. It was just reported that
1:39.6	another human being was shot by ice, reportedly an immigrant who ran off, got away.
1:47.6	Thank goodness. And that is absolutely right. And of course, we ran on our social media, the horrifying
1:53.1	video of a woman just trying to make it to a doctor's appointment. And ICE was blocking the road.
1:59.9	There was a ICE kidnapping blocking the road.
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