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The Bulwark Podcast

Will Stancil: The Heroes of Minneapolis

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

From dads standing guard at school doors, to Costco moms delivering food to people afraid to leave home, and to the ICE spotters patrolling the streets— everyday Minnesotans have been standing up to the Trump administration’s terror campaign with a vibrant sense of community that Stephen Miller apparently did not even consider a possibility. And while most of the rank-and-file activists are not particularly ideological, leftwing protestors are now creating tensions as they try to play a more visible role with dumpster fires and barricades. Plus, Tim makes an urgent plea to the Democratic candidates in the Texas Senate race to skip the racial politics and focus instead on what voters care about.
 
Minneapolis activist and social media firebrand Will Stancil joins Tim Miller.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Bullock podcast.

0:14.1

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

0:15.5

We've got some good news about the Minneapolis live shows coming tomorrow.

0:19.6

So if you were hoping to get a ticket but it sold out too quick,

0:22.5

keep a close eye on your email tonight and tomorrow morning.

0:26.0

Go to the borg.com slash events.

0:28.6

We are, you know, trying to give people more opportunities.

0:31.6

It's an awesome response.

0:32.8

We really appreciate you all.

0:34.0

So we'll have some more news on that tomorrow.

0:37.4

But you see, tickets went fast. So

0:39.7

keep an eye out on thebork.com slash events. Also, stick around on the end of this show for a little

0:44.6

monologue about a bunch of stuff, but I'm particularly the Texas Senate race, which might end up

0:48.9

being my 133s and why if something doesn't change down there. So I've got some thoughts on that.

0:55.1

But first,

1:00.7

he's a Minneapolis-based attorney, an anti-ice activist, a former state legislature candidate,

1:05.9

a researcher on housing policy, a social media firebrand. It's Will Stancel. How you doing, man? Welcome to the show. All right. Glad to be here. You got a little Shiner. What's happening there? I do. I face planted on the ice. And so I've got half my face is a little swollen up. But that's a normal Minneapolis winter hazard. And of course, we have a different kind of ice. It's a bigger hazard here lately. We obviously spend most of the show talking about that. But for people who are not social media sickos like me, who maybe aren't familiar with your work product, with your, you know, really the artistic canvas with which you, uh, take, you know, short form text-based social media. Tell us a little bit about you, you know, first date stuff. Where did you emerge from? I don't even know. Like, you know, you just kind of like emerged into my vantage point sometime on social media. Like, what's your story? I mean, I'm a pretty ordinary guy. I live in Minneapolis. I'm an attorney. I work mostly on civil rights and housing law, school policy. And then I've been involved in local politics up here, to a reasonable extent. I ran for office, didn't win.

2:03.3

I, you know, involved a lot,

2:04.7

my neighbor... I've been involved in local politics up here, to a reasonable extent. I ran for office,

2:02.2

didn't win. I, you know, involved a lot of my neighborhood in my community. And I'm pretty

2:06.9

vocal in social media about national politics. I'm a no fan of the current administration,

2:10.7

the current president. You know, I think that I've got some criticisms of both sides. But,

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