Trump has already telegraphed his intent to take federal control over the 2026 midterm elections. He’s already gotten Texas to turn over its voter registration rolls and is browbeating others to follow suit. The administration continues to escalate ICE movements, especially in complicit states like Texas. Warehouses are being built, bought, and planned to hold hundreds of detained immigrants and citizens. An increasingly unpopular administration is gripping harder to control.

But let’s talk about what’s working. Protests are working. Going to city council meetings to refuse permits to privately run human warehouses works. Voting works. Calling your reps works. So does checking on your neighbor and documenting what you see. Shoot, we saw artwork in powerfully during the Super Bowl! We are far too creative a species to take this lying down!

ICE is overfunded and undertrained, and they don’t seem to be going anywhere, so we’ve got to employ some long game energy to keep resisting what’s being thrown at us.

Thanks for listening.

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Resources

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7-2026

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7160372/

https://youtu.be/V3mQLlrZBI8?si=ous5B96QUls75g9h

https://open.substack.com/pub/hollyhudley/p/no-3?r=57omf0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web