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Minnesota Is A Training Ground For What’s To Come

Leeja Miller | April 9, 2026



You’re 30 seconds away from being debt free with PDS Debt. Get your free assessment and find the best option for you at https://PDSDebt.com/miller. | This weekend saw more chaos and ICE raids across Minnesota. Now that Trump can’t use the National Guard to his will, ICE is what’s left, and he and his goons seem determined to allow ICE to do whatever it wants to terrorize blue cities and states. Up to and including to influence the outcome of future elections.

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Comments

This post currently has 48 comments.

  1. @Surr3alD3sign

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    "Lawsuits arent going to stop ICE but itll give the federal governmenr a headache" yeah right up until they decide they dont care about trying to change the rules of the game anymore and just start blatantly executing anyone who doesnt side with them… just like the nazis did, and history repeats itself right before our fucking eyes 😒 we are literally watching adolf hitlers rise to power and there is nothing you or I or anyone else can do to stop it bc the single most effective propaganda ever put to the masses was that peaceful protest works and thus nobody will do anything to fight back other than bitch and moan in the streets… welcome to the death of democracy and the fall of the united states

  2. @Surr3alD3sign

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    3:30 say whatever you want, there wont be any legal consequences for him. Theyll pretend to charge him but in the end, as is typical, he'll just get paid time off and rotated out of the spotlight until they can create a bigger media story to make people forget about him. Just like they ALWAYS do 😒 the law doesnt apply to them and never has. The "justice" system is a joke weighted in favor of those in charge. An officer could blatantly beat an unarmed elderly woman to death with a brick in full view of 100 cameras and the worst theyd get is a slap on the wrist. This has been the status quote for decades now and every single time they do the whole dance of pretending to charge them just to drop the charges and let them slip out of the spotlight.

    With the nazis it was the jews, with these monsters its the lgbtq+ and by the end of this year we will be in camps, mark my fucking words… its only a matter of time

  3. @rickwiles8835

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    When it seems this country and this administration are nothing but a giant, putrid cesspit, it's nice to find something that restores your faith in humanity.

    I saw an article describing the bravery and charity of your fellow townsfolk.

    Minneapolis residents have joined a church-run effort to donate and deliver groceries to immigrant families who fear being caught in public by federal agents. What started with a couple of hundred deliveries a week has quickly swelled into a vast operation involving thousands of volunteers. Go Minneapolis! There is hope.

  4. @Martinez_282

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    Estaba pensando emigrar, pero creo que mejor esperaré unos años.
    Soy un profesional, soy liberal y podré prosperar mejor en EEUU que en Perú, debo creo que mejor esperaré unos años.

  5. @Eclipse2x3

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    I remember asking my social study’s teacher about what would happen if someone in the government such as the president just decided to disregard the constitution, and her response at the time was “that would never happen.” Man…. I wish she was right…

  6. @hope1785

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    They have the money…they lowered the bar. Anyone wanting money and filled with hate is hired to terrorize working communities. I hope people are prepared.

  7. @WhimsicalCheetah

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    I have a feeling we’re going to get double agents very soon, like there were double agents disguised as Nazis. Cannot wait to watch it all be torn apart from the inside out with the minimal requirements, and basing your recruitment status with your beliefs. One, it’s a lie if you get caught lying. Two, this is very lenient training and requirements which will backfire tremendously. Three, this is modern warfare reenacting WW2.
    We are in the same timeline when the Nazi regime reined Germany and when Adolf Hitler rose to power. If you want some form of hope, look up the war hero’s and whoever fought against the Nazis because it gets hilariously crazy. I can see that happening again as long as we do not cower and fight each other

  8. @pmheart6

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    Not 2/3rd? If it's just 60/40, I can see another 10% that still holds seats join the wave.

    The big question is will they try an push the midterms off. If there is an active war in Minnesota and other Democrat / swing states. What's that do

  9. @PEG-lu4ks

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    Keep fighting to good fight Minnesota! Watching from up North in Canada. You are the first line of defence against authoritarianism and Neo-Nazism in America. Wishing you all stay safe while giving ICE ice!

  10. @davidmccartney3433

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    My feelings is that all of this shit going on in Minnesota and elsewhere, has Steven Millers name all over this. You commented on Miller before. He’s a bitter, nasty, bald man whom everyone hates.

  11. @nunusaidquacc7357

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    „There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this: freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the world. There are whole groups, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this: The authoritarian need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. And the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. „

  12. @Thomas-c3e7e

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    The fact that he has already declared wartime powers or at least that's my understanding 🤔
    Maybe I'm wrong about that but I think the mid terms are going to be probably a bloody time!!

  13. @Chris.tabias

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    Ice is fighting in Minnesota, especially in Minneapolis and St Paul because Trump is trying the scare people to vote red and change this state to red. We all know that the reason we are a blue state is the high population In Minneapolis and St Paul and the surrounding cities. You go outside those cities and it’s mostly red except Duluth and the iron range but they to are voting more red. This is definitely a training ground to see what he can get away with. How far can he go with his gestapo army, and how does it make people feel. Back in the 1939’s when Hitler unleashed the Gestapo, at first it was to see if people would follow suit, to see how people would react and to see how far he could push things. Trump is following the same play book. He’s tried it in LA, and Chicago, but Minnesota is different because we are more of a split state. If he wins here then he’ll keep going, so it’s time we the people stand up, and fight back. We can’t let Trump win, we have to fight no matter what and lift each other up and make sure we are doing what’s right and not letting the Nazi’s win!!!

  14. @dazross8729

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    It is worse than just being a training ground. They are also aggressively DEHUMANISING anyone that they consider a political enemy. Look at the disgusting way MAGA and their media boosters talk about Renee Good- murdering her in cold blood was not enough for these evil goons, they now slander and defile her in her death.

    It is SO IMPORTANT for you to understand why this matters- it matters because it is the next step towards a political genocide. They are amping their supporters up to the point at which you are seen as subhuman. This makes violence against you easy. History is CRYSTAL CLEAR on this – Nazi Germany did this, the Hutu government did this in Rwanda (for months before the genocide they labelled the Tutsi people as cockroaches who needed extermination).

    So WAKE UP! Prepare today. Arm yourselves. They are coming for you. ICE is practicing on ‘illegal immigrants’- but the main game is to kidnap, imprison and even kill anyone who is not MAGA. This is a red alert – you must act now.

  15. @martinnicholls9056

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    I’ll say again, Leeja… NOT Gestapo. You mean Sturmabteilung (SA, Storm troopers or brown shirts). The Gestapo were the Nazi secret police (hence the name, Geheimer Staats Politzei) and they operated in the shadows and their terror was during interrogation or infiltration. The SA were Hitler’s thuggish paramilitary under the leadership of Ernst Rohm. Apart from military training they were largely untrained bullies. Sounds a lot like ICE to me. As yet, there is nothing analogous to the Gestapo in the Trump regime… yet!

  16. @justonetakeblog

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    The Third Reich built Auschwitz to house its own workforce in dismal living conditions. This and other work camps were build near key sites of industrial development. It is both sinister and brilliant – no need to pay people a living wage if a regime can reduce a man's cost of living to a drafty dormitory, moldy bread, and unclean water. When there is nobody left to deported, I wonder how the deportation centers will be repurposed.

  17. @bigc2001

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    As a centrist who is somewhat torn on Trumps immigration policy, I now see why so many on the left are calling him Hitler and ICE his "Gestapo". This video is fearmongering slop lmao. This is either ignorance or gaslighting. You guys gotta wake tf up or people like Trump r gonna keep on winning our elections.

  18. @Kurashinno

    April 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    Why are we not looking at the election tampering by the GOP, Musk, etc? Trump has stated point blank that the election was rigged in 24. Are we just too overwhelmed to care?

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