This Weekend's Protests, Next Week's Shutdown - January 14, 2026
May Day Strong calls #NoICENoWar Weekend #2, did someone say general strike?, a politicized DoJ and and more
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A WEEKEND OF ACTION - #NOICENOWAR PROTESTS
MAGA’s got troops on our streets to keep us down and they’re threatening war across the globe. They’re hoping they can split our attention. But we know it’s the same struggle - bloodshed to enrich Trump’s billionaire backers. And we're taking our fight to the companies benefiting most from occupation.
The May Day Strong coalition, which aims to bring together community and labor advocates, is holding its second straight weekend of #NoICENoWar protests this Saturday and Sunday, and this week they’re putting the spotlight on ICE’s gracious hosts at Hilton Hotels. We can find those already scheduled near us on the map here. And they’re still actively recruiting organizers to launch more events - we can find a host toolkit here and register an event here.
If we want to learn more about the #NoICENoWar protests, we can join May Day Strong for a mass call TOMORROW at 8PM ET. We can register here.
We’ll roll straight from these protests to the next round of #CutTheFuel #StrikeThePump gas strikes on Monday and the #FreeAmerica walkouts at 2PM local time on Tuesday. And that’s just the beginning…
SHUTTING IT DOWN FOR “A DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM” JANUARY 23RD
Local faith leaders, union representatives and community members yesterday announced their call for a Day of Truth and Freedom next Friday, January 23rd - a one-day shutdown where they’re urging all Minnesotans not to go to work, school or go shopping in response to the murder of Renee Nicole Good and the horrors of continued deportation machine activity on the state’s streets. It’s been endorsed by major state labor unions, the faith-based social justice organization Faith in Minnesota and Indivisible Twin Cities and it will marked with a march and rally in downtown Minneapolis.
We are actively seeking more information on this effort, but for those of us who are able in and out of Minnesota, let’s do what we can to honor the call for a full shutdown on January 23rd and take our mass resistance to the next level.
Those of us who are interested in general strike efforts can sign our strike card with General Strike US here and dig into some recommended reading on how they work here.
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN COMPROMISED…
The last week has featured brutal reminder after brutal reminder of how totally Trump has hijacked and politicized the Justice Department. We’ve learned they are attempting to blackmail the chairman of the Federal Reserve into doing their bidding on interest rates with a criminal investigation and launching a whole new inquiry into New York AG Letitia James after the grand jury repeatedly rejected their first one.
Then yesterday, at least six career prosecutors in the Minneapolis U.S. Attorney’s office resigned in objection to the department’s obstruction of the state AG’s office and pressure to investigate Renee Nicole Good’s widow. Furthermore, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche flat-out declared there was no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation and five senior prosecutors announced they would leave the DoJ’s Civil Rights Division.
This is a compromised agency, using its immense power to punish the President’s enemies and protect his allies. These injustices cannot be quietly accepted as the new normal. We can find call scripts to push our members of Congress to take action to expose and punish the wrongdoings at the DoJ from 5Calls here, and an email tool to fight back against the Powell investigation here (we can send by texting SIGN PQTOHR to 50409).
…SO OTHER PROSECUTORS MUST STEP UP
Meanwhile, we cannot simply sit around and wait for a new administration to bring the ICE thugs terrorizing our streets to justice when they commit crimes.
This of course goes far beyond their cover-up and cheerleading for Renee’s killer. CNN reported Monday that Homeland Security lied in its initial statements about an ICE shooting in Maryland in December, and just weeks ago the federal government’s attempts to indict Miramar Martinez for allegedly ramming a CBP agent before he shot her fell apart in the face of evidence the agent had sideswiped her car. Moreover, we are seeing countless abuses play out on video from activists in Minnesota as the crackdown there continues.
As legal scholars and commentators have highlighted, there is a long history of state and local governments seeking indictments of federal officials for using deadly force on the job, including after Ruby Ridge. Let’s reach out to our state attorneys general and local prosecutors to demand they commit to prosecuting any crimes by ICE and CBP agents to the fullest extent of the law, since clearly the U.S. Department of Justice won’t step up. We can find scripts and email language here.
THE FCC VERSUS THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr has been a driving force behind Donald Trump’s attacks on freedom of speech and the press, fighting for the government and the billionaires to control what we’re allowed to say and hear. We thwarted his effort to strongarm media conglomerates into silencing Jimmy Kimmel, but his misuse of power goes well beyond late night. He has pressured media companies to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion practices, threatened licenses or blocked mergers based on outlets’ friendliness to the administration, steered the sale of Paramount-CBS News to the Trump-allied Ellison family, and supported appointing a content police agent aligned with Donald Trump to oversee CBS News. He’s promoting hyperconsolidation of local TV outlet ownership and granting requests favorable to Elon Musk’s satellite company SpaceX. Today, he will testify before a House subcommittee on oversight of the FCC.
The Media and Democracy Project is asking us to mark this occasion by reaching out to our reps. We should call on them to defend the First Amendment, stop Carr from weaponizing the FCC against journalists and comedians, and hold him accountable for his abuses of power. We can find talking points to use from MADP here and watch the hearing here.
CONTEST EVERY SEAT IN PENNSYLVANIA - TRAINING TOMORROW
As The Grassroots Connector reports, in 2025, Democrats won the biggest majority in the Virginia House of Delegates in 40 years by ensuring that a Democratic candidate was on the ballot for every seat. Organizers are now working to make the same thing happen in Pennsylvania - identifying and recruiting candidates for every Keystone State legislative districts so that every seat is contested and more progressives can win. We can help find prospective candidates from wherever we are! Let’s read this article in The Grassroots Connector, and then let’s sign up to learn how we can help with research and recruitment. Let’s not delay - their final virtual training is TOMORROW at 7PM ET.
STATE-SPECIFIC ACTION
MA - WE DESERVE TO KNOW WHO WANTS OUR VOTES
Each election year in Massachusetts, tens of millions of dollars are spent by groups trying to earn our votes. Voters deserve to know where that money is coming from in real time. Our current law includes a very lax reporting schedule as ballot question committees only have to report 60 days before the election, leaving an eight month window where we can’t learn anything about their contributions and spending. Legislators working with Common Cause have introduced the Ballot Spending & Transparency Act (S.507/H.868) to close that window, and it’s up for a vote in the state senate TOMORROW. Let’s use this tool to encourage our senators to vote yes.
👀 KEEPING AN EYE ON… 👀
Government funding deadline now 17 days away, tell our members of Congress to use it to rein in ICE
North Carolina Democrats registration repair day of action phonebank TOMORROW 5:30PM-8:00PM ET
We’re taking on the GOP deep in the heart of Texas and in rural Georgia in special elections this month - phonebank for LeMario Brown here and for Taylor Rehmet here and here
New York City nurses are on strike - ways to show our solidarity here
Here's a good "Freeze ICE" reference from Antonia Scatton: https://open.substack.com/pub/reframingamerica/p/a-call-to-freeze-ice?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
The Jan 23rd shutdown call from Minnesota faith and labor groups is interesting timing wise. Most strike momentum historically evaporates if there's no followthrough after initial action, but linking it directly to Renee Nicole Good's murder might keep pressure sustained. I've seen organizers try coordinated shutdowns before, and the hardest part isn't getting people to agree in theory but actually participating when it means real personal cost on that day.