One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It is time for our communities to escalate as well.
January 20th there will be a nationwide walkout where people drop their things and take to the streets. The event is supposed to take place at 2:00pm local time, according to a press release by 50501 (see here)
Even from abroad, there is SO MUCH we can do! The Resistance Roundtable has prepared short presentations with links, guides, and templates to help you get started today! No matter your skill level, nor whether you can commit 30-minutes a week or several hours, there are tons of easy ways to get involved!
2025 was a year of marches that showed our collective strength. And as the threats grow, our movement must evolve and escalate. Trump and his allies have already made clear that a second term would bring a deeper wave of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and violence than the first. It is up to us all to draw a line in the sand and push back with a loud “NO!!!”
We have already started boycotting products from corporations that support Trump and Project 2025, and have made a clear message through our protests. Now it’s time to turn it up a notch and put pressure on our public officials to stop this madness which has caused more damage than we could imagine.
The question is will you join us and make that difference? Hope to see you there!
When Lyz Lenz wrote this piece and posted it a couple days ago, the title of the story was “Why Minnesota?” That was the question I had as I was putting an article together. I have a theory behind that which once it’s posted, one can mull over it. Still Trump’s tirade against Minnesota was largely unjustified, especially given the fact that the state of almost 6 million inhabitants are people who are not only progressive but also a community of colorful people, helping out wherever possible. We don’t have the theme “Minnesota Nice” for nothing and I take pride in that. 🙂 But Why Minnesota? Let’s allow Lyz to take the podium and again, feel free to comment:
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But in Minnesota, the violence is far more targeted and extreme. Trump is deploying some 3,000 ICE and CBP agents to the city, making this the largest immigration action taken by the administration thus far. And there is no end in sight. The advice on the ground in Minnesota is to settle in for a long, hard fight.
Trump seems to be using Minneapolis as a precedent for deploying the military against American citizens. Perhaps as a test case to quell any political opposition — all of which he views as insurrection.
But why Minnesota? Why the Midwest? Why pick on the land of “oh geez” niceties, Scandinavian passive aggression, hot dish, skiing, and lakes? Why pick on the suburban moms of Edina, with their Stanleys and their kids’ hockey bags? The grandmothers with their knitted sweaters and unmade-up faces? Minnesota, where the potatoes are cheesy, and the salsa is mild? Why pick on them?
Because Minnesota is far more radical and diverse than you might think when you just fly over.
Why? Well you could start with the first white settlers. In a 2020 article for the Star Tribune, former Carlton College Professor Emeritus Steven Schier is quoted explaining, “Minnesota was settled largely by churchgoing Scandinavians and Germans, who were ‘moralistic and public regarding,’ and tended to agree with the notion that government had a role to play when it’s in the best interest of everyone. That ethos has persisted in the state’s consistently high voter turnout over the years, and it has frequently benefited left-leaning candidates in elections.”
That ethos is evident in the fact that the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party was part of one of the most successful socialist movements in American history. And the belief in strong unions and a strong social safety net is an enduring part of Minnesota’s history and culture.
Even rural areas of Minnesota are strong Democratic voting blocs thanks to the unions.
The state has a history of social activism and social conscience.
But there are other factors at play.
Minneapolis has a large Somali population. Nearly 80,000 people of Somali descent currently live in Minnesota, roughly 78% of whom reside in the Twin Cities. The diaspora began in the ’90s, when Somalia was being torn apart by civil war, drought, and famine. So many came as refugees, through the efforts of churches and missionary organizations. But another factor was a changing political climate in Minnesota, aided by the civil rights movement, that offered a hospitable welcome.
This was underscored in 2020, when the city became the site of mass protests after the death of George Floyd.
It wasn’t just Floyd, either — there were other Black men who’d died as a result of police brutality in Minnesota. So when Floyd was killed, and there was video, which allowed everyone with internet access to see the injustice so clearly, it catalyzed a worldwide movement for racial equality. That movement coincided with the year of the pandemic shutdowns and an election that Donald Trump lost.
The protests and that movement, whatever else they were, were humiliating for Trump. And since taking office, Trump has targeted Minnesota for his most punitive actions. It’s racism against Muslims, Black people, and Brown people, yes. But it’s also retribution against his political enemies. Trump has repeatedly gone after people who dared to try to stop him, and Tim Walz, the beloved governor of Minnesota, ran against Trump and JD Vance as Kamala Harris’ running mate.
The state is also liberal; a place where Trump can antagonize his political opponents. This weekend, the Justice Department announced it’s investigating Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. It’s a shit-on-the-libs move designed to fire up the Trump political base. There is also the issue of daycare fraud. While the fraud is not as widespread as elected Republicans would have you believe, it was still a problem in the state in 2019, and the latent resentments make it a political minefield that is easy to exploit.
But there is another element here too.
Misogyny.
You can argue against the efficacy of those 2020 protests. But I won’t. I believe protest is effective even if it doesn’t bring about immediate change, because protest builds community. And this is being proved now, in 2026, as the community organizing efforts that began in 2020 are active and mobilizing once again. This time, these groups are working to feed their neighbors and tracking ICE, and they are predominantly made up of women.
Renee Good died because she was one of those women. A woman doing the work to protect her community.
And that matters. You can see it matters. Fox News host Jesse Watters slammed single women for protesting. He said they were doing it because they hadn’t become mothers yet and were channeling a biological urge to “mother” the immigrants. Watters’ rant includes a terrifying line: “Women need to be protected whether they like it or not.” Another Fox News commentator railed against gangs of antifa-trained wine moms.
It’s an interesting contrast with the much-cited statistic of 53 percent of white women who voted for Trump in 2020.
You can hear the outrage in the Fox News insults. It’s an outrage that expresses betrayal. White women were supposed to be on their side. They were supposed to be subservient and subdued.
But they aren’t.
And this is a problem. Because one key basis of anti-immigrant rhetoric has always been the dangers of immigrants to white women’s bodies. This is a lie, of course. Immigrants are not out in the streets raping and killing white women. In fact, statistically the biggest threat to white women is their own husbands and partners. But if the very basis of anti-immigrant rhetoric won’t comply with a campaign of fear, well it makes the real violent actors — the administration — look foolish. This explains Watters’ terrifying comment about protecting women whether they want it or not.
The women were supposed to get in line. Start dating. Start marrying. Start having babies. But women, despite the rhetoric and the trad-wife propaganda, are refusing. They aren’t marrying, they aren’t having kids, and if they are, they’re doing it on their terms. No matter how much David Brooks tells women their independence is are causing the problems with society, liberal white women will not get in line.
“You will be protected!” this administration shouts, “if we have to shoot you to do it.”
Women were supposed to just sip from their Stanley cups and make dinner as ICE invaded the state. They were not supposed to use those Stanleys as weapons and give that dinner to their neighbors.
This, too, answers the question why Minnesota? Because of the stubborn refusal of women to comply.
But behind every reason why Trump would attack Minnesota is every reason why I love the Midwest.
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Thanks, Lyz. ❤
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Reminder to those who are active in defending democracy, January 30th is the day money runs out. Trump is demanding that the DHS, which ICE belongs to, is funded with an additional $1.7 trillion to expand its oppressive operations. It’s time to break quorum and shut everything down. To learn how, click here:
Following up on the last post about Greenland and the implications it would have with a US invasion which would go well-beyond our frontier (See the article on the Suidice Pact, here), we look at the motives behind the conquest of Greenland. There have been many stories on what Trump has for Greenland that he wants so badly and the strategies that go along with that, such as flooding the public so that they are exhausted, while he stalks his prey. This includes the theory about his working for Putin and filling his war chest, which would constitute treason on both sides of the Atlantic (see this article here). But as you can see in this article by Geopolitics in Plain Sight, there is a lot more at stake than national security. It has to do with rare resources and manifest destiny, among other things:
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What if I told you the real battle for the 21st century isn’t being fought in Taiwan, Ukraine, or the Middle East—but on a massive ice sheet that most people can’t even find on a map?
Greenland is not a joke in Trump’s world. It is not a distraction. It is the place where rare earths, Arctic sea lanes, and missile warning systems intersect—and where NATO’s future and Europe’s sovereignty are suddenly, brutally, on the line.
A New Arctic Map: Why Greenland Suddenly Sits at the Centre
Here’s what they’re not telling you in the mainstream press:
And Greenland? It sits on the western side of that corridor.
It anchors the GIUK gap (Greenland–Iceland–UK), the narrow gateway where NATO has tracked Russian submarines for decades and where future Arctic traffic will bottleneck. For Trump, whoever controls Greenland does not just hold an island—they hold the lock on the door between North America, Europe, and Eurasia.
This is geopolitics in plain sight. The map is literally melting, and the pieces are moving.
Minerals and Missiles: What Trump Actually Wants
Let me pull back the curtain even further.
Under Greenland’s ice lie some of the world’s most promising deposits of rare earth elements at sites like Tanbreez and Kvanefjeld, alongside uranium, zinc, and other critical minerals needed for chips, EV batteries, missiles, and satellites. One recent assessment places Greenland eighth globally in rare‑earth reserves, with roughly 1.5 million tons—enough to matter if even a fraction becomes commercially viable.
Stop and think about that for a second. The U.S. knows it is dangerously dependent on China, which still dominates global rare‑earth processing and supplies. Washington has already explored financing Greenland projects to loosen that chokehold. Trump is simply doing what he always does: saying the quiet logic out loud—that if he can pull Greenland into America’s direct orbit, he gets leverage over the hardware of the 21st century, not just the oil of the 20th.
But it gets deeper.
Militarily, the U.S. is already there. Under a 1951 defence agreement with Denmark, the Pituffik (Thule) Space Base in northwest Greenland hosts radar and space‑surveillance systems that feed U.S. missile warning and missile defence. From there, Washington watches Russian submarines cross the North Atlantic and tracks objects in space. NATO diplomats now say the base could be expanded further as part of a wider Arctic posture.
In Trump’s own words, a presence is not enough: he has argued that “you don’t defend leases, you defend ownership,” and that the U.S. must “own” Greenland to stop Russia or China from taking it first.
That is the core of his Greenland doctrine: turn a NATO‑leased frontline into U.S.‑owned territory.
And almost nobody is connecting these dots publicly. Almost nobody—except here.
Trump’s Method: From Real‑Estate Joke to Annexation Threat
Remember? When Trump floated the idea of “buying” Greenland and the world laughed it off as another bizarre Trump headline?
In the near term, Trump’s most realistic tools are soft coercion—tariffs, sanctions, and leveraging NATO deployments—while any actual use of force against Greenland would run straight into the new congressional bans being drafted and almost certain court challenges.
This is the pattern: Trump pushes the Overton window towards the “hard way,” Congress scrambles to write guardrails, and U.S. allies are left wondering how much they can trust the alliance when the loudest voice in it is talking about seizing another member’s land.
You won’t see this analysis anywhere else. This is what happens when you strip away the noise and look at geopolitics in plain sight.
Denmark’s prime minister has warned that an attack on Greenland would “end NATO,” stressing that the U.S. already enjoys access through the existing defence agreement and does not need to redraw borders. In response to U.S. rhetoric, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, and Norway have sent small but symbolic contingents—dozens of troops each—for exercises in Greenland to underline that this is alliance soil.
At the same time, Europe is painfully aware of its dependence: the EU relies on U.S. security guarantees, U.S. energy flows, and U.S. technology, and many member states already fear a second Trump term will mean tariffs, secondary sanctions, and political punishment for any sign of disobedience.
Behind the public statements, European diplomats are therefore working overtime on two tracks: quietly engaging Congress and the Pentagon to box Trump in legally, and quietly signalling to Washington that Europe is willing to discuss Arctic burden‑sharing as long as it does not mean a map change.
That is Europe’s trap. If it accepts Trump’s logic—“security needs justify tearing land away from a neighbour”—it will struggle to resist the same logic when Russia applies it in Eastern Europe. If it resists too hard, it risks triggering the first NATO‑versus‑NATO crisis in the alliance’s history.
This is the naked truth they don’t want you to see. Europe is caught between sovereignty and survival, and the clock is ticking.
And then there’s the wildcard nobody’s talking about enough: Beijing is watching closely.
China calls itself a “near‑Arctic state,” has invested in Greenlandic mining and infrastructure, and sees Arctic sea lanes as part of a longer‑term strategy to diversify away from chokepoints like the Malacca Strait. If Europe becomes a new theatre of U.S.–China competition over Greenland—Washington pushing for control, Beijing dangling capital and markets—European states risk being squeezed from both sides while the island’s 56,000 people are forced to live with the consequences.
Trump’s Greenland game is not pre‑emptive defence. It is a push for absolute control over Arctic choke points, mineral supply chains, and missile warning architecture before Russia and China lock in their own positions.
Europe will protest loudly and negotiate quietly, because it knows that in this new Arctic century the fight is no longer only about Greenland’s strategic autonomy—it is a test of whether Europe’s own sovereignty still means anything when the map starts to melt.
The Reckoning You Can’t Afford to Miss
This is not theory. This is the power shift reshaping your world right now.
While headlines chase noise, Geopolitics in Plain Sight delivers the brutal clarity that reveals what’s actually happening. No corporate filter. No pundit spin. Just the raw geopolitical architecture of the Arctic century—the rare earths war, the choke point seizure, and NATO’s existential crisis—laid bare before your eyes.
The mainstream media will catch up in six months. You’re reading it today.
If this opened your eyes to the hidden battle for Greenland, don’t let it stop here. Hit like. Share this breakdown. Restack it so others see what’s coming. And subscribe—because this level of geopolitical insight doesn’t exist anywhere else, and the next revelation is already being written.
The Arctic is melting. The rare earths war has begun. NATO’s reckoning is here.
The only question left: Will you be one of the few who saw the map change before it was too late?
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Additional Resources:
For readers who want to go beyond this breakdown, here are a few key primary sources and deep‑dive analyses behind this piece:
Reminder to those who are active in defending democracy, January 30th is the day money runs out. Trump is demanding that the DHS, which ICE belongs to, is funded with an additional $1.7 trillion to expand its oppressive operations. It’s time to break quorum and shut everything down. To learn how, click here:
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