✊🏽 People Power
Memos Don't Last. Movements Do.
📡 On my Radar
Minneapolis is the nightmare scenario my colleagues and I spent years trying to prevent.
Working on civil rights policies at DHS during the Obama administration, we built policies for exactly this moment.
Anti-masking requirements, because identification reduces fear and enables accountability.
Restrictions on “Police” uniforms for agents who aren’t police.
Sensitive locations protections to prevent ICE from making arrests at hospitals, houses of worship, schools - so parents could take kids to school without fear.
These weren’t radical ideas. They survived Trump’s first term. But on January 20, 2025, they were wiped out with a single signature.
I believed good policy, carefully built, could hold.
I was wrong.
Policy at the pleasure of the president is just that, at his pleasure. If we want these protections to last, they need to be legislated, litigated, or built at the state level. More importantly, they must be fought for.
What’s happening in Minneapolis reminds me that experts can craft policy, leaders can change it, but only the people can make protection permanent. Those 50,000 people in subzero cold, the general strike, the clergy arrests at the airport, that’s what durability actually looks like.
Not memos. Movements.
📈 By the Numbers
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