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IHIP News: Trump's ICE GESTAPO Wins More FUNDING With DEMOCRAT Votes as Children Are DETAINED!
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I've Had It Podcast • Jan 23, 2026

IHIP News: Trump's ICE GESTAPO Wins More FUNDING With DEMOCRAT Votes as Children Are DETAINED!

"Kings and Pawns": Howard Bryant on What Jackie Robinson & Paul Robeson Reveal About America
Democracy Now • Jan 23, 2026

"Kings and Pawns": Howard Bryant on What Jackie Robinson & Paul Robeson Reveal About America

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s death on January 23, 1976. The actor, singer, athlete and scholar was once famous around the world, but he was attacked, blacklisted and hounded by the government for his political beliefs. Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers star who had integrated the all-white major baseball leagues, was hailed as a national hero in 1949 for testifying against Robeson before the House Un-American Activities Committee associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy. For more, we speak with sports journalist Howard Bryant, author of the new book Kings and Pawns that looks at how Robeson and Robinson’s paths intertwined at the height of the McCarthy era. “History writes people out of the story, and it’s our job to write them back in,” Bryant says. Fifty years after Paul Robeson’s death, “it’s time for a reappraisal of one of the great Americans.”

ICE Out of Minnesota: Unions & Churches Lead Economic Blackout in "Day of Truth and Freedom"
Democracy Now • Jan 23, 2026

ICE Out of Minnesota: Unions & Churches Lead Economic Blackout in "Day of Truth and Freedom"

Hundreds of businesses in Minnesota have closed for the day as part of an economic blackout to protest the surge of ICE agents into the state. Organizers of the strike include faith leaders and unions, who are encouraging people to stay home from work, school and shopping. Kieran Knutson, president of the Communications Workers of America Local 7250, says the strike comes “after weeks of living under the heavy weight of this racist campaign of terror by ICE agents” in the Twin Cities area. “Nothing runs without the working class in this country, and today we’re going to show our power.”

Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul
Democracy Now • Jan 23, 2026

Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul

The Justice Department said Thursday that it had arrested three people in Minnesota who interrupted a church service in St. Paul to protest a pastor’s role as a local ICE official. The activists involved in the protest now face charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law written to protect abortion clinics. One of the arrestees, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, had her appearance digitally altered in a photo posted online by the White House to make it look like she was crying while handcuffed. Her attorney, Jordan Kushner, tells Democracy Now! that Justice Department officials refused to let Levy Armstrong turn herself in, instead demanding an arrest at the hotel where she was staying. “This was their trophy,” says Kushner, who adds that the government “used more manipulative tactics to keep her in jail” even though “no one is detained in a case like this.”

Press Conference: Civil Rights Activists Arrested on Federal Charges for Protest at Minnesota Church
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BreakThrough News Video • Jan 23, 2026

Press Conference: Civil Rights Activists Arrested on Federal Charges for Protest at Minnesota Church

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