Ananya Garg wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Ananya is a solutions journalism reporting intern for YES!, poet and educator in Seattle. Follow her on Twitter @OriginalAnanya.
The day when they can turn their resistance against the regime into electoral power, take back control of the legislative branch, and start using the powers of Congress to hold this criminal regime accountable.
Legal scholars and political scientists say the Trump administration’s escalating ICE operation, National Guard brinkmanship, and Insurrection Act threats in Minnesota closely resemble conditions identified in civil war simulations, raising alarms about constitutional collapse and violent state federal conflict.