Inside the Minneapolis Insurgency

Summary

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Episode Title: Inside the Minneapolis Insurgency
Date: January 26, 2026
Host: Charlie Kirk (with Andrew Colvett and Blake Neff)
Featured Guest: Cam Higby, independent journalist on the ground in Minneapolis

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Overview

In this episode, Charlie Kirk and his team provide a deep-dive into the escalating clashes between activists and federal law enforcement in Minneapolis. The discussion explores the recent fatal shootings of protesters by ICE and DHS officers, the increasingly organized tactics of anti-ICE activists, the political implications, and the response from both conservative and progressive leaders. Special focus is placed on first-hand reporting by Cam Higby, who infiltrated activist communication channels to expose their methods and organization.

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Key Themes and Insights

1. Escalating Confrontation in Minneapolis

• The episode centers on two recent fatal encounters between protesters and DHS/ICE officers: Renee Goode and Alex Preddy.
• Host and guests emphasize the transition from spontaneous protest to what they characterize as an "organized insurgency" targeting federal law enforcement.
• The cold weather has not diminished activist turnout, with significant organization occurring through digital channels (esp. Signal chats).

“This is a low-level insurgency... This is organized, it's financed, and they are pushing everybody to the brink on purpose.”
— Andrew Colvett (04:44)

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2. Analysis of Protest Tactics and Law Enforcement Response

• Protesters are said to be: following ICE convoys, blowing whistles, honking horns, blocking vehicles, and broadcasting plate numbers.
• The strategy aims to “maximize friction” and provoke incidents, which the hosts argue is calculated and “designed” to generate casualties and narrative victories.
• The hosts repeatedly stress that activists are intentionally seeking to nullify federal authority.

“Once you ... pull ICE out of Minneapolis, you've established that actually rioters and insurgents have the ability to nullify federal law with the connivance of their local and state government. You just can't allow that.”
— Blake Neff (06:48)

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3. Activist Networks and Coordination

• Cam Higby describes infiltrating encrypted Signal groups, which serve as command-and-control centers for rapid response and obstruction of ICE operations.
  • Roles in the networks: motor patrols, stationary and foot patrols, plate checkers, dispatchers.
  • Databases are maintained to track and label suspected federal vehicles and agents.
  • State politicians and paid organizers are alleged to be participating.
  • Recent exposure (leak) led to the network being “nuked,” but it was quickly rebuilt.

“They have several occupations: people on motor patrol, stationary patrols, foot patrols, plate checkers... And their goal is to impede federal law enforcement. That’s their expressly stated goal.”
— Cam Higby (22:18)

• Notable figures identified as involved: Amanda Kohler (Tim Walz campaign strategist), Anita Smithson (Senate candidate), David Snyder.

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4. Political Context and Division

• The show highlights the political split between those calling for ICE and Border Patrol defunding (quoting senators and House members), and those demanding federal supremacy and law enforcement.
• Criticism is levied against Republicans perceived to equivocate on deportation policy.
• Hosts characterize the progressive activist agenda as “revolutionary,” aiming at border abolition and intentional lawlessness.

“They basically want to abolish the United States. Because if the United States doesn't have a border, it's not a country anyone can come here. It's like a free zone.”
— Blake Neff (13:35)

• Clips include Democrats comparing DHS action to historical repression and accusing the Trump administration of “terrorizing” communities.

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5. Calls for Conservative Resolve

• There’s repeated insistence on “not blinking,” “holding the line,” and developing “immunity” to activist “sob stories.”
• Support for invoking the Insurrection Act and deploying counterinsurgency tactics is voiced, albeit stressing lawful, non-lethal action.

“You do an Insurrection Act because you want everybody safe. Obviously there are extremely unsafe situations happening in the streets of Minneapolis.”
— Andrew Colvett (07:57)

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6. Behind-the-Scenes Guerrilla Journalism: Cam Higby’s Reporting

• Cam recounts tracking protester channels, directly observing coordination, and verifying ICE operations persist despite activist interference.
• Cam notes direct involvement in rapidly changing, sometimes violent protest environments, and the need for public support for independent reporting.

“I just do info dumps and I say I recorded everything inside the Signal chats. Here it all is. And then other people go and they find out the names of the people who are in the chats and stuff like that.”
— Cam Higby (28:22)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Law Enforcement’s Challenges:

  “My instinct, without fail, is always to be in defense of law enforcement. And yours should be that way too, because they have a very difficult job.” — Andrew Colvett (38:18)

• On Activist Motivation and Psychology:

  “This is deadly serious theater kids that are trying to go toe to toe with law enforcement. And that's why this is always going to end poorly because they don't know how to respect law enforcement.” — Andrew Colvett (18:41)

• On the Need for Conservative Resistance:

  “We must not blink this time. There’s 10 to 20 million illegals that Joe Biden let into this country. We're cleaning up their mess now.” — Andrew Colvett (05:52)

• On the Infiltration Experience:

  “As soon as you enter Southside Minneapolis, you automatically have three people following you. We would just right turn and a right turn and a right turn, go in a complete circle, and they're still following us.” — Cam Higby (24:52)

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Important Timestamps

• 01:09: Andrew Colvett introduces Minneapolis situation and frames the incident.
• 03:08: Blake Neff clarifies protesters’ tactics and motivations.
• 04:40–05:52: Hosts describe the “insurgency” framework and the political imperative to resist.
• 20:15: Introduction of Cam Higby and his investigative methods.
• 22:18: Cam explains detailed tactics of Signal chat networks.
• 27:02: Assessment of ICE’s ability to operate under pressure.
• 28:12: Discussion of possible insider leaks and the sophistication of activist infrastructure.
• 33:59–35:26: Colvett and Neff discuss the role of activists, “normie” radicals, and the effectiveness of left-wing organizing.
• 38:41: Discussion of the origins of current crisis and law enforcement challenges.
• 39:31: Analysis of Trump’s involvement, Tom Homan’s role, and hopes for de-escalation.

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Conclusion

The episode concludes with a strong, repeated call to reject compromise on immigration and law enforcement, frame the ongoing Minneapolis unrest as an organized, subversive threat, and offer practical resistance through policy, moral resolve, and public awareness. The narrative is one of urgency, confrontation, and a belief in the existential stakes for American sovereignty and legal order.

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For more: Visit charliekirk.com or follow Cam Higby’s independent reporting for direct updates from Minneapolis.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

All right. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. It's January 26, 2026. Lots going on in Minneapolis. That's where we are going to start this morning. I'm Andrew Colvett, executive producer of this show. Blake Neff here in studio in sunny Phoenix. I was under the impression that Minneapolis was going to be much more reserved over the weekend because of the chill, but it turns out there was no chill. That was not zero chill in Minneapolis. And of course, we are talking about another protester that was shot by DHS officers. Lots of details in this. We have people slowing down the footage, playing it back, looking at, now, listen, this gentleman, Pretty Preddy was armed. He was resisting arrest. I'm not here to defend all of the actions, but I will tell you this. I am sick and tired of liberal protesters acting like kamikaze agents and, you know, going right into the middle of an ICE operation, which is law enforcement, federal law enforcement, and not respecting authority. This is why I think you're missing the point. If you're arguing about whether or not he was pulling for his gun, if he wasn't, you were missing the point. The point is when you get pulled over and you have a weapon in your car, what you're supposed to do, the first thing you're supposed to do is you're supposed to put your hands, turn the car off, put your hands on the dash, roll down your window, and then you say, officer, I have a weapon in the car. That's the first thing you do. It is a responsibility. If you go into A crowd, if you are out in public and you are carrying a firearm to let law enforcement know. The complete and utter lack of respect for law enforcement is what continually is causing these melees to happen in the open street. But there's so much to get to, so much. We could, we could take this from about 18 different angles.

[C]

It's important because there's a lot of reaction to this. And we said this after the first incident, but it's worth repeating because it's even more important after the second one. A few people have said, oh, well, you actually don't have a right to bring a gun to a protest. You do have a right to bring a gun to protest in America. But let's also be clear. This was not just a march. It was not just people standing. This was, people were getting in scuffles with these ICE officers. They're doing this friction, this low level violence with them constantly. And that's what happened with this guy where he's getting tackled by all these ICE officers. And we don't, as you said, we don't need to get into exactly how this occurred. It seems like it was an unintended tragedy. But the reason this is happening is because the strategy of the people who are opposed to ICE is to maximize the friction that is going on. Every time ICE goes anywhere, they're getting harassed at by people, they're getting screamed at by people. They have to worry, oh, is someone here about to pull a gun and shoot us? Because people online are openly calling to do that. It's happened in Dallas. People have opened, they're getting rammed on ice. People, they've been rammed. They're all blowing on these whistles constantly, which is clearly not needed to actually warn anyone, which is what their claim is. It's actually just to constantly annoy and freak people out. I mean, you can watch the video. There's just these whistles going off endlessly. And they're creating a situation where everyone is maximally stressed out. They're maximally concerned something could go wrong. And something like this, whether it should happen or not, something like this happening.

[B]

Is inevitable, completely inevitable.

[C]

And that is the point.

[B]

Yeah, this is a low level insurgency. They're trying to avoid overtly kinetic engagements with these law enforcement officers. But this is organized, it's financed, and they are pushing everybody to the brink on purpose. And that's the key here, guys. This is all intentional. They are pushing for casualties. They maybe don't want to be it themselves. They maybe don't want, you know, they want to Go home to their loved ones or friends or whatever. I'm not saying that. But they fully understand that when you pressure and stress law enforcement, and you do it repeatedly over the course of days and now weeks, something is going to happen. And now we've had two instances in Minneapolis, first with Renee Goode and now with Preddy, where two Americans are dead. And guess what? We don't blink. This is not the time to get weak in the knees and blink, because that is exactly what they want. That's exactly what they want us to do. They want us to back down. And the message has to be clear. You don't throw a tantrum and get your way in America. We have laws, we have order, and we will enforce them. Doesn't matter if you're financed. Doesn't matter if you have a thousand people on a signal chat and you're harassing ICE agents and looking around, you have to remember, we as a conservative movement, we as Americans must build up immunities to these tactics. Why are they doing this? Because it has worked. Because Republicans buckle at the knees. Because they blink. We must not blink this time. There's 10 to 20 million illegals that Joe Biden led into this country. We're cleaning up their mess Now. I'm all for the president working with Tim Waltz. He just put out a true social saying that they've talked on the phone and they seem to be on the same wavelength. Good. We don't want an insurgent force in the state of Minneapolis. We do not want a radicalized population in George Floyd zone. We want the governors to do the right things. We want the mayors to do the right things. And what is the right thing? You are part of a Republic. You are one state in 50. You must obey. You must collaborate with the federal law enforcement. That's the compact.

[C]

And that remains the biggest challenge of all of this. Because we don't want Minneapolis boiling over into some bloodbath. But you also, you can't. You can't just leave. You can't just say, we're going to turn down the temperature by pulling ice out of Minneapolis. Because once you've done that, you've established that actually rioters and insurgents have the ability to nullify federal law with the connivance of their local and state government. You just can't allow that. Once you do that, that's not even just embarrassing for the administration. That's catastrophic for the country.

[A]

That's.

[C]

Every other country in the world can go. Wait. The United States doesn't even control its own Interior, that is the empire is falling apart.

[B]

Yes. If President Trump wants to call the Insurrection act yesterday, I'm good with it. You have to squash this. This is a formalized, organized insurgent force. Now, they've got tactics.

[C]

That doesn't mean IEDs. No, it does mean a systematic attempt to bring the peace to prevent. A systematic attempt is being launched by people who are not the government to dissolve the power of the federal government in Minneapolis.

[B]

Well, this is an insurgent force and you need counterinsurgency tactics. And I'm not saying. Yeah, we're not saying blowing people up. We want everybody safe. That's the point. You do an insurrection act because you want everybody safe. Obviously, there are extremely unsafe situations happening in the streets of Minneapolis. You got these protesters going to these hotels, vandalizing them, breaking it. These videos that are going around of, you got one DHS agent standing at a door, armed, telling everybody to get back and stay back in the middle of the freezing cold in Minneapolis. That should not be a scene that you see in the streets of America. The police in Minneapolis being told to stand down. That should be criminal. Hedge need to roll. Indictments need to come. There needs to be consequences for defying federal law enforcement. There needs to be consequences for inciting and whooping up crowds and having a bat signal out in the whole country telling every antifa member all over the country that Minneapolis is your Fallujah. That's not gonna happen. That's not gonna stand. And you do not get to where you wanna go here. If you bend the knee, if you blink, if you give in, if you tell them that their little tantrums are going to be successful. I'm looking at you, Governor Stitt. Lindsey Graham. We're not gonna put up with that. Not here in the United States of America. We have law and order. We have rules. We are going to follow them. I'm just gonna play this clip though, as I'm so offended by it. 221, this is Governor Stitt.

[A]

President Trump closed the border, promised to get violent criminals out of our country. And I think everybody agrees with that. But now Americans are asking themselves, what is the end game? What is the solution? What's the goal right now? Is it to deport every single non US Citizen? I don't think that's what Americans want.

[B]

No.

[C]

The goal is to deport every illegal.

[B]

Immigrant, illegal anybody who is here uninvited against our laws. Yeah, they gotta go. Governor Stitt, I don't like it when Republicans, by the way, run to CNN to Go. What? What, like get reinvited to the cocktail party? Are you looking at the end of your term and you want to be an eat me last Republican? No, thank you. No, you gotta hold the line here. That's the bottom line. We're holding the line. They want us to bend. They want us to blink. Do not blink.

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[C]

We should tee this up, I think, because what we are getting is big picture. You're having an organized operation by the Democrats with their activist arm, with their state and local arms, and yes, with their national arm to abolish federal law and also kind of go back to abolishing the border. Because the new demand, like what they're really pushing for after the shooting this past week, is that they need to have a total defunding of ICE and the Border Patrol. Well, okay, if you just defund them, we don't have a border anymore. Yeah, it's just gone.

[B]

It's.

[C]

It's all back to the Biden era. And that's what they're demanding. So we should play this.

[B]

We had. We had. Play what?

[C]

Well, we have clips of them demanding. So, for example, that's fine. We have Adam Schiff, Democrat. Senator, clip 209.

[D]

If Democrats vote against this DHS funding measure. My question for you, Senator, are you prepared to vote against DHS funding if it means partially shutting down the government.

[B]

Again, coming on the heels of an incredibly long shutdown?

[A]

Well, I'm not giving ICE or Border Patrol another dime.

[B]

Hmm. How about Seth Said Seth Moulton. This guy's a real peach. I mean, these guys are. Their whole tactic is to go throw a tantrum. They want you to bend the knee. Not gonna happen. We do not blink. I'll say it again and again and again. I do not respond to terroristic threats. I do not respond to petty tantrums. You should not do that either. We should not do that. As a movement. 202.

[E]

People are scared. People are really scared. And they're scared for good reason. And I would love to be on your show telling everybody it's gonna be okay. Don't worry. This terror will not be coming home to you. But I can't say that because it is the explicit intent of this administration from Trump on down, to terrorize blue cities across America.

[B]

So, I mean. And he just keeps going.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, Tim Walls had a line. He made the comparison to Anne Frank hiding in the attic. Against.

[B]

Against direct incitement.

[C]

It is. It is. They're really. They're whipping people up. And I actually, I would have. Personally, I would avoid using the word tantrum because it's so much more sinister. This is not babies complaining to get what they want. This is a real revolutionary agenda that they want to abolish. They basically want to abolish the United States. Because if the United States doesn't have a border, it's not a country anyone can come here. It's like a free zone. And they want to achieve that. They did achieve it under Biden. It was absolutely ruinous for the country. And the mere act of trying to undo all of the damage that Biden did, they have gone into an absolutely spectacular meltdown. They're trying to destroy. They're trying to kill police. They're trying to get cities destroyed. They're willing to do basically anything. They have doctors in Florida threatening to, like, kill people who come in for surgery. And they're doing all of this because they want to abolish the country. This is a very revolutionary agenda.

[B]

Completely agree. Here's Senator Van Hollen. Remember, he was the one sipping MARGARITAS with Maryland Dad 208.

[D]

The reality is that the real domestic terrorists, they're in the White House right now. They're people like Stephen Miller. They're people like Donald Trump. They're the ones who are terrorizing the community. These communities having nothing to do with. With public safety. People across the political spectrum are looking at what they're seeing on the videotape and listening to the lies coming out of the White House and that they're agreeing with those of us who say we cannot continue to provide one dime to this lawless Trump operation.

[B]

You've got liberals all over TikTok saying it's time to die for the cause. Does that sound like business as usual?

[C]

They are whipping people off.

[B]

Does this sound like, you know, this is just run of the mill peaceful protests? Good trouble? No, this is why you have armed men going into the crowds and confronting and resisting arrest when DHS tries to subdue them. I'm not saying everything was perfect in that interaction. What I'm saying is this is why you're having these interactions. This is why ICE is whipped up and scared and on guard, intense in the first place. We should play some of these videos if you have a comment. Blake Fleet.

[C]

Well, they're just. They're constantly engineering things to make everything worse to make things more violent. They're encouraging the DRS tactics. That's a big one. Where, oh, anytime ICE is trying to detain someone, try to get in the way and fight with them. That is how you get stuff like what happened on Saturday or Friday, whatever day.

[B]

I mean, I literally have a clip sheet here. I have seven clips here of Lib's on TikTok going, it's time to dive for the cause, folks. 2:11.

[F]

If we don't have an ICE uniform on, we're not safe. Make sure you have your affairs in order. I'm going to work on getting mine in order because rights don't exist in this country anymore for US citizens.

[B]

The heck are you even talking about? All Preddy had to do was say, officer, Mr. Agent, Mr. Whatever. I have a weapon on me. It's legal. Here you go. Hands up. Hands where you can see them. Yeah, I'm here to protest. I don't want deportations, but I'm armed. Just want you to know that. And then it would have de. Escalated the good old fashioned way. 212. Got another one. 212.

[G]

I think I'm willing to die for this. But we lack a clear plan beyond basically complaining in all its forms. The good people in this country aren't asking for another peaceful protest that fizzles out by Monday. We're not asking for catchy slogans or edgy T shirts. We're asking for direction. The largest force in this country is standing by, waiting for someone with a platform to say, here's how we organize. Here's how we apply pressure. Here's how we move deliberately, relentlessly, and without illusion. Tell us where to be, what to do, and what to bring.

[B]

Go to 214. We could play these all day. 214.

[F]

Hey. So they're gonna kill us anyway. So I think maybe we should just mop, mop them. I mean, I don't. We have to do something like we have to as bystanders mob them like that. Like Full American Revolution, like hiding in trees.

[C]

That username on that account is Jen Existential Crisis. Which it could just be a joke, but I think it gets at something. It's for a lot of these people, she seems mentally unwell. She's whipping herself up to cry while making a video for the camera. A lot of these people, they're taking their personal mental wellness and they're projecting it into this revolution. And for some of them, they're dead serious. But some of them, a lot of the people driving this, it's an extremely exotic political larp. They want to be in a Marvel movie or a Star wars movie or their favorite like a Les Miserables musical.

[B]

And this is deadly serious theater kids that are trying to go toe to toe with law enforcement. And that's why this is always going to end poorly because they don't know how to respect law enforcement. They fundamentally disrespect law enforcement and, and they want a revolution. This must be quelled and it must be quelled quickly. Hey guys, if you've been a faithful Kirk podcast listener for any amount of time, then you've probably already heard about StrongCell. It was Charlie's favorite supplement. If you want to deal with your brain fog, fatigue, lack of energy or constant illness, then you have to try StrongCell. People always ask Charlie how he's able to keep his mind so sharp and his energy up. And strongcell was his go to every day. I traveled the country with Charlie. People ask him time and again if he really believed in Strong Cell. And I loved watching him tell him yes, he loved it and he used it and he made us all believers too. Here at the Charlie Kirk show, StrongCell.

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[B]

Cam Higbee joins us now, everybody. We're gonna put up during this conversation and how to support what he's doing. He's got a PayPal and a Venmo. He's doing guerrilla journalism right there on the streets in Minneapolis, putting himself, hopefully not too much in harm's way, but very much so. Everything's crazy up there, Cam. Welcome back to the show.

[H]

Hey, thanks for having me.

[B]

So you got your hands on. You infiltrated. Tell us the backstory. How did you get hold of this information? The Signal chat, And what did you find inside of it?

[H]

Yeah, well, I made a friend, and I can't say who it is or I can't elaborate a lot there, but I managed to get in. I got a link to many of the Signal chats, specifically the rapid response groups that were being used to actively track down and hunt ICE and then stage intentional obstruction of their operations, oftentimes resulting in violence and sometimes death in the case of Mr. Preddy. And I also believe that Renee Nicole Goode was a member of the signal chats. And I don't have confirmation from anybody in the chats like we do with, with Alex Preddy. Members of the network have admitted that he was what they call an observer. I don't have that for Renee Nicole Goode, but what I do know is that she was engaging in the exact same tactics that everybody else in the network was engaging in.

[C]

Him.

[H]

And here's the other thing. When they are in the neighborhoods, when you are seeing them actively impede ICE or federal law enforcement operations in the neighborhoods, the only way you know to be there is through these networks. And I know that because before I was infiltrated, I drove around looking for ICE convoys and looking for protesters in the neighborhood during active federal operations. And I couldn't find any. But then I joined the Signal cats. I hunted them down, like, over and.

[C]

Over and over again. So, Cam, for people who haven't seen it, can you give a basic summary? What are the tactics they are describing? What. What's the whole process for, how this unfolds for maybe a typical ICE convoy?

[H]

So as soon as they see a vehicle that they believe is federal law enforcement, they will send the plates into these signal rapid response groups. They have several occupations. There are people who are on motor patrol, so they're, like, in their cars and they're driving around looking for federal agents. There are stationary patrols, people in their car sitting, sitting on corners there. There are foot patrols, people walking around on foot, and then people stationary on foot. As well. You'll see them on corners. Everywhere you go in Minneapolis, those people are constantly just looking for plates. Then there are plate checkers, and that's indicated by an emoji of a dinner plate. That means that those are people who are probably home checking plates and comparing them to their airtable database. Okay. And then you have dispatchers who run a 247 call. It's active right now, who tell people what intersections to go to. They check the plates, they confirm it, and they tell people, go here. And then all of the patrols go to that location. And that's how they all end up there. And the goal is, of course, to impede federal law enforcement. That's their expressly stated goal. And that's exactly what they do. They obstruct, they de arrest, and they aid and abet illegal immigrants. They help vulnerable communities, they call them. And that's pretty much the synopsis. The network was nuked after I exposed it, and they've already rebuilt it. I'd say it's probably about at half capacity of what it was before.

[A]

So.

[C]

And then. So they go there to obstruct. What are the tactics they're told to use for the purposes of obstruction when they're on site?

[H]

Stand in the way, block a big one is honking your horn, blowing the whistles, follow the cars. So they'll follow the convoys everywhere. Like we were at one point. So Greg Bobino was driving around southside Minneapolis in a convoy the other day. I think it was a distraction convoy, but there was literally like 20 cars following this convoy. Protesters honking their horns, blowing whistles. I mean, this convoy, if it was actually conducting operations, wouldn't have been able to get anything done due to the fact that there was such a volume of people following them with vehicles, which are weapons. Um, so. So those are the tactics. And when we drive our car downtown, our car was marked in their database as confirmed ICE somehow. Don't know how it's in the airtable database. I've seen it. I have screenshots of it. And so we would pick up like four tails anytime we went to Southside Minneapolis. And I mean, it is like as soon as you enter Southside Minneapolis, you automatically have three people following you. We would just right turn and a right turn and a right turn, go in a complete circle, and they're still following us.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, that's. I mean, it shows just how widespread this network is. There's a guy who replied to your Tweet that's got 20 million engagements by the way, congrats, Cam. That's great. Great work. This guy named Eric Schwalm, I've checked him out. He's legit. It says. As a former special forces warrant officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops, both hunting insurgents and trying to separate from the sympathetic populations, I've seen seen organized resistance up close from Anbar to Helmand. The pattern is familiar. Spotters, cutouts, dead drops, discipline, comms, role specialization. And a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. And that's the key. They are willing to absorb casualties by design. It's an information op. They want to win the hearts and minds of people to play victim when something goes wrong, when they cause it to go wrong. This is the whole game. This is the whole game. They're gonna go put a bunch of kamikaze Karens, put their bodies on the line. That's why you see Joy Reid saying, you need to put your white bodies on the line. They're going out in the streets in the middle of the freezing cold. Doesn't seem to matter. By the way, I do have a question just on this. It seemed like the cold had no effect on these people because we got antifa streaming in from all across the country.

[H]

Are you noticing, I will say at the federal building, there's a lot less people. And there was this big invisible walkout protest downtown Minneapolis. There's tons of people for that, tens of thousands. But that was just a walkout, so they only had to be out on the streets for a short period of time, which made the crowd look massive. I do think it is having some degree of effect on them. It's not having an effect on the patrols, though, because they get to sit in their cars. So you get to sit in your car all day, and then finally you find a convoy or an agent doing an operation. You get out for an hour, potentially get killed, and if you don't get back in your car and you're fine.

[C]

So I don't see this getting asked a lot. So they're doing all of these hindrance operations. Is ICE still making arrests? Are we able to see that happening? Are they striking out a lot? What's going on in that dimension?

[H]

It seems like it. I mean, when I watch the signal chats, they're talking about there was a live abduction over here at this time. So it seems like they're still arresting people, at least according to the intel from the protesters, which isn't always the most. Most reliable thing ever. But it seems like they're under the impression that arrests are still being made. Regardless, I haven't received any indication that things have slowed down. It's definitely difficult for them to operate given what they have to face at these intersections. I think this, that clip was actually just after the Predi shooting which was like a war zone right, right there where it happened. And those people were all called there through these signal chats. I watched it happen. When he was killed, I was still in the all of the chats before the network got got nuked. They didn't realize I I'd leaked this right around the same time he got killed and they hadn't because he got killed. It was fog of war. They didn't realize I leaked it. So I was still watching.

[B]

Well, the organizational level of this and in some of the high profile people you mentioned, the guy that was, that was killed pretty, he was in these signal chats. You've got the lieutenant governor, you've got some state reps. Who else do we know that is of note that's that was inside these signal chats?

[H]

Yeah. I don't have 100% confidence that the lieutenant governor is in the chat just because I don't want to make a 100% certain claim without.

[B]

Fair enough.

[H]

It seems like there might be some evidence indicating that she is. I know Zero Hour has done a lot of work on that specifically. I haven't had a lot of time to dive into it because I'm still on the ground. I go out every day still and I get in the mix of these protests. I was out there in the tear gas yesterday. So all of my time is spent on signal gate and on the ground reporting. I just do info dumps and I say I recorded everything inside the signal chats. Here it all is. And then other people go and they find out the names of the people who are in the chats and stuff like that. They slow it down. I just haven't had the time to, to dive into specifically identifying people. I'm just making all of the information public. So making sure that these are my signal chats.

[C]

So there's clearly a lot of people in these. They have pretty sophisticated resources when they're checking plates and all of that. Is there any evidence that they might have access to privileged information like that? They have someone in the police, someone in the federal government, in the state government who's giving them information or access to certain programs that are not supposed to be available for civilian use.

[H]

I've heard this a lot. I haven't seen any evidence that that's the case. It's definitely possible. I'm not saying it's not possible and I'm not saying it's not the case. I haven't specifically seen conclusive evidence that that's the case. They're definitely checking plates but I do know that they have a system in place and I haven't really had the opportunity to talk about this a lot. The system is that they will run a plate and they have this airtable database and when you report a plate you say vehicle seen with agents in the front seat. Agents exited the vehicle seen at the Whipple Federal Building in the parking lot, seen in an abduction or whatever. And that gives them. Then the admins basically tag that with highly suspected ice. Confirmed ice possible or not ice. And our vehicle was tagged as confirmed ice. I think because we were like right behind the convoy one of the days and they, they're like. We were. I was actually listening to them live while they were tracking our car. They're like, Ford F150 joins convoy. Ford F150 convoy. And like we're just doing the same thing. So they're really, I mean they're not that smart too is the other thing. But I don't, I don't see any evidence that, that they have like, like a government play checking software. It seems like it's all reporting at this time.

[B]

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[C]

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[B]

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[H]

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[B]

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[H]

Thanks for having me, guys.

[B]

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[C]

We're used to the Portland Mutants.

[B]

Correct.

[C]

And those are just sort of the. Those are the SEAL Team 6 of this. They're the ones who really will get in the thick of it. But the bedrock of so much of left wing activism is people like that and they're very important and they're actually probably the greatest weapon the left has. Just a very normie looking, very motivated, frankly very moral in how they view the world. They're the kind of.

[B]

They have a moral framework.

[C]

Yeah. So they're very. Yeah, they have a moral framework. They act according to their ideology. They are not nihilists. They are people. When Charlie would talk about women being norms enforcers and that what goes on with a lot of liberal women is they're the kind of people who would be holding your church together 100 years ago, and they've kind of been given a bad moral framework to work with and they've gone berserk. And that's what's going on here. These people have gotten raised in or seduced by a ideology that's steadily driven them insane. And. But they're still very committed, they're very organized, they're very effective, and they get things. They're able to get things done. And they're organizing the Signal chat like that. That is something, we'll be frank. The right has a lot of difficulty with that. That's one of the reasons even Turning Point was so important, was just getting off the ground this level of multi state, multi institution organization that the left just comes to a lot more organically most of the time.

[B]

Well, and I think a part of that, you're talking about these norms and these rules that these ideologies that they are very committed to and where, you know, we, on the right, we want to build our business, build our family, build our church. They want to build their insurgency. They want to build. They want to fight for those illegal immigrants and those child rapists with all their might.

[C]

And there's another factor too, which is just that for a long time, if you had a right of, if you had something on par with that Signal chat on the right one, it would get doxxed earlier and the people in it would get in serious trouble and would lose their jobs and have bar complaints against them and all that. And I don't think you'll see the same thing with.

[B]

Well, I hope you're wrong. I hope you're wrong. I actually, again, so I talk about building immunity. This is gonna be a repeat theme. We're building immunity to the sob stories, I hope, and I think we're doing that. I think one of the key roles of this show, key roles of what Charlie did, certainly key roles of Turning Point, is helping build the backbone, build immunity to the old tactics. We can't be pushed around and we can't be pushed off the mark. When you let in 20 million people, 10 million people, whatever it was, Blake's 100% right. That is essentially a nullification of the United States. That means we don't have borders, we don't have sovereign. So we can't let that stand. The rules have to be enforced. You come in here and you invade us, you Gotta go. That's the bottom line. There can be no moving off that mark.

[C]

More to the point, not even just if you come here illegally, you gotta go. But if we are trying to arrest you, like we have to be allowed to do it.

[B]

Yes. Yeah. And by the way, and if you're some lib that wants to keep all your fraudsters. By the way, I thought about this on the way to the office this morning. Remember how this started?

[C]

Tens of millions.

[H]

Hundreds.

[B]

Yeah, that's the original starting point. Tens of millions. Just decades, really of ignoring our immigration laws. Decades of letting businesses hire foreigners illegally. But then you get Nick Shirley, he goes and he uncovers billions of dollars of fraud up in. Well, it's covered 100.

[C]

Every place they've gone. It's like there's an address next door and it has three daycares and a Medicaid services company all registered to this address. Yeah, that's happened repeatedly this past weekend.

[B]

They're stealing your money. They're defrauding the US taxpayer. Many of them are violent criminals, foreign gang members, drug dealers, child traffickers, human traffickers, child traffickers. Many have killed Americans. And I don't want to hear all this crap about illegal immigrants. Per capita kill less than ICE agents. Garbage. ICE agents are getting pressed right now. They're getting hunted and stalked in the streets, harassed, goaded, and they have a very difficult job. Not every decision they make is going to be super easy to defend every time. And this is why, because in a split, split second decision, when you're wrestling somebody who's resisting you, who's packing, who's armed. Yeah. Some decisions are going to be made that maybe in retrospect could have been made a different way. When you're about to get rammed by a car, something bad could happen. That's why my instinct, without fail, is always to be in defense of law enforcement. And yours should be that way too, because they have a very difficult job.

[C]

I figure we should hit. President Trump has spoken on truth. This is about an hour ago. He says Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call and we actually seem to be on a similar wavelength. I'd be interested in hearing that call. I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Holman call him and that we were looking to have any and all criminals that they have in their possession. The governor very respectfully understood that and I will be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Tom Holman was going to Minnesota. And so am I. We have had such tremendous success in Washington D.C. memphis and New Orleans and virtually every other place that we have touched. And even in Minnesota, crime is way down. But both Governor Waltz and I want to make it better. President Donald J. Trump. No, thank you for your attention.

[B]

Can I tell you why I like Tom Homan going there? Tom Homan is a tactician. So his background is actually less on the policy side, less on the. Even the media side. Although he's very good at doing media, I think he's very compelling. He's a tactician, he's an operator. This is a guy that received commendation from Barack Obama for all of his deportations. But this is a field general. This is who we need in the field. And not only for moral support, boosting morale for ICE agents there that are getting pressed upon at every turn. But Tom Homan is an absolute rock star stud. He's got a spine of steel. He will not be cowed, he will not be bent. And so I love having him there. He's also, I think, very reasonable when you talk to him. He can talk to people on the other side of the aisle. And I think my hope is we will see de escalation. But one way we get there is we do not back down. You gotta hand over your criminals. There's no other way.

[H]

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[C]

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