Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem visits with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at the ICE facility in Chicago to observe enforcement operations, Oct. 3, 2025. Photo by Tia Dufour, DHS, Wiki Commons
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem visits with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at the ICE facility in Chicago to observe enforcement operations, Oct. 3, 2025. Photo by Tia Dufour, DHS, Wiki Commons
What better way for Trump to again evade arrest and prison yet again than invoking the Insurrection Act, creating a national emergency—that only he can fix—and then obstructing a few other things like elections.
Probably the most vexing question of 2026 is how will we end the reign of the fascism that is overtaking America. We’ve had the hubris of thinking it could never happen here. But at the same time we ignored all the indications that it could and that there were enough people who thought it was a grand idea.
And this was just in the past ten years. The flirtation with fascist ideals in some circles went back decades and frankly all the way back to the slave-holding economy of the South before the civil war. The idea that some people were entitled to be the lords and owners of others is both disgusting and persistent. That this idea was also the root of fantastic wealth was one of the biggest problems.
After their failed Civil War to create a new country that would become a financial, slave-holding sanctuary, white bigots—convinced to this day of their superiority—used every mechanism possible to subjugate their former “property.” Welcome to the Jim Crow era with the fake equality of separate schools, separate bathrooms and drinking fountains and seats only at the back of the literal and figurative bus. And where you took your life in your hands for the right to vote.
More moves toward fascism followed as time moved forward. The Business Plot of 1933 for example, where wealthy industrialists planned to oust Roosevelt and install a military dictatorship. Then there was the Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939 before Hitler launched WWII. And of course the violent mob attack on the Capitol of January 6th 2021. The common factor with all these activities in the past was that they failed.
Merrick Garland’s pace of prosecution against Trump after his coup attempt was so slow he could have been outrun by a dead snail. And in the end, by the time Trump was inexplicably re-elected, all justice efforts against him were dead in the water. This time the ultra wealthy backers of fascism won. And adding deep insult to that deepening injury was Trump’s pardon of all those who backed his coup attempt.
Nearly every prediction about what Trump and his cohort would do when he returned to power has come true. Cities where the populace wholeheartedly rejected Trump’s rhetoric are now being subjected to the stormtropper treatment by ICE agents. Any and all comparisons to the actions of Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich and the other Nazi henchmen of 1930’s Germany are totally deserved. The traditional study of history is to avoid revisiting it. In today’s version of that idea, Noem, Miller, Bovino and others look back and see a how-to manual in the evil history of Hitler’s Germany.
Today ICE is harassing, shooting, arresting and now, with Renée Good, murdering American citizens for objecting to the mistreatment of immigrants. And all the while denying these facts despite massive, plain-as-day, video evidence. Recently in the news were reports of members of the Oglala Sioux tribe being scooped up and detained by ICE immigration raids—insane since none of these tribal members were ever immigrants on this land—meanwhile Kristi Noem denied that these detentions ever happened.
A Demonstration of Power
The activities of the Department of Homeland Security and its sub agencies of ICE and CBP have morphed into a naked power demonstration. Agents in cars slam into other cars, accuse the other drivers of causing the collisions as a pretext for arrests. Agents tear gas protestors or simply snatch them off the street. In Chicago a building was assaulted by a helicopter-borne raiders, who smashing down apartment doors and trashed their contents while the occupants including children sat zip tied on the streets below.
Cruelty is the chief theme of these operations. Oppression is the name of the game. If you are not white, or even if you are and disagree with Trump you are a target—as Renée Good found out.
These provocations have an intent, a raison ‘d être. Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem and Trump want a response. They are hoping it will be violent. Stephen Miller has gone on record with media outlets calling the proper and legal vocal opposition to ICE’s abuses an insurrection. They are looking for any excuse for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.
If Trump is given even the flimsiest pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act it will be merely the prelude to further degrading Constitutional rights and deploying the US military against US citizens on a national basis.
Trump’s Thin Ice
Trump is actually in a much weaker position than people fully understand. Think about this for a moment. If even a small number of Republicans in the House and Senate grow a spine, Trump can be impeached and removed from office almost immediately. Frankly there is nothing he fears more because while in office he has cover—provided by the corrupt Roberts Supreme Court—for the crimes and vast levels of corruption he is engaged in. Out of office, he’s a prosecution target. This is also why he fears the Midterms more than any election.
What better method of evading arrest and prison yet again than invoking the Insurrection Act, creating a national emergency—that only he can fix—and then suspending a few other things like elections. Of course he claims he was only kidding about the idea of canceling the Midterms—which means he’s completely serious.
Trump is still pissed off that his incompetent coup failed 5 years ago. He thinks he can’t fail again.
Impeachment
This has been stated many times before. The fastest method of removing Trump and his key henchmen is impeachment. The House is just a few members short of being able to begin proceedings—though Mike Johnson would have to be voted out as Speaker first. Doable with a few good spines. The Senate would also need to be cajoled into some sort of spine-growing activity and then he could be removed on an immediate basis.
It is time to end this fascist incursion into America. The only reason it has gone on this long is because of the reasonable and wishy-washy mindset of Republicans in Congress who somehow think the oath they took doesn’t apply to them.
So it falls to use to remind them. All of us should add “Call my representatives” on our daily to-do list and make sure we get it done. Burn down the phone lines to Republicans on the hill and demand they do their duty. They probably don’t have as much time as they think.
Marty Kassowitz is co-founder of Factkeepers. As founder of Interest Factory and View360, he brings more than 30 years experience in effective online communications, social media management, and platform development to the site. He is a writer, designer, editor and long time observer of the ill-logic demonstrated by too many members of the species known as Mankind. After a long history of somewhat private commentary on a subject he totally hates: politics, Marty was encouraged to build this site and put up his own analyses as well as curate relevant content from other sources.
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