We Infiltrated Private Anti-ICE Groups. This Is What We Found.

As we watch the rampant harassment and obstruction of ICE officers throughout the country — but particularly in Minnesota — it’s become obvious that someone, or some entity, is organizing and funding many of these Leftist agitators. That’s not to say we should delude ourselves into thinking that there’s no grassroots support whatsoever for these anti-ICE riots. Clearly, millions of Americans support the open-borders agenda. They’ve embraced every tenet of the anti-American ideology that’s taught to children in many schools, from kindergarten on up. We can’t deny that. They’re causing the chaos we’re seeing, voluntarily, of their own free will.

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— The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) January 13, 2026

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At the same time, the scale of these campaigns to obstruct ICE — and their effectiveness — does not seem to be organic. Every army needs a general, after all. And that’s particularly true when the army mostly consists of overweight, dead-eyed women hooked on SSRIs, along with gay men and 68-IQ Somalis. So who’s the “general” of the anti-ICE movement, exactly? It would be a cliché to say it’s “George Soros” — but seriously, is it George Soros? And whoever it is, what orders is the “general” giving? What’s the command structure here?

To answer that question, some of my producers spent the last 48 hours joining so-called “ICE resistance” and “ICE Watch” groups via Facebook, Signal, and other platforms. In Minnesota, the largest and most visible of these groups is called “Defend the 612” or “Defend 612,” which is a reference to the area code of Minneapolis. In a prominent thread on Reddit on anti-ICE activism, “Defend the 612” is one of the top recommended groups that you’re supposed to join if you want to assist the movement. Elected Democrats in Minnesota have also encouraged their constituents to join the group, including the president of the Minneapolis City Council.

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We’ve seen a number of people kidnapped today in NE, including 2 legal observers taken on Central. @doronclark & I are asking our community to patrol & get outside on our busy corridors to protect neighbors. Get connected to grassroots organizing groups at https://t.co/4jaYhTeRDJ pic.twitter.com/s4hCDMNM6r

— Elliott Payne (@ElliottForWard1) January 8, 2026

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The top council members in Minneapolis are going to “do the work,” and they want you to “do the work” too, by joining Defend the 612. So what is Defend the 612, actually?

If you pull up a flyer for the group, you’ll see that they’re committed to interfering with law enforcement operations — which they call “abductions.” Put another way, they’re committed to committing federal crimes.

Here is one of those flyers we pulled from Facebook:

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“Everyday, neighbors in Minneapolis are stopping and preventing abductions. Join us as we protect each other on our blocks, on our streets, on patrol, at schools, and at local hotels that are housing kidnappers.”

So they’re bragging about criminal obstruction, over at “Defend 612.” They’re also openly talking about harassing ICE agents in their hotels when they’re sleeping. And on top of all that, it’s not a very exclusive group. Anyone can become a member, as those Minnesota politicians indicated.

And indeed, upon joining “Defend 612”, my producers were met with a network of Signal groups and websites, including a “patrol handbook” that offers a series of highly detailed instructions. What’s notable about the handbook is that, at various points, it explicitly states that members shouldn’t violate federal law. But in other sections, the handbook clearly instructs members to engage in criminal activity. For example, there’s this line, from a section encouraging residents to enroll their friends in the resistance.

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“If each and every block had a regular schedule of monitors, then abductors would not be able to operate in our city.”

Why might that be? Why would a group of “legal monitors” prevent ICE from conducting operations, exactly? You don’t really have to fill in the blanks on that one. Here’s some guidance from a document provided by the same group. This is the paragraph in gray.

“For ICE agents sitting parked in cars or driving around: Lay on your horn and Honk at them or gather as many people as possible to whistle and yell at them to CHASE THEM OUT. You can do this, and everyone is doing this. Phillips and Powderhorn [which are neighborhoods in south Minneapolis] do not tolerate masked abductors taking our neighbors. Form a crowd and be as loud as your commitment is to your people and get them out of here.”

Then there’s this section from the patrol manual, which offers advice for members on how to call 911 on ICE, effectively by lying to the 911 operator so that they send officers and obstruct ICE.

“Many 911 operators have been trained not to dispatch police officers if the caller mentions that ICE is involved. If you want a police response, it is straightforward to describe what is happening to 911 without saying the word ICE or Immigration. [For example]: ‘There’s two armed men in a vehicle. They’re getting ready to hurt or attack someone. … There’s an abduction happening right now. They’re taking her and they have guns. … I’m surrounded by three cars. They’re waving guns at me and screaming.”

Effectively, this is “SWATTING” the ICE officers. This manual is encouraging members to make up a fictional scenario, which they know isn’t happening, in order to prompt a law enforcement response — with the obvious goal of obstructing ICE and potentially getting an ICE officer killed. Again, all of this is illegal. Everyone involved in producing and disseminating this manual is involved in a criminal conspiracy to commit federal crimes.

And they’re very well-organized. Take a look at this section of the handbook.

It reads, “ICE Encounters. What to do when you see these things. Number one: Request a plate check in the live call — dispatch or plate checker will confirm.”

Yes, these hopeless dweebs have a “dispatch system.” They’ll see a car that, in their opinion, might be ICE. And then they’ll call out the license plate number, so that someone at home can compare that license plate to their list of suspected ICE vehicles. If it’s a match, they’ll flood the area and try to chase law enforcement out. In just a few hours, my producers saw several license plates and car makes & models being listed in this chat, along with their current locations — which obviously poses a safety risk to the general public, as well as ICE. We have unhinged Leftist vigilantes using unverified Excel spreadsheets full of license plate numbers, in order to hunt down and pursue law enforcement. They even do the same thing with airplanes flying overhead. There’s a whole Signal chat for “Flight tracking.”

To give you an idea of how it works — and how insane this is — around midnight this morning, the following urgent message came into the “Northeast/Southeast Rapid Response” Signal chat.

“Earl Giles employees locked in, ICE agents in parking lot.”

That’s a reference to a restaurant and distillery in Minneapolis.

Another user responded, “Numbers, description please.”

Then came the reply: “All clear at Earl Giles, MPD following up on potential prior ICE activity.”

So the employees barricaded themselves inside, thinking ICE was on the way. That gets circulated around the Signal chat, full of these LARPers and their “dispatchers.” And then we learn that, actually, there are no ICE agents anywhere. The police were called because these freaks thought that there were ICE agents — which, of course, isn’t an issue if the restaurant doesn’t employ any illegals. Then, a few hours later, another update came in. The workers at Earl Giles wrote, “Ya nos ayudaron a salir se unieron mucha gente de la comunidad muchas gracias mil gracias.” Which, according to Google Translate, means that they’re grateful that the community alerted them to the potential danger. And, according to common sense, it would imply ICE needs to pay another visit to that restaurant, pronto.

Then there was this remarkable exchange in one of the Rapid Response groups.

“Highly suspicious activity. Very tinted windows. Camped outside Porzana. Went and parked around the block after idling for a few minutes.” Then someone replies, “I’m at porzana right now.” And someone else chimes in, “Sending to porzana staff now.”

Porzana is a steakhouse in Minneapolis. And apparently, these losers called them last night because they saw a car with tinted windows that parked nearby. That’s it. That’s the threshold for “highly suspicious activity” for these lunatics. They’re barricading themselves inside restaurants and running across the city because a car with tinted windows is idling for a few minutes.

It would be entertaining if these people weren’t genuinely, obviously unhinged. This is mass psychosis. And again, it’s well-organized. In addition to the dispatch system, the Leftists are using a procedure called “SALUTE” to standardize the way they report ICE activity to the larger group.

As you can see, “SALUTE” is an acronym. They want their foot soldiers to report in with the number of vehicles/agents, what the agents are doing, where they are, what they’re wearing, what time they were seen, and what equipment they have. Additionally, according to the SALUTE system, anti-ICE foot soldiers are supposed to specify what they want their comrades to do. Normally, they request mob action. That’s exactly what my producers saw last night, for example. 

Take a look at this screenshot:

The address is provided, and someone immediately responds, “We’re 8 blocks away, heading there now.” Then someone states, at the same time, “I’m there. MPD has someone pulled over.” After a brief bit of panic — where they wonder if Minnesota police officers are cooperating with ICE —  the communists realize that the situation has nothing to do with immigration enforcement, and they disperse. They go off into the night, awaiting their next call. So, as you can probably tell at this point, this is a common theme. They spend half their time accomplishing absolutely nothing.

In the rare case where they arrive at a scene that actually involves ICE, these agitators are encouraged to use their whistles as communication devices. 

Here’s that portion of the manual, which translates their whistle language.

Apparently, if they’re blowing in short blasts — like “pre pre pre pre,” then they’re saying ICE is “nearby or lurking.” But if they’re blowing continuously — like “preeee, preee,” then ICE is currently “abducting someone.” So as ciphers go, it’s not exactly the Enigma machine, but it’s pretty close. By the way, you know you’re dealing with criminal geniuses when they need to consult a manual titled “how whistles work.” I would have thought that whistles are perhaps the most self-explanatory tools to ever be invented, but apparently, these masterminds need a how-to manual complete with illustrations and step-by-step instructions.

The other thing my producers noticed, unsurprisingly, is that many of the people in these groups took pains to hide their identity. They frequently changed their names in the Signal group. They warned about how ICE can supposedly “hack Bluetooth” and Signal and GPS and everything else. There’s a lot of paranoia and delusion in this movement — as well as a clear awareness that they’re committing crimes.  And while many of these people are harmless losers, some of them aren’t. Some of them are nutjobs who actually want to start a much larger conflict. And they have a chance of succeeding, based on what we’ve seen over the past few days.

That’s why it’s very important to figure out who’s behind this organization “Defend 612”, or “Defend the 612”. A man living in Minnesota named Mitchell Williamson has done a lot of research on this question, which my producers have verified, and which we’ll go through now. Here’s the topline summary. “Defend the 612” is a tax-exempt nonprofit that, in turn, takes a lot of money from other shady nonprofits — and even from the American taxpayer. Yes, you’re funding the rioting and the obstruction that’s going on right now. And the federal government is allowing this nonprofit to operate without paying taxes — which it shouldn’t be allowed to do. It shouldn’t be allowed to operate at all.

Let’s back up a second. Until a few days ago, if you wanted to donate to “Defend the 612”, here’s what you’d see on their website. 

If you look at the top, you’ll see the words, “Cooperation Cannon River.” That’s apparently the name of the real nonprofit that’s behind “Defend the 612.” In effect, based on this fundraising page, we can conclude that “Cooperation Cannon River” is doing business as “Defend the 612.” So what’s “Cooperation Cannon River?” 

You get the sense that you’re not supposed to look into that question, because “Defend the 612” recently took down their donation page on their website, including any reference to “Cooperation Cannon River.”  Williamson was the first one to point this out, and I verified it using the Internet Archive. As recently as December of 2025, Defend the 612 stated on its website that it was the same thing as “Cooperation Cannon River.” Now they’ve taken down that webpage.

Looking at all this, you start feeling like you’re in a real-life episode of “The Chair Company.” But it’s all real. There’s a genuine conspiracy here, and the people behind it are trying to cover their tracks.

So let’s take a look at the most recent IRS filing from Cooperation Cannon River, where they’re required, by law, to explain themselves to some extent. Here’s their mission statement.

“THE PRIMARY MISSION OF COOPERATION CANNON RIVERS (DBA COOPERATION NORTHFIELD) IS TO CREATE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE THROUGH GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING AND DIRECT DÉMOCRACY IN MINNESOTA. WE DO THIS IN THREE KEY WAYS: YOUTH ORGANIZING THROUGH OUR PROGRAM YOUNG PEOPLE’S ACTION COALITION, WHICH SUPPORTS HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT ACTIVISTS IN SOUTHERN MINNESOTA IN MAKING SOCIAL CHANGE IN THEIR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES. WORKER COOPERATIVE SUPPORT THROUGH TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR LOCAL GREEN WORKER COOPERATIVES, PARTICULARLY IN THE GROWING SECTOR OF COMPOST COLLECTION AND COMPOST PROCESSING, AS WELL AS FREE RANGE POULTRY PRODUCTION. CLIMATE JUSTICE ORGANIZING THROUGH ENGAGING MINNESOTA CLIMATE ACTIVISTS IN THE MOVEMENT FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND TO STOP THE EXPANSION OF FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE. WE EDUCATE AND ORGANIZE COMMUNITIES IN OPPOSITION TO FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE EXPANSION, WHILE PROMOTING INVESTMENT IN RENEWABLE ENERGY IN MINNESOTA ,”

Well, that’s an inspiring mission statement. It’s also not remotely related to what they’re currently doing, which is disseminating materials that encourage the residents of Minnesota to obstruct ICE agents. They’re not doing “compost processing” or “educating” anyone about “fossil fuel infrastructure expansion.”  Somehow, they forgot to tell the IRS that, when they said “direct democracy” and “environmental justice,” they meant harassing ICE agents, driving them away from crime scenes, SWATTING them, and so on.

But things get worse when you look at who exactly has been donating to this nonprofit. To be clear, we don’t know the identities of the vast majority of the donors. That’s the benefit of being a 501c3 nonprofit. They don’t have to disclose exactly who’s financing them. However, if other tax-exempt nonprofits donated to “Cooperation Cannon River” aka “Defend the 612,” then we can discover that information — because those nonprofits are required to file a Form 990, where they tell the IRS about their donations.

And that’s where it gets interesting. It turns out that, in recent years, to give just two examples, Cooperation Cannon River has taken money from the Tides Foundation (to the tune of $10,000) and a nonprofit called “MN 350” (to the tune of more than $75,000). Again, my producers pulled the Form 990s after they were flagged by Williamson. 

Here’s what they look like.

This is the donation from the Tides Foundation to Cooperation Cannon River:

And here’s the donation from MN 350 to Cooperation Cannon River:

So what does this tell us? What does it matter that “Defend the 612” — one of the lead anti-ICE groups in Minnesota — has been taking money from the Tides Foundation and “MN 350,” whatever that is?

It turns out that the Tides Foundation takes a lot of money from groups like Open Society Foundations, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation. If those names sound familiar, it’s because they’re some of the biggest donors to Left-wing causes in the world. Open Society Foundation is George Soros’ outfit. That almost sounds too on-the-nose— like it’s a right-wing meme at this point to say that Soros is behind everything. But indeed, as a factual matter, Soros’ group funds the Tides Foundation, which funds Cooperation Cannon River, which is otherwise known as Defend the 612, which is currently organizing mass anti-ICE activity in Minnesota. We say that George Soros is behind everything because, when you dig to the bottom of it, you discover that, well, he is. 

But that’s not even the most extraordinary data point here. The really amazing contribution to the Cooperation Cannon River group — the $75,000 one — came from “MN 350.” No one has any idea what MN 350 is. But as Williamson found, it’s a nonprofit that takes a lot of money from the state of Minnesota.

In fact, they recently received $100,000 from the government.

See where this is going? Taxpayers fund the government of Minnesota. In turn, the government of Minnesota funds a nondescript, generic nonprofit called “MN 350,” which promises to save the environment or whatever. And then, in turn, MN350 gives a large sum of money to another random nonprofit, which turns out to be a communist front group.

Keep in mind, there are probably many, many more donations like this that we don’t know about — and that we’ll probably never know about. And this is just one nonprofit. Here’s a Facebook post from another group active in Minneapolis at the moment.

It’s called “GR Rapid Response.” They say they’ve had more than 4,000 people participate in 81 rapid response groups, which have “tailed” and “boxed in ICE vehicles.” They’re openly admitting to committing crimes. And there are real names attached to many of these posts. In cases where they use aliases, it shouldn’t be hard, in many cases, to get a subpoena.

This is a national scandal that demands an immediate investigation by federal authorities. Fake nonprofits need to be shut down. Anyone disseminating pamphlets that encourage people to commit crimes — like the group “ICE Watch,” of which Renee Good was a member — should be arrested.

Look at this one, for example. It’s just straight-up telling people to “pull and push” officers away from criminals they’re trying to arrest.

These are the materials that are meant to persuade the low-level foot soldiers — the lonely lesbians on SSRIs and so on  — to impede or attack ICE officers. The materials are disseminated by bigger players, including nonprofits that are funded by taxpayers and powerful Left-wing organizations. And then, if you zoom out even further, all of this criminal activity is enabled by Leftist judges, who do everything in their power to undermine the Trump administration. 

That’s the very well-oiled machine that underlies Democrat activism. There’s a reason why so many of the judges who have ruled against the Trump administration have names like Mehta and Frimpong and Chutkan and Reyes. Democrats have installed an army of foreigners on the bench — and Democrats are counting on those foreigners to give their foot soldiers some much-needed backup.

That’s the only rational explanation for the lawsuit that the state of Minnesota just filed against the federal government — essentially asking a court to block the Executive Branch from carrying out its constitutional responsibility, which is enforcing the law. This isn’t so much a lawsuit as a declaration of Minnesota’s secession from the Union. Minnesota’s government no longer believes it’s governed by the U.S. Constitution, or that the federal government has any authority within its borders.

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BREAKING: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her file a federal lawsuit to stop immigration enforcement

“This is, in essence, a federal invasion of the Twin Cities and Minnesota, and it must stop,” Ellison. pic.twitter.com/PTaoe8PaYp

— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) January 12, 2026

This is a lawsuit that, under our federal system, is an obvious farce. The federal government has the absolute authority to enforce immigration law under Article 1 of the Constitution. States cannot interfere with that power because of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. This is not a close question. It’s also not a “federal invasion.” It doesn’t matter if the residents of Minnesota are “offended” by immigration law, or if ICE gives them the “ick.” It doesn’t matter if the residents of Minnesota tell ICE that they “don’t want them there.” It’s not their call. Immigration enforcement is the domain of the federal government.

But there is one element of this lawsuit that, I have to admit, is extremely entertaining.

“Defendants [the federal government] have intentionally violated Minnesota’s masking law, which prohibits anyone from concealing their identity by wearing masks in public places. Wearing a mask in violation of Minnesota law is neither necessary nor proper. Defendants’ policy and practice of wearing masks so that their agents can conceal their identities … is ‘arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion.”

Yes, Minnesota — a state where the National Guard, under Tim Walz, forced private citizens to wear masks during the COVID lockdowns — is now suing the federal government because ICE agents are wearing masks to protect themselves from Leftist freaks. We have come full circle. And on top of that, in this lawsuit, Minnesota is accusing the federal government of acting in an “arbitrary and capricious fashion.” Yes, the federal government is supposedly being arbitrary here. Not the state of Minnesota. It’s totally fine for them to require masks, then sue you for wearing a mask, without ever changing the law. That’s not arbitrary at all! If nothing else, you just have to admire the sheer gall and shamelessness on display here.

We can be fairly sure, based on the current makeup of the Supreme Court, that this lawsuit won’t go anywhere in the long run. But make no mistake about it — this is why Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court. They want judges to rubber-stamp their efforts to dismantle the federal system that our Founders created. They want to destroy the constitutional order. That’s what these anti-ICE protests are really about. In Trump’s first term, they pretended to care about “kids in cages” and “child separation.” Now, they don’t even have a pretext. They’re just mad about the fact that laws are being enforced. This is not an anti-ICE movement, really. It’s an anti-American movement. And it’s very well organized.

What’s needed now — which the administration seems to understand — is far more aggressive enforcement action. Don’t just double the number of ICE officers on the street. Go after the organizers. Go after anyone who’s funding them. After a certain point — once the checks dry up, the cars are impounded, and the agitators are sent to prison — it will end. Yes, they are well-funded and highly committed to their cause. But they’re also very careless. They don’t expect anyone to pursue them, which is why my producers were able to gain access to all of their groups. It’s time to use their narcissism and naivete against them, and to begin the crackdown on Left-wing terror cells that we’ve been waiting for ever since September 10.