The Anti-ICE Demonstrations Look More Like Maos

Most observers trying at the mob motion directed against federal officers engaged in immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, in explicit, are, in my opinion, shedding the plot. What we’re seeing in the coordinated assaults on federal law enforcement officers just isn’t a in style resistance to eradicating welfare-guzzling layabouts from our nation. It is the seen half of Mao Zedong’s “People War” or “revolutionary warfare triad.”

The 50s and 60s produced a exceptional stream of politico-military thought constructed upon at least the figment of Marxist class wrestle. Mao Zedong exported “People’s War” to Asia and Africa. Che Guevara’s “foquismo” had a transient second in the solar but was less profitable. While Mao’s “People’s War” was ready to handle the transition from in style resistance to guerrillas to common armies in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and other locations. I might even argue that one of the best case research for Mao’s doctrine is the Irish War of Independence. So while Mao will get a lot of credit, the ideas considerably predated his tossing the Kuomintang out of China. Algeria, Iraq, and Afghanistan also present useful case research. Guevara’s thought was that of a small, devoted band of revolutionaries, as those led by Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra may set off a in style revolution. Guevara’s technique labored in Cuba and, to a sure extent, in Nicaragua, but fell flat on its face when used by the Provisional IRA, the German Rote Armee Fraktion, the Italian Brigate Rosse, and our own Weather Underground. (As an apart, my personal nexus with the Brigate Rosse is having a younger carabinieri level a submachinegun at me during a site visitors checkpoint in northern Italy because he thought I used to be one.)

Let’s look at the steps in Mao’s revolutionary warfare doctrine and see what we are able to see.

Political Mobilization and Ideology: At its basis is a strong ideological base (e.g., nationalism, socialism, or anti-colonialism) to rally the population, create unity, and justify the revolution. This is why I’ve never taken the Howard Zinn narrative of America evenly and why I see pro-Palestinian demonstrations and DEI, in normal, as a stalking horse for one thing a lot bigger. This includes propaganda, schooling, and building parallel political buildings to undermine the regime’s legitimacy.

A 2015 essay in Military Review defines revolutionary warfare as guerrilla techniques plus political motion (RW = G + P), where politics directs the army effort. “Everybody, of course, by definition, will seek a military solution to the insurgency problem,” says the writer, “whereas by its very nature, the insurgency problem is military only in a secondary sense, and political, ideological, and administrative in a primary sense.” 

If you are trying for evidence of political mobilization in Minneapolis, I’d recommend you read my colleague, Ward Clark’s, Revealed: Training Materials and Communications for Minneapolis Anti-ICE protestors – PinkState and Townhall’s Matt Vespa’s post The Anti-ICE Signal Chat in Minneapolis Has Reportedly Been Infiltrated…and *That* Name Looks Familiar. 

What you see is that this “movement” just isn’t natural; it resembles the everyday Soros/NGO astroturf. A techniques guide has been written, utilizing, I would add, commonplace U.S. Army process. Secure communications channels have been established with some attempt at Operational Security. What we all know from the chats we have seen in those channels is that political figures in Minnesota and the Minneapolis authorities are concerned.

The ideology that is superficially embraced is to save illegals from being deported because, presumably, protecting criminals and grifters in your metropolis is a good factor. The underpinning, though, is nice, old school class-struggle. Keep an eye on New York City and see how long it takes for Mamdani to set up a personal militia that operates independently of the NYPD.

Protracted Nature and Stages: The battle unfolds over time in phases, permitting the revolutionaries to construct strength step by step. Mao outlined three phases: (1) strategic defensive—group and consolidation of base areas in distant or tough terrain; (2) stalemate or progressive enlargement through guerrilla operations; and (3) strategic offensive—transition to standard warfare to destroy the enemy.

In traditional counterinsurgency doctrine, the protracted strategy emphasizes rural base areas as beginning factors, with city areas focused later. That said, you’re employed with what you have bought. Remember the Occupy Wall Street bunch taking over Zuccotti Park? How about the “CHOP/CHAZ Zone” in Seattle? During the George Floyd Summer of Love, autonomous zones sprang up across the nation. Most have been short-lived, but still, they provide us an insight into strategy. If you consider, as I do, that there’s an entity at work in the George Floyd demonstrations and now in the anti-ICE actions, it’s following the same sample; see About That Reported ‘No ICE Zone’ in Minneapolis and What the City Has to Say – PinkState.

Secretary Noem is true; see Dems ‘Want to Perpetuate Violence’: DHS Sec Noem Makes Announcement About New CBP Shooting in Minneapolis – PinkState. Tim Walz’s demand that ICE stop operations in Minneapolis is nothing more than utilizing violence to create a zone that is off-limits to federal authorities.

It is apparent that a non-trivial quantity of judges and elected officers are affiliated with the current revolt. They present ethical help and legal cowl for the insurgency’s actions. 

This is a affirmation electronic mail from a SignUpGenius ( https://t.co/3GLj420CWa) signup for “Scott County ICE Watch”, and it is vitally clearly signed by Brad at the underside:
• He personally thanks me for signing up
• He offers instructions for patrol shifts, Signal app usage, posting… pic.twitter.com/d3FZDXFcuv

— 🇺🇸White Raven🇺🇸 (@White_Raven9515) January 24, 2026

This is a affirmation electronic mail from a SignUpGenius ( https://signupgenius.com/go/20F0E4CADA723A0F85-61419545-january#/#) signup for “Scott County ICE Watch”, and it is vitally clearly signed by Brad at the underside: 

•  He personally thanks me for signing up 

•  He offers instructions for patrol shifts, Signal app usage, posting in the “Daily Scott County RR Chat”, utilizing particular Signal group hyperlinks, Google Maps routes/hotspots 

•  He explains Dispatch procedures and hyperlinks to an overview on https://bradtabke.com/share (a shortened/personal hyperlink from his own area) •  He lists training dates, including in-person at Shakopee Library 

•  He gives his personal mobile phone quantity (952-380-6328) for questions.

•  He ends with “Brad” adopted by the clear call to contact him. This just isn’t some obscure third-party factor. This is Rep. Brad Tabke himself working/organizing/coordinating the Scott County ICE Watch program, including recruiting people for patrol, dispatch, training, and even food receiving/packing/supply shifts at the New Creation Church location in Shakopee. Combined with the whole lot else that’s already public: 

•  His repeated real-time posting of ICE areas and actions in Shakopee (a number of instances per day in many circumstances) 

•  His public statements thanking people who “joined our ICE watch Shakopee group” 

•  Conservative media 

+ X posts documenting that he operates semi-private dispatch/patrol networks via sign-up websites (credit to @SarahisCensored) 

•  Reports that he had to lock down / change the signup after people began filling it with troll accounts (my fault). …this affirmation electronic mail is mainly the smoking gun that proves he’s personally organizing and main this rapid-response / watch / interference effort against ICE operations. 

This goes far past just tweeting opinions or normal activism, this is a sitting state consultant @BradTabke instantly coordinating shifts, dispatching people to areas, training volunteers, and offering real-time operational steering to monitor and reply to federal immigration enforcement. 

This scenario is explosive. The scale of coordination, the elected official standing, the real-time location sharing, and the documented organizational construction — this is crossing into federal obstruction territory. Arrest him! @DHSgov @Sec_Noem @AGPamBondi

When 16-year-old Antonio Mays, Jr., was gunned down by “security” in Seattle’s CHOP/CHAZ, no one was ever charged with the crime. This only occurs when the insurgency has suborned authorities. Why do you assume Article III judges are blatantly violating federal law by interfering in immigration circumstances and with choices to defund varied left-wing NGOs? As Law and Order’s Jack McCoy was fond of saying, one hand does not need to know what the other is doing to have a conspiracy; they just need to be working toward the same objective.

Many Minnesota politicians, Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey among them, are actively whipping up the forces confronting federal brokers; see Minneapolis Mayor Frey’s Rant About ICE ‘Invaders’ Is a Stunning Self-Own – PinkState, Walz, Ellison Make Things Even Worse With Disgraceful Remarks About ICE and the Border Patrol Shooting – PinkState, and Deputy AG Blanche: Pretti Shooting Was Avoidable If Walz and Frey Cared About Their Citizens – PinkState.

During this stage, the insurgency will increase the frequency and depth of contacts to provoke an overreaction from security forces. This is seen daily in Minneapolis.

Mass Support and Base Areas: Success relies upon on profitable the “hearts and minds” of the people, often through land reform, social packages, or addressing grievances. Secure base areas in rural or remoted areas serve as secure havens for recruitment, training, and logistics, increasing outward as strength grows. Here, you need to assume of sanctuary cities and the mass of people we see who have determined they don’t have anything better to do than observe ICE brokers around, blowing whistles.

Integration of Violence and Terror: Violence, including focused terror, is used to intimidate opponents, eradicate collaborators, and exhibit resolve. It ties together army, political, and psychological components to erode the regime’s control and construct revolutionary momentum.

Here, I feel we’re turning the nook. There is an organized effort to dox federal officers concerned in immigration enforcement and place them and their households at risk. My boss, Jennifer Van Laar, has reported on instructions for improvised explosive devices and explosive-formed penetrators being circulated among the teams hindering ICE brokers.

This goes along with what I used to be told by SIGINT sources earlier this week, which was that they’re seeing elevated chatter from these well-organized teams on the left discussing utilizing EFP’s, IED’s, advanced ambush setups and doing rifle and pistol drills designed for shot… https://t.co/1GAt8GVKYM

— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) January 24, 2026

Firearms have been stolen from an FBI vehicle in Minneapolis.

The latest deadly taking pictures in Minneapolis was distinctive in that this is the first time we have seen members of what I contemplate to be an insurgency partaking in a bodily confrontation with law enforcement while armed. Don’t assume it will likely be the last time. It is a matter of time until a quantity of people carrying semi-automatic rifles start displaying up for the anti-ICE operations.

This leads to the last level.

The insurgency wants martyrs.

Chinese political officers egged “Chinese volunteers” on to martyrdom with as a lot panache as any Muslim imam has ever despatched out suicide bombers.

Martyrs serve a number of capabilities.

Symbolism and Sacrifice: Martyrs symbolize final sacrifice, turning death into a device for revolutionary inspiration.

Revolutionary Culture: Immediate commemoration, such as tributes, poems, and ceremonies to honor the useless. Renee Good, for occasion, already has a memorial.

Mass Mobilization: Martyrdom is utilized to recruit lively, often militant, help for the trigger.

Propaganda Tool: The narrative of martyrdom is used to distinction revolutionary heroism with the “oppressor’s” violence. Check out many of the “Second Amendment” accounts on social media. You’ll already see an attempt to co-opt gun homeowners to the trigger of the latest casualty in Minneapolis because he was, get this, carrying a gun while bodily confronting law enforcement officers, and that is an instance anybody who believes in gun rights ought to aspire to.

Martyrdom is a very selective advantage. It is best exhibited by those who consider the gaslighting fairly than by those organizing the confrontations.

Of course, this does not always work out as supposed. This was the tactic used by anti-Vietnam War protesters during the late Nineteen Sixties. It resulted in the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, and the Jackson State shootings on May 15, 1970. 

These “overreactions” didn’t lead to a mass motion against the warfare. Rather large campus demonstrations pale away. Indeed, Kent State might very nicely have marked the end of the socially acceptable antiwar riot by spawning the well-known “Hard Hat Riot” in New York City 4 days later.

What we all know from this is that some entity is organizing the riots in Minneapolis, and they’re utilizing Mao’s “People’s War” as a model. This has ceased to be a law enforcement motion and is now the early stage of an lively insurgency. The remaining goal, past defending illegals, is unknown, but do not be shocked to see it flip into a political motion. The motion will develop into progressively violent. There might be more confrontations with law enforcement and more casualties. The next warning or indication to look for is when the motion turns overtly violent and carries out offensive actions; count on to see federal brokers gunned down on the job or focused at home. Don’t be shocked to see car bombs going off in Minneapolis or Chicago.

The longer the administration treats this as in style and advert hoc pushback against immigration coverage, the more severe the scenario might be when it finally explodes. But there are indicators that the White House is conscious of the hazard; see Trump Tells Walz, Frey It’s Time to Cooperate With Feds, Stop Stoking Flames of Division, Chaos, Violence – PinkState. For those people who have questioned if we’re on the cusp of a civil warfare—see The Downfall of America’s Cities: Will Civil War Be Next? – PinkState—I feel the reply is yes, at least on a regional foundation.

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