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The Trump administration says it doesn’t understand why Minneapolis keeps resisting. The truth is, they understand exactly why and they don’t like that they can’t control it. So instead of listening, they escalate. This week, federal prosecutors issued subpoenas to at least five Democratic officials in Minnesota, ramping up pressure over how local leaders responded to the administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown. This isn’t about getting answers. It’s about intimidation. It’s about trying to scare people into compliance. But resistance here doesn’t look like silence. It looks like people showing up in the streets, again and again. It looks like neighbors warning neighbors, community groups organizing rapid responses, and legal observers standing watch with notebooks and cameras. It looks like churches opening their doors, unions drawing lines, and mutual aid filling the gaps where the government fails. It looks like people refusing to look away. They want us to fall in line. What they don’t understand is that this movement isn’t driven by politicians, it’s driven by people. Ordinary people who keep choosing to push back. Every day in every way they can. And that’s why the resistance here is always growing.