For anyone who conspires to commit journalism, having words fail is not a good sign.
Yet words fail me now. How does one properly describe one’s own country self-destructing?
That is exactly what is happening in Minnesota.
I have already described how the Democrats are demonstrably guilty of insurrection.
The legalities have not changed, except for the counts of each offense have multiplied exponentially.
Additionally, we have seen proof that this is an organized seditious conspiracy. Independent journalist Cam Higby penetrated a Signal chat group and documented much of the sophistication of that organization.
The private messaging group, called “MN ICE Watch,” has allegedly been used to coordinate protests, issue marching orders, and even dox federal ICE agents during the ongoing protests and riots in Minneapolis.
Cam was even able to get part of their “training” documentation, which detailed certain “high risk” activities, each of which involved interfering with federal law enforcement.
For those interested, here is the full training manual.
We are also witnessing local businesses be vandalized and destroyed, with no effort by Minneapolis Police even to intervene (i.e., no attempt by MPD to do their job).
Nor should we be under any illusions that these videos lack “context”, as there are multiple videos from multiple angles detailing the same offense.
Meanwhile, Tim Walz has deployed the Minnesota National Guard to…hand out hot chocolate and donuts.
Seriously.
What the everlasting f*** is going on?
Only we know what is going on. An insurrection is going on.
Those who hail from America’s Special Operations communities describe it in terms of an insurgency, such as what occurred in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.
I will leave readers to judge Eric Schwalm’s credentials and analysis for themselves. Suffice it to say I can find no fault with anything he has said here.
Yet most disturbing of all are the reports which come from independent journalist James O’Keefe, who has detailed open hostility towards journalists the insurgents/insurrectionists do not like.
From late Saturday night.
My team and I are in downtown Minneapolis right now. We still have undercover reporters inside the mob. I was at the scene of the shooting this morning and barely made it out alive.
Hundreds surrounded us. They were throwing ice bottles, ripping off my bulletproof vest. They even followed us all the way back to our hotel.
As all of this was happening, we received death threats via text.
Pray for our team out in the field. We are reaching a boiling point in this country.
His updated comments a day later were even more disturbing.
URGENT UPDATE: I’ve never experienced anything quite like today in my life. I’ve interacted with the Cartel and have witnessed some crazy things in the desert in ‘24. But what strikes me is how organized these agitators in Minneapolis are. They have spotters everywhere in the city and suburbs, on street corners, even 30 minutes away from downtown. They have people at hotels that work with them and signal to them which made it making it difficult for us to lose our tail once my cover was blown. Usually I lose a tail. Not this time. We switched locations THREE times. I recorded and posted this while leaving Wayzata, while they were STILL surveilling. We all agreed we must make the threats public ASAP, even if we had people still in the field with the hidden cams.
Earlier around noon, while @camhigby released his report on the Signal threads, I was inside what appeared to be a fully autonomous Zone. No police presence. The police were told to leave. I identified myself as Press and they said they will kill Press and will not let me leave. My skin was fully covered because it was so cold. But because they couldn’t verify who I was, they screamed and started throwing ice bottles at us. One hit, @SKRUCHTENMMA, a marine who was with me. They patted him down like THEY were the authorities, attempting to confiscate any weapons. They were set to destroy our vehicle before we even got to it. I will have a full video report shortly.
But the bigger picture here is more important. I am angry. But not at the agitators. I find myself already angry at the people who don’t understand what we’re dealing with and will do nothing about it. When I got to the suburbs I felt like I was in a simulation.
I believe the American people need to wake up. This moment is a warning about where we’re headed. Fear pushes people to care only about their money and their families—I get it. But when fear turns inward, when self-preservation and greed replace moral courage, evil goes unchallenged. And history shows that what we ignore today will come for all of us tomorrow.
Ironically and incredibly, I see that these Communists do not fear death in the same way most good people seem to. The only thing the Communists fear is exposure itself. And that’s good news because it may be our only option.
I’m dead serious about investigating the prosecutors themselves if they don’t hold these Minnesota fraudsters and violent mobsters accountable for what they’re doing. Stay tuned for the videos.
These are not just disturbing reports. These are horrifying reports. These are reports of a community, a city, a state, and possibly even a nation literally tearing itself apart.
Over what? Over people being opposed to how ICE is enforcing the nation’s immigration laws?
I repeat a sentiment I posted earlier:
The streets are not the place to fight for your civil or Constitutional rights.
Fight those battles in the courts, so that people get to keep their rights and their lives.
If you oppose what ICE is doing in Minnesota, that is your right. If you want to protest and speak out against what ICE is doing in Minnesota, that is your right. I not only support your right to speak out I applaud you for actually doing it.
HOWEVER
Violence is not speech, and riots are not protests. They have not been on college campuses and they are not on the streets of Minneapolis.
Yes, speak out. Yes, protest.
No, do not assault or attack anyone. No, do not destroy property. No, do not throw rocks or anything else. No, do not interfere with law enforcement.
People have rights. People also have brains. If people want to keep the former they need to do a lot better about using the latter.
Violence is not speech, and has never been speech.
Our Constitutional rights, and in particular those enshrined in the First Amendment, give everyone the method and the motive to speak their mind, either in opposition or in support of government policy.
We are not only “allowed” to do this, many would argue—I do argue—that we are obligated to do that.
We are also obligated to refrain from violence when we speak out.
We are obligated to respect the rights and the voices of others.
We are obligated to hear all sides of an issue, and to work democratically to find workable solutions acceptable to us all.
That is not happening in Minnesota. The Democrats are not letting it happen.
And we know that is the Democrats and their minions who are not letting this happen, because it is the Democrats who are shouting down those who would speak against them, and not just in Minneapolis, as this shameful incident at a meeting of the San Antonio City Council demonstrates.
That is not how people respect each other’s civil and Constitutional rights. That is how people violate other’s civil and Constitutional rights.
This is what insurrection looks like. According to those with far more expertise in the particulars than I, this is what insurgency looks like.
This apparently is what civil war looks like, or at least the opening phases of it.
Is this what Democrats desire? American fighting American? Literally brother against brother to a degree not experienced even during the American Civil War of 1861-1865? (How sad that we must now clarify “which” American Civil War we are discussing)
That is not what I desire. I want all people to find ways to live in peace and harmony. That is what I desire.
But I will not bow down to terrorists, insurgents, insurrectionists, or just plain run of the mill “f***ing a**holes”. I will listen to those with opposing views, but the price is those with opposing views will listen to me.
If they will not listen, then we have a fight.
Apparently, we have a fight. Apparently, we have a genuine civil war forming.
God help us all.
I believe we can still avoid civil war if President Trump acts - firmly, and in the right ways with the right timing. We have the laws on our side. We have the Constitution on our side. The lawyers and courts may need to squabble and clarify, but rulings should ultimately be on the side of the Constitution.
Meanwhile, it is just a few thousand activists - some of the same activists who burned hundreds of buildings here in Minneapolis in 2020 - who are causing trouble. They have Democrat supporters, but I don’t see these soccer moms going to actual war. Most of them have been too indoctrinated in the evils of guns to ever buy one. On the other side, we have millions in MN who have been simmering with resentment for many years now at the whole Woke agenda. THEY would grab a gun, but like you, Peter, only if highly provoked. Most of us just avoid the deranged leftists like the plague, so that we aren’t provoked into criminal assault.
The MN culture has always been one of compassion and tolerance. Many of us now see that our compassion has been weaponized against us, and we’ve been defrauded and taken advantage of by ungrateful swindlers. Thus goes civilization! Ironically, I just read a scholarly 2023 book called, “The Case for Colonialism”, by Dr. Bruce Gilley, a professor of African Studies. It is a factual, documented study that destroys the Left’s assertion that colonialism was horrible. In fact, most individuals living under colonialism had a much better life on virtually all metrics than before colonialism or after. But anyway, the Europeans were guilt-tripped into giving away the store, and now countries like South Africa are hellholes of corruption, injustice, and poverty.
We cannot let this happen to America!
Not directly related, but I wish our government would streamline the immigration process. I know people who have submitted paperwork, they are amazing citizens and families and yet now they're scared of ICE because their paperwork has been "pending" for 5-15y?! I think if the Govt could do something positive like fast-track those who have submitted paperwork or came invited under previous Admins and can be vetted as good hardworking people it would go a long way. Yes I want the criminals out, so do my friends as they're are truly menacing, but in light of our upcoming 250th Celebration we need to remember our strength is being a melting pot - all our families immigrated. Conservatives would do well to remove the hate and negativity towards immigrants. Maybe this way it would be clearer that the protesters are trying to keep criminals on the street? God Help Us All indeed.