Podcast: How can we bring people together in a polarized age?

The resistance to the Administration’s mass deportation policy is growing, and there is no doubt about it. In Minnesota and across America, people from all walks of life are joining peaceful protests, following cars driven by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), taking pictures of their license plates, sharing information across encrypted chats, blowing whistles to alert neighbors about ICE raids, driving immigrant children to school, and delivering groceries and medicines to immigrant families under siege.

These are not spontaneous activities, but a coordinated grassroots response driven by outrage at the brutality and apparent disregard for the rule of law shown by federal agents who have de facto occupied entire cities. It is not just ordinary people, but also faith leaders, veterans, business owners, and retirees who feel called to protect their neighbors and take a stand for democracy in the country they love.