The Movement Companies Don't Want You to Know About (But You're Already Part of It)

                                                                                                             

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We just started 2026 and already have lots of good news for people and the planet! Our regenerative farming work achieved a major milestone: Whole Foods Market officially approved our Soil & Climate Initiative verification label for display in their stores! Shoppers at Whole Foods will be able to shop for products with the label and support farmers and brands nationwide working to benefit consumers, wildlife, water, and climate through regenerative agriculture. Look for brands carrying the Soil & Climate Health Initiative Verified™ label at Whole Foods Market! We're also driving major advancements in renewable energy. Last year we got Comcast to double its clean energy! Our work demanding companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon adopt renewables resulted in several of the largest corporate solar and wind purchases in history. Now, our new campaign calling on Big Tech to power AI with renewable energy is making waves – with media coverage nationwide and thousands of consumers calling on tech companies to protect communities and the planet. Amazon and Meta are talking about using renewable energy for AI, but at the same time are relying on fossil fuels and nukes for their massive servers. To get them and other AI titans to commit to renewable energy for every data center, we’ll be working with communities, consumers, and shareholders to increase the pressure on Big Tech this year. 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This isn’t about justice. It’s about retaliation.

                                                                                                            

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The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Governor Tim Walz — not because he broke the law, but because he is refusing to stay quiet. Because he is demanding answers. Because he is standing up for Minnesotans as masked federal agents violently terrorize our neighbors.

This investigation isn’t about justice. It’s about retaliation.

When leaders speak out against the Trump administration’s abuses of power, this is the playbook: overwhelm them with legal action, drag them into court, and make the cost of doing the right thing so high that others think twice before following their lead.

But Governor Walz isn’t backing down. He is focused 100% on protecting the rights, safety, and freedom of Minnesotans.

We deserve leaders who will protect the rule of law, defend transparency, and speak the truth — even when it puts a target on their backs. That’s what this fight is about.

But these legal battles are expensive by design. They’re meant to drain resources and distract from the real work in front of us. And that’s why we need your help right now.

If you’re able, please chip in $5 today to the Legal Defense Fund to help ensure Governor Walz has the resources to fight back and keep standing up for all of us.

Thank you for being part of this fight,

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Bearing Witness

The civic action of a handful of Minnesotans is holding Trump accountable

Dan Rather and Team Steady Jan 26

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It was a weekend filled with heartbreaking images. Americans trapped inside by winter weather found themselves transfixed by the traumatic footage of a fellow citizen surrounded, pepper-sprayed, shoved to the ground, and then shot ten times by ICE agents.

The killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents and the many cellphone videos that captured it laid bare a presidential agenda built on intentional cruelty, hate, and lies.

Cellphones held by heroic Minnesotans recorded a reality in stark opposition to the “official” version of events in Minneapolis. Minutes after the killing, the White House blamed Pretti and stood by the outlaws masquerading as law enforcement.

They called the shooting “justified.” Gregory Bovino, Border Patrol Commander-at-Large, labeled the agents “victims.” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Pretti “arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.”

She provided zero evidence, before an investigation of any kind (if, in fact, there is one), and before the cellphone videos went viral. Once they did, it didn’t take long for many viewers to deliver an overwhelming verdict: the Trump administration was lying about what happened. Again.

We must commend the courage of those who braved numbing cold, clouds of tear gas, and the threat of thuggery to bring us the truth. As difficult as this may be, please continue doing what you do. Our nation desperately needs you, all of you, to witness and record these perilous moments in our history.

The internet and social media are often maligned for spreading disinformation, negatively impacting mental health, and perpetuating screen addiction and cyberbullying. Amid all the issues with pervasive distraction, in the time of Trump, the technology that lives in our pockets has become one of the most useful tools to combat the administration’s stranglehold on the “truth.”

The modern media ecosystem is constantly and rapidly evolving. The administration has been astute in recognizing that speed is the name of the control-the-narrative game, trying “to define reality before reality could be independently established,” according to Steven Rosenbaum on MediaInsider.

To that end, the public relations office of ICE has morphed into a full-blown propaganda machine, pushing out slickly produced, social media influencer-style videos of agents confronting, chasing, terrorizing, and arresting people, all set to music. The ICE media machine is doing the White House’s bidding of “flooding the airwaves” on the taxpayers’ tab.

But they aren’t the only ones who understand this new-media reality. Thousands of Americans use their camera phones and social media to lead a resistance.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker instructed everyone to “video everything.” Fellow governor Tim Walz of Minnesota echoed this advice.

“Carry your phone with you at all times. And if you see ICE in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record. Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans — not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution,” he said last week.

Taking cellphone videos is the latest form of civil disobedience. New Instagram accounts and YouTube channels have recently popped up to disseminate videos as quickly as possible.

It is not the only example of resistance in Minneapolis. Citizens are helping other citizens who need protection from federal authorities. Community solidarity is the order of the day.

According to a local labor organizer, 65,000 Minnesotans received training in civil protesting. They are patrolling streets, donating food, delivering groceries, and providing legal assistance. What started as a preventative measure has turned into a much-needed service.

And if you ever thought any of this — the occupation of an American city 1,500 miles from the southern border — was about mass deportation or border safety, Attorney General Pam Bondi tipped her hand on Sunday. A leaked memo she wrote to Governor Walz gave him an ultimatum: release Minnesota’s voter information and we will remove ICE from the state. No doubt, another lie.

These videos are the start. They show what happened but not why. We still need context, analysis, and investigation to understand the whole story. And that is the last thing Trump and his enforcers want. They know people will recognize: a) that they lied about what happened, b) what happened was illegal, and c) those responsible will likely not be held accountable.

At this point, let’s remind ourselves that most police and other law enforcement are decent, law-abiding professionals. Many, if not most, are as appalled as the broader public by ICE’s inhumane and unlawful tactics.

Thank you again to those who are keeping watch, despite the elements. Your fearlessness is applauded here and recognized by many across the nation.

Courage.

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Stay Steady,
Dan

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Let me understand this - The Federal Government, Department of Justice,Pamela Jo Bondi is Blackmailing Governor Walz of Minnesota??????? Blackmailing Walz that she will remove Ice if he gives her Minnesotan Citizens Voter records, private data?????? That is breaking at least 4 LAWS!

Not only Impeach Bondi, she needs to go to Jail!

If federal Department of Justice (DOJ) officials were to engage in blackmailing a state governor, they would likely be breaking multiple federal laws designed to prevent extortion, coercion, and abuses of power.

The specific laws implicated include:

Hobbs Act (18 U.S.C. § 1951): This act makes it a crime to obstruct, delay, or affect interstate commerce through extortion, including under "color of official right". If a federal agent uses their power to force a governor to perform or refrain from an action through fear of economic or reputational harm, this act is violated.

Extortion by Employees of the United States (18 U.S.C. § 872): This statute specifically criminalizes federal employees who engage in extortion under color of office.

Blackmail (18 U.S.C. § 873): This applies if the threat involves demanding money or "other valuable thing" in exchange for not revealing information about a violation of federal law.

Interstate Communications (18 U.S.C. § 875/876): If the threats are sent via mail, email, or telephone across state lines, they violate these statutes, which cover threats to injure property, reputation, or to accuse someone of a crime.

Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law (18 U.S.C. § 242): This prohibits anyone acting under color of law from willfully depriving a person of rights protected by the Constitution, which can include the rights of a state official to act without federal coercion.

Thank you! 

It is likely that judicial complaints have been filed against a number of these BOOBS and BONDI is high on that list. 

Let's see what Governor Walz next action is. We already know that he will protect MINNESOTA! 

In order to RIG THE MIDTERMS, REPUBLICANS have employed tactics relentlessly. 

They know they're going to lose the MIDTERM ELECTIONS. 

                                                                                                         

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An American in Greenland

Ken Harbaugh reports from Nuuk, Greenland, for The MeidasTouch Network and the Save America Movement

The Ken Harbaugh Show, MeidasTouch Network, and The Save America Movement Jan 27

On almost all of my reporting trips, I attach a small American flag to my backpack. I do it because wherever I am, I remain, first and foremost, an American. And a veteran. For most of my life, I have been deeply proud of both.

This time, I left the flag at home.

Not because I was headed to Afghanistan, or North Korea, or somewhere openly hostile to the United States. I left it because I was flying to Greenland—a territory of Denmark, for decades one of America’s most steadfast allies. Greenland hosts critical U.S. military installations, and Danish soldiers fought and died alongside Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. These are not distant or transactional relationships; they are among the closest partnerships the United States has.

And yet, something has changed—almost overnight.

Landing in Nuuk, Greenland, at sunrise.

Not because of any seismic shift in geopolitics, but because of the conduct of the President of the United States. His public threats, bullying posture, and insistence that America should “own” Greenland have eroded generations of trust. Greenlanders once shared America’s concerns about the Arctic: a warming climate opening new sea lanes, intensifying great-power competition, and the growing presence of China and Russia. Until recently, many preferred that the United States—rather than Beijing or Moscow—remain the region’s principal security partner.

That preference depended on trust. Now, that trust has been squandered.

What makes this moment especially dispiriting is how unnecessary it is. The United States already enjoys extensive access and influence in Greenland, and has for decades. Under a 1951 treaty, the U.S. maintains a permanent military presence at Pituffik Space Base, with broad authority to operate, build, and position forces. American ships and aircraft move freely in support of mutual defense. These arrangements are reinforced by NATO commitments and a long history of cooperation, supporting early warning systems, space operations, and Arctic defense.

This trust-based relationship has worked. It has protected American interests while respecting Danish and Greenlandic sovereignty. There is no strategic vacuum in the Arctic that coercion can fill, and no military problem that acquiring Greenland would solve. Even the administration’s own documents reflect this reality. Greenland does not appear in the most recent National Security Strategy, published in November 2025. If Greenland were truly central to American security, its absence would be difficult to explain. Instead, it is revealing.

The push to “acquire” Greenland is not about security. It is about Donald Trump—his ego, his fixation on dominance, and his appetite for spectacle. He all but acknowledged this when he described ownership of Greenland as “psychologically important” to him. It was meant as bravado. It landed as something else.

How Greenlanders feel about Trump…

This is not who Americans imagine themselves to be. We do not admire bullies. We have fought wars—sometimes alongside Danes—to oppose them. It often takes us too long to recognize bullying, especially when it is wrapped in patriotism or presented as strength. But as Winston Churchill observed, “Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.” Recognition of the right thing is beginning to spread. Millions of Americans now understand the danger Trump poses, not only at home but to the partnerships that underpin global stability.

There is still time to change course. Congress possesses both the authority and the obligation to restrain an erratic executive. So far, it has largely failed to do so. Even so, public resistance is growing, shaped by a lesson history teaches repeatedly and unforgivingly: appeasement does not work. You cannot meet a fascist halfway.

Sunset in Nuuk, Greenland.

So the message to our friends in Greenland, in Denmark, and across the democratic world is simple: hold firm. Do not yield to intimidation. Coercion is not strength, and bluster is not leadership. For my part, I hope the day comes soon when I can wear that American flag on my backpack again—without wondering whether it marks me as an ally, or as a threat.

For continued, on-the-ground reporting from Greenland by The Ken Harbaugh Show and the Save America Movement, follow the MeidasTouch Network. And watch for the launch of Meidas Defense—our newest division focused on rigorous coverage of global affairs, emerging threats, and the real-world consequences of national security policy.

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A guest post by The Ken Harbaugh Show Producer, Against All Enemies. Bylines - NY Times, The Atlantic, The Bulwark, NPR.

A guest post by The Save America Movement The Save America Movement is a citizens' committee aimed at opposing the corruption, abuses of power and divisions of the Trump regime.