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The Resistance Gains Momentum: A Rural Fire Chief Defeats Trump’s Oligarchs, Georgia Town Slams Door On The Regime, and San Diego Drags ICE To Court
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NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY KILLS DATA CENTER
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For six months, the residents of New Hill, North Carolina, organized to resist the construction of four 70-foot-tall data centers. Their farmland was targeted for annexation into the neighboring town of Apex—with plans for the facilities that would consume up to a million gallons of water every day.
“I’m truly blown away,” said Michelle Hoffner O’Connor of the Protect Wake County Coalition, who led the community opposition. “The hard work we’ve been doing over the past six months has paid off.”
On March 5, the developer withdrew its applications entirely. Apex Mayor Pro Tem Terry Mahaffey delivered the news: “The project will not be moving forward. It’s over.”
GEORGIA TOWN SLAMS THE DOOR ON ICE PRISONS
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While New Hill fought back with grassroots organizing, Mableton, Georgia, stopped ICE cold with a unanimous city council vote.
In the nearby towns of Social Circle and Oakwood, ICE prisons landed with no warning. DHS quietly bought the buildings, signed the deeds, and told local leaders only after the fact. Mayor Michael Owens saw the “calamity and unrest” that followed—and vowed Mableton wouldn’t be next.
“They are stood up much faster and a lot of times without taking into account the burden that’s going to be placed on a local community,” he said.
The Mableton City Council unanimously approved a moratorium on detention centers within city limits—effective through December 31, 2028.
State Rep. Terry Alexis Cummings backed the vote. His statement was read into the record at the council meeting: “Our community should not be a site for expanding a system that too often operates with limited transparency and accountability. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity and our community should stand on the side of justice and human rights.”
The regime is spending $45 billion to build ICE prisons across America. Mableton slammed the door in their face.
SAN DIEGO TAKES ICE TO COURT
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Mableton stopped ICE before they could start. San Diego County had to fight long after the regime built and started using a detention center there—suing in federal court to expose what’s happening inside.
Milena Araya-Davis was brought to the US when she was 4 years old. She grew up in Southern California. It was her home. On December 15, she walked into a routine green card interview and left in ICE custody.
“It was really scary, to say the least,” she said. “Very overwhelming, shocking—just a mix of emotions. Very sad.”
Araya-Davis described conditions inside the Otay Mesa prison, where she was held: “It’s freezing in there—I would say like 50 degrees—you’re constantly cold. They keep the lights on all day, so it’s really hard to sleep.” On the food, she said: “There was one day where I got served three slices of cake and two portions of rice. I ate it all because that’s the only thing we had to eat.”
Last year, at least 32 ICE detainees died in custody nationwide—the most since 2004. On February 20, county health officials showed up for an ICE-approved inspection. When the team arrived, national leadership overruled the locals and turned them away. Sen. Alex Padilla showed up the same day for an unannounced congressional visit and was also blocked.
San Diego County sued in federal court, alleging ICE illegally blocked the inspection. Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer said the regime “cannot hide conditions inside the Otay Mesa detention facility. If they will not allow a lawful public health inspection, a federal court will.”
THE FIRE CHIEF WHO SAID NO
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Google ran into the same wall of resistance. Charley Pearson has been chief of the Rock Volunteer Fire Department in Oklahoma for 35 years. Nobody gets paid. Four generations of his family served with this department.
When Google proposed a data center in his community, Pearson spoke out against it at a city council meeting and received a standing ovation.
Not long after, a Google rep phoned Pearson directly with an offer—$250,000 for the fire department. He brought it to his board and they rejected it. “For me to take their money,” he said, “felt like I was jeopardizing the public’s support. And at the end of the day they mean more to me than that does.”
The project isn’t moving forward. The corporate data center playbook—arrive fast, spend big, buy off the opposition—keeps getting stopped. Pearson’s closing message to his community: “All I want to say is, thank you to the people that has always supported us.”
The people organized, a city council voted unanimously, a county took the regime to court, and a fire chief said no. This is what the resistance looks like. We break through the regime’s propaganda, organize the resistance, and will lead this community to a midterm victory.
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Onward!
Scott
I have two questions for you today.
What do you think about Mableton stopping ICE prisons before they’re built?
Thoughts on the volunteer fire chief turning down $250,000 from Google?
π¨THREE URGENT ACTIONS TODAY
π¨Vote NO on SAVE Act: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-vote-no-on-the-save-act-to-protect-our-democracy/
π¨ Trump's UNHINGED DHS pick—Markwayne Mullin—hiss confirmation hearing tentatively set for this week. Tell your Senators BLOCK him! https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-senators-oppose-markwayne-mullin-for-dhs-secretary/
π¨ Tell your Reps to impeach Pam Bondi: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-attorney-general-pam-bondi/
A FEW OF MANY COMMENTS:
Markwayne is such an embarrassment. Not qualified in any way for his proposed position.
Wow. π€©
Turning down $250k to say no to the regime is next level resistance!
It is wonderful to see that there are people who will not be bought by money, and that communities stand with them!
Integrity!
Persistence is the key to resistance. Great outcomes. ππππππππ
Scott, the Resistance has often been late to the party, but, like Mableton, it is now acting before this cruel administration can implement its agenda. We need to expect the worst and take every legal avenue to prevent it. ONWARD!
From all angles, you can see communities across America rising up and working together to resist the encroaching oligarchy and the regime’s tyranny.
Yes, from all angles ! This is bigly…. and Grady Judd is probably the most uber-MAGA sheriff in Fl.⬇️
“Florida Sheriffs rebel against Trump’s, DeSantis’ mass deportation efforts.”
That is an inspiring read. Thank you for sharing. If a group of FL Sheriffs can see the wrongness of this practice and policy, then there is hope for us all.
These disgusting concentration camps are egregious enough. But the surreptitious manner in which DHS is trying to install them is equally reprehensible and I'm fairly certain, illegal.
It heartens me to see these communities maintain their integrity, commitment to their citizens, and resistance to regimes and oligarchs.
DHS is the same as brown shirts of 1930's - just do your job, follow orders.
Humanity be damned.
Would someone please tell the idiots on the Washington County Maryland Board of County Commissioners that fighting ICE is better than inviting them in, then telling the public after it's over?
Oppression gives rise to resistance and heroic actions . Many thanks and congratulations to the stalwart people in North Carolina and Georgia who stood up against the building of a new , huge data center and an ICE prison in their neighborhoods. And to the fire chief in Oklahoma who refused to sell the town fire department to a company seeking to build a data center. And finally to those in San Diego county who attempted to visit and witness the deplorable conditions in an ICE prison, and sued to enter it. And to the judge who allowed their inspection.
And thank you to Scott Dworkin for bringing this and other hopeful news to us, his readers!
I am outraged that ICE detention centers get away with not allowing health inspections, not allowing our elected officials into their facilities. Seems like our government should intervene- oh yeah- right. This is the government.
Bravo to the towns who have rejected data and detention centers. Surprise, AZ could take a lesson or two.
You aren’t kidding, Susan. Let’s consider drafting a rule for the Surprise City Council:
‘As per the unanimous vote of this body, the city of Surprise, AZ hereby prohibits the use of any land, building or facility in the City of Surprise, AZ for the detainment, holding or imprisonment of any human being by any Federal Agency without prior approval of the Surprise, AZ City Council. ‘
There - feel free to edit and let’s start a petition that we can get a thousand signatures (perhaps more) on “No Kings” day protests
If the American experiment is to survive and flourish, it will be saved by Americans in their communities, in the streets, in the townhalls standing up to corrupt republicans and entitled billionaires.
YES on all the action items listed below, Scott! And I'm not at all surprised at your efforts to block MAGA stooge Markwayne Mullin - anyone with a smashed-together first name like "Markwayne" does not bode well for a functioning democracy.
Any news about the resistance continuing to gain momentum is always welcome! Voices against unwanted facilities—whether they be data centers, ICE detention centers, or anything else this administration tries to do—always make for good news. Of particular note for me was Charley Pearson and his board’s rejection of Google’s money, which enhanced the pride felt for everyone today!
Thanks, Scott, for another great mood boost….π π πππ
(Liked and restacked and the third letter sent.)
"Resist the beginnings; Consider the end." Principiis obsta and Finem respice— Maxims quoted by Milton Mayer in his book "They Thought They Were Free" https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm
I just sent this "contact" email to my two Republican senators: "The SAVE America Act is a blatant attempt to make it very difficult for millions of eligible Americans-- Republican, Independent, and Democratic-- to cast their votes as they did in the past. It would affect every eligible American, including your supporters. Trump claims that the SAVE America Act would prevent non-citizens from registering to vote, but I'm sure you are aware that it is already illegal for non-citizens to vote. They can't even register. Passing this Act would immediately trigger lawsuits, because it is contrary to the Constitution of the U.S. In this country, election fraud is not a problem, and you know it."
It is up to each of us to do whatever we can, whenever we can, with whatever we have to work with to stop the orange blight's regime. Ordinary people are taking our country back. We just have to support each other. There's more of us than there are techbros, oligarchs, corporations, billionaires and Nazis.
Good news indeed! I'm in MA, and the administration would be nuts to build a detention center here. But we're happy-dancing because neighboring NH beat back an attempt to build one there.
It takes ordinary people with a backbone to stand up and take action. That's how true change takes place...from the foundation up. The people who understand personal responsibility and take action using Dignity, Inclusion, and a Shared Common Sense of Reality, get others to join the conversation, even those with opposing views. Once the conversation begins, mot people find that they have more in common than they ass-u-me-d.
American citizens far and wide standing up for themselves, their communities, their democracy!!! Wonderful!!! Everyone, everywhere.......keep fighting to take back our country!!!
Think about that small town....CORPORATE RHETORIC promotes DATA CENTERS, JOBS, MONEY...blah, blah, blah....
The FACTS, the ENERGY & WATER CONSUMPTION and environmental destruction is not being reported by CORPORATE MEDIA, but rather INDEPENDENT MEDIA....
People are no longer willing to accept CORPORATE LIES!
People UNITED to protect THEIR COMMUNITY!
Whether it's opposing ICE GESTAPO WAREHOUSES or numerous other issues, it is an inspiration to see communities unite and say "NO"!
AMERICA is about COMMUNITY!
