How to React to Trump's Deportations

Plus: an upcoming town hall and Lindsey Prather's rising star

This weekend, agents of the Trump administration ignored a court order and deported multiple people without a hearing (including one who had a hearing scheduled for the next 24 hours). They are detaining and disappearing people without a hearing simply by alleging that they are foreign criminals. These unlawful detentions already include US citizens. This morning, Trump called for one of the judges constraining his actions to be impeached.

Here’s how we resist.

Be Vocal, Be Visible

Step up your engagement with in-person community building. Go to events. Host events. Invite people to join you. Say yes to an opportunity you feel hesitant about taking. Have more backyard cookouts, expand your social network, and double down on in-person connections.

We can help to protect our communities and to constrain this administration by creating the perception that lots and lots of people feel the way we do.

Rallies are one way to spread the perception that people are mad and engaged, which is why I participated last week in a rally in Raleigh.

Yup, that's me inside of Elon Musk

I’ve also been experimenting with a new format for informational videos. Here’s an example, about a recent bill concerning Duke Energy:

You can find these on my Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

We need many voices in many places to tap into their creativity and to be vocal about what is happening and what should be happening. You can be part of that.

An Upcoming Town Hall

This Friday at 6:30 PM in Raleigh, Bull City Indivisible, Wake County Indivisible, Democracy Out Loud, and Triangle Indivisible Daily Call to Action are organizing an event for constituents to discuss Senator Tillis’s enabling of the Trump-Musk agenda and their support for gutting programs like Medicaid to line Musk’s pockets.

I’ll be one of the speakers, and I’m looking forward to hearing what attendees have to say.

You can sign up to join here.

Something Hopeful

One North Carolina voice we have an opportunity to amplify belongs to Lindsey Prather. Lindsey is up for a rising star award from EMILYs List.

You should go vote for her here.

One reason that Lindsey is up for this award is because she really beat expectations in this most recent election. The Republicans took a D+6 district and redrew it into an R+2. She won it by 3 points anyway.

Some of that is because of how she handled Hurricane Helene. She showed up when it counted and helped people who needed it. One way of describing this is to say that she provided high-quality constituent services, but that’s too sterile a description for helping to clean up damage, perform wellness checks, make calls, fight misinformation, and route resources like food and water to people who needed them.

North Carolina needs leaders like that. The Democratic Party needs leaders like that. We should celebrate the chance to elevate another North Carolinian’s national profile. The more attention our state gets, the more resources we get. We’ll need those resources to protect our court seats in 2026 and to flip Thom Tillis’s Senate seat in 2026.

That’s all for now!

Theo