The Anti-ICE Insurgency: Infographic
What a Real Insurrection Looks Like
On January 24, 2026, Cam Higby began releasing screenshots from encrypted Signal group chats that revealed a sophisticated, citywide network operating in Minneapolis with one stated purpose: tracking, following, and impeding federal immigration enforcement agents.
Worse yet, the group included Minnesota’s Lieutenant Governor, mainstream media journalists (NPR and Reuters among them), and other state and local officials.
This anti-ICE network operates across multiple city zones, each with its own encrypted chat capped at approximately 1,000 members. The structure includes specialized roles: mobile patrols that actively search for suspicious vehicles, “plate checkers” who cross-reference license plates against a shared database of known federal vehicles, and dispatch coordinators who allegedly run 24/7 communications directing volunteers to ICE sighting locations. Participants must complete “training” involving instructional slides before assuming certain roles—suggesting a level of organization that extends beyond spontaneous protest activity and dangerously close to full-scope domestic terrorism.
Eric Schwalm put it this way:
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.
The invaluable DataRepublican also discovered other interesting connections.
If these Signal chats are confirmed, it would appear that:
China
Governor Tim Walz, the Lieutenant Governor, the Attorney General and his entire administration
Antifa terrorists
The SPLC
And others are conspiring to overthrow the United States government.
I’m pretty sure that’s a crime.
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Great job summarizing Cam Higby’s research and documentation. It is information we should be seeing on MSM/traditional media, but NO. They all bury their heads and therefore bury the heads of those depending on their reporting. Thank you, Ross for your work here.
The entire government of MN should end up in receivership until this vast fraud network is wholly dismantled. It is at a scale almost incomprehensible in its depth and breadth.