White Nationalism Walked Through the Front Door White nationalism didn’t storm the gates of American democracy wearing hoods and waving torches. It walked in through the front door, badge clipped to a suit jacket, armed with talking points, legal memos, and a talent for laundering extremism into “policy.” Its most effective practitioner is Stephen Miller. For years, Washington treated Miller as merely a “hardliner,” a technocrat with strong views on immigration.

UNTIL ICE JUST MELTS AWAY? A protestor in Minneapolis, one of thousands demanding that ICE end its violent occupation of the city and its abuse of immigrants and people of color, carried a simple message: Americans in 2026 still believe in the nation’s founding principles of equality and the rule of law. That belief—not chaos, not extremism—is what now fills the streets.

IT IS A FACT OF EVERYDAY LIFE Survival is not a theory (Rev Jen Raffensperger- Unitarian Universalist Church of Roanoke). It is not an abstract concept relegated to think-tank reports or academic debates. It is lived in real time by mothers dropping their kids off at school, by workers juggling multiple jobs to pay rent, and by communities watching federal agents descend into their streets with overwhelming force.

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Reform or Abolition Is the Only Path to Preserving Our Democracy In a healthy democracy, law enforcement exists to serve the public, protect rights, and operate under clear constraints. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—ICE—fails that test. While often defended as a necessary tool of sovereignty and rule of law, ICE as it currently operates undermines core democratic principles: due process, accountability, equal protection, and civilian trust in government.

Masked federal agents are terrorizing our communities. They're teargassing babies, kidnapping our neighbors, shooting clergy in the face with chemical projectiles, and killing innocent people. **But...