When OMB Director Russell Vought was working on Project 2025 - the blueprint for seizing power in a second Trump presidency - he spoke about how his think tank was building a rationale for invoking The Insurrection Act to deploy the military on American streets. Now, Project 2025 is here. National Guard troops have been deployed to five American cities - and worse could be on the horizon as Donald Trump and his inner circle have begun labeling a wide range of people and behaviors as “insurrectionist" in recent weeks. What we are witnessing is a real-time test of whether our democracy can survive a government that sees its own citizens as the enemy.

As the Trump administration tries to exert power over American cities, Chicago has become a flashpoint where federal agents are performing immigration raids, detaining journalists, and clamping down on protests. President Trump has deployed the National Guard, but a federal judge has temporarily blocked the deployment. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson tells Ali Velshi that Trump has “declared war on the city” and that it’s incumbent on everyone “to push back fiercely against this tyrant.”

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