Olivia of Troye - The Insurrection Act and the War at Home

I spent my career protecting this country. Now I’m watching the machinery I once helped shape being turned against our own people. Chicago isn’t a battlefield, but we’re treating it like one. I’ve been in the rooms where national security decisions are made. I’ve sat through years of classified and unclassified briefings on terrorism, immigration, and domestic crises. I’ve debated when and how force should ever be used on U.S. soil and overseas. And I’ve sat face-to-face with Stephen Miller.

So when I watch helicopters circling Chicago, families zip-tied in the dark, protesters gassed outside an ICE facility, and now National Guard troops ordered to patrol American streets under Operation Midway Blitz, I know exactly what I’m seeing.

This isn’t homeland security. It’s federalized fear, a campaign of cruelty disguised as law and order.

From raids to militarization

A federal judge just declined to block President Trump’s order to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois. Hundreds of soldiers from Illinois and Texas are now set to arrive in the Chicago region. Governor J.B. Pritzker called it “an unconstitutional invasion of Illinois by the federal government.” He’s right. Federal immigration agents have turned Chicago into a testing ground for authoritarian tactics: helicopters over the South Side, chemical agents near schools, and residents zip-tied without warrants. Just days ago, U.S. Border Patrol agents were deployed to Chicago in a late-night raid on an apartment building, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in what officials claimed was a gang operation. It swept up U.S. citizens and families instead.

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