Kansas Republicans overrode their own governor to pass the Halo Act, a moving 25-foot arrest zone around every agent in the state. In Olathe, ICE is already using it to trap the people who film them, with local police finishing the arrests.
In nine days, ICE's occupying force disappeared neighbors from gas stations, doorways, and a fruit stand while Kansas City sold the world a party. This is the full record of the manhunt, and what the community built to fight back."
Officials celebrate 'justice with dignity' vision for building specifically designed to strip people of both
ICE is eyeing to make Kansas City one of seven "mega centers" in its unprecedented concentration camp network. A local real estate company, Platform Ventures, may "sell out" Kansas City by selling a taxpayer-subsidized warehouse to make it happen. And federal agents are already terrorizing KC residents & going door-to-door.
How a fugitive and a porn-star-turned-fascist are exploiting legal loopholes to resurrect segregation—and why they think Missouri won't stop them
Charles L. Adair, a 50-year-old Black man, was arrested on traffic warrants and brutally killed less than 24 hours later inside the Wyandotte County jail. An autopsy shows jail cops violently knelt on his back, breaking bones and suffocating him. Officials lied to the public, covering up his brutal killing with a fraudulent press release that blames Adair's death on him being an alcoholic.
Missouri Legislators continue to play puppet in Trump’s far-right gerrymandering agenda to secure more republican seats in Congress for next year’s midterm elections.
Two days after Kansas City’s thousand-strong march lit the Midwest fuse, Missouri’s governor declared a “State of Emergency,” green-lighting troops, armored vehicles, and a multi-agency surveillance dragnet. Human-rights protectors say the order will not cool the streets—it only proves the fight is urgent and righteous.
Kansas City’s brief invasion by white supremacist fascist group, Patriot Front, made two things clear: Missouri is a central theater for 21st-century neo-Nazism, and our state also houses a growing coalition determined to stop it.
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