JANUARY 26, 2026
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THIS WEEK:
- Protect Our Community from ICE and DHS
- NorthWestern Energy’s 20-Year Plan
- Mark Your Calendar
- Good Reads / Good Watches / Good Listens
- This Week’s TO-DO List for the Good Trouble In Helena
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Protect Our Community
from ICE and DHS
Show Resolution Support and
Urge Commissioners to Do the Right Thing
Please plan on attending the Helena City Commission meeting at 6 pm on Monday, Jan 26, to express your support for the resolution preventing Helena from entering into a 287(g) agreement with ICE, and to support amendments to the resolution that will be introduced by Commissioner Reed. If you can’t attend, then please take a few minutes to send a note to commissioners.
Commissioner Reed’s amendments intend to:
- Make racial profiling data collected publicly available on the City’s website;
- Make requests for federal immigration agents to unmask more clear and less discretionary; and
- Collect and make available all contacts with federal immigration enforcement.
Public comments will be allowed. If you cannot attend in person, please send your comments stating that you would like to see the amendments adopted to the resolution.
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Do You Know NorthWestern Energy’s 20-Year Plan?
MEIC’s Listening Session Will Keep You Informed
The Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC) is tracking NW Energy’s proposed 20-year plan. Real-life consequences for every Montanan are tied to this plan, including energy rates, environmental impacts, and cross-state agreements. This is a time to get involved, stay informed, and make sure your voice is heard at their listening session in Helena at the Lewis and Clark Library on Tuesday, February 3rd, 5:30 p.m.
Here are links to MEIC’s meticulously prepared information, including a Webinar video and descriptions of the plan and possible outcomes.
- MEIC’s info on NW Energy 20 Year plan and rates
- MEIC’s YouTube Presentation explaining the issues (About one hour)
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Mark Your Calendar
Monday, January 26 (tonight), 5 p.m. — Courage and Action Gathering, Prior to the City Commission Discussion on ICE/DHS
Show support and express your support for the resolution preventing Helena from entering into a 287(g) agreement with ICE, and to support amendments to the resolution that will be introduced by Commissioner Reed. At the City County Building, 316 N Park Ave. at 6th, east steps.
Indivisible National Trainings
Monday, January 26, 5 – 6 p.m. — No Kings Coalition Mass Call: Eyes on ICE
Learn how to participate in a local ICE watch and know your rights when recording and monitoring law enforcement.
Tuesday, January 27, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. — Fight Back with Friends Monthly Call
Learn how to participate in a local ICE watch and know your rights when recording and monitoring law enforcement.
Thursday, January 29, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. — “What’s the Plan?” with Leah and Ezra
Our weekly interactive Q&A with our co-founders and executive directors Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin.
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Good Reads / Good Watches / Good Listens
1
Heather Delaney Reese
Is This Finally America’s Breaking Point?
Substack
January 24, 2026
Reese recounts a terrifying moment shaped by her child’s active-shooter training and uses it to argue that fear, violence, and intimidation now define American life under authoritarian drift, culminating in the killing of a U.S. citizen during a federal raid in Minneapolis. Drawing on historical warnings from Nazi Germany and the present-day actions of Donald Trump’s administration, she contends that silence will not protect anyone and urges collective, immediate resistance before democratic collapse becomes irreversible.
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2
Roshi Joan Halifax
Upright in the Midst
January 23, 2026
UPAYA Zen Center
In this short piece from 2024, a Buddhist Teacher and medical anthropologist offers encouragement and guidance intended to support the care and feeding of activists and activism.
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3
Francine Prose
America Feels Like a Country on the Brink of an Authoritarian Takeover
January 25, 2026
Prose argues that constant media distractions mask a single, urgent reality: an accelerating authoritarian crackdown marked by federal violence in Minneapolis, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, which demands sustained public focus and action. She urges Americans to resist diversion, warning that without collective, nonviolent disruption and solidarity, the repression advanced by figures like Donald Trump and Stephen Miller will continue to spread unchecked.
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Dr. Heather Cox Richardson
VIDEO: It’s Too Late to Say You Didn’t Know
January 25, 2026
“Elected Republicans could stop this tonight if they wanted to.”
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This Week’s To-Do List
Make Good Trouble in Helena!
1. PRIORITY: BOYCOTT TARGET
On January 8, Customs and Border Protection agents attacked and detained two US citizens who were employees at the Richfield, MN, Target. We’ve seen the video of a Latino teenaged employee of a Target store in Minneapolis being dragged out of the store by ICE officers, shouting to his co-workers to call his mom.
Target is headquartered in Minneapolis and is Minnesota’s fourth largest employer. They should be standing with the people of Minnesota and speaking out against ICE’s invasion of the state instead of giving them bathroom privileges and allowing them to abduct their employees.
It’s hard to give up shopping at the closest thing we have to a department store — we understand, we get it. But there are work-arounds:
- cleaning supplies and household items at Ace Hardware/Rock Hand, Power Townsend, or the Restore
- socks at Murdocks
- bedding and towels online (NOT through Amazon)
- health and beauty products at supermarkets, CVS, or Walgreens
- clothes at Costco, thrift stores, or consignment shops
Shop at small local stores whenever possible. And, really think whether you need a new bathroom throw rug or prepared food from Target.
Consumer boycotts are effective! Sacrifice for our community, our democracy. Don’t support corporate compliance with the fascist regime.
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2. CONTINUE CALLING OUR FEDERAL DELEGATION
Senator Steve Daines: (202) 224-2651
Senator Tim Sheehey: (202) 224-2644
Representative Ryan Zinke: (202) 225-5628
Representative Troy Downing: (202) 225-3211
• Stop ICE illegal actions
• No New Wars, and Stay Out of Greenland
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3. HONK & WAVE
Saturdays, noon to 1 p.m.
11th and Montana Ave.
In true Montana fashion, the Honk & Wave continues weekly, except on days at 10℉ or below, or 0℉ with the wind chill.
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Get Your No Kings Yard Signs!
We’ve got ‘em, you want ‘em
Request by email, and we’ll get them to you. The No Kings sign campaign is here until we are sure there will be NO KINGS, EVER!
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Together, we’ll make sure the U.S. has NO KING.
