January Vignettes

See also the previous Wild Reed January 2026 posts:
• Into a New Year
• Progressive Perspectives on the Trump Regime’s Illegal Attack on Venezuela
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• Butch Ware: “We Have the Power to Stop the Flow of Money and the False Legitimacy Upon Which Empire Depends”
• “It Was Murder”: 12 Powerful Responses to the Death of Renée Nicole Good
• Omar Fateh: “Folks Are Waking Up”
• Chris Hedges: “Most Revolutions Succeed Not Through Violence But Through National Strikes”
• A Good Faith Appeal and a Grim Response
• Why Minnesota?
• Chris Hedges on ICE: “I Have Seen These Masked Goons Before”
• Steven Donziger: “Let’s Get Real . . . ICE Is a Domestic Terrorist Organization”
• Historian Kyle Dekker: “It’s Not Nazi Ideology We Are Fighting. It’s American”
• Maha D. Blackfeather’s Message to the American People: “We’re Finally Seeing the Truth”
• A “Red Alert Moment for American Democracy”
• Dispatches from Occupied Minnesota
• Remembering the Visionary Leadership of Patrice Lumumba
• Butch Ware: “People Really Want New Options in Politics”
• What Moral Clarity Looks Like in Minnesota This MLK Day
• Andre Henry: “So Many of the Freedom Movements in Our History Were Actually Anti-Fascist Movements”
• Nemik’s Eulogy for Renée Nicole Good
• “It Was Never About Keeping America Safe”
• “ICE Out!”: The Minnesota General Strike – 1/23/26
• “Organized Sustained Systemic Resistance and Self-Defense Are Our Only Options”
• Honoring Alex Pretti
• George Conway: The Trump Administration Is a “Criminal Organization”
• In the Face of Fascist Lies, MN Governor Tim Walz Sets the Record Straight
• Adam Serwer on How “Every Social Theory Undergirding Trumpism Has Been Broken on the Steel of Minnesotan Resolve”
• “They Were Alive. Then They Were Not”
• Bruce Springsteen and the Streets of Minneapolis in the Winter of ’26
• Craig Mokhiber on the “Imperial Boomerang”: How U.S. War Tactics Abroad Are Now Used at Home

See also:
• January Vignettes (2025)
• January Vignettes (2024)
• Winter Vignettes
• The Light of This New Year’s Day (2023)
• Out and About – Winter 2022-2023
• Shining On . . . Into the New Year (2022)
• Carrying It On . . . Into the New Year (2021)
• Out and About – Winter 2020-2021
• A Blessing for the New Year (2020)
• A Blessing for the New Year (2019)

Images: Michael J. Bayly.