Ezra Levin ❌👑

everywhere you get podcasts! We had planned to not put it on spotify, but they stopped running ICE ads, so it's there now too.

"newfangled" - stumbling out of the gate.

So what can we actually do about ICE? Podcast Episode · What's The Plan? with Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin · 01/23/2026 · 1h 1m

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👇🎯 It was all obvious to anyone truly paying attention at the time, but now, in 2026, it's obscene to look back on the staggeringly shameful & fundamentally unserious nature of our National Conversation™️ in 2022-24 about Joe Biden, 🇺🇸 politics, & the two parties' positions on the political spectrum:

That's normally how the theater goes. If Dems actually hold things up to extract concessions, it's real and we should celebrate them. If they make a lot of noise but we get the same result, it's a show to prevent blowback and primary challenges from their voters who want to see them fight.

I'm with you on what we'd like to see and agree we're not seeing it. The question is how to shift their behavior? My ideas are protest + vocal advocacy + accountability + primary challenges. If we've got other levers to pull, I'm interested.

Long Island also has an increasing number of ICE agents terrorizing their communities with bipartisan support.

DNC will never support a primary challenge to any incumbent. The party is weak, but it is committed to self-preservation. To shake up the party, you gotta contest for power. Primaries is one way to do it. Taking over local Dem parties is another, but that's longer term.

ICE Out for Good On January 23, people across the country are taking action in solidarity with Minnesota to demand ICE out of our communities. Join the day of action.

From a follower in Minneapolis:

"Today is our big day here. Currently -20 and -45 windchill. Frost bite can occur in 10 minutes and it is a decent walk from Portland Ave to the Target Center. So those who cannot risk attending and to the rest of the country we are asking for your help."

hey I'm in favor - made that rec in our book years ago. Expand the House, enact proportional rep with ranked choice voting - break up the two-party system entirely. I'm in. But we don't have a way to do that in 2026. We do have a way to kick out the worst elements of the Dem party though.

Hey I'm all ears for other options. But I don't think we've seen a real effort to primary status quo Dems. Here and there some successes - AOC, Pressley, etc - but you can count them on one hand.

I agree!

The real move is to elect Dems who tell those consultants to fuck off. And there are many who do!

They have an outsized influence. They said it was smart to vote for Laken Riley and told Dems to ignore Abrego Garcia and El Salvador. They look at polls, see healthcare/cost of living polls high, and tell Dems to talk about nothing else. They caution against leadership, and many Dems listen.

If you want to change leadership's orientation, you have to change the caucus that elects leadership. And you do that in primaries.

I totally apprecitate this! But this isn't left vs right. My issue is the framework Dem leadership is using to assess the political viability here is outdated for the moment we're in. Joe Rogan/Independents/A healthy number of Republicans are all against ICE. If we fight on this, we do good & win.

yes, but not until after we break the Trump trifecta.

ICE is increasing operations in Suozzi's own district right now! He's voting for more funding to terrorize his constituents - not in some theortical future possibility kind of way, but literally actually right now in reality.

If we want to change this, we have to see through the theater. That means supporting fighter Dems and holding accountable loser Dems. That looks like solidarity with Minnesota today, loud advocacy in the coming days, and primary challenges against weak leaders in the coming weeks. /end

8) Elected Dems (mostly) vote against the ICE funding, knowing it will pass.
9) Elected Dems get to claim they opposed, while paving the way for passage.
10) This theater allows Dems to fundraise off of ICE opposition, while shifting back to an affordability-centric campaign message.

4) Dem voters want to see elected Dems fight ICE.
5) Dem leadership wants to limit blowback from Dem voters.
6) Elected Dems issue statements against ICE to reassure Dem voters that we're all aligned.
7) Dem leadership quietly cuts deal with GOP on funding bills, including ICE.

My honest best take on what's happening with ICE funding. I got it down to 10 points:
1) Trump/Miller/GOP want more ICE funding
2) Dem leadership doesn't want it but also doesn't see a way to stop it without focusing attention on it.
3) Dems consultants say focus on ICE is a political loser.

ICE Out for Good On January 23, people across the country are taking action in solidarity with Minnesota to demand ICE out of our communities. Join the day of action.

Solidarity with Minnesota. iceoutforgood.org?utm_source=i...

yes, this was theater. The goal was reduce blowback against Dems for going along with more funding for ICE. That works for both Republicans who want ICE funding, and Dem leadership who would like to talk about cost of living/healthcare instead of anything related to immigration.

I don't know man. It feels both small ball and existential simultaneously. It's true that it ultimately would have passed regardless. But are we really a party that can't unify against the fascist secret police? What are we doing here? What is the point of an opposition party if we just accept this?

Cynically, DeLauro issued blistering statements against ICE, then negotiated the ICE funding deal, then personally voted against it, then celebrated with Republicans after passage. She's 82, represents Yale, and has a primary challenger.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

If someone says they're from Indivisible ask them what they think of Chuck Schumer. If they say they like him it's ICE.

NEW: House passes DHS appropriations bill funding ICE on a 220-207 vote 7 Dems voted YES: --Jared Golden --Marie Gluesenkamp Perez --Henry Cuellar --Tom Suozzi --Laura Gillen --Don Davis --Vicente Gonzalez

FWIW:

Golden is retiring.

The filing deadline has passed in NC; Davis is the only Dem running.

The filing deadline has passed in TX; Gonzalez & Cuellar both have primary opponents.

Gillen has several Dem opponents as well, as does Perez.

If you want to primary Suozzi, you still have until 3/30.

Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.

This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.