President Donald Trump’s attempt to consolidate federal enforcement agencies into a national, occupying police force has faced growing resistance in Chicago for several months. It’s a tale of escalating overreach and of local revitalization of democratic organizing. People are working together to protect each other and their neighborhoods across Chicagoland. In this they have shown us what sustained resistance to authoritarian encroachment can look like.

While the daily imagery of neighbors standing up to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is a powerful contagion for courage, there is something far deeper at work than just residents blowing whistles and recording arrests.

Chicagoans are feeling compelled to act — engaging by the thousands because the threat to liberty is per

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