Trump ‘Insurrection Act’ threat to MN is the next step towards martial law
A few days ago, Trump pulled out his martial law playbook and threatened to invoke the “Insurrection Act” of 1807 and deploy the military to Minneapolis, MN to shut down people exercising their First Amendment right to protest his defacto Gestapo (ICE) and their Brownshirts-style treatment of people as part of enforcing his immigration agenda.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump said in social media post.
Leaving aside the fact that the violence didn’t exist until Trump and ICE Barbie sent his Gestapo, it’s important to know that I, and the few true conservatives we have left fighting for liberty, warned that this day was coming from his first days in office.
Trump’s plan to create a police state using the military began on Inauguration Day with an executive order declaring a national emergency on the southern border — an order that required Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem to provide a joint report updating conditions at the border along with their recommendations on whether to invoke the Insurrection Act:
“Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.”
Though Hegseth and Noem pretended to oppose the idea when their 90 days was up, Trump went ahead and acted like the Insurrection Act would be invoked when he sent out a memo announcing his plan to give the military control of “federal land” along the border — an obvious slight-of-hand because the “federal land” mentioned was a 60-foot-wide strip of land known as the Roosevelt Reservation which exists on the America side of the border in California, Arizona, and Texas.
Needless to say, many national and military experts saw the writing on the wall (via defenseone.com):
National and military experts have raised concerns that giving control over the land to the military could violate the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 law that generally prohibits the military from being used in domestic law enforcement.
The memo instructs its “phased” implementation within 45 days and says it could be expanded over time. The memo is directed at the secretaries of the departments of Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security. (Emphasis mine)
It was, of course, expanded months later when Trump deployed the National Guard to LA to allegedly “protect” Immigration Control Enforcement (ICE) officers from protestors who disagreed with his immigration policies (via LATimes.com):
It took less than 24 hours of isolated protests in Los Angeles County for Trump, more aggressive than ever in his use of executive power, to issue a historic order. “The federal government will step in and solve the problem,” he said on social media…, issuing executive action not seen since civil unrest gripped the nation in the 1960s.
The pace of the escalation, and the federal government’s unwillingness to defer to cooperative local law enforcement authorities, raise questions about the administration’s intentions as it responds to protesters. (Emphasis mine)
When he deployed the National Guard to LA, Trump stated that the Pentagon might also get involved when he said that “the Secretary of Defense may employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion.”
A mere 48 hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did his master’s bidding when he mobilized nearly 1000 marines to LA to “support” the National Guard with their police actions.
Several months after Trump’s Inauguration Day executive order — and with Trump having used the military as a domestic police force — we learned from an internal memo that Hegseth and Noem were on board with the Insurrection Act and the eventual declaration of martial law from the beginning (via NewRepublic.com):
The memo lays out the need to persuade top Pentagon officials to get much more serious about using the military to combat illegal immigration—and not just at the border. It suggests that DHS is anticipating many more uses of the military in urban centers, noting that L.A.-style operations may be needed “for years to come.”
“The memo is alarming, because it speaks to the intent to use the military within the United States at a level not seen since Japanese internment,” Carrie Lee, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, told me. “The military is the most powerful, coercive tool our country has. We don’t want the military doing law enforcement. It absolutely undermines the rule of law.”
The memo was authored by Philip Hegseth—the younger brother of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—who is a senior adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and DHS liaison officer to the Defense Department. As such, it also sheds light on Hegseth the Younger’s role, which has been the subject of media speculation labeling him an obscure but influential figure in his brother’s MAGA orbit. (Emphasis mine)
I hate being right about this, but what I hate even more is when so-called conservatives with larger platforms than I have continue to defend Trump’s tyrannical ambitions.
Back in April 2025, “Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association” founder Richard Mack appeared as a guest on The Shannon Joy Show and was asked to respond to my warnings about how Trump was using immigration as an excuse to deploy the military as domestic police and ultimately declare martial law. Sheriff Mack — who has established himself as a Bonafide Trumpist — defended Trump’s border plan and called my conclusions “wrong” and mere “assumptions” — and he further concluded that the idea of expanding the use of the military as “speculation” within our borders because Trump was prohibited by the Constitution from using the military within US borders.
He further concluded that the idea of the militarization of law enforcement in minority communities within the US was “speculation.”
Hey, Sheriff Mack! Are LA and Minneapolis within US Borders? Asking for a friend.
Despite the pro-Trump talking points of people like Sheriff Mack and the rest of the echo chamber, Trump’s actions prove conclusively that he has EVERY intention of using the military as a national police force WITHIN our borders, invoking the Insurrection Act, and eventually declaring, in some form or fashion, martial law.
Martial law will result in the suspension of the Constitution, allow military commanders to replace civilian authorities (local police), and replace the judiciary with military tribunals.
Trump is already using immigration and border security to introduce a mandatory national biometric digital ID capable of giving government the ability to track anyone at any time for any reason, so his plan to use the military as a domestic police force in Minneapolis, MN is just another piece to his tyrannical puzzle.
David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative and the author of The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties.
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