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An article I found today:

For those unaware or not in the know, here’s a quick update and context: In California, protests against ICE actions are escalating, and T has deployed the National Guard. As a reminder, these are legal, constitutionally protected protests that are taking place.
Let's put this in perspective.

The last time a President deployed the National Guard without a governor's request was 1965 – LBJ did it to protect civil rights protestors. This time a president is doing it to intimidate protestors.

This is the same prez that refused to call the Guard to protect the Capitol during the J-6 attempted coup. In fact, when he returned to office, he freed those convicted traitors.

For a moment, I want you to consider the massive amounts of resources we’re committing to terrorize people, versus feeding and housing them.

Never tell me again that both parties are the same.

Here’s the significant development here: California, the world's 4th largest economy, is refusing to comply. And Governor Newsom blasted the action and criticized it as "purposefully inflammatory" and unnecessary.

This is not (just) politics. This is history.

A sitting governor critical and opposing federal power marks the beginning of a profound fracture. A reckoning. A fight over meaning, over power, over who truly gets to call themselves free.

This is how it starts: not with armies, but with ordinary people refusing to kneel.

I don’t think many fully grasp what California represents. It's more than just beaches and tech. It's a superpower. A cultural supernova. A mythic entity currently holding half the country’s future in its jaw.

So, when California says NO, it matters. It matters profoundly.

If you’re feeling chills reading this, your body is recognizing the shift. The facade is cracking. The quiet roar of a state remembering it doesn't have to comply.

And if you believe any of this is only about immigration enforcement, then frankly, you’re too uneducated or too far gone for productive engagement.

It took him 138 days to declare war on Americans.

We are in the opening chapter of something.

Pay attention.

Anna Castillo