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Rebecca Solnit on Long-Term Strategy—Plus, Resisting ICE in Small-Town America

April 15, 2026

Protesters hold a “No Kings” flag as they take part in the rally and march on March 28, 2026, in Washington, DC.(Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)

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Rebecca Solnit on Long Term Strategy, plus Resisting ICE in Small Town America / Start Making Sense
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It’s been only a couple of weeks since the No Kings 3 protests, but we can see now how protest and resistance are changing in America: that one it wasn't just bigger than the previous No Kings. It was different: Deeper and more connected. Rebecca Solnit argues that to understand resistance and change today, we need a much longer perspective than a couple of years. Her new book is The Beginning Comes After the End.

Also: Minneapolis made history with its mobilization against ICE. But what about the rest of the state, where the immigrant population has been growing for a couple of decades? What kind of resistance has developed there? Emma Janssen went to small town Minnesota to find out. She’s a writing fellow at The American Prospect.  

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It’s been only a couple of weeks since the No Kings 3 protests, but we can see now how protest and resistance are changing in America: That one wasn’t just bigger than the previous No Kings. It was different: deeper and more connected. Rebecca Solnit argues that to understand resistance and change today, we need a much longer perspective than a couple of years.  Her new book is The Beginning Comes After the End.Also: Minneapolis made history with its mobilization against ICE.  But what about the rest of the state, where the immigrant population has been growing for a couple of decades?  What kind of resistance has developed there? Emma Janssen went to small-town Minnesota.

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Stopping Trump’s Slush Fund, plus the Transformations of Bill Gates / Start Making Sense
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Trump’s Billion Dollar Ballroom is a familiar kind of corruption, but his slush fund to pay the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name is an unprecedented attack on democracy. Rob Weissman of Public Citizen explains, and also talks about the immense, and immnsely unpopular, proposed Arc d’Trump.

Also: Bill Gates was once the country’s youngest billionaire and the first billionaire to come from tech. Then he became the most hated man in America; then the biggest philanthropist, and the world’s most admired man. Then we learned of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Ben Tarnoff explains how all happened.

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