BREAKING: Rep. Ilhan Omar defiantly responds to Trump’s fascist raid of her home just a few weeks out from the midterms. He picked a fight with the wrong woman… “I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” Omar wrote on X. “For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.” “I will not be silenced,” she concluded. Early this morning, ICE agents raided Omar’s home in Washington, D.C., ostensibly in search of immigration documents, including paperwork that her late father filed when she was just a child. The Rubicon has been crossed. Trump is now directing his jackbooted thugs to carry out politically motivated raids on his enemies based on fully fabricated allegations. This is a blatant targeting of Omar because she is an outspoken critic of this regime and, more importantly to the bigoted MAGA base, she’s a Black woman, a Muslim, and an immigrant. They are frothing at the mouth over the prospect of harming her. This is the kind of thing that you see in crumbling democracies right before the fascists make a concerted effort to permanently seize power. While we can’t say for sure that this tactic will spread, this normalizes sham raids on Democratic politicians and opens the door to a sweeping campaign of state-sponsored terror. Trump knows that he’s headed into an electoral wipeout in the midterms and so he’s desperately reaching deep into the authoritarian playbook. Expect the administration to push for denaturalizing and deporting Omar next, a longstanding dream of the white nationalist movement. They want to remove every last non-white, non-Christian person from this country but before they can do that they need to demonstrate an ability to strip away citizenship. Omar isn’t intimidated. Neither can we be. This is the canary in the coal mine. It’s time to take to the streets en masse. Please ❤️ and share if you proudly stand with Congressman Ilhan Omar!