Did you ever think the revolution would start in Minnesota? Prince did. So be a good neighbor.

Below is link to a YouTube video uploaded on 21 January 2026 by Frost Simula and followed by a transcript. Simula introduces himself as the First Gentleman of Columbia Heights, MN. His wife Amáda Márquez Simula is the mayor. Here is his description: “Trump’s retaliation against Minnesota is met with neighbors who look out for each other. All of the footage in this video is mine, shot by me. I witnessed all of these events personally.”

In related news: ICE vs. People of Minnesota: Community Resists Trump’s Militarized Crackdown – Special Report (20.1.26).

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials (22.1.26) 😢 🤬

Peace, MAA

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There are people who haven’t left their home since the holidays because of Trump’s retaliation in Minnesota. It doesn’t matter if these people are currently going through the legal immigration process, or if they have completed their U.S. citizenship, or if they’re people who were born here in the United States. Minnesota residents are being terrorized by Trump’s secret police, and he’s focused his assault on our most diverse communities, including our First Nations indigenous people, if you can believe it.

I’m the first gentleman of Columbia Heights. That means I’m married to the mayor. We’re one of the most diverse cities in Minnesota outside of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Fun fact, we have one of the highest populations of Tibetans anywhere in the U.S. This is my neighborhood. I’ve got neighbors from Iraq, Egypt, Poland, Tibet, Ecuador, and Mexico. We have the very first mosque in Minnesota, and we even have police officers from places like Somalia and Bosnia.

Just a block away are a few of our schools where our student body speaks 31 different languages, and we love it. The Trump secret police know it too, and they are here watching, picking up students and parents as they come and go from school. We have a ton of immigrant home businesses in Columbia Heights, and we love them.

Want some amazing desserts and Dubai chocolate? This is your spot. Best samosas money can buy. If you haven’t been to one of their iftars, you’re missing out.

A lot of our favorite businesses are now closed. People are afraid to go to work, go to school, buy groceries, or even step outside to shovel their driveways. This is Minnesota, and we look out for our neighbors, right? We’ve been shoveling each other’s snow and pushing each other’s cars out of snowbanks for a hundred years.

There’s no way that we’re about to let Trump’s goons starve out our neighbors. You know, we’ve always taken care of each other, but during the pandemic we set up mutual aid networks to run errands and help out vulnerable people who were just trying to stay safe in their homes. That never stopped.

Today, we’re still helping each other. You think the weather is gonna stop us? It’s actually too cold to snow today. Did you even know that was a thing? We’ve got Arctic explorer Will Seeger here in Minnesota.

We know how to gear up. You think 31 languages is gonna be a barrier for us? We’ve got tools to overcome that. We show up for each other, and that’s what we’re doing right now.

Like a neighborhood watch times a thousand. We’ve got patrols. We’ve got guards.

We’ve got communication networks and dispatchers and first responders, and we are tracking Trump’s secret police every minute of every day. When they turn up, we step up. We get loud.

We make noise to alert everyone. We surround them with cameras to record their every move, and we report every crime they commit to our Attorney General. At every turn, these agents are escalating and intentionally trying to get us to do something violent, but if they think that we’re gonna give Trump an excuse to use the Insurrection Act, they have seriously underestimated who they are dealing with.

But you know, we’re not soldiers. We don’t have assault weapons. We don’t have a base.

We don’t have titles or ranks or a chain of command. We’re just neighbors, just doing the best we can. And now some heavily armed white supremacists have shown up, staying in the same hotel as Trump’s goons.

They’ve already threatened our volunteers. They’re doing their best to agitate us, but it’s not work. You know, here in Columbia Heights, Trump’s secret police are attacking our residents every single day, sometimes multiple times per hour.

We haven’t seen a single signed judicial warrant yet. They’re intentionally crashing cars and then pulling people out and then abandoning the victim’s car, and just sometimes it’s still running. They’re invading people’s homes, you know, bashing in the doors and windows.

They’re invading businesses, some of them in plain clothes, no badges. They’re even luring people outside with lies like, oh, there’s been a fender bender in the parking lot. Can you come and take a look so we can trade insurance information? And then abducting someone.

They’re breaking every rule of law enforcement and they have taken so many people. Not criminals, not illegals, just ordinary people who have every right to be here. Most of them get released.

So why have there been so many people targeted in the first place? It’s because Trump has set a massive quota for his secret police, and they’re just racially profiling. They’re just taking anyone. So if you’re not as pale as me, chances are high that you’re going to have a very un-Minnesotan day with an agent.

Did you know they even boxed in a Latina on the highway? Turns out she’s a cop. They didn’t care. They didn’t even run her license plates.

They just saw her complexion and got aggressive. Our local police are doing their best to trespass Trump’s goons when they can, but it’s a federal crime for any law enforcement or an elected official to interfere with these operations. And now Trump has more agents in Minnesota than our 10 biggest police departments combined.

Our mutual aid networks are not going to stop. Our volunteers are not giving up. This is Minnesota.

A lot of us are hunters. That doesn’t make us soldiers. We’re overrun. We’re overwhelmed and we need help. We need something like the Minnesota State Guard to be reinstated, reactivated, and deployed to protect our communities. Renee Macklin-Goode was the best of us, and they knew it because since her murder, Trump has been sending more and more secret police into Minnesota.

Instead of deporting hordes of criminals, he’s just galvanizing communities. Did you ever think the revolution would start in Minnesota? Prince did. So be a good neighbor.

Get trained as a constitutional observer. And when you see Trump’s goons, remember, alert, record, share. Keep up the good fight.