📢 Protect Democracy - ICE Out for Good
🗽 News & Actions — January 9 2026 . Our democracy is on the line. Stay informed and take action to hold leaders accountable.
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Every action counts in the fight to protect our rights and freedoms. Today in Protect Democracy we’re featuring January 9, 2026 news and critical calls-to-action. Freedom is a daily act of advocacy and holding our leaders accountable to the will of the people.
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Today, instead of our usual headlines, we want to draw your attention to an important nationwide action happening this weekend: ICE Out for Good.
At People Power United, we support safe and orderly borders that respect the dignity and humanity of those who live here and those seeking asylum. What’s broken is not the immigrant who has lived and worked in this country for 5, 10, or even 30 years—raising families, contributing to their communities, following the rules, filing paperwork, attending check-ins, and waiting year after year for a system that never delivers. What’s broken is a government that has failed to fix an immigration system riddled with delays, shifting rules, a shortage of judges, no legal help, and rampant abuse.
While Congress stalls, immigrants wait decades. Lawyers exploit desperate clients. Private detention companies profit from human suffering. And ICE raids homes in the middle of the night—stripping people of dignity, using force and fear, and deporting them to countries they may not know. Blaming immigrants for this chaos is wrong. The responsibility lies with a government that has ignored Dreamers, asylum seekers, and immigrants, underfunded the courts, allowed profiteering, and weaponized surveillance against the very people who call America home.
That’s why actions like ICE Out for Good matter—and why we must keep showing up for justice, accountability, and humanity.
People Power United is a proud member of the Not Above the Law coalition which is calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action on Saturday, January 10th, and Sunday, January 11th, to demand accountability, honor the life lost, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions.
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▶️ We are outraged by the killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE. She was a 37 year old wife and mother of three children who loved to sing and studied creative writing and she was shot in the face by an ICE agent. We grieve her death and the deaths of all those killed in ICE detention.
▶️ ICE has been escalating its cruel deployments into our communities. This recent killing is not an isolated incident, but the devastating and predictable result of ICE’s lawless operations and President Trump’s abuse of power.
▶️ ICE and CBP have endangered our communities. Our neighbors fear for their livelihoods and their lives, and our communities are less safe. We won’t stand for it.
▶️ We demand accountability for the killing and an end to ICE and CBP raids. We will not sit by while violence goes unanswered and our communities are terrorized.
We will meet ICE’s violence with steadfast nonviolence and lawful protest.
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💥 Urgent Calls to Action to Protect Democracy:
Click here to sign the petition: Tell Congress: It’s Time to Defund ICE
Click here to Tell Apple & Google CEOs: End your contracts with ICE NOW.
Click here to read the coalition letter to refuse increased funding to ICE
Click here to read How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Click here for Protest Resources by Democracy Security Project
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Hope
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Respect
Respect is a formidable weapon against fascism, countering its foundation of hatred and dehumanization with dignity and inclusivity. By leading with respect, we create a society where collaboration and compassion overpower fear and division, rendering fascism powerless in the face of unity.
Unity
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