BREAKING: Senator Alex Padilla was just violently REMOVED and HANDCUFFED at DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles A sitting U.S. Senator. Dragged out by federal agents for demanding answers. If this enrages you, chip in $15 to help us fight Trump’s authoritarian agenda and defeat his MAGA enablers up and down the ballot » DONATE NOW »

Peter, here’s the latest on what happened:

After Trump’s DHS deployed 4,000 National Guard troops and launched ICE raids across LA, Secretary Kristi Noem held a press event to justify it.

Senator Padilla—on official business in the building—stood up and said:

“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary.”

What happened next is horrifying:

Federal agents shoved him, forced him to the ground, handcuffed him in a hallway. All because he dared to demand answers from the Trump administration.

Peter, this is political violence—plain and simple.

And if they can violently handcuff a U.S. Senator, what will they do to immigrants, journalists, protestors—or you?

This is how authoritarian regimes behave. And the only way to stop it is with a grassroots movement strong enough to resist them.

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