These Heroes Ruined Trump’s Weekend: 23 AGs Crushed Him In Court, Georgia Town Cuts Off ICE’s Water, and Judge Hal…
The resistance isn’t just one movement. It’s a city manager in Georgia, two pastors in Ohio, a judge in Maryland, and an attorney general in New York who kept fighting even after the regime tried to indict her. This week they all won. The Dworkin Report exists to make sure you know about every one of these wins—before the regime tries to spin them into oblivion. Help us keep up the fight by joining as a paid subscriber today. These Heroes Ruined Trump’s Weekend: 23 AGs Crushed Him In Court, Georgia Town Cuts Off ICE’s Water, and Judge Halts Regime’s $215M PrisonSen. Warnock to ICE: Not in our townThe regime keeps trying to silence the resistance by freezing critical funding, indicting its opponents, and using ICE as their personal police force. The resistance is fighting back and winning on every front—this edition is proof. Hit the ❤️ like button and re-stack our post right now—every like and share puts these stories in front of someone the regime is counting on keeping in the dark. We have no ads, no corporate money, and no billionaire with an agenda here—just readers who help lead the resistance. Fund our independent journalism that fights back by becoming a paid subscriber today. You’ll get full access to The Dworkin Report archive, and unlock the ability to comment on every post. Join us now. A TOWN SAYS NO WATER FOR FEDS
The regime quietly spent over $128 million to buy a million-square-foot warehouse in Social Circle. It’s a conservative town of just 5,000 people about 50 miles east of Atlanta. The location is less than a mile from an elementary school. They bought it and told no one—no heads-up to city hall, no public meeting, nothing. ICE’s plan was to convert the warehouse into an enormous detention center holding as many as 10,000 immigrants awaiting deportation—that would almost triple the town’s population. The regime wanted it operational by mid-May. The city had one conversation with DHS, where their concerns went unheard. So City Manager Eric Taylor locked the water meter. “The lock is there until ICE indicates how water and sewer will be served without exceeding our limited infrastructure capacity,” Taylor said.
DHS came back with “alternatives.” All fake stall tactics. Off-peak pumping. Poison the water supply with new wells. Choke the town with around-the-clock water tankers. DHS had one priority—and it wasn’t the people living there. Just the warehouse. The City Council unanimously voted to back Taylor’s move. Councilman Tyson Jackson was clear: “It’s not a political stunt. It’s just the fact of the matter—we do not have enough water.” Sen. Raphael Warnock didn’t mince words: “We don’t want this in our town. … I’m not about to sit idly by, while towns like Social Circle are run roughshod over by our government, and the voices of ordinary people silenced. This has to stop. And I’m going to do everything I can to hold them accountable.” Social Circle stood up. The water meter is still locked. TWO PASTORS, ONE FIGHT, NO DAYS OFF
Social Circle locked the regime out with a wrench. In Springfield, Ohio, the courts did the same thing with a gavel. The regime tried repeatedly to strip Temporary Protected Status from Haitians—protections that cover 350,000 people nationwide. It lost at the district level and the appeals court. This week the Supreme Court kept protections in place while arguments are set for April. Behind every court win is a community that refused to break. That’s where Pastors Reginald Silencieux and Carl Ruby come in. They turned their churches into safe havens, ran trainings on how to legally respond to ICE raids, organized food drives, and coordinated legal aid. When Trump’s lies incited bomb threats, they kept showing up. The regime’s intimidation tactics failed. This community didn’t scatter—it dug in. Haitians are protected and at home, in Ohio. Where they belong. A JUDGE HOLDS THE LINE
This week, Judge Brendan Hurson extended his stop-work order on the regime’s proposed $215 million detention warehouse in Williamsport, Maryland, through April 16. The regime can’t touch the building while Maryland AG Anthony Brown’s lawsuit to block it moves forward. Local Trump voter Donnie Dagenhart, who owns a construction company, said: “I just think we’re living in a police state and it’s getting worse … They’re getting the wrong people.” Patrick Dattilio, who founded the Hagerstown Rapid Response Network to resist the detention center, said: “There’s a ton of concern that they’re about to start detaining people, an entire town’s worth of people. The idea that our tiny little town is now going to be the center, the epicenter of this—I think it’s simply too much for most of the people here.” The warehouse sits idle. The line holds. STATES BLOCK TRUMP’S POWER GRAB
NY Attorney General Letitia James led a coalition of 23 state attorneys general in suing to block the regime’s freeze of trillions of dollars in congressionally-approved federal funding. The move threatened child care and disaster relief for millions of Americans. Even though Trump tried to indict her—and failed—James never stopped fighting back. This week, she delivered the win. The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the block on the regime’s funding freeze, ruling that they halted funds “without considering an obvious aspect of the problem—namely the reliance interests of the recipients.” James was blunt: “This decision is a clear reminder that the president cannot treat congressionally-approved funding like a switch he can flip on and off.” Trump tried to block critical funding for the states and tried multiple times to indict someone who stood in the way. He failed on both counts. People are refusing to go along, and this unhinged regime keeps losing because of them. That’s what will flip Congress in November. Not one big moment, but a thousand of these wins—documented, amplified, and driven forward by reader-funded journalism that answers to no one but you. We have this amazing community on our side. That’s how we’ve organized 664,000 calls and letters to Congress, generated billions of impressions on social media, and kept up our reporting every day—with no ads, no corporate money, and no billionaires. Help us keep up the fight by upgrading to a paid subscription today. A city manager, two pastors, a federal judge, and 23 AGs just beat the regime this week. Hit the ❤️ like button and re-stack to make sure everyone knows it. Onward! Scott I have two questions for you today. What do you think about the pastors in Springfield helping residents resist? Do you think the small-town fight against ICE prisons will continue to spread? 🚨TWO URGENT ACTIONS TODAY 🚨Vote NO on SAVE Act: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-vote-no-on-the-save-act-to-protect-our-democracy/ 🚨 Tell your Reps to impeach Pam Bondi: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-attorney-general-pam-bondi/ A FEW OF MANY COMMENTS: I pray for the day when we don’t have any trumf questions to answer, but in the meantime praise to the clergy, hallelujahs to the small towns, hosanna to all the citizens who keep saying NO, NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD! ❣️✨🇺🇸 Senator Lisa Murkowski .. “My opposition to the SAVE America Act is twofold: The U.S. Constitution largely leaves it to the states to determine election requirements, and the bill as written would disenfranchise many Alaskans.” https://bsky.app/profile/kenaiseasky.bsky.social/post/3mhllzejst22j THIS IS WHAT WILL FLIP CONGRESS Not one big moment, but a thousand of these wins—documented, amplified, and driven forward by reader-funded journalism that answers to no one but you. 🫡💪🧢 Ah, Letitia! I am SO glad you survived trump’s sham bank fraud accusations!! You have proven yourself as an advocate for the people once again! I would like to know why NY let him get away with his crimes for so many years. If he had been stopped, we wouldn’t be in this mess Ditto. It’s all just SO corrupt! She is a treasure! Powerful AG, smart and action oriented. Knows how to get things done. Scott, the success of small towns to block the opening of ICE warehouses will become like a snowball rolling down a snow covered hill. It will become larger and more powerful. The Trump administration may have the power of the federal government, but these American democratic bastions have the power of patriotism. As we approach the 250th birthday celebration of our country, it reminds me of our Boston forefathers who revolted against the occupation of their town by the British. They were up against the power of the British crown, but they didn’t back down. We won’t either! ONWARD! This is what ministers are supposed to do...take care of their community! Bravo!!! "Trump tried to block critical funding..." Gentle reminder: Trump doesn't really make strategic decisions. He's insane. His Project 2025 staff makes these decisions. Every time we mention Trump, we should preface it by noting that he's clinically insane. Great news all around though. Thanks for taking point on the front lines for so long. I want to believe the walls are finally collapsing. Very true. The name Stephen Miller should appear more often. And Susie Wiles. Miller is the immigration nut, but she's pretty much everything else. She's the operations manager. She's critically important to everything these nutjobs do, and she gets away with very little bad publicity somehow. Interesting trivia - a MASSACHUSETTS CONGRESSMAN mentioned to SUSIE WILES that the SHELLS for new TRAIN CARS were being held up in CHINA due to Trump's trade war...those TRAIN CARS were released after the conversation. A CHINESE COMPANY has the contract to build NEW TRAIN CARS in Massachusetts & was laying off workers. WHO'S IN CHARGE? What would you do if a building near you suddenly had a sign that it was going to be converted into an ICE prison capable of holding 3 times the population of your town? Ms. J., I’d freak out and call the mayor! And the press (NYT and local); everyone I know; I’d raise hell. What would I do? Work to get my town to cut off water and sewage service to that site. I had to dig an outhouse once. Lot of work. I don’t know but that thought is terrifying. Right down the street from their school. 🤦 Scott, I am thrilled and humbled at the two pastors who stepped up and showed ICE that we are THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and are NOT going to fold under the monstrous rise of of the worst and most vile creature ever born on American soil. I frightened myself at how much I despise Trump for what he has done done to my beloved country. I’ve been in a state of despair since November 2016, because I knew Trump would be detrimental to the US, but I had no idea how horrifically bad he would get. He has caused the deaths of millions around the world by depriving aid so desperately needed and then destroyed the food and drugs without a thought. The depravity of him and his minions is off the scale. At times I am so overwhelmed with grief I just collapse into a chair and weep until my eyes ache. How so many people could readily support this excuse for a man is unknowable. So when these two brave Americans put their safety on the line to oppose this evil regime…my heart is full of love for them. Godspeed friends. Never give up. I won’t. The parties in Springfield did what their calling taught them. Help the needy, educate the protesters, feed the hungry! I doubt any small town wants an ICE facility! And more importantly they don’t want ICE personnel roaming their streets. They have shown us their cruelty, their indifference to the law but they still are too ashamed to show their faces. #DefundICE We are fortunate to have a state attorney general in MN who is ON TOP of these issues and takes action promptly and decisively. Keith Ellison. We also have hundreds of MN citizens who rise to the occasion whenever called upon. I am 'pumped' for March 28! Joan Baez & Jane Fonda are coming to St Paul, MN!!!! $65 MILLION PER YEAR FOR 5 YEARS? Is that how long these BOOBS plan to continue this ABUSE? There's a web site, dekleptocracy that published this: article We found the kill switch for ICE's deportation machine. Most people know ICE is running mass deportations under Trump. What almost no one knew until Dekleptocracy started digging? One company flies almost all of those flights, and ICE has no other option that is both capable and willing to supply this many planes. This is a single point of failure for the deportation machine. It's GlobalX. We started tracking ICE Air operations. Flight patterns out of detention centers got cross-referenced with FAA tail number registrations. Contract databases that nobody bothers reading suddenly became very interesting. A 5-year contract worth $65 million per year emerged from the data. GlobalX isn't one airline among many that ICE calls when they need a plane. They are nearly the entire deportation air force for Trump's horrifying ICE operations. GlobalX operates 73% of all ICE deportation flights. Major carriers won't do what GlobalX does. They won't accommodate ICE's use of full-body restraints, including "the wrap" device that immobilizes people for entire flights, or allow ICE guards to control entire flights. No questions asked about who's being deported or where they're going. And ICE has no backup plan. More than 8,000 international students had their visas revoked in 2025. Many were deported on GlobalX flights — the same planes flying your basketball teams during March Madness. The vulnerability is their commercial business. NCAA charters. Corporate clients. Business they want to protect. Thanks to you, we hired a researcher with donor funds to map exactly how deep those commercial ties go. There's your pressure point. What happens when the NCAA drops GlobalX? When universities refuse to put student athletes on the same planes deporting families? GlobalX loses all commercial credibility outside of ICE work. Last week, the NCAA quietly warned 350 member schools that charter flights for March Madness will be in short supply — because GlobalX planes are tied up running Trump's deportation machine. We're already making this expensive for them. And GlobalX is shielding its flight data to avoid detection by the researcher that you hired. We're working around that. Every mention of GlobalX gets tied to family separations. Every logo appearance becomes synonymous with Trump's mass deportations. Will GlobalX walk away from ICE money? Probably not. But operating as "the deportation airline" means no other revenue streams. When other companies see what happened to GlobalX, they think twice before signing up. That sends a message to every airline in America. Your money exposed GlobalX's entire network and helped us identify every commercial client they're trying to protect. Almost a million of you across the coalition have signed the letter to Athletic Directors. Our Arsenal partnership putting pressure on the NCAA right now? Started with research your dollars paid for. Arsenal PAC is one of the most effective progressive pressure campaigns in the country. The GlobalX pressure campaign is already moving. Organizers from Maryland call us asking for training. Maine. Texas. They're done with protests that don't change anything. What they want from Dekleptocracy: how to actually dismantle deportation infrastructure. Donations keep our researchers uncovering new GlobalX contracts. It gives us time to actually train the organizers calling from across the nation. And coordinating with Arsenal means pressure hits from multiple directions at once. |
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