Hi—We wanted to circle back and update you about our vigil and rally on Tuesday evening right outside the headquarters of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C.
It was a powerful show of courage, solidarity, and resolve, with more than 1,000 MoveOn members and others packing the street like sardines. Representative Maxwell Frost, Senator Chris Murphy, the head of the Interfaith Alliance, and others addressed the crowd with one message: ICE has no place in our communities, and together we're going to stop ICE and stop the killings, brutality, and violence.
Our next steps are to pressure Democrats to use the leverage they have in the Department of Homeland Security funding showdown at the end of this month to defund ICE. As Senator Chris Van Hollen told the crowd at the vigil, "We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations." We're also organizing to stop ICE’s plans to be at the Super Bowl, the single largest sporting event in the U.S. each year.
We won't back down, John. But we need your help to organize at scale and pull off all that we have planned—and then to keep fighting back. Will you start a $5 monthly donation to MoveOn to help power and sustain our organizing for as long as it takes?
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It's a frightening time, but we're in it together. And every day our pro-democracy movement is getting stronger and more united. We will prevail, no matter how long it takes. Below is the note we sent earlier this week about our very rapid mobilizations after ICE's murder of Renee Good and increasing brutality everywhere. –Mia
Dear MoveOn member,
This is how brutal regimes are defeated: In the days since ICE executed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old wife and mother of three, in the streets of Minneapolis, there's been a surge of public outrage, courage, solidarity, and protest all across the country.
All told, there have been more than 1,200 peaceful, nonviolent protests in communities large and small.
Corporations are starting to end their complicity with ICE: After months of grassroots pressure by MoveOn and others, Spotify announced it's no longer running ICE recruitment ads, and Avelo Airlines said it will stop flying deportation charters for ICE.1,2 Finally.
This could be a turning point, John, as Good's murder helps more people see the inhumanity of ICE. But whether it is or not is up to us.
That's why MoveOn and a coalition of organizations are holding a rally and vigil outside of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters this evening to keep building momentum to stop ICE’s violence and brutality.
MoveOn and our coalition moved at lightning speed late last week and over the weekend to provide the mobilization infrastructure to enable so many people across the country to participate in ICE Out for Good protests this past weekend. It was a herculean effort.
And we won't stop there. Government funding runs out on January 30, and Democrats will once again have leverage—if they use it. We're calling on Democrats to refuse to fund Trump’s brutal ICE force.
But we need your help to have the resources to keep working at breakneck speed to rein in Trump and ICE and protect our communities, lives, and freedom, for as long as it takes. Will you start a monthly $5 donation to MoveOn today?
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If you're looking for a through line for the escalation in violence at home and abroad in the last 10 days, Robert Reich put it this way:
"Trump has unleashed violence on America’s streets for much the same reason he has unleashed violence on Latin America and is planning to unleash it elsewhere: to display his own strength. His motive is to gain more power and, along the way, more wealth. (On Sunday, he even posted an image referring to himself as the “Acting President of Venezuela.”) ... We must stop trying to make rational sense out of what Trump is doing. He is a ruthless dictator, plain and simple."3
Now is our best opportunity to rein in Trump and ICE—before the violence and cruelty get even worse. ICE reportedly plans to invest $100 million in what it calls the “wartime recruitment” of 10,000 new agents, in addition to the 20,000 already employed, with recruitment targeting gun and military enthusiasts and people who listen to right-wing radio, among others.4
Help us make the vigil and rally tonight outside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters as powerful as possible and then keep building pressure on Democrats and Congress, including using the government funding showdown at the end of the month to rein in ICE, save lives, and stop the violence. Chip in $5 a month.
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Thanks for all you do.
–Mia, Alex, Aliya, Jensine, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Spotify says ICE recruitment ads no longer running on its platform," USA Today, January 12, 2026
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/01/09/spotify-no-longer-running-ice-recruitment-ads/88105090007/
2. "Avelo Airlines to end ICE deportation charters as it cuts commercial flights, jobs," CNBC, January 7, 2026
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/avelo-airlines-ice-deportation-flights-job-cuts.html
3. "Trump’s War Footing," Post on Substack by Robert Reich, January 12, 2026
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-foreign-and-domestic-policies
4. "ICE plans $100 million 'wartime recruitment' push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires," The Washington Post, December 31, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/31/ice-wartime-recruitment-push/
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