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Tim Walz is inching toward his Fort Sumter moment
American Thinker ^ | January 15, 2026 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 01/15/2026 9:54:43 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie

The seemingly deranged governor of Minnesota has effectively declared war on the federal government.

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. – 18 U.S.C. § 2383

While federal law is clear that insurrection and rebellion are very bad crimes, indeed, both Congress and the Supreme Court have steered clear of specifically defining it. Like Justice Potter Stewart’s comment on obscenity, the general feeling seems to be, “I know it when I see it.”

Watching Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s overwrought description of ICE enforcement efforts in Minneapolis and his call for action—ostensibly “peaceful” but with full approval of the increasingly violent conduct currently waged against ICE agents...well, I see a burgeoning insurrection or rebellion movement. Walz clearly envisions himself as the commander of the Citadel cadets as they fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, sparking the bloodiest war in American history.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 2020alloveragain; criminalconspiracy; defundthepolicepart2; dflcorruption; dflcoverup; dflkickbacks; dflracketeering; dirtydems; insurrection; mn; noheisnt; walz; walzingmaduro
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Walz states that ICE is going door to door instructing people to point out where the persons of color live.

This is just crazy talk. Is Walz sane?

1 posted on 01/15/2026 9:54:43 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie
This is just crazy talk. Is Walz sane?
Probably.

But the message he's sending is to people that aren't.

2 posted on 01/15/2026 9:56:50 AM PST by Bratch
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The Democrats are attempting to build a firewall using Minneapolis. It may not be their last stand, but its a very important one.

If Trump exposes and destroys the illegal migrant>>fraud>>democrat funding pipeline - everything they have in places like California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, etc... is in jeopardy.


3 posted on 01/15/2026 9:58:16 AM PST by PGR88
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“Tim Walz is inching toward his Fort Sumter moment”

I wonder which states will stand with Minnesota? California, Oregon, Washington, New York?


4 posted on 01/15/2026 9:58:40 AM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Dozens of Walz agitators follow ICE around yet not a single video of them randomly stopping door to door to demand where “people of color” live and see their papers.

Democrats are down low dirty liars about everything all the time. I bet Timmy and Frey will be begging for a phalanx of MPD officers to protect him and fire on agents who come to arrest him for his insurrection.


5 posted on 01/15/2026 10:01:13 AM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

And the President has Walz and that idiot Mayor arrested for Sedition.


6 posted on 01/15/2026 10:06:10 AM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: Organic Panic

I believe that Walz is in danger of getting Kirked.


7 posted on 01/15/2026 10:06:47 AM PST by matthew fuller (I designate Democrats and the Biden Crime Family as Domestic Terrorists. Matthew Fuller)
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To: TheDon

Who will be the Blues and the Grays in those states?

(Save your Confederate money, boys. The South will rise again.)


8 posted on 01/15/2026 10:07:06 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

me thinks he knows he is going to jail no matter what so he has decided to just burn down all he can before he gets put in chains


9 posted on 01/15/2026 10:07:31 AM PST by mitchjackson1972 (End usury - It's OK to be white - https://ussliberty.org/)
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To: matthew fuller

By whom? His own?


10 posted on 01/15/2026 10:12:50 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: The_Media_never_lie

TamponTim long ago passed his Tokyo Rose and Benedict Arnold moments, and he keeps circling back to those moments.


11 posted on 01/15/2026 10:12:57 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: The_Media_never_lie
And to think this was almost our VP.


12 posted on 01/15/2026 10:13:25 AM PST by Marko413
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I feel like maybe he thinks his arrest on corruption is imminent and he’s setting the stage for the “they are arresting their political enemies” argument. That because he supposedly “spoke out”, Trump is arresting him. He’s setting himself up to be a leftist martyr.


13 posted on 01/15/2026 10:13:43 AM PST by mmichaels1970 ( )
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To: matthew fuller

Promise? It’ll be an inside job though. Dems kill their own.


14 posted on 01/15/2026 10:14:31 AM PST by Polanski
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To: The_Media_never_lie

15 posted on 01/15/2026 10:14:34 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: TheDon
The question arises: when confronted with Federal troops, will Tim Walz back down, as Ross Barnett, George Wallace, and Orval Faubus did in the school integration era? The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Administrations committed to ending the Jim Crow system in the South that began at the end of Reconstruction. There was at the time a bipartisan commitment to end de iure segregation. Right now, you just have the Trump Administration, even with weak links like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and others, wants to take down the massive corruption linking government funding and laundering those funds through nonprofits into leftist advocacy groups and downright subversives. The entire Democratic Party and both the RINO and libertarian elements in the GOP are opposed to the Administration's actions.
16 posted on 01/15/2026 10:15:26 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: mmichaels1970

“He’s setting himself up to be a leftist martyr.”

If he is arrested along with the Mayor of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Attorney General they can be martyrs together.


17 posted on 01/15/2026 10:16:56 AM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Maybe he wants to become the Edmund Ruffin of the 21st century. He is certainly talking that way. But he better be careful or he might box himself into the same ending.


18 posted on 01/15/2026 10:17:05 AM PST by Belteshazzar
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If he is arrested along with the Mayor of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Attorney General they can be martyrs together.

I have no argument with that.
19 posted on 01/15/2026 10:17:46 AM PST by mmichaels1970 ( )
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To: Wallace T.

That is why you arrest Walz etal and haul them off to Gitmo.

Expect no support from any quarter—any that you get is a bonus.


20 posted on 01/15/2026 10:18:36 AM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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