
California may be first – but it clearly won’t end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next.
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DE-D
NC-D
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CO-D
IL-D
RI-D
MS-R
IA-R
VT-R
PA-D
OK-R
NH-R
MN-D
MI-D
PA-D
VA-RFormer governors

California may be first – but it clearly won’t end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next.

Clearly there's no invasion, there's no rebellion, it's absurd.

It is wrong to deploy the National Guard and active duty Marines into an American city, over the objection of local law enforcement.

We will not participate in abuses of power. We will not violate court orders. We will not ignore the Constitution.

Nothing Minnesota has done to serve its own people stands in the way of the federal government managing border security and policies.

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

California will sue to stop this latest illegal action by a President who is a wholly-owned subsidiary of big polluters.

If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.

This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful.

Public land is an incredible asset on America's balance sheet that could be used to solve our nation's affordable housing crisis.

We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.

I would rather that he came and arrested me than do that to the people of my state.

We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.

Nothing we do precludes them from doing their job.

When the president of the United States is calling up your National Guard over the top of local law enforcement, saying that they don’t need it, that they have things under control, it tends to have an inflaming effect on what’s going on…

We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and mayor have placed on this country.