No Kings, No War, No ICE

This past Tuesday, Michigan organizers put elected officials from both parties on notice ahead of the third national No Kings mobilization scheduled for this Saturday. Their demands are clear: defend the Constitution at all costs; protect the Michiganders brutalized by ICE and stop the ongoing escalating war in Iran; and champion fixes to this mess that will build a state where everyone can thrive in the wake of what the Trump administration has destroyed. 

Michiganders still don’t have answers regarding the death of 56 year old Nenko Gantchev at the GEO group’s private detention facility in Baldwin Michigan, and just this weekend the New York Times exposed life-threatening conditions for pregnant women and infants in ICE detention centers. For months, too many Michigan politicians have responded with carefully worded press releases while failing to fully use the authority of their offices to stop these human rights abuses. When democratic institutions, civil rights, and the foundations of the rule of law are under threat, the relative silence from Michigan’s elected leaders isn’t neutrality—it is complicity. 

“Thousands of Michiganders are furious about the proposed ICE detention center in Romulus; we’re opposed to the ICE expansion in Southfield and Romulus; and the fact that people are dying in the Midwest’s largest detention center in Baldwin, Michigan while deaths go uninvestigated, is unconscionable and unacceptable,” said Sherri Masson, one of Michigan’s Indivisible leaders. “Public officials are not elected to comment on crises—they are elected to confront them.” 

Well, this is a crisis. We’re funding and allowing 21st century concentration camps in Michigan, and we need every single politician to join us in shutting them down. Furthermore, we demand criminal charges and prosecutions for every federal agent violating our civil rights. Now. No Kings. No War. No ICE.” 

“The cost of living is going through the roof, but instead of using our tax dollars to repair our own crumbling infrastructure, Michigan residents are being forced to subsidize AI data centers that communities are actively working to keep out. These facilities are not simply energy consumers. They represent serious surveillance infrastructure carrying national security risks that Washington D.C. is ignoring while everyday families foot the bill,” said Sean Webber with the Public Research Initiative. 

“When tech billionaires and utility companies can drown out Michigan voters, our democratic process is in serious trouble. This administration will not step in to protect working families, which means it falls on our state legislature to act. Michigan State legislators have both the authority and the responsibility to introduce meaningful protections for ratepayers and communities,” Webber said. 

We need to get utility money out of our elections so that voters, not donors, shape the future of this state. I encourage every concerned resident to join the thousands of volunteers collecting signatures to take back Lansing, so it’s our communities that are served by legislators–not AI tech companies and utilities.” 

Indivisible leaders have also been working with voting rights advocates across Michigan since 2025. That’s because tyrants use every tool at their disposal to avoid the public accountability of free and fair elections, and the Trump administration is chock-full of election conspiracy theorists committed to repeating lies about the 2020 election outcome. 

“When corrupt tyrants can’t win elections because they’re doing unpopular things, like starting a war with Iran, they resort to trying to stop people from voting. That’s what is happening right now. Trump thinks that he can keep hundreds of thousands of Michiganders from voting this November by lying about what the SAVE act really does, and teaming up with the completely discredited billionaire backing the “documentary proof of citizenship” ballot drive that recently turned in signatures here in Michigan. 

Well, we have news for him,” said Angela Davenport, the Executive Director of the Voting Access for All Coalition. Angela continued, “We will defeat every single attempt to deny Michiganders their right to vote. This will backfire on them. We will fight them in court. We will fight them at the board of state canvassers. And we will fight them at the ballot box by ensuring that every single Michigander that is eligible to vote can do so without fear, and without interference this November.”