We don’t want to bury the lede: MVP has launched a Rapid Response Fund to support organizing groups working to protect communities from ICE and the Trump regime's violence, lawlessness, and authoritarian occupations. Read on to learn more.

From L.A. and Chicago to Minnesota and Maine, we’ve witnessed the harm and brutalization caused by ICE and CBP. Community members kidnapped, neighbors scared to leave their homes, children separated from their parents, and, of course, the killing of so many people at the hands of federal agents. 

We know the names of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, brutally gunned down in Minneapolis, but what about Keith Porter, Jr., who was fatally shot in L.A. by an off-duty DHS agent on New Year’s Eve, Silverio Villegas González, who was fatally shot by ICE during a traffic stop near Chicago, and Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez and Josué Castro Rivera, who were both fatally struck by vehicles while fleeing ICE in separate raids in California and Virginia. 

It’s been over a year of nearly inescapable terror, tragedy, and trauma, that could — if we let it — rip our movements apart. But, instead, it’s made us stronger. In the face of unbelievable violence, we’ve seen — and participated in — unprecedented resistance from mutual aid networks, to neighborhood ICE-watch teams, to large-scale protests, to corporate pressure campaigns. 

As attacks on our rights surge, our movements are growing, inspiring hope, joy, and a sense that another world is, indeed, possible. 

Photo: Community Organizing Alliance - “ICE Out” rally in Lewiston, Maine, 1/24/2026. (Photo Credit: Erin Towns)

Supporting the Resistance: MVP’s Rapid Response Fund

If there’s one thing we have learned, it's that everyone has a role to play in resisting authoritarianism, including MVP. 

That’s why we’ve launched a Rapid Response Fund to support groups doing the work to protect communities and fight back against ICE, CBP, and other federal agencies occupying our cities and harming our communities. 

This fund was initially created to support work in Minnesota, deploying more than $750,000 to groups like TakeAction Minnesota Education Fund, Unidos MN Education Fund, and ISAIAH, and has now expanded to supporting other communities targeted by ICE around the country. 

How can I contribute to MVP’s Rapid Response Fund?

Visit our Rapid Response Fund website at movement.vote/rapid or contact us at advisor@movement.vote. 

Who does the money go to and what will it be used for?

Contributions to MVP’s Rapid Response Fund will go to organizations and groups on the ground organizing against and protecting communities from federal occupation by ICE, CBP, and other agencies.

Funding will support innovative and effective strategies, including but not limited to neighborhood observers, peaceful protests, corporate pressure campaigns, and mass civil resistance. 

What impact will MVP’s Rapid Response Fund have?

Locally, we are funding immediate work to protect communities and get ICE out now, but there are national implications as well. In the words of MVP Board Member and Minneapolis resident, Laura Flynn, “This is no longer about immigration. This is very clearly about our Constitution and an attempt to consolidate an authoritarian regime.” 

Support from MVP’s Rapid Response Fund is helping lay the foundation for rebuilding our democracy, so that authoritarianism does not prevail. 

Watching residents from all walks of life mobilize in Minneapolis, Laura further noted that “this is the organizing opportunity of lifetimes.” 

We are helping strengthen and expand the long-term organizing infrastructure needed both to defeat authoritarianism and deliver progress for the future. 

“Sing Them Out of Town”

We want to close with some of the best advice we’ve heard about what to do if you encounter ICE in your community from an organizer leading the fight in North Carolina: Nikki Marín Baena, Co-Director of MVP partner, Siembra NC.

If you have two people, document.

If you have four people, document and alert people in the area.

If you have more than four people, document, alert people in the area, and “sing them out of town.”

Join the fight, contribute to MVP’s Rapid Response Fund, and don’t be afraid to sing.