ICE's Secret Database of American Protesters Exposed After Officer Caught on Camera

27 Jan 2026 · 18 min · 7 chapters

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Podcast Episode Notes: IHIP News - "ICE's Secret Database of American Protesters Exposed After Officer Caught on Camera"

Episode Summary In this episode, hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan discuss alarming revelations regarding the Trump administration's treatment of dissenters, particularly in light of an ICE agent's comments about a database of American protesters. They analyze the implications for civil liberties, the role of propaganda, and the erosion of the rule of law under the current administration.

Key Concepts and Discussions

  1. The Erosion of First Amendment Rights
  2. An ICE agent reveals that dissenters are being categorized as domestic terrorists.
  3. Key Quote: "You’re considered a domestic terrorist" if you protest legally.
  4. Discussion on the implications of this categorization for free speech and assembly.
  1. Government Overreach and Authoritarianism
  2. Jennifer and Pumps emphasize the increasing authoritarian nature of the government, particularly under the leadership of Trump and figures like Pam Bondi.
  3. The administration is accused of manipulating the judiciary to suppress dissent and protect its interests.
  4. They highlight the hypocrisy within the Republican Party regarding states' rights, noting the administration's overreach into state matters.
  1. Propaganda and Misinformation
  2. The hosts argue that the Trump administration uses propaganda to control the narrative and diminish opposition.
  3. The hosts criticize how federal agents block state inquiries, suggesting a coordinated effort to cover up facts and alter public perception.
  4. Important Insight: The administration's rhetoric is described as intentionally contradictory, serving to maintain power and suppress dissent.
  1. Specific Cases and Incidents
  2. Reference to the treatment of journalist Don Lemon and his coverage of protests.
  3. The hosts discuss a specific incident involving a Minnesota shooting and the DOJ's obstruction of state investigations, highlighting the dangerous precedent being set.
  1. Implications for Civil Rights
  2. The episode discusses how policies under the current regime threaten not just individual rights but the fabric of American democracy.
  3. The hosts urge listeners to recognize these threats as not just political but as fundamental attacks on civil liberties.
  1. Call to Action
  2. Jennifer and Pumps encourage listeners to stay informed and engaged with the news, emphasizing the importance of understanding the political landscape.
  3. They promote the use of the Ground News Vantage Plan for accessing diverse news sources and avoiding misinformation.
  1. Concluding Thoughts
  2. The hosts reflect on the alarming normalization of authoritarian practices and the ongoing struggle for civil rights and liberties.
  3. They conclude by advocating for awareness and action to combat these trends.

Key Takeaways

  • The current administration's policies are seen as a direct threat to civil liberties and the First Amendment.
  • The hosts emphasize the importance of recognizing and resisting propaganda tactics employed by the government.
  • Engagement with the news and informed citizenry is crucial in the fight against governmental overreach and erosion of rights.

Resources Mentioned

  • Ground News Vantage Plan: A tool for understanding media bias and factuality in news reporting.

Links

  • [Ground News Vantage](https://groundnews.com/ihip)
  • [Order our new book and shop our merch](https://linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcast)

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The Database of Protesters

0:45 to 2:15

Discussion on the implications of an ICE agent's comments about a database of protesters.

“The answer to that question is they are crazy.”

Legal Battles and First Amendment Rights

2:15 to 3:51

Review of Don Lemon's legal troubles regarding protest coverage and First Amendment protections.

“and my husband, a criminal defense attorney, read into all of this all weekend and kind of translated it to me.”

Erosion of the Rule of Law

3:51 to 6:06

Analysis of the ongoing erosion of legal protections and civil liberties under the current administration.

“Everybody's getting primed, getting shot in the street.”

Propaganda and Authoritarianism

6:06 to 8:10

Exploration of how propaganda is weaponized by the government to control narratives.

“And for this man to run around and be offended that he was called the Gestapo when he's running around dressing like a Nazi on purpose, shut the fuck up.”

Pam Bondi's Tactics and Intimidation

8:10 to 10:04

Discussion on Pam Bondi's use of intimidation tactics concerning voter information.

“It is, it is, this is a part of the plan and we all have to understand it.”

Federal Oversight and Accountability

12:45 to 14:01

Examination of federal obstruction in investigations and its implications.

“involved with federal agents and or the Charlie Kirk murder, you see that DOJ wants to manipulate and keep the facts from you.”

Erosion of Civil Liberties and State Rights

14:01 to 18:00

This segment discusses federal overreach and the erosion of civil liberties under current governance.

“in my 20 plus years at the BCA prior to 2026, I'd never encountered a situation in which federal authorities blocked BCA access to an incident where there is concurrent federal and state jurisdiction.”
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0:04Since the campaign, Donald Trump has talked about the enemy from within and going after Democrats and people that protest and organize against him. That is going to continue under super corrupt Pam Bondi, who has made it clear she intends to make a list of people that do not agree with this administration. And we hear it straight from the horse's mouth when an ICE agent says this. It's not illegal to record. Exactly. Yeah. That's what we're doing. Yeah. Why are you taking my information down? Because we have a nice little database. Oh, good. And now you're considered a domestic terrorist. We're videotaping you?

0:47Are you crazy? The answer to that question is they are crazy. And Pam Bondi rolled out that you're a domestic terrorist if you key a Tesla when Elon Musk was doing his thing with Doge. Now they are compiling a list of every American that protests legally. This is a violation of so many of the constitutional rights that each American has. But as we've seen, Trump and this administration, they don't give a shit. The database of Americans that is being collected, and I have no idea what they will do to them, but I guarantee you it won't be fucking legal. So I think what we have going on here is Trump is turning like the Justice Department upside down.

1:37Recently, the Don Lemon, our friend and fellow independent media, and Don's actually a journalist, pumps and I are not. He went to Minnesota to document the protests and some protests that he was in protesters that he was embedded with went to a church. And now the DOJ has a bee in its bonnet wants to arrest Don Lemon. They took the arrest write up to a magistrate who rejected it. It's a misdemeanor charge they wanted to charge him with. And the judge said, no, it's protected by the first amendment. So then the DOJ appeals the denial of a misdemeanor charge. and my husband, a criminal defense attorney, read into all of this all weekend and kind of translated it to me.

2:27Ultimately, they give a district judge, a federal judge, two hours to respond to this Don Lemon thing because they have said on TV, like, we will stop at nothing, we'll move heaven and earth. So this district judge is like, hey, they've sealed this document and they want me to overturn this and I can't even access the document. I've never heard of anything like this happening. Usually if a magistrate says there's no probable cause for this misdemeanor, it moves on. But he's intentionally turning everything upside down. And the erosion of the rule of law impacts every single aspect of our life.

3:09Our entire society and foundation of it is based on the rule of law. And Pam Bondi breaking laws with Trump's Nazi Gestapo all day, every day, trying to arrest journalists, executing people and then calling the victims terrorists. and not to mention the national security memo that Ken Kleppenstein reports on all the time. I guarantee you that pumps and I, and probably our top commenters are in some FBI files somewhere labeled as domestic terrorists. Think about that. Think about how insane it is, but what they're doing, you guys, is they're priming all of us. Everybody's getting primed, getting shot in the street.

3:56Notice they never go offer people CPR. They intentionally let the victim lay there and die on camera to say, you're not of value. They intentionally have this sycophant, Pam Bondi, who clearly only does whatever this regime wants. It's lawless, complete lawlessness. It's like a tyrannical government centered around the personality of this man and all of these loyalists, but the erosion of the rule of law for all of these fiscal conservatives that say, oh, I'm a fiscal conservative. I know he's a nut, but I like to vote the tax policy. I like to vote my wallet and I'm concerned about my 401k. You're fucked because what he's doing with the rule of law, if businesses don't have a fair and impartial court system to take their contracts in.

4:50It's a kleptocracy and the fundamentals of the economy go the way of Russia. If you think that the inflation is bad now, hold your beer because it's going to get a million times worse with Pam Bondi at the helm of this. And again, looking at constitutional rights, they don't want people to speak out against them. They don't want them to protest any criticism, a domestic terrorist. Greg Bovino, who runs around in his Hitler uniforms or Nazi paraphernalia, this is why he says this man, Alex Perretta, was shot. Community leaders and some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement.

5:39calling law enforcement names like Gestapo or using the term kidnapping. That is a choice that has made their actions and consequences that come from those choices. Okay, stop. Here is what makes me crazy. If you want to talk about rhetoric in this country and how we need to tone down the rhetoric, start with Trump. Start with his pathetic, hateful mean lie social posts and go all the way down the rhetoric they're talking about does not exist if you describe this administration and you believe your eyes you believe what you see what your eyes and you describe it accurately it's rhetoric and that is bullshit to the highest order to even consider that rhetoric would get you killed so things i mean and i'm not saying this was said, but fuck you, motherfucker, shoot you.

6:35Oh, it's completely justified. And for this man to run around and be offended that he was called the Gestapo when he's running around dressing like a Nazi on purpose, shut the fuck up. It makes me want to bang my head against the wall. It's because you're applying logic to an illogical situation. The purpose of What he's doing is propaganda. Everybody needs to understand the use of propaganda, the intentional use of how choreographed and planned out everything he says there is. We are above the law. The rules that apply to everybody else do not apply to us. We can call you names. We can execute you.

7:22You cannot execute us. Our leader can say all of these things with impunity and we worship him and we kneel to him. But you cannot do those things. And it's important that everybody understand this and quit applying logic from 10, 15 years ago to a two party system. We don't have that right now. We have an authoritarian regime, a fascist regime using and weaponizing propaganda. And that's what Greg Bovino is doing here. So you have to understand what they're doing, the dehumanization of it, the tears of we get to do this, you don't, the dismantling of equality, the verbal dismantling of equal rights under the law.

8:11This is propaganda. This is intentional. It is contradictory on purpose. It is, it is, this is a part of the plan and we all have to understand it. And of note, I just want to say here about Greg Bovino. I've seen him in lots of videos, you know, acting like a tough guy. I'm really shocked at how effeminate his voice and speaking manner is. I mean, it's just amazing to me. Like I saw him walking. There was a man that was taller than he. And then I realized, oh, he was walking around a short man because then you could the camera kind of zoomed out. So you have with this Bovino here at Napoleon Complex.

8:55Yes. Combined with a very feminine affect. I mean, he's he's very effeminate in his in his speech, which I don't have any issue with that. But I'm not a member of the cult that says that Trump is the idealized masculine man. And he happens to wear full face of makeup every day. I bring this up because there's constantly some sort of lacking of masculinity that these men feel that if I get a gun and I get a badge and I get to bully people, then that's going to make me feel whole as a man. And time and time again, you go down this rabbit hole with these people. And they're not at all our version of men that we have been raised to think what true masculinity is.

9:44Alex Preddy was that. He was standing up for a woman who was getting beat up by some little ELISA officer. But it's super important that everybody understand the weaponization of propaganda that is happening now. Well, and just how they're tearing away our civil rights. And then one thing we've talked about it, we've alluded to it in earlier episodes, but Pam Bondi has told Minnesota, pop this up, Kylie, if you give us your voter and your electoral information and turn over those files, your state of Minnesota voter files to Pam Bondi and the DOJ, they will leave Minnesota. Minnesota. She sent a letter with this.

10:29So what you're telling us now, Pam, is the 130 ,000 immigrants that are living in Minnesota versus the millions and millions in red states, you'll leave tomorrow if the voter roll is taken because you vote blue? This is not about immigration. This is about intimidation and fear and tearing away our constitutional rights. But I mean, that surprised me zero that Pam Bondi did that. And I know you weren't surprised about it at all. Listener, I know for each of you, watching the news is horrifying at times, but it is so important to be a responsible citizen, if you care about this country, to stay locked into the news.

11:08And that's why I pump tonight every morning when we prepare for these episodes, go to our Ground News Vantage Plan app. Let me give you an example of how this works. Here's a headline that I saw my app. Democrats vow to oppose Homeland Security funding bill, increasing chance of shutdown. My ground news vantage plan tells me that this headline in this article is a lean left and that it has a very high factuality. Same subject, lean right publication. Senate Dems could force government shutdown over 64.4 billion DHS funding after Minneapolis shooting of Alex Preddy. Because of this app, it tells me that this publication is owned by the Murdoch family, the same people that own Fox News, and that it has a mixed factuality.

11:57And that's critical for me because I do not want to read fake news. So Ground News, it's basically the Spotify of news telling you who owns each outlet where it leans politically and whether you're reading original reporting or recycled messaging. Listener, join us by going to groundnews.com forward slash IHIP to get 40 % off the Ground News Vantage plan that we use every single day. They're subscriber funded and my favorite part is that they are female founded. By subscribing, you're not only getting a tool we all need today, you're also supporting our work here at IHIP News. That's ground, G-R-O-U-N-D, news.com forward slash IHIP and it's linked right below in the show notes.

12:44And then as we have continued to see in every investigation involved with federal agents and or the Charlie Kirk murder, you see that DOJ wants to manipulate and keep the facts from you. They want to feed you, as Jennifer was saying, straight propaganda, to pull this up. Okay, Jennifer, you're going to have to read this because I can't see. Okay. In seeking a Fed court order to stop Fed agents from, quote, destroying or altering evidence regarding the Petty shooting granted last night by a Trump-appointed judge, Minnesota's investigatory chief said Feds blocked his inquiry for first time in his 20-plus years, even after he got a search warrant to inspect the public space.

13:37From the document, the highlighted stuff is when the BCA agents and crime scene personnel arrived, they were blocked by federal agents with the DHS from accessing the scene. BCA team also secured a search warrant. Obtaining a warrant to access a public space is unusual, but we thought it was necessary given the federal authorities' refusal to allow us access to the space. in my 20 plus years at the BCA prior to 2026, I'd never encountered a situation in which federal authorities blocked BCA access to an incident where there is concurrent federal and state jurisdiction. Surprises me zero. They're covering it up.

14:20They did the exact same thing with Renee Good. They come in, they swoop in, they want to change the narrative and you cannot do that when you have the facts that we know that they have. I mean, it's really, really alarming that this is going on. Not surprising. They're intentionally turning upside down the rule of law and the use of propaganda here, diminishing states' rights. And I want to remind all of the MAGA people, Republicans that voted and the don't tread on me flags and all this stuff, all of these warnings about a gone rogue federal government that would erode civil liberties, you're in it.

15:04The thing you warned about, the thing Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, all of these people warned about, it's you. You're the one who's doing it. You have a federal government superseding states' rights here. And you're the party that was all about states' rights. Your Supreme Court sent abortion back to the states because the states' rights should supersede. This is all intentional. This is an intentional consolidation of power in the executive branch. And it's really important to note what Pumps spoke about earlier about Pam Bondi asking for the voter rolls. This didn't just happen. This has been happening.

15:39This has been ongoing. A lot of red states have already handed over all of this. And a lot of governors sounded the alarm months ago about how bizarre this was. And the governor of Minnesota refused to hand over the voter rolls because it's our elections are localized, run locally. And the fact that the federal government is wanting this information, the same federal government that's led by the man who has lied now since 2020 about getting his ass beat by Joe Biden by over 7 million votes, got all of his bully little friends to go try to hang Mike Pence, packed his toys up and headed out of DC after he stole all these documents.

16:24This is serious. This regime is governing like they are never leaving office. This regime is governing like there will never, ever be accountability. This is intentional propaganda and intentional flaunting of the turning of upside down the judiciary. They're intentionally turning it upside down to where federal judges and U.S. attorneys are beside themselves because every single thing that we do in this nation is based on the rule of law, whether it's business or personal endeavors, the rule of law. And all of these MAGA Republicans that voted for this, they will always tell you to hide what's the darkness inside them.

17:17Well, it's the policies that I like. I liked his policies. His policies are tyranny. It's not even so much fascism as it is tyranny. He wants a government that's centered around him and his frail ego. And he's surrounded with people that will deliver it because they're every bit as broken and craven and vile as he is. And I mean, just watching the erosion of the rights that protect us as citizens is stunning. It is not surprising. And I'm with you. He's never going to leave. He made his he's making his bunker. I'm sorry. He's making his ballroom a bunker so nobody can get him out so he can stay in there forever.

17:59All right. I know that wasn't very uplifting, but we will be back with more news. Please like this video and subscribe to our channel.

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