Property of the People

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A nonprofit organization devoted to governmental transparency. The records of government are the property of the people. It's time we reclaim them. https://propertyofthepeople.org/

Due to Trump's gutting of election security infrastructure, states fear the feds won't reliably share election threat info, turning instead to industry to defend the American vote. As revealed in docs we obtained and shared w/ @sarahdwire.bsky.social / @usatoday.com. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

States don't expect feds to reliably share election threats: Exclusive

State election officials say federal agencies are failing to provide security support needed for midterms.

usatoday.com

Local cops growing fearful of being mistaken for feds. City officials are trying to train citizens how to distinguish between them. Meanwhile, Minneapolis sees a "substantial increase" in residents refusing to answer the door for firefighters & other municipal workers. via @propertyofthepeople.org

Police across the US worry officers are being misidentified as ICE, records show

Exclusive: Emails and internal memos reveal concerns immigration enforcement is interfering with police work

theguardian.com

NEW: Law enforcement + city officials across the US have privately worried ICE operations are interfering with police work + public safety Internal memos reveal growing concerns people might misidentify local cops as ICE. Records obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org, shared with @us.theguardian.com

Police across the US worry officers are being misidentified as ICE, records show

Exclusive: Emails and internal memos reveal concerns immigration enforcement is interfering with police work

theguardian.com

An ICE associate director claimed the Dallas shooter used ICE-tracking apps to target agents. But the attack was aimed at a government building with a known address. FOIA docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org show the FBI had no evidence of ICEBlock being used in any attack.

ICE-Tracking Apps Have Helped People Avoid Immigration Agents. Are They Legal?

ICEBlock was meant to help people avoid immigration enforcement. The Trump Administration claims that the app endangered the agents of its mass-deportation campaign.

newyorker.com

Trump claimed TdA had “thousands” of members in the US. But internal CBP records show when officials couldn’t support that figure with evidence, they resorted to statistical sleight of hand to reach a number more in line with the president's claim, which was 30x higher than what CBP could prove.

Elsewhere, the CBP report undercuts assertions that the government had a clear picture of TdA’s footprint in the US. It notes that it was “difficult for US law enforcement and the intelligence community to ascertain the exact number” of TdA members due to a “lack of determinate indicators” and the “adoption of the TdA name by unaffiliated groups and persons.” Ultimately, those limitations became justification for bending statistics to support the administration’s framing of a US-based terrorist threat numbering in the “thousands.”

Over a 22-month period, CBP’s own detection methods identified no more than 83 known TdA members at the border. To reach a much larger figure, the record shows analysts relied on a “sample set of interviews,” extrapolating that “upwards of 3,000” TdA members must have crossed the border during that same period—an estimate based on the assumption that roughly “one-half of one percent” of all Venezuelan migrants who entered the US through the southwest border had ties to TdA.

The same assumption underlies the report’s treatment of Venezuelan asylum communities, which it frames as potential risk environments shaped by “sanctuary city” policies and jurisdictions the agency views as “weak” on enforcement.

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story

Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.

wired.com

The new FBI report is coming to light after we revealed last month that the FBI and NYPD have spied on a Signal group of NYC court watch activists who monitor public proceedings, labeling the volunteers “anarchist violent extremists." From earlier records unearthed by @propertyofthepeople.org:

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal

Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

theguardian.com

“At its core, the war on antifa is a war on dissent, a war on free speech” -@rshapiro.bsky.social @propertyofthepeople.org. The docs “strongly suggest one of the primary functions of NSPM-7 is to serve as a vehicle for targeting anti-ICE organizing broadly as an anarchist violent extremist threat"

An internal FBI report in Nov, distributed to other law enforcement agencies, said “indicators” an individual may be planning to attack ICE facilities or staff include “conducting online research” about agents’ movements + using encrypted messaging apps. @us.theguardian.com @propertyofthepeople.org

Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US

Internal report shared with Guardian shows FBI has launched cases in 23 regions, some linked to Trump memo on thwarting ‘terroristic activities’

theguardian.com

NEW: The FBI has launched "domestic terrorism" investigations into anti-ICE activity across the US. Some cases are under Trump's NSPM-7 order to crackdown on "anti-fascism" and "anti-Americanism." Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared w/ Guardian include FBI map of cases in 30+ states:

Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US

Internal report shared with Guardian shows FBI has launched cases in 23 regions, some linked to Trump memo on thwarting ‘terroristic activities’

theguardian.com

The FBI has launched “criminal and domestic terrorism investigations” into “threats" against ICE in at least 23 regions across the US, according to a file obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org and shared with the Guardian. Some cases are linked to Trump's memo on thwarting "terroristic activities".

Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US

Internal report shared with Guardian shows FBI has launched cases in 23 regions, some linked to Trump memo on thwarting ‘terroristic activities’

theguardian.com