{"id":1501865,"date":"2026-01-27T19:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1501865"},"modified":"2026-01-27T19:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:20:38","slug":"moms-are-organizing-against-ice-in-their-group-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1501865","title":{"rendered":"Moms Are Organizing Against ICE in Their Group Chats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By <\/span>Margaux Anbouba<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The day after last summer\u2019s lethal school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Katie went to her mom group chat to raise the issue of gun reform.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt had been a place for all of us to talk about where we are sending our kids to summer camp or how our experience with ear tubes went,\u201d she says. All of the moms in the 200-something chat had kids at an elementary school in the neighborhood of Linden Hills, a 10-minute drive from Annunciation. \u201cWe started to talk about politics. When it started to drown out the other daily topics that moms find helpful, I decided to create one specifically for political issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was the day Katie (who asked to be identified only by her first name\u2014as did the other moms quoted in this story\u2014for fear of retaliation) made the LH Policy Chat group on the encrypted private-messaging app Signal. \u201cIt quieted down a bit in the time since the shooting, but now that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has come to the city, it\u2019s taken on a whole new life,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Mom groups have been a hot topic in 2026. But while some\u2014like the one described by Ashley Tisdale French in a viral essay for The Cut<\/em>\u2014trade mainly in mean-girl passive aggression, other progressive-minded ones have been piqued by ICE, becoming important resources for grassroots organizing, information sharing, and mutual aid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the opposite of the toxic mom chat,\u201d Katie says, noting that other plans of action that have come from her group chat include paying the rent for a family unable to work because of ICE concerns and boycotting establishments like Target, where ICE agents have detained employees. \u201cWe are facing a lot of adversity in Minnesota right now, but this is showing me how much people want to connect with and protect each other,\u201d Katie says.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to be good at organizing to be a mom, because you spend so much time multitasking and taking care of other people,\u201d says Elianna, another member of LH Policy Chat. (As of a few days ago, it was renamed Southwest Minneapolis Policy Chat, having expanded beyond the immediate neighborhood. It now has almost 400 members.) \u201cSo it only makes sense we would all want to expand those skills to our community.\u201d When one of the members told the group that ICE had violently detained their sibling as a bystander, Elianna was able to help that mom locate the sibling through help from a lawyer friend who works at the ACLU.<\/p>\n

Zoe, a mother of three in St. Paul, says that she has a handful of mom group chats that have turned political of late (\u201cmy friends from high school, my birthing-class chat, my eldest daughter\u2019s preschool group\u201d). But it\u2019s the group chat that started as a way to plan casual pickleball meetups that\u2019s gone full-on radical. \u201cWhen it formed, we were exhausted moms of toddlers,\u201d she says. These days, the 40-person group still meets up for pickleball, and a mom will occasionally sound the call for size 8 boots since her two-year-old outgrew theirs during the week, but they also regularly discuss ICE rapid responses and new mutual-aid needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t emphasize enough how every day and everywhere ICE is in the Twin Cities,\u201d Zoe continues. \u201cYou don\u2019t need to go out of your way or to the exact spot where Renee Good was killed. ICE is on my block, at every single day care.\u201d<\/p>\n

These sorts of chats aren\u2019t only proliferating in Minnesota, the current hotbed of ICE activity. In her F the Patriarchy mom group chat, Dallas\u2013Fort Worth mom Morgan has found people who share her politics in an otherwise predominantly conservative area. She recalls an experience after her family decided to cancel their Disney+ subscription in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s suspension. \u201cMy coworker had suggested that I watch a show, and I told her we didn\u2019t have the streaming platform anymore because we had decided to cut our ties after Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s free speech had been repressed,\u201d she says. \u201cShe just looked at me and said, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re one of those people.\u2019 I was proud to say that I was. I have two daughters, and I am constantly thinking about their future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Former librarian Lindsey, who lives in Tennessee, says her first political mom group chat formed years ago, when she went viral for testifying on behalf of her nonbinary 16-year-old at the school board meeting. Since then, the group has organized to pay off school lunch debt for seniors so they can graduate and stocked the local health center with feminine-care products. She\u2019s also part of another group chat, Mom-Dem, that\u2019s filled with mothers from the local Democratic Party. \u201cLast election, we didn\u2019t have a Democrat running for office,\u201d she says. \u201cWe have recruited 30 candidates to run for local office so far.\u201d It\u2019s no small feat for a Democrat in very red Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Each of the mothers I spoke to discussed how strange and complicated it is to be a politically minded parent on the left in this country right now. \u201cAdd it to my tab,\u201d Zoe says. \u201cI\u2019ll do this alongside working, getting groceries, getting my kids signed up for swim lessons\u2014because when I imagine myself in the shoes of a mom with three kids just like me, who can\u2019t leave the house or even look out the window because she\u2019s scared, not only can I not tune it out, but I also need to feel like I\u2019m taking care of my family and my neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Lindsey, it\u2019s simple: \u201cWe are taking what we have been forced by society to do\u2014survive, thrive, and organize\u2014and we\u2019re turning it into a movement. Moms get shit done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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