Friday, December 12, 2025. Annette’s Roundup for Democracy.
Information about resisting illegality by ICE from New York City’s Mayor-Elect.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, when dealing with ICE. 1 minute. 26 seconds.
One more thing. or two. about ICE arrests.
#BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has officially been released from immigration detention, his attorney told ABC News. His release came after a federal judge on Thursday ordered Abrego Garcia released from detention. https://t.co/jWrR6ztrVI pic.twitter.com/ANQNpF3YyX
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) December 11, 2025
🚨MUST-WATCH: Kristi Noem just got her ass handed to her in front of millions of Americans watching her testify.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) December 11, 2025
After lying that she never deported any veteran or legal citizen, Congressman Magaziner got Mr. Park, a U.S. Army veteran who was deported to South Korea, to join the… https://t.co/ivUHRfzouj pic.twitter.com/p3UiU98zZt
“He is a combat veteran, a Purple Heart recipient ... Earlier this year you deported him to Korea.”
Will we take back the House in 2026?

This is Georgia district that Trump carried by 12 points last year.


GOP Rep. Don Bacon warns Rs on expiring ACA subsidies.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 11, 2025
“You have to look voters in the eye and say, we've done nothing while their premiums going up like $2000 a month.”
Said of the midterms: “I think it will be used like a sledgehammer a year from now. The reality will be bad” pic.twitter.com/wC5081O519
The new number for Trump’s approval on the economy is 31.
Voters sour on Trump’s handling of the economy in new poll
The White House plans to make affordability a key selling point for Republicans across the board as the 2026 midterm elections come into focus.
Americans are increasingly down on President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy, according to a new December AP-NORC poll, as both parties get set to duke it out over affordability ahead of the coming midterm elections.
Just 31 percent of respondents approve of Trump’s economic leadership, though results were predictably along partisan lines: 69 percent of Republicans and only 7 percent of Democrats approved. That overall number is down from 33 percent in November and 40 percent in March.
But the president continues to insist that the outlook is strong — and that Democrats’ focus on the stubbornly high cost of living is a hoax. (Click the hyperlink at the top of this post to read the whole Politico article).
Seems there are Republicans who believe that voting should be fair.
Indiana Lawmakers Reject Trump’s New Political Map.
Republicans hold an overwhelming majority in the Indiana Senate, but more than a dozen of them defied the president’s wishes, voting against a map aimed at adding Republicans in Congress.

Republican members of the Indiana Senate bucked President Trump on Thursday and joined Democrats in voting down a new congressional map that would have positioned Republicans to sweep the state’s U.S. House seats.
The 19 to 31 vote was a highly public defeat for Mr. Trump, who has spent significant political capital pushing for redrawn maps in Republican-led states and who repeatedly threatened political consequences for Indiana Republicans who did not fall in line. The defiance of Mr. Trump comes as he faces other signs of rifts within his own party.
The rejection of the map in the State Senate, where Republicans hold 40 of the 50 seats, followed months of presidential lobbying that turned increasingly pointed in recent weeks as it became clear that some holdouts were not budging. Mr. Trump called some of them out by name on social media, openly questioned their loyalty to the party and pledged to back primary challengers against them.
As the debate turned more tense, several Republicans, both for and against the new map, reported threats or swatting. Long-simmering ideological and stylistic divides among Republicans in Indiana spilled into the open, with many long-serving or institutionalist figures who opposed the map clashing with Trump-aligned conservatives who favored the plan. Republicans would have been expected to flip the only two Democratic-held congressional seats among the state’s nine districts if the new map had passed. (Click the hyperlink at the top of this post to read the whole New York Times article).
It wasn’t even close. pic.twitter.com/UG0EM840zL
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) December 11, 2025
There will be repercussions, or so they threaten.
This is from the Heritage Society.

Seriously.
In case you missed this breaking news the first time around… pic.twitter.com/dLRgZ74Qyf
— Canada Hates Trump (@AntiTrumpCanada) December 11, 2025
Okay. It’s a serious joke.