Rachel Maddow is helping STOP Trump's prison camps. To do it, she broke one rule. [View all]

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https://www.defiance.news/p/rachel-maddow-is-helping-stop-trumps

The MSNOW anchor partly inspired a new effort — GTFOice.org — that's now going mainstream around the country.
Miles Taylor
Apr 28, 2026

Last night, Rachel Maddow devoted the majority of her show to the growing national movement to block Trump’s prison camps from taking root in American communities. She also did something she almost never does.

She put two guests on at once.

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So when she opened her segment last night by telling viewers, “I’m about to break one of the informal rules that we have on this show,” I knew folks would be intrigued. Hell, I was intrigued. And I was sitting there in the chair waiting to come onto the show!

It turns out Rachel wanted to know why a conservative ex-Trump official and a progressive data scientist would be teaming up. So she brought us on at the same time. Rachel welcomed me and Project Salt Box co-founder Michael Wriston to talk about the new effort we launched: GTFOice.org — “Get the Facilities Out, ICE!” — a new nationwide rapid-response network to block Trump’s prison camps. This is a team effort — Michael’s org, DEFIANCE.org, and The Save America Movement (SAM).

Michael and I told her why we decided to collaborate. This topic far transcends partisan lines. No American — regardless of ideological stripes — should be “okay” with DHS developing enough detention capacity to imprison the entirety of Salt Lake City or Knoxville. I’ve spent almost two decades helping to build DHS. So believe me when I say that kind of sprawling prison system is vastly more capacity than DHS needs for immigration, and it has ominous overtones of a police state.

Little did Rachel Maddow know, SHE helped inspire this effort.

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Edited to add Rachel's show from last night. The first part of the show is footage of alll the protests that have been going on. So far they have managed to stop alll of the prison camps. She talks about how far behind national media is on this and how it's independent and local media that is stepping up.