Kelli Klymenko
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· Oct 20
It was an honor to speak at the No Kings march — standing with so many voices for freedom and democracy. We will not let them take it away. We’ll fight, like Ukrainians fight — with courage, unity, and hope. ✊🏼
🎥 Vyto Starinskas / Verde Independent
#NoKings #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere
🎥 Vyto Starinskas / Verde Independent
#NoKings #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere
Peace is not peace until Russia is gone — completely.
There is no deal that makes invasion legitimate, no negotiation that turns theft into peace.
Ukraine has shown what fighting for freedom actually requires.
Russia out. Nothing ceded. Accountability first. 🇺🇦✊🏼
There is no deal that makes invasion legitimate, no negotiation that turns theft into peace.
Ukraine has shown what fighting for freedom actually requires.
Russia out. Nothing ceded. Accountability first. 🇺🇦✊🏼
Peace Requires Russia to Leave
There is no negotiation that makes invasion legitimate, no “deal” that turns theft into peace.
open.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Peace is not peace until Russia is gone — completely.
There is no deal that makes invasion legitimate, no negotiation that turns theft into peace.
Ukraine has shown what fighting for freedom actually requires.
Russia out. Nothing ceded. Accountability first. 🇺🇦✊🏼
There is no deal that makes invasion legitimate, no negotiation that turns theft into peace.
Ukraine has shown what fighting for freedom actually requires.
Russia out. Nothing ceded. Accountability first. 🇺🇦✊🏼
This is a constitutional crisis — not because government is “broken,” but because the institutions meant to restrain power are choosing not to act. Chaos implies confusion. What we’re witnessing instead is permission. Democracies aren’t destroyed overnight. They’re surrendered.
This Is a Constitutional Crisis
How Congress and the Courts Are Letting One Man Dismantle the Constitution
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:49 PM
This is a constitutional crisis — not because government is “broken,” but because the institutions meant to restrain power are choosing not to act. Chaos implies confusion. What we’re witnessing instead is permission. Democracies aren’t destroyed overnight. They’re surrendered.
This isn’t what we were promised.
Power without limits isn’t security — it’s a warning.
When fear replaces law, democracy depends on ordinary people refusing to look away.
Stay visible. Stay united. Act peacefully.
We have friends everywhere. ✊🏼
Power without limits isn’t security — it’s a warning.
When fear replaces law, democracy depends on ordinary people refusing to look away.
Stay visible. Stay united. Act peacefully.
We have friends everywhere. ✊🏼
This Is Not the America We Were Promised
Why democracy depends on refusing what’s happening now
open.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:55 PM
This isn’t what we were promised.
Power without limits isn’t security — it’s a warning.
When fear replaces law, democracy depends on ordinary people refusing to look away.
Stay visible. Stay united. Act peacefully.
We have friends everywhere. ✊🏼
Power without limits isn’t security — it’s a warning.
When fear replaces law, democracy depends on ordinary people refusing to look away.
Stay visible. Stay united. Act peacefully.
We have friends everywhere. ✊🏼
They know. They just don’t care.
If Trump were a Democrat, Republicans would already be calling this a crisis. Instead, they excuse instability, ignore courts, and protect power. This isn’t disagreement — it’s complicity. Accountability isn’t partisan.
If Trump were a Democrat, Republicans would already be calling this a crisis. Instead, they excuse instability, ignore courts, and protect power. This isn’t disagreement — it’s complicity. Accountability isn’t partisan.
They Know. They Just Don’t Care.
How complicity replaces accountability when power is at stake
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:20 PM
They know. They just don’t care.
If Trump were a Democrat, Republicans would already be calling this a crisis. Instead, they excuse instability, ignore courts, and protect power. This isn’t disagreement — it’s complicity. Accountability isn’t partisan.
If Trump were a Democrat, Republicans would already be calling this a crisis. Instead, they excuse instability, ignore courts, and protect power. This isn’t disagreement — it’s complicity. Accountability isn’t partisan.
We’re not past corruption — we’re living inside it. What keeps it going isn’t just bad actors, but the ecosystem that rewards proximity, selective regret, and rebranding instead of real accountability. I wrote more about that pattern — and why it keeps repeating — in my essay The Big Grift.
The Big Grift
How power, regret, and media platforms built a permanent economy of corruption
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:35 PM
We’re not past corruption — we’re living inside it. What keeps it going isn’t just bad actors, but the ecosystem that rewards proximity, selective regret, and rebranding instead of real accountability. I wrote more about that pattern — and why it keeps repeating — in my essay The Big Grift.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
January 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
Democrats have the power to rein in ICE. Demand that your elected officials hold the line on the upcoming Homeland Security bill to get ICE Out For Good.
Contact your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena...
And your representative: indivisible.org/ice-out-hous...
Contact your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena...
And your representative: indivisible.org/ice-out-hous...
January 18, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Democrats have the power to rein in ICE. Demand that your elected officials hold the line on the upcoming Homeland Security bill to get ICE Out For Good.
Contact your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena...
And your representative: indivisible.org/ice-out-hous...
Contact your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena...
And your representative: indivisible.org/ice-out-hous...
Some of us recognize certain patterns not because we’re alarmist — but because we’ve seen them before.
Authoritarianism doesn’t announce itself. It repeats.
Paying attention isn’t fear. It’s memory.
Authoritarianism doesn’t announce itself. It repeats.
Paying attention isn’t fear. It’s memory.
This Isn’t Coincidence
Why This Feels Familiar to Some of Us
open.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Some of us recognize certain patterns not because we’re alarmist — but because we’ve seen them before.
Authoritarianism doesn’t announce itself. It repeats.
Paying attention isn’t fear. It’s memory.
Authoritarianism doesn’t announce itself. It repeats.
Paying attention isn’t fear. It’s memory.
We need to be honest about where we are. This isn’t a policy dispute or a misunderstanding — it’s what happens when power becomes optional to the law. Authoritarian systems don’t announce themselves. They normalize, gaslight, and punish. We’re living inside that reality now.
Impunity Is the Point
Why violence, secrecy, and protection for power are now the doctrine — and what it says about who we’ve become.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:25 PM
We need to be honest about where we are. This isn’t a policy dispute or a misunderstanding — it’s what happens when power becomes optional to the law. Authoritarian systems don’t announce themselves. They normalize, gaslight, and punish. We’re living inside that reality now.
I’m teaching today — not just about cameras, but about attention. Art helps me slow down, stay present, and remember why noticing matters. That practice is how I keep going.
Staying Present
On learning, making art, and continuing on
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:54 PM
I’m teaching today — not just about cameras, but about attention. Art helps me slow down, stay present, and remember why noticing matters. That practice is how I keep going.
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This is so dangerous!
Trump is threatening to deploy the Insurrection Act because people are mad at ICE. He calls protesters insurrectionists after leading an actual insurrection himself.
Trump is threatening to deploy the Insurrection Act because people are mad at ICE. He calls protesters insurrectionists after leading an actual insurrection himself.
January 15, 2026 at 1:35 PM
This is so dangerous!
Trump is threatening to deploy the Insurrection Act because people are mad at ICE. He calls protesters insurrectionists after leading an actual insurrection himself.
Trump is threatening to deploy the Insurrection Act because people are mad at ICE. He calls protesters insurrectionists after leading an actual insurrection himself.
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
This has been the plan all along.
- Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN
- Implement the Insurrection Act
- Declare Martial Law
- Suspend elections
- Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN
- Implement the Insurrection Act
- Declare Martial Law
- Suspend elections
January 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
This has been the plan all along.
- Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN
- Implement the Insurrection Act
- Declare Martial Law
- Suspend elections
- Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN
- Implement the Insurrection Act
- Declare Martial Law
- Suspend elections
They want us fractured, exhausted, convinced we’re alone.
We’re not.
Strength isn’t domination — it’s endurance, accuracy, restraint, and community.
We have friends everywhere. ✊🏼
We’re not.
Strength isn’t domination — it’s endurance, accuracy, restraint, and community.
We have friends everywhere. ✊🏼
We Are Not Weak
A note on endurance, collective strength, and why we haven’t broken
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:50 PM
They want us fractured, exhausted, convinced we’re alone.
We’re not.
Strength isn’t domination — it’s endurance, accuracy, restraint, and community.
We have friends everywhere. ✊🏼
We’re not.
Strength isn’t domination — it’s endurance, accuracy, restraint, and community.
We have friends everywhere. ✊🏼
Authoritarian movements don’t improvise — they repeat.
Escalation isn’t a failure. It’s the strategy.
This didn’t start yesterday, and it isn’t isolated. I trace the pattern — and why clarity matters now.
Escalation isn’t a failure. It’s the strategy.
This didn’t start yesterday, and it isn’t isolated. I trace the pattern — and why clarity matters now.
Escalation Is the Strategy
(This Didn’t Start Yesterday)
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Authoritarian movements don’t improvise — they repeat.
Escalation isn’t a failure. It’s the strategy.
This didn’t start yesterday, and it isn’t isolated. I trace the pattern — and why clarity matters now.
Escalation isn’t a failure. It’s the strategy.
This didn’t start yesterday, and it isn’t isolated. I trace the pattern — and why clarity matters now.
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The regime shot Renee Nicole Good and then labeled her a domestic terrorist.
But they didn’t do it because they’re strong — they did it because they’re weak and scared.
Congress must answer the people’s call to get ICE Out For Good: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... #ICEOutForGood
But they didn’t do it because they’re strong — they did it because they’re weak and scared.
Congress must answer the people’s call to get ICE Out For Good: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... #ICEOutForGood
January 15, 2026 at 1:05 AM
The regime shot Renee Nicole Good and then labeled her a domestic terrorist.
But they didn’t do it because they’re strong — they did it because they’re weak and scared.
Congress must answer the people’s call to get ICE Out For Good: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... #ICEOutForGood
But they didn’t do it because they’re strong — they did it because they’re weak and scared.
Congress must answer the people’s call to get ICE Out For Good: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... #ICEOutForGood
They are not strong. Authoritarian power isn’t confidence or control — it’s fear masquerading as authority. Endurance, clarity, and staying human are what it can’t survive.
They Are Not Strong
Authoritarian Power Is Fear Masquerading as Authority
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:17 PM
They are not strong. Authoritarian power isn’t confidence or control — it’s fear masquerading as authority. Endurance, clarity, and staying human are what it can’t survive.
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Know who profits from ICE's cruelty. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/ice-businesses-boycott-campaign/
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
www.thenation.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Know who profits from ICE's cruelty. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/ice-businesses-boycott-campaign/
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In under 48 hours, you organized nearly 1,200 marches and vigils in all 50 states and DC for Renee Nicole Good.
There are more of us than there are of them — and We the People won’t stop demanding accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee. #ICEOutForGood
There are more of us than there are of them — and We the People won’t stop demanding accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee. #ICEOutForGood
January 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
In under 48 hours, you organized nearly 1,200 marches and vigils in all 50 states and DC for Renee Nicole Good.
There are more of us than there are of them — and We the People won’t stop demanding accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee. #ICEOutForGood
There are more of us than there are of them — and We the People won’t stop demanding accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee. #ICEOutForGood
They accused others of weaponization while aligning the state to punish non-compliance. This isn’t disorder or overreach. It’s structure — and it’s being said out loud.
They Accused Others of Weaponization — While Weaponizing the State
How the Trump Regime Weaponized the Government Against Its Own People
open.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:41 PM
They accused others of weaponization while aligning the state to punish non-compliance. This isn’t disorder or overreach. It’s structure — and it’s being said out loud.
Silence is what they’re counting on.
This reflection names the pattern, the fear, and why speaking up still matters — even quietly, even imperfectly.
We are not alone. We have friends everywhere.
This reflection names the pattern, the fear, and why speaking up still matters — even quietly, even imperfectly.
We are not alone. We have friends everywhere.
Silence Is What They’re Counting On
Why speaking up — everywhere, by everyone — matters now
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Silence is what they’re counting on.
This reflection names the pattern, the fear, and why speaking up still matters — even quietly, even imperfectly.
We are not alone. We have friends everywhere.
This reflection names the pattern, the fear, and why speaking up still matters — even quietly, even imperfectly.
We are not alone. We have friends everywhere.
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
ICE’s killing of Renee Nicole Good during an operation in Minneapolis needs to be a galvanizing moment for every American to join the activists who’ve been fighting this brutality day in and day out for years in saying: ENOUGH.
January 8, 2026 at 1:06 PM
ICE’s killing of Renee Nicole Good during an operation in Minneapolis needs to be a galvanizing moment for every American to join the activists who’ve been fighting this brutality day in and day out for years in saying: ENOUGH.
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The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.
January 8, 2026 at 4:16 AM
The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.
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“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
January 8, 2026 at 11:39 AM
“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
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AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.