The SignalGate scandal in Minnesota has revealed that Democratic government officials have been simultaneously play-calling maneuvers on the ground involving organized agitators. Indeed, the same blowhards who have spent the last months and weeks loudly deriding the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in that sanctuary state have been instrumental in stoking organized tactical rebellion against those federal agents.

In case you haven’t followed the news: Independent journalist Cam Higby and several other independent journalists successful infiltrated the supposedly secret networks leftists have been using to coordinate their insurrectionist activities. The results, apart from plenty of joy for the online right, have been the direct implication of prominent Democrats.

People like Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan (D) have actually been organizing and mobilizing on encrypted messaging apps. Top staffers have been directing actions like those that have resulted in the deaths of two Minnesotans who took it upon themselves to impede actions of ICE and Border Patrol. A handful of high-up, Minnesota Democrats are implicated, with at least one boldly admitting it, according to the Washington Times.

An analysis of the Signal chats has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the organizers have access to one or more methods for quickly and reliably running the license plates of vehicles suspected to belong to federal law enforcement.

Which brings us to Maine.

As the Maine Wire reported exclusively on Jan. 17, far left Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has unilaterally ended the decades-long practice of providing law enforcement with confidential license plates. Maine’s Democratic lawmakers would later signal their approval of the measure by blocking an attempt by House Republican Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) to restore the confidential plate program.

This means that anyone who “runs” the plates of an undercover vehicle will now be able to determine that the vehicle belongs to a government agency and is, therefore, most likely a government vehicle. From there, interested parties, like the whistle-blowing anti-ICE brigades the Maine Wire saw roaming around the Portland area last week, can target those vehicles and even follow their drivers back to their private residences. Thanks to Bellows, undercover law enforcement vehicles have been doxxed, and now officers have to worry about extremist agitators following them to their homes and endangering their families.

Bellows has robotically mumbled a potpourri of justifications and excuses for taking this measure—which she did without alerting the head of the Maine State Police.

But in light of SignalGate and revelations emerging from Minnesota, it’s worth wondering whether Bellows unmasked undercover vehicles in anticipation of Minneapolis-style agitators coming to Portland with the same sophisticated tools of rebellion.

That is, did Bellows know that the rainbow-clad, illegal alien-worshipping miscreants would have at their disposal a fast and easy method for querying license plates? Did she take the step she took specifically to abet these anti-ICE insurgents? And, if that’s the case, then is she guilty of conspiring against the federal government to protect the illegal alien criminals, some of whom belong to transnational criminal organizations?

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) launched an email address on last week that also looks a little more sinister in light of the revelations emerging from Minneapolis. Frey’s site encourages Mainers to report federal immigration enforcement activity, including specific information such as the names and contact information of anyone involved.

As the Maine Wire reported, Frey sounded the alarm in no uncertain terms. “We are seeing numerous reports of apparent civil rights violations and improper use of force by federal agents,” he said. Adding that the Trump administration was “surging federal agents into Maine under the banner of immigration enforcement.”

Frey’s formal snitch line followed an email, obtained and published by the Maine Wire, in which Bellows explicitly called on her government employees to become anti-ICE spies — reporting directly to her. That neither Frey nor Bellows feel the need to be discreet about spying on federal law enforcement reveals that Maine’s political leadership is not embarrassed about their collaboration with lawbreakers. The snitch line is not hidden in the backchannels of a secretive app, it’s right up there on the Attorney General’s official State of Maine web page.

This is not Aaron Frey’s first go-round with operations that exist in the shadows. As the Maine Wire reported, just last year the AG instructed employees of at least one state agency to avoid cooperating with officials from the U.S. Department of Justice or the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

However, given the sophisticated ICE tracking systems evidenced in the Signal chat logs published by Higby, it’s worth wondering: What exactly do Frey and Bellows plan to do with all this information they accumulate on the supposed whereabouts of ICE agents? Again, based on what we’ve seen in Minneapolis, it’s not a stretch to imagine that they plan on handing that information off to street-level agitators in order to foment violent conflicts and political narratives they find favorable.

The next question is why Democrats — from Frey and Bellows to Gov. Janet Mills and former Senate President Troy Jackson — would be interested in fomenting street violence and a spectacle of clashing with federal law enforcement?

The answer to that might lie in some other communications that are only available to the public because of the Maine Wire and the Freedom of Access Act (FOAA).

According to an email obtained by the Maine Wire (and studiously ignored by the legacy media), Frey directed Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) staff to avoid talking to any lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice of the U.S. Attorney’s office if they came poking around. That email went out to some DHHS staff ten days before President Donald Trump was inaugurated into his second term in office. Odd timing.

In a later email, obtained via a FOAA from the Maine Wire, DHHS Commissioner Sarah Gagne-Holmes was caught writing about the state’s response to an inquiry from the U.S. House Oversight Committee. That probe is looking at money Maine may have illegally spent on welfare benefits for illegal aliens. As part of the brainstorming for the DHHS response, Gagne-Holmes wrote in an email, “the goal here is to avoid a congressional subpoena.”

In a similar vein, Bellows howled in 2024 that claims of noncitizen voting were vicious lies, but then she went on Marc Elias’s podcast and admitted nonchalantly that yes, in fact, noncitizens are registered to vote in Maine. Bellows would later deny having said what she quite demonstrably said.

The State House air is thick with the odor of fear, and you get the sense that Democrat insiders are having trouble keeping their stories straight. Very obviously, they are worried about uncontrollable federal oversight flipping over rocks in Maine and finding things like, say, an elaborate conspiracy to register illegal alien voters for the purposes of manipulating elections.

What better way to distract from such an investigation than to foment violence in the streets. To call federal investigators Nazis and Brown Shirts. And then to embolden those activists by creating tip lines, doxxing undercover vehicles, and practically ordering them to assault immigration authorities — all while commanding state and local law enforcement to refrain from cooperating with the federal brothers and sisters.

It’s enough to make you wonder whether there’s a grand conspiracy afoot, and some of the confusing missteps we’re seeing from typically confident Democratic operators are really signs of panic and desperation from people who aren’t accustom to being held accountable. People who thought that President Kamala Harris would protect them. People who never expected the pesky Maine Wire might go looking for emails and receipts and no-bid contracts.

As Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson has said frequently on multiple national news and podcast platforms, Maine has lost the ability to save itself. The institutions have become too corrupted. A culture of fear and retribution hangs like the sword of Damocles over the heads of all those who might become whistleblowers.

Thank the Lord, federal intervention has arrived. We can hope the bright light of transparency might purge the malignant rot of corruption from our society and culture. Maine needs total transparency — truth and, maybe, reconciliation. Corruption and coverups have become business as usual for the state government. That must end.

The U.S. House Oversight Committee, led by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), and the various Department of Justice offices now digging around in northern New England, offer some slight hope that Mainers’ long nightmare may be coming to an end.

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