Transcript

🚨Trump’s PLAN OF TERROR for Midterms UNCOVERED!!

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "🚨Trump’s PLAN OF TERROR for Midterms UNCOVERED!!", an episode of MeidasTouch published February 11, 2026 (18 min, about 2,922 words). It mentions 11 people, works and ideas, including Jim Harbaugh, Ice King, Chris Goldsmith, Donald Trump, DHS.

What this episode is about

The discussion centers around the alarming potential for voter suppression in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, fueled by rhetoric from Trump and his supporters about deploying ICE to polling locations. Experts warn that such tactics could mirror the violent strategies of extremist groups, highlighting the urgent need for legislative measures to protect democratic processes.

Key takeaways

  • Deploying ICE at polls plays directly into the playbook of voter intimidation, not voter integrity.
  • Despite claims, evidence shows voter fraud is rarer than a unicorn in a congressional hearing.
  • MAGA's fear of fair elections is palpable; they know a level playing field turns the tide against them.
  • The rhetoric of 'stopping illegal voting' distracts from real issues—intimidation is the actual game plan.
  • As seen in Utah, border walls can’t prevent vote fraud—only walls of misinformation do that.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Ice King, Chris Goldsmith, Jim Harbaugh, Donald Trump
  2. – 6:00: Donald Trump
  3. – 9:00: Policy Genius, Jim Harbaugh
  4. – 12:00: Jim Harbaugh, Donald Trump, On Offense, Christopher Matias
  5. – 15:00: Chris Goldsmith, Vets Fighting Fascism, Midas Touch Network
  6. – 18:00: Donald Trump

Notable quotes from "🚨Trump’s PLAN OF TERROR for Midterms UNCOVERED!!"

  • But let's put you on notice again. ICE is going to be around the polls in the 2026 midterm elections.
    about Ice King · at
  • No, the Trump administration will not deploy ICE to polling places. but she didn't for a reason. My friend Chris Goldmith, Army vet, founder of Vets Fighting Fascism and host…
    about Chris Goldsmith · at
  • Yeah. And this week, this past week, the Democrats have issued 10 demands to allow for DHS funding to move forward.
    about DHS · at
  • Uttered. It had been used by Rod Stone for years and years prior to the 2020 elections. Donald Trump is still convinced that he won California in 2020. He believed and he…
    about Donald Trump · at
  • It's Ken Harbaugh with a quick break to tell you about something new.
    about Jim Harbaugh · at
  • American fully understand the threat of fascism in order to motivate them to do it. That's that's why, I on my next upcoming episode of On Offense, I interviewed this author…
    about On Offense · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Jim Harbaugh — Person · Host / interviewer · 3 mentions · first at
    Introduces the segment under the Midas Touch Network banner, frames the threat narrative around ICE and elections, and interviews Chris Goldsmith.
  • Chris Goldsmith — Person · Main guest / referenced expert · 2 mentions · first at
    Provides the core analysis: argues ICE is being used as an intimidation force, links extremist networks to ICE, and calls for legal accountability and structural reforms.
  • Donald Trump — Person · Referenced political figure / subject of criticism · 5 mentions · first at
    Presented as the driving force behind alleged plans to use ICE for voter intimidation and broader anti-democratic tactics (e.g., 'nationalizing elections').
  • Christopher Matias — Person · Referenced author / supporting source · 1 mention · first at
    Cited by Goldsmith as the author of a book used to contextualize ICE behavior and its evolution toward more militarized tactics.
    To win or that he would pardon all the January 6th insurrectionists, right? But he ended his book locking in the final text in 2025 writing about the lawlessness of ICE and…

Books & papers

  • To Catch a Fascist — Book · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a book by Christopher Matias discussing the threat of fascism and the role of ICE.
    It. That's that's why, I on my next upcoming episode of On Offense, I interviewed this author Christopher Matias who wrote the book To Catch a Fascist. He started writing this…

Companies & orgs

  • DHS — Company · Key organization · 1 mention · first at
    Discussed in the context of funding and its role in potential voter intimidation tactics.
  • Vets Fighting Fascism — Company · Referenced organization · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as an organization founded by Chris Goldmith to combat fascism and hold extremists accountable.
    Deploy ICE to polling places. but she didn't for a reason. My friend Chris Goldmith, Army vet, founder of Vets Fighting Fascism and host of the On Offense podcast, has been way…
  • Midas Touch Network — Company · Host platform · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as the network hosting the podcast episode.
    It's Ken Harbaugh with the Minus Touch Network. We have been sounding the alarm about this very thing. ISIS's brutality on the streets of America's cities is practice. They are coming for our.

Products & tech

  • On Offense — Product · Referenced product · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a podcast hosted by Chris Goldmith, focusing on combating fascism.

Concepts & topics

  • Ice King — Concept · Core topic · 2 mentions · first at
    Central theme of the episode, discussing the potential deployment of ICE agents to polling places and their role in voter intimidation.

Sponsors

  • Policy Genius — Product · Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at
    Promoted as a trusted platform for comparing and purchasing insurance policies.
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Full transcript with timestamps

We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November. We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again. And you can th you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen. But let's put you on notice again. ICE is going to be around the polls in the 2026 midterm elections.

It's Ken Harbaugh with the Minus Touch Network. We have been sounding the alarm about this very thing. ISIS's brutality on the streets of America's cities is practice. They are coming for our elections. I suppose we're lucky in a way that the veil has been ripped off and that Democrats in Congress have some time to prepare. There are laws that might counter this threat, but the Trump regime is laying the groundwork for massive voter suppression. It starts with testing the waters rhetorically and seeing the reaction. Steve Bannon floated the idea. And here's the White House press secretary adding fuel to the fire.

You guarantee to the American public that ICE will not be around polling locations or voting locations in November?

I can't guarantee that an ICE agent won't be around a polling location in November. I mean, that's frankly a very silly hypothetical question.

Carolyn Levit could have easily said, "No, the Trump administration will not deploy ICE to polling places." but she didn't for a reason. My friend Chris Goldmith, Army vet, founder of Vets Fighting Fascism and host of the On Offense podcast, has been way outfront on this. His job before Trump was reelected was tracking neo-Nazi and extremist gangs and holding their members accountable. Now, some of those very same people are wearing ICE badges. Listen to Chris. He has been right about this stuff longer than anyone else.

Chris, welcome to the show. It feels like everything we have been warning about for the last couple years and certainly for the last few months as as we've seen ISIS tactics on the streets of America's cities, it's now being openly proposed by people very close to the president and in in no way disavowed by the White House itself. I'm talking about the deployment of ICE to polling places.

Yeah. And this week, this past week, the Democrats have issued 10 demands to allow for DHS funding to move forward. And included among them is not don't intimidate people at polling places. So, while I'm glad that Democrats are starting to move in the right direction, demanding body cameras, um, uh, individual identifying information, uh, you know, simple name tapes like every other law enforcement officer, and, uh, a lack of masks. If if there's not an explicit law preventing them from activity near or at polling places, I don't think that we should expect anything less than Donald Trump to try to use ICE to intimidate voters in every, you know, so-called blue state and blue city around the country.

Let's explain what the other side's rhetoric is. We know the underlying motivation. They're terrified of a fair vote because they know they will get crushed. I think there was another special in Louisiana with a 37point shift. I mean, it is going to be tsunami doesn't even begin to describe what's about to happen in November, but what they're saying is they want to keep illegals from voting. Can you just explain how ridiculous that argument is given the uh the security with which our elections take place? I think a lot of us have have forgotten on, you know, the left, people who are consuming mainstream news, how critical the slogan stop the steel was to Donald Trump in 2020. It was not the first time that that uh that that phrase had been uttered. It had been used by Rod Stone for years and years and years prior to the 2020 elections. Donald Trump is still convinced that he won California

in 2020. He believed and he dispatched Kris Kobat way back in the day during his first administration to try and find evidence of uh undocumented immigrants voting illegally which there is no evidence. So this is what MAGA is steeped in is this belief that we have not had a free and fair election in over 8 years. So, MAGA is primed to accept the idea of ICE agents being used to catch undocumented immigrants as they're trying to vote, which is not going to happen and never has happened.

Never has. We're flashing a graphic on the screen here about this review of voter polls in Utah. 2.1 million registrations. They found one person who was improperly registered who did not vote. Like, it's not a thing. undocumented people voting in America's elections doesn't happen. But our information ecosystem is so stovepipe that if all you're consuming is is Fox News, much less Steve Bannon, you think that that's how Joe Biden got elected. So that's the rationale they're rolling out, the real reason we know is to intimidate voters. And it feels like their operations in Minneapolis and elsewhere are a practice run. When I hear people say they need better training, they need uh better leadership.

I used to agree my gut response is is shifting now towards actually they're doing what they're being told to do.

Y they are doing what they've been trained to do, which is intimidate law-abiding Americans.

Yeah. If you look at any of the videos online of of ICE interacting with local citizens, whether they're legal observers or protesters or just random people getting harassed by ICE as they're walking down the street, you can see that it is core to the identity of ICE to just be fascists, to just be out there intimidating people, threatening them, not just with legal action, but you've you've seen these ICE agents say that they're going to kill people, that they're going to lay hands on them and then charge them. Right?

Let's roll this clip of an ICE agent saying, "If you raise your voice, I'll erase your voice." There's there's no way to misinterpret that. Here it is.

I will tell you this, brother. What? You know, I will tell you this. You raise your voice. I raise your voice.

If I raise my voice, you'll erase Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Are you serious? You said, "If I raise my voice, you'll erase my voice. Mhm. Mhm.

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Yeah. The arrogance with which they are intimidating law-abiding Americans is shocking.

Yeah. And and at a certain point, I'm kind of glad that this is happening because we need to have the average American fully understand the threat of fascism in order to motivate them to do it. That's that's why, you know, I on my next upcoming episode of On Offense, I interviewed this author Christopher Matias who wrote the book To Catch a Fascist. He started writing this three years ago. He started writing this during the Biden administration when it wasn't clear that Donald Trump was going to win or that he would pardon all the January 6th insurrectionists, right? But he ended his book uh you know, locking in the final text in 2025 writing about the lawlessness of ICE and comparing them to how then last summer they looked like Patriot Front. They were wearing polo shirts and khakis and masks. They looked like a neofascist organization in an uh unlawful militia.

But since he locked in that text, there has been a change. Now they're all wearing camouflage. Now they're all wearing combat gear and they're using uh you know what is effectively a grenade launcher to shoot people in the face with chemical agents from you know an arms length away. These are all things that if if we did in a theater of war, we would be court marshaled for and we would probably spend the rest of our lives in prison. But ICE has been given this permission structure with people like JD Vance coming out and saying you have absolute immunity to the ICE agents for anything that they do while in uniform, which is not the law, but it is the way that the Department of Justice under Pam Bondi is trying to apply the law. I think that most of these ICE agents actually believe their leadership, actually believe the Trump regime when it says they have absolute immunity. It's the only way to explain

how they're behaving. Add to that the the guarantee of a pres presidential pardon, at least in their minds, when they do cross whatever theoretical line might be drawn. And so I think it's incumbent upon Democratic leadership and us people with platforms to communicate to them in this moment that accountability is coming. We had Ruben Ggo on the Midas Defense podcast talking about how he's going to wait in the tall grass as long as he has to to make sure Greg Bevino never sees his pension. It's that kind of accountability, those kinds of consequences that we need to communicate now to keep more Alex Pies and Renee Goods and others from being killed. Yeah.

When I launched an organization called Veterans Fighting Fascism, I did not think that I would be training people in the skills that they need that are necessary not just to hold neo-Nazis who run around with masks accountable, but to hold federal agents who are doing precisely everything that neo-Nazis have wished that they could do to black and brown and and other immigrant people and people of all sorts of minorities, right? DHS agents have been threatening to kill people, saying like like that lesbian in Minnesota, right? that that is the language of of ICE, threatening to kill other Americans and identifying someone who's already been murdered by ICE as a lesbian, not as an American citizen, not as a protester, but that is the identity that that ICE uh is is thinking of when they think about how they want to be able to engage in capital murder with no consequences. But I have a promise for ICE that democracy

will survive and people like me and people who engage in open- source intelligence research will gain great joy in holding every one of you legally accountable. This is not a threat for any sort of extrajudicial thing. This is we are going to apply the laws that are on the books and where laws aren't strong enough, our democracy will strengthen them. things like conspiracy against rights and violating civil rights under collar of law, those are already on the books. We don't need new laws to prosecute ICE. And we will. I'm I hope that whoever runs for president on the Democratic side is prepared to install an attorney general who has uh experience in RICO cases that is bringing down organized crime because that is what DHS has essentially become.

We've seen the Trump administration engaging in just absolutely transparently corrupt practices in fundraising for their personal businesses and and mixing the White House privileged access to information and individuals to personally enrich themselves. All of these people will be held accountable someday. I hope it becomes a litmus test in the Democratic primary for the the 2028 nomination that you're going to do that that you're going to hold ICE and DHS and all of those who use their power their power as government agents to infringe upon the rights of of Americans and residents alike. That has got to be a test for the next Democratic nominee for president. Last question. How should we be thinking about Donald Trump's threat to nationalize elections? and he weirdly said in 15 places. I don't know where that number comes from, but the very idea of nationalizing them anywhere feels like a

threat to democracy with this regime in charge. Donald Trump often floats his terrible policy ideas before trying to implement them. And that is what we witnessed when he went on Dan Bonino's show and said that he wanted to nationalize elections. He's communicating to Republicans in Congress and Republicans in state houses around the country that he wants them to change the law to make it so that they can rig elections any way they want. He started floating the idea of Texas adding five Republicans to uh to their congressional maps through mid uh mid decade gerrymandering. Right? He started floating that idea before the Republicans said, "Okay, yes, order received. We'll do it." Now, I I don't think that Donald Trump learns his lesson ever, and we have seen Democrats succeeding in uh more successful counter gerrymandering. So, I I think that Donald Trump using this rhetoric should hopefully help people understand

Democrats in office who are often way too cautious. I'm speaking about leadership here, uh, Schumer and Jeff, that they need to flex power for power's sake and to make sure that the fascists can never seize power through illegal means. And the ways that they are going to have to do that, it it may include gerrymandering the hell out of every state and and adding new states to the union like Washington DC. It it it means getting rid of the filibuster and expanding the size of the Supreme Court, adding new federal districts around the country, adding new courts. You know, as we've seen in Minnesota, there is currently not a lot of backs stop. When people resign from from their roles in DOJ, there are not prosecutors to handle cases. So, it is clear that we have a need with the backlog of of cases. We need a stronger and bigger federal court system. And I think that that should be be a priority of the next

uh next Democratic Congress and the next Democratic president to expand the court system because we're going to need them to prosecute ICE.

Uh agreed. Nothing should be off the table. Thanks, Chris. We'll put all the links to the latest book you're reviewing and the onoff podcast in the notes below. Great having you.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "🚨Trump’s PLAN OF TERROR for Midterms UNCOVERED!!"?

Ken Harbaugh (Host), Chris Goldsmith (Guest).

What is "🚨Trump’s PLAN OF TERROR for Midterms UNCOVERED!!" about?

The discussion centers around the alarming potential for voter suppression in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, fueled by rhetoric from Trump and his supporters about deploying ICE to polling locations. Experts warn that such tactics could mirror the violent strategies of extremist groups, highlighting the urgent need for legislative measures to protect democratic processes.

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

11 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Jim Harbaugh, Ice King, Chris Goldsmith, Donald Trump, DHS, Vets Fighting Fascism. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "🚨Trump’s PLAN OF TERROR for Midterms UNCOVERED!!"?

The episode runs 18 min; the transcript is about 2,922 words in 32 timestamped sections.

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