That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s?
So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
The States Sending Troops to DC Have Way Worse Crime Problems. Most Didn’t Want to Talk About It.
I’d love to see a poll of ppl in those States.
Because none of this is about crime.
I'll bet they didn't want to talk about it. We should also ask Vance, since he's from one of those states, and he originally campaigned on fixing the many blighted cities of OH. I'm especially disappointed in Gov. DeWine. For a Republican, he seemed to be above this MAGA shit.
MS’s Republican-dominated state government is already (undemocratically) taking over the state capital!
Yep! Hello?? Birmingham AL ‼️
Leave it Mike DeWine's office to respond with straight up word 🥗
Logic plays no role in this regime
Arkansas and Huckabuck could use some help.
Remember Jade Helm when R’s freaked out about war games in Texas & claimed “invasion”?
What about protecting your own states and minding your business
This shit is wild.
Oh, I know, f**k DeWine! I would definitely change my name, De-wine, more wine!
They don't house the White House. No doubt Traitor Trump is trying to protect himself from the inevitable uprising when normal people realize he is attempting a straight up power grab on behalf of evil oligarchs. He doesn't give one shit about crime.
The bitch should be impeached for treason.
Such hypocrisy. That’s why only one governor responded. They know their cities have higher crime, but it’s about owning the libs. Period.
Trump is desensitizing the public to armed guards in the streets. If/when Repubs lose midterms and J6 2.0 happens, they'll use armed guards & blame Dems. No shock because of years of seeing armed guards.
If they win, they'll rig future elections.
H*tler & Mussolini tactics.
The only 2 reasons Stump sent the National Guard to DC Is this: Big Balls was beat up and Stump needed a distraction from the Epstein Files
All those states don’t need National Guard. It’s not like they’re prone to being absolutely devastated by wildfires hurricanes and tornadoes. At least they have FEMA,oh wait, they don’t anymore. Isn’t it funny, how states are now responsible for disaster relief and education but not law-enforcement?
Right, it is just that Donald is worried that his small mind could come to be damaged.
Why are they driving heavy equipment on delicate & historic streets. No damn respect for anyone. He's costing our country a fortune.
The reason this “works” is that they are not local and therefore have the extra layer of removal between themselves and those they are tasked with lording over—easier to be abusive.
With typical sick, twisted irony, maga states with real crime problems volunteered to send their NG troops to DC.
@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social We need more Dem politicians doing this also.
Have any blue state governors attempted to deploy their national guard troops against ICE as a public safety measure? ICE is certainly behaving as a terrorist organization mow.
Why? what is your point in writing a document and asking them a question like that? what outcome were you expecting?
Take a look at Jim Jordan’s district in Ohio. It has a crime rate higher than New York City
i was wondering, can governors order their states ng’s to other states?
It would be an all out civil war if it was that way around. That’s your answer.
Next DEM agenda should be to use those troops to take away guns from red states. Just like abortion rights were taken away, gun rights can too -should a party have the willingness to follow thru with actual laws and/or executive orders. Anyone who shuttes at that thought should no be a candidate
I would hope that Dems suggest that they will continue the DJT playbooks to get their knickers in a knot
They are incapable of admitting the truth. Only stupid people who lap up the lies, but never check the facts believe them. These are the stupid people who are truly too stupid to recognize how stupid they are.
Red state, send the fucking Seal team 6 there Mr. Tim Burchett
As of 2025, the cities with the highest crime rates in the United States typically include:
Memphis, TN: Tops the list with over 2,300 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, with major issues like gang violence, carjackings, and theft
Im sure Des Moines has its relative issues with crime, but how are the citizens of a traditional upper midwest city going to react to this. By threatening to invade multiple red states, he's overplaying his base and that will help his overthrow fail.
I would have thought DeWine would want to safeguard the cats and dogs
I'm not sure he answered the question. There's a difference between asking for assistance and it being forced on you. Agency!
What if we sent factions of troops to little town America? Parked some military in Sturgis and asked for papers? Harassed people leaving grocery stores? Clogged up main street? Shook down the county fair crowds? Illegally searched and seized those people? Ripped them out of their homes for being???
Good call
Listening to a description of how quickly everyone capitulated to Hitler’s absolute rule. Sounds awfully familiar. Personally, I will never forgive or forget the accommodationists.
It's always been "Anything cruel is okay as long as it's not me getting treated that way" with the MAGAts.
South Carolina is DROWNING their own citizens because the National guard arent there putting up sandbags and evacuating people. Demilitarize police Send the Guard Home Save our cities Never again Burn those camps to the fucking ground
Louisiana also sending NG out of state during peak hurricane season 🌀
They don’t want to talk about their own higher crime rates, they are just posturing for Trump’s attention. If they can please their dear leader, maybe he will put in a good word for them during the next election cycle. They are more interested in keeping their job than doing their job.
I'm curious. What would happen if the Mayor requested National Guard from blue states and deployed them to cocoon the others?
ICE and National Guard can't easily operate in certain neighborhoods - they fear retaliation. Though, National Guard's approach is a bit iffy.
They’re targeting 6 states who are 80% blue with a large brown & black population.This is about ethnic cleansing.Once they take country over by 2026 or 2028 that’s in project 2025.We suggest you read it.They’ll. go for anyone that’s not white.They want 100 million whites only living in the US.
Ohio can’t see the difference between DC asking for help and the White House forcing itself upon the Washington populace?
Those governors bending the knee like unAmerican cowards are traitors to this country.
How would those governors feel if Americans started arresting and prosecuting them? 2nd Amendment militias set up to enforce the laws of the land will need to create some very public tribunals. Prosecutions and punishments on pay-per-view?
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Great way to create a total breakdown of law and order.
Is their anyway Governors can use law enforcement to protect or prevent ICE kidnappings?
Thank you Mark Elias for all your hard work and dedication and strength.
Therein lies the answer, the governors requested the assistance. The assistance wasn't given until the requests. At this point I see no blue state g I Vernon requesting the national guard nor the military to assist. The orange turd is deciding these forays, not the other way around.
There is NO “ emergency “ period. The local police should be able to handle most crime!! However data proves crime rates are highest in RED states. Weaponizing the Nat Guard ( in Blue states) is purely political propaganda.
Thats odd, these are states that don’t rank highly in most things, you’d think they would be eager to take credit for one of the few thing they do excel at. 🤷♂️
The problem is Trump is only targeting the blue States. This is why the blue states have to stand together and they don't.
A nice fantasy but no dem governor has the balls to do that
Can a lawless democratic president give Texas back to Mexico under some diplomatic emergency power?
Out of control crime problem.
Options:
-Address the underlying causes.
-Performative Bullshit that drains resources and accomplishes next to nothing.
Guess which one they chose. They are just normalizing their evil. Expect them to try to flood blue city voting places during elections.
The hypocrisy is going to destroy America.
Keep asking. It will sink in eventually.
I like this, beyond legal, not just stats but fleshing them out with high crime MAGA red states governors. De Wine's statement was a skillful dodge but he doth protest too much amirite. Please keep trying to get a response from the nonresponsive governors. I'd read an update about it. Keep this up!
So they are coming to my state (NM, & shocked that Trump hasn't demanded we change our state name by now). About 60% of our pop is Hispanic or Native and MANY speak lang. other than Eng. Many of those trace fam here to the 1600s... wonder how ICE is going to handle that?
We knew it wasn't about crime. It's all about retribution.
T'is for dear leader. They are self righteous, pompous, faux Christians, and racist and are willing to swallow his 💩.
We are slipping into a civil conflict. Just leave DC and the Fed's alone. Once the states cross the federalist bridge...state sovereignty is over for them. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
Stop doing business with states that send their National Guard to blue cities! It’s none of their fucking business! Get the fuck out of our state! Stop doing business with these fascist assholes
Democratic cities didn’t take MeeMaws food stamps away; Trump did. Red state don’t pay the salaries of the troops, blue state do!
Let's do it.
There are criminals and then there are violent criminals.
The violent criminals are simply going to hide if you send in a military force.
It’s the ones that hide behind politics that are the true criminals and the large largest amount.
States, federal it doesn’t matter.
This is all about control and hate and racist efforts to suppress minority voter voices
Because it's a Coup.
It’s all for show as well as a dress rehearsal of what’s to come in 2026 around the midterms. MAGATs gobble all that up & rejoice! So moronic!
ITS TIME TO FIND OUT
MAGA would pull out their AK47’s and put a 1000 bullets in their asses. MAGA don’t play around. MAGA don’t give a fuck about Law and Order. MAGA don’t give a fuck about the Constitution.
My gov already said nyet. Glad I'm not in Seattle.
They’re adding states, just heard about it today.
it’s no secret there’s been a police problem in the USA for some time (GOP ignored) but it’s a POLICY problem, not a military or NG one. crime is an excuse to quell critics as deployments aren’t even called-out to areas supported by crime rates. ICE’s profit gimmick is supported however
Quite a picture Marc, may not be long before this becomes America’s Tiananmen Square moment.
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yeah getting the criminals out of Oval Office
Just following orders will not save you from prosecution.
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#Nationalguard #Army #Navy #Marines #AirForce #CoastGuard #Lawenforcement
This is courage. Repost from @dixeywhitey.
It's a color thing.
Top 5 cities homicide rates. I'm so sick of having a reality TV preznit less educated than the average 3rd grader who is a pathological liar. It's fucking embarrassing & infuriating. Oh, and he's a child rapist as well as an adjudicated rapist & felon. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpIsAChildRapist
. Republicans are Trump accomplices. They are all in this together. Remember.
This would all STOP if they objected. <<<
They have now become the enemy. Treat them accordingly!
DEMOCRATIC RUN STATES NEED TO STOP PAYING TAXES. I DON’T WANT TO PAY FOR TRUMP & GOP TERRORISM
And the one who did, ignored the fact that it was NOT requested by the major of Washington DC
Ahyup.
Note to National Guardmen: Don’t re-up.
that's why they signed up....opportunity.
Why aren't they? Because redandBLUE never really gave a s*
If Biden sent the New Jersey guard into Florida to take on right wing militia groups they’d collectively lose their shit. We need to lose our shit.
Coming soon to a state run propaganda outlet...
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Republicans have burned all the bridges behind them. We will never forget or forgive.
Canton Ohio is the 2ND MOST CRIME RIDDEN CITY ASND ITS AROUND 80,000 people WTAF?????
Ohio claims that they have previously sent the NG to help with crowd control in DC (inaugurations), Minnesota (George Floyd protests), Florida, etc (disaster support)...at the REQUEST of Governors & Mayors.
No one requested their presence in DC to help with Trump's fascist ethnic cleansing.
Maybe all blue states should break away from the United States. Let the red states fend for themselves. Obviously they despise and have NO respect for the constitution or blue states. Blue states should form their own government and policies, policing, education, health care etc.
To be fair, it has long been the fantasy of the Confederacy to invade and occupy Washington DC.
Send the National Guard from blue states to red states to restore order.
As a general rule, it would be wise, in practically all cases, to require a request from local authorities, mayors, governors, before our federal gov't sends troops & military equipment to "help fight crime."
Maybe...
I'm telling y'all, he's positioning troops to respond to the protests that are going to occur when he attacks Venezuela.
Remember his whole emergency declaration nonsense for the deportations is that we're being "invaded" by Venezuelan gangs that are somehow connected to Maduro.
Mike Dewine will forever be sucking up to MAGA for his competent handling of COVID - too close to non partisan governance for thier comfort
Blue states need to start forming private militias the governor could deputize to patrol the patrollers. Let the second amendment work for us.
Some of them are still sore about Kennedy and enforcing Brown vs. Board.
Troops to Maralago?? There are criminals and deviants there. Someone do something !! Maybe send the criminal owner to Sudan?
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They're not really trying to lower the crime rate. The actual motive is racism and classism.
Hypocrisy is the coin of the realm in MAGA-land.
Hypocritical shits, all of them.
Ohio might let them in, tho. DeWine is soft.
When did the DC Mayor ask Ohio to send their National Guard?
This admin doesn’t want to control crime, it wants to control its law abiding citizens.
Speculating here… NM is a blue state with kind of a lot of crime. Seems ripe for the gestap, but I don’t feel like we are in too much danger from ICE and other states’ national guards invading, because with our largely Hispanic population they won’t be able to do their racial profiling so easily.
Don't give them any ideas. MS already does as much damage to the largely Black population of Jackson as it can. Ditto TN with Memphis.
Send the confederate troops back to their own swamps
All blue states should stop all money to the federal government until 47 stops blocking funding that was legally appropriated by Congress.
We all know what would happen.
People don't want to think about it, but it's what Trump and MAGA rely on.
Those with guns, and who voted for Trump, would come out shooting.
They'd be blood on the streets
When Noem was governor she let it be known if they showed up she’d take action. Why are governors allowing this? Can they be arrested or prosecuted?
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What’s up governors? Cat got your tongue?
One of my concerns is the probable loss of life of soldiers that djt will use to invoke Martial law. Based on his actions so far, he won't actually need those lives lost, but since he has no respect for our soldiers anyway, it's not going to matter to him if one of his PB's IED's an MRAP.
Republicans are the dumbest rubes on earth.
When the statistics come out, increase in crime, they'll wonder what happened. Or explain it away that criminals are too smart. 🤭
Crime runs rampant throughout red states. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/08/trum...
"Hey, Dad, what are they doing?" and More Poor Military Vehicle Maintenance! "Hey, Dad, is DC a War Zone?" "No son, that was Jan 6 2021!"
Democrats must begin making plans to take over Red States and shut down all their meth cooking activities. Enough of Rural America poisoning and killing our children with their meth and stealing our money!!
Because they are Red Republican leaning states who see Blue Ones as criminal. It is such hypocrisy
Governors need to #stopfundingfascism
Of course they didn't want to talk about it. They know they're in the wrong.
Good idea
We look like such idiots to the rest of the world. The clowns need to leave the WH.
You're delusional!
It has never been about crime. By coordinating with Red State Governors to invade other states with their military forces Trump has started a civil war. A chance to engage in racial genocide is the MAGA wet dream.
Hitler’s German Nazis were educated people. They invented intercontinental ballistic missles & almost had the atom bomb. They came from a well educated society. They were organized & lost.
MAGA is a failed TV game show host at the top with TV Talk show host lieutenants. A Keystone Kops Karnival.
Dewine is simply a snake. I've known him since '94 before he went to Congress. Even then he was against chain migration.
He has no prob making life difficult for democrats or blaming Dems for problems HE created here in the state he governs. The narcissistic hypocrite won't look at his own actions.
Let's not get lost in the details and, instead, focus on this whole deployment is illegal because the emergency exists only in Trump's syphyllitic brain.
Now ask what would happen if all of the ‘giver’ states stopped funding the ‘taker’ states.
Doing a #starwars
Spoiler, nobody answered the actual question
To no one's surprise, I'm sure.
All the religion states
“According to a Democracy Docket analysis of the FBI’s Crime in the United States Annual Report, using Offenses Known to Law Enforcement, by State by City in 2024, 53 cities across Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee & West Virginia had higher murder rates than DC in 2024”
Their whole narrative has been about crime, and it involves the stereotype that black people commit crimes at a higher rate than whites. And if anyone has noticed, the Southern states who support this were part of the Confederacy.
Trump is using the deployments as an intimidation tactic against any opposition. And the fact that he is deploying troops in primarily black led cities should be a bigger story than it is. It was always racially motivated.
Many of the red states have far worse crime statistics than the blue states. The national guard troops being deployed in LA and Washington DC was never about stopping crime. It was always about control.
It's not about crime. The time for troops in DC was during the insurrection that the Felon-in-Chief initiated. If he's so concerned with law & order why did he pardon violent murderers & insurrectionists? It's about establishing martial law. We need to protest/fight back NOW! #RESIST #NoKings
They are desperate to gain Trumps favor. Personal political ambition over the good of the country.
Instead of asking them, you should show them. Start sending national guard into other states just to take down a notorious pedophile, for instance
Ohio should know better on how dangerous a situation can be when weapon carrying military face off with civilians - the shame and tragedy of Kent State
If you live in Richland how would you feel about National Guard troops with FBI, DEA, and ATF agents wandering around George Washington Way? Would you welcome them?
I remember when the National Guard was going to Texas for their summer training and Abbott called out the State Guard to prevent Obama from 'taking control of Texas'.
What happens when these NG troops are ordered to detain (Democratic) members of Congress?
Those governors activated Newton's Third Law + Streisand effect combo for their state.
🤣 💺🥤🍿 OTP vp
They could patrol Nashville on any given Saturday night for starters ... drunk and disorderly.
Cowards and have no business being leaders
They should take care of their own crime instead of sending thugs
I love the OH governor’s response: he lists all those instances the NG was used for his state, but in not a hint of irony says in each instance…….
THE NG WAS REQUESTED!
R-E-Q-U-E-S-T-E-D!!!
The convicted felon just ordered them to DC!
The GOP governors could care less because they'd assume Trump would tell the commanders to obey them. So their own little private armies....
California should be sending troops to DC at the very least
Ohio definitely has a couple with higher crime rates
Remember, boys/girls. White supremacy is the foundation, the basis for the entire regime. Knowing that, everything they’re doing makes full sense.
Trump is gutting the military and using the guard as his own personal army. Connect the dots people. cliffwilliams.substack.com/p/the-dismis...
How Trump’s Continued Intelligence Purge Pushes National Security to the Brink
We need to face it - this is the start of the Civil War in Reverse. The Old Confederacy and it's adjacent seditious conspirators, militia and gerrymandered redneck red state governments are out for revenge and to take the economies of successful blue states for their own. Chaos & pillage.
Seriously. This is what our country looks like now. Disgusting.
The truth doesn’t fit their narrative
Yes!
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If rethuglican elected officials are not doing anything to represent States, why should they enjoy benefits on State's dime? Govs should impact rethuglicans pocketbooks LOCALLY!Special family business/personal (mortgage) financial rates? Education advantages for children? STOP THEIR BENEFITS NOW!!
If (when) trump send ICE and the guard into blue state cities, blue state governors need to activate the guard themselves in response.
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It's basically the Confederacy invading the Union and laughing about it. The South won the Civil War.
All of those ice terrorists must have small penis
When you see these guys ask them what state they’re from. When they answer ask them:
Did you know [insert city from their own state] has higher crime than DC?
Do you realize you’re being used as a prop?
Does that offend you? Because it sure as hell offends me.
Is this what you signed up for?
NATIONAL DISGRACE!! We WILL remember those who follow ILLEGAL orders instead of honoring their OATHS!
They’ll eventually find out.. if they think he (or Miller) are going to stop at blue states, they’re so very wrong.
Out of the ten most violent cities, 9 of them are red cities.
Marc, the question to ask, where is the military in Memphis, TN? (They are number 1)
You need to watch this right now.
TikTok video by Drey
Not so surprisingly, a canned response from Ohio.
