The Kansas City Defender

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[The Kansas City Defender @KCDefender]

BREAKING: Kansas City is one of seven "mega centers" in ICE's planned nationwide concentration camp network.

A local real estate company, Platform Ventures, sold a taxpayer-subsidized warehouse to make it happen.

Federal agents are already terrorizing KC residents. 🧵

[‎ Louis de Pointe du Blac @IkembaELShabazz]

Not a Game To Us: Police Budgets and the World Cup

@sunrisemvmtkc in collab with the @KCDefender & @DecarcerateKC, take a look at how the World Cup impacts police budgets and what the cost REALLY is... https://t.co/2hM06UXS1t

#BoycottWorldCup

[Eric Wahl @ziplamak]

Poignant story by @DirectorVaughan
for @KCDefender about Erica Green, the girl Kansas City came to know as Precious Doe: https://t.co/xFWY4n6hjP

[Octavia Butler's SUN @LesIzmoreKC]

The People's Free Store Comes to 31st & Prospect: KC Defender Distributes Hundreds of Free Clothing & Hygiene Items to Black People https://t.co/2DZeK3sX6n via @kcdefender

[Columbia Journalism School @columbiajourn]

This year's grantees include Wyoming Today, @KCDefender, @MSTODAYnews and @CalMatters, along with independent journalists Larkin Smith, Eryn Davis and Amanda Purcell.

[The Kansas City Defender @KCDefender]

@differencemakin Thank you so much Ken!

[Ken J. Makin @differencemakin]

A lot of us wouldn’t have known about what happened to Ralph Yarl without the courage and journalism of @KCDefender.

Much love and light to Ralph and his family as they continue to heal and hold people to account.

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

She Spent 40 Years Collecting 20,000 Black Books. We Refused to Let Them Disappear.

How a 22-year-old, 40 organizers, and a newsroom fought to save Missouri’s oldest Black bookstore — and what comes next.
https://t.co/yrEsUrUYTA | @KCDefender

[The Kansas City Defender @KCDefender]

@CinemarxismBret Thank you! We also have a web version

https://t.co/mFdNculV18

[The Kansas City Defender @KCDefender]

Read the full piece here;

https://t.co/zZV4AyjVeZ

[The Kansas City Defender @KCDefender]

BREAKING: Kansas City is one of seven "mega centers" in ICE's planned nationwide concentration camp network.

A local real estate company, Platform Ventures, sold a taxpayer-subsidized warehouse to make it happen.

Federal agents are already terrorizing KC residents. 🧵

[The Kansas City Defender @KCDefender]

The federal government could pursue locations in neighboring Grandview, unincorporated Jackson County, or across the state lines.

Even with the moratorium, the federal government has vast authority to override local ordinances through eminent domain and the Supremacy Clause.