How Artists Responded to 2025’s Surging ICE Raids

We often look back on past moral crises and imagine ourselves acting differently: resisting sooner, refusing silence, choosing courage over complicity. It’s a reassuring fiction, but a fiction all the same. Historical records have shown how readily authority can override personal morality, even when the consequences for others are dire. And yet, at a moment when the state is wielding its power with escalating force, punishing all forms of dissent, many artists are refusing that passivity t