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Fine, I did it myself: As of 1/21 evening, 14 Democratice Members of Congress support abolishing ICE, including @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social, who used the term "disband" on @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's show. Four more have supported abolishing ICE in the past. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Please feel free to send me any press releases, interviews, survery, etc. that I have missed. If I have free time, I will also fill out which Members of Congress support *defunding* ICE (very tricky technicality, many bills flying around!) and which 75 "expressed gratitude" to ICE last year.

damn I couldn't even spell "Democratic" correctly, I've been running on five hours of sleep.

Thank you @the-downballot.com for making their Members of Congress spreadsheet template freely available for me to remix. If only y'all could get off Substack...

1/22 MORNING UPDATE: Good methodology suggestion from @rikleen.bsky.social. I created a separate asterisked category for Members of Congress who have called to "dismantle" or "disband" ICE (e.g. @repnikema.bsky.social), or have shown past support but not renewed it. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

1/22 NOONTIME UPDATE: The center of the Venn diagram containing Members of Congress who expressed gratitude to ICE but now support abolishing it is now at two: @shrithanedar.bsky.social and @congressmanraja.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/sena...

As always, please forward any press releases, social media posts, interviews, etc., in the comments or in my DMs! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Here's an observation: bsky.app/profile/alex...

1/24 UPDATE: There haven't been any Democratic Members of Congress who came out in support of abolishing ICE in the past week. For the asterisked folks, I added @hankjohnson.house.gov, who called to "dismantle" ICE, and @sethmoulton.bsky.social, who called to "prosecute" ICE: youtu.be/hyqtAyuI8LI