Midwest
Campaigning from prison? It's been done. Meet 20th century socialist firebrand Eugene Debs
Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has to wait to find out what his sentence will be. But even if it involves time behind bars, that doesn’t mean his campaign to return to the White House comes to an end.
He wouldn’t even be the first candidate to run for that office while imprisoned. That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent.
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The circumstances are obviously different. Debs, despite his influence and fame, was effectively a fringe candidate that year; Trump has already held the office and is running as the near-certain nominee of one of the country’s two major political parties. But there are similarities, too.
FILE – This is an undated portrait of socialist Eugene Debs. Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and current Republican front-runner Donald Trump has to wait to find out what his sentence will be. But even if it involves time behind bars, that doesn’t mean his campaign to return to the White House comes to an end. He wouldn’t even be the first candidate to run for that office while imprisoned. That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent. (AP Photo, File)
Who Was Debs?
Debs, born in 1855, became a strong voice advocating for labor causes from the time he was a young man. A staunch union member and leader, he was first sent to prison for six months following the 1894 Pullman rail strike, on grounds he violated a federal injunction against the strike.
He became a committed socialist, and a founding member of the Socialist Party of America. He ran for president as a socialist in 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1912.
In 1918, though, he was sent to prison for speaking out against American involvement in World War I, which was a violation of the recently passed Sedition Act. But being locked up in a federal prison in Atlanta didn’t lower Debs’ profile at all, and in 1920, he was once again nominated as the party’s presidential candidate.
How Did He Handle Running While in Prison?
Being in prison didn’t make campaigning impossible, either. While Debs obviously could not travel around the country himself, his party turned his status into a rallying point, using his convict number on campaign buttons. Surrogates spoke for him, as well as a film clip of him being told of his nomination that played around the country, said Thomas Doherty, professor of American Studies at Brandeis University.
“The fame of Debs and the novelty of him running for president from prison gave him a sort of purchase,” Doherty said. “It was a credible campaign, considering you’re running from prison.”
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Midwest
Frey, Klobuchar call for ICE to leave Minneapolis following deadly CBP shooting in city
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey along with several Minnesota senators and representatives, called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to get out of the state on Saturday, hours after a deadly shooting in the city.
“The city of Minneapolis is filing a declaration after today’s shooting to encourage the judge to rule on a temporary restraining order on Monday that would grant us immediate relief and help, would help stop this operation that has been so harmful to the city of Minneapolis, the state of Minnesota has resulted in multiple shootings and tragic deaths,” the mayor said in a news conference.
Frey said the “chaos that we are seeing” has been directly caused by ICE and the Trump administration.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who joined Frey at the podium, said: “Our message is really clear and straightforward. We need ice out of Minnesota.”
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who joined Frey, said, “Our message is really clear and straightforward. We need ice out of Minnesota.” (Fox News )
Klobuchar asserted that ICE is “not making us more safe as the tragic, tragic killing this morning, as people saw it viscerally on that video, shows us they are making us less safe.”
She said the around 3,000 ICE and Border Patrol agents in the area outnumber the “sworn police officers in Minneapolis and St. Paul by three to one, and it’s even larger than the 10 metropolitan police departments.”
“This is completely out of whack, completely out of balance,” she claimed. “And now three people have been shot, two resulting in death. One: Renee Good, mother of three, and now Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis man, a citizen, also a nurse.”
Pretti was shot and killed by an ICE agent Saturday morning during an immigration enforcement operation.
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“This city has been under siege,” Klobuchar added, while laying blame on the Trump administration.
Federal agents watch anti-ICE agitators from a distance after deploying tear gas on Saturday in Minneapolis. (Minnesota Star Tribune)
“I have personally warned them that there would be more deaths, that more of this would happen,” she said. “And clearly they’re not listening. So, we ask people around the country to talk to their Republican representatives to make clear that this is not the America that is ours. This has got to stop.”
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Frey said that he had asked for assistance from the National Guard to help the around 600 officers with the Minneapolis Police Department.
“Minneapolis police officers have been working tirelessly to do their day-to-day work, and simultaneously, they are put in the middle of these chaotic situations,” he said. “Most of the protests that we’ve seen have remained peaceful. Let’s keep it that way.”
Frey also called out the president, saying, “Let’s not counter Donald Trump’s chaos with our own version of chaos here.”
Klobuchar claimed that ICE’s mission in Minnesota had “gone way beyond” investigating fraud or apprehending violent criminals.
“I took part in that peaceful and powerful march yesterday, all those peaceful people, and then we wake up this morning to this,” Klobuchar lamented.
Anti-ICE agitators gather in Minneapolis. (Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
She added that they had opposed a Congressional Republicans bill tripling the ICE budget last summer, which she said is now more than the FBI, and said that training for agents has been reduced from five months to 47 days.
“We are also calling for a full and transparent investigation,” Klobuchar said. “We have done this before in Minnesota, coordinating with local and state and federal law enforcement. And if they’re not going to do it, then they need to get out of the way and allow our very professional Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to conduct the investigation into these killings.”
Frey later added in an X post: “After today’s shooting, Minneapolis is filing a declaration to push for an immediate ruling on our temporary restraining order. We need swift action to protect our city.”
DHS officials said Pretti approached Border Patrol agents while armed with a 9mm pistol and “violently resisted” when they attempted to disarm him.
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Medics at the scene immediately delivered aid, but Pretti was pronounced dead at the scene.
Fox News’ Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
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Detroit, MI
Detroit Red Wings take off with 5 unanswered goals in win over Jets
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Detroit Red Wings Lucas Raymond, Dylan Larkin & Todd McLellan, Jan. 22, 2026 in Saint Paul, Minn.
The Detroit Red Wings added another two points to their record as they broke through on their arctic road trip.
J.T. Compher had two goals as the Wings feasted in their final stop on a three-game trip, winning, 5-1, on Saturday, Jan. 24, at Canada Life Centre against the lowly Winnipeg Jets.
Patrick Kane earned an assist on Alex DeBrincat’s empty-net goal in the third period to reach 1,373 career points, two shy of passing metro-Detroit native (and former Red Wing) Mike Modano for most NHL points by a U.S.-born player.
Kane would have tied Modano with the assist to DeBrincat, had he held onto an assist he was credited with on Compher’s first goal. Kane touched the puck behind the net, but lost control and Jets forward Mark Schiefele kicked it before losing control to Andrew Copp, who delivered an assist on the goal that tied the game. During a review during the second intermission, the assist was taken away from Kane on the change of possession.
Red Wings playoff chase
The win puts the Wings (32-16-5) alone atop the Atlantic Division with 69 points, two up on the Tampa Bay Lightning, who lost on Saturday night. (The Lightning have played three fewer games, however.) The Wings are also tied with the Metropolitan Division-leading Carolina Hurricanes (who also won Saturday) for first place in the East, though the ’Canes have played one fewer game.
Next up, the Wings return to Detroit for their final three home games before the Olympic break next month. The first visitor: the Los Angeles Kings, who are fighting for a wild-card spot in the Western Conference, on Tuesday (7 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network Detroit Extra).
Ice and fire for Wings
The Wings went 2-0-1 on a frozen tundra trip that began with an 2-1 overtime victory at the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday and was followed by an 4-3 overtime loss at the Minnesota Wild on Thursday.
Winnipeg’s Cole Koepke scored first Saturday, but the Wings answered with two goals from Compher, one in the second period and the next two minutes into the third period. Lucas Raymond added his 19th goal of the season near the midpoint of the second period, on a shot which bounced off the crossbar and off the back of goalie Connor Hellebuyck (Commerce), and DeBrincat notched his 27th goal of the season into an empty net in the final two minutes of the game. Marco Kasper finished the scoring with his fourth goal of the season with 1:17 to play.
Saturday’s win gives the Wings seven points in their past four outings, with eight wins in 10 games.
Contact Helene St. James at hstjames@freepress.com.
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Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Admirals beat Iowa Wild again – this time indoors
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MILWAUKEE – Ryder Rolston scored for the second straight game to help guide the Admirals to a 4-2 win over the Iowa Wild on Saturday night at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena.
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The victory was the second in as many days over the Wild after the Ads took a 3-2 overtime win in the outdoor game Friday in Hastings, Minnesota.
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Ryan Ufko, Joey Willis, and Joakim Kemell also lit the lamp for Milwaukee, while Magnus Chrona stopped 28 shots to earn the win in net.
The game was scoreless through the first half before All-Star defenseman Ufko gave the Admirals a 1-0 lead with his 12th of the season. With the Admirals on the power play, Daniel Carr dug the puck off the boards and passed to Ufko at the point. He skated the puck to the high slot and ripped a slapshot past Iowa goalie Cal Peterson.
Playing in his first game in nearly a month, Willis pushed the Ads lead to 2-0 with 1:39 to go in the second when he collected the rebound of a Kyle Marino shot and pushed it past a prone Peterson for his third of the year.
However, Iowa responded just 16 seconds later with a goal from Nicolas Aube-Kubel, and then Hunter Haight tied things up 5:09 into the third when his shot from the right hashmarks beat Milwaukee goalie Magnus Chrona blocker side.
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The Admirals regained the lead with 7:32 left in the game on Rolston’s fifth of the season. Jordan Oesterle drove the net from the right point and put a shot on Peterson. Once again, he made the save but left a juicy rebound there for Rolston to backhand into the net and give the Ads a 3-2 advantage.
Kemell sealed the game with an empty-netter with 11 seconds to play.
What’s next:
The Admirals return to action on Tuesday night when they host to Rockford at 7 p.m.
The Source: The Milwaukee Admirals provided this report.
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