On June 12, 2026, both the Benton County Sheriff and Tontitown Police Department signed new agreements with Department of Homeland Security. These contracts were for both departments to be deputized as ICE agents under the 287(g) Taskforce model which, "Deputizes local officers to investigate immigration status, interrogate individuals during routine community encounters, and enforce federal immigration laws on the streets." This new agreement effectively makes Tontitown and Benton County...

Members of Ozarks Socialist Party and other organizations and activists held a monthly coalition meeting and sorted clothes and hygenie items for the free community prison close ts in Washington and Benton Counties. Members also wrote solidarity letters for the Prarieland political prisoners. The next event is 7/28 which will kick-off a six month abolition study group.

Passed by the SPUSA National Executive Committee 7/4/2026 The trials of the Prairieland 9 in Texas are a glimpse into the reality of Trump's National Security Memorandum 7. The sentences amount to lifetimes spent behind bars. They reflect the reality of political life in the United States: regardless of whether you are breaking a law, or even actually involved in organizing, the law will be weaponized to attack you. The institutions that demand your loyalty will deprive you of every...