Bovino Came Here First
We keep asking how close we are to being run by white supremacists. We need to stop asking and start counting.
Greg Bovino came to New Orleans first.
He was on our streets. In our neighborhoods. With federal authority, armed agents, and the full backing of the United States government.
Then, a few days ago, he flew to Portugal to speak at a neo-Nazi conference and teach Europeans how we did it.
You may remember the coat.
Long. Olive green. Boxy at the shoulders. The kind of coat that communicates something before the man wearing it opens his mouth.
Gavin Newsom said it looked like Bovino had gone on eBay and bought SS garb. Protesters in Minneapolis made signs with him in a Nazi salute. Social media called it Nazi cosplay.
Bovino said they were all wrong.
A man does not dress like that by accident. Not when he’s the public face of a federal operation. Not when every agent around him is in standard gear. Not when cameras are rolling in every city he enters.
He wore it here.
He wore it while his agents moved through New Orleans neighborhoods. While parents hid their kids. While schools sent children home. While our community watched federal forces arrive — not for the people who are actually dangerous, but for the immigrants.
He was not here to catch criminals. He was here to intimidate. To show Black New Orleans, immigrant New Orleans, the New Orleans that organizes and marches and refuses to disappear, that the Gestapo was operating on our streets with no apology and no disguise.
That’s what the coat was for.
Then he went to Minneapolis.
Two Americans died under his command. Renee Nicole Good — shot by an ICE agent while sitting in her car. Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse — shot at a protest. Bovino called Pretti a domestic terrorist planning to massacre officers. Surveillance footage contradicted him.
They removed Bovino from Minneapolis. Did not charge him with anything. Moved him.
On May 29, he posted a photo on X.
Arm extended. Hand open. Fingers pointing upward and outward.
The salute from the photographs you have seen from Nuremberg.
He posted it himself. The day before flying to Portugal.
On May 30, Bovino took the stage at the Remigration Summit 2026 in Figueira da Foz, Portugal.
The organizer’s name is Afonso Gonçalves. His group is called Reconquista — named for the medieval mass expulsion of Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. His opening line: Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions. A direct reference to the conditions that produced Hitler. Said out loud. In the promotional materials.
Also on the program: Dries Van Langenhove, a Belgian man convicted of Holocaust denial — a judge said he “raved about Nazi ideology” and wanted to replace democracy with “a social model of white supremacy.” The founder of a Swiss neo-Nazi group. An AfD lawmaker. Stefano L. Forte, leader of the New York Young Republicans — the man who publicly called for an unconstitutional third term for Trump — is sharing a stage with a convicted Holocaust denier. And Jared Taylor, one of the founding figures of American white nationalism, was listed as a VIP guest.
About 500 people attended.
Bovino was the keynote. He told them mass deportations and ethnic expulsions were “essential to saving both cultures.” He cited Erwin Rommel — Nazi Germany’s leading general — as an inspirational figure.
We keep asking: how close are we to being run by white supremacists?
Stop asking. Start counting.
Stephen Miller is the White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Architect of the mass deportation program. His leaked emails to Breitbart — reviewed by the Southern Poverty Law Center — show him sharing white nationalist content with their editors for years. The New York Times reported that Trump once said Miller would be content if there were “only 100 million people in this country and they would all look like Mr. Miller.”
Miller set the ICE arrest quota at 3,000 per day. He specifically targeted Minneapolis’s Somali community — calling them “thieves whose only industry in Africa had been piracy” — and framed Democratic policies as turning America into “a version of Somalia.”
He sent Bovino here.
Paul Ingrassia is the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security. NPR identified him as one of three Trump officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists.
On May 6, Trump signed the 2026 United States Counterterrorism Strategy. It names three terror threats: drug cartels, legacy Islamist groups, and “violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and antifa.”
White supremacy is not mentioned once.
Not once.
The FBI’s own joint intelligence assessments — produced by the NCTC, FBI, DHS, CIA, and DIA — identified white supremacists as the most persistent, most lethal domestic terror threat in America. That assessment existed. It was real. The administration erased it from official policy.
They didn’t forget. They erased it because the ideology of the threat and the ideology of the administration are the same ideology.
While that was happening, Louisiana was building the infrastructure.
Landry signed the 25-foot police buffer law. Stand within 25 feet of an officer who tells you to back up and you’re a criminal. Designed specifically to stop you from filming what happens next. Already on the books.
Landry signed immunity for drivers who run over protesters. Run a car through a crowd, claim you felt threatened, you’re covered. Already law.
This session, the legislature passed a bill expanding the definition of battery to include blowing a whistle near a police officer. The ACLU of Louisiana told the committee: “Bullhorns, whistles — our freedom of speech is a protected action, whether that be in protest, in song, or anything else.”
The committee passed it anyway.
They criminalized protests within 50 feet of churches — filed directly in response to people showing up to confront an ICE officer who was also a pastor. On the last day of session, they made it a crime to sleep outside anywhere in Louisiana.
This is not a list of bad laws. It is a sequence. First you send the Gestapo to intimidate the city. Then you make it a crime to get close enough to film them. Then you make it a crime to blow a whistle. Then you make it a crime to sleep on the street. Then you give drivers legal cover to run over anyone who still shows up.
In Arizona this session, Republicans introduced a bill to criminalize warning your neighbors that ICE was in the area. Verbal warning. Gesture. Text message. Whistle. Bell. “Unlawful alerting.” One vote short.
They will try again.
This is not a slippery slope argument. I am not asking where this leads.
I am telling you where it is.
The man who ran raids on our streets — in an olive green coat, with a Nazi salute on his phone — stood on a stage with convicted Holocaust deniers and the founder of a movement named after ethnic cleansing, and told 500 people how the United States did it.
He was proud of it.
The official policy of the United States government no longer identifies white supremacists as a terror threat.
The Louisiana legislature is criminalizing whistles.
The press didn’t cover the conference.
And the man who sent Bovino here is the Deputy Chief of Staff of the United States.
We are not approaching this.
We are in it.