President Donald Trump is conducting a partisan war on America, claiming extraordinary powers to target immigrants and deploy military forces to cities run by Democrats. In doing so, he has found willing allies: Republican governors have lined up behind him, providing troops to further his administration’s aims.

An Intercept analysis finds that almost all Republican-led states — 23 of the 27 with Republican governors — have been involved in deploying National Guard troops in support of Trump’s war on immigrants and his urban occupations. In a least 19 states with Republican governors, Guard members are assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. National Guard troops from two additional red states have deployed to the nation’s capital, along with D.C. Guard members and soldiers from six of those 19 states assigned to help ICE. Another two Republican-led states have sent troops to aid Trump’s further militarization of the southern border.

Trump doesn’t hide the fact that he is targeting Democratic strongholds. “Almost all of these cities, most of these cities are Democrat-run,” Trump said on Monday, threatening that he might invoke the Insurrection Act — one of the executive branch’s most potent, oldest, and rarely used emergency powers — to facilitate the military occupations of Portland, Oregon, and Chicago against the wishes of the Democratic mayors and governors of those cities and states.

National Guard troops serve under three statuses: Title 10 or federal control; Title 32, a federal-state hybrid; and state active duty, under full state control.

Members of the National Guard have been activated or deployed under Title 10 authority in at least seven states — Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon, and Texas — as occupation forces or to conduct anti-immigrant border operations. While the Democratic governors of California, Illinois, and Oregon have tried to fight off Title 10 deployments, Trump has found eager support from Republican governors.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott cheered his state’s support of Trump’s domestic military agenda. “I fully authorized the President to call up 400 members of the Texas National Guard to ensure safety for federal officials,” Abbott posted on X on Sunday night, touting his state’s other major contribution to Trump’s anti-immigration initiatives. “America must also know that Texas still has thousands of National Guard assisting with the Border security.”

About 200 soldiers from the Texas National Guard activated into Title 10 status were already in the greater Chicago area, a Northern Command spokesperson told The Intercept on Wednesday. They join 300 members of the Illinois National Guard who were also called into federal service by Trump.

The occupation of Washington, D.C., is technically a Title 32 deployment, but since the capital has no governor, the D.C. National Guard’s chain of command runs from its commanding general to the secretary of the Army, to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, to Trump. Guard members from Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, and West Virginia — all of them Republican-led — have deployed to Washington alongside D.C. Guard troops.

Deployments to Memphis and New Orleans, under Title 32, are backed by the Republican governors of Tennessee and........

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