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How communities rally when the government fails them

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People prepare food packages for immigrants at the Dios Habla Hoy church, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in January 2026. | Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. Support our journalism by becoming a member today. We spend a lot of time talking to strangers online these days. But how are our neighbors down the street doing? Is there something they could use a little help with? A way they need to be supported? That’s the focus of mutual aid. This kind of hyper-local assistance covers a wide range of actions: collecting...