# Bruce Springsteen Springsteen (born 1949) appears in this vault as the highest-profile American musician to turn the 2026 immigration-enforcement killings into mainstream chart material, and as the recurring headliner of the resistance's concert-format mobilizations. His earlier role in the vault's account of contested political symbolism is covered on [[Born in the USA]]; his licensing conflicts with Republican campaigns sit on [[Artists vs. Trump]]. He treats the [[Woody Guthrie]] catalogue as working material rather than heritage, which is the through-line connecting his 2026 output to the tradition traced on [[Protest Songs in America]]. --- ## "Streets of Minneapolis" (2026) Released by Columbia on **January 28, 2026**, written in response to the killings of Renée Good on January 7 and Alex Pretti on January 24 by ICE and CBP agents during [[Operation Metro Surge]]. The song attacks the president as a "king" operating a "private army" and accuses the administration of spreading lies about the two deaths. It debuted at **No. 1 on Billboard's US Digital Song Sales chart** despite a limited release, reaching No. 13 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and No. 6 on Bubbling Under Hot 100, and charted in the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland and Sweden. A protest song about federal agents killing civilians topping a national sales chart is the metric that makes this a vault item and not a music-press item. See [[Renée Good Killing]], [[Alex Pretti Killing]] and [[ICE Minneapolis Killings]]. --- ## 2026 Appearances - **January 30, 2026** — "Defend Minnesota" benefit concert hosted by [[Tom Morello]], with all proceeds to the Good and Pretti families. - **March 23, 2026** — Democracy Now! 30th anniversary event, Riverside Church, New York. - **March 28, 2026** — No Kings rally, St. Paul. See [[No Kings March (March 2026)]]. - **March 31, 2026** — opened the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour in Minneapolis. - **May 20, 2026** — performed the song on *The Late Show with Stephen Colbert*. - **October 3, 2026** — special guest at the [[Power to the People Festival (October 2026)]], where he performed "Streets of Minneapolis," covered Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" with Dave Grohl, and led the all-star finale. --- ## See Also - [[Power to the People Festival (October 2026)]] · [[Tom Morello]] · [[Woody Guthrie]] - [[Born in the USA]] · [[Artists vs. Trump]] · [[Protest Songs in America]] · [[Music in Politics Hub]] - [[ICE Minneapolis Killings]] · [[Operation Metro Surge]] · [[Anti-Trump Resistance Timeline]]