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Conservative Article Reference List

Below are links with summaries to primarily Conservative, Libertarian-leaning articles and/or blog posts that I have found enlightening with all that is happening in America and worldwide.

Scan the list and read what catches your eye; for some, just reading the headlines and summaries should provide enough insight into the article’s content.

(Some articles may appear outlandish to some, but are also believable, so I leave it to readers to decide for themselves, as many things we considered to be conspiracy theories in the past have proven to be true.)

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January 18, 2026 – As Of 8:15 AM PST

Townhall: The Latest Trump Move Involving Minneapolis Is Going to Trigger a Liberal Meltdown – Some 1,500 premier active duty Army paratroopers from the 11th Airborne Division have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota. – The division is also the military’s leading formation for Arctic warfare. – An official said the president had not made a final decision on the matter…

Townhall: This Is Why That ICE Agent Involved in the Minneapolis Shooting Is in Hiding – The Minnesota Star Tribune decided to drop his name amid the January 7 shooting incident in Minneapolis that killed Renee Nicole Good. – This is the Democrat-media complex at work. – The cellphone footage from the ICE officer showed Ms. Good hitting him; she wasn’t scared, and she wasn’t just some innocent bystander…

Geller Report: Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar continues to make the case for why she has no place in Congress, let alone America, a country she obviously despises. – At one point during a recent angry diatribe about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the hijab-clad lawmaker declared that she is “ashamed” of the “U.S. goddamn states.” – Why, because ICE agents are doing their jobs.

Epoch Times: President Trump has called for regime change in Iran in the wake of protests that have engulfed the country in recent weeks. – “It’s time to look for new leadership in Iran.” – The White House did not immediately respond to a request for further comment on Trump’s remarks.

Zero Hedge: Professor John Mearsheimer’s Take On Iran’s Playbook – The Arab Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia, are increasingly behind the scenes, pushing back against regime change in Iran. – On this last point, there is growing evidence that the Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, are more and more coming to view the US-Israeli tag team,  not Iran, as the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East…

PJ Media: Denmark’s Dirty Little Secret Regarding Population Control in Greenland – From 1966 through 1992, Denmark forced sterilization on more than 4,500 women and girls in Greenland, with some as young as 12 years old. – Many, if not most, were never told. – In the name of population control, doctors implanted an intra-uterine device in the unsuspecting patients.

New York Post: New York City socialists are mustering an army of more than 4,000 anti-ICE activists to form “rapid response” battalions and obstruct the feds in an expected imminent crackdown on illegal migrants in the city. – Mamdani’s comrades outlined their Chinese Communist Party-linked People’s Forum, where photos of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara decorate the walls.

American Thinker: America’s Drug Denial Is Killing Our Children – Why pretending that cartel smuggling boats are ‘fishermen’ has a body count. – We celebrated when Gaddafi fell. – We celebrated when Osama bin Laden was found and taken out. – Maduro’s downfall should have been no different. – Instead, too many say that his removal is somehow cruel, destabilizing, or unjust…

American Thinker: What Did Judge Mendez Actually Forbid ICE to Do? – Mendez’s order is a nothingburger. – On their face, these orders are a nothingburger. – Judge Mendez merely ordered ICE to follow the law. – And there is very little, if any, evidence that ICE is breaking the law…

American Thinker: The Intellectual Lunacy Behind the Gender War – The ideological war being waged by the left is on the verge of devouring women. – The fact that this is even being argued before the Supreme Court screams something is wrong in America that’s hard to understand.- The entire Left is walking lockstep in solidarity to codify transgenderism for the nation. – Now we hold our breath…

American Thinker: Karens and ‘AWFULs’ Are Making Things Worse – Affluent, white, female, urban liberals, the “AWFULs,” seem to be everywhere in recent years. – Bitter, ignorant, and entitled, and yet incessantly virtue signaling, they make things worse for everyone. – So what is their problem?…

America First Report: The USDA Launched A Regenerative Pilot Program to Rebuild American Soil and Improve Food Quality – Regenerative agriculture rebuilds soil without reliance on heavy chemical inputs. – You can support regenerative agriculture through your daily food choices by prioritizing food from regenerative farmers, choosing pasture-raised meat and dairy, and avoiding ultraprocessed foods…

January 17, 2026

New York Post: The Iranian regime has killed at least 16,500 people and injured over 330,000 more – They continue targeting demonstrators and uninvolved civilians, a shocking new report claims. – The death toll far exceeds the roughly 3,100 verified by activist groups. This was detailed in a new report from doctors on the ground who treated victims amid the slaughter…

Breitbart: The ‘Manchurian Generation’ Ballot Flood – More than 1 Million Chinese With U.S. Citizenship That Grew Up In Communist China Could Vote in The 2030 Elections – One of birth tourism’s biggest appeals is the chain migration that it triggers. – “When such children turn twenty-one, they can also apply for resident status for both of their parents.”

Epoch Times: President Trump announced a 10 percent tariff on eight European countries that are opposing U.S. efforts to acquire Greenland. – The tariff will impact Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland starting Feb. 1st…

Epoch Times: The US Killed The Al-Qaeda Leader Linked to a Deadly ISIS Attack on US Troops – The man had direct ties to an ISIS attack that killed two American service members and an interpreter on Dec. 13, 2025. – CENTCOM described the Al-Qaeda leader, Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, as an experienced terrorist who has plotted various attacks…

Epoch Times: Trump Says He Left The Maduro Regime in Place to Avoid A Repeat of Iraq – He said his decision was based on a desire to avoid a power vacuum that might emerge if the entire regime was swiftly dismantled, noting the challenges faced in Iraq after American forces invaded…

Fox News: The FAA warns about flying in Central and South America as well as the eastern Pacific, citing possible ‘military activities.’ – They warned of “Potential risks for aircraft at all altitudes, including during overflight and the arrival and departure phases of flight.” – The FAA notices to remain in effect for 60 days.

Zero Hedge: U-Haul’s Election Lesson – Pennsylvania has been hemorrhaging residents and resources for years. – The recent U-Haul Growth Index shows that people are voting with their feet against Pennsylvania and other purple and blue states that have become inhospitable as places to live, work, and raise a family.

President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would be suing JPMorgan Chase & Co. “for incorrectly and inappropriately DEBANKING me after the January 6th Protest.” – Trump has accused JPMorgan and Bank of America of “debanking” him, or denying banking services, due to his political stances and the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

Blaze Media: Judges can now veto Trump prosecutors because the Senate stalled confirmations. – Of the roughly 50 U.S. attorney nominations President Trump has sent to the Senate, fewer than half, just 19, were confirmed by December 15. – A good bit of the holdup is caused by the Senate’s “blue-slip” process, requiring both Senators from the nominee’s home state to return a blue slip…

American Thinker: Illinois Governor Pritzker signed a bill allowing criminals to hide their records. – This is how you get more crime. – The new law effectively erases criminal records on an automated basis, by sealing them after a mere six months. As if Chicago, with all its shootings, doesn’t have a big enough problem with crime…

Zero Hedge: Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane – Women were roughly stable through the early 2000s. The acceleration starts around 2007-2008. – The curve steepens through the 2010s as smartphones became universal and platforms became more sophisticated. – Women are by nature more liberal, but their radicalization coincides with the rise in smartphone adoption…

Trending Politics: Democrats Plot A Government Shutdown Over ICE Funding – Regarding the likelihood of a shutdown, Democrats have not explicitly stated that one is inevitable, but their refusal to support the DHS bill without changes has created a standoff. – Chuck Schumer has drawn a “red line” against funding increases for ICE…

Breitbart: Imbecility, Plain And Simple – Representative Eric Swalwell vowed that if elected the next governor of California, he would take away driver’s licenses from ICE agents. – Also, he would “direct law enforcement” officials to use “every power to prosecute” ICE officials for “battery, false imprisonment, and even murder.”…

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Breitbart: A Ukrainian delegation arrived in the US for talks Saturday on a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war. – This, as Russian attacks again aimed at Ukraine’s power grid, cutting electricity and heating in freezing temperatures. – Zelenskyy said Friday the delegation would try to finalize documents for a proposed peace settlement…

Zero Hedge: Trump Appointed Rubio, Witkoff, Kushner, and Blair To The Gaza ‘Board Of Peace’ – The Gaza Board of Peace was created as part of phase two of a U.S.-backed plan to end the war in Gaza. – The board also includes private equity executive Marc Rowan, World Bank President Ajay Banga, and U.S. national security adviser Robert Gabriel…

Breitbart: The Department of Justice is investigating Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for obstructing federal law enforcement. – A source said the investigation stems from statements that Walz and Frey have made about the ICE and Border Patrol agents deployed to the Minneapolis region in recent weeks. – The DOJ plans to issue subpoenas alleging they are impeding federal law enforcement…

New York Post: The ‘Worst of the worst’ illegal migrants busted by ICE in Minneapolis – DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, “As our law enforcement face rampant violence against them, they arrested murderers, drug traffickers, and an illegal with 24 criminal convictions in Minneapolis.” – “Metro Surge” prioritizes those with serious criminal histories, including violent crimes.

New York Post: The House Oversight Committee is probing Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing family wealth after the $9 billion Somali social services fraud scandal exploded in her district. – The committee is investigating how Omar and her husband went from being nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in a single year. – And it’s not because he is just a smart “money guy.”…

Center Square: U.S. senators have left town for a week-long recess, leaving themselves only five days to pass the six remaining federal government funding bills. – Congress is already three months overdue on finishing the regular order appropriations process for fiscal year 2026. – Four of those massive bills, which are also the thorniest, have not even passed the lower chamber…

Breitbart: DHS began installing a massive 500‑mile network of floating buoy barriers along the US/Mexico border. – This move mirrors the deterrence strategy first deployed by Texas under Governor Greg Abbott as part of Operation Lone Star. – U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks described the new buoys as “Game Changers!”

American Thinker: We The Birthright People – After the Civil War, there was a significant population of newly emancipated black slaves, and they had no citizenship status. – The Civil Rights Act of 1866 attempted to address this issue: All persons born in the US and not subject to any foreign power excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States…

American Thinker: Anatomy Of These Protestors – Protestors Identify with the Supposed Victims – Protestors See Themselves as Outcasts – Protestors Try to Take Back Their Power Through Anger – Protestors Hunger for Community – Protestors Have Disdain for the Law and don’t seem to care that ICE is simply doing its job, or that they are supporting murderers, rapists, and other criminals…

American Thinker: The Red Guard comes to Minnesota – This is the mentality of the Cheka, the Red Guards, and the Khmer Rouge. – Minneapolis lefties are patrolling the streets for drivers who happen to be behind the wheel of the same make of SUV as used by ICE. This video shows a gaggle of people’s tribunes who have brought a suspected SUV to a stop. And what follows is ridiculous…

American Thinker: ICE Finally Gets Serious – On Monday or Tuesday, the rules were modified to allow officers in encounters with “protestors” to respond with nonlethal means without waiting to be physically attacked or manhandled. – Midweek, several encounters were ended before they began with liberal application of pepper spray, which has been widely broadcast on new media…

American Thinker: The Cyber War America Is Still Ignoring – A nation that cannot secure its networks cannot protect its future. – Global cybercrime costs are barreling toward the multi-trillion-dollar range annually, with ransomware, data extortion, and state-sponsored intrusion leading the charge. – Artificial intelligence has accelerated this threat dramatically…

Resist The Mainstream: Trump Threatens Withdrawing from NATO if it Tries to Block the US from Acquiring Greenland – When asked directly whether NATO membership could be jeopardized, Trump said the alliance is “dealing with us on Greenland” and insisted the territory is essential to American national security.

American Thinker: European Leaders’ Self-Serving Greenland Hypocrisy – Cynical leaders, facing populist outrage over their destructive leftist policies, are trying to create an EU empowering patriot movement focused on Greenland. – No, we are not talking about Greenland, but rather what Macron’s France is doing to part of the sovereign territory of the tiny, unarmed Pacific Islands nation of Vanuatu…

Slay News: The GOP Bill to Ban Insider Trading in Congress Advances Without Support from a Single Democrat – The bill would prohibit members of Congress from buying individual stocks while in office and require lawmakers to provide notice seven to fourteen days before selling securities. – Members would still be permitted to invest in index funds and mutual funds and to reinvest dividends from assets they already own.

Zero Hedge: Inside Elon Musk’s Explosive Lawsuit Against OpenAI – The high-stakes dispute is over whether OpenAI stayed true to the mission it was founded on or quietly outgrew it while relying on that original promise. – Musk is seeking between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages, based on an expert valuation that treats his early funding and contributions as foundational to what OpenAI later became.

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Swap Market Edition – This week, we said hello to a new heroine in Iran, and goodbye to a hero at home. – But “The Crazies” march on, both on the streets and in Supreme Court case arguments, where liberal justices continue not to disappoint, providing endless comic entertainment…

January 16, 2026

One America News: President Trump launches the second phase of the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas peace plan, creating a new ‘Board of Peace’ whose members will be announced shortly. – Trump also reiterated his administration’s focus on the disarmament of Hamas on Friday. – He added, “As I have said before, they can do this the easy way, or the hard way. The people of Gaza have suffered long enough.

American Thinker: Germany isn’t laughing anymore about Trump’s warning to them about scrapping their nuclear power – And the Germans have a word for this, ‘schadenfreude.’ – Do you remember this disgusting scene at the UN in 2018, when President Trump warned Germany not to scrap their nuclear energy? – He warned that Germany would become totally dependent on Russian energy if it did not immediately change course…

One America News: President Trump attended a dedication ceremony on Friday, renaming a four-mile stretch of Southern Boulevard. – The roadway, which connects Palm Beach International Airport to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, has now been officially designated “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard.” – The event took place in the White & Gold Ballroom at Mar-a-Lago…

Cypher News: Nick Shirley describes what he says is 100% tax-free fraudulent income in Minnesota Fraud. – The formula: 1. Start a daycare that qualifies for government subsidies, keep operating costs systematically low, and skim the difference. – 2. Pay workers in cash, which keeps incomes off the books for income tax purposes…

Revolver: You can’t blend cultures, and this data proves it. – One of the great lies of modern globalism is the idea that cultural differences are shallow. – Large-scale global data shows Western culture is structurally unique, with a distinct combination of values that work together as a collective system, totally different from other countries, and incompatible, to boot…

Slay News: Mohsen Rezaei, a senior general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, issued a direct threat against President Trump. – He warned that any U.S. military action would trigger retaliation against American forces throughout the Middle East, according to Iranian media reports. – His Thursday remarks came as one U.S. aircraft carrier is being repositioned toward the region…

Slay News: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned international elites that globalism has now been pushed “onto deathwatch” because sovereign countries are increasingly beginning to put their own citizens first. – The Secretary-General delivered the dramatic and ominous warning to world leaders as he prepares to step down as head of the UN in 2026.

One America News: A group of U.S. lawmakers traveled to Denmark for meetings with Danish and Greenlandic officials amid what they described as “escalating tensions” over President Donald Trump’s renewed push to acquire Greenland. – The 11-member “bipartisan” congressional delegation was led by Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).

Slay News: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has raised eyebrows by openly praising Canada’s growing cooperation with Communist China and declaring that the partnership is helping shape a “new world order.” – Carney made the stunning remarks during a high-profile visit to Beijing this week, marking the first visit by a Canadian prime minister in nearly a decade…

Economic Collapse Report: The Historically Low Jobless Claims Report Is Shocking Most Economists – Jobless claims dropped to 198,000 this week – Officials point to this as evidence of fewer layoffs, with companies holding onto staff even as hiring remains cautious. Productivity gains allow firms to squeeze more from existing teams, supporting expansion without bloating payrolls.

Zero Hedge: Trump Says Wants To Keep “Hassett Where He Is,” Sending Warsh’s Fed Chair Odds Soaring. – Trump wants to “keep him where he is” since “Fed officials don’t talk much” while Hassett is “good at talking.” – And since Warsh is generally viewed as more hawkish than Hassett, we have seen an instant jump in the Dollar index…

Daily Wire: CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez on Thursday in Caracas to discuss economic cooperation and intensifying efforts against drug trafficking. – The meeting focused on “trust-building measures and laying the groundwork for continued communication and room for collaboration between Venezuela and the US.

Center Square: President Trump wants to buy the sparsely populated island, but hasn’t ruled out other methods to accomplish his goal. – Trump said that he could use tariffs to pressure Greenland during a meeting on rural health care on Friday at the White House. – He also said import duties could be used put pressure on U.S. allies that don’t support his plans.

New York Post: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado reveals why she gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal – Machado had a simple explanation for why she gifted President Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal at the White House Thursday. – She presented Trump with the medal in a frame “on behalf of the people of Venezuela” following the Jan. 3 arrest of socialist Nicolas Maduro…

Trending Politics: Defense lawyers for Tyler Robinson, on trial for assassinating TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, are trying to knock the entire Utah County Attorney’s Office off the case. – They are arguing a conflict of interest because an adult child of a prosecutor was present at the scene of the killing. – This has sparked debate among legal experts, with many saying the move is a stretch.

American Thinker: How much Democrat fraud and corruption will it take for Republicans to ACT? – Democrats are to corruption as Republicans are to spinelessness. – The two naturally go together. – And the latter twinning contributes to the former. – Sanctuary cities (and states) allow for almost unending corruption and election malfeasance, which is why the Democrats are so fond of them…

Powerline: Won’t You Be Their Neighbor? – DHS has compiled mugshots of a few of our “neighbors” swept up in Operation Metero Surge in the Twin Cities. – Tim Walz has repeatedly professed his devotion to these “neighbors” (“[a]ll across Minnesota, people are stepping up to help their neighbors who are being unjustly and unlawfully targeted. – So let’s take a look at some of them…

Gateway Pundit: The Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office invited staff to a ‘healing circle’ with ‘therapy goats.’ – While Democrats fan the flames against ICE agents, City staff are being offered quiet reflection time with goats. This is not a parody, this is Minneapolis in action…

American Thinker: The ‘Grievance Industrial Complex’ Sacrifices Its Own – Democrats are completely in favor of strict enforcement of laws they support, but will undermine any law that threatens or restricts their pursuit of power. – The Minnesota Democrat Party organizes, trains, and directs protestors. Instructions on how to participate can be found on the party’s website via this link…

Powerline: Meet Raul Gutierrez – Nick Sortor’s reporting on the arrest of Raul Gutierrez shows that Minneapolis is a hotbed of gang activity and that the gangsters support the resistance to ICE called for by state and local authorities. – Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, Señor Gutierrez supports your efforts to chase ICE out of town so he can continue his usual pursuits…

Slay News: Gavin Newsom Claims ‘California Cooperates with ICE’ – However, data from his time as governor complicate that claim. – According to the Center for Immigration Studies, from October 1, 2022, to February 6, 2025, 52% of all ICE detainers nationwide were issued in California. – That amounted to more than 13,000 detainers, far exceeding the next highest total of 2,946 in Illinois.

Geller Report: 81 Republicans Voted With Democrats To Fund The National Endowment for Democracy – 95% of NED donations go to Democrat causes, and it has played a role in advancing anti-Trump narratives, foreign regime-change efforts, censorship initiatives, and policies aligned with the Biden-era foreign policy consensus, including prolonging the Ukraine war.

Gateway Pundit: Federal District Judge David O. Carter, the Clinton-Appointed Judge Who Claimed Trump “Likely Committed Crimes” When He Challenged The 2020 Elections, Has Now Blocked The DOJ’s Voter Data Request, Calling It “Unprecedented and Illegal.” – The DOJ had sued the Golden State to obtain unredacted voting records to ensure compliance with federal election laws, but Carter has slammed the door shut…

Zero Hedge: While the Supreme Court takes up cases that could finally protect female athletes from unfair competition, the ACLU has rolled out a new campaign pushing for biological males to compete in women’s sports. – It features ‘stars’ that include Megan Rapinoe and Naomi Watts – The ad frames this as a fight for “freedom,” when in reality it’s just another leftist assault on women’s rights and fair play…

Zero Hedge: Underwater Auto Trade-Ins Reach Record Highs – In the fourth quarter of 2025, a record high of 27% of vehicle trade-ins involved negative equity of at least $10,000. – Ivan Drury, director of insights at Edmunds, “Rolling debt forward may offer short-term relief, but it often leaves buyers with higher payments, and fewer options the next time they’re in the market.”…

Liberty Daily: Germany’s political leadership finally admits that shutting down the country’s nuclear power plants was a costly mistake. – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Wednesday the country’s nuclear phase-out was a “serious strategic mistake,” telling business leaders that Germany no longer has sufficient energy generation capacity…

January 15, 2026

America First Report: President Trump Refrained From Hitting Iran Because Benjamin Netanyahu Feared Retaliation – Netanyahu reached out directly to Trump, arguing against immediate strikes, fearing that Iran would lash out at Israeli targets in retaliation. – He had already discussed the matter with Vice President JD Vance a day earlier.

Reuters: President Trump said that Ukraine, not Russia, is holding up a potential peace deal. – This rhetoric stands in marked contrast to that of European allies, who have consistently argued Moscow has little interest in ending its war in Ukraine. – Trump’s recent comments suggested renewed frustration with Zelensky…

Western Journal: Could This Ultimately Undo 2020 Voting Changes? – SCOTUS Green-lights Lawsuits Against Mail-In Ballot Rules – In a 7-2 decision, the majority held that Republican Illinois Rep. Michael Bost has standing to challenge state rules that allow mail-in ballots to be counted up to 14 days after Election Day.

Washington Free Beacon: “ICE Watch” has urged its supporters to “embrace militancy” and escalate their demands “by any means necessary.” – Hours later, Tim Walz also encouraged residents to resist ICE. – ICE Watch describes itself as an “autonomous collective documenting & resisting against ICE, police, & all colonial militarized regimes.” – Consequently, protests have indeed escalated in Minneapolis…

Daily Wire: The DOJ Has Captured The Latin Kings Member Who Stole FBI Weaponry and Body Armor In Minneapolis – AG Pam Bondi, “This criminal is a perfect example of what our brave federal law enforcement agents are up against every day as Minnesota leadership ENCOURAGES lawbreaking.”
– Governor Walz has encouraged residents to record ICE agents and “create a database of their supposed atrocities.”

American Thinker: The Exploding Scandal of the Minneapolis Airport – Somali scammers moved hundreds of millions of dollars in cash out through this airport, and no one stopped them. – Could it be because everyone who works at the Minneapolis airport is Somali? – The staff, the ground crew, the security, even the TSA. – They all play for the Somali team…

Just The News: Two powerful committee chairmen in Congress are moving quickly to investigate why Somali immigrant couriers were moving hundreds of millions of dollars out of U.S. airports in their luggage to overseas destinations over the last few years. – Also, whether there is any connection to a massive fraud scheme in Minnesota or Somali terror groups in Africa.

Fox News: Minnesota’s major newspaper, The Star Tribune, demands ICE end its ‘occupation’ of the state – The Tribune said immigration enforcement shouldn’t end but ICE’s mission had become a “form of militant policing designed to intimidate rather than enforce, to provoke rather than stabilize.” – It also suggested it was a matter of time before Minnesotans had a “breach” of discipline…

Gateway Pundit: WATCH: “YOU’RE A LEFT-WING HACK” – White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday delivered an epic rebuke of a leftist reporter after he accused an ICE agent of “recklessly” and “unjustifiably” killing crazed leftist Renee Good when she tried to run the agent over with her vehicle.

American Thinker: Trump met with Venezuela’s popular democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado. – Kind words were delivered all around, but there was no disclosure of what they might have talked about. – There is truth to Trump’s previous assessment that Machado probably couldn’t rule over a mafia narcoterrorist kleptocracy state, which is what Venezuela now is…

Daily Wire: LIVE UPDATES: ‘At Least One Aircraft Carrier’ Headed Toward Iran, Military Sources Say – President Trump’s latest comments on Iran suggest that he is giving the regime more time to end the violence against protesters.

Resist The Mainstream: Could This Be Real? – Two European officials revealed late Wednesday that United States military action against Iran could occur within the next 24 hours, according to a Reuters report. – An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, indicated that President Trump appears to have decided to intervene militarily…

Based Underground: Iran’s Elite Scramble to Stash Cash Abroad – US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed that Iranian leaders are wiring tens of millions of dollars out of the country, a clear signal they’re preparing to jump ship amid escalating protests that threaten the Islamic Republic’s grip on power. – Bessent didn’t hold back, calling out the leaders as “rats on a sinking ship.”…

Slay News: The U.S. military has seized another fugitive oil tanker linked to Venezuela in the Caribbean, marking the sixth vessel captured as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign against illicit oil trafficking. – U.S. Southern Command announced Thursday that American forces intercepted the Motor/Tanker Veronica during a pre-dawn operation carried out by Marines and sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear.

Zero Hedge: President Trump unveiled what he’s calling “The Great Healthcare Plan” on Thursday morning. The plan fundamentally restructures how Americans purchase and pay for healthcare. – It cuts out insurance company middlemen and puts money directly into consumers’ hands. – Trump’s plan targets prescription drug prices, insurance premiums, and industry transparency…

Resist The Mainstream: Trump Got It Exactly Right About Obamacare, ‘Fat Cat’ Insurers Got Filthy Rich – Major health insurance companies have seen dramatic revenue growth in recent years. – Fat cats and the insurance companies that made 1,700% over a short period of time.” – “Let the money go directly to the people. The industry’s expansion has coincided with decreased competition in many markets across the country.

American Wire: Why Greenland Suddenly Matters – “In short, warming weather patterns make the Arctic more accessible and more of a strategic target for world powers.” – And bless his heart, President Trump knows this quite well, ergo his deep desire to acquire Greenland and make it a part of the U.S…

Breitbart: The U.S. Completes Its First $500 Million Venezuelan Oil Sale – This is in line with an Executive Order signed by President Trump last week that safeguards Venezuelan oil revenue held in U.S. Treasury accounts from attachment or judicial process, with the aim of “ensuring these funds are preserved to advance U.S. foreign policy objectives.”

Gateway Pundit: President Trump Warns That if ‘Corrupt’ Minnesota Politicians Don’t Stop the Ongoing Attacks on ICE Agents, He Will Invoke the INSURRECTION ACT. – This comes after a night of extreme chaos in the city, which included an agent having to fire a defensive round after being attacked with a shovel handle by an illegal alien and rioters robbing paperwork and weapons from an ICE vehicle.

American Thinker: Tim Walz is inching toward his Fort Sumter moment – With Walz’s overwrought description of ICE enforcement efforts in Minneapolis and his call for action, ostensibly “peaceful,” but with full approval of the increasingly violent conduct currently waged against ICE agents, I see a burgeoning insurrection or rebellion movement…

Newsmax: A federal officer shot a person in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle. – The person drove away and crashed into a parked car before taking off on foot. – After officers reached the person, two other people arrived, and all three started attacking the officer. – All have been taken into custody…

Breitbart: WATCH As ‘Un-American Pieces of Sh*t!’ Diners Verbally Harass ICE Agents at a Minnesota Restaurant – When agents walked into the building and were confronted with shouting patrons. – Federal immigration agents are allowed to enter public areas of businesses without permission, but cannot access private areas like offices, kitchens, storage rooms, or employee-only hallways without authorization or a warrant.”

The Federalist: The Anti-ICE Activists’ Goal Isn’t Stopping Violence, It’s Ending All Immigration Enforcement – We’re not seeing situations like that in Minneapolis in red states because the police and authorities are cooperating. – DHS publicly announced that if state officials would cooperate, then DHS would not be arresting many of those it is now arresting…

Howard Galganov: AMERICA CANNOT ALLOW MINNESOTA 2026 TO MIRROR MINNESOTA 2020 – What’s Happening On The Streets Of Minneapolis Is Not Organic and a Movement of the People, by the People or for the People – It Is Being Organized & Financed by America’s Enemies of Freedom. – Many Are From Within, And Many Are From Abroad. – I Don’t Believe Anything Is More Important Than The November 3, 2026 Midterms…

American Thinker: Progressivism Has Become A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing – The ideology has morphed from watchdog to wolf pack. – The left is congenitally discontent, finding injustices in any environment, even one of its own creation. – Democrat voters choosing to allay personal grievances by supporting the progressive agenda are in for a rude awakening…

American Thinker: Is there trouble in Muslim paradise? – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are looking more and more like frenemies. – Saudi Arabia and the UAE are supporting different sides in Sudan’s civil war, fueling the conflict. – Saudi Arabia backs the Sudanese Armed Forces, viewing them as a legitimate state authority. – The UAE’s involvement is driven by a desire for regional economic dominance…

American Wire: AG Pam Bondi terminated six Minnesota prosecutors who wouldn’t support ICE operations. – “One of them even did a photo shoot with The New York Times while ICE was out there risking their lives.” – They wanted to resign, but use their annual leave up until April, and effectively go on vacation, so she fired them…

Discern TV: An Appeals Court Ruled Against A Pro-Palestinian Protester in A High-Stakes Deportation Battle – A federal appeals court delivered a clear win for the Trump administration Thursday, determining that a lower court judge overstepped his bounds by ordering the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist facing deportation over visa fraud allegations…

Trending Politics: Jasmine Crockett’s Senate Hopes Crash And Burn As The Party Ditched Her For A Well-Spoken Democrat – Democrat Texas state Representative James Talarico opened up a clear lead over Crockett in the State’s Democrat Senate primary, according to new polling released Thursday.

Zero Hedge: The US and Taiwan agreed to a long-sought trade agreement that would lower tariffs on goods from the self-governed island to 15%, with Taiwanese semiconductor companies increasing financing for American operations by $500 billion. – While the details are a little murky, duties on Taiwanese shipments would fall from the previous 20% rate, putting them on par with Japan and South Korea…

Slay News: A Federal Court Green-lights California’s New House Map, Giving Democrats Path to Flip Seats in Midterms – In a 2–1 decision issued Wednesday, a three-judge panel in Los Angeles rejected requests from state Republicans and the U.S. Department of Justice to block the new map, allowing it to take effect.

January 14, 2026

PJ Media: Vice President Vance Broke A Tie Vote, Killing A Bill to Limit Trump’s Military Action – All Democrat Senators voted “YES,” as did Senators Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young. – Wednesday evening, the Senate took another War Powers resolution vote, and this time, Young and Hawley switched sides and voted with the GOP.

Trending Politics: Federal authorities have arrested Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a Pentagon contractor and former Navy veteran, for allegedly leaking classified information related to the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. – Perez-Lugones, a system administrator in Maryland holding a top-secret security clearance, was taken into custody earlier in the week and remains behind bars.

Epoch Times: The Cuban Regime Is Increasingly Isolated – No relief is offered by longtime ally Russia or its biggest trading partner China. – Its tenuous ties to nearby Mexico are likely to be severed soon, leaving it seemingly out of options for replacing the discounted oil it imported from Venezuela to fuel its economy. – But this island nation has survived such crises before…

Red State: Nick Shirley Strikes Again – In his latest video, Shirley teamed up with a man named David, who described what he called “transportation fraud.” – Companies sign up to be designated as “non-medical emergency transportation” entities. – David said there are over 1,000 such companies, with more than 90% Somali-owned. – But where are all the vehicles and passengers?…

KFGO in Fargo: President Trump has chosen a new Assistant AG to focus on combating fraud nationwide. – Trump, “We have chosen a person who’s very tough, very smart, very fair.” – The new AAG will be responsible for leading efforts to probe, prosecute, and remedy fraud affecting the federal government, federally funded programs, and ‍private citizens.

California Globe: Dr. Oz Slams California as The ‘Worst Offender’ in The $1.8 Billion Medicaid Scandal, and Is Withholding $300 Million From the State – Governor Newsom expanded Medi-Cal benefits to approximately 1.7 million illegal immigrants at an annual cost now estimated between $10–12 billion…

Breitbart: School districts are increasingly importing teachers from foreign nations who will work for lower pay than American teachers. – However, the Trump administration is making it harder for them to get visas. – This is threatening this hiring practice that undermines professional teachers in America…

Townhall: The Latest Update Out of Iran As Regime Attempts to Squash Uprising Will Make You Sick – Iran International, the organization that estimated those 12,000 deaths, is now reporting more violence by the Iranian regime. – It has been reported that regime forces are storming Iran’s hospitals to kill the wounded…

Zero Hedge: A person on JD Vance’s security detail leaked details about sensitive locations and his travels. – The agent, Tomas Escotto, only became a citizen in 2018. He voted for Joe Biden in 2020, and he “hates ICE,” according to an O’Keefe undercover report. – This comes on the heels of a man attacking Vance’s Cincinnati home with a hammer earlier this month…

Slay New: A DHS employee allegedly leaked personal information of roughly 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol agents to a far-left activist operation known as the ICE List. – The development has triggered serious concerns about future targeted harassment and violence against federal law enforcement.

Slay New: Trump Will Crash Davos, and Drop The Hammer on WEF Globalists – Trump’s appearance represents a direct challenge to the ideological consensus that has dominated the WEF summit for decades. – Trump is arriving in Davos with the largest U.S. delegation in history. – The team includes Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent, and Steve Witkoff, who oversees Middle East and Ukraine negotiations.

Zero Hedge, Live Updates: Denmark Says It’s Clear Trump “Has A Desire To Conquer Greenland” After The WH Meeting – DENMARK SAYS AGREED WITH US TO FORM WORKING GROUP ON GREENLAND – Greenland’s Foreign Ministry says they will strengthen cooperation with the US, but that doesn’t mean we want to be owned by the US.

Washington Examiner: Trump Positions Greenland ‘vital’ for America’s Golden Dome system – He also urged NATO to support Greenland’s acquisition to boost the alliance’s defense capabilities against Russia and China. – This was just hours ahead of Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s scheduled meeting at the White House with Denmark and Greenland’s top diplomats.

Breitbart: Denmark Sends ‘Military Reinforcements’ to Greenland Ahead of Wednesday’s White House Talks – The Danish Broadcasting Corporation reports that Denmark is deploying military equipment and advance troops to Greenland. – However, it questioned how large a deployment is possible, given that many of its forces have already been committed to other theaters, such as in the Baltic.

Newsmax: The US said Wednesday that it is moving into the next phase of a Gaza ceasefire plan. – It involves disarming Hamas, rebuilding the war-ravaged territory, and establishing a group of Palestinian experts that will administer daily affairs in Gaza under American supervision. – Witkoff offered no details on the new transitional administration…

Trending Politics: FBI agents raided the home of a WaPo reporter who has been arrested. – The raid was part of an investigation into the illegal leaking of classified military intelligence. – FBI Director Patel, “She was found to have allegedly obtained and reported classified, sensitive military information from a government contractor, endangering our warfighters and compromising America’s national security.

Zero Hedge: Nuclear Reactors On The Moon By 2030 – International partners are teaming up to develop and establish remote posts on the moon utilizing nuclear reactors as the primary energy supply. – The Russians are teaming up with the Chinese, the French are teaming up with the Italians, and the Americans are teaming up with… well, more Americans…

Geller Report: FOUR ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT were just filed against Tim Walz in the Minnesota House! – 1. For allowing massive fraud despite being warned – 2. For engaged in the cover-up – 3. For letting agencies to keep running with ZERO new safeguards – 4. For ignoring safeguards & failing to force compliance with anti-fraud rules…

Just The News: Transportation Security Administration agents tracked and flagged about $136 million in bulk cash in outbound luggage at the passenger checkpoints at the Minneapolis John Glenn Columbus International Airport since November 2023. – This follows reports that millions of dollars were discovered leaving Minnesota airports. – The cash movements were made by U.S. citizens of Somali origin…

Epoch Times: The US to Suspend Visa Processing for 75 Countries – Somalia has been in the spotlight, as there has been welfare fraud in Minneapolis that has been mainly committed by the Somali community. – The countries include Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba…

The Federalist: SCOTUS Signals A Willingness To Uphold State Laws Protecting Women’s Sports – A majority of justices appear poised to uphold state laws protecting women’s sports from trans-identifying men. – ‘For the individual girl who does not make the team or doesn’t get on the stand for the medal, there’s a harm there, and I think we can’t sweep that aside,’ said Justice Kavanaugh…

Washington Examiner: Iranian protesters expose the leftist-Islamist alliance – The protesters’ reasonable claim for support is overwhelmingly clear. Iran’s 92 million people are sick, literally to death, of repression by a regime that has murdered, arrested, beaten, and imprisoned them for 47 years. – So, where are the left-wingers who normally pretend to be the moral conscience of the developed world…

American Thinker: Stopping the invaders? – Two things are going on here: First, Minnesota, like California and Illinois, has decided that it can pick and choose which federal laws it will respect. – Second, what we see in Minneapolis or Los Angeles is local politicians more interested in a TV fight with President Trump than working with ICE…

Western Journal: Breaking, The ICE Agent Who Was Hit by Renee Good’s Vehicle Suffered Internal Bleeding – “The officer was hit by the vehicle. She hit him,” Noem said last week. “He went to the hospital. A doctor treated him, and he has been released.” – Noem added that Ross was recovering from his injuries and she described him as an experienced law enforcement officer.

American Thinker: Peacefully protesting and airing grievances is in American DNA, so too is respecting law enforcement in a law-abiding country. – ICE protesters who interfere with law enforcement operations are not above the law. – Insurrectionist militants who insert themselves into legitimate ICE operations, fomenting chaos, don’t deserve the moniker of conscientious protesters…

American Thinker: The 3.5% Can’t Overturn Trump’s Presidency – Rachel Maddow and far left Democrats dream that if they can get 3.5% of Americans, the fanatic portion of their base, protesting on the street, they can take over the country.- We may be a country divided and deeply polarized, but it is unlikely an insurgency by 3.5% to oust the MAGA “regime” and install a communist alternative can happen…

Washington Free Beacon: Who Funds the Groups Harassing ICE Agents in Minnesota? – These radical activist groups have received millions of dollars from the Left’s premier foundations and dark money networks that include George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund…

Breitbart: Trump Flipped Off at Heckler During His Ford Facility Tour – The Outburst Led to the Worker’s Suspension. – The White House says it was appropriate for President Trump to FLIP OFF a heckler in Detroit who yelled “pedophile protector.” – “A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response.”

Economic Collapse Report: Medicaid Paid Out Over $400 Million To Dead People Between July 2021 and June 2022, Under Biden – A 2023 review of 14 states showed New York topping the list. – Certain states prove it’s avoidable. Connecticut, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming reported zero such payments in the period, thanks to basic safeguards like routine death record checks…

American Thinker: The Trump Administration Cracks Down on Business Fraud in Federal Programs – Widespread fraud is indicated in programs like the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loans, which were hastily rolled out during the COVID-19 crisis without sufficient safeguards. – An estimated 1.4 million PPP loans exhibited fraud indicators…

Western Journal: Ketanji Brown Jackson Humiliates Herself Again – A Frustrated Attorney Is Forced to Teach Her About a Simple Legal Term in Front of the Entire Court – Jackson began by posing this question to Mooppan: “I guess I’m still struggling to understand why the state would have to have perfectly tailored laws. – Mooppan responded. “That’s literally what it means, to tailor your law.”

Geller Report: A HUGE WIN, As The Supreme Court Reopens The Mail-In Ballot Fight – SCOTUS just ruled that Congressional candidates can legally challenge mail-in voting laws. This revives a GOP challenge to the late-counting of mail-in ballots. – The Supreme Court sent the case back to continue in lower courts…

Center For Immigration Studies: Minneapolis School Officials Are Shielding Illegal Aliens from ICE Detection – It is pretty clear that MPS officials are blatantly committing federal felonies in broad daylight (even if there is not much of that in Minneapolis this time of year).

Center For Immigration Studies: Key Takeaways and Analysis from Trump’s Interview with the New York Times – On ICE Enforcement – On Worksite Investigations – On “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” – President Trump has never been the immigration villain his legion of haters portrays him to be, but he’s not afraid to defend his people or his deportation policies, either.

One America News: California’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton has raised more than $4.1 million over the past six months, outpacing any other candidate in the race, including the Democrats. – Hilton’s fundraising success is fueled by grassroots support, boasting over 30,000 individual donors. The majority of these contributions are small-dollar donations of $100 or less, hailing from 56 of California’s 58 counties…

Zero Hedge: Newsom Scrambles To Keep Billionaires In California, Vowing To Kill The Wealth Tax – “This will be defeated, there’s no question in my mind.” Newsom said the measure would stifle innovation in the state, as a growing list of tech CEOs have thrown their hands in the air and rage-quit the state over mounting plans to separate them from their wealth.

January 13, 2026

American Spectator: The Man Behind The Dictator – Maduro’s arrest reveals that Venezuela was never truly run from Caracas, but from Havana. – One officer was a cryptographer whose job was deciphering direct messages and orders received hourly from Havana containing as yet undisclosed secret directives that could have even contained coded instructions to kill Maduro before allowing him to give himself up or be captured…

One America News: The Trump administration has officially designated three branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, arguing that their activities constitute a threat to the United States. – The Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood, along with the Egyptian and Jordanian branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, that were included for purportedly providing material or financial support to Hamas.

American Thinker: Israel, Hamas, And The Never-Ending War – Shocker, Hamas refuses to disarm and is rebuilding its tunnels and infrastructure. – Hamas is open to giving up what is left of its stock of heavy weapons, but won’t turn over its small arms, Arab officials said. – Israel estimates the group has 60,000 rifles and 20,000 fighters. – Israel wants peace, but Hamas clearly does NOT…

New York Post: I’m living through Iran’s bloodthirsty, murderous crackdown — Here is the horrible truth about what’s really happening. – On Saturday, everything changed. They brought anti-terrorist police forces to start suppressing people very forcefully, shooting protesters. – This regime is ready to kill everyone, even innocent people who are just walking and chanting. They shoot them with live ammunition and bullets…

LifeZette: Hegseth Drops the Hammer: DEI, Dudes in Dresses, and Climate Worship Are DONE in Our Military! – Pete Hegseth outlined a shift in departmental priorities centered on restoring what he described as a traditional “warrior ethos,” arguing that removing ideological and political distractions will strengthen the readiness and effectiveness of U.S. war fighters.

Daily Signal: Hegseth Declares War on Pentagon Bureaucracy – As he tours military installations and visits defense contractors, Hegseth is laser-focused on what it will take to make sweeping changes for America’s military. – “Here at SpaceX, you iterate in terms of hours and days, maybe weeks,” Hegseth quipped. “In Washington, we talk in terms of months, years, and oftentimes multi-years. – It’s too slow.”

Western Journal: Jamestown, New York, Republican Representative Nick Langworthy announced the immediate closure of a local office, citing “credible threats and calls for violence against him and his staff. – Mountains of evidence have exposed modern leftists as uniquely receptive to arguments in favor of political violence. – Several factors play a role, such as…

Fox News: Trump to cut federal payments to sanctuary cities starting Feb 1 over their immigration policies – The move targets jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. – Trump also criticized Minnesota officials while discussing what he described as widespread fraud in the state. – Trump went on to accuse Governor Tim Walz of corruption…

Center Square: It’s not just Somalians in Minnesota charged in a wide-scale scheme to defraud taxpayer-funded federal welfare programs. – Haitian and Yemeni immigrants have also been charged with stealing tens of millions of dollars from the SNAP program during the Biden administration. – The USDA is encouraging fraud to be reported online or by calling 1-800-424-9121.

An ACLU Lawyer Couldn’t, or Wouldn’t, Describe Gender At SCOTUS Hearing – During their pro-trans boys in girls’ locker/bathrooms argument, ACLU lawyer Kathleen Hartnett was asked by Justice Alito to define a man, boy, woman, or girl. – Hartnett panicked, telling him, “They don’t have a definition.” – Alito: Well, how can you, how can a court determine whether there’s discrimination based on sex without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?

ABC News: The U.S. experienced negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least 50 years due to Trump’s immigration crackdown, according to the Brookings Institution. – Although the administration has undertaken aggressive removal efforts, the negative number is mostly due to a significant drop in entries into the U.S., their report said.

American Spectator: The California Union Behind State Billionaire Tax Has $68 Million in Assets – Oakland’s SEIU union spent $9 million on lobbying in 2024. – SEIU asserts it is needed to “prevent the collapse of California healthcare and help fund K-14 education and food assistance programs.” – However, charges for healthcare services in California can be well over 1,000 percent of the actual expense to provide the service…

American Thinker: Heaven forbid that Trump wants defense contractors to live up to commitments and deliver on time and on budget, just as the contracts they signed require. – Defense contractors are seeking legal advice after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to tie share buybacks, dividends, and executive pay to weapons delivery schedules…

Zillow: American consumers closed out the holiday season with a strong December spending surge, adding to evidence that household demand remains resilient. – Retail sales during the final two months of 2025 rose 4.1% from a year earlier, according to a Jan. 12 report from the National Retail Federation, pointing to total spending of just more than $1 trillion.

Townhall: Bill Clinton has refused to comply with a Congressional subpoena to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. – Committee Chairman James Comer, “We will move next week in the House Oversight Committee to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress.” – Hillary Clinton was also subpoenaed, though she is unlikely to attend…

Slay News: FBI Docs Show That Jack Smith Bribed an Informant with a $20,000 Payment. – The documents have just been turned over to Congress by FBI Director Kash Patel. – The files outline the scope and tactics of the probe and include an internal email approving the payout. – The records show the FBI pushed aggressively to make President Trump himself a formal subject of Arctic Frost…

Townhall: The Iran Death Toll Tops 12,000 As Security Forces Begin to Slaughter Non-Protesting Civilians – The vast majority of those deaths took place last Thursday and Friday. – According to a witness, Iranian security forces on motorcycles were seen opening fire on protesters in the city of Fardis, just outside the capital city of Tehran…

Discern Report: The First Public Execution of an Iranian Protester Is Set For Today – Iran’s regime has scheduled the execution of 26-year-old Erfan Soltani for January 14, set to mark the first hanging directly linked to the ongoing anti-government protests. Soltani, arrested during demonstrations in Karaj last week, faces charges of “waging war against God” after a trial where he was denied legal representation…

Geller Report: TRUMP, “HELP IS ON THE WAY,” “KEEP PROTESTING AND TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!” – Trump declared a 25% tariff on countries continuing to do business with Iran. – Senior aides, including Rubio and Vance, are preparing response options, including potential military action, as protests spread and the Islamic Republic faces its most serious challenge in decades…

New York Post: Iran is now slaughtering civilians who aren’t involved in anti-regime protests, witnesses warn, as death toll surges into the thousands – Chilling eyewitness accounts of the bloodshed started emerging late Monday after Iranians were finally able to make international calls after authorities cut the country’s internet access as part of their merciless crackdown…

Washington Examiner: A UN report shows 2025 the deadliest year on record since 2022 for Ukrainian civilians – Over 2,500 civilians were killed and another 12,142 wounded during Russia’s attacks in 2025, according to the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. – The total killed and wounded last year were 31% higher than in 2024 and 70% higher than in 2023…

American Thinker: The Dominoes Begin to Fall – The Maduro takedown and the apparent subservience of his successor will have far-reaching consequences in Russia, Iran, and Communist China, as well as in Europe. – The U.S. ignored Putin’s claim of sovereignty over a recently seized vessel and vowed to pursue the 300-vessel ghost fleet used by Russia, Iran, China, and Venezuela to evade U.S. sanctions relentlessly…

Breitbart: Two Chinese oil supertankers that were on their way to pick up Venezuelan oil are heading back to Asia. – In December, President Donald Trump ordered a “total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela. – Recent seizures show that the blockade is being strongly enforced…

Daily Caller: A Somali Official Shows How Entrenched The ‘Fraud Pipeline’ Really Is – Dr. Abdillahi Hashi Abib, a sitting member of the Somali Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of the People, told the Caller the corruption surfacing in Minnesota and across the US did not emerge spontaneously, but is a downstream consequence of Somalia’s deeply entrenched system of corruption…

PJ Media: The Amount of Fraud and Waste in ‘Safety Net’ Programs Is Astronomical! – Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, spent her entire career trying to get people to pay attention to the extraordinarily lax oversight of most government spending. – Federal prosecutors in Minnesota believe up to $9 billion spent on 14 Medicaid-funded Minnesota programs since 2018 may have been tied to fraud…

New York Post: Trump tells Minnesotans a ‘day of reckoning and retribution is coming’ after the state sues over ICE raids. – “Every place we go, crime comes down. In Chicago, despite a weak and incompetent Governor and Mayor fighting us all the way, a big improvement was made. – Thousands of Criminals were removed!”…

Epoch Times” The Trump Administration Ends Temporary Protection for Somalis in the US – The protection had previously been extended through March 2026.- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says Somali natives have until March 17 to leave the country, adding: “Temporary means temporary. – Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status.”…

New York Post: Chaotic video shows anti-ICE agitators blast fireworks at law enforcement during Minneapolis protests – Officers were seen pinning the violent demonstrators to the ground and whisking them away in handcuffs outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building after the fireballs launched at them exploded during another tense standoff in the besieged city…

Liberty Daily: The Marxist Network Behind The Pro-Maduro And Anti-ICE Protests Faces Congressional Scrutiny – The same network of groups that fueled anti-Israel protests and the June 2025 Los Angeles riots against ICE has organized dozens of pro-Maduro and anti-ICE protests around the country. – One group, Answer Coalition, called for protests against ICE following the fatal shooting of a protester, Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis on Jan. 7th…

Epoch Times” US Annual Inflation Held Steady at 2.7 Percent To Finish 2025 – Core inflation, which strips out volatile energy and food prices due to their noise, was also flat last month at 2.6 percent—below the forecast of 2.7 percent. – Shelter inflation remains a sticky component of above-trend inflation, adding to Americans’ cost-of-living concerns…

Breitbart: Democrat Representative Tom Suozzi, “Even if Affordable Care Act subsidies are extended, we’re still going to have an affordability crisis in our country.” – Health insurance premiums are still going to be too high. – What we need is this bill to extend the premium tax credits, to provide some immediate relief, to stop prices from skyrocketing…

FAR: Paid Protesting Is More Than a Gig, It’s a Career For Some – Here’s some proof that all the left-wing riots and protests nationwide are coordinated and financially backed. – A woman caught at an Atlanta riot has been showing up at protests across the city again and again. – This woman was found at May Day, pro-Iran rallies, anti-Trump demonstrations, and outside Atlanta’s ICE office.

American Thinker: Biological Reality and the Supreme Court – The Constitution protects reality, not ideology. – 1. Biological Reality Is Not a Social Construct – 2. Gender Identity Is Psychological, Not Biological – 3. The Biblical and Natural Law Perspective – I4. The 14th Amendment: Equal Protection Within Reality – 5. Title IX: A Law Written to Protect Women From Male Advantage. – 6…

The Federalist: Judge Ho Takes A Sledgehammer To Judicial Supremacy And Its ‘Elite’ Enablers – Receiving little attention outside legal circles, Ho authored an article for the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy last week criticizing what he views to be an increasing “arrogance” among many federal judges, an arrogance he argues is downstream from judicial supremacy…

Slay News: The DOJ Fired A Prosecutor Who Refused to Pursue The James Comey Case – Robert McBride, the first assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, was dismissed from his post on Monday. – According to a report, McBride told DOJ officials that overseeing a renewed prosecution would be difficult while also managing the day-to-day operations of the office…

Epoch Times” A Judge Rules Orsted Can Resume Work on Rhode Island Offshore Wind Project ASAP – U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington said that Revolution Wind had demonstrated that it would likely suffer “irreparable harm” without injunctive relief and that granting the motion was in the public interest…

Washington Examiner: House Republicans say California has allowed widespread Medicare fraud – Republican leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, in conjunction with the House Committee on Ways and Means, sent a letter to the HHS inspector general’s office asking what it is doing to address concerns about scammers in California allegedly stealing millions from Medicare…

America First Report: Shut Down CDL Mills Because Lives Depend on It – Put simply, CDL mills strip away safeguards designed to prevent tragedy. – These fly-by-night operations masquerade as legitimate training schools but instead sell credentials to fast-track unqualified individuals into the driver’s seat with insufficient training, inadequate testing, and minimal oversight…

Daily Wire: Cartoonist Scott Adams, best known for creating the hilariously relatable, satirical comic strip “Dilbert,” has died at the age of 68 following a terminal cancer diagnosis. – ‘I Had An Amazing Life’- “I gave it everything I had,” the cartoonist said in a final goodbye letter…

Western Journal: House Democrats Flip, Joining Republicans to Overturn A Biden-Era Regulation for Shower Head Throttling – The SHOWER (Saving Homeowners from Overregulation with Exceptional Rinsing) Act was a direct response to the Biden-era rules that sought to cap shower head effectiveness.

January 12, 2026

Washington Free Beacon: Maduro’s ‘Pit Bull’ Defense Attorney Is Prolific Democrat Donor – Barry Pollack backed Jon Ossoff and Cory Booker for Senate, Barack Obama and John Edwards for president, before defending the ousted dictator. – Pollack told the judge he will argue that Maduro is entitled to immunity as the head of Venezuela. – Precedent does not appear to be on his side.

Breitbart: ‘Kash Better Get Them Out, NOW!’ – Trump Orders A Cleanup of Remaining Corrupt FBI ‘Scum’ – This is the result of a recent news report detailing the role of a former FBI official in reportedly advancing the Arctic Frost investigation targeting Trump, Republican organizations, and elected officials…

New York Post: Mortgage rates fell below 6% for the first time in years after President Trump ordered the purchase of $200 billion worth of mortgage bonds in his latest attempt to tackle the housing crisis. – The average rate for a 30-year fixed residential mortgage fell to 5.87% on Monday. – Rates had dipped to 5.99% on Friday, its first time below 6% since February 2023

PJ Media: A New Nick Shirley Video To Show That Grift Is ‘Ten Times Worse’ Than Previously Thought – “What I believe is the core of all this is this non-emergency medical transportation. A search showed that Minnesota recognizes 1,020 NEMT companies. Almost 900 of them are Somali-owned.” – The vast majority of these companies exist on paper only. They are not real.” – “THEY DON’T EXIST.”…

American Spectator: Portland’s Feminized Police Culture – Most Portland residents want someone who can articulate facts, project authority, and reassure a battered city that someone is actually in charge. – Instead, the Chief’s crying spectacle became a symbol of Portland’s deeper problem: a leadership class that can no longer distinguish between genuine victims and the violent crime that is driving the city’s decline…

Daily Signal: What California Audits Show as Trump Moves in on Fraud Probe – A recent 544-page report shows that independent auditors flagged 10 different federally funded programs that failed to follow rules for how federal grant money is spent. – The state lacked procedures to ensure that child care providers receiving federal subsidies were meeting basic federal health and safety requirements…

American Spectator: White Girl George Floyd Isn’t Working – It turns out that the Left can’t bring itself to true hard-core violence unless there’s a racial angle, which is a terrible commentary on who they are, but also a hopeful sign, in that some of their most long-time loyal supporters seem to be getting tired of the old tactics…

Zero Hedge: The UK, Germany, and France Now Push A Plan To Appease Trump On Greenland – As rival powers like Russia and China seek to move in, they are discussing plans for a military presence in Greenland to show Trump the continent is serious about Arctic security. – This seems like a fresh NATO joint mission to appease Trump, soften the rhetoric, and take away one of his main geostrategic justifications for a Greenland takeover…

Townhall: With Iran on Fire, Trump Says They’re Looking Into ‘Very Strong Options’ on What to Do Next – Yet, it hasn’t been without a cost: hundreds of protesters have been killed. – With no Internet, it’s hard to verify these figures, but hospitals in major cities have been inundated with gunshot victims, and there are reports of wholesale slaughter by government forces…

Economic Collapse Report: Trump Already Receiving Briefings on Military Strike Options for Iran as Protest Deaths Soar – The NY Times and others confirm that President Trump has been briefed on military strike options. – Starlink terminals were smuggled into the country during earlier protests, enabling limited information and videos to emerge even amid several consecutive days of internet shutdown by the government…

American Thinker: Dictators are Bad, That Is, Unless Trump Stops Them – The double standards are through the roof, and the pattern is the same: demand radical action when it’s theoretical, denounce it when it happens under Trump. – Now enter Nicolás Maduro. – No, it’s not another endless war, but rather just a high-profile arrest of a previously indicted criminal couple…

Zero Hedge: Venezuela is not poor due to sanctions. – It is poor because the Chavez-Maduro regime stole hundreds of billions of dollars and demolished the productive fabric of its economy. – Venezuela had 12,700 private companies when Chávez came to power. About 3,800 manufacturing industries are still operating, of which around 3,200 are privately owned, and 600 are state‑owned…

American Thinker: Trump Wisely Chooses Limited Goals Over Maria Corina Machado’s Ambitions – Trump’s right that she’s a nice and courageous lady, but he’s also correct that, without a strong base in the Venezuelan government, she would be a millstone around America’s neck. – Instead, Trump framed the U.S. approach around stability, continuity, and institutional control…

Washington Examiner: Trump says he is likely to bar Exxon from Venezuela oil investment because ‘They’re playing too cute’ – Trump says the companies will deal directly with his administration, not the interim Venezuelan government. – Trump says he is working well with acting President Delcy Rodriguez and that the promised 50 million barrels of oil are currently “on their way” to the U.S.

Breitbart: Venezuela Stalls on Freeing Political Prisoners, a Key Promise to Trump – Venezuela’s socialist regime released at least 24 political prisoners Monday morning, the non-government organization Foro Penal announced. – However, this represents a fraction of the over 800 confirmed political prisoners that the Venezuelan regime maintained as of the end of 2025…

Zero Hedge: Small Modular Reactor Developers Push New Partnerships And Uses – Hot on the heels of the biggest nuclear energy deal by a tech company to date, which saw Meta validate Oklo’s “proof of concept,” committing to purchase 1.2 GW of new energy peer Small Module Reactor developers, Nano Nuclear and NuScale Power, released their own updates on partnerships and potential use cases…

Geller Report: IRON BEAM GOES LIVE – Iron Beam is operational throughout the country. – The laser-based system revolutionizes the ability to intercept incoming aerial threats, from missiles, rockets, drones, and mortars, hitting them at the speed of light, and for only a few dollars per intercept, as opposed to the $50,000-$100,000 that each interception by Iron Dome costs…

Slay News: Ilhan Omar Has Been Named The ‘Top’ Suspect In The Somali Fraud Investigations. – Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, “There have been countless reports that her husband has profited in some way, and she, in some way. – ”Minnesota has become a focal point for some of the largest pandemic-era fraud cases in U.S. history. – Investigators have found that most of the stolen money was diverted to fund the lavish lifestyles of the fraudsters who embezzled it…

Zero Hedge: Permission Granted To Kill Yourself – Leftism has hijacked the minds of progressive females, when it comes to ICE – This is largely female hysteria, like other departures from social sanity, such as the outbreak of witchery in the Massachusetts Colony, 1692, the Dancing Plague of Strasbourg, 1518, and the lunacy of …

The Federalist: Corporate Media’s 7 Most Brazenly Fake Claims About The Anti-ICE Car-Ramming – 1. Good Was Just Driving ‘Past’ Agents – 2. The Agent Was ‘Knocked Backward But Not Hit’ – 3. Good’s Car Was in Reverse – 4. Good Just Happened to Be There After School Drop-Off – 5. Good Simply ‘Panicked’ – 6. The Agent Shot Through the Driver’s Side Window – 7. Good Was ‘Unarmed’…

Western Journal: Celebrities Wear Anti-ICE, “ICE Out” and “Be Good,” Pins at Golden Globes in Tribute to Renee Good – This was done, while totally ignoring that far-left CNN even aired footage on Friday that appeared to strengthen the case that the officer acted in self-defense when he shot Good…

American Thinker: Two Tons Versus Two Hundred Pounds – Renee and Rebecca Good did everything they could to incite a confrontation. – Officer Ross commanded Good to “get out of the car,” a lawful command that Good was obligated to obey. – After slamming two officers with the side of her car, Good’s lesbian partner, Rebecca, yelled, “Drive, Baby, drive, drive!…

Jonathan Turley: Democrats Have Gone Full Spartacus With Their Chest-Thumping Press Conferences to Fuel Anti-ICE Rage – “Say her name.” From Portland to Philadelphia, the mantra is being used by politicians to fuel the anger over the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. – These leaders are openly playing to the mob. – These are the same type of figures who have trafficked in rage for centuries…

Fox News: President Trump believes the woman fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis last week may have been a professional agitator. – He indicated that the government will uncover the funding sources behind such anti-law enforcement agitation, adding that he would “like to find out, and we are gonna find out, who’s paying for it, with their brand-new signs, and all the different things.”…

Independent Sentinel: Police Detain And Protect Independent Journalist Nick Sortor After He Fled An Attacking Mob in Minnesota – THIS is one of the weapons of choice leftist rioters tried to kill Cam Higby and me with tonight. – Frozen rock-solid water bottles, which are classic Antifa. – So SOMEBODY froze them beforehand for rioters to use as weapons. – If They Tell You They’ll Kill You, Believe Them…

Cumulus Podcast Network: DAN BONGINO RETURNS TO THE CUMULUS PODCAST NETWORK – The Two-Hour Daily Program Drops February 2, 2026, at 10:00 am ET. 

C3: More NGOs Than You Can Imagine – California NGOs: 213,720 at $593.4 billion/year – New York NGOs: 132,097 at $445.8 billion/year. – Minnesota NGOs: 41,267 at $124.2 billion/year – New Jersey NGOs: 56,332 at $113 billion/year – Washington NGOs: 44,332 at $139.5 billion/year – And this is just 5 states. – Imagine the fraud if you dig into these and other states…

Slay News: ICE Has Released A ‘Disturbing List’ of Illegal Aliens After 1500 Arrests in Minnesota – “It includes numerous convicted child rapists and sodomizers, as well as ten convicted killers, most of whom had final deportation orders going back many years. – “Several are from Laos, Somalia, and Sudan.”…

New York Post: DNC Chairman Ken Martin likened the mass protests in Iran to the US demonstrations over the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent Sunday, accusing both governments of “terrorizing communities.” – Martin claimed that both countries are “killing protesters” and declared that “Minneapolis won’t be silent.”…

American Thinker: The Democrats’ Insurrection Gains Steam – The ability of the Democrat Machine to rewrite its code at a moment’s notice is terrifying. – What it supported yesterday, it will denounce tomorrow when politically expedient. – Right now, we’re seeing a perfect example in the way prominent Democrats are reacting to federal agents enforcing immigration law…

American Conservative: Trump Reviving ‘Spheres of Influence’ Is Appropriate – For decades, American foreign policy has been imprisoned by the illusion that the post-Cold War “unipolar moment” would last forever, that Washington could reshape the world in its image through democracy promotion, humanitarian interventions, and ever-expanding security commitments…

Just The News: An FBI supervisor who openly opposed Donald Trump on social media played a crucial role in igniting the controversial Arctic Frost probe. – Special Agent Timothy Thibault circulated by email clippings from such anti-Trump outlets as Just Security, NPR, and The Washington Post, pushing for a criminal probe of Trump related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot…

American Thinker: A Tale of Two Parties – Donald Trump was an American reaction to the Republican Party’s craven weakness and the Democrat Party’s Marxist corruption. – Previously, the Republican approach meant that there was effectively only one real political party in America, namely, the Democrat Party, echoed by a purely reactive Republican Party. – Many believe Barack Obama’s election sealed the Democrats’ fate as it dramatically veered to the far left…

Newsmax: The Trump Administration Revoked 100K Visas in A Record Year – State Department Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott, “That figure “includes revoked visas from thousands of foreign nationals charged or convicted with crimes — including assault, theft, and driving under the influence.” – Most were visitors who overstayed on business or tourist visas…

Roll Call: The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on a pair of State transgender athlete bans – The justices will weigh whether the state bans violate Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which states no one should be discriminated against in education programs “based on sex,” as well as whether the bans violate the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment…

California Globe: Voter Fraud Alarm – 449,000 Non-Citizens Were Reportedly Excused from Jury Duty in California. – This Raises Red Flags On Our Voter Rolls. – In a state already notorious for its lax election laws, without mandatory proof of citizenship and Voter ID, California’s voter registration and election system invites abuse…

California Globe: Bye Bye Billionaires, Gavin Newsom’s California Exodus – The total wealth that has left California is now $1Trillion. We had $2Trillion of billionaire wealth mere weeks ago. – Billionaires are leaving the state in record numbers because Governor Newsom is pushing a retroactive billionaire tax targeting the roughly 220 billionaires residing in California in 2025…

California Globe: Do Americans Possess the Fundamental Right to Refuse Unwanted Medical Treatment, Even During a Public Health Crisis? – This lawsuit urges the US Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit ruling that allows virtually limitless state power under the guise of public health…

Slay News: This ‘Professional Protester’ Was Found at ‘Almost 100 Different Protests’ – Independent journalist Nate Friedman asked how much she is paid to wear a protest vest and Karin Schall responded, “Absolutely nothing.” – Friedman’s video shows images and clips with Schall at demonstrations on issues including TikTok restrictions, gun control, abortion, and other political causes…

Resist The Mainstream: Chinese government crackdowns on fentanyl production appear to have contributed to a significant decline in overdose deaths across North America. – New research, published in the journal Science, shows a 34% decrease in overdose deaths from peak levels, representing one of the most substantial reductions in recent history…

Slay News: The UK Government Begins Teaching Kids As Young As Eleven To Associate Conservative Views with Terrorism – “Pathways,” a video game aimed at teenagers that frames mainstream conservative views as warning signs of “far-right extremism is funded through the UK Home Office under its controversial Prevent counter-terrorism scheme.

January 11, 2026

Trending Politics: President Trump issued a direct ultimatum to the Cuban government, warning that the island nation would no longer receive oil or financial support from Venezuela. – Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. – In return, Cuba provided ‘Security Services’ for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE!

American Spectator: After America’s Illegal Immigrant Surge – 11 million in, and 2.5 million out, leaves us with many unknown risks. – What unites the alarming numbers from the above countries is not suspicion about migrants themselves, but the uncertainty. – In many cases, we have no clue who they truly are beyond what they claimed at entry, why they came when they did, or who they may now be affiliated with…

Washington Examiner: Roughly 2,000 ICE officers arrived in Minneapolis last week. – That was on top of ICE officers who had already been in the city for a month before. – Noem says hundreds more will be deployed to protect the officers already there and ensure immigration operations continue unimpeded…

American Spectator: The Media Are Agents of Propaganda – Years of anti-ICE propaganda helped lead to the deadly confrontation in Minneapolis. – It’s impossible to be “well informed” if you are among the millions of people who rely on the biased corporate media for news. – This was just the latest example of a rapidly increasing number of vehicular attacks on ICE officers…

Daily Caller: Jerome Powell Claims The DOJ’s DOJ Probe Is Retaliation For Higher Than Needed Interest Rates – Representative Anna Paulina Luna referred Powell to the DOJ in July, alleging he lied to the Senate Banking Committee about renovations to the Federal Reserve’s Washington headquarters in June. – Powell confirmed the probe in a blistering video statement released Sunday night.

Red State: Kristi Noem Just Quietly Put a Boot on the Necks of Democrats Who Want to Cause Chaos at ICE Facilities – Noem quietly updated DHS’s policy, which will now require Members of Congress to submit visit requests at least one week before the intended visit date. – This comes after a December decision by a Joe Biden appointee that blocked a previous DHS directive…

American Thinker: Did Marjorie Taylor Greene inform Code Pink about Trump’s visit to “Joe’s, Greene” so they could disrupt his dinner? – She and Code Pink deny she did, but the White House has these reasons to think otherwise. – Her repeated suggestion of where Trump should dine. – Greene, a regular there, didn’t show up when Trump and other officials dined. – Then there is her bitterness toward Trump and her cozy relationship with Code Pink…

Just The News: The VA goes from Biden’s backlog to a Trump turbo turnaround with claims cleared, and clinics opened. – The VA has notoriously been a subject of ridicule for years among veteran and non-veteran communities alike. – The backlog of vets waiting for VA benefits decreased 49% to 57% following the 24% increase during the Biden Administration.

Geller Report: KILL ORDER GIVEN: The Regime Orders EXECUTION of Arrested Protesters as Thousands Are Rounded Up – Mohammad Movahedi Azad, Attorney General of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has pronounced that arrested protesters will now be executed. This announcement came after a scheduled televised address by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was cancelled.

Breitbart: President Trump Steps Up Support for Iranian Protesters in Flurry of Posts, The ‘USA Stands Ready to Help’ – Trump posted repeatedly on Truth Social throughout the day, including a post this evening highlighting demonstrators in London who scaled Iran’s embassy, tore down the Islamic Republic’s flag, and hoisted the country’s pre-1979 symbol instead…

Washington Examiner: Iran says US and Israel ‘legitimate targets’ if Trump orders strikes over protests – “Both the occupied territory and all American military centers, bases, and ships in the region will be our legitimate targets.” – “We do not consider ourselves limited to reacting after the action and will act based on any objective signs of a threat.”…

Gatestone Institute: The Secret Hamas-NGO Relationship – The evidence confirms that NGOs in Gaza do not operate independently or neutrally,” NGO Monitor found. “Rather, they are embedded in an institutionalized framework of coercion, intimidation, and surveillance that serves Hamas’ terror objectives. – On an everyday basis, NGOs need permission from Hamas to do their work in Gaza…

Resist The Mainstream: President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered elite U.S. military commanders to begin drawing up plans for a possible invasion of Greenland. – The push is being driven by hardline advisers inside the White House who believe the U.S. must act quickly to prevent Russia or China from gaining influence over the strategically critical island…

American Thinker: Criminal charges for the ICE officer? – Now wait a second. – The In re Neagle case was ruled on by the U.S. Supreme Court way back in 1890, establishing a precedent holding law enforcement harmless for such acts to this day. – The only way the ICE agent could be held criminally liable would be if he had “malice aforethought” — meaning that he had planned to kill Renee Good all along…

Zero Hedge: Treasury’s Plan To Take Down Somali Fraud Rings – Using the state’s Bank Secrecy Act, Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a Geographic Targeting Order which will require banks and money transmitters located in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties, and include the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, to report on funds transferred outside of the US…

Conservative Playbook: Massive protests against ICE unfolded in cities from coast to coast this weekend. – Tens of thousands were in the streets. – Organized by the ICE Out for Good coalition, led by the Marxist group Indivisible. – More than 1,000 events popped up nationwide, with crowds gathering outside government buildings, detention centers, and city halls.

Zero Hedge: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent A Signals Crackdown On Dark-Money NGO Protests ‘Just Like We Did With The Mafia’ – These constant protests, and even riots, link back to left-wing billionaires and NGO networks in the US, Europe, the Americas, and even China, all seemingly working in unison and hellbent on fomenting chaos on city streets to kill Trump’s agenda…

The Federalist: Democrats Want Anti-ICE Protesters To Die So They Can Protect Their Fraudulent Patronage With Riots – Democrats created the conditions that led to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, and they are now doing their best to capitalize on the chaos. – Rather than try to de-escalate the situation or provide support for federal law enforcement, Minnesota Democrats moved swiftly to hamstring ICE operations further.

Townhall: Watch As A Leftist Protester Starts To Accost a CNN Reporter in Minneapolis – With the media now descending into the city as leftists take to the streets, committing acts of vandalism and generating mayhem, look at what happens when one confronts a reporter. – All she had to do was share that she works for CNN, and that was the end of it.

Slay News: Conservative journalist Frank Scales was hospitalized Saturday after being sprayed with an unknown substance. – Scales, known for conducting man-on-the-street interviews, had been covering demonstrations near Center City Philadelphia on Friday night. – During the protests, he was repeatedly threatened by leftists as he attempted to ask questions…

American Thinker: Leftist women will get, if possible, crazier, and I love Dr. Naomi Wolf’s theory about why – “The smiles you see on their faces now say it all: white women long for all out combat with ICE, who tend to be strong, physically confident, masculine men, because the conflict is a form of physical release for them.” – “They long for actual kinetic battle, and it will get even uglier.”…

American Thinker: Local and state officials are complicit in the attacks against ICE. – Life has become increasingly difficult for ICE officers all over the country. – Especially disturbing are the increasingly virulent attacks from sanctuary city officials. – They apparently see ICE’s presence as an affront to their authority and an invasion of their communities…

FAR: The Lying Leftist Media – The media has lied about nearly every major cultural flashpoint in recent memory, from the “Hands up, don’t shoot” narrative in Ferguson, to the Russia Hoax, to the “very fine people” lie in Charlottesville, to Hunter Biden’s laptop…

Zero Hedge: After nearly three decades of working together, Amazon is ending its delivery relationship with the USPS. – The decision comes as the Postal Service continues to struggle financially, including a reported $9.5 billion loss in its most recent fiscal year. – As many as100,000 jobs are connected directly or indirectly to Amazon’s shipping volume…

January 10, 2026

Townhall: Less than two months ago, we learned that Somali fraudsters in Minnesota were sending money to the Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab. – That’s bad enough, but it turns out that the money sent to Al-Shabaab didn’t stop in Somalia. – Rep. Tim Burchett confirmed that the funds sent to Somalia ended up in Iran…

Daily Wire: LIVE UPDATES: President Trump Mulls A Strike On Iran As Reports Put Regime Crackdown Death Toll Near 2,000 – President Trump was briefed on new options for a military strike on Iran amid the ongoing protests. – Multiple sources now say many have been killed, with estimates ranging from 50 to 2,000. – Options presented to Trump include strikes on non-military sites in Tehran.

One America News: The U.S. government issues a warning to Americans in Venezuela to ‘Depart immediately.’ – “There are reports of groups of armed militias, known as ‘colectivos,’ setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for evidence of U.S. citizenship or support for the United States,” the embassy stated. “U.S. citizens in Venezuela should remain vigilant and exercise caution when traveling by road.”

American Wire: A Trump spokesperson shares a ‘chilling’ must-read account of the US strike from a Maduro-loyalist security guard. – “After what I just described, I’m sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States.” – “They have no idea what they’re capable of.” – “After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again.” – “They’re not to be messed with.”…

Daily Caller: Trump Admin Strikes ISIS Targets In Syria Again – “The strikes today targeted ISIS throughout Syria as part of our ongoing commitment to root out Islamic terrorism against our warfighters, prevent future attacks, and protect American and partner forces in the region…

Daily Caller: The ICE Agent At Center Of Minneapolis Shooting Reportedly In Hiding – Federal agents swarmed the home of the ICE officer who fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis this week, removing belongings as the house now sits empty and the agent’s family has reportedly gone into hiding…

American Spectator: America’s Urban Guerrillas – Today’s street unrest follows a half-century-old revolutionary script. – Carlos Marighella was a member of Brazil’s Communist Party for forty years and authored a small book titled the Mini-Manual, which became the “strategic blueprint” for terrorist groups throughout the world to engage in urban guerrilla warfare…

Patriot TV: These Are Who the Protesters Want To Protect – DHS Dropped This List of the “Worst of the Worst” Captured in Minnesota – DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin laid it out plain: “In the face of violent attacks, ICE law enforcement arrested pedophiles, rapists, and drug traffickers in Minneapolis yesterday.”…

One America News: Jeffries, Newsom, and other Democrats call for Kristi Noem’s impeachment over the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis – Noem and other Trump administration officials have maintained that Agent Jonathan Ross, who fired at Good, acted in self-defense…

Western Journal: Amid a stifling business and tax environment as well as elevated crime rates, which many believe will worsen under NYC Mayor Mamdani, some businesses have looked to expand beyond the Big Apple. – David Sacks, AI and cryptocurrency czar for the Trump administration, predicts Miami will replace New York City as the nation’s financial capital…

One America News: FBI veteran Christopher Raia has been named as its co-deputy director after Dan Bongino’s departure. – Director Kash Patel chose Raia, 49, who currently runs the New York City Field Office. – He will be moving to Washington, D.C., to begin his job on Monday, serving as co-deputy director alongside Andrew Bailey.

FAR: The Real Reason Trump Moved On Venezuela – Of late, there have been extensive articles written on why President Trump captured Maduro and is working to revitalize the country, such as the selected links below, taken from my Conservative Article Reference List. – But all in all, this short video does the best job of explaining the real reason Trump acted decisively to take control…

Resist The Mainstream: The FBI issued a flash cybersecurity alert warning U.S. organizations about ongoing cyberattacks linked to North Korea that use malicious QR codes to steal credentials and bypass security systems. – The alert contains what the FBI described as actionable intelligence and urges potentially targeted organizations to immediately review and apply recommended mitigation measures.

American Thinker: Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be gone by Monday? – While the leftists have been mentally masturbating over Maduro and Renee Good, the real news is the growing anti-Islamist revolution in Iran. – It appears the mullahs are fleeing, almost certainly because of their fear that Trump will make good on his threat now that people have been killed…

American Conservative: María Corina Machado’s Failed Venezuelan Gambit – Praise is not power, and symbolism is not governance. – Whatever rhetorical sympathy the Trump administration expressed toward the Venezuelan opposition, it never embraced the premise that Machado and her circle could actually run the country.

Zero Hedge: The US Trade Deficit Collapses In October, With Structural Shifts In Global Trade Revealed – Reducing the massive trade deficit has been a primary goal of the US government’s economic agenda under President Donald Trump. – This deficit is almost a mirror of the industrial weakness of the US economy in international comparison…

Breitbart: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that cash payments will be waiting for whistleblowers who provide information related to Minnesota’s unfolding fraud scandal. – This comes as the Trump administration pursues wide-scale fraud investigations in Minnesota due to persistent allegations involving money-laundering schemes, pirating of federal human services funds, and other misuse of taxpayer money…

American Thinker: In Minnesota, why have Tim Walz and Jacob Frey not been arrested? – Neither of them has responded with an ounce of grace or class. Both have reacted with anger and denials. – Both Walz and Frey have obviously been complicit in these multi-billion-dollar schemes to defraud American taxpayers and have most likely benefited financially…

Breitbart: CNN’s Moore: I Now Think Minneapolis ICE Shooting ‘Likely a Legally Justified Shooting’ – While he wasn’t ready to say whether or not the shooting was a justified shooting before the most recent video, he now believes “a reasonable investigation will find that the officer was within the deadly force policy.”

American Thinker: The Minneapolis Shooting Facts – The Minneapolis ICE shooting story has been evolving the way these stories always do – but not in the direction that the Left would prefer. – It’s clear that the Left wanted another George Floyd martyrdom. – But now is not then, and unfortunately for the Left, this narrative has steadily fallen apart as the week has progressed…

American Thinker: And then they go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like ‘ICE killed her.’ – The lesson here is, you can’t expect to walk away after accelerating an SUV into an armed law enforcement officer. – As Law Professor Turley wrote, the Democrats have a little explaining to do. – Under governing case law, an officer may use lethal force when facing an imminent threat to his life…

Townhall: OOPS, Leftists Staged A Massive Anti-ICE Protest Outside of the Wrong Hotel – Protesters played loud music, screamed, and blocked the road outside of a hotel that they believed federal law enforcement were staying in. – The only problem? The protesters were at the wrong hotel…

Daily Wire: ‘You Better F*cking Run!’ – The Police Chief Was Chased By Anti-ICE Protesters In Minneapolis – Chief Brian O’Hara was just chased down and attacked by anti-ICE rioters while escorting a squad car out of the protest area. – Anti-ICE demonstrations are expected across the nation this weekend…

American Wire: The Portland police chief cried after conceding the ‘married couple’ shot by DHS were illegal TdA gang bangers. – Instead of focusing on the fact that the two shot by immigration officials while trying to run them over on Thursday were bad people, Day delivered an impassioned, leftist screed about “victim blaming.”

Epoch Times: ExxonMobil Considers A Venezuela Return as Chevron Plans Immediate Production Increase – “We’ve had our assets seized there twice. And so, you can imagine to reenter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen here and what is currently the state,” CEO Darren Woods said.

Powerline: Minneapolis Uncovered – The riot brigades cruising the Twin Cities appear to be an organized effort by the ICE resistance. – The coverage available on X far exceeds anything I can find in the mainstream media and the limited information available on the Star Tribune site.

Geller Report: Arun Subramanian, who was nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden, has ordered that taxpayer money continue flowing to refugee child care and social-service programs, blocking the Trump administration from cutting the funds to five states.- Soros-backed New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading the lawsuit…

American Thinker: The New Geopolitical Chessboard Is Energy and Freedom – The question of who should dominate global energy is a matter of global consequence. – As AI becomes the engine of global transformation, the world is entering a new phase where energy, abundant, reliable, scalable energy, determines not only economic strength but the very conditions under which nations and their citizens will live.

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Adios Maduro Edition – Delta Force pulled off one of modern history’s most impressive operations. – Socialist Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as Mayor of New York and delivered an inauguration speech that included a phrase that will inspire meme-makers for years to come…

January 9, 2026

Newsmax: President Trump Hails A 5.4 Percent GDP Growth – “Nobody thought that,” Trump said. “They thought it would be 2%.” – But the government is once again set to shut down if Congress does not pass funding legislation by Friday, Jan. 30. – “We’ll see what happens.”

Post Millennial: Trump calls for a 1-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10% – Many credit cards have an interest rate of 20% or higher, making it difficult for American borrowers to get ahead of those balances. Just paying the minimum balance on high-interest-rate credit cards means the debt won’t be paid down for decades in some cases. Forbes states that the average credit card interest rate is 25.32%.

Epoch Times: The USDA Suspends Payment to Minnesota’s Food Programs Over Suspected Fraud – Minnesota and Minneapolis must provide documentation detailing expenditures before federal payments will resume. – “Enough is enough!” – “The Trump administration has uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota and Minneapolis, with billions siphoned off by fraudsters. – And those in charge have zero plan to fix it.”

Revolver: New information surrounding the REAL Renee Good changes everything – Renee Nicole Good was not some poetic random bystander. – She was not in the wrong place at the wrong time. – She was a trained, committed anti-ICE activist who belonged to a group dedicated to tracking, disrupting, and interfering with ICE operations. She hated ICE, and she followed them. – And on that day, she used her car as a weapon.

American Spectator: Gavin Newsom Is The ‘King of Fraud’ – California is filled with fraud, and his “record of achievement” is likewise a total fraud. – By just one metric, if U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli’s claim holds: the funds stolen via California’s Employment Development Department during COVID. – The state has acknowledged $20 billion in fraud, but many have argued the real number is much higher…

Post Millennial: A Wisconsin teenager pleaded guilty to killing his parents in a scheme to steal their money and fund an assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. – The killings took place in early 2025. – Nikita Casap, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide on Thursday in Waukesha County Circuit Court…

Issues & Insights: The Next GDP Report Could Be Very Bad News For Democrats – “The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2025 is 5.4% on January 8, up from 2.7% on January 5,” it says. – The Atlanta Fed attributes the jump to recent data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the Census Bureau, and the Institute for Supply Management.

Slay News: Globalist leaders across Europe are openly panicking as President Trump continues to dismantle the so-called “rules-based international order” that Western elites spent decades constructing. – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier lashed out this week, taking direct aim at Trump’s America-first approach to global diplomacy.

Trending Politics: Trump Turns The Tables On Fani Willis – Trump’s attorney, Steve Sadow, filed a three-page motion Wednesday seeking $6.3 million in attorney fees and litigation expenses, backed by roughly 200 pages of billing records. – The filing cites a Georgia statute that says defendants “shall” be reimbursed when a prosecutor is removed for misconduct and the case is dismissed.

Zero Hedge: Russia Thanks Trump For Releasing Two Russian Crew From Seized Tanker – Even though the Ukraine war is on a trajectory of escalation, which has included Russia launching a hypersonic ballistic missile overnight on the western city of Lviv, the United States and Moscow are still finding small areas of understanding and cooperation…

Zero Hedge: The Price Of Trump’s “Greenland New Deal” Could Be $100,000 Per Person, Or More – Rabobank, “With a population of only around 50,000, one might imagine a thought experiment where, for the low, low price of $50 billion, Trump offers every Greenlander $1 million in exchange for their country. That might prove more attractive.”

Washington Examiner: Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to visit White House – The president’s meeting confirmation comes days after Machado told Hannity she hadn’t spoken with Trump since she won the Nobel Peace Prize in October, which she dedicated to Trump for the peace deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Daily Caller: American Leftist Groups Collaborated With Maduro For Over A Decade – The Venezuelan regime won influence with activists long ago, in part through a 2006 speech by former President Hugo Chavez that called for Americans to form an organized front against their own country’s interests. – Maduro and his socialist regime coordinated with leftist movements such as BLM And DSA before he was captured…

Washington Examiner: The US seized another oil tanker for transporting Russian oil – The U.S. Coast Guard boarded the Olina tanker, the fifth vessel to be seized in recent days. The operation, part of Joint Task Force Southern Spear, was conducted early Friday in the Caribbean Sea, near Trinidad and Tobago.

Breitbart: President Donald Trump is hosting 17 oil companies at the White House on Friday to discuss investment opportunities to help restore the oil infrastructure in Venezuela. – The companies include Chevron, Exxon, Conoco Phillips, Continental, Halliburton, HKN, Valero, Marathon, Shell, Trafigura, Vitol Americas, Repsol, Eni, Aspect Holdings, Tallgrass, Raisa Energy, and Hilcorp.

Epoch Times: President Trump Says The US Will Begin Land Strikes on Cartels in Mexico – “The cartels are running Mexico,” Trump said. “It’s very sad to watch and see what’s happened to that country.” – “We knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water, and we are going to start now hitting land concerning the cartels.”

Geller Report: Iranian protesters are burning the tomb of Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic revolution in Iran in ’79. – The New York Times actively promoted Ayatollah Khomeini and begged the world to “trust him” in 1979, as shown in the article below. – Shockingly, the NYT, WSJ, and WaPo do not have headline coverage of these protests in Iran.

Breitbart: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a former Portuguese Socialist Party leader and prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002, said he regretted President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the U.N.-related agencies, but no avenue exists for it to stop paying its dues. – This came after the White House announced it is withdrawing billions in financial support from 66 organizations affiliated with the globalist entity.

Just The Facts: The National Guard on January 6th – Nancy Pelosi claims she begged” President Trump to send in the National Guard on J6, but they were never sent. – IN FACT, both Trump and his subordinates requested the presence of the National Guard on J6, but Pelosi and McConnell’s subordinates denied that request. Pelosi’s underling also delayed the arrival of the Guard by more than an hour on the day of the riot. – Here are the receipts…:

American Thinker: Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste. – Rahm Emanuel’s strategy has become the Left’s governing philosophy. – Every tragedy must be elevated into a moral emergency. – Every serious incident must be framed as evidence of systemic corruption. – And every emotionally charged moment becomes an opportunity to advance a political narrative, especially in an election year…

Townhall: A New Video Obliterates The Liberal Narratives About The Minneapolis ICE Shooting – Nicole Good seemed happy and calm. She was a professional left-wing activist who trained others to disrupt ICE operations. – A new angle from the ICE person involved shows the woman CLEARLY hitting the agent with her car before he fired at her, as she used her car as a deadly weapon against the agent…

Breitbart: A Leftist Protesting at a Minneapolis ICE Facility Admits It Is Her Job – ‘I’m Getting Paid Right Now!’ – Fox News host Laura Ingram asked a woman wearing a red jacket and face covering if she had a job. – The woman, who kept shouting, “Shame! Shame!” finally answered Ingram’s question by stating, “I’m getting paid right now!”

Washington Examiner: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declared a “Day of Unity” in Minnesota on Friday to remember Renee Good, the woman fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. – His announcement came after authorizing the National Guard to assist law enforcement if needed, as demonstrators took to the streets in the Twin Cities to protest the shooting.

New York Post: Illegal criminals released into US by the Biden administration are ID’d as Portland Tren de Aragua gangbangers shot while trying to mow down the feds – A CBP agent opened fire on Venezuelan gangsters Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras after they “weaponized” their car fleeing a traffic stop Thursday, said a DHS statement…

Breitbart: As rioters have sought to impede ICE operations in Minneapolis, agents continued arresting illegal aliens. – They have horrific criminal records, including child rapists, pedophiles, drunk drivers, drug traffickers, and domestic abusers, among others. – ICE officials provided details regarding several recent arrests of illegal aliens in Minneapolis…

The Federalist: The Trump administration needs to bring anti-ICE obstructionists to justice with the same tenacity and dedication the Biden administration poured into their politically weaponized J6 prosecutions. – “Impeding,” “blocking,” and other forms of obstruction are hardly First Amendment-protected activities…

American Thinker: The Moral Blackmailing of the American People – Once again, the Left threatens riots and violence to get their way. – In 2020, their months-long rioting following the death of Floyd led to upward of $2 billion in insurance claims. – In 2021, they threatened the same rioting unless Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder. – In 2022, it was the leak of the Dobbs v. Jackson opinion…

Epoch Times: President Trump Directs The Purchase of $200 Billion in Mortgage Bonds In An Effort To Bring Down Housing Costs – Federal Housing ​Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte says that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will execute the purchase. – This comes after Trump said he plans to ban large institutional investors from purchasing more single-family homes in an effort to lower housing costs.

Western Journal: Mark Halperin Breaks Down The Minneapolis ICE Shooting Footage That Shows ‘The Car Hits Him’ Before the Shot Was Fired – “So this is after the officers have approached the vehicle, and they’ve asked her to get out of the car, and she backs up, and then she starts going forward…you can see, again, it’s a little bit from a distance, but it’s the clearest angle that shows, without a doubt, that the car hits him.”

American Thinker: Why I’m not concerned an ICE agent shot protester – In another time and another America, I might have felt some sympathy for Renee Nicole Macklin Good, but that was before leftists openly called for our deaths, and before they actually started killing us. – Leftists at the highest level have openly stated that they want members of the Right, including immigration officers, dead, and they have repeatedly taken steps to accomplish this goal…

American Thinker: In Minnesota, We Have The Manufacture of Unwitting Marxist Martyrs – Normals know that you leave the cops alone when they’re making an arrest.- There are some things we can recognize from the Minnesota shooting incident right away, which should enlighten us about a nationwide problem. – The Left is now ordering its members to act up, to push the envelope with ICE and other forms of law enforcement…

American First Report: The goals of communism and socialism are essentially the same. – The core difference is that socialism seeks collectivist control of populations and resources through an incremental and “peaceful” (subversive) takeover of governments. – Communism seeks collectivist control over populations and resources through direct and violent overthrow, but either strategy can bleed into the other…

Breitbart: Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh Tore Down A PragerU Historical Exhibit from State Capitol Walls – After receiving backlash on social media, the Democrat state senator told a local news outlet that she didn’t know what she was doing, insisting that she just saw material on the walls outside her office and tore it down, having no idea what the signage represented…

American Thinker: The EU Arms Its Next CO₂ Weapon – Imports into the EU are now subject to their comprehensive CO2 certification regime. – Importers are now obliged to identify emissions-intensive goods, analyze them in detail, and purchase corresponding certificates for every ton of CO2 emitted during production and transport. – And the consumer usually bears the cost…

Gatestone Institute: The Digital Services Act Is A Mechanism of Mass Censorship – According to critics, the DSA framework effectively forces American platforms to act as “speech police” on behalf of the EU, under the constant threat of severe sanctions. – The only technical alternative for ” X” would be creating an X-USA and an X-EU, which contradicts the very idea of a global network and of the internet itself…

Zero Hedge: GM Cuts Its EV Exposure After Policy Shift, Taking A $6B Charge – Imagine all of the ill-advised investments that took place in autos, on EVs, thanks to the government distorting markets and forcing EV adoption when genuine demand may not have been robust. – Now, we’re seeing the consequences of returning to a freer market.

Daily Caller: Federal prosecutors announced criminal charges against a Chinese illegal immigrant, Qilin Wu, for photographing sensitive military infrastructure near Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. – The investigation began when a suspicious minivan parked near the base’s perimeter was observed near the installation that houses the B-2 Spirit aircraft…

City Journal: The media have been quick to portray efforts to restrict children’s social-media access as the exclusive province of red states and MAGA conservatives. – But late last year, Australia, clearly not a hotbed of social conservatism, passed the most comprehensive youth social media ban to date. – As of December 10, social-media companies were to block any users under 16 from accessing their accounts…

American First Report: Johnson & Johnson has struck a voluntary deal with the Trump administration to lower drug prices for U.S. patients in exchange for tariff relief. – J&J will participate in the TrumpRx.gov platform to allow Americans to purchase its medicines at “significantly discounted rates” and will provide Medicaid program access at prices comparable to those in other developed nations.

Townhall: U.S. Drug Makers Raise Prices – Despite Trump’s efforts to lower costs for Americans, U.S. drug makers are still raising prices on hundreds of brand-name drugs. – They are doing this while seemingly trying to undermine the system that lowers drug costs for consumers.

Washington Examiner: California is eliminating life without parole, even for serial rapists. – The requirements for elder parole state that you can be released, even if your sentence was for life without parole, so long as you have served 20 years of that sentence and are over the age of 50…

January 8, 2026

TWZ: The Days Of Rage and Nights Of Flames Across Iran, A Comprehensive View – Increasingly intense protests have spread across Iran over rising prices, devalued currency, and government crackdowns. – This comes at the same time as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered new plans to attack Iran over concerns about its nuclear weapons ambitions and the rebuilding of the country’s military capabilities.

Breitbart: A crowd of protesters was heard chanting “Kristi Noem will hang” at Foley Square in New York City on Thursday. – Video of the protest and the chants were shared to social media on Thursday, showing people waving anti-ICE signs while calling for violence against federal officials…

Western Journal: Two People Were Shot in Oregon After They Tried to Run Over Border Patrol Agents – Police dispatches said both individuals are still alive. – The shooting comes one day after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed during a similar confrontation in Minneapolis.

Washington Examiner: Iran reportedly cuts internet as anti-government protests swell – This follows almost two weeks of civilians’ mass mobilization against the Islamic Republic and the collapsing economy. – Threats from foreign countries have forced the Iranian government to, at least rhetorically, acknowledge a difference between licit “demonstrators” and illegal “rioters.”

Daily Signal: The House of Representatives passed a three-year extension of COVID-19-era premium tax credits on Thursday, as 17 Republicans defied House leadership to back the Democrat-led measure. – Republicans have consistently criticized the credits as inflationary and prone to fraud, while saying they more closely resemble direct subsidies to health insurance companies.

American Thinker: Why the Isolationist Wing Is Wrong: Trump’s Maduro Takedown Is Pure America First, Not Nation-Building – This isn’t the start of an interventionist, endless war; it is targeted law enforcement. – Venezuela’s oil production has collapsed under Maduro’s regime. – Maduro’s cartel flooded America with cocaine while China and Russia propped him up with billions in loans…

Powerline: Trump’s Economy Is Booming – Today, I attended a lunch sponsored by the Economic Club of Minnesota, at which Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke. – Bessent’s presentation was impressive. – GDP is up, the deficit is down, and inflation is under control. 2026 promises to be a terrific year, driven in part by tax refunds resulting from the Big Beautiful Bill…

One America News: The Minnesota Somali-run daycare center ‘exposed’ by journalist Nick Shirley closes permanently following fraud allegations. – The daycare, which gained notoriety for a notable misspelling on its signage, reportedly corrected the error last month following national ridicule. – To date, officials have not released a formal reason for the facility’s closure.

Gateway Pundit: Ilhan Omar BUSTED Trying to Funnel $1M to a “Substance Abuse Clinic” Operating Out of a Restaurant Run by Three People at the Same Address, but the GOP TORPEDOED the Earmark. – As scrutiny intensified over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s role in directing taxpayer funds to questionable Minnesota entities, attention also focused on her family’s abrupt and dramatic rise in wealth.

American Wire: A Minnesota Representative describes how Democrats retaliate against whistleblowers – “You’re going to lose your job, you’re going to lose your home, we’re going to track your children, we’re going to make sure that you can’t get a job anywhere else in state government and for Minnesota, you can’t get a job anywhere that Democrats control.”…

Western Journal: First Hilton, Then Marriott, And Now McDonald’s – These Companies Are Rushing to Embrace ICE as Conservative Pressure Campaign Crushes Their Woke Workers – The latest incident occurred at a Marriott hotel when an employee doxed ICE agents and was subsequently fired…

American Wire: Leftist extremists set up an autonomous zone near where leftist agitator Renee Good was killed. – It is much like the autonomous zones established during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. – The “guards,” left-wing extremists themselves, are reportedly dressed as officials and barking orders at people.

New York Post: Here’s who’s really behind the Minneapolis ICE resistance movement – Indivisible is an offshoot of the Indivisible Project in Washington, DC, which bills itself as a movement to defeat the “Trump agenda,” and received $7,850,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2018 and 2023, according to public records.

California Globe: Gavin Newsom’s Fairytale State of the State – Actually, he gave a campaign speech, not a State of the State – He hasn’t delivered one in person since 2020, so why now? – To rewrite history as California leads the nation in poverty, gas prices, energy prices, homelessness, housing prices, unemployment, out-migration, failing K-12 students, wildfire damage, and state debt…

Gateway Pundit: TRUMP GETS RESULTS AGAIN – The US Trade Deficit Falls to The Lowest Level in 17 Years – Trump Cut The Deficit in Half! – Rick Santelli: “Buckle up, THIS IS UNREAL… $29.4 billion, we cut it IN HALF!… “In March, it was $136B, but now it’s under $30B. – We haven’t been that small in a long time – I don’t have enough RECORDS to go back that far!”

Center Square: The House clears $180B funding bill to avoid January 30th shutdown – The House passed the bill in a vote of 397-28 on Thursday. – The funding bill outlines appropriations for the Department of Commerce, Department of Justice, Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, and several others through September 30th…

Washington Examiner: Russia Warns It Will Consider Any Foreign Troops In Ukraine ‘Legitimate Targets’ – The warning comes just two days after a high-level meeting in Paris, during which the United Kingdom and France signed a “declaration of intent” to deploy troops to Ukraine if a peace deal is finalized. – The US promised new “security protocols” at the meeting, but did not sign the joint declaration.

New York Post: Trump predicts the US will run Venezuela for at least a year, or much longer. – “We will rebuild it in a very profitable way.” – “We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil.” – “We’re getting oil prices down, and we’re going to be giving money to Venezuela, which they desperately need.” – Trump also did not say when new elections in Venezuela might take place…

American Thinker: Trump Is Not Making Bush’s Mistakes – It is nothing less than amazing as to what President Trump is about to pull off in Latin America. – You would have to go back to 1989 and the Berlin Wall to find a precedent. – His actions contrast with the Bush era. – Trump is essentially doing what the Allies did in WWII, to everyone’s great benefit, make people on the other side work for you…

Epoch Times: The Truth About Venezuela Under Socialism, From Those Who Fled It – ‘I think that no American can imagine the fear that you can feel for just being—standing in a place,’ one Venezuelan in Florida said. – She said she believes that the Venezuelan dictatorship was trying to kill her over her activism. – She is among the millions of Venezuelans who have fled the brutal regime…

Epoch Times: President Trump suffered a rare setback Thursday after the Senate narrowly advanced a bipartisan measure to restrict further military operations against Venezuela without congressional approval. – Senators voted 52–47 in favor of advancing the War Powers Act resolution to a final vote, with five Republicans joining Democrats to support the measure, Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Todd Young, and Josh Hawley…

Daily Caller: President Trump Put A Political Hit On The 5 Republican Senators Who Defied Him On Venezuela – “This Vote greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President’s Authority as Commander in Chief.” – He added that the five dissenting Republicans should be “ashamed” of their votes and “should never be elected to office again.”

Breitbart: President Trump revealed Wednesday evening that he talked with radical Marxist Colombian President Gustavo Petro and invited him to the White House. – Petro, a member of the terrorist guerrilla M-19, is the first leftist president in the history of Colombia. – Trump’s tone and Petro’s changed dramatically on Wednesday, with Trump calling his conversation with Petro a “great honor,” noting that Petro called the White House…

American Thinker: Europe Pretends to Own Greenland – Americans already defend Greenland, so pretending that it somehow belongs to Denmark is petty narcissism. – The truth is that Greenland barely belongs to anybody. – No amount of European huffing and puffing will change Trump’s mind. – Once he decides that something must be done in defense of America’s national security, it gets done in due time…

Liberty Nation News: Vice President JD Vance Announced A New Assistant AG in Charge of Fraud – The new office will lead the federal investigation of the widespread welfare fraud uncovered in Minnesota, Ohio, and California. – Vance called the new office in the DOJ the “critical piece” in the federal government’s investigation of the fraud and the violence.

Breitbart: The Trump administration announced Wednesday it’s taking U.S. taxpayer dollars away from 66 globalist organizations. – Nearly half of them are affiliated with the United Nations, and all of which are identified as “contrary to the interests of the United States.” – Most notable is the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the parent treaty underpinning all major international climate agreements…

Townhall: As expected, NYC’s Mamdani Weighed in on the Minneapolis ICE Shooting – And as expected, he Said Something Totally Reckless – “This morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis, only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty. – As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. – New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.”

Breitbart: Democrats Use The Minneapolis ICE Shooting to Push Their Anti-Trump 2026 Campaign Theme. – Schumer, “We should not have ICE agents patrolling our streets … they create chaos, and they even create deaths.” – Democrats’ 2026 chaos strategy echoes their campaign in 2014 with their “Hands up, don’t shoot” claim that spurred much resulting violence after the August 2014 police shooting of an African-American thief who was assaulting a cop…

Western Journal: The Key Moment In The ICE Shooting Video The Pros Missed That Changes Everything – At the 4–5 second mark, the car is in drive and the woman steps on the gas while the wheels are turned to the LEFT. – Because the ground is frozen, the tires have no traction and spin in place. Had there been no ice, the car very likely would have head-on struck the officer standing in front of the vehicle…

John Daniel Davidson: Top Democrats Are Agitating For Insurrection And Political Vigilantism – They seem to think that laws and policies they don’t like can be thwarted by an angry mob or an insurrectionist governor. – If taken at face value, Walz’s statements amount to a threat of using Minnesota’s National Guard for an anti-federal insurrection, something that has never happened in American history…

Just The News: Kash Patel says FBI is investigating organizers and funders of anti-ICE protests for impeding law enforcement activities and endangering public safety. – The warning comes after a protester tried to run into an ICE agent and was fatally shot.

Western Journal: Minnesota Welfare Administrators Made ‘Systemic Effort’ to Doctor and Even Fake Official Documents to Give out Massive ‘Grants’ – An audit by the Office of the Legislative Auditor, a nonpartisan agency, found that a program run from the state’s Department of Human Services displayed a cavalier attitude toward spending tax dollars that would have made Tammany Hall blush…

American Thinker: Minnesota Fraud and Corruption are Rampant and Systemic – Minnesota, already awash in fraud, embarks on yet another program begging to be taken advantage of. – The Paid Family and Medical Leave Law will allow people to take up to 20 weeks a year off to care for a loved one, and still receive benefits from their employer…

American Thinker: Meet Mayor Mamdani’s hypocritical housing czar – Cea Weaver has been tasked with addressing the “city’s housing crisis.” – However, she is almost assured to fail in that noble endeavor because socialism always fails. – Like her new boss, Weaver is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which seeks to “collectively own the key economic drivers that dominate our lives…

Daily Wire: Kristi Noem Announces Major Takedown Of Dominican Gang Behind Shooting Of A CBP Officer In NYC – ICE officers nabbed 54 members and associates of the Trinitarios Dominican gang who were operating across New York and accused of weapons trafficking, human smuggling, narcotics distribution, and armed robberies. – More than 60% of them have already been deported…

Breitbart: Republicans have been forced to clean up Democrats’ healthcare “mess.” – They will invite health insurance executives later this month to testify on how to lower healthcare costs. – This hearing will be the first in a series to examine the root causes driving higher health care prices and discuss policies that will lower the cost of care for all Americans…

January 7, 2026

Gateway Pundit: Secretary Rubio To Meet Next Week With Furious Denmark Officials After Tensions Over US Interest in Greenland Go Into Overdrive – Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that a US takeover in Greenland would amount to the end of NATO. – Rubio told reporters, “Trump’s not the first US president who has looked at how we could acquire Greenland.” – He wants to buy Greenland…

Western Journal: Secretary of State Marco Rubio told members of Congress Monday that greenbacks, not guns, are central to the Trump administration’s plans to acquire Greenland from Denmark. – Rubio’s statements came in a closed briefing, and also amid statements from President Donald Trump that have not ruled out the use of force, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Fox News: Trump green-lights Russian sanctions bill that paves the way for a 500% tariff on countries supporting Moscow – Senator Graham says the bipartisan bill targets China, India, and Brazil to cut Putin’s war financing. – The Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025 is designed to grant Trump sweeping, almost unprecedented, authority to economically isolate Russia and penalize major global economies that continue to trade with Moscow…

American Thinker: Leftists can’t deal with Venezuelans celebrating freedom from socialistic slavery. – People who have suffered under the ‘warmth of collectivism,’ or what Hugo Chavez called the ‘sea of happiness,’ are getting tired of leftists who tell them they never had it so good under Maduro. – It’s truly incredible sometimes how fate manages to arrange events for maximum effect…

PJ Media: Nick Shirley’s Latest Video Will Blow Your Mind – He’s doubling down with fresh footage that makes his first video look like small beans. – David Hoch, co-founder of Minnesotans for Responsible Government, joined him to reveal an insane truth: this fraud hits hundreds of billions nationwide. – And Minnesota’s slice is at least $80 billion.

Blaze Media: Representative Anna Paulina Luna referred Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison to the DOJ for criminal charges – May justice be swift! – Luna said the action was the result of testimony provided before the Oversight Committee that was evidence of Democratic officials being complicit in fraud schemes in the Somali community.

Gateway Pundit: President Trump Responds to The Fatal ICE-Involved Shooting in Minneapolis – Trump said the driver “violently, willfully, and viciously” ran over the ICE officer, who shot her in self-defense. – “Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but he is now recovering in the hospital…

Trending Politics: House Republicans escalated their long-running effort to investigate Rep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday, moving to subpoena immigration records tied to allegations of marriage fraud that critics say could carry serious legal consequences. – Representative Nancy Mace announced the move…

American Spectator: You’ve Never Heard of the Citgo Six, and We’re Going to Change That Right Now – Just before Thanksgiving 2017, several Citgo executives, an American subsidiary of PDVSA, the Venezuelan state oil company, were called on only 12 hours’ notice to appear at a corporate meeting in Caracas.- Subsequently, they were sentenced in a kangaroo court to prison terms from eight to 13 years…

Daily Signal: Four Takeaways as Congress Investigates Walz and Minnesota Fraud – Congress probed the matter of what Tim Walz knew about the $9 billion fraud scandal in his state at a hearing on Wednesday. – 1. ‘Any Doubt That Tim Walz Knew?’ – 2. ‘A Constant State of Fear of Retaliation’ – 3. Evidence of Terrorism Funding – 4. Trump, George Santos, and Anything but Minnesota…

Epoch Times: Dr. Oz Says The Medicare Agency Will Audit Funds in Minnesota Amid The Fraud Scandal – “What we have learned so far in Minnesota is just the tip of the iceberg—perhaps the largest Medicaid scam ever, taking place throughout the state in many different fashions,” Oz said, adding that $500 million or more in funds is at risk…

Washington Free Beacon: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top housing official, Cea Weaver, said during a 2021 podcast, “Our goal is to have the housing actually be worth less.” – “They need to be rent-controlled, and the reason why they need to be rent-controlled is not that, like, rent control is inherently socialist, but because rent control limits the speculative value of the land.”…

Daily Caller: Republican Representative Pat Harrigan is introducing a bill to codify protections that prevent institutional investors from buying single-family homes. – Harrigan’s bill, titled “The Families First Housing Act of 2026,” follows President Donald Trump calling for Congress to codify protections that stop large institutional investors from buying up single-family homes…

The Daily Signal: The Republican Study Committee has released a comprehensive blueprint outlining how the 189-member conservative caucus plans to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda while balancing the federal budget within 10 years. – The plan includes proposals for codifying Trump’s birthright citizenship order, defunding sanctuary cities, and eliminating wasteful spending on NPR, PBS, and DEI programs.

American Spectator: California’s Latest Consumer Harassment Scheme – SB 1053 “eliminates the exemption of thicker plastic film bags from the state’s single-use bag ban” and “stipulates that only recycled paper bags are permitted to be sold at the point of sale.” – The rationale: “Eliminating plastics is about fighting big oil to save the planet…

California Globe: Governor Newsom Let Palisades Burn – State Senators and Assembly members unanimously passed two bills last January 23, 2025, to provide a total of $3 billion to help Los Angeles begin recovery and cleanup from the devastating wildfires. – But Democrats blocked $1 billion for wildfire prevention. – The cover-up is worse than the crime…

Geller Report: IRAN’S NEW TRUMP STREET – Obama and Biden betrayed the Iranian people. – Donald Trump stood openly and unapologetically with those fighting their Islamic jailers. – Iranians know the difference. As the regime’s buildings burn, police defect, and chants for the Shah echo across Tehran and the provinces, protesters have gone so far as to christen a street “President Trump Street.”

Slay News: A CIA Insider Says Trump ‘Rescued’ Maduro To Blow The Whistle on Cuba and Democrat Deep State Operatives – According to Patrick Byrne, intel experts believe Cuban intelligence may have been holding Maduro hostage. – Operatives say that if he had tried to leave his palace, if he said fine to the U.S. and tried to leave his palace and driven to the airport in Caracas, there’s no way he would have survived…

Slay News: The well-organized protests against the capture of Nicolás Maduro are funded by radical billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. – The Alliance for Global Justice coalition called for coordinated global demonstrations at U.S. embassies, military bases, city halls, and other locations to “defend Venezuelan sovereignty and right to resist.”

Western Journal: The U.S. Seized A Second Venezuela-Linked Oil Tanker Wednesday Morning – The action followed an earlier seizure involving a Russian-flagged tanker that had been pursued for more than two weeks – The vessel was identified as the Panama-flagged supertanker M/T Sophia. – U.S. Southern Command described the ship as a “stateless, sanctioned dark fleet motor tanker.”

Economic Collapse Report: Chevron Has Contracted 11 Tankers for Venezuela Port Calls as The Don-Roe Doctrine Begins – Chevron stands out as the clear winner among U.S. oil majors, given its unique positioning already in Venezuela. The company already produces a quarter of the country’s oil output under a U.S. sanctions waiver…

Zero Hedge: U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Discusses Venezuelan Oil Sales, Failed Green Energy, and Nuclear Power – “Now, instead of the oil being blockaded, we’re going to let the oil flow. – “My biggest concern is the electricity grid.” – “The climate crisis was a delusion.” – We went from producing cheaper and cheaper power to producing increasingly more expensive power. – The nuclear power industry was “destroyed” by climate change policies…

Slay News: A judge has issued a sweeping forfeiture order against the convicted ringleader of a major Minnesota Somali welfare fraud scheme, stripping her of luxury assets, including a luxury Porsche, diamond jewelry, electronics, and more than $3 million seized from multiple bank accounts. – The convicted organizer, Aimee Bock, 44, was described as the “mastermind” behind the operation that stole millions in taxpayer money…

Slay News: Somalia’s UN Ambassador Is Linked to The Taxpayer Fraud Scheme in Ohio – Public records show Osman served as President and CEO of Progressive Health Care Services when the company was formed in 2009. – His LinkedIn profile lists him as Managing Director from 2014 until May 2019.

Washington Examiner: Intelligence, Power, and Moral Clarity Signify Trump’s Venezuela Masterstroke – Despite the precariousness of the situation, the calculation behind the move remains sound. – The strategic benefits outweigh the risks. And the moral basis for intervention is powerful. – First, the moral case, Maduro is a full-fledged monster, even for an authoritarian despot…

Western Journal: DHS Delivers Horrible News to Ilhan Omar – She ‘Absolutely’ Can Be Denaturalized and They’re Investigating Her On A ‘Massive’ Scale – Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that Somali “refugees” involved in the Minnesota fraud networks could be stripped of their U.S. citizenship, in addition to facing criminal penalties.

Townhall: Keith Ellison Calls Massive Fraud ‘Not Serious’ After Audio of Him Helping Fraudsters Resurfaces – In the recording, the would-be fraudsters can be heard asking Ellison to help them secure more funding, before the conversation then turns to campaign donations. – “The only way that we can protect what we have is by inserting ourselves into the political arena..

America First Report: The Trump administration is freezing $10 billion in funds for child care in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York due to fraud concerns. – The funds will remain frozen until HHS completes a review and determines these states are complying with federal requirements.

American Thinker: The isolationist wing is wrong, Trump’s Maduro takedown is pure America First, not nation-building. – Venezuela isn’t a distant quagmire; it’s our hemisphere’s problem child, fueling drugs and chaos at our border, and ignoring it isn’t strategic; it’s negligence. – The benefits speak for themselves: Cheaper crude oil, and geopolitically, it’s a knockout blow….

American Thinker: The Venezuela Effect – Americans not celebrating the capture of Maduro are the kind who vote for the likes of Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, and Zohran Mamdani. – They either identify as communists or proudly associate with communists and are very unhappy that President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth violated what they call the sacred sovereignty of Venezuela.

American Thinker: The Democrat Party Is The World’s Largest Criminal Organization – It is nothing but a glorified gang, given its grotesque record of fraud all over the country. – It could not survive without graft of staggering proportions, with a hefty dose of cheating thrown in. – Today’s Democrats are skilled at using Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another…

American Thinker: Who Really Owns Greenland? – With President Trump’s renewed bid to obtain Greenland from Denmark, here’s the great Greenlandic title search. – …In 2009, Greenland took a big step when it adopted “self-government.” – As a result, it gained the legal right to independence from Denmark, should it choose to exercise it. – The big question is, What’s Next?

Townhall: Marco Rubio Has Informed Congress That President Trump Wants to Buy Greenland, Not Invade It – Rubio did not go into detail on what he meant by buying Greenland. Mr. – But one should consider the fact that Trump spent decades in New York as a real estate developer, and one of his top diplomatic envoys, Steve Witkoff, comes from the same background…

American Wire: Leftists lose it over a new White House website that shreds the Democrats’ January 6th Myth – The website outlines inconvenient facts such as the Democrats’ culpability in the security failures that precipitated the one-day riot. – It also pays tribute to the peaceful protesters who were unfairly prosecuted and treated like insurrectionists despite proof that they didn’t even participate in the actual riot…

Daily Wire: ICE Enters 2026 With A 120% Increase In Manpower, And Arrests More ‘Worst Of The Worst’ Illegal Immigrants – The latest batch of illegal aliens arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement includes a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child and another convicted of human trafficking, along with these lawbreakers…

Just The News: An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman who allegedly attempted to run over law enforcement with her vehicle amid immigration enforcement conducting a crackdown in Minneapolis. – DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said that the woman was shot in her vehicle in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis…

Patriot TV: A Hampton Inn in Lakeville, Minnesota, was stripped of federal lodging privileges this week after management outright refused to house ICE agents. – The General Services Administration (GSA) acted swiftly, yanking the hotel from its approved list for government employees and military personnel.

Newsmax: President Trump said he is moving to block large institutional investors from buying single-family homes. – He is arguing that corporate ownership is pricing Americans out of the housing market. – “It is for that reason, and much more, that I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it.”

Epoch Times: The Trump Administration Releases New Dietary Guidelines – The 10-page guidelines emphasize protein, dairy, “healthy fats,” fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who formed the new guidelines, told a press conference in Washington that their message was simple: eat real food…

January 6, 2026

American Mind: The “Donroe Doctrine” In Action – In snatching Maduro, President Trump pulled the linchpin holding China’s global strategy together. – In capturing Maduro, Trump has removed a key pillar that, if played wisely, could compromise the web of entangling alliances of many of our most dangerous adversaries. – This trifecta of victories is merely a prelude to greater potential wins ahead.

One America News: Venezuela Will Turn Over 30-50 Million Barrels of Oil Over To The U.S. – “This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!”- “I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan immediately.”

Washington Free Beacon: ‘There Is No Rift in the Republican Party’ – GOP Voters Back Trump’s Venezuela Operation – Less than 10% of Republicans oppose the ousting of Maduro, according to a Washington Post survey. – Trump’s approval rating also remains strong among Republicans, increasing 1 percentage point, up to 85%, compared with six months ago, according to Reuters/Ipsos…

Washington Examiner: Free speech does not exist in Europe, including in France, because free speech does not truly exist outside of the United States. – France makes “contempt of public officials” illegal, described as anything that may “affect the personal dignity or the respect owed to a public official.”

Cal Matters: A year after the deadly Los Angeles County fires, California’s property insurance market remains problematic – Survivors are suing insurers over delayed or denied claims, and most policyholders are likely to see their premiums rise.- A survey found that 40% insurance policy holders have experienced insurability issues, such as huge premium increases and dropped coverage…

Western Journal: Republican Congressman Doug LaMalfa Dies Suddenly at Age 65 – House Republicans, “Please join us in praying for Congressman LaMalfa’s wife, kids, and staff.” – Republicans close to LaMalfa were unaware of any health issues. – His death further tightens the Republican majority in the House. – Republicans now hold a 218-213 advantage…

Breitbart: President Trump Remembers Late Congressman Doug LaMalfa –  “He was the leader of the Western Caucus, a fierce champion on California water issues. He was great on water… ‘Release the water!’ he’d scream out,” he added. “And a true defender of American children; he was a defender of everybody, and our hearts go out to his wife, Jill, and his entire family.”

Center Square: During a nearly 90-minute speech held at the Trump-Kennedy Center, President Trump laid out his “roadmap to victory for the House GOP. – He spotlighted election reform, his administration’s success on the border, health care, and energy among issues for the Republicans to run on as they begin to hit the campaign trail ahead of this year’s midterm elections, when each House seat is on the ballot.

Slay News: Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Anti-Regime Protesters, Ignoring Trump’s Warning – Anti-government demonstrations have now spread into at least 250 locations across 27 of Iran’s 31 provinces – 29 protesters, four children, and two members of Iran’s security forces are reported dead. – More than 1,200 people have reportedly been detained across the country.

Slay News: The Swiss Government Seizes Maduro’s Assets to Redistribute to the Venezuelan People – Switzerland’s Federal Council said it moved quickly to block financial transfers tied to Maduro or his inner circle, and swift seizure was essential to “prevent an outflow of assets.” – The four-year freeze, which will remain in place “until further notice,” is intended to safeguard any potentially illicit funds until court proceedings determine their origin.

Liberty Daily: Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland and Wouldn’t Even Have to Fight for It – “It has been the formal position of the US government going back into the previous Trump administration, that Greenland should be part of the US. – Because Moscow bases almost all of their strategic military assets on the Kola Peninsula next to Finland. – This is where the Russian ICBM silos, submarine bases, and their strategic bombers are…

Geller Report: Claiming ‘MORE CORRUPT THAN MINNESOTA,’ Trump Launches A Fraud Investigation Into California’s Billions-Dollar Fraud Machine – Billions lost to COVID fraud, rail boondoggles, and homelessness scams as Trump signals the era of Democrat immunity is over. – Trump announced his administration has started a federal fraud investigation into California…

Slay News: Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom is directly challenging the federal government’s demands in a high-stakes showdown over California’s issuing of trucker licenses for illegal aliens. – The dispute is over 17,000 CDLs that were issued to illegal aliens by the state of California, which the Department of Transportation demanded be revoked…

Economic Collapse Report: A Growing List of Democratic Billionaire Kings and Queens Funnel Millions Into Terror-Tied Nonprofits – Former WSJ reporter Asra Nomani, now at Fox News, is investigating the left-wing, billionaire-funded dark money networks, offering much-needed coverage on how certain NGOs influence protest movements, unleash riots, and conduct sophisticated political pressure campaigns…

New York Post: President Trump predicts he will be impeached for a 3rd time if the GOP loses the midterms – “I’ll get impeached,” he said. “We don’t impeach them. You know why? Because they’re meaner than we are. – We should have impeached Joe Biden for 100 different things.”

Washington Examiner: President Trump airs grievances and preaches a healthcare midterm focus at House GOP retreat – During the roughly 85-minute speech, he urged Republicans to “just stay together.” – “What we’re doing is the right thing for the country,” he said. “If you look at what we’re trying to solve, the healthcare problem, we’re trying to get better healthcare at a lower price. I mean, that’s a good thing, right?”…

The Federalist: DOW Secretary Pete Hegseth Says America’s Military Is ‘Already Surpassing’ Last Year’s Recruiting Figures – “We’re setting new records of historic recruitment of men and women wanting to join the ranks.” – The revelation came during a swearing-in ceremony for recent recruits conducted in front of military recruiting stations in Newport News, Virginia.

Gateway Pundit: Mass Protests Enter 9th Straight Day in Iran — The Regime Accused of Killing Young Woman and Multiple Peaceful Protesters, With Officials Denying Responsibility — A brave 11-Year-Old Iranian Boy Calls on Nation to “Take to the Streets, as we Have Nothing to Lose!” – The number of protesters killed during the protest has increased to 30…

American Thinker: Venezuela’s Hour of The thug – Delcy Rodriguez was sworn in as president. – Her brother controls the legislature, and Delcy is said to have collaborated with the CIA to ensure Maduro’s removal. – But her first move was to send her goons into the streets to arrest Venezuelan dissidents, declaring an all-out war on those who supported the U.S. operation against Maduro…

Daily Caller: Standing indicted before a grand jury, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have hired a team of lawyers previously involved in high-profile cases to represent them in court. – Prominent D.C.-based criminal defense attorney Barry Pollack will handle his case. – Pollack is best known for representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange…

American Thinker: Claudia’s Tough ‘Problemas.’ – It’s been a tough “Navidad” for President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico. – First, there was a major train derailment killing a dozen people. – Then, Maduro gets arrested, putting her in a tough position with President Trump. – The U.S. tax on remittances imposed by Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” went into effect on January 1st, 2026…

Western Journal: As Walz Ends His Campaign, an Old Photo of Him Has Begun to Circulate – Will It End His Governorship? – The photo showed a gleeful Walz after Ayan Abukar received the “Outstanding Refugee Award” in 2021 for her sham nonprofit work with “Feeding Our Future.” – At the time, Abukar operated a money laundering network that falsely claimed it was feeding underprivileged children during COVID…

Slay News: Explosive new records reveal that disgraced U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Mike Byrd, who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt during the January 6 protest, has been operating what investigators describe as an unaccredited “daycare center” out of his Maryland home. – This while receiving an eye-popping $190 million in taxpayer funding under a Biden-era federal program…

Breitbart: The MN Hilton Franchise Hampton Inn Still Denying DHS Agents After Apology, So The Parent Company Cut Ties – A video made it clear that the franchise hotel lied about reversing its policy. – The Hilton Mothership reacted quickly and announced that “we are taking immediate action to remove this hotel from our systems.”

American Thinker: Republicans, Be Careful Which Polls and Pundits You Trust This Year – Some of the ones deemed friendly aren’t very good at polling. – Past polling misses were not trivial and did not disappear in 2024, with pre-election polling again understating Trump’s performance by about three points nationally and two to three points in swing states…

American Thinker: Youth Sports Are Collapsing When We Need Them Most – Youth Sports Are More Than Just Games. – For generations, youth sports served as one of the most reliable structures for shaping resilient, disciplined, and socially grounded young people. – Recent studies show that nearly 70% of kids quit organized sports by age 13, and 1 in 10 youth athletes report burnout…

American Thinker: Welcome to Artificial Economics 101 – Free markets are Nature’s way of satisfying both buyers and sellers. – This problem is mostly the result of the lack of understanding of markets and applicable logic on behalf of some members of the general public and the political establishment’s eagerness to exploit it…

Townhall: Commie Mamdani Just Found Something Else He Wants to Make ‘Affordable’ – The World Cup will be held in 11 cities in America this year, with the final match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ., a short drive from NYC. – So, Mamdani is making another promise he won’t be able to keep: World Cup tickets will be “available to all.”

January 5, 2026

Western Journal: Venezuela Reportedly Ignored Trump Warnings By Initiating An Ominous Manhunt – According to a blistering report from Reuters, the state of emergency declared on Saturday, shortly after Maduro’s capture, includes a decree to “immediately begin the national search and capture of everyone involved in the promotion or support for the armed attack by the United States.”…

Gateway Pundit: Is There A COUP D’ÉTAT IN VENEZUELA? – Apparently, Delcy Rodríguez’s first decisions were not to the liking of the generals of the highly ideological Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela. – There is heavy Gunfire in Caracas, Anti-Aircraft Artillery Is Firing Non-Stop – Armed Groups Are Moving Through the City, Clashing With Government Troops…

Daily Signal: Maduro Is in US Custody, So Who Are the Biggest ‘Axis of Evil’ Losers? – China’s dream of dominating the purchase of Venezuelan oil over the next 10 to 20 years is shattered. – Cuban and Venezuelan leaders built a relationship between the two nations over decades – Russia stands to lose a strategic partner that is geographically close to the U.S. – Maduro’s arrest serves as a severe warning to the Iranian regime…

Center For Immigration Studies: Regime Change in Venezuela Could Enhance U.S. Security As Hezbollah, Cartels, and Gangs Lost a Protector – Hezbollah achieved this prosperity in large part by building an extensive network of operatives and associates within the large Lebanese diaspora in Venezuela…

American Spectator: The Toppling of Villains Has Begun in Earnest, and It Must Continue – Maduro’s arrest is just the first domino. – A little while ago, I predicted that the ruling regimes, both Iran and Venezuela, would go by the boards. – I noted, Iran would collapse on its own, because the ayatollahs are so incompetent that they even allowed the reservoirs in and around Tehran to go almost completely dry…

Breitbart: Ship Trackers Spot a Dozen Alleged Oil Tankers Fleeing Venezuela in ‘Dark Mode’ – All of them were targeted by U.S. sanctions. – Reuters noted it was not immediately clear if the reported rash of tanker departures was an effort to break Trump’s blockade, or if the U.S. government signed off on some of the departures…

Gateway Pundit: HHS has officially moved to dismantle a sweeping Biden-era child care scheme that allowed states to shovel billions in federal dollars to child care providers without verifying whether children were actually present. – RFK Jr., “Congress appropriated this funding to support working families and ensure children have safe places to grow and learn.”…

Daily Wire: Dan Bongino Has Been Out Of The Federal Government For 3 Days, And He’s Louder Than Ever – Bongino called out grifters on the Right who pretend to conduct explosive investigative work but are really just “charlatans and morons.” – Bongino said he was “sure as hell” not going to allow the conservative movement to be “hijacked by a group of black-pillers, life-losers, grifters and bums.”

Daily Signal: Mamdani’s Early Moves Suggest New York Will Be Deprioritizing Crime-Fighting – Mamdani made a subtle change, buried in his second executive order, which was to have NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch report to Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan instead of himself. – It likely indicates that the Tisch, who is highly regarded as an effective administrator, will have a smaller role in the incoming administration…

American Thinker: Good riddance, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. – It didn’t happen soon enough. – Cash went out the door, with TSA agents reporting suitcases full of gargantuan amounts of money flying out to Somalia and beyond. – And the auditing was done by Somali companies that looked like this, The Jubba Value Center, offering travel and computer services…

Trending Politics: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday night that the DOJ has opened an investigation into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and the extent of his knowledge of the multi-billion-dollar public welfare fraud scandals plaguing the state. – DHS has nearly 2,000 agents from the Homeland Security Investigations Team there, the FBI is on the ground, and we’re freezing money…

Daily Wire: Marxism In The Metropolis As NYC’s New ‘Tenant Czar’ Has Targeted White Homeowners and Private Property – Newly minted “Tenant Director” Cea Weaver, “Families, especially white families, are gonna have a different relationship to property.” – Weaver, a high-ranking operative within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), was hand-picked by Mayor Zohran Mamdani…

Powerline: A Hilton Hotel affiliate engaged in a ‘coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to refuse service to DHS law enforcement’ – “When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, the hotel maliciously CANCELLED their reservations,” the agency declared. – The Hilton-affiliated Hampton Inn in Lakeville is independently owned and operated…

California Globe: The Gavin Newsom Effect Continues As More People Are Moving Out Of California, As U-Haul Reports, Again – Florida ranks 2nd for one-way inbound customers; California is last for the 6th year in a row. – As Americans for Tax Reform reports, “Three of the top four states attracting movers have no personal income tax: Texas, Florida, and Tennessee.”

City Journal: California’s Next Governor Could Be More Irresponsible Than Newsom – This is because an uninspiring far-left field is vying for the governor’s mansion. – The leader in the most recent Emerson poll was, of all people, Congressman Eric Swalwell. – His biggest asset is his anti-Trump reputation. – That’s about all he offers, as he is hardly a serious thinker or legislator…

Slay News: President Trump has stated that he does not believe Ukraine carried out a drone strike targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence last week. – “I don’t believe that strike happened,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One while traveling from Florida to Washington. – “There is something that happened fairly nearby, but it had nothing to do with this.”

Western Journal: The Trump Effect – One Day After Maduro’s Capture, There are Reports That Iran’s Supreme Leader is Preparing to Flee the Country to Moscow – Intelligence sources said that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the 86-year-old supreme leader of Iran’s theocratic regime, had formulated a back-up plan to flee Tehran if the protests against his regime, which began in late December, intensified…

Slay News: Trump Signs ‘Make Iran Great Again’ Hat as Iranians Flood Streets in Protests Against Islamic Regime – Trump was pictured with the hat alongside Senator Lindsey Graham. – The image appears to have been captured on board Air Force One.

Fox News: Cuba’s shadow in Venezuela: Havana’s intelligence and military ties are exposed after the Maduro raid – Jorge Jraissati, a Venezuelan political analyst, said Cuba’s intelligence role was critical to the consolidation of power first under Hugo Chávez and later under Maduro. – “Experts usually link Cuba as the most important intelligence provider of Venezuela.”…

Slay News: Trump: After Removal of Venezuela’s Maduro, Cuba Is ‘Going Down’ – Trump said that Havana can no longer depend on Caracas for security support or oil. – Asked whether the US was considering action in Cuba, Trump replied: “I think it’s just going to fall. – “I don’t think we need any action. – “Looks like it’s going down…

Zero Hedge: The two largest US newspapers learned in advance of the secret US raid to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but chose not to publish what they knew to avoid endangering US troops. – Despite their hostility toward President Trump regarding domestic issues, the NYT and WaPo cooperated with his administration ahead of the operation to capture Maduro…

Zero Hedge: Democrats Screeched For Maduro’s Ouster, That Is Until Trump Delivered It – How today’s Schumer position changed from 2020, when he ridiculed Trump’s Venezuela policy for not going far enough. – In a Senate floor speech, he declared, “The President brags about his Venezuela policy? Give us a break. – He hasn’t brought an end to the Maduro regime.”

America First Report: Are Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico the Next Targets, or Will Someone Else Be First? – President Trump and his team have determined that the entire western hemisphere is our sphere of influence. – If somebody is doing things in the western hemisphere that we do not like, we will intervene. – If that requires military action, President Trump will pull the trigger…

Brownstone Institute: The Fraud Industrial Complex – What’s been found so far focuses on the Somali community, where, despite nearly 90% of these model immigrants being on welfare, they’ve managed to set up tens of thousands of apparently fraudulent daycares, autism therapy centers, food for kids programs, and home health companies…

Slay News: Democrat U.S. Senate candidates in Minnesota are facing severe blowback as the state reels from a jaw-dropping $9 billion money laundering scandal that is shaking up the political landscape as the saga continues to unfold. – For Minnesota taxpayers, the fraud scam is a direct hit to their hard-earned dollars, with tens of millions, if not billions, potentially lost to corruption that demands a full, no-holds-barred investigation…

Issues & Insights: Some estimate that more than half of federal income tax revenues are devoured by fraud. – This should not come as a shock. – A massive government that funds everything from small businesses to health care to child care to housing is a rich target for thieves. – Sharply reducing its size would limit the opportunities to steal from taxpayers…

Breitbart: Disgraced Governor Tim Walz announced on Monday that he will drop out of the 2026 Minnesota governor’s race. – This is a Shakespearean fall from grace for the man who, a little over a year ago, was riding high as the Democrat Party’s nominee for the vice presidency…

Newsmax: Federal Agents Hit Minneapolis in Major Crackdown – A monthlong surge will focus on immigration enforcement and alleged large-scale fraud – The operation includes hundreds of Homeland Security Investigations agents and up to 1,500 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers, supported by tactical teams and senior supervisors…

Slay News: Wisconsin activist Judge Hannah Dugan has finally stepped down, bowing to intense pressure from Republican lawmakers ready to impeach her over a felony conviction tied to obstructing federal immigration enforcement. – Dugan resigned on Saturday after being convicted on December 19, 2025, for aiding an illegal alien in evading federal officers, a move that sparked a GOP push for her removal.

New York Post: Toppled dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed he was ‘kidnapped’ by US forces in a court outburst, and then pleaded not guilty. – Judge Alvin Hellerstein shot back, “Let me interfere, there will be a time and a place to go into all of this. – His wife, Cilia Flores, said at the same proceeding that she is “completely innocent” when asked for her plea.

American Conservative: Perhaps the most revealing detail about Nicolás Maduro’s apprehension may not be the ordnance that recently rocked Caracas but rather the bodies left in its wake. – Reports suggest that multiple Cubans, including the dictator’s personal bodyguards, were among the approximately 40 killed during the operation.

American Thinker: Regarding Venezuela – The more good Trump does, the more Democrats want to destroy him. – Their deranged response to Trump’s capture of Venezuela’s brutal, leftist dictator is out of the bounds of decency. – So far, Trump is the best president since Reagan. – Thankfully, he is not your typical politician; he’s a businessman who gets things done and is getting things done that have needed to be done for decades…

Daily Wire: The Trump Administration Will Not Stop The Mass Deportation Flights To Venezuela, Even After Maduro’s Capture – DHS continues to encourage the roughly 500,000 Venezuelans whose status was recently revoked to leave the United States on their own. – Tricia McLaughlin, “The great news for those who are here from Venezuela on Temporary Protected Status is that they can now go home with hope for their country.”

American Thinker: Congress Leaks Like A Sieve, But Not This Time! – In true progressive fashion, the Democrats are once again crying foul and tearing out their hair because they weren’t given the chance to leak national security information. – Of course, they are protesting that Trump declared war without their permission, which was not needed. – Actually, made a wise decision not to share information with them to protect the operation…

American Thinker: Why Trump never tells Democrats anything anymore – Their penchant for undermining the nation is as predictable as a Hollywood sequel. – Let’s start with the classics, like the 2012 Benghazi attack when Islamic militants stormed our consulate, killing four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens? – In the ensuing investigation, Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies were accused of leaking classified security assessments to deflect blame…

Washington Examiner: SOW Pete Hegseth issued a letter of censure and moved to demote retired captain and sitting Senator Mark Kelly over the video he and other lawmakers made, urging service members not to carry out possible illegal orders. – He initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with a reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retirement pay.

American Wire: – On Sunday, President Trump suggested that taking control of sparsely populated Greenland, of great strategic importance, could be on the table. – “It’s so strategic right now. Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place,” Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One as he headed back to Washington.

American Thinker: The Mamdani Symptom – That the radical Left’s worldwide celebration of the inauguration of Mamdani as mayor of NYC was entirely predictable. – Striking, however, is the triumphalism displayed as the Trump administration systematically exposes illegal extraction mechanisms and financial flows step by step. – The political Left in the US, especially its radical wing, has been forced into a kind of ideological molting…

Geller Report: “SEIZE PRIVATE PROPERTY!” – Mamdani Appointed A Communist Radical to Run Housing Who Blasted Homeownership As ‘White Supremacy’ – Cea Weaver, has a documented record of calling to “seize private property,” denouncing homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy,” and urging voters to “elect more communists.”…

Trending Politics: Mugshot Of The Man Arrested Breaking The Windows Of JD Vance’s House – The suspect is accused of causing property damage to a personal residence associated with the vice president. – “The U.S. Secret Service is coordinating with the Cincinnati Police Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” the agency said.

Western Journal: JD Vance Responds To The Attack on His House – He asked the media to stop showing the damage done for the sake of his children. – Secret Service agents “heard a loud noise at the house around midnight and found a person who had broken a window with a hammer and was trying to get in. – He also vandalized a Secret Service vehicle on his way up the home’s driveway…

American Thinker: Don’t Let Texas Become Texasistan – Islamist organizations, taxpayer funding, and sharia-based enclaves threaten Texas’ constitutional order — State leaders are finally pushing back. – It is only recently that the federal government and some states have begun to act against Islamist groups that use taqiyya, or deception: pretending to participate in social work, education, rights activism, or academic research while actually conducting jihad…

Daily Caller: A CCP Intelligence Official Owns Twin Golf Clubs Near A US Nuclear Missile Nerve Center – Air Force Global Strike Command is hosted by Barksdale Air Force Base. – Approximately two miles to the north and south, the base is effectively bordered by The Golf Club at StoneBridge and its 27-hole, 340-acre sister, Olde Oaks Golf Club.

Slay News: Elon Musk’s Neuralink plans to begin “high-volume” production of its brain-computer implant in 2026. – The Neuralink device connects the human brain to a computer by reading electrical signals from neurons and translating them into digital commands. – The technology is aimed at allowing users to control devices or regain lost physical function through thought alone.

California Globe: The California Voter ID Initiative Has Surpassed One Million Signatures, And Is Set to Appear on the November 2026 Ballot. – The initiative requires Voter ID to cast a ballot and to verify the citizenship of registered voters. – The California Voter ID Initiative was filed in response to Prop. 50, which eliminated the nonpartisan redistricting commission and racially gerrymandered the state…

California Globe: American Freedom Isn’t Available In Commie Mamdani’s NYC or Comrade Newsom’s California – Newsom was sworn in January 2019 – His Socialist/Marxist policies, left California with the highest cost of living in the country, one-half of the country’s homeless population, the highest poverty in the country, weakest election integrity in the country, worst K-12 math and English test scores…

January 4, 2026

One America News: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US is not at war with Venezuela, but is instead targeting drug trafficking organizations, following the capture of Nicolas Maduro. – On Sunday, Rubio signaled that the military actions in Venezuela would not escalate to a full-scale war while reiterating the objectives the Trump administration seeks with the operation, which resulted in the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

The Free Press: A Clinton-Appointed Judge Was Assigned The Maduro Case – U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, 92, was nominated to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1998 and confirmed by the Senate that same year. – He assumed senior status in 2011 but continues to handle cases actively…

Washington Examiner: US forces killed ‘a large part’ of Maduro’s security team during capture. – Sources familiar with the operation said the Delta Force commandos took three minutes to locate Maduro and his wife before they could barricade themselves in a fortified room. – Marco Rubio, “It was Cubans who guarded Maduro. – He was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards.

The Free Press: I Survived Maduro’s Torture State – An exiled Venezuelan activist tells of the horrors he suffered under the Maduro regime. – ‘This was a place where abuse exceeded all logical limits of human cruelty.’ – My stay in the torture center known as Tocorón, in Aragua state, lasted two months, 18 days, and 15 hours. – Inside, I lived through the greatest horror I can imagine…

American Spectator: The Supposed Experts Were Wrong About Pete Hegseth – Hegseth’s Pentagon delivered the goods, where others failed. – Nearly a year later, War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is two-for-two in the limited but complex military operations undertaken against Iran and Venezuela. – Donald Trump’s Pentagon, led by Secretary Hegseth, apparently knows how to successfully use force to carry out the nation’s objectives…

One America News: Captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is set to appear in federal court in New York on Monday to face U.S. drug charges. – Notably, Maduro is housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center at the same time as Luigi Mangione, the alleged assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

American Spectator: Yes, President Trump’s Action Against Maduro Was Legal – The 1973 War Powers Resolution allows him to deploy military forces without prior approval of Congress. – It is surprising to realize how ignorant Democrats are about the President’s authority to deploy military forces. – Saturday morning, for example, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries claimed…

Western Journal: A Senior Democrat Broke Ranks to Praise Trump’s Capture of ‘Illegitimate’ Socialist Dictator Maduro – Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a South Florida Democrat with a sizable Venezuelan population in her district, bucked her party Saturday to praise President Donald Trump’s capture of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Daily Caller: Chuck Schumer Rushes To Block Trump Admin’s Success In Venezuela Despite Previously Urging Regime Change – The New York Senator told “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday he would introduce a War Powers Act resolution to prevent further military operations against Venezuela.

Lifezette: Venezuelan Communities Worldwide Celebrate The Historic Arrest of Maduro – Celebrations broke out within hours across the United States, South America, and Europe, as news spread that Maduro had been taken into custody and formally indicted. – For many Venezuelans living abroad, the development represented a moment they had waited years to see.

American Thinker: The Trump Doctrine Rebuilds Fortress America – Multitasking Trump takes Venezuela while warning our global rivals, FAFO. – Observing the president’s chess moves from afar, it appears obvious to me that the president sees “luck” as nothing more than the product of opportunity and preparation. – Nobody can doubt that intense preparation went into this strike…

Daily Wire: The Maduro Cronies Scheming To Keep Power In Venezuela – Though former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is now in custody in New York, his loyal cronies remain in Venezuela, where they are plotting their next move to ensure the regime’s continuity. – These are the cronies the world’s attention will be on as the future of Venezuela is determined…

Red State: Kamala Condemns Trump for ‘Unlawful and Unwise’ Take Down of Maduro, Gets Hit by an Inconvenient Fact – She defended the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which infamously resulted in the death of 13 U.S. service members and wounded dozens more, specifically because the Biden-Harris administration had no coherent plan and now has thoughts on the troop risks and exit strategy.

American Thinker: Trump Action in Venezuela Is Legal and Constitutional – Say what you will about the wisdom of his decision, but his critics are wrong on the Constitution. – Article II, Section 2 makes the president the commander in chief of the armed forces. If the president needs congressional approval before using those armed forces, then he is not a “commander in chief.”…

Zero Hedge: Air travel across the Caribbean has normalized after a day of disruptions triggered by a U.S. special forces operation that successfully captured Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. – Late Saturday night, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy declared, “original restrictions around Caribbean airspace are expiring at 12:00 a.m. ET and flights can resume.”

Breitbart: ‘He Does Have to Watch His Ass’ – Asked about Petro saying he was “not concerned about anything happening to him in the aftermath of Venezuela,” Trump responded: “He has cocaine mills. He has factories where he makes cocaine. And I stick by my first statement. He’s making cocaine, and they’re sending it into the United States, so he does have to watch his ass.”

American Thinker: In Iran, Trump’s ‘locked and loaded’ strategy is turning the tide – Is the current revolt the one that will finally topple the Iranian regime? – Historically, Iranian protests have been crushed by the brutal efficiency of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and the Basij. – However, 2026 is different because of President Trump’s threat…

American Thinker: Are We Sleeping Through a Chinese Takeover? – The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t need to beat us on the battlefield; it only needs the West to stay asleep. – The fentanyl holocaust is fueled by the CCP, where traceable chemicals are engineered in Chinese labs. – Each pill is roughly two millimeters wide, yet one dose can stop a heart…

Townhall: The DNC has launched a fundraising operation in protest of the Trump administration’s arrest of narco-terrorist Nicolas Maduro. – “Another day, another unconstitutional war from Trump, who thinks the Constitution is a suggestion,” their email read. “Congress has war powers — but Republican cowards are hiding under their desks while Trump orders an unauthorized attack against Venezuela...

January 3, 2026

Townhall: How Delta Force Was Able to Capture Maduro So Easily – Sure, it was Delta Force, and they don’t screw around, but you cannot blindly enter a situation. – They needed on-the-ground intelligence, and they got it. – The CIA was able to obtain an asset who gave minute details about Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s movements. – Plus, all of this led up to their extraction…

Epoch Times: President Trump Says The US Will Run Venezuela Until A Peaceful Transition of Power Is Completed – Trump, ‘We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people of Venezuela.” – “We’re going to run the country until we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.”

Daily Wire: Secretary of State Marco Rubio made clear on Saturday that world leaders and bad actors should pay attention to President Trump’s words, because when he says something, he means it. – Rubio, “I hope people now understand.” – “The President of the United States is not a game player.” – “When he tells you he’s going to do something and address a problem, he means it.”…

Daily Wire: JD Vance Was ‘Deeply Integrated’ In The Planning For The Venezuela Strike – “He joined several late-night meetings via secure video conference with National Security principals leading up to the operation.” – Concerns about a potential “tip off” and general heightened security threats kept Vance away from the Situation Room during the capture of Maduro and a the post-capture presser…

Western Journal: The Nobel-Winning Venezuelan Opposition Leader Humiliates Democrats With Her ‘The Hour of Freedom Has Arrived’ Declaration – María Corina Machado, “Nicolás Maduro from today will face international justice for the atrocious crimes committed against Venezuelans and against citizens of many other nations.” – “Given his refusal to accept a negotiated solution, the United States government has fulfilled its promise to enforce the law.”…

Powerline: A Word from General Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. – He briefed the press on Operation Absolute Resolve to apprehend Venezuelan tyrant Nicolás Maduro. – The operation involved more than 150 aircraft from around the Western Hemisphere. – He said it represented the “culmination of months of planning and rehearsal.”…

Western Journal: Unsurprisingly, Democrats Erupted Over Trump’s Venezuela Strike, Saying Marco Rubio ‘Blatantly Lied to Congress’ – Congressional Democrats argued that Trump lacked legal authority and that it was counter to American interests to use military force against Maduro’s regime. – Republican lawmakers largely praised the operation, with those representing South Florida’s large Venezuelan community describing it as a “historic day.”

Daily Caller: Jonathan Turley Predicts If Maduro Indictment Will Be ‘Accepted By The Courts’ – George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Saturday that captured Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro probably will not succeed in getting his criminal charges tossed, due to legal precedent from over 30 years ago…

American Wire: Fresh off the capture of Maduro, President Trump weighed in on the situation in Mexico. – Speaking to Fox News about the strikes in Venezuela, Trump’s attention eventually turned to Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum. – He said the action was not meant as a message to Sheinbaum, claiming that she is not really the person in charge of Mexico…

Daily Signal: 7 Left-Wing Groups to Watch in 2026 – Last year, we saw these leftist groups gear up to oppose Trump’s agenda – The ACLU – The Sixteen Thirty Fund – The Center for American Progress – The National Democratic Redistricting Committee – The Council on American-Islamic Relations – The Southern Poverty Law Center – The American Federation of Government Employees…

Zero Hedge: Visualizing All Of The World’s Oil Reserves By Country – Oil remains one of the most strategically important resources in the global economy. – While renewable energy is growing, oil still plays a dominant role in meeting global energy needs. – This visualization, by Visual Capitalist, ranks countries by the size of their proven oil reserves at the end of 2024…

Townhall: Dan Bongino Has Officially Left the FBI – Bongino, “It was a busy last day on the job.” – “Tomorrow I return to civilian life.” – It’s been an incredible year thanks to the leadership and decisiveness of President Trump. – “It was the honor of a lifetime to work with Director Patel, and to serve you, the American people.” – “See you on the other side.”

Intelligencer: California’s starless governor’s race could get very weird – The last three governors of California were all legendary, larger-than-life political figures. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gray Davis, and Jerry Brown – The contest to choose the 41st governor of California currently has ten candidates, eight Democrats and two Republicans, and not many voters could identify them in a line-up…

Western Journal: Shortly after 4 a.m. Eastern, President Trump announced attacks on Venezuela led to the capture of fugitive strongman Nicolás Maduro. – Trump, “The United States of America has successfully carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country.”

Daily Wire: LIVE UPDATES: United States Strikes Venezuela, Captures President Maduro – Indictment: Maduro’s Son Attempted To Ship Large Amounts Of Cocaine To Miami – Maduro Allegedly ‘Facilitated The Movement’ Of Private Jets For Drug Trafficking – Maduro Could Make A Federal Court Appearance As Early As Monday – President Donald Trump is scheduled to give a press conference at 11:00 AM Eastern.

American Thinker: Venezuela Is Free! – Oh, what a fine morning it was to wake up to pictures of little orange puffs over Caracas with the news that U.S. forces took out Hugo Chavez’s tomb. – And best of all, Maduro being hauled off by the DEA lawmen as the two-bit drug kingpin he is, along with his bank-robber wife. – The Venezuelan opposition has already mobilized to secure government buildings and work toward establishing a legitimate administration..

Daily Caller: The Trump Administration Announces The Indictment of Venezuelan Socialist Dictator Nicolás Maduro And His Wife Cilia Flores – Federal charges include Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machine guns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machine guns and Destructive Devices against the United States.”…

Breitbart: President Trump stated, “We’re deciding who will be in power in Venezuela now that Maduro is gone and what’s next for Venezuela, and we will be involved in it very much.” – Trump added that things won’t be good for those who remain loyal to Maduro in Venezuela, although he doesn’t think Maduro has many loyalists left in the country.

Breitbart: Vice President Vance reiterated Saturday that President Trump “means what he says” just hours after the strikes to capture Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. – “The president offered multiple off-ramps, but was very clear throughout this process: the drug trafficking must stop, and the stolen oil must be returned to the United States.”…

American Wire: Secretary of State Marco Rubio detailed why the Venezuela strike did not require congressional authorization, saying no further action is needed – “This action likely falls within the president’s inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution to protect U.S. personnel from an actual or imminent attack.”

American Thinker: Jack Smith’s Tyrannical Arrogance – Smith’s testimony is disturbing because his argument in favor of prosecuting Trump boils down to (1) Every sensible person knows that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. (2) For President Trump to pretend otherwise reveals that he is knowingly telling a “lie.” (3) By using this “lie” to undermine the 2020 election results, Trump committed fraud against the U.S. government and the American people…

American Thinker: Trump’s War on America’s AI Patchwork. – Trump’s executive order removing barriers to American leadership in AI does not pretend to offer a comprehensive regulatory code. – Rather, it wipes away the prior administration’s safety-first architecture, rescinds guidance and directives that had metastasized across agencies, and orders the executive branch to reorient around deployment, scale, and competitiveness.

Slay News: Left-wing cable network MSNBC, which was rebranded as MS NOW last year, suffered a steep ratings collapse in 2025, losing more than a quarter of its total audience while Fox News posted major gains, according to newly released Nielsen data. – MS NOW’s primetime averages fell to roughly 923,000–937,000 total viewers over the course of 2025, representing an estimated 25–26 percent year-over-year decline.

American Thinker: The Slow Decline of Public Education – Public education has been undergoing a type of ideological and administrative mutilation for many decades. – The decline in student competence and commitment continues. – I’ve been teaching philosophy in a college for about 12 years now, and I am covering approximately one-third less material than I did when I began…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, The Coup Continues – The TWiP coup continues. If John persists in his Die Hard denialism, we might just need to send him to a “Learing” Center. – I hear there are several with surplus capacity in Minnesota. Also, can’t wait for Groundhog Day in a month, as it will mean six more months of Epstein files…

January 2, 2026

Daily Signal: 10 Times Democrats and Corporate Media Leaped to Defend Somalis Despite The Massive Fraud Scandals – Tim Walz Pivots to Attacking White People’s Crimes – Minnesota State Senators Tear Up as They Express Support for Somalis – Ilhan Omar Claims Trump Is Only Angry About Somali Fraud Because He’s Racist – Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Says Somalis Are ‘Welcome’ In His Community…

Epoch Times: A HUD Audit Revealed $5.8 Billion in Potentially Improper Rental Assistance Payments During The Biden Administration – Around $77 million in payments were issued to nearly 30,000 deceased tenants. – Analysis of Project-Based Rental Assistance and Tenant-Based Rental Assistance payments was made using advanced data analytics for the first time.

American Spectator: From Solidarity to Statism, Mayor Mamdani’s Vision for New York City – A massive power grab cloaked in benevolent language. – In his opening words, Mamdani’s speech seemed at first glance to be crafted to soothe and reassure. But then it took an abrupt turn as the Mayor pledged to govern as a “Democratic Socialist,” who would lead “without shame and insecurity.”

Epoch Times: A Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down California Ban on Open Carry of Firearms – A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 2–1 in favor of a gun owner, finding the state prohibition on open carry of guns in counties that have more than 200,000 residents violates the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

American Spectator: Is Minnesota or California the Fraud Capital of America? – California’s fraudulent activities have been public for years, but with little response. – First on California Representative Kevin Kiley’s list is $32 billion in unemployment fraud, which took place under his Harvard Law alumnus Julie Su. – In December, California’s state auditor issued a scathing report citing seven high-risk state agencies…

One America News: California’s DMV announced that 325,000 residents will need to replace their REAL ID licenses due to a 2006 system error. – The issue stems from a “legacy software configuration” dating back to 2006. – The system incorrectly calculated expiration dates for certain non-U.S. citizens with legal presence in the country, such as Green Card holders or visa holders.

Zero Hedge: Far-left activists targeted a critical supply chain node supporting the F-35 stealth fighter jet program. – The attack directly undermines Western national security interests and raises questions about whether foreign adversaries provided material support. – A group of radical leftists broke into Brunton’s Aero Products in Musselburgh, Scotland, and went on a smashing spree.

Zero Hedge: How Global Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 45 Years – Some economies have grown steadily, others have surged, and a few have slipped down the rankings as new players emerged. – In the following very revealing visualization, Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte charts the world’s top economies from 1980 to 2025.

Zero Hedge: America’s Low-Wage Workers Aren’t All High-School Dropouts – This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, shows the share and number of U.S. low-wage workers earning less than $20 per hour by education level, using data from the Economic Policy Institute as of July 2025…

Zero Hedge: Deepfakes are taking over YouTube, to the point that real news from real people is drowning in an ocean of illusion. – Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister, is one of the most AI impersonated people. A recent interview reported that only one in five videos is actually Yanis himself. – Why is this happening? – Because maintaining the Illusion serves the vested interests of elites…

Newsmax: Elon Musk signaled a massive return to the political arena on New Year’s Day, pledging to bankroll Republican candidates in the 2026 midterm elections to prevent what he described as the “doom” of the United States. – Musk, “America is toast if the radical left wins.”

Slay News: Maduro Caves, Saying Venezuela Is ‘Ready’ to Make A Deal with Trump, As A Result Of The Military Strikes – Maduro went on to claim the United States is seeking regime change in Venezuela and access to its vast oil reserves, describing a pressure campaign that he said began with a major U.S. military deployment to the Caribbean Sea in August…

America First Report: Washington Monument Illumination Kicks Off Yearlong Celebration of America’s 250th Birthday – The 25-minute projection displays will recur at the top of each hour every night and feature five themed segments: Discovery; Revolution (Independence); Westward Expansion; the Industrial Revolution and the 20th Century; and Modern Day and the Future of the Nation.

Western Journal: FBI Director Kash Patel says the FBI thwarted an ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve attack in North Carolina – He said, ‘I will do jihad soon,’ and proclaimed he was ‘a soldier of the Islamic state.”  – His note spelled out an explicit goal: to stab as many civilians as possible, targeting 20 to 21 victims. It also included a section labeled “martyrdom Op.”…

American Thinker: President Trump warns Iran That The U.S. is “locked and loaded’ if the regime kills protesters. – Trump cites Iran’s record of repression as protests spread nationwide. – Trump’s warning is rooted in a history of confrontation with Tehran that hardened in January 2020, when Trump authorized a U.S. drone strike that killed Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani…

Washington Examiner: Iranian officials threaten US troops after Trump promises intervention on behalf of protesters. – Iran has been racked by protests over the past several days around deteriorating economic conditions in the country, made worse by a growing water crisis and severe sanctions against Tehran…

Gateway Pundit: More Than 1,000 Cars Were Burned in France, as New Year’s Eve ‘Celebrations’ in Europe Turn Into a ‘Fireworks War Zones’ Between Migrants and the Police – Migrant gangs used fireworks to attack police, firefighters, ambulance drivers, and regular civilians. – Cities like Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Berlin were turned into war zones…

Slay News: Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge reveals that CBS executives actively blocked coverage of the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” scandal, despite the story being ready to publish well before the 2022 midterms. – Herridge previously served as Fox News’s chief intelligence correspondent and joined CBS in 2019 as a senior investigative correspondent.

Western Journal: – On Tuesday, a Texas appeals court overturned the George-Floyd-era conviction of now-former Austin Police Officer Christopher Taylor for shooting a man armed with a knife. – The court actually reversed the jury’s decision and declared Taylor acquitted in the case…

American Thinker: Immigration and Values, Then vs. Now – Our current flock of immigrants differs in many ways from previous groups of immigrants. – Nearly all early immigrants to the United States of America came from Europe and wanted to become Americans and share our values. – The majority of latter-day immigrants, particularly from North Africa and the Middle East, do not wish to become Americans, do not wish to assimilate, and do not share our values…

Washington Examiner: New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani began his term by voiding all of his predecessor’s executive orders signed after his September 2024 indictment, including several pro-Israel ones. – Banning businesses from taking part in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement regarding Israel. – The adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism…

American Thinker: Nick Shirley had the bright idea of knocking on doors and ended up blowing open a scandal. – He discovered that there are no day-care centers behind the signs – Nick is being accused of doing it for money or targeting Somalians because they are black. – And of course, the race card is alive and well. But it is strong confirmation that Nick is over the target…

Zero Hedge: SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced late Thursday that nearly 7,000 Minnesota borrowers have been suspended over suspected fraud. – The move follows a bombshell report last week by citizen journalist Nick Shirley, who detailed alleged large-scale fraud tied to daycare centers operated by Somali-linked networks.

Sharyl Attkisson: Chairman James Comer, “The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing titled, ‘Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota, Part I.'” – The hearing will begin on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, at 10:00 AM ET.

American Thinker: Somali Corruption and the Mainstream Media – At some point, it will cover the Somali Medicare and Medicaid fraud, the daycare fraud, the foodservice fraud, maybe even the Somali vote fraud. – But not until they are forced to, because it becomes so overwhelming that they can’t bury it any longer.

Breitbart: Today, President Trump touted a perfect score on a recent cognitive test and contended that future presidential candidates should be required to take one. – “The White House Doctors have just reported that I am in ‘PERFECT HEALTH,’ and that I ‘ACED’ (Correct on 100% of the questions asked!) for the third straight time. – This is something no other President or previous Vice President was willing to take on.

Resist The Mainstream: Two Models Were Threatened With Harsh Punishment After Snapping Covert Photos of Barron Trump During The Christmas Celebration at Mar-a-Lago – Melania Trump considers Barron’s privacy to be completely non-negotiable, and anyone discovered filming or photographing him faces immediate repercussions, potentially including a ban from the prestigious club…

Gateway Pundit: President Trump Issues the First Vetoes of His Second Term – H.R. 131, the “Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act,” and H.R. 504, the “Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act.” – The “Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act” is a bill aimed at expanding the land set aside for the Miccosukee Tribe inside Everglades National Park by officially including a section known as Osceola Camp…

Zero Hedge: Wind LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between Global Infrastructure Partners’ Skyborn Renewables and Ørsted, is Suing The Trump Administration Over Its Wind Power Generation Project Suspension Off The East Coast. – The Trump Administration has made no secret of its attitude to wind energy, and especially offshore wind…

American Thinker: Good Riddance to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Swamp Creature ‘Populism’ – From shifting stances, to bizarre alliances, to unusual wealth gains, this is pretty much the opposite of MAGA. – She left as a case study in how rank opportunism masquerades as populism, and how loudly proclaimed integrity can coexist with some of the most cynical behavior the D.C. swamp has on offer…

The Federalist: The Top Six Takeaways From Jack Smith’s Preposterous White-Hat Posturing – 1. NO!!! Trump did not ask “local officials to find 11,000 votes.” – 2. NO!!! Naming alternative electors was not a fake electors conspiracy. – 3. Given recently released information regarding one of Smith’s top deputies, the special counsel’s touting of his team’s integrity is laughable…

Zero Hedge: Minnesota To Mandate K–12 Ethnic Studies Instruction In 2026 – “Students will be able to explain how race is socially constructed and how that social construction has been used to oppress people of color, specifically in relation to Jim Crow, segregation, and racial covenants.” – “The words ethnic studies have been hijacked.”…

Slay News: Disney Worldwide Services Agrees to Pay $10 Million Settlement for Violating Children’s Privacy Laws – COPPA prohibits operators of websites or online services from knowingly collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children under 13 without notifying parents and obtaining verifiable parental consent.

California Globe: Sable Pipeline Can Restart Its California Pipeline – An environmental group lost its bid at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to stay enforcement of the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s emergency special permit for the Las Flores Pipeline System. – The Santa Ynez oil operation has been battered with lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny ever since Exxon Mobil handed over the reins to Sable 10 years ago…

January 1, 2026

American Spectator: Xi Jinping, “The Reunification of Our Motherland Is Unstoppable.” – Jinping explicitly signals his intention to absorb Taiwan. – In his New Year’s address to the Chinese people, President Xi Jinping stated that “We Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait share a bond of blood and kinship.” – His remarks followed their two-day military “exercise” near and around Taiwan…

Center Square: The U.S. military conducted five more strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean in the last days of 2025. – In total, eight people were killed in the strikes. – Three vessels were targeted on Dec. 30 and two more on Dec. 31. – Secretary of War Pete Hegseth approved all of the strikes before they were initiated.

Epoch Times: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, “The U.S. Coast Guard has seized more than 469,000 pounds of cocaine under the Trump administration since Jan. 20, 2025.” – “That is enough to kill up to 177 million Americans at a lethal dose of 1.2 grams.” – The USCG’s Operation Pacific Viper is a crucial weapon in the fight against foreign drug traffickers…

Western Journal: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Copies One of Trump’s Signature Policies – “I’m kicking the new year off with a proposal of no state income tax on tips, continuing my efforts to make New York more affordable for hard-working New Yorkers,” Hochul said in a news release.

Daily Signal: How This Census Lawsuit Could Change Political Power in Congress – A federal lawsuit could be decided in early 2026 to require the Census Bureau to only count people rather than use statistical sampling. – The 2020 Census overcounted the population of several Democrat-leaning states and undercounted the population of several Republican-leaning states.

Western Journal: A Historic Amsterdam Church Burned as ‘Unprecedented’ New Year’s Eve Violence Gripped the City – Violence against first responders was widespread in Holland. – In the southern city of Breda, police reported petrol bombs being thrown during New Year’s festivities. Rotterdam’s eye hospital treated 14 patients,  including 10 children, for eye injuries, two of whom required surgery…

Western Journal: Jack Smith Gives Telling Non-Answer When Asked the Key January 6th Trump Question During His Deposition – Smith didn’t, or couldn’t, say Trump ordered anyone to storm the Capitol. – He didn’t say Trump planned the violence. – And he didn’t even say Trump wanted it to happen…

Epoch Times: Newly Sworn-In New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani Vows to Enact Democratic Socialist Agenda – Mamdani quickly advanced his democratic socialist agenda, passing a series of executive orders and using his inauguration speech to state, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”

One America News: A Somali-run daycare in Minnesota claimed that a burglar broke in and stole “important documents” amid reports of widespread fraud within Somali-owned businesses. – The claim of a supposed burglary follows the national attention shifted to reports of widespread fraud involving Somali-owned daycares in Minneapolis…

Gateway Pundit: The DC home of active-duty Space Force officers Jason and Kaylee Taylor was broken into, vandalized, and intentionally set on fire on Sunday evening. – Their car was also reportedly spray-painted: “F*ck Trump and F*ck the Space Force” – The couple was out of town with their infant daughter at the time their home was destroyed…

One America News: 19 states increase minimum wages on New Year’s Day, With More Coming Later – Arizona: $15.15 per hour (from $14.70) – California: $16.90 per hour (from $16.50) – Colorado: $15.16 per hour (from $14.81) – Connecticut: $16.94 per hour (from $16.35) – Hawaii: $16 per hour (from $14) – Maine: $15.10 per hour (from $14.65) – Michigan: $13.73 per hour (from $12.48…

Daily Caller: The Top Four Times California Wasted Taxpayer Dollars – 1. COVID-19 Unemployment Insurance Fraud – 2. The Never-Ending Homelessness Crisis – 3. The Never-Finished High-Speed Rail – 4. Overspending on Undocumented Immigrants – With fraud and wasteful spending spiking, calls have surged from some users to examine California’s decades of waste.

American Thinker: Looking Back at 2025 – The Revolution Is Just Beginning As Trump Remakes The World. – His greatest accomplishment is surely pulling back the propaganda press’s filtered news curtain to expose it as inherently corrupt, and the entrenched federal bureaucracy that sees itself as the actual permanent government of the United States…

Epoch Times: 2025 in Review – This Is How President Trump Reshaped America and the World – Among other things, Trump curbed illegal immigration, boosted the economy, enacted tax reform, targeted gender ideology, and resolved international conflicts. – Border Security – ‘America First’ Trade Policy – The Shift in Foreign Policy – A Sweeping Tax Reform Bill – New Culture Wars…

FAR: Happy New Year – Wishing You Good Times, Gentle Hangovers, and Many Wonderful Things to Come in 2026 – And here are photos of the Washington Monument in D.C. commemorating this historic 250th year of America’s independence.

Western Journal: Iran Shuts Down as Massive Street Protests Turn Deadly – Media reports indicated that Iranian authorities fired on protesters in the city of Lordegan. In Kuhdasht, one member of the security forces was killed and another 13 were wounded, according to Reuters. – Economic issues triggered the protests, which began in Tehran on Sunday and have since spread across the country…

American Thinker: Will the Iranian regime finally be overturned? – It would be wonderful if we are witnessing the forthcoming toppling of the mullahs. – The current economic crisis has kicked off the biggest protests the nation has seen since 2022. And, these protests appear to be different; it looks like the mullahs might finally have pushed the people over the edge toward regime change and freedom.

American Thinker: Drug Dealer Island may be Trump’s next target – Margarita Island is just a few miles off the coast of Venezuela. – It has long been the hub for the big Latin American drug dealers and money launderers, and even has its own international airport. – It’s so much better to confront killers and tyrants out in the open.

New York Post: Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in on the Quran as NYC’s 112th mayor, and its second youngest. – A triumphant Zohran Mamdani took the oath of office to become the Big Apple’s mayor just moments into the New Year, kicking off an uncharted era with a proud socialist at the helm of the nation’s largest city.

The Federalist: It’s Not Just Minnesota, As The Vast Majority Of Daycare Is A Scam – Taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions more on completely ineffective daycare than even Somalis have been able to pilfer. – If it is fraud to take taxpayer money for childcare while not providing it, isn’t it also fraud to take taxpayer money for early childhood development that actually damages early childhood development?

Zero Hedge: Nick Shirley Teases New “Crazier” Video: “It’s Going To Be A Masterpiece” – “It’s going to be even crazier because now the Somalis were after me. They were coming, and people were stopping in the middle of intersections … I had to get security for this video coming out.”

Zero Hedge: Obama’s Billion-Dollar Minnesota Fraud Empire – Between 2008 and 2016, the Obama administration oversaw the admission of over 54,000 Somali refugees into the United States. But they didn’t just scatter them across the 50 states. – They targeted specific swing states and counties, with Minnesota being the primary dumping ground, and created a voting bloc…

Geller Report: One reason why the swamp fought Musk and DOGE so hard. – HUD officials say the majority of some $5 billion in fraudulent rental aid in 2024 went to New York, California, and DC, though dead people from all 50 states got paid. – According to HUD, payment errors exceeded 11% across federal housing programs under Joe Biden’s administration…

Breitbart: Mexico’s government has not been keeping track of the various cartel killing fields, crematoriums, and clandestine graves used throughout the country by criminal organizations. – The move points to a systemic effort by government officials to hide the true scope of the violence that reigns over the country, mainly due to the out-of-control public corruption.

Breitbart: The Netflix, Paramount Fight for Warner Bros. Discovery Is Headed for a Worldwide Regulatory Showdown – The process could drag on for more than a year, if not longer. – But regardless of who wins, new ownership of Warner properties would drastically reshape the industry, impacting movie-making, streaming platforms, and the broader media landscape.

Cal Matters: A new law backed by California unions gives a state board the right to regulate working conditions and labor rights as the federal labor board’s fate is in limbo. – The law, which grants more powers to the California Public Employment Relations Board, is a response to the National Labor Relations Board lacking a quorum. – The Trump administration is suing to block it.

Zero Hedge: 12 NASA Satellite Images That Tell The Story Of Earth In 2025 – The Palisades Fire’s Footprint – Desert Dust Streams from Iran – A Floating Solar Farm on India’s Narmada River – Swirling Skies and Melting Icebergs – Haze Sweeping Over the Mediterranean – A Glacier Collapse Buries A Swiss Village – Rare Snow Blankets Australia’s Northern Tablelands…

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