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January 1, 2026 – Somalia’s ambassador to the UN is also tied to Progressive Health Care Services in Ohio

Somalia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Abukar Dahir Osman, is facing growing scrutiny over his connections to the Ohio healthcare company Progressive Health Care Services Inc. This comes as federal investigations into suspected Somali-linked welfare fraud, stretching from Minnesota to Washington, Ohio, and Maine, continue to intensify, with allegations that some entities (daycares, healthcare, or transportation service companies) were merely front operations to extract taxpayer funds.

The story surrounding Osman is certainly a strange one, with the news and analysis outlet Horn Diplomat publishing a report titled “Ethics Questions Surround Somalia’s UN Envoy, as U.S. Healthcare Fraud Scandals Heighten Scrutiny.”

(Credit: Zero Hedge)

Here’s the report:

Public corporate filings and professional records have raised questions about transparency and potential conflicts of interest involving Abukar Dahir Osman, Somalia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

The scrutiny comes as Somalia prepares to assume the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council on January 1, 2026, a role that places the country at the center of global diplomatic decision-making on peace, security and sanctions.

Ohio state corporate records show that Osman was listed as the statutory agent for Progressive Health Care Services Inc, a Cincinnati-based home healthcare company, while simultaneously serving as Somalia’s top diplomat at the United Nations.

Filings with the Ohio Secretary of State, electronically submitted on October 22, 2018, identify Osman as the company’s agent. He had been appointed Somalia’s UN ambassador in June 2017, creating an overlap of nearly two years between his diplomatic role and his involvement with a U.S. healthcare provider operating within Medicaid-funded systems supported by U.S. taxpayers.

Professional records, including publicly available LinkedIn information, indicate Osman served as Managing Director of Progressive Health Care Services Inc. from 2014 until May 2019, alongside his UN posting in New York.

The overlap has drawn attention because the U.S. home healthcare sector has repeatedly been identified by federal authorities as one of the areas most vulnerable to fraud, abuse and improper billing.

(Read more: Zero Hedge, 1/1/2016)  (Archive)

(…) A new bombshell report now reveals that Somalia’s sitting ambassador to the United Nations once worked inside Ohio’s Medicaid bureaucracy, and later ran or represented a healthcare company reportedly placed on a federal fraud exclusion list.

Abukar Dahir Osman, often referred to by the nickname “Baale,” currently serves as Somalia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, a post he has held since 2017.

As of this month, Osman holds one of the most powerful rotating positions in global diplomacy: President of the UN Security Council.

In that role, he:

  • Oversees Security Council meetings
  • Sets the Council’s agenda
  • Manages resolutions and presidential statements
  • Speaks for the A3+ bloc (African nations plus Caribbean representation) on issues like Afghanistan and Yemen

But before assuming global authority in New York, Osman spent years embedded inside Ohio’s public welfare system.

Osman relocated to the United States in the late 1980s and built his career in Ohio’s taxpayer-funded social services apparatus.

From 1999 to 2012, he worked at the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services, serving as:

  • Case Manager
  • Social Program Specialist

Osman was also a supervisor for the Medicaid office in Franklin County, Ohio, from 2007 to 2012.

Mr. Osman also founded Beacon Educational Services, according to his profile on the UN.  He served as a consultant for the organization from 2007 to 2010.

The most alarming revelation involves Progressive Health Care Services Inc., an Ohio-based home healthcare company linked to Osman.

According to reporting cited by PJ Media and Prime Business Africa:

  • Osman served as Managing Director of Progressive Health Care Services from 2014 to 2019

  • He was also listed as a statutory agent in 2018, after becoming Somalia’s UN ambassador in 2017 — raising serious conflict-of-interest concerns

Upon reviewing Progressive Health Care Services’ National Provider Identifier (NPI) public profile, Abukar Osman was listed as the President and CEO.

Even more troubling:

Based on research conducted by The Gateway Pundit and reports from social media, Progressive Health Care Services Inc. appears on the November 2025 Updated List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG).

The listing falls under Exclusion Code 1128(a)(1).

Exclusion Code 1128(a)(1) refers to a mandatory exclusion from participation in all Federal health care programs (like Medicare and Medicaid) for individuals or entities convicted of a criminal offense related to fraud, theft, or financial misconduct in connection with providing or billing for health care items or services.

This means they can’t receive federal healthcare payments, and it’s a serious sanction imposed by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG). 

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 1/2/2026)  (Archive)

January 1, 2026 – Ukrainian Ultra-Nationalists commemorate WWII Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera

A torch-lit parade is held in the city of Lviv in Western Ukraine, marking the 117th birthday of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera on January 1, 2026 (Credit: public domain)

Ukrainian far-right activists have marked the 117th birthday of WWII-era nationalist leader and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera in the city of Lviv in Western Ukraine.

In footage published by Ukrainian media on Thursday, a line of people holding red flares is seen, meant to honor one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during WWII.

The group allied with the invading Nazi Germans to carry out massacres of Poles, Jews, Russians, and Ukrainians they accused of collaborating with the Soviets.

Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko declared Bandera and the UPA national heroes in 2010, with his decision reaffirmed by the leadership installed following the 2014 Western-backed Maidan coup.

Ukrainian nationalist groups, especially in the West of the country, regularly commemorate dates connected to other infamous Nazi collaborators, such as Roman Shukhevich, another prominent figure in the UPA.

The Ukrainian authorities’ connivance in the glorification of such controversial figures has recently strained relations with Poland, one of Kiev’s key backers in the conflict with Moscow. (Read more: The 21st Century, 1/1/2026)  (Archive)

January 3, 2026 – Delta Force/law enforcement arrest Nicolás Maduro and wife in Venezuela; Democrats were for it before they turned against it

Nicolas Maduro is perp walked through DEA Headquarters in New York, 1/3/2025. (Credit: public domain)

I have been monitoring the Venezuela issue all day long, and there are so many questions yet to be answered (thanks to great Pentagon OPSEC), but the strategic reason for bringing down Maduro has become abundantly clear.

While we ostensibly captured Maduro based on legitimate, outstanding US drug charges from 2020, the real reason for the military operations early this morning is that neutralizing Maduro’s Venezuela had become a strategic imperative for the USA.

Under Maduro, Venezuela had become the Latin American crossroads for all of the USA’s principal enemies. Maduro was nurturing relationships with Russia, Hezbollah and Iran. Worst of all, Venezuela was eagerly becoming a part of Red China’s Belt & Road initiative.

As America’s enemies were lining up Venezuela as their base of operations in the Western Hemisphere to cause mischief and destruction for the USA, Maduro was at the same time making Venezuela a crossroads, safe haven and enabler for all manner of narcoterrorist operations, ranging from Colombia’s FARC to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel.

On top of all that, Venezuela had become a key player in the illegal alien invasion of the USA, shipping its very worst to the USA in a deliberate and comprehensive destabilizing operation that might have worked had Donald Trump not won in 2024.

Next in importance: oil. The global and regional ambitions of both China and Russia are in large part dependent on the politics of petroleum, and the USA just deprived both of the cudgel afforded by friendly Venezuelan oil. Trump opponents say “It’s about oil” as if that was a bad thing. Yeah, it’s about oil.

Finally, all of this was in keeping with the most essential and fundamental foreign policy mandate of the USA almost since the nation’s inception: the Monroe Doctrine. Operations like what Maduro was running simply cannot be allowed in the Western Hemisphere. Trump was right for falling back on this most basic of doctrines that protects the USA’s sovereignty.

So was Maduro seized because of some five year-old drug charges? Yes. Legally–yes. However, like so many strategic issues in the world today, an action needed to be backed by the fine points of law, and it was. But the reality is that the Maduro takedown was a Monroe Doctrine-driven necessity that has greatly enhanced the power and national security of the USA.

Congratulations, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and the rest of the Trump national security team: you boldly took the steps necessary to defend the USA.

Well done.

Joint Statement from the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Administration

The Department of Justice, working in close coordination with the Department of War, the Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Intelligence Community, and our interagency and international partners, successfully executed a complex law-enforcement mission to bring Nicolás Maduro into U.S. custody to face justice.

This operation required months of coordination, detailed planning, and seamless execution across multiple components of the federal government. The Department of War led this remarkable effort. We cannot thank our brave military heroes enough.

Specialized FBI and DEA personnel, including tactical and transport teams, worked alongside DOW and our DOJ attorneys and other DOJ components to ensure the secure movement, control, and transfer of 2 high-risk defendants. All personnel involved acted professionally, decisively, and in strict accordance with U.S. law and established protocols. This was a perfectly executed operation with intensive cooperation and trust among President Trump’s team.

The mission was conducted to support an ongoing criminal prosecution tied to large-scale narcotics trafficking and related offenses that have fueled violence, destabilized the region, and contributed directly to the drug crisis claiming American lives.

The United States pursued every lawful option to resolve this matter peacefully. Those opportunities were repeatedly rejected. The responsibility for this outcome rests solely with those who chose to continue criminal conduct rather than disengage.

This operation reflects the Department of Justice’s unwavering commitment to accountability, the rule of law, and the protection of U.S. national security. We are proud of the federal law-enforcement professionals who carried out this mission and of the partnerships that made it possible. God Bless America and God Bless President Trump.

Cilia Flores (Credit: Ricardo Stuckert/PR)

Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted in the Southern District of New York. Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States. They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts. On behalf of the entire U.S. DOJ, I would like to thank President Trump for having the courage to demand accountability on behalf of the American People, and a huge thank you to our brave military who conducted the incredible and highly successful mission to capture these two alleged international narco traffickers.

Democratic members quickly denounced the operation as unlawful. They may want to review past cases, particularly the decision related to the Noriega prosecution. Rep. Jim McGovern (D., Mass) declared:

“Without authorization from Congress, and with the vast majority of Americans opposed to military action, Trump just launched an unjustified, illegal strike on Venezuela. He says we don’t have enough money for healthcare for Americans—but somehow we have unlimited funds for war??”

Trump does not need congressional approval for this type of operation. Presidents, including Democratic presidents, have launched lethal attacks regularly against individuals. President Barack Obama killed an American citizen under this “kill list” policy. If Obama can vaporize an American citizen without even a criminal charge, Trump can capture a foreign citizen with a pending criminal indictment without prior congressional approval.

Massive protests broke out after Nicolás Maduro stole the 2024 presidential election. With his removal, the people of Venezuela may soon be able to vote for the candidate of their choosing. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is led out of a helicopter on his way to his first appearance in US federal court in New York, January 5, 2026. [Credit: Adam Gray/Reuters]

January 1, 2026 – There is a documented link between Ohio and Minnesota daycare fraud

January 3, 2026 – Nick Shirley walks us through a Somali occupied building in Minnesota with 22 “healthcare” companies that share one address

January 4, 2026 – Rutgers professor says whiteness has an end date. ‘We gotta take these mf’ers out’….’

For eons now, the left has insisted that its fixation on race was all about justice, healing, and honesty. We were told it was a movement designed to understand power, correct past wrongs, and build a more equal society, blah blah blah.

But that phony framing is now collapsing under the weight of what these radical white-hating liberals are saying out loud.

In a recent clip circulating online, a left-wing Rutgers professor speaks about white people, not as human beings, but as some collective moral problem that must be ended.

At one point, she says that “whiteness is going to have an end date” and follows it by saying, “We gotta take these motherfuckers out.”

This is one of the most flagrant, anti-white rants we’ve seen.

We don’t need to say this, but we will… if a white professor spoke this way about black people, there’s no amount of “context” on earth that would save them. And you can bet there’d be no debate about intent or nuance. People’s heads and careers would be rolling down the streets, and the story would dominate national headlines for a year or more. (Read more: Revolver News, 1/4/2026)  (Archive)

(Harvard Magazine, 2002)

January 5, 2026 – Georgia State Rep. Karen Bennett, a BLM and defund police activist, is arrested for pandemic fraud

Georgia State Rep Karen Bennett (Credit: Instagram)

A former Georgia state Democrat lawmaker was federally charged for allegedly fraudulently obtaining nearly $14,000 in coronavirus-era unemployment benefits.

The development comes after Karen Bennett, who used to represent state House District 94, wrote a letter to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Dec. 30 announcing that she would be “retiring” from her position on New Year’s Day after 12 years of service, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.

“As a result of the false application and certifications, Bennett collected a total of $13,940 of PUA [Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program] benefits and federal supplements to which she was not entitled,” Theodore Hertzberg, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, wrote in a court filing this week.

Prosecutors allege the former representative applied for PUA benefits in May 2020 and disclosed that she worked for the Georgia General Assembly and ran Metro Therapy, a private business where her role consisted “of providing in-home physical therapy services.” They said that in the application, Bennett claimed the job was “her primary occupation and primary means of livelihood” and the “pandemic prevented her from performing any service in connection with” Metro Therapy.

(Read more: Fox News, 1/6/2026)  (Archive) 

January 5, 2026 – Trump UN Ambassador Mike Waltz torches UN Security Council melt down over the capture of Maduro

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz tore into the U.N. Security Council Monday after the globalist establishment erupted in outraged denunciations over the decisive U.S. military operation that captured socialist tyrant Nicolás Maduro and brought him to New York to face federal narco-terrorism charges.

The U.N. Security Council is headed by Somalia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, who assumed the leadership role this month.

REPORT: Somalia’s UN Ambassador, Who Previously Oversaw Medicaid, Also Served as CEO at a Company Reportedly Placed on a Federal Fraud Exclusion List and Banned from Receiving Medicaid Funds

The emergency UN Security Council meeting was called after Maduro’s dramatic weekend capture by U.S. special forces.

The meeting was formally requested by Colombia, a non-permanent Council member for the 2026–2027 term, and aggressively backed by Russia and China, both of which rushed to defend the disgraced dictator and condemn the United States for allegedly violating “international law” and “state sovereignty.”

Full transcript from Waltz’s speech:

“Mr. President, thank you for chairing. And I particularly want to thank you, Ms. De Freitas, for your briefing. And I’ll point out that Ms. De Freitas is in exile having fled the regime. Thank you for your courage and thank you for shedding a light on the true atrocities of the illegitimate Maduro regime.

This past weekend, colleagues, the United States successfully carried out a surgical law enforcement operation facilitated by the U.S. military against two indicted fugitives of American justice, narco-terrorist Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores. Colleagues, Nicolas Maduro is responsible for attacks on the people of the United States, for destabilizing the Western Hemisphere, and illegitimately repressing the people of Venezuela.

As Secretary Rubio has said, there is no war against Venezuela or its people. We are not occupying a country. This was a law enforcement operation in furtherance of lawful indictments that have existed for decades. The United States arrested a narcotrafficker who is now going to stand trial in the United States in accordance with the rule of law for the crimes he’s committed against our people for 15 years.

A similar action was taken in 1989 against Manuel Noriega. He was arrested, indicted, convicted in a court of law, served in prison in the United States and in Panama. And the Panamanian people, the American people, are safer for it. And undeniably, the region was more stable.

This law enforcement action was directed consistent with the President of the United States’ responsibility as Commander in Chief to protect Americans at home and abroad, against a fugitive who is directly responsible for narco-terrorism that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and created destabilizing violence throughout our hemisphere.

Nicolas Maduro and his co-defendant Cilia Flores have been transferred here to the United States to stand trial for their crimes. Maduro was indicted by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York and faces very serious criminal charges for his involvement in a wide-ranging conspiracy to conduct narcoterrorism, to traffic cocaine and other drugs, and conducting international weapons trafficking. The overwhelming evidence of his crimes will be presented openly in the U.S. court proceedings.

Colleagues, Maduro is not just an indicted drug trafficker; he was an illegitimate so-called president. He was not a head of state.

For years, Maduro and his cronies have manipulated Venezuela’s electoral system to maintain their illegitimate grip on power.

In fact, just two years ago in 2024, a UN panel of experts report found that the election in that year was absolutely and completely a farce and fell well short of the most basic transparency integrity measures essential to upholding credible elections.

If the UN and the United Nations and this body confers legitimacy on an illegitimate narco-terrorist and the same treatment in this charter of a democratically elected president or head of state, what kind of organization is this?

We should note that over 50 countries, many nations, including the European Union, including a number of Latin American countries in the region, and, of course, the United States – again over 50 countries rejected the legitimacy of Maduro’s re-election following the disputed 2024 elections, and do not – do not recognize him as Venezuela’s legitimately elected president.

Maduro unlawfully refused to peacefully cede power after the Venezuelan people voted him out of office in the 2024 election.

So therefore Maduro was a fugitive from justice. He is the head of a vicious Foreign Terrorist Organization Cartel de los Soles.

This regime-sponsored enterprise coordinates with and relies on other vicious criminal organizations, namely Tren de Aragua, again, among others, to carry out its objective of using illegal narcotics as a weapon against the United States.

For its part, Tren de Aragua is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the American people and against the United States.

Its terrorizing criminals commit brutal crimes, including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human, drug, and weapons trafficking.

This administration, President Trump will not stand for it. In fact, in March of 2025, President Trump declared that “Tren de Aragua is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.”

Maduro and his cronies have partnered with some of the most violent and prolific drug traffickers and narco-terrorists in the world for decades facilitating the flood of illegal drugs coming into the United States, estimated to be several hundred tons annually.

He has become rich, incredibly wealthy, off the misery of untold numbers of Americans, Venezuelans, and others, aiding and abetting international terrorist organizations like Hizballah, coordinating with corrupt Iranian officials, and other malign actors to influence not only the region but to malignly influence the United States.

In fact, in its own 2025 World Drug Report, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime identified Venezuela as a key trafficking route in the Western Hemisphere, the illegal drugs predominantly cocaine entering the United States and increasingly Europe.

As Secretary Rubio stated just yesterday, this is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live – and we’re not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be used as a base of operation for our nation’s adversaries, and competitors, and rivals of the United States.

You can’t turn Venezuela into the operating hub for Iran, for Hizballah, for gangs, for the Cuban intelligence agents and other malign actors that control that country.

You cannot continue to have the largest energy reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States, under the control of illegitimate leaders, and not benefiting the people of Venezuela, and stolen by a handful of oligarchs inside of Venezuela.

But it doesn’t stop there. Numerous UN and international human rights organizations have issued reports documenting serious human rights abuses by the Maduro regime, including reports of extrajudicial killings, political prisoners, torture and arbitrary and unlawful detentions.

In fact, over 8 million Venezuelans have fled the country, destabilizing their neighbors in the region and creating the world’s largest refugee crisis.

Members of this Council, colleagues, the United States wants a better future for Venezuela. We believe a better future for the people of Venezuela and for the people of the region and the world is stabilizing the region and making the neighborhood that we live in a much better and safer place.

And this is why millions of Venezuelans that have fled this brutal regime are celebrating and cheering around the world as this body pontificates. Including those celebrating it, including in my home state of Florida, where hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have fled this regime’s brutality.

I want to reiterate President Trump gave diplomacy a chance. He offered Maduro multiple off ramps. He tried to de-escalate. Maduro refused to take them. President Trump made it clear that the narcoterrorism must stop, and yet it continued.

The United States will not waver in our actions to protect Americans from the scourge of narcoterrorism and seeks peace, liberty and justice for the great people of Venezuela.

I thank you Mr. President.”

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 1/5/2026) (Archive)

January 5, 2026 – Mamdani’s new NYC tenant advocate calls to ‘seize private property,’ blasts homeownership as ‘white supremacy’

Mayor Mamdani announced Cea Weaver (right) as the director of the Office to Protect Tenants. (Credit: Robert Mecea)

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed tenant advocate called to “seize private property” and blasted homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” in a series of pro-Communist social media posts.

Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, made the statements and urged her followers to elect more Communists in several lecturing posts on her now-deleted X account that were unearthed by internet sleuths.

“Seize private property!” she said on June 13, 2018.

She later doubled down on that in a mini-manifesto in August 2019.

“Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she said then.

Weaver also pushed to “Elect more communists” in December 2017 — when a Harlem street corner was being renamed in honor of former Manhattan Rep. Vito Marcantonio, who was a Communist.

(…) “Without landlords how to do you build and maintain housing? You think the government is going to do it? Look at NYCHA [New York City Housing Authority complexes],” said Humberto Lopes, founder and CEO of the Gotham Housing Alliance.

“You put a system in place to destroy landlords. Why are you s–tting on us?,” he said.

Mamdani wants to freeze the rent on 1 million rent-regulated apartments — a move that would need signoff from the Rent Guidelines Board. (Read more: New York Post, 1/4/2026)  (Archive)

January 5, 2026 – Governor Tim Walz abandons his MN Gov re-election bid

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has announced he will no longer seek a third term.

Governor Walz released a statement Monday morning offering reasoning for his decision.

The statement is as follows:

“Good morning, and Happy New Year.

Like many Minnesotans, I was glad to turn the page on 2025. It was an extraordinarily difficult year for our state. And it ended on a particularly sour note.

For the last several years, an organized group of criminals have sought to take advantage of our state’s generosity. And even as we make progress in the fight against the fraudsters, we now see an organized group of political actors seeking to take advantage of the crisis.

I won’t mince words here. Donald Trump and his allies – in Washington, in St. Paul, and online – want to make our state a colder, meaner place. They want to poison our people against each other by attacking our neighbors. And, ultimately, they want to take away much of what makes Minnesota the best place in America to raise a family. They’ve already begun by taking our tax dollars that were meant to help families afford child care. And they have no intention of stopping there.

Make no mistake: We should be concerned about fraud in our state government. We cannot effectively deliver programs and services if we can’t earn the public’s trust. That’s why, over the past few years, we’ve made systemic changes to the way we do business.

We’ve gone to the legislature time and again to get more tools to combat fraud. We’ve fired people who weren’t doing their jobs. We’ve seen people go to jail for stealing from our state. We’ve cut off whole streams of funding, in partnership with the federal government, where we saw widespread criminal activity. We’ve put new locks on the doors of our remaining programs, and we’ve hired a new head of program integrity to make sure those locks can’t be broken.

All across the state, Minnesotans are hard at work on this problem. Advocates, administrators, investigators are on the front lines defending the integrity of our state’s programs, and I want to thank them for their efforts.

There’s more to do. A single taxpayer dollar wasted on fraud is a dollar too much to tolerate. And while there’s a role to play for everyone – from the legislature to prosecutors to insurance companies to local and county government – the buck stops with me. My administration is taking fast, decisive action to solve this crisis. And we will win the fight against the fraudsters.

But the political gamesmanship we’re seeing from Republicans is only making that fight harder to win.

We’ve got Republicans here in the legislature playing hide-and-seek with whistleblowers.

We’ve got conspiracy theorist right-wing YouTubers breaking into daycare centers and demanding access to our children.

We’ve got the President of the United States demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongly confiscating childcare funding that Minnesotans rely on.

It is disgusting. And it is dangerous.

Republicans are playing politics with the future of our state. And it’s shameful. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: We welcome ideas from anyone, in any party, who wants to help us continue to stay ahead of the criminals.

And we welcome the involvement of the federal government. I’m grateful to the career professionals at the U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI who are helping us win this fight.

But I cannot abide the actions of the political leadership in Washington – these opportunists who are willing to hurt our people to score a few cheap points. They and their allies have no intention of helping us solve the problem – and every intention of profiting off of it.

Which brings me to this: 2026 is an election year. And election years have a way of ramping up the politics at a time when we simply can’t afford more politics.

In September, I announced that I would run for a historic third term as Minnesota’s Governor. And I have every confidence that, if I gave it my all, I would succeed in that effort.

But as I reflected on this moment with my family and my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I can’t give a political campaign my all. Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our differences.

So I’ve decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work.

I know this news may come as a surprise. But I’m passing on the race with zero sadness and zero regret. After all, I didn’t run for this job so I could have this job. I ran for this job so I could do this job. Minnesota faces an enormous challenge this year. And I refuse to spend even one minute of 2026 doing anything other than rising to meet the moment. Minnesota has to come first – always.

That’s what I believe servant leadership demands of me. And as an optimist, I will hold out some hope that my friends on the other side of the aisle will consider what servant leadership demands of them in this moment. We can work together to combat the criminals, rebuild the public’s trust, and make our state stronger. But make no mistake: If Republicans continue down this path of abusing power, smearing entire communities, and running their own fraudulent game at the expense of Minnesotans – we will fight back every step of the way.

I’m confident that a DFLer will hold this seat come November. I’m confident that I will find ways to contribute to the state I love even after I’ve left office next January. But there will be time to worry about all that later.

Today, I’m proud of the work we’ve done to make Minnesota America’s best place to live and raise kids – from our new paid leave policy to our child tax credit to our free lunch program.

And I’m doubly proud of the incredible team we’ve put together to make that vision a reality. Thank you to every member of my staff, and every state employee, who’s part of this fight. We need you on the job to tackle the important work ahead.

Most of all, I want Minnesotans to know that I’m on the job, 24/7, focused on making sure we stay America’s best place to live and raise kids. No one will take that away from us. Not the fraudsters. And not the President. Not on my watch.”

(KTTC, 1/5/2025) (Archive)


President Trump follows with a fiery response:

Trump also retruthed this post on Truth Social:

January 5, 2026 – Pete Hegseth issues a formal Letter of Censure to Sen. Mark Kelly

Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly — and five other members of Congress — released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline. As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice. And the Department of War — and the American people — expect justice.

Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly’s seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E. Kelly, USN (Ret). The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay.

To ensure this action, the Secretary of War has also issued a formal Letter of Censure, which outlines the totality of Captain (for now) Kelly’s reckless misconduct. This Censure is a necessary process step, and will be placed in Captain Kelly’s official and permanent military personnel file.

Captain Kelly has been provided notice of the basis for this action and has thirty days to submit a response. The retirement grade determination process directed by Secretary Hegseth will be completed within forty five days.

Captain Kelly’s status as a sitting United States Senator does not exempt him from accountability, and further violations could result in further action.

These actions are based on Captain Kelly’s public statements from June through December 2025 in which he characterized lawful military operations as illegal and counseled members of the Armed Forces to refuse lawful orders. This conduct was seditious in nature and violated Articles 133 and 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, to which Captain Kelly remains subject as a retired officer receiving pay.

January 6, 2026 – Clownshow: Congressional Dems stage candlelight vigil for January 6 Fedsurrection anniversary

In a breathtaking display of political theater, Congressional Democrats gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday evening for a candlelight vigil to mark the fifth anniversary of the January 6 Capitol event, while once again refusing to condemn years of left-wing riots, arson, and political violence that ravaged American cities with near-total impunity.

Led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the group of Democrats stood in the freezing D.C. air, clutching flickering candles, and singing “God Bless America.”

Family members of law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021, joined the event.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 1/6/2026) (Archive)

Remembering January 6th by Ivan Raiklin

And the Victims of Nancy Pelosi’s Fed-Surrection

Read on Substack

January 5, 2026 – Michael Byrd who shot unarmed Ashli Babbitt on January 6th has a taxpayer funded daycare in his home

January 6, 2026 – Trump’s New National Security Strategy a Civilizational Manifesto

(Credit: Robert Semonsen/Newsmax)

The release of President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy last month sent shock waves through Washington, echoing far beyond the capital and rippling across global capitals where old assumptions linger like relics of another age.

For the first time in decades, the United States produced a strategic document that is not a polite, consensus-driven paper meant for diplomats in Brussels or business tycoons in Davos, but a declaration of national renewal — a reset of America’s compass after years of inaction, dependency, and ideological confusion.

Far more than a policy paper, the new NSS is a civilizational manifesto of the “America First” era. It marks a break with the tired orthodoxies that defined the post-Cold War consensus, restoring a clarity long missing from American statecraft: the purpose of national power is to defend the nation, enrich and safeguard its people, and conserve its way of life.

That principle, long treated as unfashionable by technocrats and left-liberal strategists, now stands proudly at the heart of U.S. policy. And if this new NSS does anything, it announces that America is done apologizing for wanting to survive — and win.

For too long, the U.S. allowed its future to be welded to Chinese supply chains, outsourcing the muscle of American industry to a geopolitical rival that never disguised its ambitions. The new NSS stops treating this as an unfortunate accident and calls it what it is: a strategic danger that must be reversed.

Where previous administrations spoke vaguely of “managing competition,” Trump’s strategy speaks plainly of ending dependence. Decoupling is not presented as an academic theory but as a national imperative — one that begins by bringing manufacturing home and anchoring what cannot be domestically produced in the Western Hemisphere.

This is not only smart economics but a revival of the older logic of the Monroe Doctrine, updated for the 21st century.

The new NSS makes clear that the Trump administration views the Western Hemisphere as a geopolitical space that contains America’s manufacturing frontier, its energy buffer, and its natural counterweight to the Chinese Communist Party. Where Beijing seeks footholds through ports, pipelines, and party-to-party alliances with socialist governments, Washington now signals that the age of passivity and weakness disguised as tolerance is over. (Read much more: Robert Semonsen/X.com, 1/6/2026)

January 6, 2026 – A Minneapolis Hampton Inn affiliate of Hilton refuses to give DHS agents rooms; Hilton responds

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Hilton Responds

Photos emerged Thursday showing a crane removing the sign of a Hampton Inn hotel in the Minneapolis area that allegedly refused to accommodate U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and immigration officers.

The formerly Hilton-branded property in Lakeville was stripped of its Hilton label by the hotel chain on Tuesday morning after a video surfaced appearing to show that the location continued to deny immigration officers despite Hilton Hotels saying that the venue had apologized and that “properties are open to everyone, and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination.”

The images showed the sign being lifted off its supports by a crane set up in the hotel’s parking lot.

Hilton did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday from Fox News Digital. It’s unclear who is now operating the hotel. A phone number linked to the property appeared to be disconnected when called.  (Read more: Fox News, 1/08/2026)  (Archive)

January 6, 2026 – Rand Paul redacts an email from a still employed DOJ official Kenneth Courter ordering the arrest of a disabled and innocent Trump supporter

Senator @RandPaul’s office redacted an email from DOJ official Kenneth Courter that shows him ordering the arrest of an innocent Trump supporter.

Courter had NO evidence to go after Christine Crowder, but he still had her placed in a J6 prosecution queue.

Courter is still employed by the DOJ, according to his LinkedIn.

Why is Paul’s office protecting this man?

Why haven’t they called for Courter’s firing?

I reached out to Senator Paul’s office for comment, but they did not respond.

January 6, 2026 – Newsom defies Trump, extends illegal aliens trucker licenses in violation of federal immigration law

Gavin Newsom (Credit: NYT)

California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has driven the state into the ground, is brazenly defying federal immigration law, with the radical left-globalist, anti-American administration now sabotaging efforts to revoke thousands of commercial truck driver’s licenses handed out to foreign nationals—many of them here illegally—exposed in a federal audit.

The move has provoked fierce pushback from the Trump administration, which is calling out the rogue state for jeopardizing American lives on highways.

At the heart of this matter are over 17,000 shady “non-domiciled” commercial driver’s licenses that California recklessly issued to noncitizens, including those without proper immigration status or work authorization. Federal officials uncovered massive fraud and violations—licenses that, under American law, should have been stripped away immediately to protect American citizens.

President Trump’s team gave California a rock-solid deadline to clean up this mess and revoke the illegal licenses, warning that defying the will of the American people would bring serious consequences. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, speaking plainly, said there will be no extensions and no excuses, adding California has no moral or legal right to threaten Americans’ safety.

Instead of putting the American people first, the California DMV arrogantly announced it would drag its feet until early 2026, hiding behind claims of needing “more time” to avoid “mistakes.” Federal authorities see right through this as pure globalist obstructionism, and deliberate stonewalling to shield illegal migrants at the expense of hardworking American families.

Duffy fired back, saying the regime in Sacramento is willfully breaking federal law and endangering Americans on our roads. He warned that California stands to lose up to $160 million in federal highway funds—money extracted from hardworking, law-abiding American taxpayers—if it keeps thumbing its nose at the rule of law.

The Trump administration has already hit back hard, withholding tens of millions in funds and ready to unleash more penalties until California backs down. For President Trump and his team, this is about enforcing our borders and protecting American sovereignty.

Trucking is a deadly serious job involving 80,000-pound rigs barreling down highways full of American families. When drivers lack legal status or authorization, they have no business behind the wheel.

This scandal has been amplified by a string of horrific crashes nationwide caused by foreign drivers with questionable or outright illegal credentials, putting innocent American lives at risk.

Open-borders lobbyists and activist groups like the Sikh Coalition and Asian Law Caucus have rushed to defend Newsom’s anti-American policies, suing to keep these licenses intact and crying about “disrupted livelihoods.”

But from the Trump administration’s America First viewpoint, that’s nonsense: No foreign national—legal or illegal—has an automatic “right” to drive massive trucks on American roads if they can’t meet basic federal standards. Political pressure and leftist lawsuits ought not to override American safety. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 1/6/2026)  (Archive)

January 6, 2026 – President Trump’s White House honors Americans who died on Jan 6 or as a result of Jan 6 indictments

President Trump’s Administration recognized the victims of the Deep State’s stolen 2020 election and Jan 6 setup who lost their lives.

Innocent Americans died on Jan 6 and after Jan 6 as a result of crimes committed by the Biden regime.

The radical Biden DOJ behaved like a radical communist regime before and after Jan 6.  They stole the election of 2020 from President Trump and the American people and then attacked Americans who called out their crimes.

(…) On Jan 6, 2026, the Trump Administration shared the following at WhiteHouse.gov.

President Trump took decisive action to pardon January 6 defendants who were unfairly targeted, overcharged, and used as political examples. They were not protected by the leaders who failed them. They were punished to cover incompetence.

On his first day back in office, January 20, 2025, President Trump issued sweeping blanket pardons and commutations for nearly 1,600 patriotic Americans prosecuted for their presence at the Capitol—many mere trespassers or peaceful protesters treated as insurrectionists by a weaponized Biden DOJ. He fully pardoned most, commuted sentences, and ordered immediate release of those still imprisoned, ending years of harsh solitary confinement, denied due process, and family separation for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Thousands of Americans paid the price for political failures they did not create.

Since January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi spent over 3 years and nearly $20 million in taxpayer funds on her partisan Select Committee, producing a scripted TV spectacle to fabricate an “insurrection” narrative and pin all blame on President Trump.

Video and audio recordings, including unaired HBO footage from her own daughter, show Nancy Pelosi repeatedly acknowledging responsibility for the catastrophic security failures—admitting “We have totally failed” and “I take full responsibility” for not having the National Guard pre-deployed, despite intelligence warnings and President Trump’s offers of troops that were ignored under her leadership as Speaker.

The Democrats masterfully reversed reality after January 6, branding peaceful patriotic protesters as “insurrectionists” and framing the event as a violent coup attempt orchestrated by Trump—despite no evidence of armed rebellion or intent to overthrow the government. In truth, it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection by certifying a fraud-ridden election, ignoring widespread irregularities, and weaponizing federal agencies to hunt down dissenters, all while Pelosi’s own security lapses invited the chaos they later exploited to seize and consolidate power. This gaslighting narrative allowed them to persecute innocent Americans, silence opposition, and distract from their own role in undermining democracy.

Four good Americans died on January 6, 2021, and the Deep State politicians who stole the 2020 election from the American people lied and claimed that five Capitol Police officers died instead.  No Capitol Police officers died that day.  The Deep State created the Jan 6 riots to take the focus off their massive crimes and make up crimes against innocent Americans.  Communism had come to America. (Read more: Joe Hoft, 1/7/2026)  (Archive)

January 6, 2026 – On the 5 year anniversary of January 6, Hillary Clinton tweets lies about that day and cites media gaslighting headlines

January 6, 2026 – Nick Shirley turns our gaze to possible fraud in Minnesota’s medical transport companies

WOAH 🚨 Nick Shirley exposes there are 1,200 medical transport companies in Minnesota. For a year, photos with timestamps were taken of the vans that are supposed to be used by these companies

NONE MOVED IN A YEAR. They sit parked, but are getting paid to transport patients

“I have been to many of these transportation companies and I’ve been time stamping my photographs for a whole year at one facility in Minneapolis and those vans in that parking lot had not moved one inch in an entire year. They’re all still sitting there”

“So when you think about it, you have with the transportation companies, you have the adult care centers. So are they working hand in hand together to then say we’re getting the services from them adult daycare centers to then transport them to their appointments” (and it’s ALL FRAUD)

January 7, 2026 – Tim Walz and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison are criminally referred to DOJ for Somali fraud

Tim Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith speak at a press conference in the State Capitol Dec. 4, 2019 (Credit: Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune/AP)

On Wednesday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) sent two separate letters to Attorney General Pam Bondi referring Walz and Ellison for investigation and prosecution.

She accuses Walz and Ellison of “conspiracy to defraud the United States and aiding and abetting federal offenders.”

Here are the letters:

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/9/2026) (Archive)

January 7, 2026 – FireAid charitable donations were misused by funding illegal aliens, podcasters, and non-profits

Organizers of last January’s FireAid benefit concert are once again facing accusations that the $100 million in donations did not directly help victims of the Los Angeles fires, after House Republicans published findings from their investigation on Tuesday.

Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin), who helped launch the investigation, claimed the “report highlights where the funds were not used in the way that the donors would likely have wanted them to be used.”

In its report, the House Judiciary Committee stated money went to “left-leaning pet projects, illegal aliens, and the administrative costs related to running non-profit organizations.”

“You had examples of funds used for voter outreach efforts, towards political advocacy groups, towards podcasters, fungus planting, those examples are pretty troubling,” Kiley said. “I do want to be clear, there were many organizations that got funds, nonprofits that are certainly very worthy nonprofits.”

FireAid organizers denied the claims made in the report. They stood by their original promise that all money raised during the concert would go to well-known, vetted nonprofits serving residents of Altadena, Pasadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu. (Read more: CBS News, 1/7/2025)  (Archive)

The report is broken down into sections that include the following headings:

– $100,000 of FireAid donations went to promote voter participation.

– $550,000 of FireAid donations went to groups involved in political advocacy.

– An unknown amount of money from FireAid donations went towards illegal aliens.

– $100,000 in FireAid donations was sent to podcasters.

– Over $500,000 of FireAid donations were used to pay bonuses, salaries, and consultants for non-profit organizations.

From the report’s conclusion:

FireAid advertised that all donations raised during its benefit concert would go directly to victims of the California wildfires. Unfortunately, this was not the case.55 Instead, money went towards left-leaning pet projects, illegal aliens, and the administrative costs related to running non-profit organizations. FireAid still has $25 million in donated funds to disperse.56 It is critical that the remaining money—donations intended to help Californians in need—be allocated directly to victims of the California wildfires. (Gateway Pundit, 1/7/2025)

January 7, 2026 – Anti-ICE activist hits ICE agent with vehicle and is shot dead; Walz and Frey incite violence as response

h/t X22Report

January 7, 2026 – Highlights of House Oversight Committee hearing on Minnesota fraud

Full Hearing

Highlights

January 8, 2026 – House axes Omar’s $1M earmark for restaurant-based ‘substance abuse clinic’

During a Thursday interview on Fox Business News with Stuart Varney, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said she investigated a $1 million earmark requested by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for a substance abuse clinic in Omar’s district and uncovered what she described as “tons of red flags.”

Ernst said the clinic was “housed in a restaurant” and that the three individuals listed as running the operation all shared the same residential address.

After alerting House leadership to her findings, the earmark was subsequently stripped from the spending bill.

Ernst told Varney:

What I uncovered the other day in one of our spending bills making its way through Congress was a $1 million earmark from Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota — which was an earmark that was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals that share the same residential address, according to their IRS paperwork. Tons of red flags.

So this is what we saw with the fraud involving the daycare centers. Now we see other earmarks coming directly from members of Congress where it seems fraud is being perpetrated as well.

So I raised the issue, and fortunately, the House has now stripped that earmark out of that spending bill. But again, this is how easy money has been flowing to bad actors in Minnesota.

(Read more: Legal Insurrection, 1/9/2026) (Archive)

January 9, 2026 – Grok data on the number of state and city officials who have spoken publicly against ICE; likely hundreds of such officials have done so

Grok’s question: How many state and city officials across America have spoken publicly against ICE and are there any video examples on X?

Grok’s answer: It’s challenging to provide an exact count of state and city officials who have spoken publicly against ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), as “public statements” can range from formal declarations and policy announcements to protest participation or media comments, and no comprehensive centralized tally exists. However, based on available data, at least dozens—and likely hundreds—of such officials have done so, particularly in the context of supporting sanctuary policies that limit local cooperation with ICE. For context:

Over 500 jurisdictions (including cities, counties, and states) have enacted sanctuary policies or publicly declared opposition to full ICE collaboration, implying that their elected leaders (e.g., mayors, governors, council members) have voiced criticism or non-cooperation.

States like Illinois, New York, Oregon, New Jersey, and California have laws or directives restricting ICE access, with governors and attorneys general publicly defending these stances to suppress arrests.

In contrast, states like Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia mandate cooperation, leading to higher ICE activity.

Specific incidents highlight clusters of officials speaking out: For example, more than a dozen New York state and city lawmakers (including senators, assembly members, and the city comptroller) were arrested during a 2025 protest demanding oversight of ICE detention practices, where they condemned the agency.

Governors like Tim Walz (Minnesota) and Kathy Hochul (New York) have criticized ICE operations as “a war” on their states or refused to allow “snatching people off the streets.”

Mayors in cities like Chicago, Denver, and Boston have faced threats of prosecution from federal officials for their opposition.

Broader trends show resistance growing amid Trump administration policies, with officials in non-cooperating areas (e.g., Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York) achieving lower ICE arrest rates compared to cooperating states.

Public declarations against ICE are a key characteristic of sanctuary jurisdictions, per federal definitions.

Video examples:

Yes, there are multiple video examples on X of officials criticizing ICE. Here are a few notable recent ones (from 2025-2026):

These examples often tie into broader calls to abolish or reform ICE, with some dating back to earlier years but many amplified recently amid enforcement surges.

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Details on sanctuary cities (At link)

Calls To Abolish ICE

The “Abolish ICE” movement calls for the complete elimination of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a federal agency established in 2003 under the Department of Homeland Security. Proponents argue that ICE is a relatively new entity (not essential to U.S. immigration enforcement, which existed prior via other agencies), functions as a “rogue” or militarized force responsible for human rights abuses, family separations, deaths in detention, racial profiling, and unaccountable tactics. They propose redistributing its responsibilities (e.g., investigations to other agencies, enforcement reformed or reassigned) to create a more humane system. The slogan gained traction in 2018 amid family separation policies but has seen renewed momentum in 2025–2026 under the second Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, militarized raids, and high-profile incidents.

Recent Surge in Calls (2025–2026)

Public support has risen sharply, driven by enforcement surges and controversies like the January 2026 fatal shooting of Renée Nicole Good (a 37-year-old U.S. citizen) by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. This incident sparked nationwide protests, vigils, and renewed demands to abolish the agency.

Polls show support climbing: A Civiqs poll indicates 42% of Americans now support abolishing ICE (up from ~20% in late 2024), with 50% opposed. A January 2026 YouGov poll found 52% disapprove of ICE overall (39% approve), with disapproval of its tactics at high levels.

Protests erupted in cities like Nashville, Louisville, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Providence, with demonstrators chanting “Abolish ICE” and holding signs condemning the agency as violent or terrorist-like.

Advocacy groups (e.g., Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, CASA, We Are Casa) renewed calls, citing deaths, militarization, and billions in funding for what they describe as state violence.

Some academics and commentators (e.g., University of Iowa professor Victor Ray) framed abolition as a “moderate” position, with extreme rhetoric calling for accountability trials.

Here are examples of protest visuals from rallies calling to abolish ICE:

Key Politicians and Officials Advocating Abolition

The call has been prominent among progressive Democrats, with some introducing legislation or statements.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (U.S. Representative, NY): A longtime advocate; made it central to her 2018 campaign and continues fundraising/advocating amid recent events.

Rashida Tlaib (U.S. Representative, MI): Posted “Abolish ICE now” on X following the Minneapolis shooting.

Shri Thanedar (U.S. Representative, MI): Announced plans to introduce the “Abolish ICE Act” in January 2026, calling ICE irreformable.

Robin Wonsley (Minneapolis City Council Member): Called for ICE to be “abolished altogether.”

Peggy Flanagan (Minnesota Lt. Governor): Stated the current ICE model should be thrown out.

Historical/ongoing: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand (all endorsed in 2018+); others like Pramila Jayapal, Mark Pocan (co-sponsored 2018 abolition bill).

Some officials (e.g., Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey) have harshly criticized ICE (“get the f— out”) without explicitly calling for full abolition, while others push reforms like warrants for arrests or defunding.

The movement faces internal Democratic tension—some moderates view the slogan as politically risky (blamed for electoral losses)—and strong opposition from Republicans, who portray it as anti-law enforcement. Calls often tie into broader demands for accountability, including investigations into recent deaths and restrictions on ICE funding. The debate remains heated, with public disapproval of ICE at record highs amid ongoing enforcement. (Grok, 1/9/2026)

January 9, 2026 – Leftist admits protesting at Minneapolis ICE facility is her job: ‘I’m getting paid right now!’

A leftist protesting outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Minneapolis on Friday admitted on camera she was there because it is literally her job.

Video footage from conservative journalist Nick Sortor showed Fox News host Laura Ingraham talking to so-called “protesters” outside the facility. 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!” and Ingram reacted with a thumbs up:

The news comes as leftist groups quickly mobilized to protest after a woman was fatally shot during an incident on Wednesday involving an ICE agent in Minneapolis, per Breitbart News.

Brandy Shufutinsky, who is director of the Education and National Security Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said, “It’s the same network of people that have thousands of Americans blocking the streets, waving communist and terrorist flags, and attacking law enforcement and innocents. They are stoking the grievance industry that they built.” (Read more: Breitbart News, 1/9/2026)  (Archive)

January 9, 2026 – Trump withdraws the U.S. from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and 65 other globalist institutions

Trump speaks to the World Economic Forum via live video, January 2025 (Credit: AP)

This is factually a much bigger deal, a bigger win, than most will initially appreciate.

As many deep political followers well understand, the 66 organizations that President Trump has just withdrawn from represent a large network of sanctioned government organizations that structurally support the globalist agenda.

President Trump has issued an executive order [SEE HERE] “Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States.” These institutions, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, are mechanisms that exist to underpin globalist objectives.

Each of the institutions carry “membership fees” or financial obligations each participating government pays into. Each organization consists of board members, stakeholders and other administrative offices which employ the friends and families of current and former politicians, world “leaders” and essentially well-connected and disconnected elites who run the agencies. It’s like a massive network of NGOs, except the entities exist exclusively with government funding.

Just like the United Nations itself, the USA always pays the dues, fees and largest portion of the operating expenses, which includes payrolls and travel benefits. Other countries participate, but it is the USA who picks up the largest portion of the financial obligations for the organization itself to exist.

Like USAID, the designated “global” organizations (conventions, treaties, etc) operate as massive bureaucratic rule makers for global standards and practices. The organizations themselves employ a network of downstream entities, agencies, contractors, think-tanks, academic liaisons and internal government offices who collaborate with the goals and objectives of the parent organization.

Inside each of these agencies and institutions you find the friends and families of the power brokers who run global -mainly western- systems of government. Withdrawing the support of the U.S. means cutting that entire apparatus off from receiving funding from the USA. Europe and the USA are the largest funders of each of these World Economic Forum aligned agencies.

It is not coincidental that President Trump and Secretary Rubio are making this move in advance of President Trump traveling to Davos, where the network associations congregate. President Trump is expected to deliver a bucket of ice water upon the heads of those who attend Davos annually.

The GREAT RESET crew, who design the global government customs and norms, is being reset.

This move is massive in relation to their financial dependency on the United States participating in the various schemes.

This is a big deal, and President Trump has put Secretary of State Marco Rubio in charge of dismantling it.

[President Donald J Trump] – By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct:

Section 1. Purpose. (a) On February 4, 2025, I issued Executive Order 14199 (Withdrawing the United States from and Ending Funding to Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United States Support to All International Organizations). That Executive Order directed the Secretary of State, in consultation with the United States Representative to the United Nations, to conduct a review of all international intergovernmental organizations of which the United States is a member and provides any type of funding or other support, and all conventions and treaties to which the United States is a party, to determine which organizations, conventions, and treaties are contrary to the interests of the United States. The Secretary of State has reported his findings as required by Executive Order 14199.

(b) I have considered the Secretary of State’s report and, after deliberating with my Cabinet, have determined that it is contrary to the interests of the United States to remain a member of, participate in, or otherwise provide support to the organizations listed in section 2 of this memorandum.

(c) Consistent with Executive Order 14199 and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to take immediate steps to effectuate the withdrawal of the United States from the organizations listed in section 2 of this memorandum as soon as possible. For United Nations entities, withdrawal means ceasing participation in or funding to those entities to the extent permitted by law.

(d) My review of further findings of the Secretary of State remains ongoing.

Sec. 2. Organizations from Which the United States Shall Withdraw. (a) Non-United Nations Organizations:

(i) 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact;

(ii) Colombo Plan Council;

(iii) Commission for Environmental Cooperation;

(iv) Education Cannot Wait;

(v) European Centre of Excellence for Countering

Hybrid Threats;

(vi) Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories;

(vii) Freedom Online Coalition;

(viii) Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund;

(ix) Global Counterterrorism Forum;

(x) Global Forum on Cyber Expertise;

(xi) Global Forum on Migration and Development;

(xii) Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research;

(xiii) Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;

(xiv) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

(xv) Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;

(xvi) International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;

(xvii) International Cotton Advisory Committee;

(xviii) International Development Law Organization;

(xix) International Energy Forum;

(xx) International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies;

(xxi) International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;

(xxii) International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;

(xxiii) International Lead and Zinc Study Group;

(xxiv) International Renewable Energy Agency;

(xxv) International Solar Alliance;

(xxvi) International Tropical Timber Organization;

(xxvii) International Union for Conservation of Nature;

(xxviii) Pan American Institute of Geography and History;

(xxix) Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation;

(xxx) Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combatting Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia;

(xxxi) Regional Cooperation Council;

(xxxii) Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century;

(xxxiii) Science and Technology Center in Ukraine;

(xxxiv) Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme; and

(xxxv) Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.

(b) United Nations (UN) Organizations:

(i) Department of Economic and Social Affairs;

(ii) UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) — Economic Commission for Africa;

(iii) ECOSOC — Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean;

(iv) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific;

(v) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia;

(vi) International Law Commission;

(vii) International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

(viii) International Trade Centre;

(ix) Office of the Special Adviser on Africa;

(x) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict;

(xi) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict;

(xii) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;

(xiii) Peacebuilding Commission;

(xiv) Peacebuilding Fund;

(xv) Permanent Forum on People of African Descent;

(xvi) UN Alliance of Civilizations;

(xvii) UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;

(xviii) UN Conference on Trade and Development;

(xix) UN Democracy Fund;

(xx) UN Energy;

(xxi) UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;

(xxii) UN Framework Convention on Climate Change;

(xxiii) UN Human Settlements Programme;

(xxiv) UN Institute for Training and Research;

(xxv) UN Oceans;

(xxvi) UN Population Fund;

(xxvii) UN Register of Conventional Arms;

(xxviii) UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination;

(xxix) UN System Staff College;

(xxx) UN Water; and

(xxxi) UN University.

Sec. 3. Implementation Guidance. The Secretary of State shall provide additional guidance as needed to agencies when implementing this memorandum.

Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d) The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

DONALD J. Trump [LINK]

• This is essentially deconstructing the George H.W. Bush “New World Order” as established over decades by governing elites, financial institutions & western governments.  • This is removing a massive network of agencies and operations, and the Bush-era 1992 U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is still only one part of it.

• This is tectonic geopolitical plate shifting with ramifications that are beyond most persons understanding.

Each of these global regulatory processes, policies and constructs, then creates an office within the U.S. government for regulatory enforcement and compliance.

Each treaty, convention and organization creates a bureaucracy within the U.S. govt to comply with it. That bureaucracy then expands govt spending far beyond the initial costs. (i.e. annual membership fees, association fees, and internal agreement payments for each participating govt).

We pay to join the agreement, we agree to the terms of the agreement, then we have to pay to organize our own offices to align with the agreement we just joined.

It gets worse….

Each agency within govt then has to create a subsidiary office for their specific compliance with the larger network. So, you have a DC govt compliance system, and an agency compliance system that is topic specific to that particular agency.

The 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as an example, means every single agency from HHS to DOD to FEMA to DHS to the entire apparatus of govt, all of them, need to have a corresponding office to create agency specific rules that comply with the originating charter.

You see, it’s not just the Federal Govt paying the U.N a membership fee for the Framework Convention on Climate Change, but each agency within govt then has to pay an office staff filled with lawyers, compliance officers, and bureaucratic nonsense teams that carry out the charter of the agreement we just signed up to.

Each of the 66 outlined “agreements” can end up generating hundreds or thousands of federal employees that are tasked with U.S. administration of the agreement.

Each of those federal employees has an expense account, credit card, vehicle, or voucher method, some form of indulgency, that connects them to the larger spending graft.

What Trump has done is a much bigger detonation than most will initially contemplate.

Thousands of well-connected DC employees, wives of politicians, brothers, sisters, in-laws, friends and family members, will now lose their income streams.

♦ This is also happening as President Trump has presented the 2026 National Security Strategy.  A stunning 33-page outline reprioritizing all of the interests and objectives of the United States government.

On December 6, 2025, President Trump put the world on notice that sovereign U.S. interests would be baseline for all of our strategic foreign policy approaches; particularly Europe was put on notice.

On January 7, 2026, President Trump is putting the world on notice that all of these various self-restricting global systems, institutions and mechanisms will no longer be supported by the United States.  Thousands of downstream beneficiaries that exist -in majority- from U.S. participation and underwriting, are going to be scrambling trying to find a way to retain their status.

President Trump’s upcoming speech to the World Economic Forum should be epic.

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Energy Secretary Chris Wright will join President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a source familiar with the plans said on Wednesday.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff will also be part of the planned delegation, the source said.

Trump will attend this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in person, after addressing the gathering by video link last year, four days after returning to the White House for a second term.

This year’s meeting is scheduled for January 19-23. {source}

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January 9, 2026 – Portland Police Chief cries while confirming Tren de Aragua ties in Border Patrol shooting

Portland’s police chief broke down in tears Friday while confirming that two illegal immigrants shot by a federal agent had suspected ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Police Chief Bob Day said the two suspects wounded in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection encounter had a “nexus” to the gang, backing up a Department of Homeland Security statement released earlier in the day. “They do have some nexus to involvement with TDA. We can confirm that,” Day said, pausing as he choked up during a news conference.

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Yesterday [1/8/2026], two suspected Tren de Aragua gang associates—let loose on American streets by Joe Biden—weaponized their vehicle against Border Patrol in Portland. The agent took immediate action to defend himself and others, shooting them.

The driver of the vehicle, Luis David Nico Moncada is a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela and suspected Tren de Aragua gang member. He illegally entered the U.S. in 2022 and was RELEASED into the country by the Biden administration. Since then, he was arrested for DUI and unauthorized use of a vehicle. He has a final order of removal.

The passenger, Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras is a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela and is associated with Tren de Aragua. She illegally entered the U.S. in 2023 near El Paso, Texas, and was RELEASED into this country by the Biden administration. Since illegally entering, Contreras played an active role in a Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and was involved with a prior shooting in Portland.

The target of the Border Patrol traffic stop in Portland was TDA affiliate Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, an illegal alien from Venezuela. Since illegally entering the United States in 2023, Zambrano-Contreras played an active role in a Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and is connected to a recent shooting in Portland.

The driver of the vehicle was Luis David Nico Moncada, suspected Tren de Aragua gang member with a FINAL ORDER OF REMOVAL. He illegally entered the U.S. in 2022 and was RELEASED into the country by the Biden administration. Since then, he has been arrested for DUI and unauthorized use of a vehicle.

Both individuals are currently hospitalized. The FBI will assume custody upon their release.

“The constant lies that they are putting out to their constituents – saying things like kidnapping, disappearing – it is encouraging these people to continue violating the law. They’re putting their constituents and their citizens in danger.” @USBPChief

This unprecedented increase in violence against law enforcement is a direct result of sanctuary politicians and the media creating an environment that demonizes our law enforcement and encourages rampant assaults against them.

The brave men and women of DHS will not be deterred and will continue arresting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.

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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek Says State is ‘Shaken and Outraged’ at Shooting of Tren de Aragua Gangbanger 1/10/2026

January 9, 2026 – Who is behind the anti-ICE protests we’re seeing explode across the US?

For years, I’ve been working independently but today I had the honor of working with a remarkable team at @FoxNews Digital, where I just joined as senior editor of investigations, and bring you back a story like none other I’ve been able to publish.

I worked all day with video editor @LanumNikolas and reporter @M_Dorgan — please follow them! — and we established, step-by-step that a network of groups – self-described as socialist, Marxist-Leninist or communist – are coordinating the multi-city mobilization that we’re seeing from NYC to Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Burlington, Vt., Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, vilifying @DHSgov @Sec_Noem and ICE officers and sowing discord on the streets.

Read our story here and look at Nik’s photos, documenting the evidence: https://foxnews.com/us/socialist-groups-ramp-up-nationwide-anti-ice-protests-target-noem-nyc

It’s reporting that you won’t see just about anywhere else, as most media outlets don’t name the names of the groups behind the protests and don’t identify the ideologies they embrace.

Watch Nik’s video ⬇️ because, and you’ll see the receipts and you’ll hear the honest remarks of a young protestor we interviewed.

“I personally identify as a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, following the teachings of [former communist China leader] Mao Zedong,” said demonstrator Tye Burrus, 18, who held a handmade sign depicting a hammer and sickle smashing a giant ice cube.

Burrus, a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation who self-identifies as a transgender woman, said losing faith in the Democrats and never having faith in the Republicans led to embracing communism. ​

“So now I am a communist,” Burrus said.

Going into the streets of the New York City protest and studying protests nationwide this is who we found from the far-left network:

1⃣ Freedom Road Socialist Organization @FreedomRoadOrg – A self-described communist group immediately dispatched its members to the site of the killing in Minneapolis, and they are the ones behind clashes with ICE officers. The FBI has investigated the group – whose members wear distinct red swag marked with FRSO – as a “revolutionary socialist and Marxist-Leninist organization,” citing alleged ties to foreign Marxist-Leninist extremist groups, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Communist Party of the Philippines, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC. Link to the internal FBI documents made public https://vault.fbi.gov/freedom-road-socialist-organization/freedom-road-socialist-organization-final/view

2⃣ @PeoplesForumNYC — Protest leaders arrived at AM, just before the 9 AM start for the protest in New York City, hauling two shopping carts full of bullhorns and pre-made black-and-white signs, printed with the message, “JUSTICE FOR RENEE NICOLE GOOD,” and a photo of Good, with “PARTY FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION” across the bottom. It’s a nonprofit activist hub for groups include @AnswerCoalition, and it’s received funding from a tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. It stage-managed most of the day’s protest in NYC.

3⃣ Party for Socialism and Liberation @PSLNational — Their organizers handed out the signs asking folks standing around: “Want a sign?” They organized protests across their national network, and they work closely with The People’s Forum.

4⃣ Democratic Socialists of America @DemSocialist — Its members joined the NYC march, wearing their distinct red beanies with DSA across the front, while its member NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani repeated the talking points of the socialist groups, saying the ICE officer “murdered” the woman. They are also organizing protests across their national network.

5⃣ Revolutionary Internationalist Youth from City University of New York — The carried handmade signs and copies of their newspaper, “The Revolution,” which said they promoted “the program of Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky.”

6⃣ Spartacist League members from the U.S. chapter of the International Communist League – They distributed copies of “Workers Vanguard,” which calls itself a “Marxist Newspaper”

The socialist-adjacent groups joining them in using this moment to organize protests are:
7⃣ @IndivisibleTeam – Closely aligned with the Democratic Party, it organized #HandsOff #NoKings marches all year and is now organizing protests nationwise.

8⃣ 50501 – It also organized #TeslaTakedown protests against Elon Musk and is throwing its muscle behind anti-ICE protests.

9⃣ @RefuseFascism – They moved through the crowd in NYC, handing out slick, freshly printed pamphlets titled “The People’s Indictment of Donald Trump,”

Why does it matter to know these names?

Stu Smith @thestustustudio, a @ManhattanInst researcher who studies domestic extremism, explained, “I just wish the average American realized that there is a network of far-left agitators in America who are Marxist-Leninists, socialists, Maoists and even North Korean apologists.”

“As these ideologues say, the issue is never the issue,” he told us. “It’s all about the revolution. After this terrible situation in Minneapolis, they used social media and their networks to mobilize and get on the streets to hurt America.”

You’ve heard me say it before. Look at the evidence yourself. Read the signs shared by journalists like @MrAndyNgo. Follow the money with data scienctists like @DataRepublican. Study the breadcrumbs. I’m honored to work with this team to bring our reporting from the streets back to you.

January 9, 2026 – White House: 57 times sick, unhinged Democrats declared war on law enforcement

On National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, the Trump Administration proudly honors the brave patriots of ICE and all law enforcement who put their lives on the line to protect America. In stark contrast, unhinged Radical Left Democrats have escalated their torrent of vicious, inflammatory attacks on these very heroes — branding them as Nazis, terrorists, and Gestapo thugs while inciting their delusional supporters to unleash

As ICE valiantly defends our sovereignty and communities, here are 57 times Democrats have recklessly, deliberately stoked hatred and division against them:

  1. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz smeared ICE officers as a “threat” to the public, called ICE “reckless,” suggested the state is at “war” with federal officers and “under attack” by ICE, and smeared ICE as the “modern-day Gestapo.”
  2. California Gov. Gavin Newsom likened ICE to “secret police,” calling them “authoritarian” and calling for people to “push back.”
  3. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker claimed ICE is turning the country into “Nazi Germany.”
  4. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul accused ICE is “terrorizing people.”
  5. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro claimed ICE officers “make our neighborhoods less safe.”
  6. Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan said ICE officers cause “chaos and terror.”
  7. Sen. Chuck Schumer declared that ICE “does not belong in our neighborhoods.”
  8. Sen. Tina Smith called ICE “a clear and present threat.”
  9. Sen. John Hickenlooper smeared ICE as “a reign of terror.”
  10. Sen. Jeff Merkley likened ICE operations to “fascism” and claimed officers are “doing nothing” but “terrorizing our communities.”
  11. Sen. Bernie Sanders asked people to “stop ICE from what they are doing as soon as possible.”
  12. Sen. Elizabeth Warren claimed ICE is “intentionally stok[ing] fear” and “tear[ing] communities apart.”
  13. Sen. Ruben Gallego said ICE exists to “scare the American public.”
  14. Sen. Mark Warner equated ICE officers to a brutal dictator.
  15. Sen. Dick Blumenthal accused ICE of spreading “lawlessness and recklessness.”
  16. Sen. Alex Padilla accused ICE of “indiscriminate violence.”
  17. Sen. Dick Durbin accused ICE officers of committing “atrocities.”
  18. Rep. Ilhan Omar said ICE is “state violence,” called officers “vile and beyond cruel,” and stated “[a]bolishing ICE is not enough.”
  19. Rep. Pramila Jayapal called ICE officers “deranged,” accused them of “kidnapping,” said “resistance” to ICE is “inspiring,” and claimed ICE officers will “shoot at you and kill you.”
  20. Rep. Eric Swalwell smeared ICE officers “masked thugs,” called them “terrorizing bandits,” said it was his “priority” to ensure officers “are no longer faceless,” compared them to the KGB, and demanded they “stay the fuck out of California.”
  21. Rep. Jasmine Crockett compared ICE to “slave patrols” and called them “thugs.”
  22. Rep. Delia Ramirez said ICE is the “single biggest threat to public safety right now” and attacked ICE as “a terror force.”
  23. Rep. Summer Lee said ICE is “out of control” and a “police state.”
  24. Rep. Ayanna Pressley called ICE “a rogue, violent agency that “has no business in our communities” and “must be abolished,” and accused ICE of “terrorizing our communities.”
  25. Rep. Mark Pocan demanded ICE “get the f*ck out of our cities.”
  26. Rep. April McClain Delaney called ICE “lawless.”
  27. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes called ICE an “anti-civilian force” and said ICE “should not exist.”
  28. Rep. Rashida Tlaib said ICE is “terrorizing our communities” and “turning our country into a fascist police state,” called it a “rogue agency,” and called for it to be abolished.
  29. Rep. Julie Johnson excused violence against ICE as people “channeling that frustration.”
  30. Rep. Laura Friedman said ICE officers are “terrorizing our friends and neighbors” and “bringing chaos and violence to our streets.”
  31. Rep. Shri Thanedar called to end legal protections for ICE officers.
  32. Rep. Janelle Bynum said ICE is “state-sponsored terrorism.”
  33. Rep. Sylvia Garcia referred to ICE officers as “thugs.”
  34. Rep. Jan Schakowsky urged people to “fight back” against ICE’s “abuse.”
  35. Rep. Robin Kelly smeared ICE as the “Gestapo” and a “betrayal.”
  36. Rep. LaMonica McIver incited people to “shut down the city” because “we are at war.”
  37. Rep. Max Frost compared ICE operations to “the worst horrors and crimes against humanity.”
  38. Rep. John Larson said ICE is “the SS” and “the Gestapo.”
  39. Rep. Stephen Lynch smeared ICE officers as “the Gestapo” and “nondescript thugs.”
  40. Rep. Dan Goldman compared federal officers to “secret police” who must be unmasked.
  41. Rep. Becca Balint called ICE “vigilantes.”
  42. Rep. Chuy Garcia said ICE brings “nothing but terror and violence” and warned ICE officers they “will be held accountable” for “terrorizing my community.”
  43. Rep. Nikki Budzinski called ICE officers “dangerous and reckless.”
  44. Rep. Gil Cisneros claimed ICE has “terrorized” people through “racial profiling.”
  45. Rep. Lauren Underwood accused ICE of a “horrifying campaign to spread fear… and violently snatch people from our streets.”
  46. Rep. Steve Cohen accused “out-of-control” ICE officers of “misusing their authority.”
  47. Rep. Joaquin Castro called ICE “a rogue organization” that “should be disbanded.”
  48. Rep. Maxine Waters said ICE was causing “mayhem and death.”
  49. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey demanded ICE “get the fuck out” of the city and accused
    officers of “terrorizing our communities.”
  50. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said ICE enforcement “is an attack on us all.”
  51. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson accused ICE of being “secret police” who are “terrorizing our communities” and said ICE was a “lawless, racist force.”
  52. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE officers to a neo-Nazi group.
  53. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass excused violent anti-ICE protests as just like a “Lakers championship.”
  54. New Jersey State Sen. Britnee Timberlake threatened that ICE officers “will find themselves in the same position as those who carried out the illegal acts in Nazi Germany.”
  55. Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley claimed ICE is carrying out “terrorist attacks.”
  56. Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn called ICE “dangerous.”
  57. Cudahy (California) Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez implored the violent 18th Street and Florencia 13 gangs to “help out and organize” against ICE.

January 9, 2026 – Scott Bessent orders the IRS to audit the financial institutions that facilitated the laundering of Minnesota funds

BREAKING. Scott Bessent just announced the Internal Revenue Service is launching MASSIVE AUDITS of financial institutions that facilitated the laundering of Minnesota funds.

Read that again.

Banks. MSBs. Financial middlemen.
Anyone who helped move dirty money is about to get TORCHED.

For once, the IRS is being deployed FOR AMERICANS FIRST — not against working families.

Follow the money.
Audit everything.
Prosecute whoever broke the law.

Music to my ears.
Thank you, Sec. Bessent.

January 9, 2026 – Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and his wife have deep ties to the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scandal

In the heart of Minneapolis, where progressive politics often masks a labyrinth of insider dealings and questionable alliances, a scandal of epic proportions has been simmering for years. The Feeding Our Future fraud case, widely regarded as one of the largest COVID-era scams in U.S. history, siphoned off an astonishing $250 million in federal funds meant to feed hungry children. Instead, the money lined the pockets of fraudsters, funding luxury cars, lavish homes, and overseas wire transfers. But as new revelations emerge, the spotlight turns to none other than Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, whose personal and professional connections raise serious questions about conflicts of interest, potential complicity, and why he’s so vehemently defending elements tied to this mess.

In Minneapolis, the story isn’t just about stolen taxpayer dollars; it’s about a mayor whose wife worked for the very lobbying firm that shielded the fraudsters, whose campaign coffers swelled with donations from indicted players, and whose appointees ended up in federal crosshairs. With the Trump administration now in power and calls for accountability echoing from Washington, it’s time to pull back the curtain on Frey’s entanglements. Let’s follow the money, the relationships, and the timeline.

The Feeding Our Future Scandal: A Primer on the Heist

Feeding Our Future was a Minnesota nonprofit founded in 2016 by Aimee Bock, ostensibly to distribute meals to children in need through federal child nutrition programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). During the COVID-19 pandemic, when oversight was relaxed to expedite aid, the organization exploded in size. By 2021, it claimed to be serving millions of meals at hundreds of sites across the state. But federal investigators allege it was all a sham: fake meal counts, shell companies, kickbacks, and money laundering on a massive scale.

(…) But Feeding Our Future didn’t operate in a vacuum. It relied on legal and lobbying muscle to fend off early scrutiny from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), which flagged suspicious growth as early as 2020 and began denying site applications. Enter Hylden Advocacy & Law, a powerhouse Minneapolis firm known for its cozy ties to Democratic leaders, including Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison.

Sarah Clarke: The Mayor’s Wife at the Center of the Storm

Sarah Clarke (Credit: public domain)

Mayor Jacob Frey’s wife, Sarah Clarke (also known as Sarah Stephens Frey), was no peripheral player. Until January 2022, the exact month of the FBI raids, Clarke served as a lobbyist and government liaison at Hylden Advocacy & Law. The firm, led by Nancy Hylden, provided legal representation and lobbying services to Feeding Our Future, appearing in court alongside Bock and helping the nonprofit navigate regulatory hurdles. Hylden’s tagline? “Your friend at the Capitol.” And friends they were: the firm was listed in Feeding Our Future’s annual reports to the Minnesota Attorney General as far back as 2019.

Clarke’s abrupt departure from the firm coincided precisely with the federal crackdown, leaving behind a trail of unanswered questions. Was it coincidence, or did insider knowledge from City Hall or federal connections prompt her exit? Frey has denied any awareness of the fraud, and no charges have been filed against Clarke, Hylden, or the mayor himself. But critics point to Frey’s reported friendship with U.S. Attorney Andy Luger, who oversaw the indictments, as a potential shield. In a city where politics is personal, such relationships demand scrutiny.

Hylden’s reach extends further. The firm also lobbied for the Somali Museum of Minnesota, founded by Osman Ali in 2011. Ali pleaded guilty to fraud in a separate case, yet the museum received $4.5 million in state funding just months later. This isn’t isolated; Minnesota’s Somali community has been at the epicenter of multiple fraud schemes, including a $104 million housing scam, $399 million in autism fraud, and billions in remittances to Somalia. Hylden’s involvement in these orbits raises red flags about how lobbying dollars influence public funds.

More about:

Campaign Cash: Donations from the Indicted

The Appointees: Frey’s Inner Circle Indicted

Recent Fireworks: Frey’s Defiance and the Broader Context

Time for Accountability: What Happens Next?

(Read more: The Current Report, 1/9/2026)  (Archive)

January 10, 2026 – New docs reveal Jack Smith team approved $20k payment to informant to snitch on Trump team during Arctic Frost probe

(…) But the biggest bombshell in the latest document was the revelation that the FBI had an informant that Smith’s office approved for compensation for the dirt he or she shared with the FBI.

An electronic communication “documents prosecutorial approval, in the form of emailed concurrence from Counselor to the Special Counsel Raymond Hulser on 06/02/2023, of a payment for information in the amount of $20,000.00 to [name redacted] for information provided in support of captioned investigation,” one memo reads.

“The payment was discussed by Raymond Hulser and Assistant Special Counsel Julia Gegenheimer with Special Counsel Jack Smith,” the memo added.

Julia Gegenheimer and Raymond Hulser (Credit: public domain)

The memos showed the chain of approval with an FBI agent who wrote to Smith’s office on June 2, 2023.

“As discussed, request your office’s concurrence in our proposed payment of $20,000 for CHS’ provision of information in support of the investigation,” the agent wrote.

Hulser wrote back succinctly, “Concur, thank you.”

You can read some of the memos here:

Patel told Just the News that the release of the documents were part of a larger effort by the FBI to ensure all evidence of law-enforcement  and weaponization is made public and given to congressional oversight committees after years of it being withheld or hidden under past directors.

“Under my leadership, the FBI is producing documents at record speed to get the facts straight to the American people. What occurred in the Arctic Frost matter was an egregious abuse of power and violation of the law. This FBI is committed to restoring accountability and public trust,” he said.

There have long been rumors of an informant that the FBI used to build the Arctic Frost case, and the new memos are certain to spur intrigue as to the person’s identity and whether they were a Trump insider.

Arctic Frost has generated controversy because it secured an order from U.S. District Judge Boasberg that let the executive branch, in the form of Smith’s office, obtain the phone records of eight U.S. senators and one congressman and swept up information from hundreds of conservative figures and groups. (Read more: Just the News, 1/10/2026)  (Archive)

January 10, 2026 – Scott Bessent: ‘When the bear trap snaps’ Minnesota fraudsters and complicit officials will face justice

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (Credit: public domain)

Christopher Rufo’s bombshell reporting on Minnesota’s Somali fraud schemes ignited a massive federal crackdown — now, in this exclusive interview, he sits down with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for the latest on the escalating investigations.

While fraud rings in Minnesota’s Somali community have been under federal investigation for years, it was investigative journalist and BlazeTV host Christopher Rufo’s reporting that brought the billion-dollar scandals to national attention. Back in November 2025, Rufo published a report titled “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer,” in which he and co-author Ryan Thorpe alleged that billions of taxpayer funds were being stolen through schemes in Minneapolis’ Somali community and that millions of those funds were being funneled to the Al-Shabaab terror group in Somalia.

Rufo’s reporting sparked massive federal action, including revoking Temporary Protected Status for Somalis, surging Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, freezing child-care funds, and ramping up prosecutions. Most notably, it led Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to visit Minnesota in January 2026 and launch major FinCEN probes into hawala businesses, IRS audits, and enhanced transfer reporting.

In this exclusive BlazeTV interview with Rufo, Bessent shares what his team’s investigations have revealed about Minnesota’s Somali fraud operations and what steps the Treasury is taking to ensure it stops.

(Read more: BlazeTV, 1/12/2026)  (Archive)

In the same interview, Scott Bessent also said:


“It’s hard to follow the money. There are evidently some disturbing tapes of AG Ellison in meetings with people who donated to him—calling for political favors to stop the investigations. We’ll see. I don’t want to get out ahead of the investigation. It’s going to be very methodical. But I can guarantee you—when the bear trap snaps, we’re going to get these folks. We’re going to follow the money, whether it’s here in Minneapolis and St. Paul or over in East Africa. There are tons of luxury properties and cars that have been bought over there.”

January 10, 2026 – Criminal histories of illegal aliens recently captured in MN by ICE that anti-ICE protesters risk all to protect and state officials fondly call their “neighbors”

BREAKING: ICE has provided @FoxNews a list of the most egregious criminal aliens they’ve arrested during their surge in the sanctuary state of Minnesota, & it’s the most disturbing list I’ve ever seen, including numerous convicted child rapists/sodomizers & ten convicted killers, most with deportation orders going back many years. Several from Laos, Somalia, and Sudan.

WARNING GRAPHIC – Highlights below:

Sriudorn Phaivan, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of strong-arm sodomy of a boy & strong-arm sodomy of a girl with a deportation order since 2018.

Tou Vang, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of sexual assault and sodomy of a girl under age 13 and procuring a child for prostitution with a deportation order since 2006.

Chong Vue, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of the strong-arm rape of a 12-year-old girl and kidnapping a child with intent to sexually assault her, with a deportation order since 2004,

Ge Yang, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of strong-arm rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, and strangulation with a deportation order since 2012.

Pao Choua Xiong, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of rape and child fondling with a deportation order since 2003.

Kou Lor, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of rape, rape with a weapon, and sexual assault with a deportation order since 1996.

Hernan Cortes-Valencia, Mexican illegal alien convicted of sexual assault of a child and DUI with a deportation order since 2016.

Abdirashid Adosh Elmi, a Somalian illegal alien convicted of homicide.

Gilberto Salguero Landaverde, a Salvadoran illegal alien convicted of three counts of homicide with a deportation order since June 2025.

Gabriel Figueroa Gama, a Mexican illegal convicted of homicide who has been previously deported in 2002.

Galuak Michael Rotgai, a Sudanese illegal alien convicted of homicide.

Thai Lor, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of two counts of homicide with a deportation order since 2009.

Mariana Sia Kanu, an illegal alien from Sierra Leone convicted of two counts of homicide with a deportation order since 2022.

Aldrin Guerrero Munoz, a Mexican illegal alien convicted of homicide with a deportation order since 2015.

Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed, a Somalian illegal alien convicted of manslaughter with a deportation order since 2022.

Mongong Dual Maniang Deng, a Sudanese illegal alien convicted of attempt to commit homicide, weapon possession, and DUI.

Aler Gomez Lucas, a Guatemalan illegal alien convicted of negligent homicide with a vehicle and DUI with a deportation order since 2022.

Shwe Htoo, a Burmese illegal alien convicted of negligent homicide.

ICE says all of these criminal aliens were roaming freely in the sanctuary state of Minnesota prior to arrest, and that these are the type of people that politicians and activists are referring to as their “neighbors” as they attempt to interfere with ICE.

January 11, 2026 – DOJ subpoenas Fed over Powell testimony on renovation overruns

Jerome Powell’s latest statement is nothing more than a desperate attempt to save his own skin. After the criminal investigation into his misleading testimony about the Fed’s extravagant renovations became public, he now claims the DOJ is threatening the entire institution over interest rate policy. This is a classic deflection tactic.

The probe centers on whether Powell lied to Congress about the massive costs and scope of those headquarters upgrades, not on monetary policy decisions. By pivoting to accusations of pressure over rates, he tries to paint himself as a victim defending the Fed’s independence while conveniently sidestepping the real issue: his own potential perjury.

President Trump has every right to demand accountability from unelected bureaucrats who control the nation’s money supply. The Federal Reserve is not above the law, and refusing to answer legitimate questions from Congress should carry consequences. Powell’s attempt to flip the narrative only highlights how deeply entrenched the resistance to real oversight has become.

This escalation shows the establishment is rattled. If the investigation continues to gain traction, Powell will face mounting pressure to step down, opening the door for Trump to appoint a chair who actually prioritizes American workers, lower borrowing costs, and economic growth instead of protecting bloated budgets and insider perks.

Markets would welcome the change. Removing obstacles to sound policy would signal a return to fiscal discipline and reward productive investment. Powell’s spin cannot hide the facts: transparency is long overdue, and the current leadership has failed to deliver it. The momentum is clearly on the side of those demanding real reform.

The probe focuses on a $2.5 billion upgrade to the Fed’s Washington buildings, where costs ballooned from $1.9 billion, sparking a July 2025 criminal referral by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna over Powell’s congressional statements denying luxury features like a VIP dining room and premium marble—elements documents later referenced before being scaled back. Powell called the subpoenas pretexts amid clashes with President Trump on interest rates, while U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said her office was ignored on questions about overruns. Republicans split, with some vowing to block Fed nominees until resolved, as markets showed mild reaction and Powell’s term ends in May 2026. (X.com/Trending)

The United States Attorney’s Office contacted the Federal Reserve on multiple occasions to discuss cost overruns and the chairman’s congressional testimony, but were ignored, necessitating the use of legal process—which is not a threat.

The word “indictment” has come out of Mr. Powell’s mouth, no one else’s. None of this would have happened if they had just responded to our outreach.

This office makes decisions based on the merits, nothing more and nothing less. We agree with the chairman of the Federal Reserve that no one is above the law, and that is why we expect his full cooperation.

From April 2024:

BREAKING, INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE: Hidden Camera captures Principal Economist @federalreserve talking about Jerome Powell’s legacy as “somebody who held the line against like, Trump.” The influential agency responsible for maintaining a stable monetary system appears to not just be establishing interest rates, but to be setting policies for desired social outcomes.

“Under Powell, the Fed has changed to think about equity issues, like racial issues, think about wealth inequality as part of the mandate, as part of the things we are following. Think about climate change.” Aurel Hizmo, Principal Economist at the Federal Reserve, who prior to working at the Fed was an Assistant Professor @NYUStern and received his PhD in Economics from @DukeU, helps write speeches for Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell for the Federal Open Market Committee.

Hizmo says “Trump is just a crazy person” and conservatives are “dumb” as he describes to OMG’s American Swiper Citizen Journalist a politicized Federal Reserve Board where Powell has promoted ESG issues like climate change and “wants to be remembered in history” “as a savior.” But shhh…don’t tell anyone because Hizmo says: “I’m just really worried that I’m saying stuff that’s classified…It’s all classified.”

January 11, 2026 – Minneapolis anti-ICE mob attacks Nick Sortor, Cam Higby in vehicle as they flee chaotic scene

Independent journalists Nick Sortor and Cam Higby are in Minneapolis to cover protests against immigration enforcement operations on Sunday.

BREAKING: These are the moments leading up to Minneapolis anti-ICE rioters SURROUNDING my vehicle, smashing my windows, and attempting to kiII
@CamHigby and me

I was forced to drive away to save our lives, repeatedly warning those standing in front to GET OUT OF THE WAY.

They didn’t listen, so I had no choice but to go anyway.

They then used vehicles to BLOCK US as we were running, forcing me to throw the truck off the road to go around them.

Then, it appears we were CHASED down the interstate by another one of their goons.

I have to post this now because these idiots called the police on me saying I had a gun and was “running innocent protestors over”

You can try to terrorize me all you want. BUT I WILL NEVER STOP, AND NEVER SHUT UP.

“This is the moment @nicksortor was forced to drive away as a mob SURROUNDED his vehicle, smashed the windows, and spray painted the car,” Higby posted. “Rioters have now told @MinneapolisPD that we have guns. The rioters repeatedly threatened to [kill] us.”

Higby later posted video showing the frozen water bottles that he said were thrown at their truck, breaking the back window.

“They should be arrested for attempted [fucking] murder,” Sortor posted on X. “They beamed frozen water bottles through the windows, and if one of us would’ve been struck, we could’ve easily been [killed.] This was planned. But luckily, I drove away, so they beamed them through the back window instead.”

h/t Daily Caller, 1/12/2026

January 11, 2026 – Kristi Noem surges HSI officers in Minnesota to hunt down child sex traffickers; “It’s so prevalent in Minnesota.”

Kristi Noem says that they have surged HSI officers in Minnesota specifically to hunt down child sex traffickers.

“We’ve surged HSI officers there specifically to focus on sex trafficking and child trafficking. It’s so prevalent in Minnesota. It’s horrific.

And we brought dozens and dozens of those individuals to justice already. We’re gonna keep hundreds of HSI officers there to continue to protect those children.

Every day we get another individual that was sexual assault against a child. Sodomy against a child.

I can’t believe that the mayor and governor can defend allowing those people to go out there and victimize more of our children and grandchildren.”

Infuriating. When see you see these dumbass leftists protesting in the streets, just know that they are out there protecting pedophiles.

At this point, how can anyone claim that the Democrats are the “good guys”?

January 12, 2026 – House “Republican Leadership” is attempting to funnel $315 million to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

RINO ALERT: House “Republican Leadership” is attempting to FUNNEL $315 MILLION of YOUR TAX DOLLARS to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a left-wing propaganda outfit.

NED is a Deep State slush fund exposed by DOGE for spending BILLIONS on regime-change ops, color revolutions, and woke activists to topple governments.

NED is the CORE of the global Censorship Industrial Complex, a CIA cutout redefining “democracy” for elitist control, using backchannel deals with the EU to silence conservatives worldwide.

Thomas Massie (R-KY) has introduced an AMENDMENT to DEFUND NED entirely in the FY2026 appropriations bill.

It requires 7 Republicans on the Rules Committee to force a floor vote.

These are the Republican members on the House Rules Committee who hold the power right now:

Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
Michelle Fischbach (R-MN)
Ralph Norman (R-SC)
Chip Roy (R-TX)
Erin Houchin (R-IN)
Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY)
Austin Scott (R-GA)
H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA)
Brian Jack (R-GA)

Per my Mike Benz notes, NED should now be controlled by the Trump State Dept? Correct?

1. USAID – funding arm

2. State Department – sets policy

3. NED – technical implementation of work. CIA birthed. Subsidize groups without having CIA fingerprints on the work.- Founder admitted it was done to keep CIA from getting into trouble doing things they are not supposed to do. Accountable to foreign relations committee.

IRI – GOP arm for CIA to make sure their projects receive funding.
NDI – Dem arm for CIA to make sure their projects receive funding.

January 13, 2026 – Law enforcement is misclassifying race and distorting crime statistics; it’s demographic manipulation and narrative laundering

This is not a clerical error. This is narrative laundering.

The arrest records shown do something very specific. They classify a foreign national as a White male with blond or strawberry hair while omitting immigration status entirely. That is not descriptive accuracy. That is demographic manipulation. When law enforcement records misclassify race and suppress immigration status, the downstream effect is predictable. Crime statistics are distorted. Public understanding is corrupted. Accountability disappears.

Police departments know exactly why this is done. Federal crime data is aggregated by race. When offenders who are foreign nationals are reclassified into domestic racial categories, the real source patterns are buried. The public is then fed a sanitized dataset that supports preselected talking points. This is not about one case. It is about how the books are cooked so trends can never be honestly discussed.

News outlets compound the deception. They repeat the arrest sheet verbatim, never asking why immigration status is missing, never questioning implausible physical descriptors, never pressing the department for clarification. The omission is the story, and they deliberately ignore it. That is not journalism. That is information control.

If the individual were a citizen, the records would say so. If the individual were legally present, that status would be highlighted immediately. Silence only appears when the truth is politically inconvenient. That silence protects institutions, not victims. Two teenagers are dead, and the system’s first instinct was not transparency, but insulation.

This is exactly why public trust is collapsing. People are not stupid. They can see when reality does not match the paperwork. When law enforcement manipulates categories and media outlets run interference, the public correctly concludes that the truth is being managed rather than reported.

The question is simple. If the data were honest, why hide it.
If the classification were accurate, why does it defy common sense.
If transparency mattered, why was immigration status erased.

This is not incompetence. It is intent.

#SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

January 13, 2026 – Watch how calmly the media talked about ICE raids and family separation under Obama

In 2016, before Trump was president, Obama was using ICE to deport some illegal immigrants and families were separated. Yet the media didn’t act like it was the end of the world.

There were no protests. No one was being accused of being a Nazi or a fascist. The left didn’t care at all and neither did the media.

In the clip below, one journalist calmly asks about it and Obama’s press secretary Josh Earnest is able to answer without interruption.

Even the reporting from the Washington Post was more measured:

Asked about the removal operations, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that the administration has “prioritized the cases of recent arrivals, individuals who recently crossed the border without proper documentation. That is the nature of the operations carried out in the last several days.”

Earnest said the efforts are “consistent with the priorities the president himself talked about, deporting felons not families, with a focus on individuals who only recently crossed the border.”

He added that those targeted for removal have gone through due process legal proceedings and said the effort will help discourage Central American families that sending their children on a dangerous journey to try to enter the United States illegally.

“People should take from this the understanding that the administration is quite serious when it comes to enforcing immigration laws.”

Because of the sensitivity of taking children into custody and deporting them and their families, authorities took precautions during the raids, Johnson’s statement said, using female agents when possible to apprehend families and having medical personnel on hand.

Watch this video:

On the same note, here’s Obama himself in 2013 talking about deporting people.

From Townhall:

“As time goes on, a thousand deportations on average a day. People are wondering…won’t you at least consider unilaterally freezing deportations for the parents of deferred action kids?” reporter Jose Diaz-Balart asked.

“Here’s the problem that I have, Jose, and I’ve said this consistently,” Obama replied, “my job in the Executive Branch is supposed to be to carry out the laws that are passed. Congress has said, ‘Here’s the law when it comes to those who are undocumented,’ and they allocate a whole bunch of money for enforcement.”

Watch:

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/13/2026) (Archive)

More examples of Democrat hypocrisy when Trump deports illegal aliens:

The Obama-era photos of children in cages were originally shot for the Associated Press by photographer Ross D. Franklin, during a Jun. 18, 2014 visit to the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) placement center in Nogales, Arizona.

January 13, 2026 – US Secret Service agent assigned to VP Vance leaks sensitive information to undercover reporter

Escotto is a holdover from the Biden administration and stated that he voted for Joe Biden, while expressing opposition to ICE & the Trump administration’s immigration policies. “I hate that [ICE] sh*t.”

Tomas Escotto, a current U.S. Secret Service agent on Vice President JD Vance’s protective detail, was recorded on hidden camera providing an undercover journalist with sensitive security information, including protective formations, shift schedules, travel plans, & real-time locations.

The Secret Service agent detailed how the Vice President is physically surrounded, described multiple daily shift changes, & disclosed advance security procedures.

In addition to past movements, the agent revealed future travel plans, sometimes days in advance. Escotto even sent images from Air Force Two while onboard with the Vice President.

Despite acknowledging that he signed paperwork prohibiting the disclosure of sensitive information, the Secret Service agent repeatedly shared details with someone he believed was a casual romantic interest.

While the safety of the Vice President and his family was always our top priority, what OMG uncovered raises serious questions about operational security, protocol compliance, and oversight within the U.S. Secret Service.

Our team coordinated with the U.S. Secret Service ahead of publication, redacted sensitive operational details at their request.

We were just informed Tomas Escotto has been placed on administrative leave with his clearance suspended and access to agency facilities and systems revoked.

This is the memo USSS sent out.

That dig they gave at us is below the belt and unfounded.

Imagine if we were working for a foreign Govt?

We exposed the secret service is vulnerable to espionage.

If the agent can’t figure out to a citizen journalist is playing them, how can they figure out if a foreign govt is playing him?

This is a such a colossal error. Far beyond the magnitude of anything he actually said – is the circumstances he didn’t figure out he was being played by a citizen journalist.

As an agent he’s been exposed to every spy agency in the world

That’s why they’re doing espionage training in their statement.

That’s why they failed as an agency

January 13, 2026 – Bill Clinton snubs his third subpoena and refuses to show for a deposition with House Oversight Committee

January 14, 2026 – Judge orders USDA to continue paying fraudulent SNAP benefits in Minnesota

Across 28 states, more than 500,000 individuals are using dummy social security numbers, over 350,000 are collecting benefits in multiple states, and nearly 200,000 dead people are collecting benefits!

And now, a federal judge just slapped a temporary halt on the @USDA withholding administrative SNAP funds from Minnesota—right in the middle of blatant fraud scandals draining taxpayer dollars!

Biden appointed Judge Laura Provinzino (l) orders SNAP benefits to continue in Minnesota despite the massive welfare fraud recently exposed. (Credit: public domain)

But guess what? We’re not stopping. These states stonewalling on data sharing? It’s just more fraud-protecting games to cover their tracks. The people see through it, and the litigation rolls on. We’ll keep fighting for every hardworking American’s money. No surrender.

January 14, 2026 – Short documentary on Tina Peters and video of her appeal hearing and oral arguments

This short video shares the story of Tina Peters and how she was punished and imprisoned for performing her job as County Clerk, overseeing elections in Mesa County, Colorado. The video includes some things that have never been reported before. Tina was imprisoned for doing precisely what the law required.

Source (couldn’t embed).

https://x.com/VoterGa/status/2011114492319445038

Tina Peters Appeal – Oral Arguments LIVE 4:30pm

 

MARK COOK- Tina Peters Oral Arguments Commentary at Appeal Hearing- 1 14 2026

January 14, 2026 – Nigerian honored by Gretchen Whitmer exposed as massive daycare fraudster

(…) A former professor, Nigerian immigrant Nkechy Ezeh, pleaded guilty last month to wire fraud and tax evasion in a scheme that defrauded Michigan taxpayers out of over $1 million, according to news site MLive.

The misappropriated money had been intended for Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative, an early childhood education program for disadvantaged children. Ezeh was the founder and CEO of ELNC.

“The nonprofit closed in 2023 after Ezeh and former Director of Finance and Administration Sharon Killebrew were accused of embezzling more than $2.5 million combined over several years,” WZZM-TV reported.

Killebrew, 70, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud a federally funded program, according to MLive.

Ezeh faces 20 years for wire fraud. The charge of tax evasion could carry an additional five years in prison.

Nigerian news outlet Business Day reported Ezeh, a former professor at Aquinas College, did not shy away from the public eye, as Whitmer once put her on a state executive committee. She also won several “Woman of the Year” awards.

“Ezeh created nearly $500,000 in fraudulent invoices and established two fictitious daycare businesses to mask the movement of stolen funds,” Business Day reported. “The embezzled money reportedly financed a lavish lifestyle, including international travel to Hawaii, Liberia, and Nigeria.”

This is a woman who, in a 2022 interview with Voyage Michigan, once had the audacity to decry “structural racism” as a problem immigrants had to overcome.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 2/5/2026) (Archive)

January 14, 2026 – Minnesota House files 4 Articles of Impeachment against Gov. Tim Walz

Tim Walz (Credit: Gage Skidmore)

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is facing formal impeachment proceedings after Republican lawmakers introduced four articles accusing him of corrupt conduct in office, centered on his alleged role in overseeing, enabling, or failing to act on extensive fraud in state-run programs.

According to the resolution, under Article I, Walz is charged with knowingly permitting the concealment of “widespread fraud within Minnesota state administered programs,” despite “repeated warnings, audits, reports, and public indicators of systematic abuse.” It states that the governor was made aware of this fraud through “briefings, audits, agency reports, or public findings,” yet failed to act effectively. The article claims he “allowed fraudulent activity to continue after credible warnings were raised” and “created or tolerated an environment where disclosure of fraud was delayed, minimized, or obscured from legislators and the public.”

Article II alleges that Governor Walz violated his constitutional oath through actions and omissions that interfered with lawful oversight, investigations, or corrective measures related to fraud in state agencies. The article charges that he failed to promptly direct executive agencies to cooperate with audits, permitted or tolerated resistance to legislative oversight and public transparency, failed to discipline or track officials responsible for fraudulent programs, and delayed reforms while financial losses mounted.

Article III charges Walz with placing “political consideration above lawful administration,” stating that he prioritized the preservation of political narratives over disclosing known program failures, failed to act to protect taxpayer funds once fraud became apparent, and allowed executive agencies to continue operations without proper safeguards after fraud risks were identified. The resolution further states that he undermined public confidence in state government by failing to ensure transparency and accountability.

Article IV accuses the governor of failing to uphold laws related to public fund stewardship. It charges him with allowing statutory safeguards to be ignored, failing to enforce anti-fraud measures, and permitting violations of the law despite being aware of wrongdoing.

As outlined in the resolution, the Minnesota Constitution grants the House the authority to impeach and the Senate the power to try impeachments. Under Article VIII, Section 3, Walz is barred from executing the duties of governor upon the House’s adoption of the resolution and may resume those duties only if acquitted by the Senate. (Read more: Breitbart News, 1/14/2026)  (Archive)

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January 14, 2026 – Jonathan Turley: Democrats fight to keep the insurrection myth alive in the new J6 Committee

Rep. Harriet Hageman (Credit: video clipping)

The new J6 Committee has started its hearings and, unlike the prior Committee, Republicans have allowed Democrats to select members to sit in opposition. That has led to sharp exchanges, but one of the more interesting occurred between Rep. Harriet Hageman (R., Wyo.) and Jamie Raskin (D., Md.). After Hageman got a witness to admit that no one was charged with incitement, Raskin made the clearly false statement that a few defendants charged with seditious conspiracy was the same thing as incitement. It is not.

Rep. Raskin triggered the confrontation by making a clearly false claim about one of those charged by the Biden Administration: “I would just commend to everybody the testimony of Pamela Hemphill, who was a convicted insurrectionist that was pardoned. She rejected her pardon.”

In reality, Hemphill was charged (like most of the rioters) with relatively minor misdemeanors. She pleaded guilty to one count of demonstrating, picketing, or parading in a Capitol building and received just 60 days in prison, 36 months of probation, and a $500 fine for restitution. She was never charged with insurrection or any felony.

Rep. Hageman pounced on the comment and asked former Justice Department prosecutor Michael Romano whether any January 6 protester had actually been convicted under the federal insurrection statute.

Romano tried to dodge the question but admitted that no one, not Trump nor any rioter, was ever charged with insurrection. Notably, after January 6th, there was a great amount of coverage on Trump and his aides being possibly charged with insurrection or incitement. Despite some of us noting that the speech was clearly protected under the First Amendment, the press portrayed such a charge as credible and heaped coverage on District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, who announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks and charging them with incitement. It never happened. The reason is obvious. It could not be legally maintained.

While the FBI launched a massive national investigation, it did not find evidence of an insurrection. While a few were charged with seditious conspiracy, no one was charged with insurrection.

The Supreme Court later reduced charges further by rejecting obstruction charges in some cases.

Yet that did not stop members and the media from repeating the false mantra that this was an insurrection, despite some of us immediately rejecting it as legally unsustainable. Indeed, Democrats used the false claim to seek to disqualify Trump and dozens of Republicans from ballots.

Now back to the hearing.

Hageman asked the witness, “Mr. Romano, did you prosecute anyone related to January 6th for engaging in an insurrection?” she asked. Romano responded, “No, congresswoman.”

That is when Raskin objected and tried to interrupt the confirmation that, in fact, there never was an insurrection or any such charges.

Hageman persisted, “So, Mr. Raskin’s statement that someone was a ‘convicted insurrectionist’ is actually inaccurate, isn’t that correct?” When Romano again tried to pivot, she pressed further, “She wasn’t a convicted insurrectionist, was she?”

“For the crime of insurrection, no,” he admitted.

Raskin shouted, “Do you accept seditious conspiracy as insurrection?”

It was a telling statement. For the record, I have long been a critic of sedition crimes. As I discuss in my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,”sedition was a noxious import from Great Britain. British judges had balked at the effort to accuse citizens of treason for things like telling bawdy jokes about the queen in some pub.

However, putting that aside, the handful of charges for seditious conspiracy are not legally the same or even close to an insurrection charge. Rep. Raskin, a former law professor, must know that.

The provision in 18 U.S.C. 2384 has long been controversial because it is so sweeping and includes any effort “by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law.” While the provision can also entail an intent to overthrow the country, the provision covers any interference with federal proceedings or laws.

Ironically, Raskin opposes the invocation of the Insurrection Act in cities like Minneapolis on the basis of the interference with federal officials in the enforcement of federal law. However, he seems to view this provision as endlessly malleable, so that anyone accused of hindering the execution of a federal law is an insurrectionist.

After January 6th, Justice Department official Michael Sherwin publicly declared that “our office wanted to ensure that there was shock and awe” in hitting people with a maximal level of charges. Yet, despite that “shock and awe” effort, not a single charge for insurrection was ever brought — an inconvenient truth for members like Raskin. (Read more: Jonathan Turley, 1/16/2026)  (Archive)

January 14, 2026 – Hillary defies subpoena to testify; Comer moves to hold both Clintons in contempt of Congress

Former President Bill Clinton and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrive prior to the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump at the United States Capitol on January 20, 2025. (Credit: Melina Mara/Getty Images)

House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Wednesday moved to hold the Clintons in contempt after Hillary Clinton was a no-show to her deposition.

Former President Bill Clinton was scheduled to appear for a closed-door deposition on Tuesday.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set to appear for a closed-door deposition on Wednesday.

Bill Clinton was a no-show on Tuesday.

Hillary also snubbed the subpoena.

The Clintons claimed they already provided the Committee with all of the information they have on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Clinton’s lawyers told Politico that the House Oversight subpoenas are not enforceable because they are “not related to a valid legislative purpose,” and are therefore “invalid and legally unenforceable.”

“After five months of good-faith negotiations, President Clinton has refused to comply,” Comer said on Tuesday.

“We are now initiating contempt of Congress proceedings,” Comer added.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 1/14/2026) (Archive)

January 15, 2026 – A Navy Intelligence Officer reports he tracked Minnesota daycare money to foreign terror groups in 2016

MINNEAPOLIS (NewsNation) — A former Navy intelligence officer assigned to track terrorist financing says he documented hundreds of millions of dollars flowing from Minnesota day care fraud schemes directly to al-Shabab terror networks in Somalia as early as 2016 — nearly a decade before federal authorities began widespread prosecutions.

Navy Lieutenant Phillip Parrish, joined the Joint Terrorism Task Force in 2016. (Credit: video clipping)

Phillip Parrish, a lieutenant in the Navy who joined the Joint Terrorism Task Force in 2016, said he tracked money couriers from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to the Netherlands, then to Nairobi, Kenya, and finally into Mogadishu money exchanges called “hawalas” — the same exchanges the Treasury Department designated in 2012 as fronts for the al-Qaida-linked terror group al-Shabab.

“In 2016, we were already tracking that was adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars, and that was just what we were tracking,” Parrish told NewsNation. “Then, by now, fast forward nearly 10 years later, yeah, when they’re talking about $9 billion, that’s a real figure, and that’s probably conservative.”

Parrish’s account raises questions about why Minnesota officials did not act on early warnings about fraud schemes that allegedly fleeced taxpayers of billions through fake day care centers and other programs.

Parrish said his investigation began when he noticed an unusual pattern of cash leaving Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Money traced to Somalia hawalas Treasury labeled terror fronts in 2012

“There’s an interesting pattern here happening, where the money’s coming out of Minneapolis International Airport. Well, where’s it coming from?” Parrish said. “How are they getting it in Minneapolis? Where is it coming from? Well, that led to some research about a list of fake companies. Well, it’s all cash that’s coming out of these fake day cares or day cares with inflated numbers.”

When asked how much money was involved, Parrish described the scale as massive.

“Hundreds of millions. You’re talking suitcases of evidence, reports of suspicious activity, reports from banking, TSA, reports from the airport, and then the military side of the house, tracking who it got to,” he said.

“You’re talking about tens of thousands, $300,000, $500,000, all these different varying amounts, daily. The open source material will tell you every other week out of Terminal 2, but it was daily out of Terminal 2, it was daily.”

“Direct portions of it were ending up in the hands of terrorists, absolutely, all the way from pirate boats being bought to essentially the administration of a terrorist network, administratively,” he said.

Parrish said his reports were used by military operations abroad but largely ignored by the public and state officials.

Officer: ‘No doubt’ money funded terrorists, pirate boats, terror networks

“Hundreds of men and women like me know the truth. It’s been the truth all along,” Parrish said. “We don’t know why we’ve been ignored, other than thieving and grifting, a culture of thieving and grifting that was intentional, no matter how it started.”

Parrish suggested the fraud schemes were part of a broader system dependent on continued immigration to sustain fraudulent programs.

(Read more: NewsNation, 1/15/2026)  (Archive)

January 14, 2026 – Navy Veteran turned federal government contractor accused of stealing classified national defense information and leaking to WaPo

LAUREL, Md. — A U.S. Navy Veteran turned federal government contractor is accused of stealing secret classified national defense information.

Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones was granted top security clearance as a systems engineer and information technology specialist for a federal government contractor based out of Annapolis Junction located near the border of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties.

The FBI alleges in charging documents that on at least four occasions between October 28, 2025 and January 7, 2026, Perez-Lugones accessed and viewed classified intelligence reports related to a foreign country without any prior authorization.

Agents say they have evidence proving Perez-Lugones printed out and took screenshots of secret documents, before taking them to his home in Laurel, Maryland.

In doing so, Perez-Lugones allegedly removed classified markings from one of the secret documents.

On January 8, the feds searched his car and home.

Inside the car, investigators discovered a lunchbox containing the secret document from which he removed the classified markings.

Meanwhile, inside the house another document marked secret was located.

Lugones served in the U.S. Navy from 1982 to 2002. Since then he’s worked as a government contractor in various capacities.

His criminal case is currently pending before the U.S. District Court of Maryland.

January 15, 2026 – Trump warns he will use the Insurrection Act in Minnesota; Walz incites further, anti-ICE riots escalate

 

January 16, 2026 – Michael Cohen says he was ‘coerced’ and ‘pressured’ by Bragg, James to testify against Trump

Michael Cohen (Credit: public domain)

After years of criticizing Donald Trump, the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is admitting that he was “pressured” and “coerced” by Alvin Bragg and Letitia James to testify against Donald Trump.

In an astonishing Substack post published Friday evening, Cohen writes that he “felt pressured and coerced to only provide information and testimony that would satisfy the government’s desire to build the cases against and secure a judgment and convictions against President Trump.” He said the feeling began from his very first meetings with the lawyers working with Bragg and James, New York’s attorney general.

Specifically regarding James, he said he felt “compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking.”

“Letitia James made it publicly known during her 2018 campaign for attorney general that, if elected, she would go after President Trump,” Cohen writes in the post. “Her office made clear that the testimony they wanted from me was testimony that would help them do just that. Again, I felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seeking.”

In a Friday night phone conversation, Donald Trump told The Daily Wire that this was further proof that it was a “very corrupt investigation” that Cohen testified in. Trump has long held that Cohen is a liar, and was only cooperating to get his prison sentence reduced. (Read more: The Daily Wire, 1/16/2026)  (Archive)

January 16, 2026 – An email is sent to all Minneapolis city employees advising them of what to do if ICE activity is reported

January 17, 2026 – ‘Manchurian Generation’ ballot flood: More than 1 million Chinese with U.S. Citizenship could vote in 2030 elections

More than one million Chinese with U.S. citizenship who grew up in communist China will soon start voting in American elections, #1 New York Times bestselling investigative journalist and Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer reveals in his new book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.

In his explosive new book, Schweizer details how Chinese elites have exploited America’s birthright citizenship policies by engaging in a practice known as birth tourism, whereby Chinese mothers intentionally travel to the United States give birth on American soil so that their newborn children will automatically be granted U.S. citizenship.

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,” Schweizer explains. To demonstrate the extent of the practice, he uses the U.S. territory of Saipan in the Pacific as an example, writing that “[m]ore than 70 percent of the newborns in Saipan are PRC birth tourist parents who utilize the territory’s forty-five-day visa-free visitation rules and the ‘Covenant of the Northern Mariana Islands’ to guarantee that their children will have American citizenship.”

Because the U.S. federal government does not directly track birth tourism, no one knows the true extent of the practice, Schweizer writes:

Chinese officials estimate that the number is a staggering fifty thousand of their own citizens per year. Scholars who have studied the subject in depth, like Australian-based professor Salvator Babones, put the figure even higher, perhaps twice that. “With up to 100,000 Chinese babies being born US citizens every year,” he writes, “birth tourism may result in millions of new elite Chinese-Americans.”

Some researchers place the number higher still. Media Research, a Chinese data analysis company, says that in 2018 alone 150,000 people came from China to the United States to practice birth tourism.

According to Schweizer, the practice of Chinese birth tourism in the United States has flourished in the past 15 years, with “at least 750,000 and possibly as many as 1.5 million Chinese, who are also American citizens by virtue of being born here, now growing toward adulthood in China.” (Read more: Breitbart, 1/17/2026) (Archive)

January 17, 2026 – Highlights of Democrat leaders supporting border control and deportation of illegal aliens, before they didn’t

Obama frequently emphasized the need for stronger border security, employer accountability for hiring undocumented workers, and comprehensive immigration reform that included controlling illegal crossings. Here are key video examples:

In his 2014 address to the nation on fixing the broken immigration system, Obama stated that he began by securing borders and committed to better enforcement, noting illegal crossings had been cut.

During a 2005 news conference clip, Obama advocated for holding employers accountable for hiring undocumented workers and supported strong borders, aligning with similar arguments later made by Trump.

In a 2014 speech at Del Sol High School, Obama reiterated his belief in secure borders and efforts to reduce illegal crossings over his term.

Speaking on comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, Obama called for fixing the broken system, starting with border security to prevent uncontrolled inflows.

Additional examples from X posts include archived clips:

Obama warning that undocumented immigrants harm the economy, take jobs, and that employers should face penalties, while calling for stronger border security as a top priority.  Video in post: 

A 2007 clip of then-Senator Obama supporting border control policies similar to current Republican stances.

Obama in 2010 stating the U.S. cannot allow “half a million people pouring over the border without any kind of mechanism to control it.”

Other Democratic Officials Supporting Border Control

Many Democratic leaders, including Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and others, have historically supported tougher border measures, deportations, and barriers—positions they’ve since shifted away from. Here are video compilations and examples highlighting this:

A montage showing past Democratic leaders like Clinton, Obama, and Schumer supporting border crackdowns and critiquing the party’s later policy shifts.

Clips of Democrats voting for and advocating new border fencing and barriers before opposing them under Trump.

Archival footage of Democrats, including Bill Clinton in the 1990s, talking tough on deporting illegal immigrants arrested for crimes and securing borders.

A flashback compilation of top Democrats like Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Obama touting deportations and tough immigration policies.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6367965074112

Incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer in 2019 stating Democrats support border security and are willing to negotiate, but not hold government hostage.

From X posts, several montages capture this hypocrisy:

Hillary Clinton emphatically calling to “deport them” and insisting immigrants learn English, with Democrats cheering.

A compilation of Democrats opposing incentives for illegal immigration, supporting border security, and noting Obama’s deportations of over 3 million.

Montage of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Biden, and Obama all agreeing illegal immigrants need to be deported, including ending sanctuary cities.

A 1995 clip of Bill Clinton warning about illegal aliens burdening jobs and taxpayers, receiving a standing ovation from Democrats.

1996. Chuck Schumer rails against illegals getting taxpayer funded benefits because it incentivizes more illegal immigration

Grok, 1/17/2026

January 18, 2026 – Nick Sortor’s camera is stolen, a chase ensues, car license plate leads to owner of autism center

January 18, 2026 – BLM and anti-ICE protesters crash a church service in St. Paul, MN

POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Anti-ICE activists blocked aisles and confronted Christians during Sunday service in St. Paul. Don Lemon was embedded with the agitators, cheering the disruption from inside the sanctuary.

Islamic-aligned and ICE Watch activists disrupted Sunday worship at Christ Church in St. Paul by blocking aisles and confronting congregants about ICE operations. The intrusion targeted Christians inside their sanctuary in a community increasingly dominated by activist enforcement politics. Disgraced former CNN reporter Don Lemon was embedded with the activists, providing coverage and amplifying the disruption rather than condemning it.

BREAKING: Social justice activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, in a Facebook post, accused the pastor of Cities Church of being an Acting Field Director for the ICE office and expressed gratitude to the activists who joined her in storming the church this morning. She wrote:

“Thank you to all the activists who showed up, as well as independent journalists Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, DawokeFarmer2, and Brixton Hughes. Special thanks to Monique Cullars Doty, Chauntyll Allen, and Satara Strong-Allen for co-organizing this mission with Black Lives Matter Minnesota, Black Lives Matter Twin Cities Metro, and the Racial Justice Network.”

A brazen invasion of Christian worship

UPDATE 2/2/2026

January 19, 2026 – Catherine Austin Fitts: ‘We don’t have a financial problem – we have a bank robbery” … “The Uniparty criminals have stolen $55 trillion since 1998”

January 19, 2026 – What happens to your state when Democrats are given total power

A photo of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate and New Jersey native Abigail Spanberger wearing a large plastic hood. (Credit: public domain)

Democrats now control the legislature and [“moderate”] Governor’s office in Virginia.

Here are just a few of the bills they’ve introduced

– New 4.3% sales tax on Uber Eats, Amazon, etc deliveries.
– New sales tax on admissions to a wide variety of businesses.
– Create two new higher tax brackets of 8% and 10% on people making over $600K.
– A new 10% tax bracket for anyone making over $1M.
– 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes.
– Raise the hotel tax.
– New personal property tax on landscaping equipment.
– Ban gas powered leaf blowers.
– Guarantee illegal aliens free education.
– Make it illegal to approach somebody at an abortion clinic.
– Extend the time absentee ballots can be received after election day to three days
– Allow people to cast their votes electronically through the internet.
– Expand ranked-choice voting.
– Extend the deadline for ballot curing to one week after election day.
– Redact the addresses of political candidates from FOIAs.
– Add Virginia to the National Popular Vote Compact for presidential electors.
– Make it illegal to hand count ballots.
– $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors .
– “Assault weapons” and large capacity magazine ban.
– 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition.
– Prohibit outdoor shooting of a firearm on land less than 5 acres.
– Lower the criminal penalties for robbery.
– Ban the arrest of illegal aliens in courthouses.
– Remove mandatory minimum sentences.
– Allow localities to install speed cameras.
– Replace Columbus Day with “Indigenous Peoples Day.”

Oh hell yeah, this is the political version of getting sold a “certified pre-owned” car and then the engine falls out in the parking lot, “we just want to make your life more affordable” turns into a full-blown tax buffet, soft-on-crime carnival, election-rules Jenga tower, and regulatory micromanagement Olympics within about five minutes of taking power, and anyone pretending this isn’t bait-and-switch politics is either lying or clinically allergic to spreadsheets, new delivery taxes, higher brackets, investment taxes, hotel taxes, equipment taxes, gun taxes, while also loosening criminal penalties and playing musical chairs with election rules like it’s a Vegas magic act, that’s not affordability, that’s fiscal waterboarding wrapped in progressive branding, and the election stuff alone should make any serious adult sit up straight, online voting, delayed ballots, ranked-choice expansion, banning hand counts, extending curing windows, joining the popular vote compact, that’s a whole buffet of “trust us bro” mechanisms that magically always favor the same people who wrote the rules, then you stack on gun restrictions, energy nanny rules, speech buffer zones, and sanctuary nonsense and you’ve basically copy-pasted the same urban governance experiment that keeps blowing up everywhere else, the real insult isn’t even the policies, it’s the dishonesty, don’t campaign as moderate pragmatists then govern like activist interns hopped up on ideology and donor pressure, voters aren’t stupid, they’re tired of being treated like goldfish with three-second memory, and if this is day-one energy in Virginia, buckle up, because the receipts are already writing themselves and the political hangover is gonna hit hard.

January 19, 2026 – Harmeet Dhillon: DOJ to charge Don Lemon under the ‘KKK Act’ for inciting church raid (VIDEO)

Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, has announced that they plan to charge disgraced former CNN anchor Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act, a Reconstruction-era law enacted to combat terrorist activities by groups like the KKK.

The impending charges stem from Lemon’s involvement when a group of anti-ICE activists stormed a church in Minneapolis, disrupting a religious service and intimidating worshippers, on Sunday.

The Ku Klux Klan Act, formally known as the Enforcement Act of 1871, prohibits conspiracies to threaten, injure, or intimidate individuals to prevent them from exercising their constitutional rights, including the free exercise of religion.

According to reports, Lemon not only accompanied the protesters but had prior knowledge of their plans to target the church, which was hosting a service at the time.

Some have even alleged that he was the one who incited the protesters to target the church.

Before the incident, Lemon is seen in his team’s own footage discussing the “secret operation” with activists, confirming they had the church’s address, and even instructing his staff not to reveal the location.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/19/2026) (Archive)

January 19, 2026 – Schweizer: Radical left, islamists working together in ‘marriage of convenience’ to destroy United States

On Monday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart News senior contributor and author of The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon Peter Schweizer talked about Islamism and the left.

[P]eople that are in favor of trans rights and gay rights have aligned themselves with a radical movement that hates and wants to kill people that are engaged in that kind of behavior. And what they’ve basically decided is we’re going to work together to destroy the United States. We’ll split up the spoils later on. Although, I do quote in the book, Islamists as saying, look, this is just a marriage of convenience, once we win, we’re going to get rid of those guys, too.

Peter Schweizer’s The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon is published by HarperCollins and is available to purchase now.

(Breitbart, 1/19/2026)

January 20, 2026 – Richard Bigo Barnett: “I, along with many of my J6 brothers and sisters, was released from federal prison 1 year ago today”

I, along with many of my J6 brothers and sisters, was released from federal prison 1 year ago today. One month later I journeyed back to DC, back to our Capital hoping to find amongst other things a little peace within myself. January 6, 2021 was just one day. It took courage to show up, it took courage to stand. But to my once imprisoned J6 brothers and sisters I want to say the last 5 years was our real journey in courage as we took everything they threw at us for our love of country and survived. Wounded, struggling, healing? Of course. But still standing. Still in the fight. Still brave. Be proud. Love ya’ll. Bigo

January 20, 2026 – The only bill Keith Ellison sponsored and was signed into law was the Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2014

What has been ignored and overlooked in the Somalian Minnesota fraud cases is the root and origin of the crimes that led to what we are seeing today.

It all began during the first Obama presidency, when a much larger fraud and corruption scandal emerged involving USAID and the State Department. Billions of dollars were knowingly poured into a lost cause, driven by domestic political considerations rather than measurable outcomes.

This essentially defrauded every taxpayer in America—not just in Minnesota, but on a national scale.

What benefit did Americans receive from dumping billions of dollars into Somalia and enriching the country for two decades?

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Former congressman Keith Ellison explains in his own words why Somalians are important in battleground states such as Ohio, Minnesota and Virginia in 2012

He explains thousands of Somalians were recently naturalized and would be crucial in gaining votes for Obama and other democrats

Attorney General Keith Ellison, for the past 16 years, has been the key to Somalian political “success” and integration into the Democrat political system.

This began with the election of the first Somalian elected to public office in the United States—Hussein Samatar to the Minneapolis School Board, District 3, in 2010, followed by Ellison putting his political machine behind Ilhan Omar’s campaign for the Minnesota state house and then vacating his congressional seat for state representative Ilhan Omar. It was Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison fingerprints on all these events

Understanding his historical connections with Somalians explains how fraud in Minnesota got out of hand and the inexplicable political rise of Somalians far less puzzling—and far more troubling

January 20, 2026 – Republicans caught Smurfing through WinRed

US Senator Susan Collins and her Treasurer Elizabeth T. McCandless caught Smurfing $4,428,495.00 into her campaign committee. This is criminal money laundering.

One of their victims is Antony Taquey of North Carolina. We are supposed to believe Taquey made 38,967 contributions totaling $608,342.

Of these, 253 went to Susan Collins, totaling $5,395. But hold on, the truth is Taquey did not make these contributions. He is 72 years old and is having his identity stolen by Collings and her Treasurer McCandless. That’s also elderly financial abuse.

Look at the chart of Taquey, on June 24, 2021 we are supposed to believe he made 468 contributions totaling $17,197. Each contribution is time/date stamped and assigned its own unique transaction code by the FEC.

Surprise: Taquey did not make 468 political contributions in one day. Nor the other ones shown in the chart – perhaps he made a handful and I’m talking a few dozen, maybe over the years a hundred but not 38,967 contributions.

And that number is low as we know the @FEC is hiding data, because we caught them. THAT is a felony crime.

Political Committee C00314575, COLLINS FOR SENATOR of Maine has accepted 55,884 Smurfed donor transactions totaling $4,428,495 from 5,576 unique Smurfing donors. That these transactions

US Senator Lisa Murkowski and her Treasurer Meghan Munoz caught Smurfing $819,454 into her campaign committee. Smurfing is structured money laundering.

86 year old Lesley Stewart of Texas is a Smurf, meaning she is a victim of Murkowski and Munoz. They stole Stewart’s identity, i.e. her name, address, account at whatever platform – most likely @WinRed. It is also elderly financial abuse.

Side note: WinRed is a criminal organization – stay away from them, as is @Actblue. Many Republicans hate WinRed in particular due to the relentless harassing texts, phone calls.

Stewart’s contributions (not really hers) are shown in the chart below. On one particular day, April 15 2022 she made (she really didn’t) 3,728 contributions totaling $64,317. Yep, just normal human behavior – not. Its computer bots doing it as discovered by Chris Gleason @immutablechrist and Phil Allison @TheTVConsPiracy

The numbers are accurate, not a dump or error. Search or scroll down in my tweets for reports on more US Senators, a few Congressmen.

Stewart shows contributing $410,539 via 19,910 contributions. Of those 63 contributions for $125 went to Murkowski. See how Smurfing works?

Political Committee C00384529, LISA MURKOWSKI FOR US SENATE of Alaska has accepted 1,582 Smurfed donor transactions totaling $819,454 from 428 unique Smurfing donors. That these transactions encompass 14.3% of the 11,066 available committee transactions and also being 8.4% of the $9,714,949 full committee transaction valuation.

Complaint sent in against @SenMcConnell to the FEC for Smurfing $15,840,454 into his campaigns. Double bonus surprise ending!!!!

Smurfing is criminal money laundering, it also involves McConnell stealing the identities of senior citizens. They are called Smurfs (victims).

Look at one of McConnell’s victims, a Ms. Taft out of Michigan. See image below next to crooked McConnell. Per the FEC she made close to 30,000 political donations (nope, she did not really make all those).

One day in particular, she made 468 donations totaling $17,197.00. Just normal human behavior….to make 468 political campaign donations in one day, then hundreds the next, and next, and next, and next (again nope, she didn’t really make all these).

Political Committee C00193342, MCCONNELL SENATE COMMITTEE has accepted 308,411 Smurfed donor transactions totaling $15,840,454 from 20,726 unique Smurfing donors. That these transactions encompass 68.7% of the 449,013 available committee transactions and also being 34.7% of the $45,664,610 full committee transaction valuation.

1st surprise: Mitch McConnell’s campaign committee Treasurer, Lisa Lisker, is also @SpeakerJohnson’s campaign committee Treasurer. Lisker is named in both FEC complaints I filed against the committees of McConnell and Johnson.

I’m referring her, @MikeJohnson and McConnell for criminal prosecution. Some of the Smurfing money is coming from the US Treasury.

2nd surprise: @WinRed is named in the complaints also. They are big time Smurfing into RINO campaigns. Stealing elderly citizens’ identities also.

Complaint filed to @FEC on US Congressman Mike Johnson and his Treasurers, William Vanderbrook and Lisa Lisker, who have been caught Smurfing $5,808,595 into Johnson’s campaign committees.

Are you getting what is happening: money comes from the US Treasury, goes to let’s say a daycare center….then some of that ends up in politicians’ campaigns.

Or an NGO (there are about 1.5 million of them), or a federal grant, or a federal contract, or SNAP benefits, or medicaid payouts, or federal block grants to states, or money to Ukraine, or other foreign aid – are you finally picking up on what is really happening?

Smurfing is criminal money laundering into political campaigns. Both Republicans and Democrats are robbing us blind. This is exactly why you’re not seeing action, instead you’re seeing blocking.

See my tweets below for actions taken against US Senators @johnthune of South Dakota, @SenAmyKlobuchar of Minnesota, @SenatorWarnock of Georgia, @SenMarkKelly of Arizona, @SenatorSlotkin of Michigan and @SenBaldwinGSPP of Wisconsin, @LindseyGrahamSC of South Carolina.

I, @immutablechrist @TheTVConsPiracy and others have been tweeting it out for years. A cut of the US Treasury monies (your money) works it way into political campaigns – one way they do it is Smurfing. Which is structured money laundering, they are using computer bots to do it. Stealing the identities of senior citizens.

You can read more about it at our website http://electionwatch.info scroll down and you’ll find 4 articles about it. Smurfing is happening at the federal, state, county and even school board levels.

Under 52 U.S.C. §§ 30102(a) and 30104(a), the treasurer is the legally responsible officer for authorizing, receiving, recording, and reporting committee contributions, and is therefore properly named where violations involving false contributor identification or contributions in the name of another under 52 U.S.C. § 30122 are alleged.

Political Committee C00771246, JOHNSON LEADERSHIP FUND has accepted 2,772 Smurfed donor transactions totaling $2,214,635 from 682 unique Smurfing donors. That these transactions encompass 27% of the 10,258 available committee transactions and also being 15.1% of the $14,640,757full committee transaction valuation.

Political Committee C00608695, MIKE JOHNSON FOR LOUISIANA has accepted 206,429 Smurfed donor transactions totaling $3,593,960 from 6,186 unique Smurfing donors. That these transactions encompass 87.8% of the 235,162 available committee transactions and also being 36.1% of the $9,963,678 full committee transaction valuation.

The $5.8 million is just the tip of the iceberg for Mike Johnson, he’s in deep with PACs where the real number I believe, at this point in time, is over $25 million. @FBIDirectorKash @FBI

A federal lawsuit was sent in yesterday pertaining to US Senator @LindseyGrahamSC
and his Treasurer Terry E. Sullivan. For Smurfing $11,090,385 into his campaign committee.

Smurfing is criminally laundering money into a political campaign.

See my tweets below for actions taken against US Senators @johnthune of South Dakota, @SenAmyKlobuchar of Minnesota, @SenatorWarnock of Georgia, @SenMarkKelly of Arizona, @SenatorSlotkin of Michigan and @SenBaldwinGSPP of Wisconsin.

Their campaigns will have to pay back the monies, if the campaigns are empty, federal statute says then the candidate personally has to pay it back.

Then there is the fully open and ongoing federal criminal investigation into Smurfing. 😎

Political Committee C00458828, TEAM GRAHAM INC has accepted 156,039 Smurfed donor transactions totaling $11,090,385 from 18,040 unique Smurfing donors. That these transactions encompass 39.2% of the 397,972 available committee transactions and also being 17.2% of the $64,507,528 full committee transaction valuation.

Source of data: FEC database.

A special thanks again to Keith Schneider @smurfsearch for the countless hours he did programming our website – http://electionwatch.info

Here is the man who loves any war, so young men and women can be sent to be k*lled –

January 20, 2026 – Biden’s FBI paid anti-Trump, foreign-influenced ‘Sedition Hunters’ as informants in J6, Arctic Frost probes

The Biden-era FBI made more than $100,000 in payments to informants who were members of an anonymous group of tech sleuths known as the “Sedition Hunters” to gather and analyze video evidence in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and Arctic Frost probes despite the group’s significant anti-Trump fervor and known ties to foreigners, according to memos reviewed by Just the News.

The payments are due to be disclosed by FBI Director Kash Patel to Congress along with acknowledged concerns that the Christopher Wray-run bureau’s approval of certain members of the Sedition Hunters as confidential human sources may have violated bureau policies in the Domestic Investigation and Operations Guide (DIOG) concerning informant bias, informant secrecy, foreign influence, and contracting transparency, officials said.

Government officials said group members were first engaged in January 2021, just days after the Capitol riot, to assist making arrests in the January 6 case by identifying potential defendants using facial recognition software. The group members received at least $150,000 in payments for that work and other work related to the Arctic Frost probe into whether Trump supporters violated the law by promoting alternate electors to be considered for the certification of the 2020 election.

Biden-era FBI knew paid foreigners were using spyware to identify J6 arrestees

One of the earliest emails from the FBI’s Washington field office that oversaw that work showed the FBI was clearly aware the group had foreign connections and may actually be using software from overseas to identify American citizens for arrest, according to a copy of the email reviewed by Just the News.

The late January 2021 email from the FBI’s Washington field office stated that “we have a sedition hunter from the United Kingdom running facial recognition software” with the tipster telling the bureau that this UK-based so-called sedition hunter “just found this possible match” to an alleged January 6 suspect a few minutes prior, sharing the picture with the FBI.

FBI Director Kash Patel told Just the News on Tuesday night he is concerned that the paid informant relationship with Sedition Hunters members was inappropriate, and he was committed to working with Congress to develop rules to avoid such entanglements in the future.

“The American people deserve the truth about how the FBI was weaponized against them. Paying openly anti-Trump activists to identify Americans using questionable technology is a stunning abuse of bureau authorities and a clear violation of longstanding informant rules,” Patel said in a statement to Just the News. (Read more: JusttheNews, 1/20/2026)  (Archive)

January 20, 2026 – Townhall obtains footage that suggests judges can be bribed in Ohio’s immigration courts

Woman in Ohio Undercover Video Brags About $50K Bribes to Ohio Judges to Fast-Track Asylum for Migrants

– At the center of the operation is Patricia Golder, who, according to the footage, has turned the alleged manipulation of the asylum process into her business.

– The undercover reporter is introduced to Golder by one of Golder’s friends, identified as Cindy Reis, who says Golder helps Mauritanian migrants get their papers.

– Golder explains her business model, taking a cut of migrants’ earnings: “I take one-third of what they make.” If they get $10,000, 1/3 is mine.”!Concerning as it suggests exploitation or a form of indentured labor tied to immigration help.

– Coaching on fabricating asylum claims: “You have to make the story… to meet the legal threshold.” Golder discusses tailoring narratives (e.g., persecution claims) to increase approval chances, which could involve fraud.

– she says she has access to judges, she goes out where they hang out and drink Golder brags about direct access to immigration judges who are willing to bend rules without fear

– Explicit bribery of Judges: “Okay, $50,000 I send everybody to you… 50,000 going split between people.” Golder describes approaching a judge, offering $50k (split among parties) to route cases for guaranteed approvals.

– they Discusses fast-tracking work permits, Social Security cards, and driver’s licenses after payoffs, implying rigged timelines.

These segments are the most alarming, as they directly allege felony-level activities like bribery (18 U.S.C. § 201), immigration fraud, and exploitation.

Source Article:

YouTube, 1/20/2026

January 20, 2026 – Comer moves forward with contempt vote as Clintons make new demands after snubbing congressional subpoena

Hillary was a no-show for her deposition on January 13, 2026 (Credit: @GOPoversight)

House Judiciary Chairman James Comer on Tuesday revealed that the Clintons made new, outrageous demands after snubbing congressional subpoenas.

(…) Clinton’s lawyers told Politico that the House Oversight subpoenas are not enforceable because they are “not related to a valid legislative purpose,” and are therefore “invalid and legally unenforceable.”

Comer said contempt proceedings will begin on Wednesday.

“Facing contempt of Congress, the Clintons’ lawyers made an untenable offer: that I travel to New York for a conversation with President Clinton only. No official transcript would be recorded and other Members of Congress would be barred from participating. I have rejected the Clintons’ ridiculous offer,” Comer said on Tuesday.

“The Clintons’ latest demands make clear they believe their last name entitles them to special treatment. The House Oversight Committee’s bipartisan subpoenas require the Clintons to appear for depositions that are under oath and transcribed. Former President Clinton has a documented history of parsing language to evade questions, responded falsely under oath, and was impeached and suspended from the practice of law as a result,” Comer said.

“The absence of an official transcript is an indefensible demand that is insulting to the American people who demand answers about Epstein’s crimes. As part of our investigation, the House Oversight Committee has released transcripts of interviews with former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, which has provided much needed transparency to the public. Without a formal record, Americans would be left to rely on competing accounts of what was said,” Comer added.

“Former Secretary Clinton’s on-the-record testimony is necessary for the Committee’s investigation given her knowledge from her time as Secretary of State of the federal government’s work to counter international sex-tracking rings, her personal knowledge of Ms. Maxwell, and her family’s relationship with Mr. Epstein,” he added.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/20/2026) (Archive)

Facing contempt of Congress, the Clintons’ lawyers made an untenable offer: that I travel to New York for a conversation with President Clinton only. No official transcript would be recorded and other Members of Congress would be barred from participating. I have rejected the Clintons’ ridiculous offer.

The Clintons’ latest demands make clear they believe their last name entitles them to special treatment. The House Oversight Committee’s bipartisan subpoenas require the Clintons to appear for depositions that are under oath and transcribed. Former President Clinton has a documented history of parsing language to evade questions, responded falsely under oath, and was impeached and suspended from the practice of law as a result.

The absence of an official transcript is an indefensible demand that is insulting to the American people who demand answers about Epstein’s crimes. As part of our investigation, the House Oversight Committee has released transcripts of interviews with former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, which has provided much needed transparency to the public. Without a formal record, Americans would be left to rely on competing accounts of what was said.

Former Secretary Clinton’s on-the-record testimony is necessary for the Committee’s investigation given her knowledge from her time as Secretary of State of the federal government’s work to counter international sex-tracking rings, her personal knowledge of Ms. Maxwell, and her family’s relationship with Mr. Epstein.

Contempt proceedings begin tomorrow.

January 21, 2026 – Rep. Luna: Epstein Files are now ready for release, Obama judge issues order that delays their release

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer delays the release of the Epstein Files, January 21, 2026 (Credit: public domain)

Everyone is frustrated because they want to see the Epstein files and I do too, but here are the facts:

As of today, the DOJ has completed a review of over 5 million documents, conducted by over 500 attorneys, and they are ready to be released NOW.

However, Obama appointed Judge Paul Engelmayer has ordered a SECOND review of those documents and is now requiring certification of those documents by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, while simultaneously blocking the appointment of a special counsel. This is causing MAJOR delays.

I will be bringing forward a bill to IMPEACH Judge Engelmayer for obstructing the release of the Epstein files and failure to appoint special counsel! Release the files!

January 21, 2026 – Textbook due-process collapse in Colorado v. Tina Peters: The state admits she was never charged with the felony, the jury was never instructed on the felony

This is textbook due-process collapse. In Colorado v. Tina Peters, the state admits she was never charged with the felony, the jury was never instructed on the felony, and the jury actually convicted her of a misdemeanor—yet prosecutors insist courts can still enter a felony conviction because the evidence might have supported it.

That’s not law. That’s convict-first, justify-later. The Colorado Court of Appeals is rightly horrified because this would erase charging requirements, jury instructions, and verdicts entirely. If the state can swap crimes after trial, jury trials are meaningless.

Whatever you think of Tina Peters, this principle matters to everyone. Due process means you’re convicted only of crimes charged and instructed, not crimes prosecutors wish they’d charged. When the state argues otherwise, it’s not enforcing law—it’s dismantling it.

Dan Rubinstein heads the 21st Judicial District Attorney’s Office tasked with prosecuting former Mesa County Clerk.

Tina Peters’ appeal remains pending in the Colorado Court of Appeals as of January 22, 2026. Oral arguments were heard on January 14, 2026, before a three-judge panel.

The judges appeared highly skeptical of Peters’ arguments for full reversal of her convictions (e.g., federal immunity under the Supremacy Clause, insufficient evidence, due process violations). However, they expressed serious concerns about her 9-year sentence, including a potential procedural error that may have improperly elevated one count from misdemeanor to felony (adding ~15 months) and whether the trial judge improperly considered her post-conviction election beliefs and statements, potentially violating First Amendment protections.

The panel questioned the prosecution closely on sentencing fairness for a non-violent first-time offender. If the appeal partially succeeds on sentencing issues, the case would likely be remanded to the original trial court in Mesa County’s 21st Judicial District for resentencing—most probably before the same judge, Matthew Barrett, who imposed the original sentence (though Peters’ attorney requested a different judge). No ruling has been issued yet; a written decision is expected in the coming months.

I am skeptical because all 3 judges were appointed by liberal ex-governor Hickenlooper.

January 21, 2026 – House Oversight Committee votes to charge Clintons with criminal contempt for defying congressional subpoenas

Former President Bill Clinton and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrive prior to the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump at the United States Capitol on January 20, 2025. (Credit: Melina Mara/Getty Images)

Nine Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted with Republicans Wednesday to recommend holding former President Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to testify as part of the panel’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Three Democrats sided with Republicans in voting for a separate measure to recommend also holding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt.

Their votes underscore the continued pressure Democrats are under to remain consistent in their calls for transparency and accountability in the Epstein case — no matter the person or the party affiliation or the dire consequences.

The contempt reports now head to the House floor. Assuming the measures advance, the administration could choose to prosecute the former first couple, which could lead to potential jail time for one or both. (Read more: Politico, 1/21/2026) (Archive)

January 21, 2026 – Trump tells World Economic Forum the 2020 election was stolen and “people will soon be prosecuted for what they did”

Trump gave a phenomenal speech in Davos, championing Nationalism and national sovereignty and rebuking Europe’s globalist policies of unvetted mass migration.

“Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore. They’re not recognizable,” Trump said. “Many parts of our world are being destroyed before our very eyes, and the leaders don’t even understand what’s happening, and the ones that do understand aren’t doing anything about it.”

(…) Trump: The United States, is treated very unfairly by NATO, I want to tell you that. When you think about it, nobody can dispute it, we give so much, and we get so little in return. And I’ve been a critic of NATO for many years, and yet I’ve done more to help NATO than any other president, by far, than any other person. You wouldn’t have NATO if I didn’t get involved in my first term. The war with Ukraine is an example.

We are 1000s of miles away, separated by a giant ocean. It’s a war that should have never started, and it wouldn’t have started if the 2020 US presidential election weren’t rigged. It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that. They found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did.

That’s probably breaking news, but it should be. It was a rigged election. Can’t have rigged elections. You need strong borders, strong elections, and ideally a good press. I always say it. Strong borders, strong elections, free, fair elections, and fair media. The media is terrible. It’s very crooked, it’s very biased, terrible. But someday it’ll straighten out, because it’s losing all credibility.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/21/2026)  (Archive)

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January 21, 2026 – Trump retruths the Democrat open borders plan to entrench single-party rule

January 22, 2026 – Convicted Minnesota fraudster alleges Walz, Ellison were aware of widespread fraud

Aimee Bock, the former executive director of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future (Credit: public domain)

A Minnesota woman convicted in one of the state’s largest fraud schemes alleged in a jailhouse interview that Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were aware of widespread fraud well before federal prosecutors stepped in.

Aimee Bock, the former head of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, spoke to Fox News from Sherburne County Jail in Minnesota, claiming state officials continued approving and paying claims even after concerns were raised about potential fraud.

Bock alleged the state approved program sponsors and was responsible for monitoring claims, but officials repeatedly failed to investigate or stop suspicious companies after she flagged them.

“I honestly believe Keith Ellison and Gov. Walz need to be held accountable. There needs to be an investigation done. If they weren’t aware, that’s concerning,” she told Fox News.

“I have to believe that the governor’s office and Keith Ellison’s office were aware of this. They’ve said they were involved in helping the FBI. They’ve said they were made aware, but apparently I’m scary, so they couldn’t do anything,” Bock added.

In response, a spokesperson for Ellison’s office said Bock lacked credibility, pointing out her federal prison sentence. “She is a liar, fraudster, and manipulator of the highest order who has never acknowledged or accepted her guilt. Now, she’s on a media tour to deflect her guilt onto others instead of finally taking responsibility for the fraud scheme she ran,” the spokesperson said.

“Federal and state investigators meticulously examined the crimes Bock and her accomplices committed,” the Ellison spokesperson continued. “Bock alone is responsible for her own actions, which was proven in court beyond a shadow of a doubt, and her claim about Attorney General Ellison is a lie without a shred of evidence behind it.”

Federal prosecutors have said the scheme involved more than $250 million in stolen taxpayer funds intended to feed children during the COVID-19 pandemic, with sham restaurants set up to falsely claim reimbursements. (Read more: Fox News, 1/22/2026)  (Archive)

January 22, 2026 – HSI, FBI raid the ringleader of the Minnesota church attack and two of the accomplices

January 23, 2026 – Svetlana Lokhova and Lara Logan outline the decade-long treasonous conspiracy against President Trump

Can my followers and supporters please help to share this as I am being heavily censored!

Only 6,000 people saw this on and I have over 130,000 followers!!!

It’s my BIG interview with Lara @laralogan outlining the decade-long, ongoing Treasonous Conspiracy against President Trump and the American people.

We lay out all the evidence: documents, times, dates.

Goes all the way up to Obama!

Involves John Brennan, Susan Rice, Jim Comey, Jim Clapper, Christopher Wray, Gina Haspel, Norm Eisen, Pete Strzok and Lisa Page, Andy McCabe, et al

January 22, 2026 – Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield now says the COVID jab should not have been called a vaccine

January 22, 2026 – Highlights of Jack Smith’s House Judiciary Committee hearing

“‘Why a second oath after 11 months?’: Gooden, Jordan expose stunning details at Jack Smith hearing” captures part of the questioning on his swearing-in/oath process.

Rep. Darrell Issa questions Jack Smith about his weaponization of government against Republican lawmakers, forcing him to admit that he withheld the targets of his Arctic Frost investigation from a Judge when obtaining subpoenas for lawmakers’ phone records.

Former Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone interrupted Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) with a loud cough followed by an audible “Fk yourself” (or “Go fk yourself”), while Nehls was speaking and placing blame for January 6 events on Capitol Police leadership rather than former President Trump.

Earlier this month:

January 23, 2026 – Minneapolis – 400 Medicaid businesses in one building generated almost $380 million in billing to CMS

Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Director  and Deputy Director for Health and Human Services, Jim O’Neill, just released a stunning video from Minnesota. They discuss a former linen factory that was transformed into 400 Medicaid businesses that generated almost $380 million in billing to CMS.

It doesn’t make sense. One industrial building housing almost 400 individual Medicaid businesses that cost taxpayers $380 million in payments for services that are now under investigation. It is almost guaranteed this complex houses fraudulent fake businesses. Director Oz dropped the video on his X account.

“Why did no one in the state figure out this was a concern? Perplexingly to me, in a place of this nature, an industrial complex that people would not come to for child care or autism care or transportation support, how is it possible this could come up like an abscess in the heart of Minneapolis and nobody was watching?!”

“They generated about $380 million of billing that you, the taxpayer, were putting up. That means roughly each business had a million dollars of billing.” … “It’s an industrial area. There’s no reason that you have a mother bring her child.”

“You can’t imagine getting extra business support. An autistic child probably wouldn’t want to come here. You hear the noise. It’s just not a hospitable place.”

“The question is, how is it possible 400 businesses billing almost $400 million were able to thrive here?!”

“I think it’s because they weren’t looking. They didn’t want to know that this problem was happening here.”

“We’re here to figure out why these folks are being defrauded. Why the people who live in Minnesota aren’t getting access to the care they deserve because it’s been stolen.”

(Conservative Treehouse, 1/23/2026) (Archive)

January 24, 2026 – Kash Patel fires senior agents and directors at the FBI

FBI Director Kash Patel fired senior agents and directors at the bureau this week with connections to the junk lawfare investigations of President Trump.

Tthe special agent in charge in Atlanta has been removed, as has the acting assistant director in charge of the New York field office, two people familiar with the matter said. A former special agent in charge in New Orleans who had recently moved on to another job was also ousted.

Six agents from the Miami office were forced out over the unprecedented raid at Mar-a-Lago.
Agents involved in Arctic Frost – the intel community’s spying on GOP Senators and Representatives were also relieved from duties.

(Gateway Pundit, 1/24/2026)  (Archive) 

January 24, 2026 – Minneapolis Signal Chat groups whose intent is to track federal agents and impede/assault/and obstruct, has been infiltrated

I have been undercover inside the groups for days.

You’ll notice emojis next to people’s names. Here’s a key for what those emojis mean.

The highlighted positions are the most crucial. Most are self explanatory. Mobile patrols spend their entire “shift” searching for suspicious vehicles.

When they find one they send it to the group so that “plate checkers” can compare with their database and see if it’s a known federal vehicle or if the patrol can make the confirmation so that the database can be updated.

Dispatch runs a maxed out call all day telling protestors where ICE has been spotted and how they can be best impeded.

(All relevant links/evidence will be on the last several posts of this 🧵)

Thanks to the great work undercover work of @camhigby, he revealed today that one of the leaders in organizing these violent anti-ICE riots is a woman named Amanda Koehler.

🟩 (Screenshot #1) We found this write up on Amanda Koehler’s LinkedIn. As you can see, she references an ICE Watch organization called, “Monarca”

🟩 (Screenshot #2) This is from the Minnesota government website, “Office of Ombudsperson for Families”. Notice that they listed:

❗️ Monarca as a resource.

❗️ S.A.L.U.T.E. as a strategy, a tactic in which ICE Watch networks train rioters. (See post below for further explanation by @LeighWolf and @pepesgrandma)

We literally have the Minnesota government and Tim Walz’s administration partnering with domestic terrorist ICE Watch networks to impede ICE from deporting violent illegal aliens.

This is straight up treason and Governor Walz needs to be arrested.

January 24, 2026 – Leftist activist Alex Pretti tangles with ICE while carrying a loaded gun and is shot dead

At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here.

The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming.

Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene.

The suspect also had 2 magazines and no ID—this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.

About 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement on the scene, crowd control measures were deployed for the safety of the public and law enforcement.

This situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming.

NEW: Attorney and self-defense expert Andrew Branca says the shooting of Alex Pretti was justified, lays out reasons why.

– “The moment he makes contact with that officer, he’s just committed a federal felony good for eight years in a federal penitentiary.”

– “That’s why they were seeking to make his arrest because they saw him commit a forcible felony against a fellow officer.”

– “Then he’s noncompliant with arrest. He’s fighting them. Then they discover he has a gun…”

– “They take that gun. There are cries of ‘gun, gun, gun.’ The officers called to each other. He’s still noncompliant. They hear a gunshot go off. And Alex Pretty’s right hand comes from his waistline with a black object in his hand.”

– “That combination of facts is going to get you shot 999 times out of a thousand by law enforcement, and justifiably so.”

“They’re making all these perceptions, all these decisions in a violent, chaotic melee caused by Alex Pretti.”

“They have to make all these decisions in a split second because that’s how quickly someone can use a weapon against you, and those decisions.”

“They don’t have to be correct. The law of self-defense does not require us to make perfect decisions…”

Video: @lizcollin

January 25, 2026 – Antifa organizations in multiple states have gone to full mobilization status and are heading to Minneapolis

More food for thought:

Professional organizers in the 1970s trained me as a teenager to do the stupid protest stuff like vandalism, destroying property, and creating provocations to get stomped and clubbed by National Guardsmen for the news cameras to turn people against the authorities.

We thought it was a fun adventure and enjoyed being part of an edgy “struggle” in what we had been led to believe was a righteous cause. In my case, it was anti-nuclear activism.

Those who knew what they were doing never put themselves in danger.

They trained and set up the rest of us as dupes to face the consequences. That was about 80 percent of us.

They used us to create outrage imagery, and to use our shouts and chants to intimidate political figures and the public. They used us to provoke situations that would turn the public against the police and National Guard.

We were just all-American high school kids. Harmless. Idealistic. Innocent-looking.

It was all engineered anger. PSYOP against the public and against ourselves.

When I realized that the cause wasn’t about the cause, but was about a Communist revolution against our country, I broke ranks and spent the rest of my life fighting them.

I was 16 years old at the time. Luckily I hadn’t gotten involved in any destruction or violence, but had learned enough to infiltrate and disrupt the movement until I was well into my twenties.

From that experience, I went on to infiltrate Communist guerrilla front groups, and Soviet international front organizations like the World Peace Council and disrupted their multimillion-dollar operations. This time, for Uncle Sam.

Used the enemy’s tactics against them.

Most of the rest just chose to remain dupes. That was almost 50 years ago.

The Minneapolis insurgency is nothing new. It has been evolving for decades, refined to an art form.

What about the 20 percent who were not dupes? They knew exactly what they were doing. Back then, they had supported Fidel Castro, the Weather Underground, and our Vietcong and North Vietnam Communist enemies.

Many of them are still around. Some remain sharp and militant. Others are the geriatrics you see with their “No Kings” signs, hauling out their grandchildren – or other people’s grandchildren – to train them as the fourth or fifth generation of militants. Many are still dupes.

January 26, 2026 – Tim Walz reaches out to Trump, agrees to have police work with ICE to remove criminal illegal aliens in Minnesota; Frey is not as cooperative

January 26, 2026

Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength. I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession. The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I! We have had such tremendous SUCCESS in Washington, D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have “touched” and, even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me. Separately, a major investigation is going on with respect to the massive 20 Billion Dollar, Plus, Welfare Fraud that has taken place in Minnesota, and is at least partially responsible for the violent organized protests going on in the streets. Additionally, the DOJ and Congress are looking at “Congresswoman” Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars. Time will tell all. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT

January 27, 2026

January 28, 2026

January 26, 2026 – Tim Walz is emboldened by what amounts to organized crime with badges and budgets

Cam Higby’s infiltration of these groups blew the lid off. In Minneapolis, Signal chats are buzzing with anti-ICE operatives, and local police are complicit, cooperative even with real-time access to national databases for tracing license plates, courtesy of law enforcement insiders. Shift changes are being leaked from within departments.

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

January 27, 2026 – Cam Higby finds Minnesota AG Keith Ellison is linked to Signalgate

ATTORNEY GENERAL LINK TO SIGNAL GATE:

In their legal help signal channel, was instructions to report federal agents to Minnesota Attorney General Kieth Ellison.

The link led directly a page designed by Ellison’s office for reporting Feds. Ellison has been seen outside of the Whipple federal building ENGAGING IN PROTESTS with the insurrectionists who just a few nights prior tried to kill me, and attempted to bring the fence down.

How involved is Kieth Ellison??

January 28, 2026 – FBI searches ‘Ground Zero’ Fulton County election office in 2020 voter fraud probe

The FBI arrives at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center with a subpoena. (Credit: video clipping)

The FBI has raided a Fulton County, Georgia election hub that was ‘ground zero’ for voter fraud concerns in the 2020 election, Fox News reports.

Agents could be seen entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, a new facility which opened in 2023 – and was designed to streamline their election process (we’re sure!).

According to the report, it was not immediately clear what the FBI agents were investigating, just that it’s related to the 2020 US election.

In December, news broke that tabulation tapes in Fulton County were not signed, affecting 315,000 votes. After Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger tried to reassure voters that “Georgia has the most secure elections in the country,” Republicans questioned him…

“If only Georgia had an official responsible for preventing clerical errors that undermine election integrity. Is there anyone in Georgia who has that job, Brad?”said Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who is running for governor.

US Rep. Mike Collins, who is running for Senate, said he was “tired of empty words from weak leaders,” adding “Turns out over 300,000 early votes in the 2020 election were illegally certified but still included in the final results.” (Read more: Zero Hedge, 1/28/2026)  (Archive)

Statement from Julie Adams:

“The DOJ wrote to Fulton County in August of last year, asking for the ballots. DOJ wrote another letter in October asking again for the 2020 ballots and other records. Two weeks ago, the FBI delivered a third letter. But the majority of the Fulton County Board of Elections literally denied these requests. The Georgia State Election Board has been trying for 4 years to get the records. Including issuing a subpoena for the ballots and other records. And ALL of those efforts have failed. Until today.

I applaud Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel for finally searching for and retrieving the records from the 2020 election that the U.S. Attorney General under federal law is entitled to receive and review.

It is my hope that the FBI is in the process of getting every box of 2020 election materials in that warehouse to be able to piece together, once and for all, the truth about 2020. I am dedicated to making sure to the best of my ability that elections in Fulton County are accurate.

Let’s hope this starts a new chapter in Fulton County for transparency and accountability.”

Julie Adams
Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections
Republican Party Appointee

Amazing!

All physical ballots from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County

All tabulator tapes for every voting machine used in Fulton County; including, but not limited to; ZERO TAPES, opening tapes, closing tapes and any other tabulator tape printed from a voting machine utilized during the 2020 General Election in Fulton County

All ballot images produced during the original ballot count beginning on November 3, 2020, THE RECOUNT, and any other ballot images

All voter rolls from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County from absentee, early voting, in person, and any other voter roll that indicates voters: to whom an absentee ballot was issued, from whom an absentee ballot was received, or who participated in advanced voting or election day voting

NEW: FBI executes search warrant on Fulton County Election Center, seizing contentious 2020 election ballots

For six years, the public has still not been allowed to inspect 145,000 ballots that six sworn affidavits say were counterfeit.

A judge ordered these ballots inspected years ago. Fulton County refused.

Excerpts from witness affidavits include:

Susan Voyles, 20-year election official:
“Pristine” ballots “difference in the texture of the paper” with “a different feel” and “no markings” and approximately “98% for Joe Biden.”

Georgia Democrat observer:
“Hundreds of ballots with no folds or creases. Perfect black bubbles. All for Biden.”

Another Georgia Democrat:
“All had perfect black bubbles and were all Biden. I heard ‘Biden’ over 500 times in a row.”

@VoterGa has been fighting in court for six years just to inspect these ballots.

Why was Fulton County so determined to keep them hidden?

BREAKING!🚨Fulton County Chairman Rob Pitts at election warehouse says the 2020 ballots are no longer safe and secure because they are out of Fulton County’s control.

“…they have been removed from this facility, out of our control. We don’t know where they’re being taken, we don’t know what’s going to happen to them…”

Despite Chairman Pitt’s giving Fulton County an A+ rating for their handling of the 2020 election, Fulton County hired one of Georgias top ten criminal defense lawyers after a judge unsealed the ballots.

One would think if Fulton County meticulously ran a flawless election, than a transparent audit would simply reflect that, and no criminal defense lawyers would be needed.

President Trump’s legal team exposing the 2020 Election Fraud at the Georgia State Farm Arena pulling suitcases full of alleged fraudulent ballots from under tables after the election center was shut down, running the same stacks of ballots over, and over, and over, all throughout the night until Biden was ahead, stealing the election from President Trump.

This is exactly why the FBI raided the election center today in Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia. This is only the beginning. Prosecutions are coming.

Hi there. Former Intel guy who is also a former law enforcement guy here.

If Gabbard is on scene, it means that the FBI has found a foreign/counterintelligence nexus to the investigation into the 2020 election in Georgia; otherwise they’d be reporting to Bondi and DOJ.

Gabbard was very likely able to discern the relevant gist from the documents recovered because she already knew what they contained before she ever arrived.

Let me explain a bit further.

To get a search warrant, a Federal Magistrate—one with no ties to Trump, and in fact a resume filled with Legal Aid and Public Defense—found probable cause that evidence of a crime existed in the narrow scope of what was being requested via search warrant. Considering how not-narrow of scope that warrant actually turned out to be, and Gabbard’s involvement, we can deduce several things.

First, that there is already a substantial case that some serious crime occurred and that this is not anywhere near the first evidence they’ve collected. Getting such a warrant from such a Magistrate would be essentially impossible otherwise; we can’t even get a similarly situated Magistrate to provide the pro forma signature on a Complaint related to Don Lemon committing several felonies on public video, with numerous admissions and confessions. Let’s not pretend here.

Second, that the foreign nexus has probably already been getting plugged away at with the foreign-oriented intelligence apparatus for some time. It is probable, I’d hazard a guess, that a FISA warrant or two have been employed.

Gabbard already knew exactly what they were looking for and she wanted to be on scene for its recovery.

TL;DR — Somebody, somewhere, someday soon is completely f*cked.

I’ll save conjecture for a follow-on post.

January 28, 2026 – Tulsi Gabbard is at the FBI raid in Fulton County because it is a national security investigation

Tulsi Gabbard in Fulton County, Georgia on January 28, 2026 (Credit: public domain)

DNI Tulsi Gabbard takes leading role on 2020 election fraud investigation

January 28, 2026 – FBI Atlanta Chief Paul Brown warns Fulton County elections officials about a coming raid

January 28, 2026 – Senator Tuberville: “We probably have a dozen or so people up here in the House and the Senate that were elected illegally”

Republican Senator Reveals Over A DOZEN US Senators Illegally STOLE Their Seats Through Fraud, ‘Billions and Billions’:

SEN. TUBERVILLE: “We probably have a dozen or so people up here in the House and the Senate that were elected illegally. They shouldn’t be here because things were crooked in the elections.”

“I’ll go back to the money that is being stolen. The Democrats had the majority, House, Senate, and White House, and they did this first. CARES Act, you know, ‘We need money for COVID,’ $2 trillion. What’d they do with that money? They sent it to all the blue states to pay off their debts because they had stolen so much money they could not function, and we’re talking about 30, 40 billion for California, 30, 40 billion for New York. Same thing for Chicago.”

January 28, 2026 – Peter Schweizer: Mexico operates 53 consulates in the United States that work with Dem activists to defeat Trump and stop ICE deportations

Mexico operates 53 consulates in the United States. Britain has 6. China has 7.

What are they doing? Meeting with Democratic activists to defeat Trump. Running “Migrant TV” calling ICE “brownshirts.” Organizing violent anti-ICE protests.

Mexican senators live in America and represent illegals in Mexico’s parliament. This is warfare.

January 29, 2026 – Former FBI and Crossfire Hurricane case agent Joseph Pientka is now a congressional staffer and senior adviser to Eric Swalwell

January 29, 2026 – Tulsi Gabbard releases documents that further proves it was Obama who led the Russiagate conspiracy and coup against Donald Trump

Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, released a bombshell report with new and damning information on Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon she shared with White House reporters at the daily briefing. The documents reveal it was Barack Obama and the FBI and CIA leadership at the time to sabotage President Trump before he even stepped into office. Obama did this knowing the entire story was manufactured and not a word of it was true.

Gabbard released one House Intelligence Report that had been locked up in a CIA vault for almost a decade! It now is clear that Obama doctored the information to make it look like Putin and his buddy Donald Trump stole the election.

There were four key elements in the reports about the fake Russian collusion that formed the basis of the Russia hoax.
Jesse Watters reported:
1.) That Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to to win in 2016.
2.) That Putin took action to help Donald Trump win in 2016.
3.) Russia had blackmail evidence against Trump – the Steele dossier.
4.) Russia tried to collude with the Trump campaign.

This was all a lie and they knew it.

There was no reliable information to back up any of their allegations.

During her press conference with White House reporters, DNI Tulsi Gabbard said she has already turned this information on Obama over to the Department of Justice.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/29/2026) (Archive)

January 29, 2026 – Seattle mayor pushes her police force to track ICE agents’ enforcement activities

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson (Credit: Katie Wilson for Seattle)

Seattle’s progressive Mayor Katie Wilson announced a series of moves Thursday that ban federal agents from using city property to conduct immigration enforcement operations and requiring the police department to investigate, verify, and document reports of enforcement activities, citing the “unpredictable, chaotic, and violent behavior” of the federal government.

In a news release, Wilson, who was sworn in as mayor earlier this month, said she will sign an executive order prohibiting federal immigration authorities from using city-owned and city-controlled property for immigration enforcement activities.

“Whoever you are, and wherever you come from: if Seattle is your home, then this is your city,” said Wilson said in a news release announcing the move. “And it’s our responsibility as city leaders to move quickly and get organized so we can keep people safe.”

(…) Officers dispatched to reports of ICE activity will document the activity with in-car and body-worn video, as well as validate the status of federal law enforcement agents through official identification and securing scenes of potentially unlawful acts to gather evidence for prosecutors.

“I understand the concern and anxiety in the community, and I want to make sure everyone knows that the police are here to keep you safe, regardless of your immigration status,” said Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes. “The City of Seattle is a welcoming city, and my officers will continue to abide by all laws and regulations that prohibit our participation in immigration enforcement.”

Mike Solan, president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, the union that represents rank-and-file officers, shot down the idea of having officers pulled into the fight between local jurisdictions and the federal government.

(Read more: Fox News, 1/31/2026)  (Archive)

January 30, 2026 – Svetlana Lokhova: Senator Mark Warner must face a criminal investigation for his central role in the Russia collusion hoax

Why Senator Mark Warner Must Face a Full Criminal Investigation for His Central Role in the Russia Collusion Hoax, as part of the Grand Conspiracy to Subvert an American Election and Presidency

The American people were sold one of the greatest political lies in history: that Donald Trump was a Russian asset, secretly elected with Putin’s help, and that patriotic Americans who questioned this fairy tale were “conspiracy theorists.”

The Steele Dossier, a Clinton-campaign-funded compilation of lies, was the poisonous seed. The FBI used it to spy on a presidential campaign. The media used it to terrorize the country for years. And sitting at the very center of Congress’s “bipartisan” Russia investigation was Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), the man who did more than almost anyone to keep this hoax alive long after it had been exposed as garbage.

Declassified documents, leaked text messages, whistleblower testimony, and the Durham investigation prove he was an active participant in a coordinated effort to weaponize the intelligence community, foreign intelligence assets, opposition researchers, and billionaire donors against a sitting president.

This is the real conspiracy, not the imaginary kind Warner spent years chasing .

Here are the facts that demand Warner be hauled before a grand jury, placed under oath, and investigated for abuse of power, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and possible violations of the Logan Act, Espionage Act, and campaign finance laws.

1. Warner Ran a Secret Back-Channel to Christopher Steele Through a Russian Oligarch’s Lobbyist, While Publicly Screaming About “Russian Influence”
In February 2018, Fox News published explosive text messages between Mark Warner and lobbyist Adam Waldman. Waldman represented Oleg Deripaska – yes, the same sanctioned Russian oligarch at the center of so much of the “Russia collusion” nonsense.

What do the texts show?

-Warner desperately wanted a secret call with Christopher Steele, the discredited former MI6 officer who promoted the dossier.

-Warner explicitly told Waldman he did not want Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) to know about it.

-Warner instructed Waldman to set up the call with “no paper trail.”

-When Steele got cold feet, Warner pushed harder: “Important… this all stays strictly between us.”

Let that sink in. The ranking Democrat on the committee investigating Russian interference was secretly negotiating with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch to get off-the-record access to the author of the central piece of evidence in that investigation – and he wanted zero official record of it.

This is the same Mark Warner who spent years on television warning about “Russian disinformation” and the danger of back-channel contacts with Russians.

Yet here he was, running his own back-channel through Deripaska’s paid representative to the single most compromised source in the entire scandal.

Why the secrecy? Because Warner knew the dossier was collapsing. Steele had already been terminated by the FBI as a source for lying. His “primary sub-source”, Igor Danchenko, was later indicted for lying to the FBI. Warner didn’t want official scrutiny – he wanted to keep the narrative alive behind closed doors.

2. Warner Coordinated with Dan Jones, The Man Who Took Over Funding Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele and Kept the Hoax Machine Running After the Election

After Trump won, the Clinton campaign and the DNC stopped paying Fusion GPS and Steele. Enter Daniel Jones, former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer for Dianne Feinstein and close Warner ally.

Jones admitted under oath that he raised approximately $50 million , much of it from Silicon Valley billionaires (Reid Hoffman) and George Soros-linked groups, to continue the “research” into Trump-Russia ties through his organizations: the Penn Quarter Group and The Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP).

What did Jones do with the money?
– Paid Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to keep digging.
-Fed opposition research directly to the FBI, the State Department, and, crucially, to the Senate Intelligence Committee that Mark Warner was now helping lead.

-Ran a media influence operation that planted hundreds of collusion stories in major outlets.

Jones was in constant contact with Warner’s circle. Declassified materials and reporting show Warner’s team relied on Jones/Fusion material while pretending their investigation was pristine and independent. The final SSCI Russia report, released under Warner’s vice-chairmanship and later chairmanship, still cited dossier-sourced claims that had already been debunked.

This was not oversight. This was outsourcing a partisan smear operation to private actors and then laundering their “findings” through an official Senate committee to give them legitimacy.

3. Warner Oversaw a Committee That Leaked Like a Sieve and Protected the Hoax Architects
Under Warner’s watch, classified information from the Senate Intelligence Committee flowed to friendly reporters. Security director James Wolfe was caught leaking the Carter Page FISA application to his girlfriend Ali Watkins and others. Wolfe got a slap on the wrist, two months in prison, after the DOJ mysteriously dropped 18 U.S.C. § 641 charges that could have sent him away for years.

Who benefited from the leaks? The same media outlets pushing the collusion narrative Warner wanted alive.
When the Wolfe scandal broke, Warner’s response was not outrage at the breach, it was to attack reporters who exposed it.

4. Warner Repeatedly Lied to the Public and Pushed for Investigations He Knew Were Based on Garbage
Warner went on television countless times claiming the Senate Intelligence Committee had seen “incredible evidence” of coordination between Trump and Russia.

Yet when the Mueller Report found no such thing, Warner quietly pivoted to “counterintelligence concerns,” never admitting the central role the discredited dossier played in launching the entire probe.
He pushed for the Mueller special counsel within days of Comey’s firing , before the dossier’s problems were fully exposed.

He defended the FBI’s handling of the FISA warrants on Carter Page even after Inspector General Horowitz found 17 major errors and omissions.

This Was a Conspiracy , and Warner Was Near the Center

January 30, 2026 – Alert/Tracker app “StopICE” hackers reveal names, logins, passwords, locations and phone numbers of 100K+users to FBI, ICE, HSI and more

January 30, 2026 – Epstein Files: Head of the World Economic Forum resigns

Borge Brende, president of the World Economic Forum, delivers closing remarks at the WEF Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2026. (Credit: Lian Yi/Xinhua via Getty Images)

The President and CEO of the World Economic Forum, the convenor of the infamous annual Davos globalism conference, has resigned after Epstein email releases revealed his links to the disgraced financier.

Former Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs and leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Børge Brende announced his resignation from the top pro-globalisation group on Thursday, stating that after “careful consideration” he had concluded his remaining at the top was proving a distraction for the work of the group.

The WEF’s latest Davos conference took place in January. Long one of the world’s most prominent forums for political, business, and financial leaders but associated as much with the prevalence of prostitution and private jets as with deal-making, the meeting was rocked this year by the arrival of U.S. President Trump, who parked his metaphorical tanks on the globalist lawn with a speech focusing on tariffs.

France’s Le Figaro notes attention honed in on erstwhile WEF boss Brende after the U.S. Department of Justice published the Epstein emails a month ago, which showed the Norwegian diplomat had met with Epstein three times and exchanged several messages with him between 2018 and 2019.

While Brende defended himself as not knowing about Epstein’s past and stating the meetings were purely business-related, they took place after the disgraced financier had served a prison term for child sex offences and had frequently been in the headlines as he faced allegations over further abuses against young women.

Their final meeting was only months before Epstein’s death in an American prison.

Far from being remote business contacts, the messages revealed in the emails suggested a closer relationship. The Financial Times notes Brende wrote to Epstein: “thx for a very interesting dinner … You’re a brilliant host. Warmly, Borge,” and said “Missing you Sir. Borge.”

Alleged messages said to have been unveiled in the email archive show Brende and Epstein discussing the Middle East and planning

Brende said today: “After careful consideration, I have decided to step down as President and CEO of the World Economic Forum. My time here, spanning 8½ years, has been profoundly rewarding. We have seen a record number of partners join us, and we have had a very successful Annual Meeting in Davos behind us, where we engaged with governmental leaders from all over the world like never before. I am grateful for the incredible collaboration with my colleagues, partners, and constituents, and I believe now is the right moment for the Forum to continue its important work without distractions.” (Read more: Breitbart News, 2/26/2026)  (Archive)

January 30, 2026 – Epstein Files: SDNY discuss allegation former prince Andrew bought slave from Maxwell, engaged in ‘sex and torture’ and was ‘an accessory to her death’

January 30, 2026 – Epstein Files: Maria Farmer was the first victim to come forward in 1996 and was ignored; eventually drew paintings with clues of her experiences

(The Hildebeast was portrayed in the above painting)

The Hildebeast (Credit: Maria Farmer)

January 30, 2026 – Epstein Files: New video log reveals an orange shape near Epstein cell; noose found near body is not cause of death

This image from the video — zoomed in and highlighted by CBS News – shows a partial view of something orange on the stairs leading to Jeffrey Epstein’s cell tier.
(Credit: U.S. Bureau of Prisons)

Newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein’s death observed an orange-colored shape moving up a staircase toward the isolated, locked tier where his cell was located at approximately 10:39 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2019.

That entry in an observation log of the video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center appears to suggest something previously unreported by authorities: “A flash of orange looks to be going up the L Tier stairs — could possibly be an inmate escorted up to that Tier.”

It also appears, according to an FBI memorandum, that reviews by investigators led to disparate conclusions by the FBI and those examining the same video from the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General.

The FBI log describes the fuzzy image as “possibly an inmate.”

(…) The new records raise more questions about activity near Epstein’s tier late that evening. Official reviews of Epstein’s death make no mention of the figure in orange, and later pronouncements from authorities including the attorney general at the time, Bill Barr, were  that no one entered Epstein’s housing tier the night of his death. Last summer in an interview on “Fox & Friends,” then-deputy FBI director Dan Bongino said, “There’s video clear as day, he’s the only person in there and the only person coming out. You can see it.”

Prison employees interviewed by CBS News said escorting an inmate at that hour would have been highly unusual. The identification of the individual could have been crucial to reconstructing the events, given that the sighting occurred within the estimated window of Epstein’s possible time of death.

The staircase leading to his cell tier was captured by the only camera known to have been recording that night, positioned in a way that partially obscured the approach to Epstein’s tier. Government investigators relied heavily on that footage in reconstructing the timeline of events. But because of the camera angle, it was not possible to rule out whether someone could have climbed the stairs and entered the tier without being clearly visible. CBS News’ analysis of that video found additional contradictions between what the video showed and official statements.

(Read more: CBS News, 2/6/2026)  (Archive)

January 30, 2026 – Highlights of the latest DOJ release of 3.5 million Epstein documents

The Justice Department released 3.5 million pages of investigative material on deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein Friday, the biggest single tranche of records dealing with the late pedophile.

The files also include at least 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, not all of which were taken by Epstein, according to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, as well as search warrants, previously sealed court documents, flight logs and new emails.

The records include search warrants for the disgraced financier’s Upper East Side mansion, executed on July 6, 2019, and private estate in the US Virgin Islands, searched on Aug. 12 of that same year — two days after Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail in what was later ruled a suicide.

Deputy AG Todd Blanche says DOJ releasing 3.5 million Epstein files

THIS IS HUGE.

The individual who anonymously posted on 4Chan the morning of Epstein’s death, August 10, 2019 claiming he witnessed weird happenings at the prison before Epstein’s death has been identified in the Epstein files.

Roberto Grijalva, an officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York has been identified as the anonymous prison employee who posted on 4Chan claiming Epstein left his cell Friday evening shackled in a medical wheelchair while at the same time an unauthorized trip van arrived at the prison, which he believes took Epstein away the night BEFORE news broke of his death.

The day after Epstein’s death, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman of the SDNY opened a Grand Jury proceeding and subpoenaed 4Chan, Apple, AT&T and Citibank for records aiming to uncover Grijalva’s identity following the anonymous 4Chan post.

Grijalva’s name is not redacted on his bank records included in the SDNY subpoena response from Citibank for his 4Chan post, and ties to the same Prison Officer Roberto Grijalva whose statements were released as part of the prison’s investigation into Epstein’s death.

This is HUGE. We now have validation the 4Chan post from 8/10/2019 is a legitimate eyewitness account from an MCC prison officer that Epstein may have been switched out before news broke of his alleged suicide.

Statement announcing Jeffrey Epstein’s death emerges from files… but it’s dated a day before he killed himself

Bill Gates slept with Russian girls, got a sexually-transmitted disease and asked for antibiotics to slip to his then-wife Melinda, extraordinary new Jeffrey Epstein files from the Department of Justice allege. https://t.co/L40Izi94eD

Bill Gates Panics Over Latest Epstein Files: ‘Completely False’

Norwegian Crown Princess Under Fire for Being Featured in Hundreds of New Epstein Files, While Her Son Is on Trial Accused of Raping Four Women

The Epstein-Rothschild Connections

The attached email is the most shocking email I’ve seen yet in the Epstein release and I haven’t seen anyone talking about it.

“We’ve had another serious incident since an American shot the trial judge in our child sex trafficking case here.”

I’m sorry, WTF? An American was in Mexico and shot a trial judge overseeing a child sex trafficking case? Yes.

It goes on “He and I both think this latest incident is tied to the fact we have reached out to your team. Who on your team knows we are talking to you, anyone assigned from NSA, CIA or US State Department? Please understand peoples lives here are in jeopardy.”

The guy writing the email is accusing the DOJ of having someone from the NSA, CIA or State on his team AND suggesting their knowledge of prosecuting a sex trafficker would generate a hit on the judge assigned to the case.

It gets better (worse)…

That wasn’t the first violent attempt to stop the prosecution of a sex trafficker. “We have had 4 armed attacks against us, my partner has shot and killed 2 and wounded 5 American agents to date, numerous white American agents following us in vans assigned to US Embassy. Jorge was attacked and lost his arm.”

Holy crap!!! In 2019, US Embassy (likely CIA) vans were stalking our own guys assisting in MX to prosecute sex trafficking.

“The President of Mexico is keenly aware of our case against Marcinko and other US Officials. This case we have here is most certainly connected to yours, we have the proof. Our case will help bring a whole new dynamic to what you know and who is involved, Prince Phillip is small fry compared to what we have uncovered.”

Richard Marcinko is late founder of SEAL Team Six (who died in 2021).

“You may want to question the Ex US Ambassador to Mexico; Mr. Earl Anthony Wayne about his involvement with an underage girl when he attended and was arrested by the Federal Police. We believe that Marcinko and Epstein were involved organizing this party and it was held in Juarez, Mex in 2014 at a US Consulate controlled housing facility.”

Under aged females at a US Consulate facility for a part organized by a former SEAL and Epstein.

“Ask him (Epstein) how he knows Richard Marcinko. He (the ambassador) was sentenced in Mexico in 2017 to a life sentence for impregnating an 11 year old girl, her son’s dna matches Waynes 100%, but he is allowing an ex-US Marine to stand in his place to serve his sentence in Mexico. That was an agreement worked out between our US State Dept and a judge in Mexico after a huge payoff. Mr. Anthony has an outstanding arrest warrant here in Mexico for avoiding sentencing.”

You read that correctly, a former Marine was imprisoned for raping an 11 yr old girl KNOWING it was the ambassador that raped her and the deal was set up by the State Dept.

“I want confirm that the phone you will be using has been swept for malware and key loggers. After our call you’ll understand why we are so concerned with secure comms here.”

The agent on the ground in Mexico insists that the person ensure his phone is free from spyware to ensure the safety of the ppl involved in uncovering a child trafficking ring which is exposing corruption of State Dept personnel and CIA. The response:

“My Task Force is not affiliated with the intelligence community”

Of course, the task force was affiliated with the intelligence community and obviously being monitored by it. What a retarded thing to say. It was getting ppl on the ground in Mexico murdered.

Shocking Email From Epstein Files Implicates Former US Ambassador, Clintons, Bidens, the First Commanding Officer of SEAL Team Six, and More

Former Prince Andrew (Credit: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

UK Prime Minister Calls on Andrew to Testify over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein After Document Dump

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor seen crouching over woman in creepy photos from DOJ’s latest Epstein files dump

Chilling unheard audio recordings of Michael Jackson expressing his deepest “intimate” thoughts on children will be revealed in a new TV docuseries.

The superstar can be heard discussing his innermost feelings on his infatuation with kids.

In one eerie moment, Jackson confides that without children being close to him he would take his own life.

(Credit: Getty Images)

Michael Jackson’s intimate thoughts on kids revealed in bombshell, unearthed recordings

The democratic socialist’s [Zohran Mamdani] mom, Mira Nair, attended a swanky afterparty at convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s house for her film “Amelia,” that was also attended by former President Bill Clinton and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, according to an email sent by publicist Peggy Siegal to Epstein on Oct. 21, 2009.

“Just left Ghislaine’s townhouse…after party for film,” the early morning message said.
“Bill Clinton and Jeff Bezos were there…Jean Pigozzi, director MIra Nair…etc. Film received tepid reaction though women like it much more…Hillary Swank and [Richard] Gere are at stupid party in Bloomingdales cheap sportswear department…very weird,” the email continued.

Mira Nair (Credit: Reuter)

Zohran Mamdani’s mom mentioned in Epstein files email about film she directed

LA Olympics official Casey Wasserman’s racy emails with Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003 revealed in Epstein files

Howard Lutnick (Credit: AP)

Commerce Secretary Lutnick visited ‘Pedo Island’, emails indicate

A group of 25 alleged accomplices of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein made “secret settlements” with accusers — while four alleged co-conspirators were never charged, Epstein’s convicted madam Ghislaine Maxwell revealed in court papers.

“New Evidence reveals that there were 25 men with which the plaintiff lawyers reached secret settlements – that could equally be considered as co-conspirators,” Maxwell wrote in December in the papers, filed without her lawyers, seeking to overturn her conviction.

Ghislaine Maxwell claims 25 Jeffrey Epstein accomplices reached ‘secret settlements’ after abuse allegations: court papers

I’m utterly blown away by this new audio in the Epstein Files. It shows the secret conversation you fear every high-level gov’t official might have with an outside fixer to hook them up the moment they “leave government to enter the private sector.”

Here, Jeffrey Epstein teaches Ehud Barak — while he is still Minister of Defense in Israel but on his way out — how to make millions of dollars in the private sector by first compiling a list of people who owe him favors from his 40 years in government service.

Epstein then told Ehud Barak to pursue Peter Thiel, whose name at that point Ehud Barak did not even know how to spell, and to try to connect with a company called Palantir, which existence Ehud Barak had never heard of, and whose name Jeffrey Epstein didn’t know how to spell.

Credit @RyanGrim whose clip I first saw to look for this. I used Grok to backtrace the source link from the audio. Ryan assesses this meeting took place in February 2013, which seems to line up with the audio saying Ehud Barak is about 71 at the time of the recording, as Ehud Barak is 83 today.

Here is one of @RepThomasMassie alleged “survivors”

Elizabeth Stein

She works for Tides Foundation (soros open society funded) funded World Without Exploitation

They produced the superbowl commercial of “victims” this past weekend

She was a FULL GROWN ASS WOMAN when she met Maxwell at her job at 21 years old

She formed a 3 year *friendship* with Epstein and Maxwell……..apparently sexual

She didn’t realize she was trafficked until 30 years later when Epstein was sentenced.

She attempted but failed to recover funds from the Victims fund

Maxwell’s attorney pointed out she did not legally qualify as a “crime victim” under the CVRA and she received no payout.

But she sure did try.

WTAF are we doing here, people??

(Will update with new finds)

January 30, 2026 – Epstein Files: Former Clinton and Obama attorney Kathryn Ruemmler shared over 11,000 emails with Jeffrey Epstein

Obama’s lawyer, fixer and the “ethics” chief Kathy Ruemmler said that President Trump devalued and debased the “sacrosanct” Office of the President, and talks about the dignity and the decency of it.

Kathy Ruemmler was Bill Clinton’s lawyer…

Kathy was sleeping with the married Epstein personal lawyer at the time she was in the White House. She did numerous deals with the Obama DoJ for Epstein’s clients such as the Rothschilds, with one deal alone paying her 10 million and Epstein 25 million dollars.

Ruemmler emailed with Epstein more than 11 thousand times, had numerous meetings with him. Ruemmler received luxury gifts from “Uncle Jeffrey” him such as first-class trips abroad, handbags worth over 9 thousand dollars, etc etc.

(video credit:@mazemoore)

January 30, 2026 – Epstein Files: Peter Thiel, Jeffrey Epstein and the Rothschilds

I Confronted Peter Thiel on Epstein Ties – Now the Emails & Audio Are Blowing Up!

If you thought the Epstein scandal was just about islands and blackmail wait until you hear about his ties to Big Tech surveillance king Peter Thiel.

In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth covers the latest revelations that connect Peter Thiel, Jeffrey Epstein and the Rothschilds family which is working as THE operating system for the New World Order.

January 30, 2026 – Epstein Files: Billionaire Leon Black is accused of violent assaults on Epstein victims

WHO IS LEON BLACK?

Leon Black had the closest relationship with Jeffrey Epstein of anyone.

And this is where things get really, really dark.

You see, Leon Black was a biter. “That fat fuck bit me. He threw me on the floor and blood all over Jeffreys carpet,” one woman journaled. She wasn’t alone.

Leon Black founded Apollo Global Management — one of the largest private equity firms on earth. $600 billion in assets under management. He was one of the most powerful men on Wall Street for three decades.

He paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million.

No written contract. No invoices. $23-26 million per year to a man who was neither a licensed attorney nor a CPA. When the Senate Finance Committee asked how the payments were calculated, Black refused to answer.

Apollo hired the law firm Dechert to investigate. Their finding: “Epstein was being paid for some reason other than the services he was providing.”

667 DOJ documents. Every quote below is verbatim.

Black says he paid Epstein for “professional advisory services.” The documents show something else entirely.

Deutsche Bank’s internal credit committee: “Leon Black was referred to new AWM banker Paul Morris by Jeffrey Epstein, Black’s estate/tax planning attorney.” Epstein wasn’t advising. He was choosing Black’s banks and orchestrating a $1.5 billion estate restructuring.

Deutsche Bank internal email, April 2015: “They confirmed Jeffrey Epstein will have authority to transact on Leon’s behalf.” The same week, a DB banker processed “additional paperwork to add JE as POA.” Power of Attorney. Over a billionaire’s bank account. Given to Jeffrey Epstein.

Leon Black’s personal assistant emailed Epstein: “I’m sending over the bank statements now – if you have any questions about the deposits, just give me a call.” Epstein’s instruction: “fed ex to my st thomas office.” A billionaire’s bank statements — FedExed to Epstein’s island.

In Epstein’s files: Black’s complete net worth. $5.3 billion. Art: $1.68 billion. Seven trusts named Yggdrasil, Gandalf, Tron, Rollo Tomasi, Mallory. The $1 billion art insurance policy. Epstein had the complete financial X-ray of one of the richest men in America.

Epstein’s own employees — using @epstein.com email addresses — filed Black’s personal taxes. On Epstein’s payroll, filing a billionaire’s 1040.

The only known email in Black’s own words: “I don’t think we got a chance to cover about 2/3 of relevant matters including Rowan, etal; plus I am still getting over the unsettling shock of your last 4 page epistle. Maybe we should focus on having some fun for now.” Rowan is Marc Rowan — Apollo’s co-founder. Epstein was sending 4-page strategy memos about Apollo’s internal politics.

21 wire transfers from Black to Epstein. All routed to “Southern Trust Company Inc” — Epstein’s entity in the U.S. Virgin Islands. When Deutsche Bank’s anti-money laundering unit flagged a $22.5 million wire, the compliance inquiry came back: “The purpose of the wire was to pay a fee as Mr. Black is a client of Mr. Epstein. Mr. Epstein is expecting $8-10mn more to come into the account.” The wire went from BV70 LLC — Black’s yacht entity — to Plan D LLC — Epstein’s aircraft entity. $22.5 million from a yacht to a plane.

And money flowed both ways. Black’s assistant to Epstein’s office: “Leon said thank you for the check, but he said it was supposd to be $1,500,000, so can we have the other $500,000!!!!” Subject line: “MRA check.” Four exclamation points.

FBI raid of Little St. James Island, August 2019. Photo log entry: “Leon D. Black financial documents from Room M.” Black’s financial papers — physically stored in Epstein’s island library.

178 documented meetings and phone calls. One Sunday meeting ran from 10am to 5pm — seven hours. Staff asked: “did you want to order lunch?” Real-time arrival alerts: “Leon Black will arrive in 5Minutes!” “Leon Black is here!” Black always went TO Epstein. Never the reverse.

All of this happened at the same address. 9 East 71st Street. Jeffrey Epstein’s New York townhouse.

The seven-hour Sunday meeting. The bank statements and trust documents. The arrival alerts.

The same townhouse where, according to FBI files, three women describe being violently assaulted by Leon Black.

Three victims. Independent. They never met each other. All describe the same thing — the same man, the same townhouse, the same act: a violent biting ritual. Three women, years apart, no contact with each other, each independently describing an identical pattern of sexual violence so specific that the victims’ attorney told the FBI: “There is nothing publicly out there about the details of his specific sex acts with our client, so there is no way she could know.” And: “It is too abnormal to make up.”

Victim 3 was a minor. Introduced to Ghislaine Maxwell at age 17. Her mother was complicit — told her “Leon Black is VIP because he is a special friend of Jeffrey’s.” She kept a journal. A scrapbook. Contemporaneous.

Page 7: “Walk down Madison Avenue to 71st St. Mr. Black is so important for some reason over my health… that fat fuck bit me! He threw me on the floor and blood all over Jeffreys carpet. Leon can go fuck himself.”

She needed medical attention. Bleeding after the assault.

Page 8: a poem. Titled “Leon Black.” Underlined words: birth, cry, fatso millionaire, it’s violent, goddamm baby screaming, bloody baby, your seven chins, still as a ham.

The FBI examined the journal. Gel pen. Paper aging. “No evidence found for recent fabrication.” This is not a lawsuit filing. It is a child’s record of what happened to her.

Page 5: “Both he and Larry Summers are fucking disgusting! Andrew is like his brother in this way!”

Page 11: “Even old senators like George Mitchell who you think would be good like a grandpa are bad.” The same page names Ted Leonsis, Steve Case, Dan Snyder, Jim Kimsey.

Victim 2 had never met Victim 1. Had never spoken to the attorneys. Had no access to the case file. On August 9, 2021, she cold-called the law firm. She said: “Leon Black raped her violently.” She described the identical biting pattern. The identical location. The identical act.

Black paid Victim 1 a total of $1,187,000 between 2012 and 2021. Eight wire transfers. Three progressively obfuscated payment vehicles: first “LEON D BLACK” — his personal name. Then “THE J BLACK TRUST” — a family trust. Then “E TRUST” — an anonymous entity. Each vehicle more anonymous than the last.

June 2023. The subject line of an internal FBI email: “Leon Black/Additional HT Subject Referral — Update.” HT = Human Trafficking. The same month, Black paid a $62.5 million settlement to the U.S. Virgin Islands. The investigation was confirmed still active as of October 16, 2024. FBI New York. Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking unit.

$158,000,000 to Epstein. No contract.
$1,187,000 to a victim. Three trust vehicles.
$62,500,000 to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Settlement.

Total documented outflow connected to Jeffrey Epstein: $221.7 million.

Leon Black told Apollo investors on October 29, 2020: “I deeply regret having had any involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.”

He gave Epstein power of attorney over his bank accounts. His bank statements were FedExed to Epstein’s island. Epstein’s employees filed his taxes. His financial papers were stored in Room M on Little St. James. He met Epstein 178 documented times at the same townhouse where three women describe being assaulted. He paid a victim $1.187 million through three progressively anonymous vehicles. The FBI has an active human trafficking referral with his name on it.

667 DOJ documents. Every quote verbatim.

Full compendium (667 docs, 188 pages): 

Victim report (~307 docs, 18 pages): 

AI-optimized compendium (upload to any LLM and ask it anything): 

AI-optimized victim report: 

See ya, Leon.

January 30, 2026 – A federal grand jury of Minnesota citizens indict Don Lemon and he is arrested with 3 others

(L-R) Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy

This is Don Lemon’s first appearance after he appeared with the mob that crashed Cities Church services in St. Paul, Minnesota:

January 31, 2026 – Trans mutilation victim awarded $2 million for medical malpractice when she was 16

Some interesting snippets from thre article:

> Before the surgery, Varian had told staff at the Albany Pride Center that she felt she “felt pressure to decide” on a male identity or a female identity “by family, friends, and culture.” She also said she continued to question her gender identity, but was afraid she might “lose credibility” if she brought it up with her mother.

> Varian’s mother, Claire Deacon, testified that she was against the surgery, but consented out of fear her daughter would commit suicide if she didn’t get it. Einhorn increased that worry, she told the court.

DETRANS: These are the voices they don’t want you to hear.

The following thread contains the raw, emotional stories of detransitioners — young people who believed they were being helped, only to realize they were misled by the world’s lies and corrupt system that promised healing.

This isn’t healthcare.
This is regret.

But there’s hope.
Jesus made you with purpose, and He loves you. No matter where you are in your journey, He can set you free. You are not lost.

⬇️ Joshua McParland found his true identity in Christ, hear his profound message:

According to Grok this is the first major malpractice award of its kind, with over 28 other, similar lawsuits currently making their way through the courts.

This could be a watershed verdict, affecting those other cases, and sparking many other lawsuits in the future.

Bankrupting the industry, and making their potential financial liabilities so high, may be the best way to finally turn the tide against this monstrous practice.