Bureaucrats’ Political Donations Hint Census Bureau Over-Counting for Democrats May Not Be Coincidental

By Family Research Council

Undercounting the population in red states like Texas and Florida in 2020 cost Republicans at least six seats in the House of Representatives, while overcounting in blue states like California and New York contributed to 18 new Democratic seats, according to Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas).

“In 2020, the Census Bureau undercounted in primarily deep-red states like Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas, all red, while overcounting in radical blue states like Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island,” Hunt told a November 19, 2025, hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government.

“This egregious error led to many states being denied proper representation in Congress and the Electoral College. So much so that these errors costs Republicans … six seats in the House. In addition to the 2020 miscounting, including illegal immigrants in the Census has improperly granted radical Left blue states 12 additional seats in the United States House of Representatives. That is a total of 18 seats gain and that is a huge problem. And those are the facts,” Hunt told the hearing.

The Census Bureau acknowledged the over and under counts in a May 2025 report. The Census Bureau uses its population counts as the basis for determining how many House of Representatives seats are in each of the 50 states. The census counts all present individuals without distinguishing between citizens and noncitizens, meaning a higher head count gives a state more House seats, without regard to citizenship status. It is illegal for noncitizens to vote in all federal elections, as well as the vast majority of state and local contests.

Not all of the undercounted states were red, as deep-blue Illinois was among this group, while not all of the overcounted states were blue. Ohio and Utah, both red states, were among the over-counted group, according to the Census report.

Most congressional Republicans like Hunt support requiring Census Bureau counters to at least include a question about the citizenship of every counted individual, while most congressional Democrats oppose such a requirement. The issue has intensified in recent years, especially during the Biden administration’s open-border era in which millions of illegal immigrants crossed into the U.S.

Legislation originally introduced in the House of Representatives in 2025 by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) — The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote and provides criminal penalties for violations. The measure, which has 110 House co-sponsors, including Hunt, passed the lower chamber but has not been acted upon by the Senate. President Donald Trump supports the measure.

Hunt did not address the issue of whether political bias within the Census Bureau’s workforce could be a factor in the significant under and overcounting, but The Washington Stand’s review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) campaign contribution data for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025 found a huge bias in favor of Democrats among donors who said they work for the agency.

During the three years indicated, the FEC records disclosed 4,037 contributions by individuals who listed “U.S. Census Bureau” as their employer. Of those contributions, 3,583 went to Democrats, compared to 455 made to Republicans, for a 7-1 ratio. The average Democrat contribution was for $29, while the average Republican contribution was $229.

Interestingly, the total dollar value of the contributions by Census Bureau workers to Democrats was $104,597, only slightly more than the $104,130 total given to Republicans.

Federal workers like those at the Census Bureau are covered by the Hatch Act, which bars partisan political activities by government employees while on official duty. The Hatch Act does not limit the right of government employees to work for candidates while off-duty, to contribute to the candidates of their choice, or to participate in activities supporting candidates, as long as federal property is not used in the process.

Two-thirds of the Democratic contributions, or 1,999 of the 3,582 total, were given through Act Blue, a digital site that acts as a conduit for campaign funding from individuals to favored candidates. Winred, the similar digital site created by Republicans to counter Act Blue, accounted for only 253 contributions to GOP candidates by Census Bureau workers.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, received 347 contributions from Census workers, compared to just 69 for Trump, her 2024 Republican rival.

Apprised of the Census Bureau employee contribution bias, Hunt provided the following statement to The Washington Stand:

“The inaccuracies and deliberate manipulations embedded in Democrat-led Census reporting expose a level of corruption that plagued the previous administration and continues today under radical Left leadership. Despite these efforts, the American people saw through the deception and delivered a decisive victory for Donald Trump in the last election.

“Now, with Republicans holding all three chambers of government, we have both the responsibility and the obligation to correct these abuses immediately and restore integrity to the process by ensuring that Census data reflects only United States citizens.

“The irony is unmistakable. For years, Democrats have warned of a supposed threat to democracy, while actively engaging in the very practices that undermine it — manipulating systems designed to distort representation and influence elections. Democracy is not endangered by transparency and lawful governance. It is endangered by those who abuse institutions for political gain.”

Hunt will not be in the House of Representatives in 2027, as he is seeking the Republican nomination for the Senate in a hotly contested primary that also includes Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Lone Star State’s long-serving incumbent, Senator John Cornyn. The primary election is March 3.

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Mark Tapscott

Mark Tapscott is senior congressional analyst at The Washington Stand.

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Mexico Has More Consulates in U.S. Than Any Foreign County and Are Helping Illegal Mexican Aliens

By Royal A. Brown III

Mexico has many more Consulates in U.S. than any other foreign country.

There is evidence that personnel in these Consulates are aiding and abetting demonstrators against ICE including providing resources for Mexican illegal aliens such as legal services. We also know the corrupt Mexican govt still see many western states (CA, TX, AZ, NM, CO) as rightful territories of Mexico.

The Mexican government assistance to illegal Mexican aliens is documented in a new book by Peter Schweizer entitled the “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon”

WATCH: “Invisible Coup” author Peter Schweizer on immigration

Helping the rioters against ICE and DHS are criminal acts including obstruction of justice.  Despite their so called diplomatic immunity, Mexican consulate employees should be deported abd there consulates should be shut down.  We know they, along with many NGOs helped with the illegal alien invasion of US during Biden autopen regime and are still helping them now that they are here.

Mexican Consulates In The USA:

1. Mexican Embassy (District Of Colombia)
2. Mexican Consulate in Illinois (Chicago)
3. Mexican Consulate in New York (NYC)
4. Mexican Consulate in Texas (Houston)
5. Mexican Consulate in Texas (Presidio)
6. Mexican Consulate in Massachusetts (Boston)
7. Mexican Consulate in North Carolina (Raleigh)
8. Mexican Consulate in Utah
9. Mexican Consulate in Minnesota – Minneapolis
10. Mexican Consulate in Washington State (Seattle)
11. Mexican Consulate in California (San Francisco)
12. Mexican Consulate in California (San Diego)
13. Mexican Consulate in California (San Bernardino)
14. Mexican Consulate in California (Sacramento)
15. Mexican Consulate in Florida (Miami)
16. Mexican Consulate in Florida (Orlando)
17. Mexican Consulate in Georgia (Atlanta)
18. Mexican Consulate in New Mexico (Albuquerque)
19. Mexican Consulate in California (Los Angeles)
20. Mexican Consulate in California (Oxnard)
21. Mexican Consulate in Alaska (Anchorage)
22. Mexican Consulate in Texas (Austin)
23. Mexican Consulate in Texas (Laredo)
24. Mexican Consulate in Texas (San Antonio)
25. Mexican Consulate in Texas (Brownsville)
26. Mexican Consulate in Texas (Dallas)
27. Mexican Consulate in Texas (McAllen)
28. Mexican Consulate in Texas (Del Rio)
29. Mexican Consulate in Texas (Eagle Pass)
30. Mexican Consulate in Texas (Presidio)
31. Mexican Consulate In California (Calexico)
32. Mexican Consulate In Idaho
33. Mexican Consulate In Oregon(Portland)
34. Mexican Consulate In Arizona (Nogales)
35. Mexican Consulate In Arizona (Yuma)
36. Mexican Consulate In Arizona (Tucson)
37. Mexican Consulate In Arizona (Phoenix)
38. Mexican Consulate In Nebraska (Omaha)
39. Mexican Consulate In Louisiana (New Orleans)
40. Mexican Consulate In Colorado (Dallas)
41. Mexican Consulate In Michigan (Detroit)
42. Mexican Consulate In Arizona (Phoenix)
43. Mexican Consulate In Indiana (Indianapolis)
44. Mexican Consulate In Missouri (Kansas City)
45. Mexican Consulate In Nevada (Las Vegas)
46. Mexican Consulate In Arkansas (Little Rock)
47. Mexican Consulate in Pennsylvania (Philidelphia)
48. Mexican Consulate in Utah (Salt Lake City)
49. Mexican Consulte in Puerto Rico (San Juan)
50. Mexican Consulate to UN-Permanent- (NYC)
51. USA Mexican Embassy (District Of Colombia) Address – 1911 Pennsylvania Ave. 20006 EE.UU Washington District of Columbia Phone – 202-728-1600 Email Address – mexembusa@sre.gob.mx

For more info including all cities where Mexican Consulates are located and conatact information.

Mexico using ‘weaponized immigration’ to undermine US sovereignty, author of new book alleges

Investigative author Peter Schweizer claims Mexico’s government is using consulates, education programs and migrant outreach to exert political influence inside the United States.

Investigative author Peter Schweizer alleges the Mexican government is operating a coordinated influence effort inside the United States, using diplomatic missions, education programs and migrant outreach initiatives in ways he argues go far beyond traditional diplomacy.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Schweizer said his forthcoming book, “The Invisible Coup,” available Tuesday, documents what he describes as “weaponized immigration,” a strategy he claims Mexican officials view as a means to exert political leverage inside the U.S.

“Foreign powers are using migration as a weapon to undermine American sovereignty,” Schweizer said. “Mexico is a clear example of this.”

Schweizer pointed to Mexico’s expansive diplomatic footprint in the United States, noting that the country operates 53 consulates nationwide — far more than most U.S. allies.

“Those consular officials have been tied up in organizing political activity in the United States, which is a clear violation of their diplomatic status,” said Schweizer, investigative journalist and co-founder, alongside former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, of the conservative think tank Government Accountability Institute (GAI).

Schweizer alleged that Mexican consular officials have supported or encouraged anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protests in the U.S., pointing to what he described as instances in which officials praised or took credit for community mobilization following immigration enforcement actions.

Mexican consulates routinely provide legal assistance and outreach to migrant communities after ICE raids, which Mexican officials characterize as consular protection duties, though critics argue the efforts blur the line between assistance and political activism.

Schweizer also cited the role of Mexico’s so-called “migrant legislators” — elected Mexican officials who reside in the United States and represent Mexicans living abroad — as evidence of cross-border political engagement. While those officials do not hold U.S. office, some have participated in advocacy events in the United States, raising questions among critics about the scope of foreign political activity on American soil.

Schweizer further claimed the Mexican government is actively discouraging assimilation among migrants living in the U.S., pointing to government-produced Spanish-language textbooks distributed to American school districts.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Attention Doug Lyons at the Palm Beach Post

By Willy Guardiola

In regards to a couple of Letters that have been written to the Palm Beach Post about the unfortunate situation that took place in Minneapolis two weeks ago with the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent, my heart aches.

As a devout Pro-Lifer, any time a human being is killed (whether it’s in a mother’s womb or an incident like Renee Good’s death), a human being dies and that is hurtful.

I have seen the numerous amount of videos with the ICE agent shooting at Mrs. Good, and whether the agent was protecting himself from this “agitator” that was coming at him in her vehicle — I truly believe that this entire incident has been blown out of proportion by the media — and of course — Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, Attorney General Ellison and of course, the outspoken congresswoman, Ilhan Omar.

The media and these 4 state leaders I mentioned above have used this incident and the protesting that they have incited for the past two weeks to take the attention away from the “Real Issue” that has been taking place in Minnesota for many years — “Corruption and Fraud” that the entire country has seen play out for weeks.

This despicable fraud that the Somali community has been benefitting from for all these years from their so-called Learing Daycare Centers (estimated amount — $19 billion), needs to be addressed separately from the shooting of Renee Good.

These “Illegal Somalis” need to be deported yesterday! One has nothing to do with other.

The Bottom Line

The corrupt governor of Minnesota, the gutless mayor of Minneapolis, the militant attorney general of Minnesota and the out-of-control Somali congresswoman, Ilhan Omar (who is now worth $30 Million from all of this fraud), all need to be arrested for stealing from the tax paying citizens and constituents of Minnesota.

I wrote a heartfelt letter to President Trump two weeks ago to take care of business in Minnesota by arresting these 4 corrupt elected officials immediately, call in the National Guard and call for the Insurrection Act ASAP!

These so-called “peaceful protests” need to be stopped as soon as possible and every corrupt person who has been involved with this staggering fraud needs to go to prison.

This nonsense has been going on for way too long and by bringing in the National Guard and the Insurrection Act, Minnesota and America will be a safer place to live in, GGT!

Sincerly,

Willy Guardiola

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Does Antifa offer the perfect cover for Jihad?

By Amil Imani

If we pay attention, we see that Antifa has adopted the ways of the Islamic jihadist, resorting to intimidation tactics and violence. 

Within the ocean of rising humanity composed of some 1.5 billion Muslims, each believer—a drop—through a combination of choice and forces beyond his control, ends up in one of its many waves. It is the jihadist wave that is highly attractive to the deeply indoctrinated and poorly-adjusted in dealing rationally and independently with life. And it is the violent verses of Islam that concern American law enforcement.

While American people go about their daily business, Muslims and Muslim organizations across the United States are busy and work “stealthily” to change and alter America from within in what is called “Soft Jihad,” or “Cultural Jihad where the sword of jihad is not advisable, where Muslims are not powerful enough to unsheath their sword.

They have been active in several ways. The number of non-Muslims who are converting to Islam is rapidly growing. In the U.S., the majority of converts are African-American but there have also been significant numbers of others who convert as well, many of them well-educated. Muslims in non-Muslim lands proselytize relentlessly and convert others, while any Muslim who leaves Islam is considered an apostate and automatically condemned to death.

America has been going through a process called subversion. Regrettably, not many Americans have the slightest clue that this takes place daily here at home. Muslims have become calculatingly meek and mild in their demeanor. They have learned how the American system works. For now, they are not openly resorting to violent jihad although we know Islam cannot be separated from its most powerful tool, Jihad. Without Jihad, Islam would go through a slow death. Jihad is perpetual in Islam. They both need each other for their survival.

Here is the disturbing question: What if this violent domestic group, known as Antifa, offers perfect cover for jihad and secretly works with the Islamic organizations as an arm of violent jihad?

According to Diana West, “here is more on Antifa/jihad connections from Edward Klein’s book, All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump. Note that in Portland, they were chanting, “Allah-u Akbar, smash these Nazi scums.”

President Trump, in the wake of the recent violent rioting, involving Antifa, the militant wing of the Democrat Party, suggested designating this group asa domestic terrorist.

Gary LaFree shed more light on this group in an op-ed: Is Antifa a Terrorist Group?

On numerous occasions, Antifa has openly threatened to massacre American patriots and even President Trump. This group is one of Obama’s legacies, created to inflict more pain on the American people. “Eight years of Obama’s leadership have left America demonstrably weaker and more divided. Rather than the promised “healing”—racial and other—the Obama era frayed the ties that bind us.”

Katie Pavlich also agrees with the President. She said: Antifa Should Be Designated a ‘Domestic Terrorist Organization.”

There are antifascists, and then there is Antifa. In any case, we have had a few years to objectively evaluate their modus operandi. How they work and operate. They were mostly reactionary, not proactive. But that could change as the group grows. Antifa despises America, our flag, and what it stands for. They appear out of nowhere at any peaceful conservative gathering and disrupt it.

If we closely pay attention, we realize that Antifa has adopted the ways of the Islamic jihadist and resorts to intimidation tactics and violence. They call anyone and everyone a Nazi.

“For as long as there have been fascists, there has been debate over the way to respond to them.” In his new book, Antifa, historian and organizer Mark Bray traces various leftist anti-fascist movements from the 1930s in Europe to the “Antifa” movements we see on the streets today. The history of anti-fascism, it seems, is stuck on repeat, with the same arguments over free speech and uncompromising resistance cropping up repeatedly.”

According to the Washington Examiner: “while we’re not investigating Antifa as Antifa – that’s an ideology, and we don’t investigate ideologies – we are investigating several what we would call anarchist-extremist investigations where we have properly predicated subjects of people who are motivated to commit violent criminal activity on kind of an Antifa ideology.”

“President Obama allowed Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter to run wild during his reign. Obama even rewarded riot-inciters, and those who support killing police were hosting them at Obama’s White House. Instead of protecting citizens and their property, some politicians even admit pro-rioting policies openly, as when then-Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), at the time a DNC executive, acknowledged in 2015 that authorities “gave those who wished to destroy space to do that.

In short, Antifa appears to be just as violent as the jihadists, as we see in the USA riots, and might offer the perfect cover for jihad.

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Beware of Islam’s “Useful Idiots”

By Amil Imani

Muslims believe that all non-Muslims, bar none, are hellfire-bound and well-deserve being maltreated compared to believers. They themselves will surely be the first to go if Islam succeeds, but the rest of us will be next. 

Islam enjoys a large and influential ally among non-Muslims: A new generation of “Useful Idiots,” the term that Lenin originated for those living in liberal democracies who furthered the work of communism.

This new generation of Useful Idiots also lives in liberal democracies, but serves the cause of Islamofascism—another virulent form of totalitarian ideology.

Useful Idiots are naïve, they are foolish, they are ignorant of facts, they are unrealistically idealistic, they are dreamers, and often they are willfully in denial or deceptive. They hail from the ranks of the chronically unhappy. They are anarchists, they are aspiring revolutionaries, they are neurotics who are at war with life, the disaffected alienated from government, corporations, and just about any and all institutions of society.

The Useful Idiot can be a billionaire, a movie star, an academe of renown, a politician, or someone from any other segment of the population. Arguably, the most dangerous variant of the Useful Idiot is the “Politically Correct.” He is the master practitioner of euphemism, hedging, doubletalk, and outright deception.

The Useful Idiot derives satisfaction from being anti-establishment. He finds perverse gratification in aiding the forces that aim to dismantle an existing order, whatever it may be: an order he neither approves of nor feels he belongs to.

The Useful Idiot is conflicted and dishonest. He fails to look inside himself and discover the causes of his own problems and unhappiness, while he readily enlists himself in causes that validate his distorted perception.

Understandably, it is easier to blame others and the outside world than to examine oneself with an eye to self-discovery and self-improvement. Furthermore, criticizing and complaining—liberal practices of the Useful Idiot—require little talent and energy. The Useful Idiot is a great armchair philosopher and “Monday Morning Quarterback.”

The Useful Idiot is not the same as a person who honestly has a different point of view. A society without honest and open differences of views is a dead society. Critical, different, and fresh ideas are the lifeblood of a living society—the very anathema of autocracies where the official position is sacrosanct.

Even a “normal” person spends a great deal more energy aiming to fix things out there than working to overcome his own flaws and shortcomings, or contribute positively to the larger society. People don’t like to take stock of what they are doing or not doing that is responsible for the conditions that they disapprove.

But the Useful Idiot takes things much farther. The Useful Idiot, among other things, is a master practitioner of scapegoating. He assigns blame to others while absolving himself of responsibility, has a long handy list of candidates for blaming anything and everything, and by living a distorted life, he contributes to the ills of society.

The Useful Idiot may even engage in willful misinformation and deception when it suits him. Terms such as “Political Islam” or “Radical Islam,” for instance, are contributions of the Useful Idiot. These terms do not even exist in the native parlance of Islam, simply because they are redundant.

Islam, by its very nature and according to its charter—the Quran—is a radical political movement. It is the Useful Idiot who sanitizes Islam and misguides the populace by saying that the “real Islam” constitutes the main body of the religion, and that this main body is non-political and moderate.

Regrettably, a large segment of the population goes along with these nonsensical euphemisms depicting Islam because it prefers to believe them. It is less threatening to believe that only a hijacked small segment of Islam is radical or politically driven and that the main body of Islam is indeed moderate and non-political.

But Islam is political to the core. In Islam, the mosque and State are the same—the mosque is the State. This arrangement goes back to the days of Muhammad himself. Islam is also radical in the extreme. Even the “moderate” Islam is radical in its beliefs as well as its deeds. Muslims believe that all non-Muslims, bar none, are hellfire-bound and well-deserve being maltreated compared to believers.

No radical,l barbaric act of depravity is unthinkable for Muslims in dealing with others. They have destroyed precious statues of Buddha, leveled sacred monuments of other religions, and bulldozed the cemeteries of non-Muslims—a few examples of their utter extreme contempt toward others.

Muslims are radical even in their intrafaith dealings. Various sects and sub-sects pronounce other sects and sub-sects as heretics worthy of death; women are treated as chattel, deprived of many rights; hands are chopped for stealing even a loaf of bread; sexual violation is punished by stoning, and much, much more. These are standard day-to-day ways of the mainstream “moderate” Muslims living under the stone-age laws of Sharia.

The “moderate” mainstream of Islam has been outright genocidal from inception. Their own historians record that Ali, the first imam of the Shiite and the son-in-law of Muhammad, with the help of another man, beheaded 700 Jewish men in the presence of the Prophet himself. The Prophet of Allah and his disciples took the murdered men’s women and children into slavery. Muslims have been, and continue to be, the most vicious and shameless practitioners of slavery. The slave trade, even today, is a thriving business in some Islamic lands where wealthy, perverted sheiks purchase children of the poor from traffickers for their sadistic gratification.

Muslims are taught deception and lying in the Quran itself—something that Muhammad practiced during his life whenever he found it expedient. Successive Islamic rulers and leaders have done the same.

Khomeini, the founder of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, for instance, rallied the people under the banner of democracy. All along, his support for democracy was not a commitment of an honest man, but a ruse.

As soon as he gathered the reins of power, Khomeini went after the Useful Idiots of his time with vengeance. These best children of Iran, having been thoroughly deceived and used by the crafty phony populist-religionist, had to flee the country to avoid the fate of tens of thousands who were imprisoned or executed by the double-crossing imam.

Almost three decades after the tragic Islamic Revolution of 1979, the suffocating rule of Islam casts its death-bearing pall over Iranians. A proud people with an enviable heritage is being systematically purged of its sense of identity and forced to think and behave like the barbaric and intolerant Muslims.

Iranians who had always treated women with equality, for instance, have seen them reduced by the stone-age clergy to a sub-human status in Islamic teaching. Any attempt by the women of Iran to counter the misogynist rule of Muhammad’s mullahs is mercilessly suppressed. Women are beaten, imprisoned, raped, and killed just as men are slaughtered without due process or mercy.

The lesson is clear. Beware of the Useful Idiots who live in liberal democracies. Knowingly or unknowingly, they serve as the greatest volunteer and effective soldiers of Islam. They pave the way for the advancement of Islam, and they will assuredly be among the very first victims of Islam as soon as it assumes power.

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WATCH LIVE: President Trump Addresses Davos

By The Geller Report

He’s killing it. President Trump is addressing the World Economic Forum, the exclusive annual gathering of world leaders, policymakers and business figures in Davos, Switzerland.

WATCH: President Trump Delivers a Special Address to the World Economic Forum

CBS: The crowd of world leaders, business executives and others in Davos remained silent during the beginning of Mr. Trump’s address to the World Economic Forum, without clapping, as he described his transformation of the U.S. federal government and relations with Europe.

Trump took the stage at Davos, addressing, “so many friends, a few enemies,” he said.

“It’s a who’s who, I will say that,” he said.

Mr. Trump spoke in a measured tone as he described the “miracle taking place,” touting a long list of what he framed as his administration’s economic successes.

Economy:

“The United States is in the midst of the fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in country’s history.”

Mr. Trump began his speech by touting the completion of his first year in office, and a “booming” economy. He noted stock market highs, economic growth and strong 401(k) growth.

“People are doing very well, they’re very happy with me,” he said.

Core inflation last 3 months: 1.6%

Q4 GDP projected: +5.4%

Trump: “Far greater than anyone other than myself predicted.”

Trump on the burgeoning US economy in Davos ‘Instead of hiring bureaucrats we’re firing them”

In 12 months, the Trump administration has removed 270K+ bureaucrats from the payroll, cut federal spending by $100B, slashed the federal budget deficit by 27%, cut 129 regulations for every ONE new regulation approved, passed the largest tax cuts in history, and so much more.

Tariffs:

Live blogging highlights:

“The USA is the economic engine of the planet, and when America booms, the entire world booms.

History shows that when America goes bad, the whole world goes bad.

When we go down, you follow us down. When we go up, you follow us up”

“I ended eight wars … and without trade and tariffs you wouldn’t have been able to end any of them … But they’ve brought hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into the United States Treasury…”

On Europe:

“Frankly, many parts of our world are being destroyed and the leaders don’t even UNDERSTAND what’s happening! And the ones that DO understand won’t do

“Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable anymore. And that’s not in a positive way. That’s in a very negative way. And I love Europe, and I want to see Europe go good. But it’s not heading in the right direction.”

Mr. Trump said he wanted to discuss in Davos, “how we want to raise living standards for our citizens,” and how European countries could emulate the U.S., because “certain places in Europe are not even recognizable.”

“I don’t want to insult anybody, and I say I don’t recognize it, and that’s not in a positive way. That’s in a very negative way. And I love Europe and I want to see Europe do good, but it’s not heading in the right direction.”

Mr. Trump said many Western governments had turned their back on, “everything that makes nations rich and powerful and strong.”

“Quite frankly, 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.”

On Crytpo:

“I’m also working to ensure America remains the Crypto Capital of the World… Congress is working very hard on Crypto market structure legislation, which I hope to sign very soon, unlocking new pathways for Americans to reach financial freedom.”

On windmills:

President Trump calld out the “stupid people” who support wind energy in Davos

“China is smart. They make windmills, sell ’em for a fortune, and sell ’em to the STUPID PEOPLE that buy them!”

Trump said, China builds them, sells them but they don’t use them. They don’t use windmill energy.

“Windmills all over Europe, all over the place, and they are LOSERS. One thing I’ve learned: the more windmills a country has, the more money that country LOSES. CHINA makes almost all the windmills, and yet I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China!”

“The greatest HOAX in history, the Green New Scam. Windmills, destroy your land! Every time that goes around you lose $1,000. You’re supposed to MAKE money with energy, not LOSE money!”

Trump lauds his tariffs and says Venezuela will do “fantastically well”

Trump says his tariffs have enabled U.S. to “radically reduce our ballooning trade deficit”

The president touted his administration’s trade agreements with other countries, including European nations, Japan and South Korea, and said they “raise growth and cause stock markets to boom, not only in the U.S., but in virtually every country that came to make a deal. Because as you’ve learned, when the United States goes up, you follow.”

He said Venezuela has “got problems, but we’re helping them,” claiming that after the U.S. operation to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela will “be making more money than they’ve made in a long time. Venezuela is going to do fantastically well.”

“The attack ended and they said: ‘let’s make a deal,” Mr. Trump said.

Greenland:

Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory. It is sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the U.S., Russia, and China.

This enormous unsecured island is actually part of North America — on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere.

It is a core national security interest of the U.S. — and in fact, has been our policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside threats from entering our hemisphere.

Donald J. Trump said that no country—and no alliance of countries—has the capacity to defend Greenland except the United States, arguing that the island’s security is inseparable from America’s own.

Speaking to a crowd, Trump opened with a light moment—joking about whether he should address Greenland—before turning serious. He said he holds “tremendous respect” for the people of Greenland and Denmark, but stressed that every NATO ally must be capable of defending its territory, something Greenland cannot do on its own.

Trump warned that the world is far more dangerous than it was in the past, citing advanced missile systems, nuclear threats, and emerging weapons “I can’t even talk about,” and argued that Greenland’s vulnerability makes it a strategic liability.

He rejected claims that U.S. interest in Greenland is about rare earth minerals, insisting instead that geography and security are decisive. Greenland, he said, is “an enormous, unsecured island” on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere—effectively part of North America—and therefore falls within America’s strategic responsibility.

“This isn’t about resources,” Trump made clear. “It’s about security.”

“This would not be a threat to NATO – this would greatly enhance the security of the entire alliance.”

“You need the ownership to defend it,” the president said. “You can’t defend it on a lease. Number one, legally it’s not defensible in that way, totally. And psychologically, who the hell wants to defend a license agreement or a lease?”

“All we want from Denmark for national and international security and to keep our very energetic and dangerous potential enemies at bay is this land on which we’re going to build the greatest golden dome ever built,” he said, referring to his plans for a missile defense system.

He then lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, saying the U.S. would use ownership of Greenland to defend the neighboring country.

“Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful, but they’re not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful.”

Trump to Carney: “Canada lives because of us. Mark, remember that before you make those speeches.”

NATO:

President Trump says the US gives “so much” to NATO and gets “so little” in return.

Trump has said the US annexation of Greenland would “greatly enhance the security” of NATO.

He said the US was “treated very unfairly by NATO”.

“We give so much and we get so little in return,” he said.

Trump says NATO has never given America anything and now he’s calling in the debt.

“The problem with NATO is that we’ll be there for them, 100%, but I’m not sure they’ll be there for us,” Mr. Trump said. “They’re not there for us on Iceland [Greenland],” the president said, “I can tell you, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland [Greenland].”

Mr. Trump said the U.S. had “never asked for anything else” apart from Greenland.

“You can say yes and we’ll be very appreciative, or you can say no and we will remember. A strong and secure America means a strong NATO, and that’s one reason why I’m working every day to ensure our military is very powerful, our borders are very strong, and above all our economy is strong, because national security requires economic security and economic prosperity.”

On credit card interest rates:

“The profit margin for credit card companies now exceeds 50%, and they charge Americans interest rates of 28%… So, to help our citizens recover from the Biden disaster… I’m asking Congress to cap credit card interest rates at 10% for one year.”

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Pamela Geller

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BREAKING: Ringleader of Anti-ICE Church Invasion Arrested

By The Daily Signal

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday that law enforcement had arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, a leader of the agitators who invaded a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday.

“Minutes ago at my direction [Homeland Security Investigations] and [FBI] agents executed an arrest in Minnesota,” Bondi posted on X Thursday morning.

“So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” she added. “We will share more updates as they become available.”

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“Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP,” the attorney general wrote.

Shortly afterward, Bondi posted that Chauntyll Louisa Allen had also been arrested. “More to come,” she added.

Allen is a member of the St. Paul school board and leader of Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, as TMZ reported in an interview with her. She is also running for a city council seat, according to her school board candidacy website.

Between 30 and 40 anti-ICE agitators interrupted a Sunday service at Cities Church, a non-denominational Christian church in St. Paul, and shouted, “Justice for Renee Good!” as they surrounded members of the congregation.

Videos of the incident show the pastor and others repeatedly asking the agitators to leave, and the agitators chanting, “Who shut this down? We shut this down!”

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is investigating the incident for potential violations of the FACE Act, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Sunday. She also mentioned prosecution under the Ku Klux Klan Act.

Armstrong, leader of the Racial Justice Network and a former president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP, told Democracy Now that she does not regret helping to lead the protest.

“We are unapologetic about going into the church,” Armstrong said. She called it a “conflict of interest” for a pastor to oversee “the brutal conduct of ICE agents.”

When asked about the prospect of facing charges, Armstrong called it “hypocrisy” that the Justice Department would investigate the agitators but not the ICE agent who shot Good. She also faulted President Donald Trump for enabling ICE to arrest illegal aliens inside churches with a warrant.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

AUTHOR

Tyler O’Neil

Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” Tyler on X: @Tyler2ONeil.

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TEXAS: On March 3, 2026 a ballot will ask “Texas should prohibit Sharia law? Yes or No.”

By Florida Family Association

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH REPUBLICAN VOTERS THAT YOU KNOW LIVE IN TEXAS.

WATCH: Governor Abbott Discusses Sharia Law in the State of Texas

The Texas Republican Primary will be held on March 3, 2026. Registered Republican voters in Texas will have the opportunity to vote for candidates and 10 Propositions.

Proposition No. 10 asks voters to confirm the following statement with a Yes or No vote: “Texas should prohibit Sharia Law.”

Texas is a mega trend state with the known slogan “so goes Texas so goes the United States.”

It is crucial that Texas Republicans overwhelmingly vote to approve Proposition 10 to stop Sharia law from taking a stronghold in Texas and the United States like it has in Europe.

Please share this email with Republican Voters that you know live in Texas.

February 2, 2026 is the deadline to register to vote in the Texas March 3, 2026 primary.

Glenn Beck interviewed Texas Governor Greg Abbott on his show where the governor discussed the Sharia law issue in Texas and Proposition 10 “Texas should prohibit Sharia Law – Yes or No.” Click the above photo to see interview.

Debbie Georgatos – Republican National Committee writes “It’s an opportunity for Texas to give the primal scream of we want you to do something of the obvious Islamic invasion of Texas.  – We focused on Sharia law because it’s a tactic of conquest. They (Imams) are telling us we are coming as an Islamic ideology to take down Texas.” @DebbieCanWeTalk

The following links provide additional information regarding Sharia law and Islam:

Sharia law makes Islam much more than a religion. Its broad doctrine and application to non-Muslims make Islam a political entity, a government with goals of global dominion.  This Florida Family Association article provides information regarding Sharia law.

The Religion of Peace. This website reports on the number of Islamic attacks on non-Muslims worldwide.

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PODCAST: Bar Owner Who Offered Free Drinks for ICE Tips Getting Death Threats

By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV

The owner of a pro-MAGA bar that sparked national outrage by offering free drinks for tips to “identify and ultimately deport” any “illegal” says he has received death threats.

“People are outright saying I should die for this and that my family should die,” Mark Fitzpatrick, the self-described “heterosexual supremacist” and owner of the Old State Saloon in Eagle, Idaho, told Fox News Digital. On Nov. 29, Fitzpatrick’s business went viral after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reshared one of its posts on X. The post read, “Anyone who helps ICE identify and ultimately deport an illegal from Idaho gets FREE BEER FOR ONE MONTH at Old State Saloon!” The post had amassed nearly 8 million views as of Dec. 8.

“At Old State Saloon, we really aren’t strangers to speaking out boldly about conservative, Christian values,” Fitzpatrick told Fox, adding that he “couldn’t believe it” when the DHS amplified his post. After the post went viral online, the MAGA-themed bar, which serves cocktails such as the Maga Rita, Trump’s Survival Shot, and Biden’s Last Fall Mudslide, received hundreds of negative reviews aimed at the business, prompting Facebook and Instagram to remove the bar’s offer.

Despite the backlash, Fitzpatrick maintained in his Fox interview that he “simply posted something that encourages people to support law enforcement, to support the efforts of our immigration.” “Some people are praying for me and for my protection,” Fitzpatrick said in his interview, adding that he has also received “many threats to burn down the building.”

“I did think about why people get so upset with me,” the bar owner revealed, as he has received public backlash for the second time.

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Virginia: Democrats First Moves With New Majority: Ban Hand-Counted Ballots, Gut Penalties for Rape and Violent Crime, Shield Child Predators, and Side With ICE Opponents

By The Geller Report

The Republicans have had the House and Senate for well over a year and have done nothing to pass election integrity legislation ensuring the fraud continues. No reforms. No action while fraud remained embedded and untouched. But Democrats have been in power in Virginia for all of 48 hours and they’ve introduced legislation to ban the hand-counting of ballots—the single most transparent safeguard voters have.

“Prohibits such ballots from being counted by hand for any reason…”

Within days, they roll out what can only be described as the “Legalize Crime Act,” the “Steal Future Elections Act,” and a redux of the Somali daycare–style fraud model.

They have introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies.

Virginia is dragged back into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the latest climate grift — higher utility bills for families, zero measurable environmental benefit, and a steady stream of cash for politically connected insiders.

Meanwhile, newly installed Governor Abigail Spanberger stands to benefit from the same “green” lobbyists pushing the scheme, while her party advances legislation weakening robbery penalties and softening sentencing standards across the Commonwealth.

Higher crime. Higher costs. Less accountability.

This is what “Democratic governance” looks like when no one is left to stop it.

Fresh from reclaiming full control with Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s November 2025 victory and majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats introduced proposals like a 3.8% investment income tax, expanded sales taxes, an 11% firearms tax, and election changes including extended absentee ballots and machine-only counting. Gun measures include suppressor taxes and assault weapon restrictions, while criminal justice bills ease some sentencing.

Also:

Virginia Democrats introduce bill weakening punishment and sentencing rules for degrees of robbery in Virginia

An illegal racial quotas bill:

And, this:

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Schweizer: Muslim Jihadists, Western Elites Weaponized American Immigration Programs

By Family Research Council

A new book is shedding light on how foreign enemies have taken advantage of America’s lax immigration policy to flood the nation with threats. Investigative author and Breitbart News affiliate Peter Schweizer’s book “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon” details how the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist and jihadist groups use mass immigration as a means of conquest, and in particular of dominating and subverting Western nations like the U.S.

The Islamist strategy is rooted, Schweizer relates, in hijrah, one of the chief “pillars” of jihad. The idea of hijrah comes from when the founder of Islam, the Arab military leader Muhammad, and his religious devotees were forced to flee Mecca in 622 and seek refuge in Medina. Particularly in recent decades, hijrah, or migration, has become a prominent tool for jihadists to spread Islam via the infiltration of foreign nations. Some hadiths, which are maxims or instructions attributed to Muhammad, present hijrah as an “important weapon” against Western powers and stipulate that the process of hijrah will persist until a foreign nation is “won over” for Islam. Another hadith orders Muslims “to assemble, to listen; to obey; to immigrate; and to wage jihad for the sake of Allah.”

“Just as the radicals who ran the sanctuary city movement had a litmus test for Central American refugees coming to the United States with the goal of creating a revolutionary force,” Schweizer writes, “Islamists seek to import the revolution…”

According to the author, the R-1 religious worker visa program has been a particular target for jihadists, who often train imams in Muslim-majority nations and send them to the U.S. to run mosques and radicalize others. The majority of mosques in the U.S. are now led by foreign-born and usually foreign-trained imams, Schweizer notes.

He cites the example of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, nicknamed “the Blind Sheik.” The Egyptian-born Abdel-Rahman entered the U.S. via the R-1 visa program, despite being a leader of the militant jihadist group Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya. He spent three years in Egyptian prisons awaiting trial for issuing a fatwa, a legal ruling in Islamic sharia law, which resulted in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Although acquitted of the conspiracy charges, Abdel-Rahman was exiled from Egypt and made his way to Afghanistan, where he befriended Osama bin Laden, becoming the head of al-Qaeda and its political/financial forerunner, Maktab al-Khadamat (MAK) in 1989, during the Soviet-Afghan War.

In 1990, Abdel-Rahman was granted an R-1 visa to visit the U.S. and assume command of MAK’s financial arms in New York City, despite being named on a terrorist watchlist. The U.S. State Department revoked his visa shortly afterwards, but the jihadi leader somehow managed to obtain legal permanent residence (LPR). In 1991, when attempting to return to the U.S. after visiting the Middle East, his terrorist status was flagged, and federal authorities began the process to revoke Abdel-Rahman’s LPR status. He was, however, still allowed to enter the U.S. in order to appeal the decision. When his appeal was denied, he claimed asylum; during his asylum hearings, it was revealed that the CIA had likely been shielding Abdel-Rahman and ensuring that he was given visas, due to his role in combatting the Soviets in the Middle East.

During his time in the U.S., Abdel-Rahman preached against the U.S., describing Americans as “descendants of apes and pigs who have been feeding from the dining tables of the Zionists, Communists, and colonialists” and encouraging Muslims to “tear [America] apart, destroy their economy, burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, kill them on the sea, air, or land.” He issued a fatwa declaring it legal for Muslims to rob American banks and recorded numerous sermons in New York City, which were shipped on tape to Egypt, where they inspired an increase in terrorist attacks.

Egyptian state information service chief Mamdouh Beltagui said in a 1993 interview that Abdel-Rahman was using New York City as a “base” for directing jihadist terrorist activities abroad. “He passes on messages to his followers, giving orders about what they should do next and who they should target,” Beltagui stated. “We do not understand why the U.S. authorities have allowed him to enter the country.”

The FBI began investigating Abdel-Rahman in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured over 1,000. It was discovered that the imam likely ordered the bombing and was planning terrorist attacks to destroy the United Nations headquarters, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge, and an FBI building. Abdel-Rahman was arrested in June of 1993 and convicted of seditious conspiracy in late 1995; in 1996, he was sentenced to life in solitary confinement without parole. He died in prison in 2017 at the age of 78.

Another example Schweizer points out is that of Iranian-born Usama Abdulghani, now based in Dearborn, Michigan, just outside of Detroit. Affiliated with Dearborn’s Hadi Institute Youth Community Center, Abdulghani has issued calls for Muslims in the U.S. to “fight Western civilization.” Abdulghani has declared that the “world needs to know” that Western civilization “is no longer a solution. These institutions are morally bankrupt. There is no other way, but God, or taklif — divine obligation-oriented, God-based resistance and rejection of the systems.”

Sheikh Muhammad Ayed, preaching from Jerusalem in 2015, explicated the jihadists’ immigration agenda, encouraging his fellow Muslims to remember that the “night will be over” and Islam will soon “trample them underfoot, Allah willing,” referring to Western nations. “We shall conquer their countries — whether you like it or not, oh Germans, oh Americans, oh French, oh Italians,” he declared. “We will breed children with them,” he added, potentially a veiled reference to mass rapes perpetrated by foreigners from Muslim-majority countries in Western nations.

Schweizer frames the jihadist use of mass immigration as a deliberate choice intended to eventually achieve conquest over Western nations. This weaponization of mass immigration programs coincides with the designs of Western left-wing elites, he claims, who similarly capitalize on broadscale immigration, largely from the third world, in order to effect social change and foment political revolution. He notes that pro-immigration activists within the U.S. have viewed mass immigration as a means of influencing elections. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chairman Eliseo Medina, for example, saw his friendship with then-newly-elected President Barack Obama as an opportunity to “change America profoundly” by importing millions of foreigners.

“When they voted in November,” Medina observed of newly-naturalized immigrants, “they voted overwhelmingly for progressive candidates. Barack Obama got two out of every three voters who showed up.” The left-wing labor leader explained that two things “matter for the progressive community: Number one: If we are to expand this electorate to win, the progressive community needs to solidly be on the side of immigrants. That will expand and solidify the progressive coalition for the future.” He continued, “Number two: [If] we reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters. Can you imagine if we have, even the same ratio, two out of three?” Even just eight million immigrants-turned-voters would “create a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle,” he contended.

Relying on polling data and carefully-curated quotes, Schweizer makes the case that newly-naturalized immigrants in the 21st century have overwhelmingly supported Democratic politicians and candidates and are, in fact, to the left of most mainstream and American-born Democrats on most issues, favoring socialist policies and expansive government programs, similar to those of the socialist governments in their home countries. “At the same time, migrants were shown to be less supportive of preserving America’s core values,” Schweizer notes. Foreign-born voters were significantly more likely than their American counterparts to uphold international law as a higher authority than the Constitution and to consider themselves “citizens of the world” instead of U.S. citizens.

“The partisan advantage for Democrats that Obama and Medina noted was not only real; it was growing. Four years after his election, in 2012, a YouGov survey found that recent immigrants favored Democrats over Republicans by almost four to one,” Schweizer warns. “Therefore, the hard work of ignoring citizenship standards to create these voters needed to continue.”

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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Minnesota: Anti-ICE hooligans storm church, berate congregation for not caring about Somalis

By Jihad Watch

Minnesota remains under siege.

A new level of chaos has been reached as anti-ICE demonstrators stormed a St. Paul church during a Sunday service.

The DOJ has now launched an investigation and vowed to press charges. “DOJ launches civil rights investigation after Minnesota agitators storm church,” by Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, January 19, 2026:

President Donald Trump’s administration launched an investigation after anti-ICE agitators stormed a church in Minneapolis during a service on Sunday.

Dozens agitators burst into the Cities Church sanctuary roughly halfway through the service, attendees of the church told Fox News Digital. The mob stormed the building believing that one of the pastors is the acting director of ICE’s St. Paul field office.

Top-level members of Trump’s administration vowed an investigation after the unrest on Sunday.

“I just spoke to the Pastor in Minnesota whose church was targeted. Attacks against law enforcement and the intimidation of Christians are being met with the full force of federal law,” Attorney General Pam Bondisaid in a statement…

Here’s how it all went down:

The anti-ICE protesters bellowed obscenities before storming the Cities Church:

They then storm the church, disrupting service and intimidating the congregation. The Center for Baptist leadership explained that the agitators thought there was an ICE agent in the church:

Activist Journalist Don Lemon sparked outrage in his accompanying of the agitators who called for “justice for Renee Good” — the woman shot dead in Minneapolis after she struck an ICE officer, causing him internal bleeding:

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tweeted in response to outrageous protesters who have lost all sense of reality and didn’t seem to grasp what they did wrong:

Looks as if Don Lemon could be in for it! The president of West Coast Bible College, Paul Chappell, called the incident a violation of the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act):

Leftists are becoming more disturbed as they lose touch with reality, support anarchy, rebel against rule of law, and return a once-orderly society into one where violence in the streets becomes commonplace. Expect much worse, including violations of the freedom of religion, unless this is dealt with strongly. Third-world lawlessness has become rooted in America thanks to open-door, unvetted, illegal migration and the useful idiots on the left who support it. When Donald Trump came into power, he kicked the hornets nest that the Democrats had been building.

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Minnesota’s “Sanctuary” Defiance Has Consequences

By The White House

As President Donald J. Trump delivers on the promise that secured his overwhelming re-election, Minnesota’s “leaders” have chosen defiance over partnership. Instead of working with the Trump Administration to uphold the law and protect public safety, the state’s Democrat politicians have repeatedly boasted of their so-called “sanctuary” status, encouraged resistance, and smeared ICE officers.

This toxic combination of “sanctuary” policies and anti-ICE rhetoric has created a climate of hostility that endangers federal officers and incites violence. Make no mistake: the responsibility for the enhanced enforcement operations in Minnesota — and the tension and violence — lies squarely with these officials who refuse to partner with the Trump Administration and instead put their Radical Left agenda over public safety and the rule of law.

For years, the state’s Democrat politicians have bragged about being a safe haven for criminal illegal alien thugs:

  • Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison: “There is nothing in American law that requires local officials to cooperate with federal law enforcement officials… We’re going to devote the resources of our state to our state business, not immigration business.”
    • Ellison: “Minnesota law enforcement agencies risk significant civil liability if they enforce immigration detainers.”
    • Ellison: “I’m one of them people who believes we should give our neighbors sanctuary and if you ask yourself, ‘What would I do if I was a Gentile in 1941 if my Jewish neighbors were under attack by the Nazis, would I give them sanctuary? You might be about to find out what you would do. Would you pass that moral test or would you fail it?’”
  • Gov. Tim Walz: “My position on Minnesota becoming a sanctuary state boils down to who has the responsibility for enforcing immigration laws… The role of law enforcement is to enforce state and local laws, not federal immigration laws, and I strongly believe that they should not do so.”
  • Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “I want to speak directly to people who are undocumented … In the city of Minneapolis, we will stand up for you and we will do anything in our power to help because you’re not an alien in our city … As for cooperation with ICE, the answer is no.”
    • Frey: “Minneapolis will continue to be a safe haven for undocumented immigrants.”
    • Frey: “In Minneapolis, we do not enforce federal immigration law because that’s not our job.”
  • Rep. Ilhan Omar: “I stand with Minnesota officials who are defending our values and our immigrant neighbors against these unconstitutional attacks on sanctuary policies.”
    • Omar: “I will continue to fight until we stop treating immigrants like criminals.”
    • Omar: “We are fighting to protect immigrant families from mass detention and deportation.”
    • Omar: “We need a plan to protect … undocumented people.”
    • Omar: “If you are an undocumented immigrant, please know that you are in my thoughts and that I will keep fighting.”
  • Minnesota State Sen. Omar Fateh: “With President Trump’s immigration policies targeting sanctuary cities like Minneapolis, the fear of ICE raids is very real and our communities are on high alert… Minneapolis stands defiant and ready to protect our neighbors and loved ones.”
  • Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez: “In Minneapolis, we will not compromise on values of protecting our undocumented immigrants and we will not help with immigration enforcement. It’s not the city’s role to do the federal government’s inhumane work.”
  • Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai: “[T]he City must be ready to act as the last line of defense for targeted communities.”
  • Former Minneapolis City Council Member Jeremiah Ellison: “[I]t’s clear that being a sanctuary city is not enough to protect our neighbors.”
  • Saint Paul City Council Vice President Hwa Jeong Kim: “The City of Saint Paul abides by its separation ordinance that makes clear local law enforcement officers are only to uphold local laws in the course of their duties, not federal immigration policies. SPPD cannot and does not cooperate with ICE.”
  • Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara: “Any participation in immigration enforcement would have a chilling effect on our commitment to bias-free, community-oriented policing.”

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Who’s Responsible for Demonizing ICE So Much That Agitators Invaded a Church Service?

By The Daily Signal

On Sunday, anti-ICE agitators invaded a church sanctuary in the middle of service, a shocking escalation arguably inspired by the Left’s extreme rhetoric against immigration enforcement.

“Justice for Renee Good!” shouted agitators as they walked directly into the middle of the sanctuary, surrounding worshippers in Cities Church, a non-denominational Christian church in St. Paul, Minnesota. (An ICE agent fatally shot Good while she was driving her car, right after her car hit him. She had been using the car for hours to frustrate ICE’s law enforcement efforts.)

The agitators targeted the church because one of the pastors, David Easterwood, also works with ICE.

An agitator who goes by the name “DaWokeFarmer” posted videos of the action.

DOJ Investigating Church Invasion

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is investigating the incident for potential violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Sunday. While the Justice Department under former President Joe Biden used the FACE Act to target pro-life protesters who demonstrated outside abortion clinics, the law also protects houses of worship.

After the Biden DOJ weaponized the FACE Act to target pro-lifers, Dhillon seems ready to use the FACE Act for its intended purpose—to protect civil rights.

Former CNN host Don Lemon traveled with the agitators, and claims to have merely been reporting on the incident. Yet he clearly coordinated with Nakima Armstrong, the group’s leader who previously led Minneapolis’ NAACP chapter, ahead of the church invasion.

Whatever Lemon’s involvement, the agitators who desecrated a house of God deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Innocent Victims

These agitators didn’t just confront a church that also employs an ICE employee. They harassed innocent men, women, and children for the crime of worshipping God. Little children do not deserve to have their songs of praise interrupted by aggressive chanting.

Of course, this church invasion does not represent the first time anti-ICE agitators have harassed innocent bystanders.

Agitators have also accosted a man for the crime of driving a Chevy Suburban, the same kind of vehicle ICE officers use.

In a separate incident anti-ICE agitators harassed tech workers at a deli, mistaking them for ICE agents.

While Lemon may cloak himself in the free speech rights of a journalist, these agitators showed no compassion for journalist Nick Sortor when he came by, asking questions. Agitators surrounded his vehicle, smashed his windows, stole his camera, and seem to have threatened his life.

Make no mistake: We have roving bands of Red Guards who make it their mission to oppose law enforcement and to terrorize ICE. They’re not afraid of harassing innocents to further their agenda.

Where Does This Come From?

This isn’t happening in a vacuum. Earlier this month, Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz—who has yet to condemn the desecration of the church—suggested that President Donald Trump was at war with him and threatened to call the National Guard to oppose ICE agents in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, also a Democrat, said ICE should “get the f— out of Minneapolis.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., called ICE an “occupying force.”

This rhetoric comes amid the Left’s push for “sanctuary” policies that hamstring the federal government’s ability to enforce immigration law and deport illegal aliens.

Democrat governors openly say that immigration law should not be enforced in their jurisdictions. On her very first day in office, Virginia’s new Democrat governor—Abigail Spanberger—rescinded the order directing law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.

Democrats have even whittled away at America’s sovereignty by making my birth state of Colorado a “sanctuary state.”

President Donald Trump returned to office in part because the Left had gone off the deep end on immigration. While former President Barack Obama enforced immigration law, the Left demonized immigration law under Trump, and Biden effectively opened the border, allowing millions of illegal aliens to pour into the country.

A vast network of left-leaning nonprofits has demonized immigration law in the name of compassion. The Center for American Progress and the American Civil Liberties Union urged Biden to open the border. Now that Trump has closed the border and sought to deport illegal aliens, the ACLU is hard at work challenging nearly every move in the courts.

Another network of nonprofits reaped rich benefits from federal grants in exchange for transporting immigrants across the country. Naturally, these groups complained to high heaven and sought to sue when Trump started clawing this money back.

Now, the Left’s dark money network is funding the groups organizing anti-ICE agitators—whose aggressive tactics Renee Nicole Good employed. While Good’s death was tragic, the ICE agent who shot her arguably fired in self-defense. The Left has seized on her death as some sort of gross miscarriage of justice, taking any opportunity to demonize Trump’s attempt to bring back law and order.

Trump has surged ICE officers to Minneapolis in part because local law enforcement will not work with ICE to enforce the law.

Whatever you think of Trump finally enforcing immigration law in Minneapolis, I hope you will stand with me in condemning the desecration of a church.

These agitators will consider no space sacred enough to trample on in their demonization of law enforcement. Americans across the country should pay close attention.

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Tyler O’Neil

Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” Tyler on X: @Tyler2ONeil.

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ICE Agents Chowed Down At Local Mexican Restaurant Then Detained Its Illegal Workers

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

Three workers at El Tapatio Mexican Restaurant served lunch to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday before being detained later by the same agents.

A dishwasher and two owners of the restaurant closed early upon learning ICE had dined at their store in Willmar, Minn. before the arrests, CBS News reported. El Tapatio has remained closed since, but the owners’ son said he would reopen today for customers.

In a statement obtained by Willmar Radio, Willmar Mayor Doug Reese reminded residents that “ICE is a federal agency carrying out federal responsibilities” and also called for respect for “peaceful, lawful protest.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified the target of the detentions as illegal alien Jose Rosario Gomez in a statement to the Daily Caller.

The “officers … conducted a vehicle stop later in the day and apprehended the target and two additional illegal aliens who were in the car, including one who had a final order of removal from an immigration judge,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in her statement.

The same day, ICE agents were verbally abused in a Minneapolis restaurant.

RESTAURANT RAGE: Federal law enforcement agents were forced to leave a Mexican restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota after diners began shouting expletives at them, demanding they leave the business. pic.twitter.com/YlLreAidJp

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 15, 2026

Willmar residents noted increased police activity on the streets and said some businesses have closed as a result, while streets yesterday appeared “normal,” according to CBS News.

Willmar is about two hours west of Minneapolis where anti-ICE protests have entered their second week following the fatal shooting of a protester who attempted to run over agents with her car. In a second incident, federal law enforcement officers shot an illegal Venezuelan national when they were ambushed Wednesday while trying to make his arrest.

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“Angelic Dissenters” on Thin ICE!

By Beverly Newman, Ed. D.

Justin J. Pearson:

“The ramming of a marshal at a peaceful protest in Memphis by the Tennessee Highway Patrol is disturbing, dangerous, and troubling especially in these times. I’ve seen enough videos and heard from enough attendees from the ICE Out march to believe that there needs to be an investigation done by TBI of the Tennessee Highway Patrol Officer’s actions. In the morning, I will be sending them a letter and requesting a meeting upon our return to Nashville this week.

The first amendment is sacred and the people who are angelic dissenters to the status quo must be protected. No officer or official, no matter how high up, may abridge this right or endanger the lives of my constituents.”

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Woke TN Democrat Has Viral Claim About ICE Debunked After Dashcam Video Drops

By Rusty Weiss

A Tennessee lawmaker known for ridiculous antics attempted to push a narrative that a state trooper had rammed an anti-ICE protester with a patrol vehicle during a heated confrontation in Memphis, only for the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) to release dashcam footage that clearly proved the claim false.

WATCH: THP responds to viral video after claims trooper hit protester at anti-ICE protest

The alleged incident took place on Sunday when hundreds of demonstrators took part in an “ICE Out” protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policies.

As has been the case of late, tensions escalated between protesters and law enforcement, culminating in at least one arrest—a woman charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, indecent exposure, vandalism, assault, assault on a peace officer, and obstructing a highway. Aside from that, she was having a perfectly normal one. Something you might expect from a purple-haired charmer.

What really took off, however, were claims from Justin Pearson, a Democrat member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, who accused a THP officer of “ramming” a marshal at the protest. And by marshal, he means some rando who decided to wear a reflective safety vest.

“The ramming of a marshal at a peaceful protest in Memphis by the Tennessee Highway Patrol is disturbing, dangerous, and troubling, especially in these times,” the Democrat wrote in a Facebook post. “I’ve seen enough videos and heard from enough attendees from the ICE Out march to believe that there needs to be an investigation done by TBI (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation) of the Tennessee Highway Patrol Officer’s actions.”

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A Call to Iranian Expatriates

By Amil Imani

In lieu of the current Iranian protests in Iran, let us make a note of it: If we remain divided, there will not be a chance against the robust Islamic regime with the vast and destructive power apparatus that has no problem using it against their own population, as they did in the 2009 Green Movement.

Unlike anything encountered in recent memory, the formidably complex and unique situation in today’s Iran poses an enormous challenge. It defies any conventional solution, and simply resorting to civil disobedience is the equivalent of fighting off a pack of hungry and bloodthirsty wolves with toothpicks!

The incredibly ruthless, deceptive, and cunning nature of the present regime, bundled together with an Islamic modus operandi, creates an enigma and several paradoxes.

Recommendations for Expatriates

  • Your ideological differences should not stand in the way of uniting against Islamofascists who have made life miserable for all Iranians. Breaking unity at a time when the Islamic vultures want to extinguish the forces of resistance is an abandonment of your national duty.
  •  Fight the disinformation campaign launched by the Islamic Republic through radio, Internet, and TV broadcasts in Iran.
  • Combined with a proposed strategy emphasizing the interdependence of a secular and free Iran with economic rewards for industrialized nations, is another major step in gaining meaningful support.
  • It is imperative to launch a widespread information campaign in Iran and across the globe that exposes the regime and its evil deeds. Counter hostile public relations against US/Israel and broadcast meaningful and structured information to Iran that will counter IRI propaganda.
  • Inform people about the true nature of Islam and its counter-cultural impact on Iranian civilization, culture, and traditions. This must be done tactfully and in an informative manner.
  • Strongly emphasize the role of the Iranian civilization in shaping Western and Eastern cultures and influencing many schools of thought.
  • Expose the atrocities committed against the people of Iran (i.e., gross violations of human rights) and the terrorist acts committed against the world.
  • Reemphasize the importance of the unity of different Iranian ethnic groups based on shared cultural roots.
  • Ward off opportunistic separatist movements by exposing their phony historical and linguistic “justifications.”
  • Reinforce that, irrespective of linguistic differences, the Iranian people’s common enemy is the Islamic regime. Expose separatists’ deceptive tactics.
  • Expose the real reason for the pursuit of nuclear technology.
  • Work with LEGITIMATE opposition inside Iran and expatriates that are in tune with the CURRENT issues inside Iran.
  • Expose the regime’s lobbyists and sympathizers with personal agendas and those who have had any connection to the Islamic Republic in the past or present.
  • Unite your forces with secular democratic groups and persons who promote freedom, democracy, and the rule of law.
  • Avoid those whose perceptions of Iranian realities are locked in the 1970s and have no concept of the day-to-day issues facing the Iranian people.
  • Worked with labor and organized grassroots movements inside Iran. Non-stop support of independent secular activities.
  • Form a provisional coalition of capable individuals, preferably trained in conflict resolution, leadership, and management, who are charismatic and pragmatic enough to lead the post-IRI transitional government.
  • Try to work with Iran’s fundamental military forces to destroy the paramilitary forces, such as Basij, Pasdaran (IRGC), Ansar Hezbollah, and other pressure groups.
  • Work with International agencies to capture and round up the commanders of these forces and the leaders and key figures of the Islamic regime to hand them to an international tribunal for crimes against humanity.
  • Review 50 crucial points about non-violent struggles.
  • Provide financial and moral support to those individuals and organizations fighting Islamofascists.

For all the above-stated reasons, we must reformulate the action plans and develop more effective ways of dealing with the problems in Iran. I believe the current idea of promoting civil disobedience is a great idea; however, that alone is insufficient when dealing with the homicidal/ suicidal Islamists in Iran.

I do not think that piecemeal and small-scale civil disobedience, in light of the present disunity and lack of a standard plan, can accomplish too much since we are trying to fight ruthless sub-human barbarians who lack the slightest shred of decency and are devoid of any ethical values and civilized modes of behavior. We need to use all our resources more optimally and use more viable tactics that involve meaningful help from as many sources as possible, help from the international world body, including the United States. In the long run, it is in the interest of the United States and the Western world to assist freedom-loving Iranians.

I do not claim to have all the answers, but I know where to begin. It is high time to realize that we are not dealing with the same social factors or even the same people of four decades ago. We need to collaborate on this effort and invite others who can contribute to this cause without placing personal fame and secondary gains ahead of the goal of reeducating, rebuilding, and liberating Iran.

Great opportunities do not come every day — recognize and seize them with every chance you get.

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How Islam Is Reshaping the West—and Why Debate Is Forbidden

By The Geller Report

In TWestern societies—especially in Europe—are undergoing a gradual but profound transformation driven by Muslim immigration, higher fertility rates, and conversion, coupled with “ideological capture.” This is not a sudden conquest but a demographic and cultural shift unfolding within democratic systems, while open debate about it is stigmatized or criminalized.

The stealth jihad operates on two tracks: physical replacement (mass immigration, welfare incentives, and fertility differentials) and ideological conquest (information warfare and narrative control). Below, High Fitzgerald explains how state-backed media and digital influence—particularly from Qatar, Iran, and Turkey—are central to shaping Western opinion, highlighting the global reach of Al Jazeera and alleged manipulation of platforms like Wikipedia. He also emphasizes the role of the Muslim Brotherhood, which he says advances influence through mosques, NGOs, schools, political parties, and “patient extremism” that reframes Islamist goals in progressive language.

The essay cites political developments in Europe and the United States as evidence that demographic change is translating into policy influence, warning that Western “ideological paralysis” enables this shift. Unless Western societies confront demographic realities and organized digital propaganda openly, they risk losing cultural and political coherence through their own institutions rather than by force.

And Western society has criminalized discussion about it.

By Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM, January 14, 2026

Through demographic shifts, and ideological subversion, Islam continues to conquer, in slow motion, the European countries of the West. More on Islam’s march to victory in Europe can be found here: “The Islamification of Western democracies: The great, dangerous silent takeover – opinion,” by Eliyahu Haddad, Jerusalem Post, December 31, 2025:

What once required 500 years of military conquest now unfolds in just 50 years through immigration and demographics. Europe’s Muslim population has surged from less than 1% in 1970 to a projected 10 to 14% by 2050, a transformation

There are now 46 million Muslims in Europe, out of a total population of 745 million.

Western civilization faces not conquest but replacement through its own democratic processes and ideological paralysis.

This transformation is “silent” not because it’s invisible – the changes are obvious – but because Western societies have criminalized discussion of it. The takeover operates on two fronts: physical replacement through demographics and ideological conquest through digital warfare.

Muslim numbers in Europe constitute an ever greater proportion of the total population for three reasons: first, there is continued immigration by Muslims, both legal and illegal, that amounts to about two million a year. Second, the much higher fertility rates of Muslim women in Europe, as compared to the indigenous Europeans, whose fertility rates have fallen below replacement level of 2.1. Muslim mothers have an average of one more child than non-Muslim mothers. Third, several hundred thousand Europeans convert to Islam every year.

Physical replacement requires no invasion – only open borders, welfare incentives, and a fertility differential that guarantees Muslim demographic growth while native populations collapse.

Ideological conquest has weaponized social media on an unprecedented scale. State actors – primarily Iran, Qatar, and Turkey – invest billions in bot networks and media empires amplifying pro-Islamic and anti-Israel narratives.

Qatar’s Al Jazeera has become one of the largest media organizations in the world, and its journalists are encouraged to spread their pro-Islam, anti-Israel propaganda in every news story. And Israel is the only country in the world to prevent Al Jazeera from operating within its borders. In addition to Al Jazeera, both the UAE and Saudi Arabia have well-financed government-owned broadcasters. Muslim editors outnumber Jewish ones on Wikipedia 40 to 1; they have had a tremendous influence on how the world understands the Arab-Israeli conflict, and have prepared tens of millions of Wikipedia’s readers to take a dim view of the Jewish state, while holding up the terror groups — Hamas, Hezbollah, and Hamas — as engaged in legitimate “resistance.”

The Muslim Brotherhood operates through seemingly independent channels: media outlets, NGOs, political parties, and mosques. Through “patient extremism,” MB branches present violence as “resistance,” casting genocidal vows as “anti-colonialism,” thereby recruiting Western progressives….

The Muslim Brotherhood has taken in Western “progressives.” Brotherhood members have a tremendous presence everywhere in the Islamic lands, and in some non-Islamic lands as well. The Brotherhood controls mosques, owns its own media outlets, including several satellite channels, runs NGOs, and controls political parties. It runs a huge network of schools, including in the West, that in many cases hide their links to the Brotherhood.

Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York’s mayor symbolizes the transition from cautious immigration to actively reshaping American policy. He is the first Muslim mayor of America’s largest city….

Mamdani is determined not just to be the mayor of New York. He wants to shape American policy toward Muslims and Israel at the national level, intending to continue his policy of defending Islam and Hamas, and of attacking, in every conceivable way, the Jewish state that he accuses of “genocide.”

The Michigan city of Hamtramck became America’s first to have an all-Muslim city council, immediately banning Pride flags on public property. Muslims now constitute one of Michigan’s largest ethnic groups, and their support arguably secured Trump’s victory in this crucial swing state.

Here the writer is wrong: the Muslim voters in Michigan were not responsible for Trump’s victory, though they like to claim having been so. Muslims constitute only 1.8% of those who vote in presidential elections in Michigan. Their effect was inconsequential.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s greatest innovation replaces physical conquest with digital conquest. Iran operates the world’s largest bot networks. Qatar’s Al Jazeera media reaches 430 million viewers across 150 countries, systematically shaping narratives against Israel. The impact is staggering: Fifty percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 now sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis, a complete inversion from previous generations.

Al Jazeera has a greater global reach than any media company save for the BBC. It feeds its audience a steady diet of misinformation and lies that has shaped the narrative about Israel, and turned much of the world against the Jewish state. For all the talk about how “Jews control the media,” the Israeli presence in the media is fifty times smaller than that of Al Jazeera alone. The Al Thani family that owns Qatar has poured billions into Al Jazeera, its broadcast network and its journalists; Israel simply cannot compete.

Perhaps most insidious is Wikipedia manipulation. With 6 billion monthly visits, pro-Palestinian editors outnumber pro-Israel editors 40-to-1 on relevant articles, ensuring systematic bias in humanity’s largest information resource.

The Arabs know that Wikipedia is where most of the world now goes to find out, not just the current news about a subject, but also the history of conflicts, including the Arab-Israeli war. Their Wikipedia editors outnumber pro-Israel editors 40 to 1; the Israelis have not provided enough resources to pay the same number of editors as the Arabs.They need to be persuaded to devote more money to hiring more recruits in the never-ending Battle of Wikipedia.

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Schumer Vows to Reverse DOGE Cuts and Expand Spending if They Win Midterms

By The Geller Report

Chuck Schumer announces Democrats will reverse all DOGE cuts made under President Trump if they win the 2026 midterms.

What rational American, hell, what rational human being would vote for waste, fraud and corruption? If they win, it’s election fraud.

Senate Minority Leader Schumer targets Transportation, Housing and Urban Development programs in spending talks

By Leo Briceno, Fox News, anuary 16, 2026 7:19pm EST

Chuck Schumer says he aims to undo DOGE cuts to HUD programs and even expand them

The Senate minority Leader aims to implement his plan through bipartisan negotiations on future funding packages. (Credit: Center For American Progress)

House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he would press to restore funding cut by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and even add to the original amounts.

Schumer made the comments when he was asked Thursday if he would work to replenish funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) at a forum held by the Center for American Progress.

“If you look at the budget we’re working on right now, we restore most of the cuts. And even go higher than previous years on many of the programs that DOGE slashed,” Schumer said.

“We have worked really hard and gotten bipartisan support to increase these amounts and undo a lot of the cuts which are essential.”

He did not describe which specific programs he hopes to supplement.

Lawmakers have not yet released a final text for the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development bill for 2026. The Senate Appropriations Committee has proposed a plan that would increase its fiscal year 2026 funding by $5 billion over fiscal 2025 levels.

Since the Trump administration began making cuts through DOGE, Democrats like Schumer have largely condemned them, calling them an attack on government resources and services.

Republicans, by contrast, have framed the effort as a way to remove waste, fraud and abuse. According to the DOGE website, the group believes it has eliminated $215 billion in waste.

Republicans made $115 billion of those spending reductions official through a bill passed last year.

Since then, lawmakers have not advanced another rescissions package, a bill that helps lawmakers fast-track spending reductions at the request of the president.

Republicans like Aaron Bean, R-Fla., chairman of the House DOGE Caucus, say the GOP’s cost-cutting efforts are still ongoing in the background.

“DOGE is still alive,” Bean told Fox News Digital in December. “We’re going to get it rocking. I think that will come down the road.”

Bean noted that several pressing issues have captured Congress’ attention in the last few months.

“I think, you know, the shutdown set everybody back a little bit. These credits, with the budget, with everything,” Bean said, referring to the COVID-era Obamacare tax credits that were at the heart of the 2025 government shutdown.

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Every Criminal Illegal Alien Deported is One Less Vote for the Democrat Socialist Party

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

When ICE goes into a community and arrests a criminal illegal alien that ends up being one less vote for the Democrat Socialist Party in 2026 Midterm and 2028 General Elections.

The whole reason that Biden opened our borders was to bring in illegal voters, period.

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The Prison Policy Iniative in report titled “New ICE arrest data show the power of state and local governments to curtail mass deportations” reports:

Local jails and police departments are key to the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda because they facilitate ICE arrests of people who are already in police custody. In the first year of Trump’s second term, the administration has intensified the criminalization of asylum seekers and immigrants, pushed immigrant detention to all-time highs, and indiscriminately raided city after city. Despite all of this, the Trump administration remains well behind their mass deportation goals, in large part due to state and local efforts to protect immigrant communities and limit cooperation with ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agencies.

A whirlwind of developments in the past year have changed how the immigration system works. The Trump administration has made it harder for people to make claims in immigration court, and deployed plain-clothes federal agents to arrest people that show up for hearings. They have limited access to legal information and attorneys while people are detained, and tried to eliminate regular types of release from detention like bail. Further, they fired immigration judges unaligned with their mass deportation agenda, and advertised their positions as those of “deportation judges.” Accordingly, immigration judges now frequently function as a rubber stamp on the regime’s actions; the case-by-case, inherently individualized decision of whether or not to detain and deport someone has shifted away from judges in courtrooms to the cops on the streets.

Meanwhile, ICE agents are given arrest quotas and required to detain nearly everyone they suspect lacks U.S. citizenship. They are heavily reliant on local police to arrest people and identify them for later pick up from the local jail by ICE agents, often before any criminal charges have been resolved (whether dismissed, acquitted, or convicted). To be clear, large numbers of ICE arrests at local jails are not an indication that immigrants and asylum seekers are more likely to be arrested for a crime; robust data from Texas, for example, showed that undocumented immigrants had much lower arrest rates than U.S.-born citizens. In too many cases, a traffic stop can mean deportation.

Nonetheless, these changes mean that local law enforcement across the U.S. have day-to-day operational discretion about who is detained and deported from communities. States like Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia have required local law enforcement to deputize staff to serve ICE, leading to high numbers of arrests. Others like Illinois, New York, and Oregon have managed to suppress arrests by limiting cooperation and blocking access to sensitive areas of public buildings. And states like New Jersey, which have prohibited formal deputization while allowing federal agents informal access to people in custody, have swept hundreds of people out of local jails and into the hands of ICE.

[ … ]

Conclusion

Despite overwhelming displays of power and intimidating rhetoric, the federal government nonetheless relies heavily on state and local collaboration to enact its mass deportation agenda. The Trump administration is therefore vulnerable to state and local policy action that goes beyond merely limiting sheriffs and police from deputizing officers to work as immigration agents. This weakness is evident in the data, which show significantly smaller jumps in arrest rates in states where advocates have most aggressively worked to reject collaboration, and much higher rates in states that have embraced it. In the case of New Jersey, it’s clear that moderation on ICE collaboration does little to stem rates of arrest. Advocates targeting ICE’s reliance on local jails could potentially save thousands of people from the horrors of torture and abuse in federal custody and deportation.

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Here’s the Data by State

Blue states do not want criminal illegal aliens deported, while red states work closely with ICE. The data proves it.

This charts show the differences by state:

The Bottom Line

The nation wide initiative to find, arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens is just one of the needed steps to have free and fair elections.

Every criminal illegal is a voter for Democrats. 

While this effort is ongoing and will impact the 2026 Midterm Elections, it will have a major impact on the 2028 General Election and who becomes our next president and the number of House and Senate seats held by each party.

This is why deportations are critical, as are  impementing Real Voter IDs, purging voter rolls of illegal alien voters, and other efforts by this administration to secure our election process to keep our Contitutional Republic intact.

So when you see Democrat Socialist Party members, i.e. the DeMS13 Party, and its anti-ICE terrorists, think of our future and vote accordinly.

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