By Alexis Lapp
By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV
Authorities are investigating a suspected biological laboratory with alleged Chinese ties discovered inside a Las Vegas home.
SWAT officers served a search warrant at a residence on the city’s east side after receiving a tip that a biolab was operating inside the home, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
More than 1,000 pieces of evidence with “potential biological and hazardous materials” were primarily located in a locked garage.
The property manager of the home, 55-year-old Ori Solomon, was arrested Saturday and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on charges of disposing and discharging hazardous waste.
In the garage, investigators found multiple refrigerators with vials of unknown liquids, unknown liquids in gallon-size containers, a centrifuge and other laboratory equipment, authorities said.
Investigators identified the owner of the Las Vegas home as Jia Bei Zhu, who is already in federal custody following the discovery of an unauthorized biolab in Reedley, California, in 2023.
Additional charges have been filed against Jia Bei Zhu, 62, the operator of the Reedley, California Bio-Lab and his partner, according to the United States Department of Justice.
Zhu’s attorney, Anthony Capozzi, said Monday that his client is not involved in the Las Vegas investigation.
“He is not involved in any kind of a biolab being conducted in a home in Las Vegas,” Capozzi said. “What went on in that residence we are unaware of.”
ILLEGAL CHINESE-LINKED BIOLAB FILLED WITH MICE, MEDICAL WASTE DISCOVERED IN CALIFORNIA
The Reedley biolab drew attention after a clandestine laboratory was discovered operating inside a warehouse owned by Zhu’s company, Universal Meditech Inc.
According to a report by the House Select Committee on the People’s Republic of China, Zhu, 62, is a citizen of the PRC and a wanted fugitive from Canada. The committee alleged Zhu had close ties to the Chinese government and was involved in a transnational criminal enterprise that stole millions of dollars in intellectual property from U.S. companies.
City officials in Reedley first raised concerns in December 2022 after a code enforcement officer noticed a green garden hose protruding from the warehouse. A subsequent inspection revealed extensive laboratory equipment, manufacturing devices and medical-grade freezers inside the building.
Officials also reported finding approximately 1,000 transgenic mice used in disease research. Workers at the facility told authorities the mice were genetically engineered for COVID-19 research.
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By Vlad Tepes Blog
The Sharia Free Caucus launch, which took place on February 3rd is a freaking miracle. And one which we thought could never happen frankly.
And there is no way it could have ever happened without President Trump. At least that is our feeling about it. The zeitgeist has to allow for something like this. And President Trump has indeed opened a kind of mental Overton Window that allows for basic American values to be defended and spoken of positively.
The Causus itself was cofounded by Rep. Chip Roy though. Congressman Roy was someone we watched closely during the Covid years as he was among the most brave voices against totalitarian and ultra virus measures deployed in the name of Covid.
On February 3rd, the Sharia Free Caucus was launched with one Senator, in the video below, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, and a number of congressmen who’s mission was very clearly stated by each and every one of them, and it is to stop Islam from dissolving and replacing the US constitution as the governing principle of the U.S. of A.
There will be many more speeches to be posted here from this momentous event. We posted Rep. Randy Fine the other day and frankly, we think he actually nailed the facts on Islam better than any other politician we have heard in the Anglosphere of any influence.
WATCH: Senator Tommy Tuberville Sharia Free Caucus Feb 3 2026
Please check out RAIR Foundation as well for more of these speeches as they are published.
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By NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story
“So we just finished talking about Iran and the hostility it has towards the United States. Where they have planted their flag in our hemisphere is on Venezuelan territory, with the full and open cooperation of that regime.”
When the Iranian military announced the deployment of the Khorramshahr-4 ballistic missile across the country, threats between President Trump and regime officials continued to escalate.
Iran’s Fars News says the Khorramshahr 4 ballistic missile has been deployed for the first time in underground bases nationwide.
The outlet calls it one of Iran’s most advanced missiles, claiming it can reach Israel in 10 to 12 minutes with speeds of about 16 Mach outside the atmosphere and 8 Mach inside.
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By The Geller Report
Now that both carrier battle groups, that led by the USS Gerald Ford and the other led by USS Abraham Lincoln, are within striking distance of Iran, the Israelis have reason to believe that Trump has at last been considering an attack on the Islamic Republic that would decapitate its senior leadership, both clerics and military men, and embolden would-be protesters to return to the streets in overwhelming numbers, in order to bring down the regime. Two of Israel’s most important intelligence officials, the heads of IDF Intelligence and of Mossad, were recently in Washington to offer their advice on potential Iranian targets.
More on their visit can be found here.
Barnea landed in the US on January 16 and met with US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and held other critical national security meetings, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
His visit came almost immediately after the critical call between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump on January 14 in which, according to foreign sources, Netanyahu urged Trump to delay attacking Iran until more American forces were deployed in the region – both for offensive operations and for defending Israel.
Netanyahu is not against an American strike on Iran. For him it is only a question of timing. He counseled a delay in an American attack because he wanted to be sure that the Americans had enough resources in the region to succeed in whatever military task they chose to undertake, and that meant any strike should take place only after the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln had arrived in the region, adding its 90 aircraft to the 90 that were already present on the deck of the USS Gerald Ford. Now the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group has arrived, and Netanyahu is not counseling delay any longer.
Binder met with top US military officials this Tuesday and Wednesday, just as the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group arrived in the region, completing much of the American mobilization of new forces into the Middle East over recent weeks.
According to foreign sources, Israeli officials came to share intelligence about potential targets across Iran, while the Saudis are trying to offer a diplomatic solution.
The IDF’s focus tends to be from the perspective of what American aerial power can achieve against a wide array of Iranian military targets and a variety of macro issues related to the regime’s sources of power.
The Mossad’s expertise tends to be related to the nuclear issue and providing support and analysis relating to the Iranian street and the balance of power between the regime and opposition forces.
In June 2025, Israel killed about 30 top Iranian military and intelligence officials and 11 nuclear scientists.
Barnea and Binder arrived in Washington to share with their American ally information on Iranian targets, both military — including weapons depots, command centers, senior officers, as well as sites where Iran has restarted its nuclear program — and civilian, which means the location of the Supreme Leader, his son Mojtaba, and dozens of the most senior clerics and political figures. They also must have shared information on where Iran has kept its 400 kg. of uranium enriched to a level of 60%, just below the weapons-grade level of 90%. Their visit was a clear sign that Israel believes an American attack is now being seriously considered to effect regime change in Iran.
President Trump has set out three conditions for Iran to meet if it wished to avoid an American strike. These are: first, for Iran to put a permanent end to its enrichment of uranium and agree to dispose of all its current stockpiles; second, placing limits on the range and number of ballistic missiles in Iran’s stockpile; third, end all support for its proxy forces in the Middle East. All three demands have been red lines for Tehran for years; there is not a chance in hell that Iran will agree to any of them.
That is why the armada, consisting of two carrier groups, has now been assembled, and 180 airplanes on the USS Gerald Ford and the USS Abraham Lincoln are ready, should the order to attack be given. And the two most important intelligence chiefs in Israel, David Barnea of Mossad and Brig. General Shlomi Binder, head of IDF Intelligence, who likely know more about Iranian military assets and senior officials than anyone else in the Western world, have just been in Washington to help their American ally with planning a target list.
It shouldn’t be long now.
AUTHOR
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By Amir Taheri
By Family Research Council
José Martí, a prominent writer and journalist born in Havana in the 19th century, left behind lines that still resonate today: “In politics, what is real is what is unseen.” There are maneuvers we don’t see, but which determine the present and future of entire nations; and from the outside, we can barely discern scattered traces: speeches, communiqués, press statements, meetings. The steps of diplomacy are usually accentuated before a crisis.
Havana and Washington are now the hottest political hubs in the Americas. Tensions have risen after the trip to New York that the U.S. Southern Command facilitated for Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. Cuba seems on the verge of collapse, without fuel and in the worst possible situation.
Several countries have officially recommended against visiting the island. Ukraine strongly urged its citizens to refrain from visiting Cuba in the short term, as “the economic situation (…) has deteriorated drastically.” If traveling, it recommended temporarily limiting time spent in public places, avoiding conflicts with the police or places of mass gatherings, and limiting visits to state and police institutions.
According to an EFE report, nearly a dozen embassies from European and Latin American countries are updating their evacuation plans and lists of nationals residing in Cuba, and are reportedly reviewing their “contingency and evacuation plans” due to the “growing geopolitical uncertainty in the Caribbean and the possibility that the US could even be preparing a military intervention in Cuba.”
Other diplomatic delegations are accumulating supplies to withstand long periods without electricity, fuel, and water. Current fuel reserves on the island would only be enough to keep the country barely functioning for little more than a week. According to EFE, several subsidiaries of international companies in the private sector are reconsidering their operations in Cuba with their parent companies.
The uproar comes, especially, after Trump issued an executive order on January 29. With it, he declared a national emergency due to the “unusual and extraordinary threat posed by the Government of Cuba to U.S. national security and foreign policy.” He correctly warned that “the Cuban regime aligns itself with and supports hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malicious actors adverse to U.S. interests, including Hamas and Hezbollah.”
The document was specific and emphasized that the island houses Russia’s largest signals intelligence base outside its territory, used to intercept sensitive U.S. information and conduct espionage activities.
Immediately, the Castro regime’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex, in Spanish) began drafting the statement released on February 1. In it, they condemned terrorism “in all its forms and manifestations” and declared that it “does not harbor, support, finance, or permit terrorist or extremist organizations.”
Let us remember that this is the same country that swore there were no Cuban military contingents in Venezuela, until members of Delta Force eliminated Maduro’s praetorian guard on January 3, which was entirely composed of the “non-existent” Cuban military personnel.
With even greater cynicism, Havana stated that it “does not host foreign military or intelligence bases and rejects the characterization of being a threat to the security of the United States.” Did they forget the Chinese mega-radar base that points towards Florida and is located near the capital?
And then Minrex adopted a more conciliatory tone. “Cuba is willing to reactivate and expand bilateral cooperation with the United States to address shared transnational threats,” it stated. It proposed “renewing technical cooperation with the United States in areas that include counterterrorism, money laundering prevention, combating drug trafficking, cybersecurity, human trafficking, and financial crimes,” because the Cuban and American people “benefit from constructive engagement, cooperation in accordance with the law, and peaceful coexistence.”
However, in practice, the Castro regime contradicts itself. These days, the regime has resorted to an old and crude weapon: “acts of repudiation“ (forms of organized collective harassment against a person or group for political or ideological reasons); a tactic it usually reserves for dissidents, but which it recently aimed at the U.S. ambassador to Cuba, Mike Hammer.
This past weekend, a group, several of whom are directly linked to Castroist organizations, confronted the diplomat with shouts and insults in the cities of Trinidad and Camagüey — where he was coordinating the delivery of humanitarian aid to victims of Hurricane Melissa.
“Genocidal!”, “Murderer!”, “Puppet of Donald Trump!”, shouted the agitators, no more than a dozen, mostly women. In some videos, it is possible to see members of the National Revolutionary Police nearby, impassive, failing to fulfill the Cuban State’s duty to protect foreign diplomats according to the Vienna Convention.
I can assure the reader that the behavior of the military would be very different if, instead of shouting at Hammer, they were shouting “Freedom!” or “No more repression!”
The Iranian media outlet Hispan TV praised the harassment of the diplomat as a popular “rejection,” since, according to official sources, “Hammer has been linked to actions that, since his arrival in Havana in November 2024, contravene the principles of diplomacy and the international agreements that regulate relations between states.” They are referring to the ambassador’s solidarity with activists and reporters, whom he frequently visits.
Meanwhile, in the ebb and flow of its words and actions, the Castro regime is trying to project an image of international support by celebrating the VI International Conference for the Balance of the World. At this gathering of self-congratulatory leftists, the Cuban dictator received and was photographed in the Palace of the Revolution with “personalities attending the world meeting.”
They paid homage to the unburied corpse of the Cuban socialist revolution, from the American activist David Adler, general coordinator of the Progressive International, and the Spanish feminist and Member of the European Parliament Irene Montero, to an expert from the U.N. Human Rights Council, the Greek George Katrougalos.
The death throes of the dictatorship, which are joyfully anticipated by millions of Cubans on the island and in exile, are imperceptible to those who want to continue playing at revolution with the suffering of generations.
AUTHOR
Yoe Suárez is a writer, producer, and journalist, exiled from Cuba due to his investigative reporting about themes like torture, political prisoners, government black lists, cybersurveillance, and freedom of expression and conscience. He is the author of the books “Leviathan: Political Police and Socialist Terror” and “El Soplo del Demonio: Violence and Gangsterism in Havana.”
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By SPIDER & THE FLY The False Allure of Communism
Remember that Democrat politicians endorsed communist Mamdani!
Seattle’s new Socialist mayor is in favor of government-run grocery stores in addition to a wholly diverse cabinet and sanctuary status for the city. She also promised to defy the Trump administration on immigration enforcement.
In previous years Graham Platner, running in the Maine Senate primary, used social media to urge radical leftists to get armed to fight. He is now downplaying the violent messages, claiming he’s not a Socialist but campaigning with Bernie Sanders.
Is Representative Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), himself a Cuban refugee, a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Questions are asked about Gimenez’s allegiance due to his support for funding the Cuban Research Center at Florida International University. The Center’s principal investigator frequents Cuba and has a longstanding relationship with Cuban Intelligence figures. Article asks, “Why has Rep. Giménez neither condemned these activities nor acted to safeguard his constituents, his district, and our national security?”
Describing the impact of socialism, Winsome Earle-Sears, former Republican Lt. Governor of Virginia, remembers her childhood in socialist Jamaica when limits were placed on the number of items one could purchase in mostly empty grocery stores; no jobs were available and people had no money
Direct Action
Communist political groups in the United States, including the Democratic Socialists of America and the Communist Party of the U.S.A (CPUSA) sponsored a “No Kings” rally in New York City and many other locations around the country. Democrat Chuck Schumer (NY) promoted the rally and encouraged citizens to speak out, and not be intimidated by the Trump administration.
An anti-government group called The Turtle Island Liberation Front plotted to build and detonate bombs in locations around the U.S. on New Year’s Eve. They were intercepted and arrested by assorted law enforcement agencies on December 12, 2025 before they could complete their mission.
Left-wing violence is funded and organized through a web of foreign communist groups whose goal is to destroy the United States.
The Congressional Black Caucus has been partners with Cuba since 1999 to provide scholarships for Black and Latino U.S. citizens to attend medical school in Cuba and to be indoctrinated in subversion ideology during a six-year course of study program.
The murderer of two Jewish Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. is linked to the Party of Socialism and Liberation, Black Lives Matter protests, and the Marxist–Leninist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
A college student was beaten for wearing a MAGA hat. The attacker, who was arrested and later fired, was a well known left-wing academic who wore a hammer-and-sickle pin
Organizers
The Democrat Socialists of America argue for dismantling the nuclear family and for abortions performed in churches.
A few Socialist Conference Agenda Items 2025:
Fellow Travelers
Philadelphia hoists Chinese Communist Party flag over city hall to celebrate diversity, but this insults residents who fled China to gain their freedom here.
Rising Independent Media star Natalie Winters was barred from membership in the prestigious National Press Club. Her response was to expose the relationship between National Press Club board members and the Chinese Communist Party while withdrawing her membership application
Good News
Texas passes a law requiring students to be educated on the past evils of communist regimes and the current threats to the United States and its allies. Students will learn of the atrocities of communism through the voices and first-hand experiences of its victims – those who suffered under communist regimes from Cambodia to Latin America.
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By The Daily Caller
Rural Texas residents claim that a Muslim city is being built in their backyard and accuse local officials of being very secretive about the deal.
Kaufman, Texas, residents didn’t think much of it when Kaufman Solar LLC bought a massive parcel of land in 2022. However, now that a mysterious buyer from the Middle East is looking to purchase an estimated 2,000 acres of land right next door to the planned solar farm to establish a sustainable city, they are worried about the impact.
Residents first became aware of the potential new settlement through a Facebook post from a concerned citizen Friday, Jan. 30.
“Serious question and maybe one of you all can help answer this or maybe be made aware? A few weeks ago, I was told that a Geocity was coming to Kaufman, Texas. This would be funded by Saudi [Arabian] investors,” the post stated.
“They plan on bringing over 20,000+ people into this giant city they are making. Now this could just be a good ole rumor. But it also could be true? Partly true? Semi true? Who knows? But I would love to be educated. And after watching this and seeing this post (video of the county commissioner’s November meeting) … I am thinking maybe the public should be aware of what could be coming to Kaufman,” the post continued.
Shortly after the post went live, a source who wished to remain anonymous confirmed to the original poster that the company seeking to build a sustainable city plans to buy land in an unincorporated area of Kaufman County.
“‘Hey that Arab city thing is real. The commissioners met with the school so admin and the board are aware. Seems like Kaufman city/county have been trying to keep it quiet,’” the text reads. The Daily Caller confirmed the text’s authenticity.
The Kaufman County Commissioner Court meeting Jan. 20 confirms that a buyer, through a Dallas, Texas, law firm, is seeking to purchase the land, contingent on the county approving three new municipal water districts for a potential sustainable city. The lawyer verified that the potential developer is SEE Holding, a UAE-based, privately held global holding group headquartered in Dubai, apparently focused on sustainability and spearheading a net-zero emissions future.
Republican Rep. Lance Gooden also told the Daily Caller that the buyer is based in Dubai, which he says raises serious concerns that need to be addressed before any approval for the city is potentially granted.
“The group reached out to me, and I said under no circumstances would we accept any planned community that included mosques or religious buildings or schools. 20,000 foreigners is news to me, but that would also be a nonstarter, obviously,” Gooden said.
“They said they would put that in writing and agreed with me, and I suggested they delay their hearing. We have a lot of crappy, run-down developments in Kaufman County and would welcome something nice, but this group will need to convince the community before I get on board,” he continued.
“If they were from New York and not Dubai, then we likely wouldn’t be concerned, but considering what our neighboring counties have been through, they’re going to have to actively involve the community to get buy-in, and that has yet to happen,” Gooden said.
A source familiar with the planned sustainable city in Kaufman County claims that when they first contacted Kaufman County Commissioner Terry Crow about the deal, he said he was unaware of it. That source later confirmed that Crow allegedly had detailed knowledge of the proposed city before citizens became aware of it.
The Daily Caller reached out to Kaufman County Commissioner Terry Crow for comment. Crow has not responded as of Wednesday afternoon.
The Kaufman County Commissioners Court had originally planned to bring the approval of the new water districts up for a vote Feb. 10. However, it later removed the item from the agenda during its Feb. 3 meeting.
“Next week, we were supposed to have a hearing on the freshwater District for the sustainable city. I’ve been visiting with Congressman Gooden and myself with the principal involved here from Dallas, and they have asked to pull that from the agenda for next week,” County Judge Jakie Allen stated.
“They will be coming later with a full set of plans so that people can ask questions and any questions would be answered at that time; and we’ll go wherever in the county we need to go cause it affects the entire county,” he continued.
“Last night when I spoke with the man in Dallas, he said they would go as far as … I know some people worried about it being a Muslim community, so he guarantees it’s not; and they would put in the deeds that there will be no mosque ever built on the location, so anyway, so that will not be on the agenda for next week,” Allen said.
“It seems like they’re canceling the public hearing just to buy time to think of ways to convince us it’s not what we know it is,” a source familiar with the planned sustainable city said.
“I do know that all officials are being very careful and not putting anything in writing. Only phone calls are being answered and made. No one has had any luck communicating in writing at the moment. Which makes it super hard. Very smart on their part,” the source said. “I pretty much don’t believe anyone anymore with what they say they will do.”
A resident of Kaufman County, speaking anonymously to the Daily Caller, said they have three major concerns: whether the local water supply can meet the demand of three new water districts, especially during drought season; what the potential social impact is with having 20,000 Arab residents in rural Texas after seeing construction of the highly contentious East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC City or The Meadow) and the new viral video out of Wylie, Texas; and why local officials have seemingly been secretive about the deal.
In the video, Marco Hunter-Lopez, president of the Wylie East High School Republican Student Club, claimed that female high school students were approached during lunchtime by an Islamic organization called “Why Islam?” The female students were offered hijabs, copies of the Quran, and pamphlets explaining Shariah Law.
“The district was not made aware of this incident until a video referencing it began circulating on social media later that evening, around 8:30,” Wylie ISD said in a statement.
“Once we became aware, we immediately began an investigation. While that investigation remains ongoing, we have confirmed that district protocols for guest speakers and student club interactions were not followed. Ultimately, this issue stems from a failure to follow established procedures,” the statement continued.
Texas residents have become increasingly frustrated with the seemingly blind eye Texas elected officials have turned to residents’ concerns about their changing communities and an influx of immigrants.
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By The Daily Signal
Ninety-one percent.
That’s the share of young liberal women who oppose deportations of illegal immigrants. In a country where 61% of voters support deportation efforts, one demographic has positioned itself further from the American mainstream than any other group in modern polling.
This hasn’t shown itself in just one issue. It’s a pattern. And understanding it explains a lot about our current political dysfunction.
The inversion here is striking. White young liberal women oppose deportations at 94%. Their non-white counterparts? Eighty-three percent opposed.
The women who look least like the people being deported hold the strongest opposition. The women who share ethnic backgrounds with many deportees are 11 points less absolute in their position.
We’re not measuring empathy. We’re measuring ideology. The positions don’t correlate with proximity to the issue. They correlate inversely with it.
Women 55 and older support deportations 66-27. Men of all ages support them by similar margins. But women under 55 flip to 42-53 opposition. Drill into that cohort and you find young liberal women driving the entire gender gap single-handedly.
A chasm separates them from the general electorate. It goes beyond disagreement to being in a parallel universe.
Values didn’t change generationally. Your grandmother and your 28-year-old cousin both believe in fairness, family, and compassion. What changed is information architecture.
Forty percent of young liberal women are highly online, 40% are watching national broadcast news, and a third get news from TikTok. They’re triple-dosing on media that reinforces identical narratives from different platforms.
Compare that to the general electorate: only 8% use TikTok as a news source. When one group’s primary information channel differs from everyone else’s by a factor of four, they’re not seeing the same country.
TikTok’s algorithm doesn’t inform. It radicalizes. It finds what triggers your emotions and feeds you more of it until a policy position becomes an identity marker and an identity marker becomes a moral absolute. The platform rewards the most extreme version of any argument because extremity drives engagement.
White young liberal women index even higher on TikTok news consumption than their non-white peers. The algorithm has sorted them into an informational ghetto where enforcement of immigration law isn’t a policy question but a human rights atrocity, and where anyone who disagrees isn’t wrong but evil.
Abstract polling becomes concrete crisis in Minnesota.
Gov. Tim Walz built an administration responsive to this demographic’s priorities. Sanctuary policies. Limited cooperation with federal enforcement. Social services without status verification. The activist class got all it wished for.
Then came the consequences. Federal agents on Minneapolis streets. A state government in open conflict with federal authority. National attention for all the wrong reasons. The policies that polled well in progressive echo chambers collided with the democratic will of a nation that sees the issue completely differently.
This is what happens when one ideologically isolated group captures institutional power disproportionate to its numbers. The 8% were louder than the 92%. They dominated the spaces where Democrat politicians seek approval. They set the terms of acceptable discourse within their coalition.
But democracy doesn’t work by decibel level. Eventually, majorities assert themselves, whether at the ballot box or through federal enforcement actions that override state resistance. Minnesota is experiencing that correction in real time.
The deeper question isn’t about immigration. It’s about epistemology.
How do you share a country with fellow citizens who experience a fundamentally different reality? Not different values. Different facts. Different base assumptions about what is happening and why.
Young liberal women believe they’re more informed than other demographics. They consume more news. They engage more with current events. By every self-reported metric, they’re “paying attention.”
But information volume isn’t information quality. Watching multiple sources that agree with each other isn’t balance. Engaging deeply with content designed to confirm your priors isn’t research. That’s called reinforcement.
The gap between this demographic and everyone else will determine elections, shape policy fights, and strain institutions for the next decade.
These women vote at high rates. They staff nonprofits and newsrooms. They run social media accounts for major organizations. Their reality distortion field isn’t confined to their own lives. It shapes the information environment for everyone else.
Somewhere between the 91% opposition and the 61% support lies a conversation America needs to have. One where proximity to an issue matters more than ideological purity. Where empathy gets balanced against practical wisdom. Where disagreement doesn’t equal evil.
The polling is clear about where the isolation lives. The only question is whether anyone trapped in that bubble will ever see these numbers, or whether the algorithm will make sure they never do.
We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.
AUTHOR
Brent Buchanan is the Founder & CEO of Cygnal, recognized as America’s most accurate private pollster for four consecutive election cycles, and author of “America’s Emotional Divide.”
By Neland Nobel
By Ronald Stein
By Vlad Tepes Blog
More explanation to come. But this is a segment of today’s first ever Sharia-Free America Caucus Press Conference.
The Sharia-Free America Caucus was launched by Congressman Keith Self and Congressman Chip Roy to combat the rise of Sharia law in the United States.
The caucus aims to protect the U.S. Constitution and individual freedoms from Sharia’s influence, which is seen as a direct threat to American values.
The caucus has grown to include 26 members from 17 states, highlighting the importance of this issue to the American people and those they represent.
The caucus’s efforts include legal initiatives such as legislation that would deny immigration benefits to those advocating for Sharia and reinforcing America’s legal and immigration systems to prevent any infiltration of Sharia.
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By The Geller Report
CAIR terror group leader, “I think this is the end for ICE.” CAIR-linked leaders brag as riots escalate, illegal alien criminals are shielded, and a web of Muslim groups, politicians, and dark-money foundations mobilize to dismantle federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
By Daniel Greenfield, February 3, 2026:
“I think this is the end for ICE,” Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Council on American–Islamic Relations, Minnesota (CAIR-MN), bragged, as the violent riots against immigration enforcement continued. “This is the moment where we continue to double down.”
The Somali Muslim leader’s aggressive rhetoric showed the role that his people were playing in the campaign to protect illegal alien criminals, some of them fellow Somali Muslims, from deportation as part of a network of extreme groups engaging in intimidation against ICE.
A left-wing media story described one of the Somali anti-ICE patrols featuring Kamal Yusuf, who doesn’t speak English, but wears a “F___ ICE” vest and tracks federal law enforcement.
This was linked to the Somali-American Leadership Table (SALT) organization co-founded by Imam Yusuf Abdulle, a director of the Islamic Association of North America (ISNA). ISNA was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and is an unindicted co-conspirator in funding Islamic terror linked groups. “We are fighting,” Imam Abdulle bragged.
ICE has taken into custody multiple Somali rapists and pedophiles, including Sahal Osman Shidane (criminal sexual conduct fourth degree of a victim 13 to 15 years old and Abdi Gelle Mohamed (sexual abuse of a minor) as part of a larger Somali rape crisis in Minnesota. The state has seen horrifying Somali assaults on women and children go unpunished a man who assaulted a teenage girl in a college bathroom stall (and is already out), a man who assaulted a 4-year-old girl and was given no prison time, and a Somali pedophile who assaulted a 10-year-old girl in 1998 and whom the federal government has been trying to deport since 2001.
So it was no wonder that Somali Muslim groups rallied to oppose immigration enforcement.
Ayada Leads, a Somali Muslim organization, boasted that “Rep. Ilhan Omar is the first woman Ayada Leads recruited to run for office.” Since then, Ayada has taken credit for State Sen. Zaynab Mohamed, State Rep. Hodan Hassan, and Mayor Nadia Mohamed of St. Louis Park, MN whom it describes as “the youngest elected official trained by Ayada Leads”.
These days, Ayada Leads tweets messages urging its supporters to report ICE federal immigration law enforcement officers while warning “Remember SALUTE when reporting.” SALUTE is a military acronym meaning ‘Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment’.
Habon Abdulle, a Somali immigrant from Mogadishu who was honored by Rep. Omar on the House floor and invited as her guest to the State of the Union address in 2020, heads Ayada Leads (originally the WOW Network) and has been doing a media tour complaining about the impact of immigration enforcement and immigration laws on Somali migrants in Minnesota.
Ayada Leads has been listed as part of the anti-ICE coalition, its social media has promoted protests as “revolution” and “resistance”, and urged support for the pro-illegal mobs, promoted bail funds for the arrested rioters and suggested that some serve as ‘emergency contacts’.
The Somali Muslim group even defended the church rioters who disrupted a service at Cities Church in St. Paul.
Abdulle expressed her appreciation to the Headwaters Foundation. Headwaters is headed by Bilal Alkatout, a Kuwaiti immigrant and gay ‘Palestinian’ who has “never stepped foot in Palestine”. Headwaters is a notorious local operation that helped fund BLM during the riots and more recently provided funding to pro-Hamas groups like ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’.
Headwaters has called for eliminating ICE and offered six figures to build “a future without ICE”. It had urged support for anti-ICE groups like MIRAC which have defended the use of violence.
The Headwaters Foundation funded a number of Islamic groups including the local chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is also involved in the anti-ICE coalition, took part in rallies calling for an end to immigration enforcement and demanded that Minnesota investigate “federal agents for terrorizing Somali & other immigrant communities”.
CAIR is an unindicted Hamas terror funding co-conspirator whose leadership praised Oct 7.
Nausheena Hussain, a former deputy director of CAIR-MN, and Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment (RISE), who also works for the Brooklyn Park Islamic Center, had served as a committee member at Headwaters, and reposted a message stating that “Minnesota is under occupation by federal agents.”
CAIR MN also retweeted a message from State Sen. Omar Fateh complaining that Gov. Tim Walz still hadn’t visited a mosque to show support for Somalis, along with an invite to a ‘Somali Bar Association’ event offering “practical guidelines for encounters with ICE”,
Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of CAIR-MN, a Somali Muslim migrant, had previously blamed the exposure of Somali fraud on the Jews, appearing to argue that discussing Somali fraud, which in Minnesota is estimated to reach into the billions, was “Israel First” and praising Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, even as liberal Jews were trying to defend Somalis.
The Somali Muslim leader had taken part in a campaign to get an art professor fired for displaying Islamic art that he had considered blasphemous and had protested the death of Dolal Idd: a Somali Muslim criminal who was shot after opening fire on police officers.
Hussein and State Sen. Zaynab Mohamed had reportedly handed out cards to Somalis telling them not to talk to federal law enforcement. Anisa Hagi-Mohamed, one of the Bush fellows and a Somali migrant, claimed that the fighting against ICE feels like a “civil war.”
The Bush Foundation (no relation to the presidential family) has been responsible for funding many of the radical groups involved in anti-ICE activities. While the Bush Foundation was started by an engineer who died in the 1960s, the organization has become an extreme organization with little relation to its founder. Its grantmaking coordinators include at least two Somalis, Ramla Bile and Farhiya Abdulkarim, (the Bush Foundation has currently hidden its list of key people).
“Being a Minnesota Somali is a profoundly special identity for me and many others, and we wholeheartedly belong here. Our belonging is not contingent upon meritocracy or our material contributions,” Bile argued. The Somali had previously been furious at an officer wearing a hijab as a costume, denouncing the officer, “I was literally sick to my stomach.” Bile recently promoted the creation of an ‘Immigrant Rapid Response Fund’ for “mobilizing and organizing”.
Somalis have become so disproportionately represented in the Bush Foundation that nearly a third of its 2025 fellows are Somali Muslims, four times as many as Latinos and Asians, to the extent that Bush is becoming a Somali organization. And one aimed at fighting ICE.
The Minneapolis riots helped divert attention from the massive Somali Muslim fraud that has topped over $1 billion. While the city burns, the ongoing investigation into Somali fraud is being sidelined and the efforts to suppress further arrests of Somali illegal aliens is running into riots.
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By The Geller Report
I don’t know what we are waiting for.
As for the drone, we have Obama to thank for that. He gifted our drone technology to the murdering mullahs.
By; Jeff Charles, Town Hall, February 03, 2026:
The U.S. military shot down an Iranian drone on Tuesday as tensions between the United States and Iran have intensified.
In late January, the Trump administration ordered the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and a strike force into the Persian Gulf. The move raised speculation that the U.S. could carry out airstrikes against the Iranian regime.
Reuters reported that the drone “was flying towards the carrier and was shot down by a F-35 U.S. fighter jet.”
A U.S. Central Command spokesman told Fox News that the drone “aggressively approached a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier with unclear intent.”
He further explained that the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was operating in the Arabian Sea, approximately 500 miles from Iran’s southern coast, when an Iranian Shahed-139 drone unnecessarily maneuvered toward the ship.”
This is the first military clash Washington has had with Tehran since the White House ordered airstrikes on the regime’s nuclear sites last year.
The Shahed-139 is an Iranian long-range surveillance and attack drone that can fly long distances while carrying various weapons, including precision-guided missiles and bombs. It is also used for reconnaissance missions and to attack targets on land and at sea.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened military intervention against the regime if it refused to stop killing protesters.
Casualty estimates range from 3,000 to 20,000 people killed by the Iranian government.
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By Amil Imani
The waters of the North Arabian Sea are no longer just a transit corridor; they have become the center stage for what military analysts describe as the most significant American force-generation event in over a decade. As of this week, the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) Carrier Strike Group has officially taken up station, marking the arrival of the “massive armada” promised by the Trump administration in response to escalating regional volatility.
This buildup is not merely a “show of flags.” It represents a multi-domain surge intended to signal both a defensive umbrella for regional allies and a “hammer-ready” posture for potential strikes against Iranian infrastructure.
The arrival of the Lincoln marks the end of a rare “carrier gap” in the region. The strike group brings with it a lethal array of assets, including Arleigh Burke-class destroyers equipped with the Aegis combat system, capable of simultaneously tracking hundreds of aerial threats while maintaining the capacity to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles at targets deep within the Iranian mainland.
This is more than a display of hardware. It is a tactical answer to the IRGC’s “finger on the trigger” rhetoric. These units bring advanced electronic warfare and stealth capabilities, such as the F-35C Lightning II, which can bypass the regime’s aging air defenses with ease.
Beyond the naval surge, the Pentagon has quietly executed a massive logistics bridge. Open-source flight tracking data reveals over 80 C-17 Globemaster III transport flights in the last week alone, funneling equipment to “lily pad” bases across the Gulf. This includes the deployment of additional THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) batteries and Patriot missile systems to Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia – a move designed to preempt the “swarm” tactics of Iranian-aligned proxies.
The THAAD system operates on a “hit-to-kill” principle, meaning it carries no explosive warhead and instead relies on pure kinetic energy – colliding with the target at speeds exceeding Mach 8.2 (approximately 2,800 meters per second). Each battery is a complex mobile unit consisting of six truck-mounted launchers, 48 interceptor missiles, and the AN/TPY-2 X-band radar. This radar is one of the world’s most powerful mobile systems, capable of detecting and tracking threats at ranges between 870 km and 3,000 km. The interceptors themselves have an operational range of 200 km and can reach a flight ceiling of 150 km, effectively creating a high-altitude “shield” that protects entire metropolitan areas or large military hubs like Al Udeid Air Base.
The deployment comes on the heels of Operation Midnight Hammer, a series of strikes in 2025 that the administration claims “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program. However, as noted by the Council on Foreign Relations, the current posture is a reaction to Tehran’s attempts to reconstitute its conventional forces and its brutal crackdown on domestic protesters in early 2026.
President Trump has been characteristically blunt, framing the deployment as a “big flotilla” that he hopes he “won’t have to use,” but is “ready, willing, and able” to deploy with “speed and violence.” This strategy of maximum pressure is further detailed in the newly released 2026 National Defense Strategy, which shifts the burden of regional defense toward Gulf partners while maintaining the US as the “strategic backstop” for high-end kinetic operations.
The military pressure from the outside is mirrored by a total collapse of authority from within. The January uprising – triggered by the collapse of the Rial and fueled by forty-seven years of mismanagement – has stripped the regime of its “aura of power.”
Furthermore, satellite imagery provided by Global Times highlights a significant increase in US tactical airpower at bases like Muwaffaq Salti in Jordan, where dozens of F-15E Strike Eagles are now “neatly parked” and ready for rapid sortie generation.
Independent estimates now place the death toll from the recent crackdown in the tens of thousands, a figure that the Council on Foreign Relations warns meets the “gravity test” for crimes against humanity. For those in the diaspora who have spent years advocating for international accountability, the massive U.S. deployment is seen not as a threat to the Iranian people but as a “rescue” force to prevent the regime from committing further atrocities in its final days.
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By Jihad Watch
The Saudis initially cautioned President Donald Trump not to strike the Islamic Republic of Iran, and he seems to have complied, but now they’re saying that if he doesn’t strike, the Islamic regime in Tehran will be emboldened. That is certainly correct; in fact, as we have documented here more than once, the Islamic regime in Tehran is already emboldened by the perception that Trump issued an empty threat and backed down out of weakness. But why did the Saudis change their position?
They’re balancing several considerations. One is that backing the U.S. against a Muslim country, even a Shi’ite one, will not play well among many Muslims, and could conceivably even cause the monarchy trouble within Saudi Arabia. However, the Islamic Republic of Iran is indeed a Shi’ite regime, and there have been tensions between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran since the latter’s inception. It appears, at least at this point, that the Saudis have calculated that the cost of leaving the Shi’ite regime in place and allowing Trump and the U.S. to appear weak and indecisive on the world stage is higher than the cost of supporting an attack on another Muslim state. But they’re still hedging; hence their refusal to allow the U.S. to use their airspace for an attack.
“Scoop: Saudi defense minister says Trump not bombing Iran would embolden regime,” by Barak Ravid and Zachary Basu, Axios, January 31, 2026:
Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman (KBS) said in a private briefing on Friday in Washington that if President Trump doesn’t follow through on his threats against Iran, the regime will end up stronger, four sources in the room tell Axios.
Why it matters: This is a reversal from the public Saudi talking points cautioning against escalation and from the deep concern Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) expressed to Trump three weeks ago. That warning was one reason Trump decided to delay a strike….
“Saudis won’t let the US use its bases or airspace for an attack on Iran, senior Gulf official reveals,” by Peter Pinedo and Jacqui Heinrich, Fox News, January 30, 2026:
As President Donald Trump weighs his options on a possible military strike on Iran, a senior Gulf official told Fox News Saudi Arabia will not allow the U.S. to use its airspace or bases for such an attack.
A high-ranking government figure from a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) state told Fox News that the “U.S. hasn’t shared objectives or plans” regarding Iran with Gulf allies despite recent high-level Saudi meetings in Washington aimed at gaining clarity.
“We said this as friends, [we] want to make sure they understand our position and our assessment in general. And we want to understand the U.S. assessment with as much clarity as possible,” the senior official said. “I’d like to get full clarity, and we did not get there.”
Regarding U.S. military movements for a strike on Iran, the official said, “The plan is something other than using Saudi airspace.”…
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By Family Research Council
In 1956, segregationist Democratic Senator Harry F. Byrd pushed for “massive resistance” to federal civil rights law enforcement. Today, Democrats Tim Walz, Larry Krasner, Jacob Frey, etc. are hailed for doing the same thing against federal immigration law enforcement.
For two weeks now, the mainstream media’s narrative has been that the anti-ICE protesters in the streets of Minneapolis are simply and legally exercising their First Amendment constitutional rights to free speech and assembly. But neither the First Amendment nor any other provision of the Constitution approves of individuals or massive groups of individuals engaging in organized, purposeful active harassment, impeding and blocking ICE agents and vehicles performing their enforcement duties.
Such actions are not protests, they are of the same false logic as the anti-civil rights law enforcement segregationist movement Byrd encouraged when he authored the “Declaration of Constitutional Principles,” aka the “Southern Manifesto” in 1956. Calling the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision “a clear abuse of judicial power” (substitute ICE for the High Court and you’ve got a key talking point of the present demonstrators), Byrd encouraged active resistance by citizens and officials across the states of the old Confederacy.
That resistance notably included Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus’s opposition to integration of his state’s public schools in 1957, prompted Sheriff Bull Connor to unleash dogs and fire hoses against civil rights marchers in May 1963, and culminated in Alabama Governor George Wallace defiantly standing in the University of Alabama’s “schoolhouse door” the following month, among much else.
Consider Frey, the Minneapolis mayor, who in response to President Donald Trump’s conciliatory comments following the death of Alex Pretti in a confrontation with ICE agents, declared that his city “does not and will not” enforce federal immigration law. In fact, Frey has it exactly backwards, since nobody expects any local elected official to enforce federal immigration law because that is the job of the federal government.
What every local and state official — looking at you, Governor Walz and you, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner — is required to do is cooperate with federal law enforcement if called upon to do so, not to refuse said cooperation and encourage what is clearly a professionally organized, managed, and funded rebellion in the streets.
If you doubt that is the case, read my assessment of the key facts that the mainstream media refuses to report on these issues. And if you doubt there are foreign elements actively involved, check out this detailed, comprehensive accounting by Insurrection Barbie, another of the growing legion of independent journalists posting on X. The Signal system is the heart of the rebellion’s command and control of the resistance.
Speaking of Krasner, he’s organizing the Soros-backed radical Democratic local prosecutors’ box on the nationwide anti-ICE insurrection organization chart. Calling ICE agents “wannabe Nazis,” Krasner vowed, “If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice.”
For those who don’t recall, Krasner was one of George Soros’s first wins in the Hungarian billionaire’s lavishly funded campaign to elect radically leftist local prosecutors who would restrain police, push no-bail release policies, and refuse to prosecute even the most serious criminal cases. The Soros-funded Philadelphia Justice and Public Safety PAC spent at least $1.45 million in independent expenditures encouraging voters to support Krasner.
Joining Krasner’s anti-ICE campaign are prosecutors from Dallas and Austin, Texas; Tucson, Arizona; Fairfax and Arlington Counties, Fairfax City, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, Virginia.
As smart and well-funded as today’s massive resisters are, they are almost certainly doomed to fail because they suffer the same fundamental weakness that ultimately brought down the Confederacy. The North had more people, more military capabilities, and far bigger manufacturing and agricultural resources than did the Confederacy.
Today’s rebels suffer the same deficiency but to a far deeper degree. As Kevin Bass calculates it, there are nine counties in the U.S. where the anti-ICE movement can reasonably expect to find fertile ground for its rebellion. All nine are sanctuaries for illegals and connected to deep-blue cities with mayors of the same ilk as Frey.
That leaves 3,134 counties that are far more likely to deal harshly with rioters if they are then known, as they are now, to bring with them property destruction, subversion of law and order, and growing political chaos. Large majorities of Americans endorsed Presidential-candidate Donald Trump’s promise to deport millions of illegal immigrants, beginning with those with criminal records. So not only are the anti-ICErs advocating massive resistance, they are also seeking to repeal democracy.
AUTHOR
Mark Tapscott is senior congressional analyst at The Washington Stand.
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By Jihad Watch
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Netanyahu may get some pushback on this from the man who wants the Nobel Peace Prize above all other things, and who has forgotten what little he once seemed to know about the global jihad.
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