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Yesterday anti-American paramilitary forces invade a Christian church in Minneapolis during services, terrorizing the parishioners—men, women, and weeping children.  Their “justification”? One of the senior leaders of the church is employed by ICE.  Leading the invasion was former CNN journalist Don Lemon, a self-identified homosexual black man, who cavorted with the invaders before, during, and after the invasion.  The invaders also included various well-known professional agitators.  Now the Department of Justice is looking into bringing federal charges against Don Lemon specifically and the other invaders generally.

Yesterday foreign-born anti-American agitator Mahmoud Khalil received a well-deserved set-back from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which in a 2-1 vote reversed a lower district court ruling that ordered Khalil released from immigration detention while he sued to avoid deportation ordered by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Khalil had for months been leading often-violent anti-American protests at Columbia University calling for the eradication of western civilization. During this period he transitioned his immigration status from student visa to preliminary “green card,” following his marriage to an American woman soon after his 2022 arrival in the US.  Secretary Rubio, noting that America has no compelling reason to allow to remain in our nation foreign nationals advocating against America’s national interests, ordered Khaliil detained and deported.  That initial March 8, 2025 detention set off a series of detentions and releases and federal litigation that continues to this day. On June 20, 2025, federal district trial court Judge Michael E. Farbiarz ordered Khalil released from immigration detention, a decision appealed by the government. Yesterday’s Third Circuit ruling reverses that release order—though this change in status is paused for 45 days to allow Khalil to appeal to either the Third Circuit en banc or directly to the Supreme Court, so he will remain free during that period. 

Two days ago, a three-judge 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel voted 2-1 to allow California’s new re-districting of congressional seats remain in place for the upcoming 2026 mid-term elections, effectively ensuring that the Democrats will secure an additional five House seats.   The majority opinion consists largely of 70 pages of politically partisan word-salad so commonly produced by the liberal 9th Circuit when it simply wants to lock in a win for the Progressive Fascist Democrats. The dissent by Judge Kenneth Lee, however, is ON FIRE, and exposes the racist fecklessness of California Governor Gavin Newsom—a man who appears incapable of not lying about any subject whatever—in pushing this Prop 50 re-districting through the already super-majority California. 

In this video, we break down the major January 14, 2026 Supreme Court decision in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections — a 7-2 victory for election integrity and candidate rights. The Court ruled that political candidates, like Illinois Republican Congressman Mike Bost, have Article III standing to challenge state election laws governing how votes are counted in their races — even before proving specific harm to their electoral chances. This reverses lower court dismissals and remands the case for further proceedings. At issue: Illinois law allows mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received and counted up to two weeks later. Bost argued this violates federal statutes setting a uniform Election Day for federal elections. Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority, emphasized candidates' concrete interest in the integrity of vote-counting rules and the democratic process. The decision could open the door to more pre-election challenges nationwide, helping resolve disputes before votes are tallied and reducing post-election chaos. A big step forward for transparency and accountability in our elections. What do you think — will this lead to fairer processes or more litigation? Drop your thoughts below, like, subscribe, and hit the bell for more updates on SCOTUS, self-defense, and the law! #ElectionIntegrity #SCOTUS #BostvIllinois

Yesterday the US Supreme Court heard oral argument on a pair of cases involving men playing in women’s sports—Little v. Hecox, and West Virginia v. BPJ. As usual the justice line up appeared to be Alito, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Roberts on the side of reason and law, and the three SCOTUS crones—Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson—as the liberal lunatics in the conversation.  And once again Justice Ketanji “I’m not a biologist, how would I know what a wom

The migrant paramilitary forces in Minneapolis continue to escalate their violent aggression against the officers of the federal government, spurred on by Mayor Jacob Frey, Governor Tim Walz, and MN Attorney General Keith Ellison—in short, active insurrection has been and continues to occur in the state of Minnesota against the United States federal government. Last night the migrant forces burned down several ICE vehicles, including looting vehicles of weapons and sensitive documents—both of which must be presumed to be turned against ICE in the near future, further increasing the jeopardy to these federal officers as well as to President Trump’s ability to meet his constitutional duty to see that the federal immigration laws be faithfully executed.  Today Trump posted a warning on social media: “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E, who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” A violent political reaction can be expected from the Progressive Fascist Left and legacy media—but I repeat myself—if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, but has the American public finally seen enough to accept this necessary step to secure American law, order, and national sovereignty against the forces that are determined to destroy all three?

Yesterday the US Supreme Court heard oral argument on a pair of cases involving men playing in women’s sports—Little v. Hecox, and West Virginia v. BPJ. As usual the justice line up appeared to be Alito, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Roberts on the side of reason and law, and the three SCOTUS crones—Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson—as the liberal lunatics in the conversation.  And once again Justice Ketanji “I’m not a biologist, how would I know what a woman is” Jackson presents herself as the dumbest Supreme Court justice to have ever existed. 

Yesterday the US Supreme Court heard oral argument on a pair of cases involving men playing in women’s sports—Little v. Hecox, and West Virginia v. BPJ. As usual the justice line up appeared to be Alito, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Roberts on the side of reason and law, and the three SCOTUS crones—Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson—as the liberal lunatics in the conversation.  And once again Justice Ketanji “I’m not a biologist, how would I know what a woman is” Jackson presents herself as the dumbest Supreme Court justice to have ever existed. 

Join me LIVE right after the open access show to breakdown ongoing escalations against ICE deportation efforts.  I also invite each of YOU to join me in our desperate but worthy mission to save our great nation.  The easiest way to do that? SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE!  YouTube:  https://tinyurl.com/hn32rfz9  Locals: https://tinyurl.com/yck4w9kf

The great and powerful democratically elected Article II Executive Branch President Donald J. Trump has long butted heads with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome “Too Late” Powell, particularly criticizing Powell for abusing the Feds monetary authority to keep interest rates artificially high, and thus choking off American economic growth.  Now the Trump administration has sent the Federal Reserve grand jury subpoenas regarding Powell’s recent testimony to Congress regarding the multi-billion re-build of Federal Reserve buildings, suggesting that Powell may have committed perjury and be subject to criminal prosecution.  In response, Powell released a video this past weekend claiming that these subpoenas were merely an illegitimate effort by Trump to pressure Powell into reducing interest rates. What’s the real deal with all this? I would suggest that the real problem with the Federal Reserve isn’t that Powell is stupidly keeping rates high or that the Feds building project is hundreds of millions of dollars over budget.  Rather, the real problem with the Federal Reserve IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE!

America is perhaps the only nation on the planet that raises to high level judgeships so many people who are CULTURALLY FOREIGN to our nation.  Why are so many Federal judges born OUTSIDE the United States? Why are ANY?  Why are so many Federal judges born in the United States to NON-AMERICAN PARENTS? Why are ANY?  Why do so many Federal judges MAINTAIN DUAL CITIZENSHIP? Why do ANY?  And then these culturally foreign judges go forth to conduct themselves as if they—unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior district and appellate court judges—had the constitutional authority to order about our democratically-elected Article II Executive Branch president as if he were a mere clerk in their court, as if it is THEY who ACTUALLY wields the greatest authority in America’s constitutional order. Did our Founders fight and win a desperate 8-year war to establish a nation in which the American people would be ruled over by dozens of CULTURALLY FOREIGN BLACK-ROBED JUDGES?  I THINK NOT! 

America is currently engaged in an existential war for survival against powerful forces and the 92% of the world population that wishes to wipe out the first world generally and America specifically.  Currently this war is not “hot,” meaning it’s not being fought with armies wielding military weapons of violence. And may we all wish that it never achieves that level. Instead, we are engaged in a “soft” existential war for survival, in which the chess pieces are being moved into position, often using subterfuge, and ALWAYS accompanied by powerful and sophisticated propaganda wielded by our enemies. America was once a master of such propaganda, especially during our American Revolutionary War for independence. In fact, today, is the anniversary of the January 10, 1776 publication of the essay “Common Sense” by American propagandist Thomas Paine, which argued powerfully for America to split from the British monarch and establish a free Republic.  What I’d like to cover today, however, is a different Thomas Paine essay that better illustrates the vital importance of propaganda to the good guys winning—his publication of “The American Crisis” published at the end of that same year, on December 19, 1776. That December the peoples who would form America were in desperate straits, having experienced much military failure in their battles with Britain, the most powerful military force on the planet at the time, and General George Washington’s troops were dwindling in both numbers and morale.  Paine’s “American Crisis” was so powerful a piece of pro-American propaganda, however, that Washington immediately had it read aloud to his suffering troops—and just days later these same soldiers would cross the frozen Delaware on Christmas night and slay Hessian mercenaries employed by the British in their sleep. That victorious Battle of Trenton would be followed by another resounding victory a few days later in the Battle of Princeton, completely turning the tide of the revolution in America’s favor.  America could use a bit of Thomas Paine today, as we face our own existential travails against the tens of millions of aliens invading our shores, looting our treasury, degrading our culture, and striving to obliterate our first-world existence from the face of the globe. Let’s talk about the nature and vital importance of propaganda, and read through Paine’s “American Crisis,” in celebration of this great American’s passion and genius for the emerging republic of the United States. 

The body-worn camera footage has now been released from the camera of the ICE officer who lawfully shot dead Minnesota driver Renee Nicole Good after she aggressively struck him with her vehicle.  The “wife” of Renee Nicole Good, a “woman” named Rebecca Good, is now known to have been an active participant in the driver’s efforts to obstruct ICE operations, which conduct ultimately led to her death.  Had driver Renee Nicole Good survived, she could well have been charged and tried for attempted murder of the ICE officer she struck with her car. Of course, we don’t prosecute dead people, so that possibility is moot.  Is it possible, however, that the surviving “wife,” Rebecca Good could be criminally charged over this shooting? Perhaps as a conspirator, or under felony murder doctrines? 

America is engaged in an existential war for survival greater even than our founding Revolutionary War.  Victory is achievable, but it will require a national cultural epiphany, a re-awakening, of what America is, and what it must be to survive.  The epiphany, in turn, will require breaking down decades of highly effective brainwashing that has led large portions of Americans to despise themselves and their nation, and prioritize the interests of aliens and enemies above themselves—the ultimate immorality.