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The Weak as Props

Alex Pretti, the Wolves, and the Need for Shepherds I. Introduction: The Pretti Incident and Shifting Narratives Last week, the nation was fed a tidy martyr story: Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital in Minneapolis, gunned down by federal agents while “directing traffic” outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue. The image was immediate and potent-an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of Trump’s immigration crackdown, his death proof of rogue federal violence. Protests erupted from Minneapolis to New York and Los Angeles. Far-left networks wasted no time seeding the narrative: Pretti as saintly victim, the…

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Let Democrats Cook

The Looming Democrat Shutdown Blunder Republicans Should Let Them Own Folks, we're staring down the barrel of another partial government shutdown this weekend, with the January 30-31 deadline looming like a Texas thunderstorm. Democrats in the Senate are digging in their heels, threatening to withhold the 60 votes needed to pass the DHS appropriations bill unless Republicans cave on so-called "reforms" to ICE-like requiring judicial warrants for arrests and detentions. It's all tied to the recent uproar over ICE and CBP actions, including that tragic shootings in Minneapolis. But let's call this what it is: political theater at its worst, and…

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No Backdoor Amnesty

The Amnesty Gateway in Lawler-Fitzpatrick Reforms Republican Representatives Mike Lawler and Brian Fitzpatrick recently released statements calling for what they term "comprehensive" and "common sense" immigration reform. On Tuesday, following the fatal shootings in Minneapolis involving federal immigration agents-incidents that claimed the lives of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti-Lawler published an op-ed in The New York Times urging a "new comprehensive national immigration policy" that is "secure, lawful, and humane." He praised the Trump administration's border successes, including over 675,000 deportations and sharply reduced crossings, but insisted the system remains "broken for 40 years" and requires bipartisan action beyond…

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Trump Is the Adult in the Room

Jail Access in Minnesota Could Be His Smartest Immigration Victory Yet The last few weeks in Minnesota have been a textbook case of federal-state tension spiraling into chaos. Operation Metro Surge brought thousands of ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents into the Minneapolis-St. Paul area starting in December 2025, targeting criminal non-citizens and investigating allegations of massive welfare fraud. The operation quickly turned ugly: two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens by federal agents-Renée Good on January 7 and Alex Pretti on January 24-sparked widespread protests, hotel break-ins targeting agents, doxxing attempts, and furious accusations from Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor…

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Just Another Panic Monday

Watch the ICE Panic Melt in Real Time I called it on November 7, 2025, when the Panicans were losing their minds over the push to nuke the filibuster during the Democrat-caused shutdown fiasco. President Trump urged Senate Republicans to scrap the 60-vote rule and force through DHS funding and ACA fixes past Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s blockade. Weak sisters wrung their hands, warned of permanent damage, and begged for restraint. I said the Democrats were overreaching, they would cave first, and the base would stand firm. By mid-November, eight Senate Democrats crossed over, the longest shutdown in history ended…

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A Red Herring Narrative

The Gun Was There-So What? Focus on What Actually Happened The introduction of the Second Amendment into the Alex Pretti shooting discussion is a red herring-pure and simple-and one that hands the Left exactly the narrative gift they crave. Let’s cut straight through the noise. The facts on the ground in Minneapolis on Saturday, are still in dispute: bystander videos, witness affidavits, and the emerging court record show a licensed concealed-carry holder disarmed by federal agents before shots rang out, with no clear frame of him brandishing or reaching for the pistol in the decisive moment. The real fight is over…

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This is the Brezhnev Doctrine

How Irreversible Gains Are Engineered—and Now Defended Through Nullification In a Sunday morning post on X, @Geiger_Capital captured the asymmetry that has defined American immigration politics for years: "One President can open our nation’s border and purposefully mass release millions of unvetted illegal immigrants into the country. But the next President can’t remove them without obstruction, riots and legal hoops. If it continues, we have no sovereignty." One President can open our nation’s border and purposefully mass release millions of unvetted illegal immigrants into the country.But the next President can’t remove them without obstruction, riots and legal hoops.If it continues, we…

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Minnesota’s Confederate Revival

The South Rises Again in the North I never thought I would live to see the Confederacy rise again in the North. Never in my life did that enter my wildest imagination. Yet here we are in January 2026, watching Minnesota-deep-blue, progressive Minneapolis-pull straight out of the 1830s Nullification Crisis playbook. Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey are openly defying federal supremacy, refusing to honor over 1,360 ICE detainers for criminal aliens, stonewalling cooperation so federal agents must conduct high-risk arrests alone, and then crying “occupation” and “brutality” when self-defense shootings occur amid armed resistance. It’s nullification doctrine rebooted: state…

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The Subsidy Cliff That Wasn’t

How Fraud Exposed Democrat Hysteria Let’s cut straight through the noise, folks. As a voter in Plano, Texas, who’s been bombarded with Democrat doom-mongering all last fall, I’m flat-out indignant. They screamed from every rooftop about how the expiration of their precious Obamacare subsidies would hammer everyday Americans like Myrtle and Merv from Rio Linda-premiums exploding from $200 a month to over $1,000, families plunged into ruin, the whole "affordable" care house of cards collapsing. It was nonstop hysteria on X, in ads, and from every blue-check talking head. And now? January 2026 rolls in, the cliff hits, and it's crickets.…

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Tax the Fruit, Not the Branches

A Supply-Side Answer to the Deflation Warning Anthony Pompliano dropped a clear warning this week. Truflation’s real-time dashboard shows U.S. inflation at 1.21% year-over-year-down sharply, well below the Fed’s lagging 2.7% BLS print for December. He’s been saying it for months: the real threat isn’t runaway inflation. It’s deflationary pressure from weak demand, delayed purchases, and a middle class that’s pulling back. Inflation is now at 1.2% according to @truflation.For the last year I have been warning that deflation was a much bigger risk than inflation.The Federal Reserve completely screwed this up.They must cut rates aggressively now! pic.twitter.com/WZ6dpfjYS5— Anthony Pompliano 🌪…

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