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Folks, what we are seeing in Minnesota is a radical, left-wing, and highly dangerous insurgency operation that WILL NOT go away quietly — even if ICE is removed from the state — and WILL be used to murder Republicans and Democrats unless we end it BY FORCE right now.

The Democrat Party built this insurrectionist force to destroy Donald Trump. But it has already grown out of the Democrats’ control. This paramilitary force is dedicated to destroying the U.S.A. and the Democrats no longer have a say in what it does or doesn’t do… and it WILL be turned against them to in the coming years unless we destroy these people right now before it fully metastasizes to every other state outside Minnesota.

These are not “protesters.” These are not Americans who merely want to have a say in what our government does. These are soldiers engaged in an insurrection against the United States of America. They want you and me dead. And they will keep this extensive underground operation operating no matter what happens on a policy level. These are dangerous revolutionaries who need to be crushed.

Former Special Forces soldier Eric Schwalm had a warning and an explanation of what we are seeeing this week that is a must read…

A WARNING TO AMERICA

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread. Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.

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Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan has passed at 80.

Regan, a conservative commentator and broadcaster and President Reagan’s son with his first wife, Jane Wyman, passed on Sunday according to his family.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Michael Edward Reagan,” Reagan’s family said in a statement. “Michael was and will always remain a beloved husband, father, and grandpa. Michael was called home to be with the Lord on Sunday, January 4th, surrounded by his entire family in Los Angeles, California. Our hearts are deeply broken as we grieve the loss of a man who meant so much to all who knew and loved him.”

The statement added, “We appreciate your prayers and ask that you would respect our family’s privacy during this difficult time,” wrote Andrew Coffin, Vice President and Director of the Reagan Ranch.

Young America’s Foundation shared its own message of condolences in a tribute on its website, reading, “We lost an American hero, a faithful son, and a devoted father and grandfather this week.”

Coffin noted that Michael had a wonderful way of reaching young people.

“Students who heard Michael speak gravitated to that same sense of authenticity that made his father such a successful leader. Few who had the privilege of listening to his stories will soon forget Michael describing Ronald Reagan’s long-held desire to say, ‘Nyet’ to a Soviet leader, something he was finally able to do with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavík,” Coffin wrote

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute also mourned Reagan’s passing and praised him as a “a steadfast guardian of his father’s legacy.”

“Michael Reagan lived a life shaped by conviction, purpose, and an abiding devotion to President Reagan’s ideals,” the foundation said in its statement.

The foundation also quoted President Regan on his son, Michael.

“President Reagan reflected on his son in An American Life, writing of Michael, ‘When I read his book, I had even more of a fatherly pride in Mike than I had had before…. he was happy and at peace with himself.’ Those words speak not only to a father’s pride, but to the quiet strength and authenticity with which Michael lived his life,” the organization said.

“Michael Reagan’s passing is a profound loss to all who knew him and to the millions who valued his dedication to preserving President Reagan’s legacy. His presence, warmth, and unwavering commitment will be deeply missed at the Reagan Library and far beyond its walls,” the foundation concluded.

Michael Reagan attended Arizona State University and Los Angeles Valley College, and then became an actor on television shows including “Falcon Crest. He went on to spend nearly 20 years as a conservative talk radio host.

He also served as the chair of the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation board for three years as well as president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation.

Michael Reagan leaves behind his second wife, Colleen, and two children.

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It is that time of year again when left-wingers try to co-opt the Bible to support their anti-American ideals, and this time of year, they often abuse the birth of Christ by saying that Christ’s earthly parents, Joseph and Mary, were either homeless, were refugees, were immigrants, or even mostly outrageously, were “Palestinians.” The fact is, they were NONE of those things.

One sickening example came in 2024 when useful idiot Bear Grylls jumped to his X account to claim that Jesus’ mother Mary was a “Palestinian” and the family were “refugees.” But everything he said is a lie.

Grylls launched his false account of the birth of Christ saying the world is celebrating the “birth of a Middle Eastern refugee” who “changed the course of the world forever.”

“This is just a short extract from near the beginning of the adventure. When Maryam, a young, poor, and no doubt terrified Palestinian girl, gives birth in a run-down animal pen, to a baby who was foretold for hundreds of years,” he continued.

“Yet she was not alone. And she never would be. Because this was the moment that God Almighty broke into our fallen world in person,” he wrote, concluding, “To many of us, it is undoubtedly: The Greatest Story Ever Told.”

This is all a terrible warping of the truth. And for his lies, X slapped a brutal community note on him:

Grylls is far from the first left-winger to push around lies like this. His sort of fact-free, agenda-driven leftism has been disgorged by leftists for decades.

A few years ago, ABC chief political analyst Matthew Dowd similarly jumped to his Twitter account to ladle out the same shop-worn and false liberal claim that Jesus Christ’s parents, Joseph and Mary, were “two immigrants” in Bethlehem in the tale of the first Christmas. It all amounts to fake news that is over 2,000 years old.

Going back thousands of years for his Christmas Eve fake news, Dowd slanted the Christmas nativity story by saying Joseph and Mary were “immigrants” who were turned away by many in the town. “Let us remember today,” Dowd wrote, “2 immigrants, a man, and his very pregnant wife, sought shelter and were turned away by many. She gave birth in a manger.”

This claim that Joseph and Mary were “immigrants” is a mischaracterization long used to push a modern-day policy of immigration amnesty. The left’s argument goes: If even Jesus Christ’s parents were “immigrants,” how can today’s American Christians be against open borders and amnesty?

But the truth is, the famed Biblical couple were not “immigrants” at all. Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem to register for Caesar’s Internal Revenue Service. The pair had made their way to Bethlehem to register for a government census so that they could be assessed their tax bill.

The key excerpt comes in the Book of Luke, Chapter 2, (New International Version), which reads:

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register.

So, Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem, the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger because there was no guest room available for them.

Neither Joseph nor Marry were in town to “immigrate” to Bethlehem. They were there to be identified and registered by the government.

But even if Joseph and Mary did intend to move to Bethlehem in the Christmas story, they would still not be “immigrants” because their hometown of Nazareth and the Christmas story town of Bethlehem were still in the same country. You can only be an “immigrant” when you are leaving one country and entering another.

Further showing his unfamiliarity with the Christmas story, Dowd made the mistake of saying that Mary “gave birth in a manger.” That would have been quite a trick because a “manger” is the wooden box Baby Jesus was placed in after his birth. In fact, Mary gave birth in a stable, and then her baby was laid in a manger.

In addition, neither Joseph nor Mary were “Palestinian.” Both were Jewish people who were from Judea which was under the rule of the Roman Empire.

Liberals also co-opt the Christmas story in other ways. Joseph and Mary are often claimed to be “homeless” and “poor.” In truth, they were neither. They had a home in Nazareth, and Joseph was a carpenter for a living and had a middle-class lifestyle for his day.

So, just stop it. Joseph and Mary were not homeless. They were not trying to immigrate to Bethlehem. And they were not refugees from anything. They weren’t poor. And they weren’t Palestinians.

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