Forget January 6. It turns out January 7 might go down as the date when insurrection really arrived in America — not from the MAGA right, but from the anti-Trump left.

In the aftermath of the fatal shooting Wednesday in Minneapolis of a woman who rammed an ICE agent with her vehicle, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced at a press conference that he had issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard to mobilize to “protect Minnesotans” from “rogue ICE agents.”

It’s an almost unbelievable series of statements from a sitting governor. If taken at face value, it amounts to a threat to use the Minnesota National Guard for an anti-federal insurrection If Walz actually follows through with that threat, it will be an open act of sedition.

In that case, the moderate response would be to immediately arrest Walz, federalize the Minnesota National Guard, and declare martial law..

The lawlessness of the leftist mob is to be expected at this point. That’s not to say they shouldn’t all be rounded up and prosecuted at least as severely as the Biden administration prosecuted J6ers. But something must also be done about the Democrat politicians who are inciting violence and, in Walz’s case, flirting with insurrection.  They all need orange jumpsuits.

Thanks to a 23 year-old kid with a cell phone exposing the multi-billion Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota – Nick Shirley -- the Trump administration's tactical information operation delivered a surgical "truth bomb" on the Somali-Ilhan Omar-Tampon Tim Walz scams, triggering a nationwide uproar.

Labeled “Traitor Tim” by Elon Musk, Walz’s political career is toast. All signs suggest this informational-warfare playbook is now being refined, with California in the crosshairs.

The Democrats have been obsessing over the events of Jan. 6 for five straight years and have campaigned on their phony “insurrectionist” theme for all that time while offering precious little in the way of ideas and policies that would improve the lives of Americans.

Their “January 6 Committee” was a one-sided farce where grandstanders like former GOP Reps. Cryin' Adam Kinzinger (IL-16) and Liz Cheney (WY-AL) preened for the cameras in what they hoped would be their 15 minutes of fame.

Thousands were jailed and woefully overcharged for their part in the protests, and Democrats still push false storylines to this day (like the one alleging that law enforcement officers were killed at the Capitol, when none were).

The Trump administration isn’t taking today’s fifth anniversary lying down, and on today, Jan.6, 2026, they issued a new website disputing many of the Democrats' claims and slamming then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-11) for not securing the Capitol.

First Syria, then Iran, and now Venezuela. Slowly, but surely, Vladimir Putin’s hopes of creating an alternative network of alliances to challenge American hegemony is disintegrating.

For the past two decades, Putin has worked steadily to build Moscow’s military and trade ties with Caracas as part of a deliberate attempt to extend the Kremlin’s sphere of influence into America’s backyard. An added bonus of Putin’s long-standing support for Maduro was that it helped to sustain the anti-American regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua, with Caracas supplying them with everything they need, from oil to food.

China, a country Putin sees as a key partner in his burgeoning axis of autocratic powers, also enjoyed close ties with the Maduro regime. Now that the Chavist era in Venezuela has finally drawn to a close following US president Donald Trump’s dramatic military intervention at the weekend, Russia faces the very real prospect of witnessing the collapse of all three of their Latin American allies.

Viewed from this context, Trump’s decision to remove Maduro looks more like a geopolitical masterstroke than simply a brazen bid to seize control of Venezuela’s oil riches. With Maduro and his wife safely locked up in a Brooklyn jail, Caracas’s ability to function as an epicenter for anti-US activity for Russia and China has ended.

President Trump’s push to take control of Venezuela and its oil resources under Operation Absolute Resolve is good news for the United States and Europe, and bad news for Cuba, Russia, China, and Iran: America is reclaiming strategic ground.

It matters because the world is entering an era of unprecedented energy demand driven by artificial intelligence, data centres, and digital infrastructure. Reliable, affordable energy is now a prerequisite for technological leadership. Nations that fail to secure supply will fall behind.

China currently receives the majority of Venezuela’s crude exports. US leverage over Venezuelan exports  disrupts China’s ability to secure discounted crude and reinforcing America’s position in global energy markets.

This shift also weakens China’s broader resource strategy in South America, where it is seeking critical minerals for electric vehicles and AI technologies.

But the ripple effects extend beyond China: