Last week, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem issued a joint statement asserting their exclusive authority over the Christian flock in the Holy Land. The letter condemned “Christian Zionism” as a damaging ideology that harms Christian unity and serves political agendas. This prompted a sharp rebuttal from U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee and an extensive deconstruction from evangelical circles. The original statement claimed that the historic Apostolic Churches are the sole representatives of the Christian faith in the region. It accused “local individuals” of advancing ideologies that mislead the public and interfere with the internal life of the church. The Patriarchs expressed concern that these individuals—likely referring to a massive delegation of 1,000 U.S. pastors that visited in December 2025—were being welcomed at official levels by the Israeli government, which they viewed as a threat to the indigenous Christian presence. U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee responded by rejecting the notion of “exclusivity” in representing the Christian faith. His response focused on several key points. Huckabee argued that no single sect should claim a monopoly on the Christian viewpoint, noting that the evangelical tradition is a “global and growing” force. He asserted that the foundation of Christianity is Judaism. He argued that if God could break His covenant with the Jewish people, Christians would have no assurance that He would keep His covenant with them. “The thought that God is even capable of breaking a covenant is anathema to those of us who embrace Holy Scripture as the authority of the church. If God can or would break His covenant with the Jews, then what hope would Christians have that He would keep His covenant with us?” he stated. Huckabee redefined the term, stating that a Zionist is simply someone who believes the Jewish people have a right to live in their ancestral homeland. He expressed confusion as to why anyone claiming the “moniker ‘Christian'” would not also be a Zionist. He urged the Patriarchs to focus on shared truths—such as the sanctity of life and marriage—rather than jurisdictional disputes. In response to the statement of non-evangelical churches in Israel, I issued the following. I hope you will read prayerfully. I love my brothers and sisters in Christ from traditional, liturgical churches and respect their views, but I do not feel any sect of the Christian… pic.twitter.com/jqohEWk0xJ — Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) January 20, 2026 A viral social media post by an Evangelical Christian further deconstructed the Patriarchs’ letter, arguing it was an “institutional-political statement” rather than a theological one. The critique followed several lines of reasoning. The post noted a “critical omission”: the Patriarchs’ letter cited only one verse (Romans 12:5) regarding unity, but failed to address the numerous scriptures regarding God’s covenant with Israel. The critique highlighted that the letter ignored Romans 11:29, which states God’s calling is “irrevocable,” and Jeremiah 31:35-37, which ties Israel’s existence to the permanence of the sun and stars. The deconstruction argued that the decline of the Christian population in the Holy Land is not caused by Christian Zionism. It provided statistics to shift the focus: In Bethlehem, the Christian population was 86% in 1950, but dropped to approximately 12% by 2026. The post cited economic collapse, Islamist intimidation, and property disputes under Palestinian Authority control—factors unrelated to Evangelical theology—as the primary causes of emigration. The post argued the letter was a response to “anxiety over loss of control.” By bypassing traditional hierarchies to meet with Israeli officials, external Christian groups threatened the Patriarchs’ “monopoly on the Christian voice.” The critique labeled the Patriarchs’ claim of “exclusive representation” as a “category error,” asserting that theological beliefs do not require ecclesiastical permission. The critique slammed the letter for being strategically vague. By not naming the “local individuals” or specific “activities,” the Patriarchs created an “ambient guilt” that allowed them to signal disapproval without having to engage in a documented theological debate. https://t.co/k9dJ8q9HYB — Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) January 19, 2026 While the Patriarchs appealed to historic institutional authority, Huckabee and the Evangelical response appealed to the literal interpretation of Biblical covenants, suggesting that the “unity” requested by the Jerusalem leaders was actually a demand for institutional submission.

Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day celebrating the legacy of a man who is famous in the United States for saying that we ought to judge people based on the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin. The story of the Civil Rights Act is one of Southern Democrats largely opposing the Civil Rights Movement. Ever since then, Democrats have been searching for the next Civil Rights Movement. We’ve seen many iterations of this over the course of the subsequent decades. We saw a quasi-civil rights movement pushed by the Left with regard to gender and sexuality, the idea that women had to be freed from the predations of the patriarchy, similar to the way that black people required freeing from the predations of Jim Crow. That, of course, was a bad analogy. Then we heard the same thing with regard to LGBTQ+-, that this was the new civil rights movement. But now, Democrats seem to have hit upon the idea that the new civil rights movement is illegal immigration. They believe illegal immigrants must be allowed to stay in the United States, and enforcement of the laws against illegal immigration is itself a form of white supremacy. The Democrats are stretching on this one because they’re running out of examples of true policy-driven widespread American racism. The demand is higher than the supply. Here’s one example: Eric Holder, the former attorney general of the United States, suggested on Monday that the Voting Rights Act is under a serious and abiding threat. Not only that, he suggested that there was the threat that America was about to be resegregated by the Trump administration, saying, “We are experiencing unprecedented mid-decade gerrymandering attempts designed to disproportionately disenfranchise black and brown voters. As the president desperately clings to power like an insecure dictator, there is a concerted effort to resegregate America.” There is not a “concerted effort to segregate America.” No one who is sentient in America believes that there is. No one is worried that black Americans are now going to be forced to drink out of different water fountains, or be forced to go to different schools, or that we are going to resegregate restaurants or anything like that. This is a wild overstatement. The reality is that the story of the post-Jim Crow racial situation in America was one of increasing good relations between the races. That was true all the way up to 2013, according to the polling data. A vast majority of both black Americans and white Americans, up until roughly 2013, thought that American race relations were improving steadily, and that they had improved markedly since the 1960s. Then we slipped into the BLM era and the late stages of the Obama presidency. That sank Americans’ perceptions of race relations. But that does not mean that black Americans are being held underfoot by white Americans, that white supremacy rules the roost these days. Thus, Democrats are looking for their new civil rights movement. They need another excuse for why they ought to be in charge, why they have the moral high ground. That’s a hard case to make. The Democratic Party has lost the moral high ground on a wide variety of issues: It has become not only the abortion-on-demand party, but the Celebrate Your Abortion party. The Democratic Party has become a party that cannot explain to you why a woman isn’t a man and a man isn’t a woman. It has become the party of full-scale open borders, and so now they are going to attempt to cram the illegal immigration issue into the civil rights discussion. And it won’t work.

A new poll indicates that the majority of Americans back President Donald Trump’s proposal to allow people to buy their own health insurance with direct funding from the government as an alternative to continuing Affordable Care Act subsidies. OnMessage Public Strategies and the Insurance Watchdog Coalition asked 1,000 likely voters nationally their thoughts on a variety of health care issues from Jan. 15-18, including 59% who said they would back Trump’s health care pitch. A memo from the polling firm described it as a “center-right coalition” with that 59% being made up of 82% of Republicans and 51% of Independents. Twenty-eight percent opposed, 13% did not know or did not have an opinion. Last week, Trump announced the “Great Healthcare Plan” pitch for Congress, as the president said in a video announcement last week that it “will truly make health care affordable again.” The webpage for the policy states that it “stops sending big insurance companies billions in extra taxpayer-funded subsidy payments and instead sends that money directly to eligible Americans to allow them to buy the health insurance of their choice.” Sixty-three percent of those polled said that health insurance companies should be the focus of policymakers “to solve the problems in health care” effecting them, with 13% saying pharmaceutical companies. There was also 97% consensus on having “more transparency for health insurance companies so they can’t use secret rules or computer programs to decide who gets care and when” and that “health insurance pricing needs to be made more transparent so that patients know the cost for every appointment, procedure or prescription drug, allowing patients to make informed choices, driving down costs overall.” In addition, 70% of those polled agreed with the premise that “health insurance companies should be forced to cover all drugs offered on the new government website without marking up the price,” in a specific reference to TrumpRx, a government website launched to help people find the lowest drug prices available for specific medications. Only 11% disagreed. “While many Democrats believe that the issue of health care offers them political inroads, Republicans and the Trump Administration have the chance to go on offense with meaningful policy wins for voters as it relates to health insurance and have begun to do so,” the OnMessage memo stated. Congress has been at odds over the Affordable Care Act subsidies that expired at the end of 2025, with the House voting to extend the subsidies for three years with the support of a handful of Republicans through a discharge petition. Talks have been murkier in the Senate on the continuation of the subsidies, as ACA plan premiums rose significantly for many, as many conservatives have argued it serves as evidence that Obamacare was not a fiscal sound policy to begin with. Politico reported Tuesday that a bipartisan health care deal was achieved on some aspects of the debate, but not the subsidies.

If you think you understand what an ICE officer faces on the ground in Minneapolis, you’re wrong. We spent the day with ICE officers in Minneapolis, where agents have been under siege for weeks. It was constant chaos. Anti-ICE agitators in the Twin Cities have grown increasingly brazen since the death of Renee Good, a protester who was fatally shot by an ICE officer after apparently striking an agent with her car, causing him to bleed internally. These protests have not distracted ICE from its mission, which has so far led to the arrest of roughly 10,000 illegal immigrants in Minnesota. “It’s not deterring us, we’re still doing [arrests],” Samuel Olsen, the director of the agency’s St. Paul office, told The Daily Wire. “We’ve had to just adjust and ensure that we have enough people out.” ICE’s targets that afternoon included illegal immigrants with drug convictions, assault charges, and convictions for driving while impaired. Some of the targets were released by local authorities who ignored ICE’s requests to hand them over to federal custody. As we departed the ICE office, a “spotter” watched on a nearby street corner as he notified a “network of people that are throughout the city,” Olsen said. The first target was quickly “blown” after outsiders spotted ICE, making it difficult to catch the illegal immigrant in his element, a local restaurant in St. Paul. It was the second time officers tried to catch him after their cover was blown. Still, Olsen said they wouldn’t give up on him. “It looks like there’s people almost everywhere looking for our vehicles, and we were spotted in the lot,” Olsen said. “We’re going to probably move to the next target and then just kind of keep this one still.” It was then on to the next arrest, but it wasn’t long after we headed that way that anti-ICE protesters began following close behind as they communicated with each other on radios. As we neared the target’s apartment, dozens of protesters had amassed on nearly every corner. They gathered by the convoy of officers as they blew whistles and honked their horns to alert the neighborhood that ICE was there. Even a school bus driver passing by was blowing a whistle. The officers decided they wouldn’t be stopped and walked in to knock on their target’s door, hoping to make a peaceful arrest. All the while, anti-ICE activists screamed nonstop insults like “coward” and “no one wants you here” at the officers. Still, the officers pushed through, but were unsuccessful in getting the target to answer the door. They couldn’t take any additional action because they didn’t have a judicial warrant. As the officers tried to leave the area, several anti-ICE agitators blocked them in with their cars. The situation soon grew tense as one of the officers got out and shouted orders at the agitators to move their cars back. “We’re blocked,” an officer said on the radio. “This is bad back here guys,” another could be heard on the radio. “We’re surrounded back here.” Amid the melee, one of the drivers, who was in a Tesla, hit one of the ICE officers’ cars before zooming off erratically. He later continued to follow the officers before he rolled down his window and shouted, “I’m illegal, come and get me.” Assaults on ICE officers have become all too normal, surging more than 1,000%, while death threats against them have increased more than 8,000%. In Minneapolis, protesters are showing up at nearly every raid. Before, “it was very rare … now, we’re making arrests of agitators daily,” Olsen said. “When we have to arrest a U.S. citizen, it really takes us away from our other mission.”

Like many young American girls, when I was a teenager, I hated myself and my body. I was depressed and anxious. Eventually, I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and anorexia. It goes without saying that I was no stranger to feeling like I wasn’t “me” in my own body. No one told me to get liposuction for my anorexia. But when I went to the counselor’s office for my first appointment for gender dysphoria, I left with a letter of approval for testosterone. Since I’ve detransitioned, life has felt like a roller coaster. The physical distress I experienced going through hormone “therapy” and multiple surgeries that drastically changed my body is only one portion of how horrific it truly is to not only attempt something impossible by supposedly transitioning from one gender to another, but to return to identifying with reality. I was called a patient, but from start to finish, I was never treated like one. Being a patient requires informed consent and the exhaustion of all avenues of care before resorting to the most drastic option. And yet, from the start, doctors were ecstatic to accelerate my so-called transition without once suggesting mental health treatment. Instead, a counselor suggested almost immediately that I needed to be put on wrong-sex hormones. When I raised any suspicion that this was not the right choice for me, the doctors were far from supportive and made me feel like my voice didn’t matter anymore. I was praised for raising my voice and embracing who I thought I was, but only when I identified as trans. Yet when I voiced a dissenting opinion on the same topic, the response was underwhelming and even shame-inducing. For years, gender clinics, medical associations, and activist groups have driven the conversation around so-called “gender-affirming care,” but there has never been any long-term testing done to see what the implications of these treatments are on minors, especially the ones still going through puberty. Any time a question was raised as to whether this was safe, or if there could be a possibility of trans-identifying minors changing their minds down the road, it was diminished as “rare” and accused of putting politics over the mental health of these children. The Trump administration has been the first presidential administration to sound the alarm on these harmful practices. For the first time, federal agencies started to ask the questions that detransitioners had been trying to warn the public about: are these “treatments” actually safe, or are they doing more harm than good? In his first year back in office, President Trump has elevated the voices of detransitioners like me. Last summer, I had the honor of testifying in front of the Federal Trade Commission, sharing my experience of how I was essentially forced into “gender-affirming care,” instead of the mental health care and therapy I desperately needed. Only a few years ago, my voice would have never been heard in the federal landscape. Gender medicine has thrived in a system with zero accountability. I am proud to be at the forefront of a movement that is finally asking for the kind of accountability that is long overdue. Detransitioners like me have been gaslit into believing we are anomalies, and that if doctors hadn’t taken action, we would’ve been suicidal or worse, dead. What the mainstream doesn’t want you to know is that my mental health issues didn’t magically disappear overnight once I began transitioning — they actually got worse. Yet the doctors who led me down this path have faced zero opposition and zero accountability — until now. President Trump and his administration have been a disruptor to the system of gender ideology since day one. His administration has led the charge to make sure that the doctors, experts, and gender-ideology apologists finally answer the questions that have been stamped down, argued as ridiculous, and smeared by those who chose ideology over reality. One of the first actions President Trump took upon being back in the Oval Office was signing an executive order to protect minors from receiving any sex-changing surgery or procedure. This executive order also directs the Department of Health and Human Services to prevent taxpayer dollars from being used to subsidize irreversible medical harm to children. HHS’s proposed guardrails bar hospitals that perform “gender-affirming care” from participating in Medicare and Medicaid. Late last year, HHS also released a peer-reviewed, evidence-based review concluding pediatric gender interventions lack long-term safety data and do not meet professionally recognized standards of care. Secretary Kennedy formally declared that these dangerous procedures were far outside acceptable medical practice. This bold move was the nail in the coffin of the claim that “the science is settled” and got gender medicine back on track based on evidence, ethics, and informed consent. Detransitioners like myself are grateful for the actions taken by the Trump administration that will ensure the safety and well-being of the next generation. While my detransitioner friends and I may not have been protected, I know that the work we have put in — in speaking out, standing up, and tirelessly testifying across the country — will have a meaningful impact in protecting kids who are struggling with their mental health. I will continue to fight for the childhoods of every gender-confused kid out there so that they are protected from fear, coercion, and medical harm. * * * Prisha Mosley is an Independent Women ambassador and detransitioner. Independent Women Features, the storytelling platform of Independent Women, featured Prisha’s story as part of its “Identity Crisis” docu-series, which highlights the irreversible harms of gender ideology. Prisha’s story, including her pregnancy journey, was documented in two parts, which can be found here and here. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.