If you need a preview of what the country will look like if Democrats ever take back control of the federal government, let’s review the events that have taken place in Virginia over the past few days — a state now led by a CIA officer and sociopath named Abigail Spanberger. Since taking complete control of the state, Democrats have raced to eliminate penalties for a series of crimes, from illegal migration to robbery to DUI, for the benefit of the non-white population that commits most of them. In fact, DUIs will no longer carry mandatory prison time in the state, and Spanberger has issued an executive order ending police cooperation with ICE. So that’s a real win-win for Virginia’s illegal alien community.  Democrats have also moved to formalize anti-white discrimination in government contracting. They’re planning to raise taxes on basically everything — including sports facilities, dry cleaning, landscaping, home repairs, and digital services. They’re adding a new 20-cent tax to every single Amazon delivery and installing surveillance cameras across the state to generate more revenue by fining motorists. They’re also dramatically raising income taxes on wealthy individuals, who are mostly white, in order to fund free education for illegal aliens. They’ve commenced a new “Home-based Child Care Provider Start-Up Grants” program, so that more taxpayer money can be funneled to their own Somali “lear-ing centers.” They took one look at Minneapolis and decided, “We want that in our state.”  Here’s a quote from just one of the bills that Virginia Democrats have just introduced, to give you an idea. The Small SWaM Business Procurement Enhancement Program (the Program) is hereby established to facilitate the participation of small SWaM businesses in state procurement. The goal of the Program shall be the achievement of a 42 percent small SWaM business utilization rate. The bill continues: The Program shall include a small SWaM business set-aside for the purchase of goods, services, and construction by executive branch agencies and covered institutions. Purchases up to $100,000 shall be set aside for award to small SWaM businesses. You might be wondering, what’s a “SWaM?” And what’s a “Small SWaM?” Well, if you go back and look at the definitions, here’s what the bill tells you. ‘Small SWaM business’ means a small business “certified by the Department as being small, any subcategory of small, small women-owned, small minority-owned, or small service disabled veteran-owned.”  Meanwhile, “SWaM means small, women-owned, or minority-owned or related to a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business.” So this is one of those cases where they’ve clearly messed up the acronym. They’re talking about “Small Small minority owned businesses.” That’s what a “Small SWAM” is, if you spell it out. It’s not merely a “small minority-owned business.” It’s a “small small business,” whatever that means. No one ever accused Marxists of being intelligent. But the intent of the bill is clear: The state of Virginia wants more taxpayer money to flow to minorities — not because those minorities are the best candidates, but because they’re not white. If you’re a white guy who runs a large business, then you’re going to be shut out of contracts under $100,000. A “minority owned” business will take that contract from you — unless, of course, you want to hire them as a “subcontractor.” If you pay the racial equity fee, you can get the job. These are policies that, as contractors already know, are the norm in many cases. It’s already standard in federal contracting, thanks to the Civil Rights era. And now Virginia wants to drastically expand this kind of discrimination. It’s obviously bad policy that’s eventually going to lead to some very obvious, potentially catastrophic outcomes. And therefore, just to make sure they never lose power again, Virginia Democrats have also introduced legislation that would make it illegal to count machine-readable ballots by hand, as well as legislation that makes it much easier to obtain and submit absentee ballots without identifying yourself, along with legislation that allows people who are “incapacitated” — to the point that they need a conservatorship — to cast ballots. In other words, they’re enabling voter fraud on a massive scale. There are dozens more bills like this. The account “NOVA Campaigns” has cataloged many of them. If you lived in Virginia as recently as 2018 or so, all of this would’ve seemed hard to imagine. Democrats in the state were considered to be relatively moderate, all things considered. They certainly weren’t anywhere near as far-Left as, say, California. But that changed when every moderate in the Virginia state house was primaried in 2019, and in the state senate a few years later. The party is now under the complete control of California Marxists. And now that they’ve assumed power, they aren’t wasting any time transforming the entire state. Leftists continue to destroy the American entertainment industry with terrible writing and communist messaging, as we recently covered, pushing DEI and so on. But at the same time, no one takes these shows seriously anymore. They’ve become parodies of themselves. Look all over the internet, and you won’t find a single serious video praising the new “Star Trek” show, for example. All of the comments on the show’s YouTube premiere are negative, and very few people watched it. And that’s one of many, many indicators that wokeness, to a large degree, has peaked. Axios just asked two dozen prominent Democrats whether men can become women, and virtually all of them ducked the question. The party is moving away from the fringe, deranged messaging that cost them the last election. But in turn, they’re replacing wokeness with something much more deeply rooted, more insidious, and potentially much more harmful. And the state of Virginia is Exhibit A for what they’re planning. Democrats have decided to go all-in on anti-white hatred, which every institution in this country has deliberately fostered for at least 60 years. It’s not going away any time soon. As the Left moves away from transgenderism and some of the other excesses of the LGBT movement, they will double and triple down on the racial narrative. That narrative has proven far more enduring and far more effective. And we know this is a much broader, party-wide strategy based on how top Democrats are talking now. Michelle Obama, for instance, just stated that buying clothes from white designers and white-owned companies is wrong. You need to start practicing wardrobe equity, apparently. Watch: Michelle Obama says she is mindful to try to avoid white-owned brands and others also should be pic.twitter.com/5MqY5gaxUv — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 19, 2026 Credit: @EndWokeness/X.com The women all nod, as if it’s a completely normal thing to say. You’re not allowed to avoid “black-owned” businesses. If you’re an Uber driver and you try to avoid high-crime areas because you don’t want to get carjacked and shot, your account will be suspended for racism. But if any other race wants to openly discriminate against whites, the Democrat Party will support them, wholeheartedly. Yes, Democrats have been talking like this for a very long time. But unlike traditional wokeness, they’re doubling down on the rhetoric. Everywhere they seize power, they’re implementing an anti-white platform. That’s why Zohran Mamdani just appointed Afua Atta-Mensah to be the chief equity officer of New York City. The New York Young Republicans’ club has found several posts in which this woman openly attacks white people, which of course, is the entire reason Mamdani hired her. Credit: @AfuaAttaMensah/X.com In this post, for example, someone posted his thoughts on the television show “Succession.” And Mamdani’s new equity director responds by saying, “Tax them to the white meat.” Yes, “tax them to the white meat.” This woman also frequently talks about her “comrades,” and how they’re going to dismantle white supremacy and so on. Credit: @AfuaAttaMensah/X.com She also reposted and endorsed a message stating, “There’s NO moderate way to black liberation.” And guess what? None of this is scandalous in the Mamdani administration, because they all think this way. That’s why his platform called for raising taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods.” And as Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s Director of Tenants, put it, they’re going to “impoverish the white middle class.” They’re going to declare that homeownership is a “weapon of white supremacy.” Mamdani himself has confirmed all of this. Watch:  Zohran Mamdani was given multiple chances to walk back his language that he wanted to tax Whiter neighborhoods at a higher rate but he refused to walk it back. He wants higher taxes for affluent Whites. As I’ve said, he’s a communist.pic.twitter.com/yvsnHavzaS — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 15, 2025 Credit: @robbystarbuck/X.com It’s reminiscent of the defenses we saw concerning those South African “kill the Boer” chants. Remember how the New York Times ran cover for that? “What exactly did you mean when you said, “Kill the White Farmer?” “Oh, that’s just a common expression. It doesn’t mean anything.” Actually, when you come out and say that you’re going to raise taxes on whites, to their “white meat,” everyone understands exactly what you’re doing. The Left has committed to full-on racial warfare. And they’re going to win, using this strategy, unless the Republican Party stops playing the same game in reverse. A big part of the reason why Republicans lost the governor’s race in Virginia is that they selected an anti-Trump candidate from Jamaica, and patted themselves on the back for their commitment to “diversity.” She spent most of the campaign talking about being an immigrant who won in a black district, and about how she can win more of the black vote. Watch: Credit: Winsome Sears/YouTube.com If Republicans insist on running political campaigns on the Left’s terms, they will lose every time. And the reason this is a losing strategy is that the Left doesn’t actually care about the demographics of their candidate. Or at least, that’s not their primary concern, or even close to it. Instead, the Left is principally concerned with selecting candidates who will ruthlessly and efficiently disenfranchise, bankrupt, incarcerate, and ultimately destroy white conservative men.  That’s why they elected Joe Biden, who allowed FBI SWAT teams to arrest (and in some cases, kill) conservatives who offended the Left on the internet. It’s why they rallied around Abigail Spanberger, an extraordinarily dull and uncharismatic white woman. She promised to rig all of the government contracts against white men, to let the illegal aliens out of prison to take jobs from white men, to make it easier to rob white men, and so on. And now she’s delivering on those promises, along with every Democrat in Virginia. Left unchecked, this anti-white fervor will lead to cases like this one, out of Ontario, Canada. A 19-year-old woman who left her 14-month-old toddler unattended in a full bathtub, resulting in the child’s death, just received a mere 3-year prison sentence. That’s because, according to the judge, there was “systemic racism identified in the community” that “explain the woman’s conduct in this case.” Yes, “systemic racism” explains why the woman left her toddler alone in a full bathtub for 5 to 10 minutes, without any kind of bathing chair or support whatsoever, even though he couldn’t walk — and even though she had been warned by the government, on two occasions, to never leave her child unattended. Race, in effect, now excuses murder in Canada. The logic used in this case, of course, justifies reduced sentences for any homicide — including acts of violence committed by black criminals against whites, which are extremely common. In fact, 84% of interracial crimes involving black and white people are black-on-white crimes. In places like Canada — and Virginia, and New York, and Minneapolis, and every other jurisdiction controlled by Leftists — those anti-white crimes will soon be excused, if they aren’t being excused already. We cannot allow this to continue. But Democrats will continue racking up wins like this unless we start fielding candidates who will recognize what the Left is doing, call it out openly, and pledge to defend white men from the onslaught of racial discrimination that they will face if and when Democrats regain power. We have mostly defeated the trans agenda, which would have had civilization-ending consequences if we had failed. Now we have to confront the Left’s anti-white agenda — which, as the rise of Democrats across the country demonstrates, will be a much harder campaign to vanquish.

Wall Street ended higher on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 posting its biggest one-day percentage gain in two months, as investors were buoyed by news that a framework for an agreement on Greenland had been reached and the possibility of new U.S. tariffs on European allies had been averted. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite also enjoyed milestone days, gaining the most in percentage terms since January 5 and December 19, respectively. The advances stood in stark contrast to the previous day’s selloff, which had been the worst daily performance by all three benchmarks since October 10, and reflected U.S. President Donald Trump’s use of tariff threats to press his agenda before pivoting once the policy victory could be declared. “We have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st.” Wall Street benchmarks had been trading in positive territory at the time of the announcement, but soared in its wake as investors cheered the aversion of a potential new tariff war over the future of Greenland. “I don’t think who owns Greenland has any immediate impact on anything, in terms of economics,” said Jason Pride, chief of investment strategy & research at Glenmede. “What is the economic impact is whether we all start imposing tariffs on each other,” he added. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 588.64 points, or 1.21%, to 49,077.23, the S&P 500 gained 78.76 points, or 1.16%, to 6,875.62, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 270.50 points, or 1.18%, to 23,224.83. Before the mid-afternoon Greenland announcement, Wall Street had been broadly positive, as investors responded to Tuesday’s bruising selloff. However, while initial momentum had propelled benchmarks more than 1% higher, this energy had been ebbing by early afternoon. While light on details, Trump’s announcement allowed markets to focus on underlying strengths within the U.S. economy, including strong earnings from banks. The latest wave of results from lenders, including some of the largest superregional names, helped send the regional banking index soaring 4.7% to its highest close since November 2024. Citizens Financial Group surged 7.1% to a record closing high, on the back of a 31.7% jump in quarterly profit. Truist Financial Corp climbed 1.8% after recording higher interest income and fees from investment banking. All the S&P 500 subsectors rose, led by energy. It was buoyed by Halliburton, which gained 4.1% after earnings beat estimates, while EQT Corp and Expand Energy advanced 6.5% and 4.5% respectively, as natural gas prices hit a six-week high on cold weather. United Airlines rose 2.2% after the carrier issued an upbeat outlook for the current quarter and the full year. Other airlines benefited from the positive sentiment, with Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, and Southwest all gaining between 1.1% and 2.4%. Meanwhile, Netflix dropped 2.2% after reporting a muted outlook in its latest earnings. The streaming giant’s stock was also weighed by a pause in share buybacks to help fund the purchase of Warner Bros Discovery’s studio and streaming businesses. Kraft Heinz fell 5.7% after a regulatory filing showed Berkshire Hathaway may shed its 27.5% stake in the consumer company. (Reporting by Sruthi Shankar and Pranav Kashyap in Bengaluru and David French in New York; Additional reporting by Johann M Cherian; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri and Shilpi Majumdar)

A group of 37 cartel members accused of committing crimes across the United States was flown in from Mexico Tuesday night as the Trump administration looks to crack down on the criminal organizations and increase pressure on the Mexican government. Among the dozens of cartel members were human smugglers, arms traffickers, and alleged members of the Sinaloa Cartel, Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), Cártel del Noreste, Cártel del Golfo, Gulf Cartel, La Linea, and the former Beltrán-Leyva Organization, according to the Department of Justice. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration said that Mexico participated in the transfer of the fugitives, which was the largest of its kind and the third time the Mexican government has used its National Security Law to send fugitives north. Mexico’s cooperation signals a new willingness to crack down on cartel crimes alongside the United States. “This is another landmark achievement in the Trump Administration’s mission to destroy the cartels. These 37 cartel members – including terrorists from the Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG, and others – will now pay for their crimes against the American people on American soil. We are grateful for this collaboration with our international partners and will deliver swift, comprehensive justice for members of Foreign Terrorist Organizations who have spent years preying on the American people,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement after the operation. Credit: Department of Justice One of the individuals transferred was Maria Del Rosario Navarro-Sanchez, who allegedly provided CJNG with grenades and engaged in illegal immigrant smuggling, firearms trafficking, bulk cash smuggling, and narcotics trafficking for the cartel, according to the Justice Department. Additionally, Eduardo Rigoberto Velasco Calderon and Eliomar Segura Torres were brought over after they allegedly laundered drug money for the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion and the Sinaloa Cartel by transferring the funds through cryptocurrency transactions, according to the DOJ. Heriberto Hernández Rodriguez was also brought over from Mexico. He’s a member of Cártel del Noreste and is allegedly responsible for drug trafficking, kidnappings and assassinations, and procuring weapons for the cartel, according to the DOJ. The cartel member allegedly commanded hundreds of sicarios and ordered the killings of multiple people between 2006 and 2022. He also allegedly headed security for the cartel’s stash houses in Mexico, “which served as staging points for thousands of kilograms of marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine to be transported into the United States for distribution,” the DOJ said. The first Sinaloa cartel leader to be hit with terrorism charges, Pedro Inzunza Noriega, was also brought to the U.S. He also faces drug trafficking and money laundering charges. Inzunza Noriega and his son, Pedro Inzunza Coronel, allegedly worked together to produce and traffic tens of thousands of kilograms of fentanyl into the United States as they led “one of the largest and most sophisticated fentanyl production networks in the world,” according to the DOJ. Mexican authorities raided multiple drug sites allegedly controlled by the father and son duo in December 2024, seizing 1,500 kilograms of fentanyl, which was the largest known seizure of fentanyl in world history. The son was killed during a capture operation last year in Mexico, before his father was captured by the Mexican military weeks later. The transfer comes as President Donald Trump continues to threaten U.S. military action against cartels operating in Mexico. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke with Trump last week, saying such an operation would be “unnecessary.”

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Justice Department from searching Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s devices, which were confiscated under an FBI search warrant last week as part of a federal investigation into leaked classified materials. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Porter said on Wednesday that federal prosecutors cannot search Natanson’s devices as he weighs whether the government must turn the devices back over to the reporter, Reuters reported. Natanson and the Post argue that the FBI’s seizure of Natanson’s devices violate the First Amendment. Porter said that Natanson and the Post “demonstrated good cause in their filings to maintain the status quo” until he can fully review the case. The judge also ordered the government to respond to the Post’s legal filing by January 28, with a hearing scheduled for early next month, the Post reported. Journalists who publish classified information are protected under U.S. law, provided they obtained the classified material without coercion and did not ask anyone to break the law. The FBI seized two laptops, a phone, and a Garmin watch from Natanson as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of leaking classified government materials. Natanson is not the target of the investigation, which is focused on Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a contractor with top-secret security clearance who allegedly took classified intelligence reports to his home. Attorney General Pam Bondi said last week that Natanson was reporting on classified information that was “illegally leaked” by a “Pentagon contractor.” Bondi added that the accused leaker, whom she did not publicly identify, is in jail. Natanson focuses on “covering the Trump administration’s reshaping of the government” and was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team at the Post. She has described herself as “the federal government whisperer” and wrote in an article published last month that she connected with more than 1,000 sources within the Trump administration after posting her phone number to an online forum for federal government employees. She said federal workers who reached out to her often expressed frustration with the administration. The Washington Post condemned the federal government’s search of Natanson’s home and seizure of her devices. “The outrageous seizure of our reporter’s confidential newsgathering materials chills speech, cripples reporting, and inflicts irreparable harm every day the government keeps its hands on these materials,” the Post said. Last year, Bondi ended a policy implemented under former President Joe Biden that prohibited federal agencies from searching reporters’ devices to identify a leaker. Bondi said that under her leadership, federal authorities would search reporters’ devices and records only when necessary and after all other investigative avenues had been exhausted.

The House Oversight Committee voted to recommend holding Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for not complying with subpoenas related to the Jeffrey Epstein probe. The committee’s recommendation now goes to the full House for a vote, where the Republican majority seems inclined to vote yes. It is then up to the Trump Justice Department to decide if it will pursue a grand jury indictment against the Clintons, according to CBS News. The committee subpoenaed both Clintons after several photos of the former president on Epstein’s private island surfaced. In a January 13 letter to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, the Clintons said they have reason to believe the subpoenas are “legally invalid” and that they “tried to give [Comer] the little information [they] have.” “We’ve done so because Mr. Epstein’s crimes were horrific,” the statement read, adding that “There is no plausible explanation for what you are doing other than partisan politics.” Congress passed the “Epstein Files Transparency Act” in November by nearly unanimous margins in both chambers, and it was then signed into law by President Donald Trump. Democrats have argued that the pace of the files’ release has been too slow. In a lengthy markup hearing on Wednesday, there was a debate about the specifics of “acceptable terms,” as Comer phrased it, including whether or not there should be a recorded transcript of the Clintons’ depositions. “They have had five months to comply with this,” Comer said, noting the negotiations with the Clintons’ attorneys. “We expect to hear from Bill Clinton, he is not above the law,” he later said. Prior to the hearing, Comer wrote on social media that “the Clintons’ lawyers made an untenable offer: that I travel to New York for a conversation with President Clinton only. No official transcript would be recorded and other Members of Congress would be barred from participating. I have rejected the Clintons’ ridiculous offer.” “The Clintons’ latest demands make clear they believe their last name entitles them to special treatment,” the Kentucky congressman added. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), ranking member of the committee, argued that the “Clintons have not objected to a transcript.” “Let’s talk to President Clinton, and let’s get a transcript of it, let’s have the committee there and the staff there and move forward,” the California Democrat added. “They did object to a transcript Mr. Garcia, they did object to a transcript, they’re just now changing because they see that public opinion is not on their side,” Comer responded. Democrats on the committee said that the decision to hold the possibility of holding the Clintons in contempt is political targeting, arguing that the same standard was not honored for other subpoenas issued. “Attorney General Pam Bondi has violated the subpoena issued by this committee; we should be holding her in contempt to remain fair and to remain transparent, and so I ask that you do that if you want to be fair and care about justice for the victims here,” Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) said during the hearing. Comer responded, saying that ‘They have turned documents over,” and noted multiple times in the hearing that Bondi is expected to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next month, where she could be asked about the Epstein files process. Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) proposed an amendment to hold Bondi in civil contempt, saying she’s not against the effort to hold the Clintons “accountable” but argued that the contempt effort was being “fast-tracked.” Rep. Dave Min (D-CA) suggested civil enforcement of the subpoena instead, which Comer pushed back on, citing insight from legal counsel. “If this committee wants to be taken seriously, we would be addressing all the bad actors in this investigation, not cherry-picking them for political points. The Justice Department needs to be held accountable for their non-compliance and their lack of transparency,” Lee said. The amendments proposed by the Democrats ultimately failed to pass. Nine Democrats voted with Republicans to hold Bill Clinton in contempt. Three voted to hold Hillary Clinton in contempt. The Clintons did not respond to a request for comment.