Virginia Democrats scheduled a statewide vote that would allow lawmakers to temporarily draw a new House map as the party looks to do so ahead of the November midterms, mirroring a nationwide push by Republicans to redraw maps mid-decade in states like Texas and North Carolina.

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We have written about Epic City in Texas. It’s an enclave of radical Islamists who plan to enforce Sharia Law in a rather large community in Texas. They claim they won’t follow Sharia, but the imams teaching in Epic City are the most radical of imams. Amy Mek of the RAIR Foundation has done a […] The post Radical Islamists of Epic City Plan a Vero Beach Enclave appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Democrats and the media report that ICE targeted a child and used him as human bait. That is a lie. The father of the child abandoned him. The Report from Homeland Security On January 20, ICE conducted a targeted operation to arrest Adrean Alexander Conejo Arias, an illegal alien from Ecuador who was released into […] The post The Latest Lie About ICE: They Kidnapped a Child, Using Him as Bait appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Vice President JD Vance doesn’t believe there’s a need to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota for the time being, he told The Daily Wire on Thursday. Vance touched down in Minneapolis, meeting with federal immigration officers to assess the chaos on the ground. For weeks following the fatal shooting of an ICE watch activist, left-wing agitators have followed federal agents arresting illegal immigrants across the Twin Cities trying to thwart their actions. “I’ve tried to understand this as well as I possibly could, and my understanding is what invoking the Insurrection Act would allow the federal government to use the military for local law enforcement operations,” he told The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan. “Right now, we don’t think that we need that. Now, the president could change his mind, of course, things could get worse, but right now, we think that federal law enforcement officers can do the job of federal law enforcement. Now, what I do worry about … is if the chaos gets worse, if more and more ICE agents start getting assaulted, if other law enforcement officers start getting assaulted, that would be a real problem,” Vance said. In response to the rising tensions, President Donald Trump floated using the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to deploy the military and federalize the National Guard, to stop “professional agitators and insurrectionists” from attacking federal agents. Talk of invoking the Insurrection Act came after a federal agent shot an illegal immigrant who hit the agent with a snow shovel and broom handle as he tried to evade arrest. Last week, Trump said he didn’t “think there’s any reason right now” to use the 1807 law. .@VP tells @MaryMargOlohan that he and @POTUS don’t believe the Insurrection Act is necessary at this point in Minneapolis: “Right now, we don’t think that we need that. Now, the president could change his mind…but right now, we think that federal law enforcement officers… pic.twitter.com/f9sQzudwmc — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 22, 2026 Vance said the onus is on the Minneapolis Police Department, which he said has stand-down orders preventing local officers from assisting federal immigration agents. “But, again, we have so much federal law enforcement resources here right now, we have so many people here that we do not wanna have here. I do not want so many ICE officers in Minneapolis right now. I mean, good lord, it’s really freaking cold outside, but they’re here not even to enforce immigration laws, but to protect the people from the rioters. That’s an absurd state of affairs and we wouldn’t need it if we had a little bit more cooperation from the Minneapolis Police Department,” he said.

The following is an edited transcript excerpt from The Michael Knowles Show. * * * The United States is the big dog and President Trump doesn’t want anyone to forget it. Not the Europeans and not the Canadians, the “snow Mexicans” who live in America’s evil top hat up north. Credit: @CTVNews/YouTube.com I love this moment. Trump does sound a little tired. You can hear it. And honestly, that makes sense. The guy basically pulled an all-nighter, flew straight over to Davos, Switzerland, bouncing from country to country in a nonstop whirlwind. And even then, he still seemed more energetic than most of the other zombies wandering around Davos. I love the slight lethargy in his voice because it makes him sound like Don Corleone: You should be grateful. We never ask anything of you. You come here on the day my daughter is to be married, and you don’t even have the courtesy to call me godfather. You’ll remember I’ve been very good to you. I cannot grant your request. You tell me not to take Greenland? That I cannot do. I love this not just because I’m a descendant of the Mezzogiorno in America, but because it’s reality. This is how the world actually works. Not the fake world of the World Economic Forum, not the fantasy land of the United Nations, not the imaginary liberal international system built on polite lies and hollow pretenses. One of the biggest lies is that every country is basically equal. That we’re all the same. That has never been true. The world has never operated that way. It’s a fiction. A noble lie, but still a lie. WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show Trump is reminding people of the truth. And while people like me might describe him as talking like a mafioso, like Don Corleone, even that’s not quite right. He’s speaking like an emperor. More precisely, he’s speaking like the leader of a great power, which we are. And that’s a good thing because it is reality. Politics works better when you acknowledge reality, even when that reality is uncomfortable. Even when it offends your ideology, whether you’re on the Left or the Right. Especially when it offends your ideology. There are disparities in power between nations. Great nations pursue their interests. The Left hates admitting that. But it’s true. There’s also another reality people don’t like admitting: you can’t have unlimited inequality in a democratic nation and expect stability. The palace is never safe when the cottage is unhappy. That reality offends libertarians and free-market ideologues on the Right, but it’s still reality. And if you don’t deal with reality, you don’t flourish. You get revolutions. You get revolts. You get collapse. And reality doesn’t care whether you like it or not.