The State of Minnesota, alone (so far) among the fifty States, is making insurrection and rebellion against the United States. Evidence for this abounds and is conclusive. Astonishingly, no other State in the Union is playing nearly so active a role against the enforcement, deferred and hence long overdue, of American immigration law. So two questions present themselves. First, why did Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), various State officials, and at least one U.S. Senator “do it”? Second, will any other State governor follow Gov. Walz’ lead? If not, what are they waiting for?

State of affairs in Minnesota

Minnesota first exploded onto the nationwide consciousness when the Trump administration discovered massive fraud in that State. Did President Joe Biden lay the groundwork by planting a squatter colony of Somalis in Minnesota’s largest city? (Never mind the dubious legitimacy of the Biden presidency; what is at issue here are his acts regarding immigration.) To say that would be too easy – because the existence of that squatter colony predates Biden. That squatter colony prevailed on the Governor to alter the State flag to resemble that of the Somali “Republic.”

CNAV has taken note of the fraud before. At the time (January 4), reliable estimates put the total fraud at $8 billion. Fresh estimates put the total at $20 billion. In fact, President Trump now estimates that the fraud amounts to $100 billion – from Minnesota alone. He further estimates that he’ll find higher numbers of such fraud in California and “other Democrat-run States.”

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115951852007320342

At first Gov. Walz chose not to run for reelection again. But that did not mean he was standing down, Incredibly, evidence has now surfaced that he is running an insurrection against the federal presence in his State’s largest city. In this, Walz has the apparent support of Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis.

Evidence for the Minnesota insurrection

Toward the end of last week and over the weekend, the most shocking evidence to date began to emerge. This evidence shows – conclusively – that government employees, in key positions, are actively supporting criminal behavior. This demonstrably includes:

1. Obstruction of justice,

2. Stalking and attempted murder of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and even

3. Stalking and attempted murder of journalists sympathetic to the rule of law.

CNAV obtained this evidence largely from The Gateway Pundit. Among other things, James O’Keefe, head of O’Keefe Media Group, and some of his associates barely escaped with their lives after an incident that included stalking and pelting with “ice bottles”: literally, bottles that someone filled with tap water, then froze.

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015202133721723350

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015484853949493332

(Note: PV means Project Veritas, the outfit O’Keefe founded, the board of which later expelled him.)

On Saturday, O’Keefe released this update:

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015260124932448533

Furthermore:

Elements of the Minnesota National Guard appeared at a federal facility – to distribute snacks and hot drinks to anti-ICE demonstrators. They even donned bright reflective vests to distinguish themselves from ICE agents. Recall that Gov. Walz activated the Guard a few weeks ago. He said then, “These are our soldiers!” That implied that he was ready to order them into direct military action against federal officers – or, if need be, troops. That, mercifully, has not happened yet. But until now Guard elements have literally parked their fighting vehicles here and there and done – nothing.

https://x.com/anthonycabassa/status/2015515107363549485

The Signal Chats

Journalist Cam Higby successfully infiltrated several chat threads on the secure small-message-service app called Signal. These threads speak of driver’s license checks – which only employees of or connected to Divisions of Motor Vehicles can run. Here is the thread (odd numbers only):

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093523733733474

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093539210703227

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093635096658172

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094214074237372

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094229484138636

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094253580370019

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094463425581087

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094478873231707

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094493985345728

The thread contains screenshots and screen recordings of dialogue, maps, and even a manual for license place checking. Tellingly, Mr. Higby flatly accuses “local police” of “cooperating” with this highly organized group.

Perhaps worst of all, Higby discovered a “mutual aid” chat, the administrator of which said “it was a vetted chat for teachers.” To join, he would have had to specify his real name and relationship to a school.

What, CNAV would like to know, does the National Education Association have to say about this? If the President General of NEA does not sanction the Minnesota chapter, then the NEA is compromised.

Members of these chats delete all messages every twenty-four hours, in an attempt to avoid tracing. But Higby and others have managed to identify some of the administrators, despite their use of code names.

https://x.com/jimmy_rustlin/status/2015105497968386155

https://x.com/JamesHartline/status/2015246369536262465

A former Special Forces warrant officer (ranking higher than a sergeant major but lower than a second lieutenant) weighed in. Here is the relevant excerpt:

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.

https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540

CW4 Schwalm called for an active, frontal, in-their-faces response, 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.

Ah – ahem – about those casualties

A few words are in order about the “casualties” that the insurrectionists seem willing to “absorb.” Renee Good, of course, tried to ram an ICE agent with her vehicle. For that, per his training, he fired his service weapon, wounding her fatally.

Alex Pretti, for his part, started an altercation with ICE agents, then whipped out a pistol. And the gun went off.

The agents opened fire, killing him then and there.

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2015115351797780500

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2015118344421060849

A search of his person revealed two oversized magazines, fully loaded.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115951636521315703

Bodycam footage is available and will no doubt prove probative in the agents’ favor.

https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2015841395613806640

If CW4 Schwalm is correct in his metaphor, then those two more than deserved what they got. They deliberately committed “suicide by Fed” to make martyrs of themselves. (Did Alex Pretti fire his gun on purpose, perhaps?)

Of further interest is the case of ChongLy Thao. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has accused ICE of “drag[ging] this “citizen in the snow in his underwear.” Gateway Pundit fact-checker Antonio Graceffo has the straight scoop. To summarize:

1. The total elapsed time, from entry into the Thao home to his eventual return to the home, was two hours.

2. Thao resembles an illegal alien convicted as a sex offender. Had Thao cooperated and submitted to a biometric check, ICE could have cleared him instantly. But he refused to cooperate. Result: a brief trip “downtown,” a fingerprint check – and eventual exoneration. Also of note: the actual suspect once boarded in the Thao home.

The Feds are on top of it

Happily, this federal government is anything but lazy. As soon as Higby dropped his seventeen-part thread, the FBI opened an investigation. From other influencers, CNAV learns that the members of the Signal chat panicked.

SIGNAL IS NOT SECURE. I worked in communications. Once they figured out where we were, it’s only a matter of time. Flan has been exposed. We’re all [obscenity]. I need to leave this state… I have contacts in Cuba.

“Flan” would be Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D-Minn.).

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015579685581717852

The Feds are in the chat! The Feds are in the chat!

What followed that breathless chant was an equally breathless discussion on:’

1. How quickly everyone could get out of the country, and

2. Where they could go.

The chat members mentioned a network of safe houses in Canada.

On the afternoon of January 25, President Trump posted a message. In six paragraphs (over two Truths!), plus an ordered list of four entries, he laid down a set of expectations. He addressed this to “Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, and EVERY Democratic Governor and Mayor in the United States of America.”

1. Governor Walz and Mayor Frey should turn over all Criminal Illegal Aliens that are currently incarcerated in their State Prisons and Jails to Federal Authorities, along with all Illegal Criminals with an active warrant or known Criminal History, for Immediate Deportation.
 
2. State and Local Law Enforcement must agree to turn over all Illegal Aliens arrested by Local Police.
 
3. Local Police must assist Federal Law Enforcement in apprehending and detaining Illegal Aliens who are wanted for Crimes.
 
4. Democrat Politicians must partner with the Federal Government to protect American Citizens in the rapid removal of all Criminal Illegal Aliens in our Country. Some Democrats, in places like Memphis, Tennessee, or Washington, D.C., have done so, resulting in safer streets for ALL.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115958124569932540

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115958123338296139

A middle-school teacher or principal couldn’t have done better. Early the next morning he announced sending his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minneapolis to take personal command. He also announced investigations into:

• The Somali fraud, and

• Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and how she got so rich so quickly in office.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115961647505369753

Three hours later, Trump apparently received a contrite telephone call from Walz, who spoke of “work[ing] together” with Trump.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115962378381121858

Six hours later, Trump announced a similar call with Mayor Frey.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115963713974102712

But are the Minnesota authorities sincere?

Lay aside for a moment that Lt. Gov. Flanagan might be directly involved. When will Gov. Walz withdraw certain pending complaints from the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota? The ranking judge of that court is ordering the acting head of ICE to appear before him, per Associated Press.

However, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Judicial Circuit has stayed earlier orders restricting ICE activities in Minneapolis.

More to the point, Rogan “DC Draino” O’Handley published this pithy analysis of the Signal chats from Cam Highby. He reached the same conclusions others have – that access to license-plate databases proves the involvement of Minnesota DMV employees. Then he alleged something further:

Their Signal chats have elected leaders and exposed money trails from Canada - this proves foreign involvement.

https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/2015832996209701334

The last twenty-four hours (since the alleged Walz call) have seen some remarkable shifts in attitude. Now Minnesota State Police are moving in to arrest those involved in riots and other altercations.

If this isn’t a “Potemkin display,” Gov. Walz might have saved his skin. But what about Lt. Gov. Flanagan? She deserves investigation – along with Minnesota DVS (Driver and Vehicle Services). The Signal chats provide probable cause for such investigations.

Furthermore, the Trump administration should keep its Argus eyes on every other:

• Large city in a blue State (like New York City and Richmond, Virginia), and

• City, in a red or blue State, having blue governance (like Dallas, Houston, and especially Austin, Texas).

The Minnesota insurrection might – or might not – be over. America doesn’t need another.

Link to:

The article:

https://cnav.news/2026/01/27/news/minnesota-insurrection/

Video:

Trump Truth estimating $100 billion in fraud in Minnesota alone:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115951852007320342

James O’Keefe having to flee Minneapolis:

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015202133721723350

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015484853949493332

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2015260124932448533

Minnesota National Guard delivering food to protesters:

https://x.com/anthonycabassa/status/2015515107363549485

The Cam Higby thread:

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093523733733474

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093539210703227

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015093635096658172

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094214074237372

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094229484138636

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094253580370019

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094463425581087

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094478873231707

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015094493985345728

More examination of the Higby Signal chats:

https://x.com/jimmy_rustlin/status/2015105497968386155

https://x.com/JamesHartline/status/2015246369536262465

CW4 Schwalm’s analysis:

https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540

The Alex Pretti altercation:

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2015115351797780500

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2015118344421060849

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115951636521315703

https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2015841395613806640

Signal chat members panic upon exposure:

https://x.com/camhigby/status/2015579685581717852

Trump Truths: demands of Gov. Walz, then the contrite calls:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115958124569932540

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115958123338296139

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115961647505369753

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115962378381121858

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115963713974102712

DC Draino’s brief analysis:

https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/2015832996209701334

Declarations of Truth:

https://x.com/DecTruth

Declarations of Truth Locals Community:

https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/

Conservative News and Views:

https://cnav.news/

Clixnet Media

https://clixnet.com/

Facta, non verba. Latin scholars can translate that phrase immediately, if they watch out for false cognates. Deeds, not words. Some, preferring to translate pithy Latin phrases into complete sentences, express it as: Actions speak louder than words. Either way, this describes the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Past Presidents have delivered largely empty rhetoric, to deceive the people as to their competence or their intentions. Many heads-of-state also deliver empty rhetoric, as a bluff. Donald J. Trump does not bluff. And many bad actors, accustomed to those past Presidents and their empty words, are finding that out the hard way.

I am a Tartar. When I say I’ll do a thing, I’ll do it. And when I say I’ll see a thing done, it will be done.

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Trump takes note of systematic welfare fraud

Over the long Christmas break, news broke about a breathtaking system of fraud running out of Little Mogadishu. Which is to say, the Somali colony in Minneapolis, Minnesota. That same colony prevailed upon that State’s feckless governor to adopt a modified Somali flag as the new State flag. Residents of rural Minnesota must surely have wondered what other favors Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) would do for Little Mogadishu.

Last December, they found out. Colony residents have built a network of babysitters and empty warehouses labeled as daycare centers. (One has a famously misspelled name.) These establishments have systematically bilked the State and federal governments, by billing for public daycare services they had no intention of providing. When certain influencers (like Nick Shirley) filmed some of those empty warehouses, colonists literally drove their children in, for show. Then they took those children in the front door and out the back.

That’s not even the worst of it. Other such establishments have billed the State and feds for special education services (read: Autism Spectral care). Those services never happened, either. This happened through the Medicaid program, which States administer – but the feds subsidize.

This has resulted in $8 billion in improper payments, i.e., fraud. Any other President, Republican or Democrat, would let the State handle it. Donald Trump has frozen all Medicaid payments until the State cleans that mess up. Make that unless and until, because that cleanup might have to wait for another State-wide election.

Not Minnesota only

Nor is Minnesota the only State involved. Trump himself has taken note of more such fraud in California – a situation he describes as worse.

There is more FRAUD in California than there is in Minnesota, if that is even possible. When you add in Election Fraud, then they are tied for first. Two Crooked Governors, two Crooked States!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115814835032750025

Another influencer, copying Nick Shirley, discovered the same scam in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio has a Republican governor – a RINO governor. Where has he been? Mike DeWine has governed Ohio for years. He should have discovered the problem in his State as soon as the Biden administration planted the Somali colony in that city. (“President” Joe Biden might have planted many of these colonies, if they are not of longer standing. But State governors are responsible for policing their States. Tim Walz no doubt took the oldest and most subtle kickback known to machine politics: votes. Mike DeWine has no such excuse.)

Therefore, Trump presumably ordered the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to suspend payments to California, Ohio, and many other States. He did this on the reasonable theory that the government should not continue to give money away for no good reason.

Apologists for such programs are already accusing Trump of seizing upon an excuse to cancel the programs involved. But that illustrates the problem with such programs. Their design inherently allows fraud. Whether through negligence, recklessness, knowledge – or intent – these flawed program designs have the same results. Trump is doing exactly the right thing in suspending payment as soon as he had definite grounds to do so. (Furthermore, many Minnesota residents agree with him.)

Trump and the “Donroe Doctrine”

As remarkable as this is, the weekend operation in Venezuela surprised even Trump’s most ardent supporters. The Washington Free Beacon has details. At about 2:00 a.m. Venezuelan Time, the first airstrikes on and near Caracas, the capital, knocked out electric power. (Venezuelan Time is the same as Atlantic Standard Time in North America, or one hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time.) So began an operation involving 150 aircraft, plus the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group. That task force has been operating in the Caribbean since November 16, 2025. Among its operations: destroying drug-laden fast boats, and seizing tankers laden with Venezuelan oil.

Those seizures were a distraction. The real targets were Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, both of whom were already under indictment.

The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement. Details to follow. There will be a News Conference today at 11 A.M., at Mar-a-Lago. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115830428767897167

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115832088990838303

Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted in the Southern District of New York. Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States. They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts. On behalf of the entire U.S. DOJ, I would like to thank President Trump for having the courage to demand accountability on behalf of the American People, and a huge thank you to our brave military who conducted the incredible and highly successful mission to capture these two alleged international narco traffickers.

https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/2007428087143686611

The indictment, on various money laundering and drug trafficking charges, dates back to March 2020 and the first Trump administration.

The Maduros are already on U.S. soil, and presumably in the Brooklyn Detention Center. Trump has pledged to run Venezuela until such time as he can hand power to good actors, not bad actors.

President Trump needs to stay engaged in Venezuela to make sure that Maduro’s cronies, who are equally guilty of any crime that he is, are also pushed out of power. Maduro’s cronies may want to stay and fight as they don’t have too many places to run. The key to success going forward is how the Trump team works with both the Maduro cronies—not just the vice president but also the defense and interior ministers and to get these criminals an exit strategy—and also with the opposition, the legally elected leaders of Venezuela.

R. Adm. Mark Montgomery USN (ret.), for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Those opposition leaders – María Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez – have already expressed their appreciation for the operation. That, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo called the operation an application of the “Donroe Doctrine.” That’s a reference to the original Monroe Doctrine, according to which the Western Hemisphere is our Hemisphere.

Reaction – and just concern

Reaction to the Venezuelan operation has been largely predictable. Most Democrats in Congress have condemned Trump for laying on the raid. They said Trump exceeded his lawful authority and acted contrary to American interests. The New York Times and others actually call it “illegal” and “unwise.” Similar statements come from Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jin-ping of communist China. They also came from the Presidents of Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico. (But from Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa came high praise. Argentine President Javier Milei similarly praised Trump, consistent with Milei’s history in that regard. Source: U.S. News and World Report.)

Lay aside for a moment that sentiment in Little Caracas in Miami, Fla., and inside Venezuela itself, is mostly celebratory.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115833546671458707

Lay aside even that Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) also sounded a somewhat positive, though cautious, note.

The arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, whose criminal activity and destructive, brutal rule drove his nation into endless pain and poverty, was long overdue. I share my Venezuelan American constituents’ hope that his arrest will allow for a swift, democratic transition of power. However, I am deeply concerned that by leaving Maduro’s regime in place and failing to execute a negotiated transition of power in advance, this arrest will fail to alleviate the suffering of the Venezuelan people or restore the rule of law.

Moving Venezuela from one unelected regime to another, run by Donald Trump, is wildly inappropriate. He should entrust this responsibility to Venezuela's legitimate democratic leaders, Edmundo González and María Corina Machado, who won a democratic election overwhelmingly.

I hope Maduro will be brought to justice not only for drug trafficking, but for his crimes against humanity. He stole the 2024 Venezuela presidential election and independent investigators have accused him of extrajudicial murder, torture, systematic corruption, and theft of Venezuela’s wealth.

I fear that President Trump has no concern for democracy in Venezuela and no plan for achieving it. He has failed to explain to Congress or the American people how he plans to prevent the regime from reconstituting itself under Maduro’s cronies or stop Venezuela from falling into chaos. His address to the nation was focused on Venezuelan oil and made no mention of Venezuela's democratic leaders.

One thing is clear: Venezuela is extremely unstable and in a dangerous condition. I urge President Trump to immediately restore Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans until lawful governance and stability are restored. The Administration must explain their plan for the day after to Congress and the American people.

https://x.com/DWStweets/status/2007515364553568526

She happens to have a large part of Little Caracas in her district. Though CNAV must protest her tone, she raises some of the best arguments that have come from the Democratic side. True, she leaves out the minor difficulty of Trump not having grounds to depose Acting President Delcy Rodriguez – yet. (Already she has taken a defiant tone, and Trump has answered that tone.) But CNAV shares her concerns – and her apparent confidence in Sr. González and Sra. Machado.

Justification

As mentioned, lay all that aside. Consider instead the good reasons for President Trump to do what he has done so far.

The late Ayn Rand proposed four criteria that would justify the invasion of a dictatorial regime on humanitarian grounds alone:

• Execution without trial – or at least, execution without a fair trial,

• Detention without charge and especially without a time limit,

• Restrictions or outright prohibitions against ex-migration, and

• Censorship.

Any country that does all four, is a human lobster trap. So any freedom-loving people would be within their rights to crack that trap open. Venezuela under Maduro did all four of these things, AND he flat-out ignored the results of the last election. Which is what Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was talking about.

In addition, the United States has direct casus belli for going to war with Venezuela. Remarkably, Erick-Woods Erickson laid out some of that casus belli:

For those interested, Nicolas Maduro lost his election in Venezuela and refused to give up power. In so doing, he invited Iranian militants and Hezbollah operatives into Venezuela and gave them land to set up shop. He also invited in the Chinese, Iranian, and Russian navies to train his navy for a planned military operation into neighboring Guyana to capture American oil fields. Previously, Hugo Chavez invited in American oil companies to Venezuela, had them build up Venezuela’s oil production capacity, then promptly took over the oil fields, threw out the foreigners, and forced the locals to keep working.

Maduro kept the policy and used the money to help fund Cuba, Iran, and provide China with oil, all while funding global narco-trafficking operations. He is not the legitimate leader of Venezuela…

Add to it that we now know, positively, that Maduro’s Venezuela interfered in the Election of 2020. That’s why Trump went to war.

Oil fields in Venezuela and Guyana might have been good enough cause without the election interference. But the election interference is the true cause.

What Trump should do next

Again, Donald Trump gave us deeds, not words. He must follow these deeds with more, and decisive, deeds.

First, Trump should explain a plan for “the day after.” But as for Temporary Protected Status, CNAV would recommend expedited vetting of all existing refugees from that country. Some of those people, especially some of the young men, are bad actors. (Does the name Tren de Aragua mean anything to anyone?)

Second, Trump should put forth a plan to establish the one cultural import of any value from France: all-paper voting.

What better reason to establish Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps programs in public high schools, than to have a ready cadre of disciplined – and trustworthy – student pages to count ballots at the precinct on Election Night? Or even to provide crowd and queue control during voting hours? (Managing the division of the electorate into the A-Js and the K-Zs might become their prime duty.)

Third, given the attitudes that Presidents Putin and Xi have expressed, Trump should move smartly to acquire Greenland. Until that happens, we risk letting Russia turn the Arctic Ocean into Nash Okean (Our Ocean – in Russian).

Fourth, the United Nations (which thinks of itself as the Anti-Empire) also stuck its nose in. So it’s time to get the U.S. out of the U.N. and get the U.N. out of the U.S.

This is what Making America Great Again really means.

Link to:

The article:

https://cnav.news/2026/01/04/editorial/talk/trump-delivers-deeds-not-words/

Trump’s Truth about fraud in California:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115814835032750025

Trump Truths and a YouTube video about the Venezuela operation:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115830428767897167

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115832088990838303

Attorney General Bondi’s notes about the Maduro indictments:

https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/2007428087143686611

Embedded TikTok video showing a celebration in Little Caracas, Miami, Fla.:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115833546671458707

Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) expresses concern:

https://x.com/DWStweets/status/2007515364553568526

Article and video: Election 2020 Vindication

https://cnav.news/2025/11/27/accountability/executive/election-2020-vindication/

Article and video: France votes on paper; why don’t we?

https://cnav.news/2023/06/24/editorial/talk/france-votes-paper/

Declarations of Truth:

https://x.com/DecTruth

Declarations of Truth Locals Community:

https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/

Conservative News and Views:

https://cnav.news/

Clixnet Media

https://clixnet.com/

CBS News confirmed Friday (December 5) that the Supreme Court of the United States will revisit the birthright citizenship question. Four Justices, at least, have decided that the Court must reexamine an issue many thought the Court had settled. Their vote to grant review is the more remarkable, because panels in two Circuit Courts of Appeals both upheld the status quo on birthright citizenship. When the circuits don’t split, the Institutionalists are reluctant to move against them. Four Justices are ready to do so. The question now becomes, how can the Trump administration find a fifth Justice to agree with these four? And: can they do it without Congressional action?

Review of the birthright citizenship question

Once again, Amendment XIV Section 1 reads in relevant part:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

In U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) the Supreme Court first broke the ground on this issue. Recall: never once, before this case, did Congress define what subjects a person to the jurisdiction of the United States. So the Supreme Court had to “wing it.” The Court held:

The question presented by the record is whether a child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who at the time of his birth are subjects of the emperor of China, but have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States, by virtue of the first clause of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution.

After citing several features of English common law, the Court states:

For the reasons above stated, this court is of opinion that the question must be answered in the affirmative.

The English common law to which the Court referred, recognized jus soli – the Law of the Soil. By that rule, any child born on lands over which the king held dominion, became a subject of the king. That became the accepted practice in the original British colonies. When America won her independence, she continued the tradition. But she also recognized a tradition deriving from Roman law: jus sanguinis, the Law of the Blood. By that rule – as Emmerich de Vattel would articulate – a child inherits the citizenship of his parents.

Now if jus soli is absolute, a child born in one country to citizens of another, would have a choice. He might even hold dual citizenship by birth. For that reason, Vattel (The Law of Nations) held that only those born in a country, to citizens of that same country, should be considered “natural born citizens.” And for that reason, John Jay prevailed on his fellow Framers to make this kind of natural born citizenship a requirement for Presidential eligibility.

Whom is Trump trying to exclude?

Presidential eligibility is not at issue here. The issue involves children born to a set of parents, both of whom are:

• Not lawfully present in the United States, or

• Holders of temporary residence visas or tourist visas.

Accordingly, President Trump put forth his Executive Order Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship. His order declares that the following children would no longer enjoy birthright citizenship:

Among the categories of individuals born in the United States and not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary (such as, but not limited to, visiting the United States under the auspices of the Visa Waiver Program or visiting on a student, work, or tourist visa) and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.

This order does not apply to the children of lawful permanent residents. Thus the President must now ask the Supreme Court to distinguish the Wong case. Its basic holding can remain intact even if the Executive Order stands.

In addition, Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), on the day after the Inauguration, introduced the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025. This Act (HR 569) would amend Title 8, U.S.C., Section 1401, by adding this definition of “subject to the jurisdiction”:

(b) DEFINITION .—Acknowledging the right of birthright citizenship established by section 1 of the 14^th amendment to the Constitution, a person born in the United States shall be considered “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States for purposes of subsection (a)(1) if the person is born in the United States of parents, one of whom is—

(1) a citizen or national of the United States;

(2) an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States whose residence is in the United States; or

(3) an alien with lawful status under the immigration laws performing active service in the armed forces (as defined in section 101 of title 10, United States Code).

That bill has languished in the House Judiciary Committee to this day. So at present, that phrase subject to the jurisdiction has no definition. No doubt various District Courts consider that anyone with two feet on American soil is “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States,” unless he is:

• An “immune” diplomat, or

• A foreign military service member under a Status of Forces Agreeement with the United States.

Obviously the Trump administration disputes that.

Birthright citizenship in the courts

The minute Trump signed his Executive Order, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit, at first in New Hampshire. Separately, eighteen Democratic State Attorneys General filed their own lawsuit. From their complaint:

The President has no authority to rewrite or nullify a constitutional amendment or duly enacted statute. Nor is he empowered by any other source of law to limit who receives United States citizenship at birth.

On January 23, Judge John C. Coughenour of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington State (Seattle Division) issued the first Temporary Restraining Order at issue. Four particular Attorneys General (of Washington, Oregon, Illinois and Arizona) brought this action. State of Washington v. Trump, 2:25-cv-00127. According to NewsNation, the judge became terrifically angry with the Justice Department attorneys for trying to defend the EO.

Trump vowed to appeal. Normally one does not appeal Temporary Restraining Orders, but Trump didn’t have to wait long. On February 6, Judge Coughenour issued a preliminary injunction, which is appealable. Trump did appeal. State of Washington, et al., v. Trump, et al., 25-807, in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit. Then a three-judge panel (William C. Canby, Milan D. Smith, and Danielle J. Forrest) voted 3-0 not to grant an emergency stay of Judge Coughenour’s injunction. In her concurrence, Judge Forrest agreed that emergency relief was not appropriate. But she encouraged the Court to expedite the hearing and oral argument process. She further observed that she and her colleagues constituted a motions panel, not the merits panel that alone could do the case justice.

Separately, a judge in the New Hampshire case has issued his own injunction. A similar injunction has come down in Massachusetts.

A new case in New Hampshire

Late in June 2025 the Supreme Court curtailed the use of “universal injunctions.” The Court held that, if the plaintiffs in the New Hampshire case wanted a universal injunction, they should file a class action. That ruling virtually destroyed the original New Hampshire case, but left the Washington case standing. (States can ask for universal injunctions, if they have Article III standing.)

So the American Civil Liberties Union filed a new case on behalf of five babies named Barbara, Susan, Sarah, Matthew and Mark. The case alleged harm from the denial of birthright citizenship and also asked for certification as a class. Barbara v. Trump, 1:25-cv-00244. The case came before the same judge (Joseph N. LaPlante) as the original New Hampshire case.

As before, Judge LaPlante issued a preliminary injunction against Trump’s EO. Because he now had a class action before him, the injunction stood. His order came down on July 10.

The Trump administration appealed on September 10 to the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Barbara v. Trump, docket 25-1861. But the administration didn’t wait for the Appeals Court to act. Instead they filed a petition for review-before-judgment with the Supreme Court on September 26. Three days later they filed for review in the Washington case.

The latest Supreme Court action

Now the Supreme Court has granted review in the Washington case and the new New Hampshire case. Trump v. Washington, 25-364, and Trump v. Barbara, 25-365.

D. John Sauer, Solicitor General of the United States, filed the petition on September 29, 2025. In his filing he cited 8 USC Section 1401, which states who are “nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.” Sauer bases his case on paragraph (a):

a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

8 USC 1401 does not define the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” But paragraph (b) gives a clue:

a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo. Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe: Provided, That the granting of citizenship under this subsection shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of such person to tribal or other property.

In modern parlance “Indian” means “Beringian” and “Eskimo” means “Inuit.” Such a person is subject to the regulatory reach of U.S. law. But if any Beringian, Inuit, or Aleut were subject to U.S. jurisdiction, why bother listing them separately?

Sauer goes on to say:

The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to grant citizenship to newly freed slaves and their children—not to the children of temporary visitors or illegal aliens.

Sauer cites two cases to back this up: Slaughter-house Cases, 16 Wall. 36, 71-74 (1873), and Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94, 101 (1884). He acknowledged the Wong finding that children of lawful permanent residents were citizens. But he then said:

[L]ong after the Clause’s adoption, the mistaken view that birth on U.S. territory confers citizenship on anyone subject to the regulatory reach of U.S. law became pervasive, with destructive consequences… [I]n the 20th century, the Executive Branch came to misread the Clause as granting citizenship to nearly everyone born in the United States—even to children of temporarily present aliens or illegal aliens.

Judges Coughenour and LaPlante clearly believe that “subject to the jurisdiction” means “within regulatory reach.”

Scope of opinion on birthright citizenship

Happily, Sauer includes, as appendices to his petition, the full opinions of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and of Judge Coughenour. (Sauer’s filing in the Barbara case contains only Judge LaPlante’s order; the First Circuit has not definitively acted.)

The Ninth Circuit opinion flatly repeats the error judges, and Presidents, have been making since the Sixties. Actually, error might be too charitable a word, especially as regards leftist judges – and the Presidents who appoint them. Lyndon Baines Johnson was certainly a loyal servant of the Deep State – or an opportunistic one. One might say of him, more accurately, that he thought he was the Deep State, the same as King Louis XIV of France thought he was the State itself.

In any event, LBJ is the first President to promote the absolutism of jus soli. Or he is the best candidate for that dubious distinction. Either way, the motives are plain: to replace the hard-working native-born demographics with a class of mendicants. Alexis de Tocqueville warned that our republic would fail when the people discovered they could vote themselves government largesse. But even he never dreamed that corrupt Presidents and Congresses would import a new electorate who would vote that way!

Sauer describes all the harms of birthright citizenship:

1. Incentive for illegal migration,

2. National security threat,

3. Birth tourism, and

4. Degradation of the meaning of citizenship.

Then he presents the contrary opinions. All he need do in the end is say to the Court: “See what I mean?”

Court alignment

The Barbara docket has a clear indication that the Supreme Court granted review on December 5, 2025. The Washington docket has no such entry. But the CBS Report says the Court did grant review in that case; their source for that assertion remains unclear. Both cases did come before the same administrative conference.

By the Supreme Court’s rules, four Justices can force the rest of the Court to accept a petition for review. Grants of review normally go unsigned, as did this one. CNAV ventures to guess that all three Originalists (Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas JJ) voted to grant review. Likewise, all three Equitarians (Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor JJ) voted not to.

That leaves Roberts CJ and Barrett and Kavanaugh JJ. Which of these voted for the petition? CNAV believes Brett Kanavaugh voted for it. Amy Coney Barrett has a tendency (not absolute) to sympathize with families with small children, in a belief in their inherent innocence. But she’s still the one who publicly chastened Ketanji Brown Jackson for her apparent support of an “imperial judiciary.”

And Roberts? He might be reluctant to upend nearly a century of Court practice. Alito and Thomas JJ almost had to drag him kicking and screaming to acceptance of their reasoning in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s.

Sauer clearly knew whom he had to impress. Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh run that Court, because they almost always cast deciding votes Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas will take his side; Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor never will.

Next arguments on birthright citizenship

Immediately after Sauer filed his dual petitions, several organizations submitted friend-of-the-court briefs. They include:

• Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform (which always has wanted to slow immigration down),

• Christian Family Coalition of Florida,

• The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Claremont Institute, and

• America’s Future.

All these briefs support the petition, on the grounds that Solicitor General Sauer stated. Specifically, “subject to the jurisdiction” means more than “subject to the regulatory reach of the law.” It primarily means subject to political, not merely regulatory, jurisdiction. Political jurisdiction requires permission to stay (a paraphrase of language in Wong), and domicile. Domicile means a place of permanent residence, and implies a full intent to stay, with permission.

Every civilization has had some form of banishment as either a punishment or a default relationship between that civilization and any given individual. Ancient city-states banished people all the time. Consider, for example, Athenian ostrakons or Roman orders “forbidding fire and water within x hundred miles.” So no “natural right of immigration” can exist.

The Texas Nationalist Movement will no doubt be watching. They haven’t said a word; it’s too soon. But basic sovereignty lies at the heart of the sentiment for Texas independence. If the Supreme Court actually upholds unrestricted birthright citizenship, they will fuel that fire. But that’s a political question, not a legal one.

This case, even more than the entire 2021 Term, will be an intellectual feast for civics students at all levels.

Link to:

The article:

https://cnav.news/2025/12/08/foundation/constitution/birthright-citizenship-headed-scotus-2/

Video:

Reportage:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-birthright-citizenship/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=885482793

The Wong case:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/united_states_v._wong_kim_ark

The EO:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/

Dockets:

Washington v. Trump:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69561931/state-of-washington-v-trump/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69621321/state-of-washington-et-al-v-trump-et-al/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-364.html

Barbara v. Trump:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70651853/barbara-v-trump/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71319932/barbara-v-trump/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-365.html

Sauer’s massive petition filing in Washington:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-364/378054/20250926163913772_Trump%20v.%20Washington%20with%20appendix.pdf

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