Sunday, January 25, 2026

Russian Roulette 2026


How “principled” GOP Senators are betraying Trump, MAGA and the American people.


Back in 2016, I, along with a lot of people, made the argument that the election was critical to America’s future. It was, and America made the right choice. I made the same argument in 2020, and while America made the right choice, the Democrats ran a coup d’état, and we suffered through four years of watching whoever was controlling Joe Biden basically run the country into the ground. Then, two years ago, I again made the same argument—basically, that if America made the wrong choice, the Republic was going to soon find its end. Thankfully, America made the correct choice again.

But “Come on,” you’re probably saying, “America can’t be on the cusp of collapse at virtually every election. You’re just fearmongering…” Well, that’s not technically true. Just because you survive three pulls of the trigger in a game of Russian Roulette doesn’t mean the next one can’t kill you.

Of course, 2028 is a long way off, and a lot can happen between now and then. But the truth is, 2026 is here, and while we may be playing with a smaller caliber weapon, the potential damage is almost as great…as has been demonstrated by the last few weeks, and the last few days in particular.

As it relates to the last few weeks, I’m of course talking about Nick Shirley putting a spotlight on the Democrat enabled Somalian treachery in Minnesota. I’m not actually talking about the money being stolen from taxpayers, per se.

No, as bad as that is on its face, what’s worse is what it communicates about the modus operandi of Democrats around the country: i.e., import Third World immigrants and figure out ways to enrich them at the public trough. That same kind of model is happening across the country, from Maine to Maryland to California, and in countless states in between. Different groups, different scams, same result: public money that makes its way into the hands of immigrants and magically comes out the other side as votes for Democrats.

To put something of a fine point on it, Kevin Bass did a great analysis looking at states Americans are moving into or out of, correlated by those who provide benefits to illegal aliens versus those that don’t:

Not surprisingly, nine out of the top ten states from which Americans are fleeing provide benefits to illegals, while nine out of the top ten states to which Americans are heading don’t. Not coincidentally, nine out of ten of the first group are Democrat states, while nine out of ten of the second are Republican. The bottom line is, Democrats increasingly don’t represent the values or interests of Americans and are systematically replacing American voters with immigrants, most of whom are illegal. 

And if there were any question as to whether this is really going on, we don’t have to wonder, courtesy of leftist CIA agent and new Virginia governor, Abigail Spanberger. What was her first official act as governor? Why rescind ex-Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order requiring Virginia law enforcement to cooperate with ICE, of course. Literally the first thing she did was basically turn the once red state into a sanctuary state.

Democrats, who now control both houses and the governor’s office, quickly introduced a phalanx of hard-left policies such as guaranteeing illegal aliens free education, making it illegal to hand-count ballots, and requiring that the government award 42% of their programs based on DEI criteria.

So, what does this have to do with 2026? Everything.

As it stands right now, 2026 is going to be a bloodbath for the GOP. Almost across the board, you see Republican voters angry and upset with the GOP. Have they cut spending? No. Have they shut down the federal grift mills that funnel money to leftists? No. But most importantly, have they done something, anything on election integrity? No.

If there is any one issue that animates Americans in 2026, it’s voter ID, aka election integrity. Why? Because virtually everything about government funnels into or out of it. From Democrats importing Third World voters to trillions of dollars that go to support illegals to the cancer of local Democrat rule, it’s all part of the election integrity ecosystem.

But the Republicans in the Senate don’t care about that. They, like elites everywhere, sit back in their cushy offices with their guaranteed paychecks, armed security, and safe neighborhoods, and laugh at the hard-working Americans who are paying taxes to support illegals, fighting to keep their homes, and looking over their shoulders for criminals loosed on the world by Democrats.

How can we tell? Because the blind squirrel GOP over in the House accidentally tripped over a nut and sent the SAVE Act to the Senate last April. And what has the Senate done with it? Nothing.

“But,” you might say, “almost every GOP Senator states that they are in favor of the SAVE Act.” Sure, they do. Even Mr. Ethanol himself, Chuck Grassley, did a flip-flop in less than 24 hours after he stated very clearly that he would not support it.

So, there we go. We should get it. But no, we don’t. We can’t. Why, because Americans are being forced to play Russian Roulette, only instead of one round and five empty chambers, we’re playing with all six chambers loaded…and there are a bunch of backup rounds nearby in case one falls out. And what are those chambers loaded with, you might ask? Senators!

To pass the SAVE Act, we’re told the filibuster must be overcome. But the reality is, it doesn’t. All we need are 50 Senators to vote to eliminate the filibuster, and VP Vance would break the tie. But we can’t get those 50 Senators because there are almost a dozen GOP traitors who would rather allow Democrats to destroy America so they can pat themselves on the back that they didn’t nuke the filibuster.

These hypocritical GOP Senators pretend they are doing the people’s work, but in reality, they’re doing anything but. From stealing elections to funding fraud to basically legalizing crime across the country, Democrats are no longer representing Americans. They are purposefully turning America into a failed Third World dystopia. And by refusing to eliminate the filibuster (something Democrats will do the first opportunity they get), these Senators are basically shrugging their shoulders and saying, “I didn’t do that.”

In reality, they did. It’s like watching a man drowning and standing on the dock with a life preserver but refusing to throw it to him. Sure, you can technically say you didn’t drown him, but you’re responsible for his death, nonetheless.

For anyone paying attention over the last decade, it’s crystal clear that the filibuster serves only to block Republicans. From the moment Harry Reid changed the rules for presidential appointments in 2013, we’ve seen where that road leads.

But treacherous Senators like Mike Crapo, Tom Tillis, James Lankford, and the other grifters pretend they’re being principled by not eliminating it. They’re not, unless their principles include eviscerating the Trump agenda, sidelining the MAGA movement, and betraying the American people. Because that’s what happens in January 2027 when the Democrats take the House and perhaps even the Senate this November.


Greenland? Hmm...


Let me say up front that I have absolutely no objection to America owning Greenland; it is in a strategic place for the country, and probably not doing Denmark a whole lot of good, unless they really like snow cones there. Of course, America has existed for 250 years without owning Greenland; we could probably survive without it. But I don’t like the way the Chinese are moving into the Atlantic Ocean. Marxism is still a worldwide philosophy, and the Chinese are the biggest threat to everybody’s freedom on this globe right now. So, it might not be a bad idea to have Greenland as part of America’s defense system.

Mr. Trump does seem to be obsessed with the place; I do kind of wish he’d spend a little more time improving things in America, like getting the government out of the economy as much as possible to help it grow and put more money in the people’s pockets. This is an election year, and probably not too many Americans are going to vote for Greenland. They will vote their pocketbooks—most of them always do—and that needs to be a primary concern of Trump and the Republican Party this year. We can’t ignore our interests around the world, for sure. But “America First” means “Americans First.” I hope, after Davos, Mr. Trump will spend more of his time concentrating on getting his own country in shape. If we do get Greenland, but America destroys itself, what good have we done? We can’t eat ice.

Again, I do want to emphasize that I am certainly not in the least objectionable to America controlling, owning, or being a big mover and shaker in Greenland, whatever Mr. Trump can come up with. And my biggest concern is China. Remember, folks, I lived in that place for ten years. If you don’t care about being free, if you don’t mind living among liars, cheats, tyrants, and thieves in power, if you don’t mind keeping your head down and your mouth shut, China is not a bad place to live. I still have many, many good friends in that country, I still teach some adorable and interesting Chinese students English online, and certainly not all the people there are like Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping. Again, it’s actually not a bad place to live now—if you keep your head down, your mouth shut, don’t care about freedom, and avoid the tyrants. Not easy to do for an American over ten years.

The Chinese people, most of them, are cowed. They have no conception of what “democracy” is (they think they do) or what “freedom” is (they think they do). Can you say “brainwashed”? Can you say “American Democratic Party”? Go live in China for ten years, as I did, and you will know exactly what the Democratic Party wants for America. Both the Democrats and the Chinese Communist Party are Marxists. So, they believe and practice the same things.

China, being a Marxist country, still believes in the world revolution, theMarxist utopia where eventually government will disappear, and all men will be “free” and “equal.” Don’t forget that Marx believed that “government” (any and all governments) are tools of the rich to oppress the poor, and are thus due to extinction when pure socialism and communism conquer the world. “It may take 500 years,” one CCP member once told me. Well, I don’t know when it will happen, but I do know when it won’t happen—it won’t happen while Xi Jinping is in power. That man will give up power when he is put in a pine box, and not before. And that’s pretty much the truth for any politician. Marxism is a fantasy, a pipedream, the stupidest unreality a human being has ever concocted. Utter nonsense. It will never happen. The politicians of the world will never let it happen.

But, China is Marxist, and “workers of the world” unite. Xi Jinping would love to turn the Atlantic Ocean into the “West China Sea,” and is already making some moves in that direction. Europe isn’t going to stop him. Only America can. Greenland could be a useful tool.

It would have been nice if the previous generations of American politicians had made friends with Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, instead of continuing to try to ram NATO down its throat. Now, I don’t trust the Russians any more than I trust the Chinese, or the Democrats, or the Republicans, or any country run by politicians. But “self-interest” and “trust” are not always the same, and actually, sometimes might be opposites. Maybe we ought to ask Vlad to admit Ukraine into NATO. And then invite Russia to join NATO, too. Wouldn’t it be nice to have all those nukes and NATO Russian soldiers on China’s northern border?

And then, while we are at it, ask Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, India, and anybody else who wants protection against China to join NATO. (Can you imagine the size of the cow Xi Jinping would have if Taiwan joined NATO? But surrounding China would be the best thing we could do.) Well, I apologize, that’s a dream as far-fetched as Marxism. I shouldn’t waste your time with it. But, more than once in my Townhall articles, I’ve urged an “EATO” (East Asia Treaty Organization) as a complement to NATO. Unfortunately, nobody listens to my brilliant ideas.

China is the biggest threat we face in the world today, bar none. I care about the USA owning or controlling Greenland only because I fear what China will do in the Atlantic and what Europe won’t do about it.

So, yeah, Mr. Trump, if you can snatch Greenland, more power to you. Just give me the Danish snow cone concession.


Podcast thread for Jan 25

 


I sincerely hope you were all smart enough today to stay indoors and out of the cold.:)

Where The Rubber Meets The Democrat Road

There are people who vote Democrat who are otherwise reasonable, simply being misinformed or uninformed. 

It’s time we reach them.


Perhaps, like me, you have some people in your life you love who vote Democrat.  And perhaps, also like me, you have agreed to disagree on political matters and just to avoid the subject of politics altogether.  If your Democrats are like mine, they’re not loons. They’re just misinformed or uninformed, but they are otherwise reasonable.  This is key:  they are otherwise reasonable.

Well, it’s time to breach that wall and once again talk politics with your reasonable but misguided loved ones.  We’ve got a country to save, and we can do our part by trying to reach our reasonable loved ones.  Charity — and country-saving — begins at home.

Democrats are very good at shifting, dodging, and deflecting, but one thing they (the reasonable ones, anyway) can’t shift, dodge, or deflect is votes on single-issue bills.  The House and Senate Democrats vote the way they vote, and there are enough single-issue bills to establish a pattern that’s impossible to deny. That is to say, once your loved one is presented with this evidence that a vote for Democrats is a vote for X, Y, or Z, they will be forced to rethink, or at the very least, to weakly promise to rethink.  They may not mean it, but you’ll have planted some seeds, and that’s a start, and start with these people we must if we are to save our Republic.

Let’s look at just three issues: deportation of illegal alien felons, late-term abortion, and “gender-affirming care” for minors.  Votes are where the rubber meets the road, so let’s see clearly, with the actual bills and actual vote totals, where Democrats stand on these specific issues.

Deportation

You’d think voting to deport illegal aliens caught drunk driving or engaged in other dangerous felonies (like wife-beating) would be a no-brainer.  Easy-peasy, right?

Not so much.

Democrats have had three chances recently to vote for exactly that, and what did they do?

Well, in June 2025 (H.R. 875), and twice in January 2025 (H.R. 29) and (H.R. 30), dozens upon dozens of House Democrats shrugged and said “Nah, we’re good.” The June bill saw 160 Democrats vote “nay,” and the two in January saw 145 and 159, respectively.  Those are all very healthy majorities of the Democrat conference in the House voting against the deportation of drunk driving illegals (as well as other felonious behavior). 

Do these people never drive?  Do they not love anyone who drives?  Do they honestly think a drunk driver could never crash into them or someone they love? How is it even possible to rationalize these votes?  Unless your survival instinct is completely and utterly broken?  Or you are completely and utterly bought off?

Would you vote this way?  Of course not.  Do you even know anyone who would vote this way?  Their votes on these bills send a very clear message, and we should pay attention to it: our lives are not as important to them as the lives of these felonious illegal aliens, who deserve no representation whatsoever.  That’s what these votes say, loud and clear.  There’s no other way to read them.

Abortion

In October 2017 (H.R. 36), January 2018 (S. 2311), and February 2020 (S. 3275), bills to prohibit abortion after twenty weeks were taken up.  They were all called some version of the “Pain Capable” Act, so-called because at that age of gestation, the unborn child can experience gruesome pain.  The bills were designed to stop this barbaric practice, and even had exceptions to save the life of the mother to placate the Democrats.  (We are one of only a handful of countries on planet earth that still allow this ghastly, inhumane procedure, by the way.)

The most recent vote in the Senate got only three Democrats to vote to stop the practice.  The vote two years before that got only three Democrat senators.  The October 2017 vote in the House also got only three Democrats, out of the entire Democrat House conference.

We can get into the minutiae that some of these votes were procedural votes, not votes on the substance of the bills, but it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.  When you are voting “nay” at any stage of any bill to prevent the carnage of late-term abortion, you are a ghoul, a monster, and should be called out as such.  It’s the stuff of nightmares.

I know it’s hard to believe that we have so many humans representing us that would vote this way, but the facts are the facts.  Politicians say an awful lot, but they speak most powerfully through their votes.  A vote is a declaration, a flag planted, and these votes show these Democrats, en masse, simply don’t care about the savage butchery of fully-formed babies.

Pediatric “Gender-Affirming Care”

What is it with Democrats and kids?  It’s not enough to butcher them in utero; they want them butchered as children now.  Democrats have had two chances recently to prevent the chemical castration and mutilation of pre-pubescent and teenage children.  On both occasions, they voted nearly monolithically against stopping this Frankenstein practice.  Both bills came up just last month, in December 2025, via (H.R. 498) “Do No Harm in Medicaid Act,” 215(R) - 201(D), and via (H.R. 3492) “Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” 216(R) - 211(D).

It’s one thing to go through puberty and become a legal adult and decide, on your own, that you want to chop off body parts and spend the rest of your life on hormones, but to have that inflicted upon you as a child, before the age of consent, before you are even fully developed, is a version of what used to be called Munchausen by Proxy.  Nothing healthy or “affirming” about it.

So many of us ask what we can do to help. Well, here you go. I can’t believe my loved ones who vote Democrat, or your loved ones, or any decent person wants illegal alien wife beaters or drunk drivers careening around the country, the horrors of late-term abortion, or the permanent disfigurement and castration of children, but that’s what House and Senate Democrats voted for, and here are the details with dates, the names of the bills, and the vote totals.  Everything is linked and is easily fact-checkable, and you should invite your loved one to do just that. It’s all there in “the Google machine,” as my late father used to call it.

Good luck!


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President Trump Threatens to Hit Canada with 100% Tariff if they Become a Transshipping Hub for Chinese Imports



Canada signing a trade agreement with China to permit the import of EVs is another escalation in the exploitation of the USMCA compact.

For the position of China, using Canada as a route to ship component goods into the United States is just a slight expansion of their current technique to avoid U.S. tariffs.  However, President Trump is taking action immediately.

Noting on his Truth Social platform, President Trump announced that if Canada does effectively go through with allowing the import of Chinese electric vehicles, then the U.S. will impose a 100% countervailing duty against all Canadian imports.

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“[…] As a part of the deal, Canada will ease the tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles that it imposed in tandem with the U.S. in 2024. In exchange, China will lower retaliatory tariffs on key Canadian agricultural products.” ~Politico

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney continues giving President Trump the ammunition to dissolve the USMCA trade agreement this year.

USTR Jamieson Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have both expressed anticipation of a new bilateral trade agreement to stop all this Canadian nonsense.



Iran's Khamenei Reportedly Burrowing Underground in Terror of Trump Airstrikes


RedState 

Word out of Iran has been scarce over the last few days. The regime has engaged in hideous repression of the uprising Iranian people, and the internet, and thus the flow of information out of the country has all but ceased. That's disconcerting, but in a bit of interesting news, there are now reports that the Supreme Leader himself, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that savage barbarian theocrat out of another century, has gone underground. 

Perhaps out of fear of American airstrikes?

The 86-year-old supreme leader has moved to a fortified shelter in Tehran connected to a series of elaborate underground tunnels after senior military officials warned of the increasing likelihood of an imminent US attack, Iran International reported, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Khamenei has left his youngest son Masoud Khamenei, 53, in charge of running the day-to-day management of the Islamic Republic, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Masoud Khamenei’s emergency duties include being the primary communication channel with the regime’s executive branch, according to the report.

Iran has deemed the likelihood of US airstrikes to be high after President Trump announced Friday that warships were headed to the Middle East as a warning to the ayatollah, following a continuing war of words between the two leaders in recent days.

Iran might be right about those American airstrikes. The USS Abraham Lincoln and its task group are steaming to the region, and one of our aircraft carriers and its supporting ships represents more military might than everything Iran can muster, combined.

Trump boasted Friday that the US Navy was sending a massive “armada.”

The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, which includes three destroyers, is currently motoring from the Indian Ocean to the Persian Gulf region of Iran, Stars and Stripes reported.

Publicly, Tehran has not backed down from heightened tensions with the US as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian threatened to treat any attack against the supreme leader by the US or Israel as “an all-out war against us.”

Tehran - or, more accurately, the mullahs, including the desiccated old shouter that they call Supreme Leader, can't back down. Backing down would, to them, be seen as a sign of weakness. It would be more accurate to say that it may be the one thing that would avoid a hail of American ordnance.

Of course, taking out the mullahs, even allowing them to bug out to Moscow or some other place that will take them in, would be a victory for much of the known world. Imagine an Iran, or a Persia, if you like, where the mullahs are gone. Imagine the world's foremost state sponsor of Islamic terror, under new management, turning off the money spigots to Hamas, Hezbollah, and the like. Imagine an Iran with a modern parliamentary democracy, probably the best we can hope for in that part of the world. 

Imagine no more mullahs.

We don't have the best idea as to how bad things are in Iran by now. Reliable information out of the Islamic Republic is, at the moment, as scarce as hen's teeth. But all that need happen is for the current regime to be tossed out, one way or another. The Lincoln task group can do them a lot of damage, very quickly, but America can't and shouldn't put boots on the ground; the Iranian people should do that. But we can provide a heck of a lot of aerial support by striking key regime targets, should it come to that. 

Because JDAM means never having to say you're sorry.


U.S. Joint Chiefs Call for a First-Ever Meeting of Western Hemisphere Military Leaders


RedState 

Under the leadership of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan "Razin'" Caine, the United States is once again blazing new paths in its efforts to unite Western Hemisphere countries in combatting the drug trafficking in the region.  

As the U.S. military continues its campaign targeting alleged drug cartel boats, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is convening a rare meeting of all of the top military leaders from the 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere.   

This will be the first time that such a meeting has been convened and appears to be focused on improving cooperation against drug trafficking and criminal organizations.

The meeting is set for Feb. 11, according to a statement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff provided to ABC News.

On Friday, Joint Task Force Southern Spear took out another drug boat with a "lethal kinetic strike" in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that killed two narco-terrorists. 

The February meeting will include 34 nations, toward a unified goal of combatting the drug cartels and strengthening security in the region. 

On Jan. 23, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. 

Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the strike. 

Following the engagement, USSOUTHCOM immediately notified @USCG to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivor. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

The meeting was confirmed to ABC News the same day the U.S. military announced another strike targeting an alleged narco-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing two people.

"Chiefs of defense and senior military representatives from 34 nations will meet to build shared understanding of common security priorities and strengthen regional cooperation," the statement said.

As RedState has reported, between Joint Task Force Southern Spear, which has taken out members of known drug cartels transporting narcotics, to the United States Coast Guard, which in 2025 seized 510,000 pounds of cocaine — the largest cache of this drug confiscated in Coast Guard history, the U.S. is taking a warlike stance to a decades-long War on Drugs which is rendering results and saving lives.

With this potentially history-making meeting of Western Hemisphere military leaders, the Trump administration is setting unprecedented military strategy and critical engagement that has not been seen in 50 years. 


Ukraine, Russia and U.S. Negotiators Assemble with Military Leaders from Each Nation


The bad news is that nothing much visible has changed in language or action from the negotiations.  The good news is that for the first time military leadership from Russia, Ukraine and the USA joined with the diplomatic negotiators.  This could indicate they are trying to work out the details on just how a ceasefire could be executed.

For the first time a trilateral discussion was held between the warring parties of Ukraine and Russia with the U.S. team working as an intermediary. The venue was the UAE acting as neutral turf for the discussion.  According to Ukraine President Zelensky, the meeting in the Emirates was the first time representatives from Ukraine, Russia, and the United States were engaged in a trilateral format since the full-scale war began.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to the UAE meeting after three hours of discussions with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.  Zelensky noted the arrangements were coordinated by the American side, describing the meeting as one of several unexpected diplomatic initiatives that emerged during negotiations.

ZELENSKYY – Our delegation delivered a report; the meetings in the UAE have concluded. And this was the first format of this kind in quite some time: two days of trilateral meetings. A lot was discussed, and it is important that the conversations were constructive.

The negotiations also involved military representatives from all three sides. From our side, today’s participants included Rustem Umerov, Kyrylo Budanov, Andrii Hnatov, Davyd Arakhamiia, Sergiy Kyslytsya, and Vadym Skibitskyi. From the American side, the participants were Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Dan Driscoll, Alexus Grynkewich, and Josh Gruenbaum. The Russian side was represented by members of their military intelligence and armed forces.

The central focus of the discussions was the possible parameters for ending the war. I highly value the understanding of the need for American monitoring and oversight of the process of ending the war and ensuring genuine security.

The American side raised the issue of potential formats for formalizing the parameters for ending the war, as well as the security conditions required to achieve this.

As a result of the meetings held over these days, all sides agreed to report back in their capitals on each aspect of the negotiations and to coordinate further steps with their leaders. The military representatives identified a list of issues for a potential next meeting. Provided there is readiness to move forward – and Ukraine is ready – further meetings will take place, potentially as early as next week. I expect a personal briefing from the delegation upon its return.

I am grateful to the United Arab Emirates, and personally to the President of the Emirates, for their mediation and their readiness to host further meetings.

Ukraine is working for peace and security. Thank you to everyone who is helping. (link)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stunned the World Economic Forum by revealing European leaders privately urged him not to mention long-range weapons like Tomahawks. Zelenskyy said Europe’s fear of offending allies, internal rivalries, and silence are allowing Russia to keep striking Ukraine—and could soon threaten NATO itself.



This Congressman Gave Us a Look Into the Viral ICE Facility. It's Not What Democrats Want You To Think.



Leftist activists and politicians have centered their focus around a manufactured sob story about a five-year-old who was abandoned by his father while evading ICE agents. Much criticism has centered around the facilities the child has been relocated to following the capture of his father. Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales (TX-23) gave the world an inside look into where the young child was staying.

Gonzalez visited the South Texas Family Residential Center near San Antonio and shared video of children playing video games, watching movies, and reading in a library. The video then cut to kids in a classroom setting smiling while working on packets, playing games in a gym, and enjoying an outdoor activity area.

The facility will soon enter the national spotlight as numerous Democrat politicians are demanding entry in order to “conduct oversight” as they desperately try to spin the narrative. Congresswoman and U.S. Senate Candidate Jasmine Crockett has labeled the relocation of the young child as a “kidnapping” and claims that her visit is a means to “get answers” about the child’s wellbeing.

Federal officials dispute this distorted narrative, stating that the mother of the child refused custody of the child despite numerous attempts of federal agents. The father eventually decided that, despite abandoning his child to evade arrest, he wanted his son to remain with him.

The pair were then transferred to the STFRC and remain together.

Congressman Tony Gonzales told Townhall: “I represent the largest border district in Congress. I watched first responders struggle with their mental health as they pulled babies out of the Rio Grande. Our Border Patrol Agents encountered children, time and time again, in grave danger. For four years, Democrats stayed silent during Joe Biden’s open borders nightmare. Now, they want to grandstand at the Dilley ICE facility in my district. Liberals demonize law enforcement, spew harmful rhetoric towards ICE agents, and twist the truth to fit their defund the police 2.0 movement."