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Maybe It's Time For Conservative Patriots To Rally In Minneapolis Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us For years we knew it was coming: Civil War 2.0. It’s not as if the establishment has been subtle about their intentions to erase conservatives and liberty minded people from the American epoch. I remember during the Obama years, the narrative was repeated daily that conservatives are a “backwards remnant” of the old America that needs to adapt to the times or fade into obscurity. The reasoning was that, slowly but surely, the US was becoming “more diverse” and therefore the progressive left was going to be the dominant political force for generations to come (because they think they own all minorities). In other words, multiculturalism was the new ideological standard. In order for conservatives to survive, we would have to become more like leftists, embrace DEI, and abandon the principles of western civilization that originally made America great. But then, something happened that leftists and the establishment elites apparently did not expect; a groundswell of patriotism, a renewed reverence for the ideals of meritocracy and reason, a rising movement of moral clarity. The progressives and globalists did not understand that the conservative populism they categorized as “fringe” 10 years earlier was becoming a mainstay of digital discourse. They thought they had won. They thought they had us after Obama, so much so that they ran Hillary Clinton for president with the assumption that she could not lose. Then, they thought they had us during the pandemic, but they failed to secure a lasting medical tyranny. They thought they had us during the Biden regime by flooding the country will third world migrants. Now, they think they have us with their NGO paid army of activists, agitators and provocateurs. They think they have use with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Everything they do is built on the assumption that we will do nothing. They think this because it is exceedingly rare for conservatives to step outside the traditional bounds of law and order. We have a tendency to wait for people in authority to fix our problems. We have a tendency to rely on civil discourse to ease tensions and find common ground. And, we have a tendency to wait for elections in the hope that the other side will simply accept our victory and recognize that most of the country is against them. This is clearly not going to happen. First, because leftists always double down. They are ideological zealots who thirst for power and they will do anything to achieve it. Morals and logic hold no value for them. They will ignore the results of the elections and they will ignore the will of the people because they think THEY know better than everyone else. Second, globalist NGOs continue to fund and train these activists in greater and greater numbers. I have heard it argued that we need to “stop calling the activists paid protesters” because this diminishes the fact that they are crazed ideologues and true believers. I disagree. Yes, they are lunatics. Yes, they are true believers. But they would not be able to sustain their mob actions without the steady aid of NGOs feeding them cash, legal help and training. These people are taking their orders from someone; they are not an organic movement. In past articles I have tried to plead with conservatives to recognize that these activists are NOT sincere fellow citizens engaging in legitimate protest. They are a mercenary army paid to go to war. I’ll say it once again: WE ARE AT WAR. We need to start acting like it. The organization of conservative movements is perhaps one of the most difficult tasks on the planet. And to be clear, I’ve tried it on a small scale in the past and it’s not easy to get conservatives to commit. That said, I’m not a joiner either and if I do something I usually prefer to do it alone. I suspect most conservatives are the same and I understand the reasons why getting patriots to…

Leftists Call For Political Purge Of MAGA If They Return To Power You might have thought it wasn't possible, but leftist activist rhetoric has become even more unhinged than usual in the past month as ICE agents try to do their lawful jobs in Democrat controlled sanctuary cities like Minneapolis. During the Obama Administration, ICE carried out millions of deportations of illegal aliens without a peep from progressives. Suddenly, under Trump these same operations are now being called "fascism" and grounds for insurgency. The reason these arrests have led to more violence today is not because of ICE, it is because NGO paid and trained activists are getting in the way. First, impeding law enforcement officials, blocking roads, sabotaging vehicles and physically assaulting agents is not a legal form of protest. Second, the American public voted for mass deportations to happen; not just for migrants who break the law after they sneak into the US, but for all migrants who sneak into the US. Democrats and a radical minority of activists are therefore attempting to disrupt the democratic process and prevent the Trump Administration from carrying out the will of the people. But it doesn't stop there. A narrative is building among Democrat politicians and NGO activists alike which is essentially calling for a political purge of conservatives if progressive leaders return to government power in the next few years. Multiple blue city mayors, governors and police administrators have already threatened to "arrest ICE agents" for carrying out deportations within sanctuary city jurisdictions. Jacob Frey and Tim Walz made thinly veiled threats suggesting that local police could intervene. Walz called on residents of Minneapolis to film all ICE agents so that they could be "prosecuted later." Jacob Frey says residents are calling on Minneapolis police to fight ICE agents. Watch the police chief’s face when he says this.pic.twitter.com/fwHVCTsxd7 — Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) January 15, 2026 These speeches echo sentiments of leftists on social media calling for a Stasi-like purge if Democrats get back control of Congress and the White House. They assert that ICE agents can be identified and later imprisoned for enforcing basic immigration laws, even if their deportation arrests were legal and constitutional at the time. TIM WALZ: "If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record." "Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution." pic.twitter.com/V7fCMY3WZ1 — Fox News (@FoxNews) January 15, 2026 The Trump Administration and ICE have responded, asserting that such actions would constitute an insurrection. In other words, blue cities would be at war with the federal government. Philadelphia “Sheriff” @PhilaSheriff Rochelle Bilal should resign before she embarrasses herself any further. “Arresting ICE officers”? Try it. See what happens. pic.twitter.com/IZgvHN9RyV — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) January 10, 2026 The insanity of leftists, however, is not to be taken lightly. Activist influencers want Trump and anyone associated with him thrown in the gulag. They are even suggesting that they can drag Trump and his allies before a tribunal and Democrats will "find the crimes" they are guilty of. As Lavrentiy Beria, head of Stalin's secret police in the Soviet Union allegedly stated: "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime..." Ex-CNN host Jim Acosta and Democrat podcaster Jennifer Welch recently agreed that the left needs to take revenge on President Donald Trump. Not just by winning elections, but by putting him in prison for winning his election. WEAPONIZATION: Democrat activists Jennifer Welch and Jim Acosta say mass prosecutions of Trump and Republicans would be necessary for national reconciliation when Democrats regain power, arguing that expanding the SCOTUS would be…

Goldman Exec Denies Plan To Oust Top Lawyer Over Epstein Revelations A senior Goldman Sachs executive says rumors of a plan to oust general counsel and top adviser to CEO David Solomon, Kathryn Ruemmler, are "completely untrue," after recent document dumps from Jeffrey Epstein's estate revealed that she was far closer with him than previously known. Ruemmler - a former top legal advisor in the Obama administration - told Goldman execs when they hired her that her relationship with Epstein was purely professional and stemmed from her time as a white-collar defense attorney at Latham & Watkins. It would later become public that she not only met with Epstein dozens of times and exchanged friendly emails for years, she was listed as an executor of Epstein's will as recently as Jan. 18, 2019 - which had been removed before he died in prison on Aug. 10 of that year. She was hired at Goldman in April 2020 as the bank's head of regulatory affairs. In November of that year, she was forced to give a heads up to Goldman execs when the Daily Beast published an article revealing she was in the courtroom at Epstein's 2019 arraignment. Her name also appears hundreds of times in a 500-page log of emails between Epstein and his lawyers that are still under seal because Epstein's estate has cited attorney-client privilege, according to the Wall Street Journal. In November, Congress released dozens of emails she had exchanged with Epstein, including some disparaging President Trump, that sparked a panic among some Goldman executives. “Trump is so gross,” Ruemmler wrote in a 2017 message with Epstein. He replied “worse in real life and upclose.” -WSJ Goldman Panics After an April 2023 report in the Journal detailing the more extensive connections between Ruemmler and Epstein - including how the two had "met dozens of times, that Epstein had visited apartments she was considering buying and that he offered assistance with her travel planning," including a 2017 plan to take her to 'pedo island,' bankers complained to senior management - pointing out that she had a role on the firm's reputational risk committee. The bankers were essentially told to stand down. Then, at a dinner organized at CEO David Solomon's Manhattan apartment in 2024, several women who attended told the Journal that they were appalled that Solomon had Ruemmler help organize the event. Solomon, at a later gathering with high-ranking women, complained that Ruemmler had garnered that kind of reaction - and couldn't believe that there were senior women at the firm who would bristle at her. Solomon told the WSJ in a statement that no women had ever raised concerns to him about Ruemmler's involvement in the dinner. Concern inside Goldman had picked up by spring 2025 as the public’s focus on releasing the Epstein files intensified. The Trump administration initially vowed to release everything and then pulled back. Some high up the ranks at Goldman thought the firm dodged a bullet, people familiar with the matter said. The relief was short-lived when the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Epstein estate in August. In September, the House committee released the Jan. 18, 2019, version of Epstein’s will that listed Ruemmler as a backup executor. Her presence on the will had been discovered by some at Goldman as far back as 2023 when an external lawyer informed a Goldman executive, people familiar with the matter said. -WSJ Ouster in the Works? According to the new report, Goldman exec John Rogers - who brought Ruemmler into the bank, reportedly told close associates he was formulating a contingency plan for her exit later this year, according to people familiar with the matter. The idea would be to let her save face with as graceful an exit as possible. When asked about it, Rogers told the outlet "That is completely untrue." Another person familiar with the matter said that Solomon hasn't been involved with the plan. Ruemmler, meanwhile, doubled down on her assertion that she kept…

Zelensky Skips Davos As Kiev Plunged Into Worst Power & Water Crisis Of War Ukraine's energy crisis continues, not only with nationwide rolling blackouts, but with fresh overnight Russian strikes on the capital having plunged nearly 6,000 of the city's buildings into darkness amid subzero temperatures. President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced Tuesday he is skipping the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) summit given his country's energy emergency is his top priority. "For now, I am choosing Ukraine, not an economic forum," Zelensky said, but noted the situation could change quickly and that he's urging immediate support from outside partners. KyivPost reports that "According to the mayor, 5,635 high-rise buildings were left without heating following the strike, nearly 80% of which had only recently had heat restored after outages on Jan. 9." Kiev is experiencing -14C temperatures on Tuesday, or 7 degrees Fahrenheit. Reuters/CNN: Government-sponsored warming center in the capital. Already, authorities had declared a power emergency, and planned further rolling blackouts to keep the national grid functioning as parts get urgently replaced and emergency repairs are underway. But even water outages have hit Kiev too: Power and water outages were recorded on Kyiv’s Left Bank, where social infrastructure facilities were switched to autonomous power supplies. At least one woman was wounded in the overnight strikes, which also involved drones. This month has ranked as the worst for the capital after nearly four years of war in terms of keeping the lights on: "Municipal and energy services are working to restore heating, water and electricity at homes throughout the city," the mayor said. Russia's latest air attacks come several days after the worst strikes on Ukraine's energy grid since the full-scale invasion in February 2022. Half of Kyiv had lost electricity and heating as a result of those strikes, which took place on Jan. 9. Local Ukrainians have expressed extreme frustration, given massive repairs all across the city have just been completely undone: Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said almost 80% of those buildings had just had their heating restored following the large-scale attack on 9 January, which knocked out power for much of the city. Since then, relentless efforts by technicians had managed to reinstate electricity and gas for thousands - only for that work to be undone overnight. "I have no electricity and no water," Oleksandr Palii, a 29-year-old veteran, told the BBC. "I didn't sleep until 3am because of the strikes either – there were explosions all night." Some officials are reportedly advising citizens of the capital region who are in freezing conditions to leave until to the situation is stabilized. Some other parts of Ukraine currently have more access to heating and water. Still, the overnight drone and missile attack impacted other areas and cities, which has become a nightly occurrence: Kyiv's air force reported Russia fired some 339 long-range combat drones and 34 missiles, while DTEK energy company said over 335,000 residents lost electricity after the strikes. Sheltering in metro stations, Kyiv residents faced school closures until February as municipal and energy services and repair crews worked to restore heating, water, and electricity. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants over strikes on Ukraine's energy grid, and Ursula von der Leyen announced a €78bn loan to support basic services. Meanwhile, some anti-Russia outlets worry that Trump's threat to take Greenland will 'distract' from the Ukraine war at Davos. "President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland and impose punitive tariffs on European countries who oppose him are set to dominate the annual World Economic Forum meeting this week," the Amsterdam-based Moscow Times writes. Minus fifteen. This is no longer weather. This is a weapon. Russia struck thermal power plants. Not the front line. Not the army. Heat. Light. Survival.…