Also, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns
| | | | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | | 🏛️ Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress. Rep. Greene (R-GA) announced her resignation effective January 5 following a public feud with Trump over the Epstein files. Her departure further tightens Republicans' majority in the House. | ❤️ Trump and Mamdani shared the love in the Oval Office. President Trump met with Zohran Mamdani and said the socialist would make New York City "greater than ever before." The two agreed to focus on affordability and housing, with Trump joking about Mamdani calling him a "fascist." | 🇵🇸 Hamas threatens to end Gaza ceasefire. Hamas told US mediators it's prepared to end the Gaza ceasefire, citing alleged Israeli violations. Israel said its recent airstrikes were responses to Hamas gunmen firing on Israeli troops in southern Gaza. | 🩸 Activists staged a grotesque antisemitic stunt. Anti-Israel activists performed a graphic display at Washington, DC's Union Station with actors in masks of US and Israeli leaders drinking fake blood and eating mock human remains. Jewish groups condemned it as a revival of the centuries-old antisemitic "blood libel" conspiracy. |
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| | | INSIDER RADAR | Marco Rubio on the state of Ukraine peace talks | | Insiders behind the paywall: Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent, Kash Patel, and Rand Paul. |
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| | | HOAX TRACKER | NY Times portrays Hamas-linked CAIR as a "civil rights group" | |
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| | | QUICK AND IMPORTANT | The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has officially been dissolved. Tackle your credit card debt with 0% interest until 2027 with this limited-time card. If you have credit card debt, a 0% intro APR card can help. Earn up to 20,000 miles after spending $500 in 3 months with this popular card! Take advantage before it goes away.* A former GOP staffer was charged with faking an attack where "TRUMP WHORE" was allegedly written on her stomach by three men. President Trump terminated the temporary protected status for Somali nationals in Minnesota. Fifty Catholic schoolchildren escaped from captivity in Nigeria after gunmen abducted 303 people from their school.
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| | | INSIDER EXCLUSIVE | Trump denounces Marjorie "Traitor" Greene | President Donald Trump finally broke with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who was once a major supporter of his… | Read Now → |
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| | | THE MAIN STORY | Minnesota Somalis funnel millions to terrorists | | _WHAT'S HAPPENING_ | New reporting from City Journal found that Somali-led nonprofits in Minnesota allegedly siphoned billions in taxpayer funds from programs meant to house the homeless, feed children, and support families with autism. |
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| _FACTS AND INSIGHTS_ | Since Gov. Tim Walz (D) took office in 2019, 28 fraud rings have drained over $1 billion from Minnesota taxpayers — much of it flowing through Somali-run nonprofits. The sizable Minneapolis Somali community has maintained ties to Middle East terror groups for years…
| | Exclusive analysis and uncensored facts behind the paywall: The scams and fraud that have been stealing taxpayer money, the role of Somali remittances, how funds are ending up in the hands of terrorists, and Minneapolis' history of terror ties. |
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| | | _JOIN THE DISCUSSION_ | Should the federal government crack down on Minneapolis? | |
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| | | MEDIA BIAS SPOTTER | How left and right outlets frame the Trump-Mamdani meeting | | | Mentioned behind the paywall: The Atlantic, The New York Times, Newsmax, and The Washington Times. |
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| _THE DAILY DEBATE_ | 📊 Which recent news event is the most consequential?Want your comment to be featured? Be sure to include your name. | |
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| POLLS RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY | Which is the biggest threat to the Right? | 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ 🗣️ Extremism (306)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⚔️ Infighting (426)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🌏 Foreign Influence (59)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤔 Unsure (22) | 🗣️ Extremism: "We need to stop white supremacy immediately. It should not be tolerated." — EE ⚔️ Infighting: "A house divided against itself will fall." — Diane 🌏 Foreign influence: "All of the infighting and extremism are encouraged and funded by our foreign enemies." — BH 🤔 Unsure: "Stasis and inaction in Congress." — Bonnie | | | | 813 votes |
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| | | COMMENT OF THE DAY | From How Ben Shapiro Became Today's Buckley | "I think Ben is handling the situation okay. But a word of caution: be careful not to weaken the conservative movement by fighting each other and definitely do not destroy it by allowing 'white supremacists' to get control. That is not who we want to be." | | | | Bonnie H. |
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| _POP QUIZ_ | Which issues did Trump and Mamdani agree to focus on? | |
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