Trump Invades Venezuela; Arrests President Maduro and Wife

US President Donald Trump speaks at press conference at 
Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, January 3, 2026.
(Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) 
"We are going to run the country," Trump said.

Trump Declares U.S. 'In Charge' of Venezuela

Democrats Offer Weak Response

Netanyahu Calls Trump 'Bold and Brilliant'

Commentary

UPDATED - Madison, Wisconsin — President Trump launched another illegal U.S. regime-change war and invasion of a sovereign country — Venezuela.

Israel's radical Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar praised the invasion that followed the latest U.S. visit by Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu with Trump, and Christian Zionists.

Netanyahu dubbed Trump a leader for Peace this week.

Congressional Democrats' reaction is muted, often veering into legality and calls for Congressional movement, avoiding moral condemnation prominent among the American people.

Wisconsin's Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin (D) is silent today, obeying her political instinct to gauge the political terrain first before commenting.

Jake Johnson in Common Dreams reports on exceptions to Baldwin's timidity:

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he will force a Senate vote next week on a bipartisan War Powers Resolution to block additional US military action in Venezuela.
'Where will this go next?' Kaine asked in a statement. 'Will the president deploy our troops to protect Iranian protesters? To enforce the fragile ceasefire in Gaza? To battle terrorists in Nigeria? To seize Greenland or the Panama Canal? To suppress Americans peacefully assembling to protest his policies? Trump has threatened to do all this and more and sees no need to seek legal authorization from people’s elected legislature before putting servicemembers at risk.'

Quagmire Seen

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin), an AIPAC political foe, writes:

Trump continues to ignore the US Constitution and lie to Congress and the American people. Bombing and occupying Venezuela is an illegal act of war against a sovereign nation.

Only Congress has the ability to declare war, but Speaker Johnson and the Republican majorities in the House and Senate have rolled over and gave up our Article One powers. 

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth told Members of Congress their illegal attacks on boats was not about regime change, but capturing a sitting leader is the literal definition of regime change. Trump and his band of misfits seem to have no endgame to this potential quagmire.

— Rep. Mark Pocan (@RepMarkPocan) January 3, 2026

House Democrat Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, and Israel-first supporter, put out a mealy-mouthed statement this morning.

This is so fucking weak. https://t.co/rwOQsqt0wQ

— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) January 3, 2026

Mainstream corporate press and social media have blacked out Israel, which controls U.S. foreign policy, and its political work with Trump for this latest military action.

🇻🇪 Venezuela President Maduro on Israel:

“They have sown an ideology more dangerous than Nazism.

They justify raids, extermination, genocide, and atomic bombs"

they'll come for the Christians, Catholics."

This is why he had to go.
pic.twitter.com/lyFDd60kxG

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) January 3, 2026

The Democratic governor of Colorado joins several Democratic House members in praising Trump's regime change operation in Venezuela.

Nothing unites the two parties like new wars and regime changes. It's beautiful DC bipartisanship at its most inspiring: https://t.co/9TL5KENuaj

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 3, 2026

Congratulations, President @realDonaldTrump for your bold and historic leadership on behalf of freedom and justice. I salute your decisive resolve and the brilliant action of your brave soldiers.

— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) January 3, 2026

 

Happy Veterans Day, 2025—Defend Our Guys Against Malign Government

Marine Reconnaissance troop on guard duty, Vietnam

Veterans, Fighting Forces Are Imperiled by Trump, Lindsey Graham, Chickenhawks, and Liars

Commentary

We salute our veterans, and we call out our veterans' enemies today, chickenhawks, who are at it again, crawling out from under rocks mocking virtues of our military forces — service, honor, guarding our freedom.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), always desperate to prove his manhood in his perverted method of chickenhawk acts, celebrates Donald Trump's killing, bringing "death" to the world, (Yahoo).

"[Donald] Trump is my favorite president. We’ve run out of bombs, we didn’t run out of bombs in World War II," Graham noted to celebrate increased killing enacted by the current administration, (Yahoo).

Vietnam veteran Don Kosterman of Fitchburg, Wisconsin
was welcomed home with other Wisconsin-area veterans 
in May 2023. Veterans are honored each year in the
 Badger Honor Flight. 
Don was in-country, Vietnam, 1965-66. 
Don Kosterman is a man of honor.

We need more war, more killing. This is how we honor our veterans and servicemen and women, Trump and Graham believe.

Our federal government now has the Department of War, a new undertaking, but a transformation in name only of the massive national security state erected by Democrats and Republicans.

War president; war footing; strutting egotism, permanent war, and a pathological inability to speak the truth—this is the government we have today to honor our veterans. 

Sixty-four years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about war as an anti-democratic, corrupting domestic force in his Farewell Address (1961), as peace is deterred, and atrocity continues.

Doesn't have to be this way.

Concludes Eisenhower:

"We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

Vietnam veteran Patrick Newberry of Fitchburg, Wisconsin
was welcomed home with other Wisconsin-area veterans in
April 2023. The veterans were honored during the
46th Badger Honor Flight. Patrick was in-country. Vietnam 1967
(WMTV-Madison) 
Patrick Newberry is a man of honor.

But our current president betrays the presidential oath of office, substituting indecent needs of the terror state of Israel, for example, for the needs of 1.2 million low-income veterans, 40-million other elderly and disabled, whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP benefits have been fanatically opposed by Trump and Graham.

The world is a free-fire zone for President Trump; and our active-duty forces are sometimes transformed into war criminals by their commander-in-chief.

Billions of dollars for Israel, and a perverse crusade to block SNAP for our veterans the weekend before this Veterans Day, with a late assist to Trump from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). This is the terrain today.

The national security state budget surpasses $1 trillion each year, viewing with suspicion those few seeking elected office and calling out the perils to our democracy of the security state that lives through secrecy and lies, with no accountability. 

Marines like Graham Platner, oyster farmer, and Democratic Party candidate running for U.S. Senate in Maine in 2026 fight back. "I will never, ever vote to send Americans into a pointless war," vows Platner. 

Platner has drawn the enmity of Sen. Chuck Schumer and other liars in Congress for standing for freedom and truth.

Our country is a betrayal to the people who guard our freedom.

As Eisenhower warned:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.

Veterans, thank you. 

We as the American people should honor you by ensuring you have the country you served.
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Anyone ever see a veteran in the days back home from a Honor Flight? It's wonderful; veterans glow with an expression that appears a mixture of pride, solidarity, even elation. 

I think we can match this glory, or at least come close enough, in the performance we demand from those in government.

I know we should try.

Look to independents who reject partisan blinders. Check out Army Green Beret veteran, Valhalla VFT, and other patriotic independents.
 

Democrats' Smear Against Marine Graham Platner, Maine Senate Candidate, Shows Fatal Party Character Problem

Graham Platner is a Marine and U.S. Army veteran, and oyster 
farmer, running for nomination in the Democratic Party Primary 
for U.S. Senate in Maine.

Vile Democrat Lies Display Dems As Party of Nothing; Puke Party Should Be Saying, Thank You, Marine

Commentary

Graham Platner is a Marine, U.S. Army veteran, oyster farmer, and a Democratic Party candidate running for the U.S. Senate in Maine in 2026, reads this progressive populist's campaign webpage.

Platner is a peace-and-justice, anti-Genocide, pro-privacy, pro-liberty economic populist who is running on a platform that a few decades ago was  more-or-less standard Democratic commitment.

But today; hey, Democrats are the wrong party for Platner, says Chuck Schumer and the liberal media.

You see, Platner right out of high school joined the Marines and fought as an infantryman in four combat deployments in wars that this Marine campaigns on now as pointless and endless. 

And Platner is against Israeli-committed Genocide, never a popular position with the dopes who run the Democratic Party today or hold federal elected office.

Writes Platner:

I have not minced words on this issue. We are sending American taxpayer dollars to underwrite the starvation of Gaza, in what can only be accurately described as a genocide.

I stand with all people seeking peace, democracy, and self-determination. In this moment, that means a clear-eyed condemnation of the Gaza genocide, and the use of every means available to America to bring it to an end.

Now, the Democrat slime machine led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, liberal media and Democrat Party hacks who know nothing about serving our country, or the truth, are slurring Platner as a Nazi sympathizer.

It's bullshit.

In 2007, Platner as a young man was serving downrange as a combat Marine in Croatia, and on shore leave went out drinking with a bunch of other Marines; got very drunk; and visited a tattoo parlor. Horrors.

Platner chose a skull-and-crossbones tattoo from the wall that resembles nothing so much as a Grateful Dead icon, and had the tattoo put on his chest.

So, Democrat Party establishment and liberal media today are trying to say the tattoo is a disqualification for Platner's campaign, because some say the tattoo looks like a Nazi icon from WW II.

The first and last words of this nihilistic Party should be, 'thank you for your service; thank you for being a Marine.'

Guess how many Democrat Senators are standing up and defending Marine Graham Platner?

One. Bernie Sanders. 

Democrats' program of lies, typical opposition research, comes right after national Democrats drafted the 77-year-old Maine governor, Janet Mills, to run against Platner in the Maine U.S. Senate Primary to be held in June 2026.

Democrats are low, weak, devoid of character. Democrats don't care about honor, and this bunch of weaklings are afraid of truth.
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and, from the Right:

 

Uniparty will say anything, smear anybody, to tarnish political opponents. Give me one Marine Graham Platner over the whole bunch of cretins.

Trump's Retribution Against Democrats' Political Prosecutions Is Self Defense

"When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe."
Ralph McGill, referencing Shakespeare   

Commentary

Update: "James Comey Was Sure He Was Above The Law. Supporters Hope He's Right"

As James Comey is arraigned, new documents show the FBI under his watch criminally investigated first, and looked for reasons later. Democrats have rediscovered why political prosecutions are the enemy of Americans in the wake of the federal indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, (U.S. DoJ)," reports Matt Taibbi in Racket News.
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Liberals, in response, are telling us why this Comey political indictment is a betrayal.

They are not wrong, but libs are leaving out a lot.

Honestly, did folks really think Democrats and the liberal establishment regard voters as competent to make the correct decision in the 2024 elections and reelect Joe Biden?

Afterall, democracy was at stake last year, and the hated Trump needed to be indicted by Democrats, lest that pesky American electorate elects Donald Trump again in November, after clear instruction not to vote the wrong way.

It was clear that Democrats in New York, D.C. and Fulton County, [what the hell is wrong with those people?], conducted partisan witch hunts to 'get Trump,' and make him a defendant in four criminal proceedings to preclude the possibility of voting for Trump.

How many times did Democrats exclaim, 'Trump is a convicted felon' during the subsequent 2024 general elections campaign? 

Everything went like clockwork for the liberal establishment right up to Election Day, so liberals believed.

Then, the American people disregarded liberal instruction and voted Trump in again as president. 

Trump has likely ended for a generation tit-for-tat prosecutions of major presidential candidates and party figures.

With out-of-control Democrats, who have even less understanding of classical liberal democracy than Trump, we can be reasonably sure Democrats are not so stupid as to launch a new round of political prosecutions, if they win 2028.

I don't believe Trump is thinking peace and civil liberties today, or even mutual assured destruction, but I guess this is what passes for victory when the major political parties are so steeped in hate and corruption.