CURRENT EVENTS - JANUARY 2026

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“… One landmark event was a standoff that unfolded in 2014, when Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy refused to pay the fees for grazing his cattle on public lands. Hundreds of Bundy’s conservative, anti-government backers faced off against federal agents, who ultimately backed down.

“I’m just afraid of what this government is capable of doing. I mean, we saw what happened in Waco,” media host Sean Hannity, a strong Bundy supporter, said at the time. “The government needs to stand down.”

In the current crisis, Hannity has portrayed federal agents as professionals carrying out the necessary task of pursuing criminals. “Democrats wax poetic about criminals while vilifying ICE agents, professionals, for upholding the law,” Hannity said on a recent program. “The supremacy clause of the Constitution establishes federal law as the supreme law of the land.”

Conservative commentator Laura Ingraham called IRS agents under President Joe Biden a “new Gestapo” that would be deployed “in the same abusive, corrupt manner as the FBI and the DOJ have been used,” according to a report by the liberal group Media Matters for America.

But when it comes to Minneapolis, Ingraham has called it“borderline illegal” for Democratic lawmakers to disparage ICE agents and floated the notion that Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act to send the U.S. military into the city….”
 
nycfan said:
“… One landmark event was a standoff that unfolded in 2014, when Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy refused to pay the fees for grazing his cattle on public lands. Hundreds of Bundy’s conservative, anti-government backers faced off against federal agents, who ultimately backed down.

“I’m just afraid of what this government is capable of doing. I mean, we saw what happened in Waco,” media host Sean Hannity, a strong Bundy supporter, said at the time. “The government needs to stand down.”

In the current crisis, Hannity has portrayed federal agents as professionals carrying out the necessary task of pursuing criminals. “Democrats wax poetic about criminals while vilifying ICE agents, professionals, for upholding the law,” Hannity said on a recent program. “The supremacy clause of the Constitution establishes federal law as the supreme law of the land.”

Conservative commentator Laura Ingraham called IRS agents under President Joe Biden a “new Gestapo” that would be deployed “in the same abusive, corrupt manner as the FBI and the DOJ have been used,” according to a report by the liberal group Media Matters for America.

But when it comes to Minneapolis, Ingraham has called it“borderline illegal” for Democratic lawmakers to disparage ICE agents and floated the notion that Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act to send the U.S. military into the city….”
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“… Either way, the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents serve as notable reference points for the clashes unfolding today. Their drama and bloodshed 30 years ago ingrained a hostility toward government policing in the populist right, even if many of today’s activists do not personally remember them.

…Ruby Ridge and Waco quickly became wrapped together to represent the notion that the federal government, represented by its law enforcement agents, was a tyrannical force quick to act against the interest of ordinary Americans.

The National Rifle Association even sent out a fundraising letter in April 1995 calling federal agents “jackbooted government thugs.”

And an Army veteran named Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people including 19 children, intentionally choosing the second anniversary of the Waco raid.

Anti-government groups have been a presence on the American scene ever since, their numbers waxing and waning, adopting names like Citizen Sovereign and County Supremacy. Many of their members support Trump, experts say, and many were in evidence during the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.…”
 


Rodríguez says she and other top figures were given 15 minutes to comply with Washington’s demands, claiming the “pressure and blackmail were constant.”
 
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