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Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old American mom and wife, was shot in the head and killed by ICE.

MAGA did this.

Hate caused this.

There is video. Michael D. Sellers provides a preliminary forensic breakdown of what happened here:

The evidence speaks for itself.

After Good was murdered by America’s Gestapo, ICE thugs prevented medical personnel from reaching her and obstructed an ambulance crew.

Witnesses reported that her dead body was being handled like a piece of garbage.

After the murder and the desecration of her body by Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller’s masked agents, she was smeared as a “domestic terrorist” and called a “professional agitator” by America’s fascist president, who has threatened to wage war against six different countries, including Denmark in the first week of the New Year.

The lying, gaslighting, and belligerence of Trump and his thugs is beyond fantastical.

What we are witnessing is madness that beggars belief, and puts to shame the propaganda of history’s most terrifying regimes.

Let me be clear about something.

The narrative released by the White House about January 6th is a declaration of war against objective reality and historical truths that were documented and are preserved forever.

There is no debate to be had about what happened on January 6, 2021, and there is no debate to be had about the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good.

Trump’s little Eichmanns are turning deadly.

They are destroying the American republic, which, despite all of its flaws, is the greatest achievement in the annals of human civilization.

It is dying under the weight of indifference, malice, contempt, corruption, incompetence, and most inexcusably, constant appeasement.

The American people are trapped in a vise between the malice of MAGA and the awful, ineffectual and impotent leadership of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, the 21st century’s answer to Neville Chamberlain and Édouard Daladier.

The Republican majority is terrified of Trump, contemptuous of the American people, and utterly derelict towards their oaths and duty.

The Democratic minority opposes MAGA, but not enough to depose their feckless leaders, who refuse to make a principled stand against the degeneracy and won’t fight back with every ounce of power they have.

There have been exactly zero lessons learned by Democratic leaders after the disaster of 2024.

Zero.

It is appalling and unconscionable.

The Democrats need a Ulysses S. Grant, and are saddled with two George B. McClellans from Brooklyn.

Chuck Schumer is weak and pathetic. He is unfit for this moment, and his continued service as leader is a threat to my children’s future.

Yours too.

On Tuesday, Schumer was asked if he regretted voting to confirm Marco Rubio as secretary of state. His response was that he was “deeply, deeply disappointed in Marco Rubio even before Venezuela and even more so now.” The next day, he was photographed hugging Rubio.

Meanwhile here’s Rubio and Schumer chopping it up today

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) 2026-01-07T18:21:54.029Z

What’s the word I’m looking for?

CHURCHILLIAN?

Are we still winning?

The Republican Party is a national disgrace. It is filled floor to ceiling with cranks, sycophants, miscreants, felons, and faithless hustlers, whose selfishness, weakness and constitutional abdications have created the greatest national emergency since 1861.

They have imperiled the future of the United States and risked the peace of the world.

These words were spoken by John Kennedy in his inaugural address in January of 1961:

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

They were fully repudiated by Donald Trump this January.

These words were spoken by Stephen Miller:

That whole period after World War II where the West began apologizing and groveling and begging — that’s over.

These words were spoken by Karoline Leavitt:

We obviously have maximum leverage over the interim authorities in Venezuela right now.

I want to be perfectly precise and deliberate with my next sentence in describing the rhetoric of Miller, Noem, and Leavitt, and the twisted philosophy that underpins it all.

They are Nazis.

They are emulating the language of Hitler speaking about Austria and Poland in 1937, 1938, and 1939.

They are emulating the language of Hitler, Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, Julius Streicher, and Reinhard Heydrich regarding opposition and dissent.

They are mirroring the language of the Nazis as they dehumanize immigrants and minorities, calling them “animals,” and stripping from them any dignity.

Hitler justified his invasion of Poland as self-defense.

Each act of aggression was justified with lies, deception, and propaganda.

Here is what Hitler believed about lies:

The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Fantastical lying over killing by the state is always a prelude to more killings — and inevitably war.

Ignorance of this reality does not affect the outcomes that have been set in motion by the events that are driving the whole world into the abyss.

The center is not holding and things are falling apart.

Donald Trump’s threats against Greenland will bring ruin to America, should they come to pass.

Trump’s insanity and aggression have the potential to start World War III by unleashing a cascade of chaos across the planet.

The consequences will not be containable. The result will be a catastrophic unwinding of the world as we have known it.

Aggression against Europe by America would ultimately widen into war on North American soil between Canadians and Americans, which would lead, ultimately, to a second American civil war. The original was the deadliest war in our history. The death toll would be astronomical, and it would touch every city, town, and rural community in America.

Donald Trump is cracking open Pandora’s box, and there is nothing but misery that will come from it.

NATO, as a practical matter, no longer exists. The alliance, the most powerful and effective in world history, has been wrecked by Trump and his posse of extremists.

The United States cannot be trusted.

Trump’s inaugural address repudiated the Atlantic Charter. The first week of January 2026 has seen the wholesale repudiation of NATO, the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international law, and the US Constitution by the Trump regime.

What happened in Minnesota to a 37-year-old mother was MAGA’s Kent State. The main difference is that the killing is only just getting started.

The killers have become enamored of their power and hypnotized by a delusion that they are judge, jury, and executioner in the name of “making America great again.”

MAGA is a disease. It is a disease that is strangling America.

Yesterday, after some performative weeping, MAGA Tony Dokoupil, the lighter-than-air hair model turned shallowest anchorman in broadcast history, said this about Marco Rubio, who is directly responsible for dismantling USAID programs that will kill in excess of an estimated 14 million human beings by 2030 and is the chief architect of the Venezuela debacle.

Next, he offered a 16-second report on the White House propaganda about what happened on January 6 by saying this:

President Trump today accused Democrats of failing to prevent the attack on the Capitol, while House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused the president of, quote, “whitewashing” it. We’ll be right back.

Sounds about right?

The broadcast began with a propaganda package about Kristi Noem and her ICE thugs that presented like a low-rent “Cops” episode with two extra scoops of xenophobia.

Bari Weiss is MAGA’s Leni Riefenstahl.

Less than 24 hours after the propaganda package, ICE thugs killed a Minnesota mom in a minivan and called her a “domestic terrorist.”

It is shameful, despicable, and un-American.

I will not be intimated by the bluster of thugs and fascists.

I will not cower in the face of their lies and propaganda.

Neither should you.

I will never abide what is happening, nor will I submit to it.

I will oppose it until my dying breath.

So should you.

We have entered a period of prolonged national emergency. Denying this reality will make things worse, not better.

There are 10 specific actions that should be taken immediately:

1. Governor Andy Beshear of the Democratic Governors Association should call an emergency meeting of every Democratic governor, and invite any Republican who remains loyal to the country over their seditious party.
2. The governors should make a joint statement and enter into a series of interstate compacts that increase their collective power to oppose the Trump fascists. They should issue a statement of principles, a set of commitments to the American people, and a set of demands towards MAGA.
3. The governors should coordinate calling their legislatures into special emergency sessions to pass a series of resolutions that express loyalty to the Constitution, and lay out the case against MAGA and its assault against the American people. Each state and each legislative body should assert its sovereignty and power in defense of the US Constitution with concrete measures. This includes the full use of every legal power and authority at their disposal from hearings, subpoenas, investigations, and full use of the states’ pension funds in the name of preserving American liberty.
4. The Democratic Senate minority should replace Schumer and his leadership team immediately. This isn’t just a pragmatic imperative. It is a moral one. At this point, the line between collaboration and appeasement is thin and broken. Chuck Schumer serves the cause of MAGA as diligently as do Lindsey Graham and Markwayne Mullin.
5. House Democrats should seek to topple the Mike Johnson speakership by cutting whatever deal needs to be cut to make Thomas Massie or Adam Kinzinger the speaker of the House until the November elections, when a Democratic majority takes command. This is possible. The MAGA majority is down to five seats. Republicans know that they will lose the majority in November. This is the Titanic strategy. All that is required is helping a few Republicans into the early lifeboats. The people who got into early lifeboats on the Titanic had long and happy lives. The ones who didn’t were fished out of the North Atlantic frozen solid and mostly buried in Halifax. It’s a compelling tale when properly presented.
6. Congress must be prepared to use its full constitutional powers, including the powers of inherent contempt and the purse, to make the madness stop. This won’t happen until the MAGA majority is deposed.
7. MAGA opposition groups should coordinate boycotts of Hilton Hotels, which has punished a hotel franchisee, who refused to serve ICE agents, by kicking him out of the Hilton franchise. Pain is always the best teacher, and an example must be set. Hilton is an easy target.
8. Opposition groups should begin organizing an athlete boycott of the Olympic opening ceremonies, which will include a parade past Trump that will be reminiscent of the march past Hitler in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. No moral person will participate in the parade. No decent nation will dip their flag to the American fascist behind the desecrated Seal of the President of the United States.
9. Opposition groups should urge boycotts of World Cup games in the United States, and urge teams to refuse to play in American stadiums. The matches can take place in Mexico and Canada. Foreign tourists should be asked to stand with the American people by refusing to travel to the United States. Don’t come.
10. Opposition groups should begin the process of coordinating national strikes and peaceful civil disobedience campaigns that will bring the United States to a complete standstill until the insanity ceases.

Last January, Elon Musk dropped the mask hours after the inauguration.

Yesterday, the last mask dropped, and the dude who shot Renee Nicole Good most certainly does not abide. Not at all.

As a service to our readers, we curate noteworthy stories through partnerships with outside writers and thinkers. Steve Schmidt, who is co-founder of The Warning, served in the administration of George W. Bush and as a top GOP campaign strategist. He spent a decade as an analyst with MSNBC, leaving that position to found the Lincoln Project. This column, which solely represents the author’s views, has been adapted with the author’s permission from The Warning with Steve Schmidt.