Welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing — where we take a fast look at the week’s most considered tales in case you missed any of them. What do you suppose caught people’s consideration as we entered the first full week of January? Grab a cup of espresso (or one thing stronger if you are so inclined), and sit down with this twenty first Century Weekend Edition of your favourite (online) publication.

#1 – The Truth Comes Out About ‘Minneapolis Mom’ Renee Nicole Good – and It Confirms Everything You Suspected — by Teri Christoph

The aforementioned Leesa revealed that Good “was trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training. To listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent.” Leesa added, “I know she was doing the right thing. I watched the video plenty of times but I also know in my heart the woman she was, she was doing everything right.”

Unsurprisingly, we’re also studying that Good and her “spouse” fled to Canada for a few months following the 2024 presidential election, eventually returning to the U.S. and settling in the sanctuary city of Minneapolis. Homeland Security Secretary said Good spent the hours before Wednesday’s shooting “harassing and impeding law enforcement operations.”

#2 – Wife of Slain Minneapolis Domestic Terrorist Allegedly Caught on Tape Filming Incident, Sobbing Afterward — by Bob Hoge

It seems like with many of the anti-ICE protests across the nation, demonstrators appear to treat the whole thing as some sort of game, a challenge, a badge of honor. ICE is not playing around, however, and sooner or later, a tragedy like this was bound to happen. This whole thing could have been prevented if the two women hadn’t tried to thwart a large crew of heavily armed officers from doing their jobs.

This is what endless leftist violent rhetoric has brought us.

Is there a single Democrat who has come out and said that, in light of this shooting, activists should avoid confrontations with and provocations against ICE agents?

Just one?

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 8, 2026

#3 – JD Vance Predicts 2028 Democrat Presidential Nominee — His Pick Is Hilarious and Spot On — by Mike Miller

Vance explained that the only factor the Democrats have to run on (as if all of America would not already know) is their psychotic hatred of Trump:

They don’t have anything to truly run on or govern on. Their complete obsessive focus of that social gathering is that they hate Donald Trump. So if they ever get energy, are they going to, you understand, decrease Americans’ taxes? No. Are they going to make your life more reasonably priced? No. Are they going to clear up the crime disaster? No.

While Democrat political figures continue to argue to the opposite, the fact is the apparent failure of Democrat-run cities and states, from California to Minnesota to New York (not to point out the “fun” we’re already seeing from the younger “democrat socialist” [Marxist] mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani), to a number of other out-of-control Democrat messes across the nation.

#4 – Kamala Condemns Trump for ‘Unlawful and Unwise’ Take Down of Maduro, Gets Hit by Inconvenient Fact — by Rusty Weiss

Harris went on to counsel that Trump had put troops at risk (the operation led to zero U.S. troop losses) and has no exit plan following Maduro’s seize.

Which is wealthy. The low-I.Q. Wine Mom who defended the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which infamously resulted in the death of 13 U.S. service members and wounded dozens more, particularly because the Biden-Harris administration had no coherent plan, has some ideas on troop dangers and exit strategy. 

Thank goodness this girl will not be sitting in the White House proper now.

“America needs leadership whose priorities are lowering costs for working families, enforcing the rule of law, strengthening alliances, and — most importantly — putting the American people first,” she concluded.

Harris, of course, was half of an administration that did the precise reverse of every speaking level in that last sentence.

#5 – Employee of MN Marriott Hotel Who Stole ICE Agents’ Info, Doxed Them Online Learns the Hard Way — by Jennifer Oliver O’Connell

We know what the Left actually desires are useless ICE brokers. Full stop. This is why they bitch about ICE brokers sporting masks and obscuring the license plates on their automobiles: they need them uncovered and weak; as if they are not already. The brokers do all they will to defend their names and personal data, because a leak of any of this data that may be traced back to them will expose not just him or her, but their households and pals. 

It’s not just their lives that are on the road, and with mentally unstable people just like the transgender-leaning man who not too long ago tried to break into the Ohio home of VP JD Vance and the one who deliberate to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, but was arrested around his D.C. home, these brokers can not afford to have their family members put at risk.

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