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Sign Petition: Trump Struck Venezuela and 'Captured' Its President, Claiming Control of Its Oil Reserves and Govern
Explosions hit multiple places in the sovereign country, while world leaders condemned this obvious violation of international law. (22919 signatures on petition)
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January 7, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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Why the US Invasion of Venezuela Will End in Disaster
Over the weekend, US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, bringing him to New York to face federal drug trafficking charges.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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January 7, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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www.alternet.org/trump-milita...
Trump threatens the last safeguard to democracy
In November, six Democratic lawmakers recorded a video directed at members of the US military and intelligence agencies. In it, they issued a blunt reminder:The laws are clear: you can refuse illegal ...
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January 7, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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www.alternet.org/trump-nation...
Department of Interior alters rules to void annual passes if visitors cover Trump’s face
Opponents of President Donald Trump were planning to use stickers to cover images of him on passes for national parks — for example, a happy face sticker that would cover the Trump part of an image de...
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January 6, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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MAGA influencers losing audiences after defending Trump's Venezuela invasion
Several prominent commentators within the MAGA movement have ignited an uproar among their audiences for supporting President Donald Trump's invasion of Venezuela.That's according to a Monday article ...
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January 6, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Trump bucks free market with 'extensive' private-sector intrusions: political scientists
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has imposed an array of new rules on federal government agencies that Democratic opponents consider heavy-handed. But Trump, critics say, is ...
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January 6, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Economist details '$100-$150 billion per year' reason Trump grabbed Maduro
A leading international economist said Sunday that the US invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of its socialist leader are about reasserting control over the world’s largest petroleum reserves by Wash...
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January 6, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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Trump is 'deepening the swamp' he claimed to drain: analysis
Donald Trump has campaigned for his entire political career on "draining the swamp" of corruption in politics, but as one legal expert observed on Monday, his relentless fundraising and commitment to ...
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January 6, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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www.alternet.org/emil-bove/?u...
Legal ethicists fear Trump loyalist is 'carrying water' for president on the bench
After his short tenure at the Justice Department, President Donald Trump's loyalist, Emil Bove now begins his first full year sitting on the federal appeals court bench. It begs the question of how fa...
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January 6, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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MAGA’s America First faction 'falls in line' with Trump’s interventionism: analysis
Donald Trump ran for reelection with the slogan of "America First" and a promise to end costly foreign wars, but as the new year kicked off, he seemed to break that promise in a major way with his mil...
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January 6, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Meet the billionaire Trump donor set to make a killing on Venezuela
One of President Donald Trump’s top billionaire donors, who has spent the past several months backing a push for regime change in Venezuela, is about to cash in after the president’s kidnapping of the...
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January 6, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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Trump proves a point he made in 2016 — but he's not alone
Donald Trump joked in 2016 that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose support. In 2024, after two impeachments and 34 felony convictions, he has more or less p...
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January 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Trump’s Cargo Cult Imperialism in Venezuela - The American Prospect
Stealing Venezuela's oil is lunacy, but that won’t stop Donald Trump from trying.
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January 6, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump’s America Is Acting Like a Mafia State
Trump will take what he wants, when he wants, how he wants, because he believes he has the might to impose his will.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Top General Slams Trump's Stalinesque Takeover of the Military
A former major general has sounded the alarm on the Pentagon’s “Stalin problem.”
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January 6, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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www.thedailybeast.com/how-trumps-b...
How Trump’s Big Moment Left Him Truly Exposed: Political Guru
“There was no remaining plan,” foreign policy analyst David Rothkopf tells “The Daily Beast Podcast.”
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January 6, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Trump Admits U.S. Taxpayers Are on the Hook for His Venezuelan Oil Plan
The president says it will cost a “tremendous” amount to salvage Venezuela’s oil industry.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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www.thedailybeast.com/republican-s...
Republican Shreds Stephen Miller’s ‘Really Dumb’ Idea
The senior White House aide went on CNN to reiterate the administration’s desire to seize Greenland.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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www.thedailybeast.com/how-nicolas-...
How Nicolás Maduro Turned a Courtroom Into a Political Theater
Special correspondent Michael Daly delivers a riveting dispatch from Manhattan’s notorious courtroom 26A, where Nicolás Maduro spent his first day in court.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Murdoch Paper Trashes Pentagon Pete’s Poisonous Revenge Plot
“The larger loss here is to the country,” The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
DOJ Admits Vast Scale of Epstein Files It Has Failed to Release
Less than 1 percent of the files have been reviewed so far.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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www.thedailybeast.com/maga-coded-c...
MAGA-Coded CBS Anchor Falls Apart in Evening News Debut
Tony Dokoupil had a rough go of it during his first official night in the anchor’s chair.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
Preschool Teacher, 22, Arrested on TV After Condemning Trump
Cops moved in with handcuffs while the teacher was still on camera.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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The US Is a Weakened and Dangerous Empire
The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is a crude act of Trumpian aggression. Yet it also illustrates the US leadership’s weakness, as it moves to lock down control of the Western Hemis...
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January 6, 2026 at 6:48 PM