Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 1/22/2026
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9:06
Show Open:
- Mob of Protesters Barge into Minnesota Church in Lawless, Demonic Display Without Consequence!
- A recent episode of Crossroads highlights a troubling convergence of trends that are no longer isolated incidents, but symptoms of a broader breakdown in constitutional norms. Senior Investigative Reporter for the Epoch Times, Joshua Philipp examines how the storming of a church by anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota — now under DOJ investigation — fits into a growing pattern of selective enforcement, institutional intimidation, and ideological double standards.
- Prolife supporters would not dare storm a Planned Parenthood location!
- Philipp places this controversy alongside two parallel developments: California’s proposed “billionaire tax” and the accelerating flight of wealth and capital from the state, and the expanding practice of debanking — including President Trump’s claim that JPMorgan Chase moved to cut him off financially after January 6th. Viewed together, these stories point to a deeper issue: the use of institutional power — legal, financial, and regulatory — to pressure or punish disfavored groups.
- How does the Minnesota church incident signal a broader breakdown in respect for religious freedom and assembly?
- Why do similar acts of protest receive vastly different legal treatment depending on political ideology?
- What civil rights or religious discrimination charges could realistically emerge from this case?
- How does selective enforcement undermine public trust in the Justice Department and the rule of law?
- Why is the comparison to prosecutions under the FACE Act legally and constitutionally significant?
- How do de-banking practices expand the use of institutional power beyond traditional law enforcement?
- What connects the church disruption, billionaire flight from California, and financial targeting of political figures?
- Are we witnessing the rise of informal punishment systems that bypass due process altogether?
Panelist:
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning journalist and Senior Investigative Reporter at The Epoch Times. He is the host of ‘Crossroads,’ a news and analysis program on Epoch-TV.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/crossroads
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9:20
Segment Topic:
- James Comer promises more investigations into government fraud!
- Haven’t we heard this song from Comer before?
- One year into the second Trump administration, demonstrations against a presidency marked by intensified enforcement against illegal immigration took place across the United States, including the nation’s capital.
- On the evening of Jan. 20, a few hundred protesters took to the chilly streets of Washington to denounce U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
- Led by a Marxist group, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and escorted by law enforcement, the demonstrators marched over a mile, ending just outside Lafayette Square near the White House. (Nathan Worcester/The Epoch Times)
- Former special counsel Jack Smith is set to appear Thursday on Capitol Hill for a televised hearing, during which he will face questions from House Judiciary Committee Republicans and Democrats about his two prosecutions of President Donald Trump.
- Republicans, led by Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, are expected to level allegations at Smith that he brought politicized criminal charges against a leading presidential candidate to interfere with the 2024 election.
- Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he would back a push to impeach judges blocking President Donald Trump's agenda on Wednesday.
- While it's never something Johnson explicitly ruled out, his support comes after House GOP leaders signaled opposition to such a move last year. At the time, leaders argued impeachment was not a practical punishment for what Republicans widely saw as activist judges trying to influence the administration's policy.
- But he told reporters at his weekly press conference that while he believed impeachment is still an "extreme measure," that "extreme times call for extreme measures."
Panelist:
Nathan Worcester; award-winning journalist for the Epoch Times. Nathan is based in Washington DC.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/author/nathan-worcester
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9:35
Monologue:
“America’s Communist Revolutionaries” (rebroadcast from 9/27/21)
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9:50
Segment Topic:
- ‘Board of Peace’ Charter signed in Davos earlier today with 20 countries signing on!
- Putin included!
- New board goes beyond Gaza, reflecting new world order where Europe matters less, analysts say.
- Israel sees the Palestinian governing committee as very problematic. Why?
Panelist:
Kenneth Abramowitz, author of The Multifront War: Defending America From Political Islam, China, Russia, Pandemics, and Racial Strife. Ken is the founder of savethewest.com, a website dedicated to saving Western Civilization from itself.
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10:05
Segment Topic:
- How should the Constitution have protected worshippers last Sunday in St. Paul MN and how should those who invaded a church be punished?
- How should the Constitution punish those who violated the protections of those inside the church who were praying?
- Appeals court hands Trump administration 'victory' in Minnesota ICE force restrictions case.
- Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrates ruling that temporarily lifts limits on immigration agents in Minnesota.
- A jury returned a not guilty verdict Wednesday evening in the trialof former Uvalde school police officer Adrian Gonzales, charged with 29 counts of child abandonment or endangerment tied to the May 24, 2022 Robb Elementary shooting.
- The jury deliberated for only 7 hours before returning the verdict.
- Gonzales faced charges tied to the early minutes of the Robb Elementary attack. Nineteen children and two adults died in the shooting, which is the deadliest in Texas history according to the Texas Tribune.
- New York Citydetectives say they were treated rudely and disrespectfully last week after they were mistaken for federal immigration agents while seeking treatment at a hospital after an arrest.
- The officers went to NYU Langone/Cobble Hill Hospital in Brooklyn after a fight with a drug suspect, the New York Post reported.
- "[Hospital staff] were nasty to the officers in the waiting room, accused them of being ICE and suggested they go elsewhere," one source familiar with the incident told the newspaper. (Fox News)
- A judge ruled Wednesday that the configuration of New York City’slone congressional district represented by a Republican is unconstitutional, ordering the state to redraw the district by next month.
- State Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Pearlman ruled that the composition of New York's 11th Congressional District— which covers all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn — unconstitutionally diluted the votes of Black and Hispanic residents. He ordered the Independent Redistricting Commission to complete a new map by Feb. 6.
- The district is held by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., who won her seat in 2020. She slammed the ruling in a statement Wednesday, calling it "a frivolous attempt by Washington Democrats to steal this congressional seat from the people and we are very confident that we will prevail at the end of the day. (Fox News)
- “The American Police State Has Arrived.”
- A police state is the antithesis of the constitutional scheme advanced by Jefferson and Madison.
- In a police state, the laws are written so as to appear to defend freedom; but they are enforced and interpreted so as to enhance the power of the government.
- When the government tries to intimidate people into silence, when it brutalizes people who shake their fists at its agents, when it threatens to criminalize speech by public officials critical of it, when it terrorizes those who speak their minds -- and gets away with these
- unconstitutional and stomach-churning acts -- the American police state has arrived.
- Doesn’t a police state work both ways when radicals deliberately prevent Americans from praying inside a church?
Panelist:
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst, Newsmax, Host: Judging Freedom Podcast
Judge Napolitano’s latest opinion piece: “The American Police State has arrived.” https://judgenap.com/
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10:33
Segment Topic:
- Anti-ICE Agitator Stands by Church Invasion, While Her Allies Remain Silent!
- What is the difference between someone who shoots up congregants inside a church and what those who stormed an innocent church in St. Paul last Sunday?
- Nekima Armstrong, leader of the Racial Justice Network and a former president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP, told Democracy Nowthat she does not regret helping to lead the protest.
- “We are unapologetic about going into the church,” Armstrong said. She called it a “conflict of interest” for a pastor to oversee “the brutal conduct of ICE agents.”
- The Department of Justice is investigating the church invasionand is considering charges against Armstrong and others.
- When asked about the prospect of facing charges, Armstrong called it “hypocrisy” that the Justice Department would investigate the agitators but not the ICE agent who shot Good. She also faulted President Donald Trump for enabling ICE to arrest illegal aliens inside churches with a warrant.
- The Daily Signal reached out to the Racial Justice Network and to other activist groups organizing anti-ICE actions in the Twin Cities area for comment and did not receive responses by press time.
- The activist groups have organized efforts to monitor federal agents, actively disrupt immigration enforcement operations, and conduct “sit-in” protests.
- Do you believe that flooding Minnesota with paid revolutionaries was intentional to destabilize the Twin Cities and State government to divert attention away from billions of dollars in fraud?
- Who is this group: Indivisible Twin Cities?
- Tyler, you posted on X: MN ICE Watch published screenshots from a "de-arrest primer," which advocates direct tactics for agitators to place their bodies between ICE and the illegals ICE is arresting.
- What is “612?”
- “Rockefeller, Tides, Amalgamated, and Proteus sound familiar... Oh yeah, they're some of the same groups that sent money to the leftist NGOs that staffed and advised the Biden administration, which I exposed in The Woketopus.” (Tyler ONeil/X)
- Does anyone really believe that Pam Bondi is going to pursue indictments against anyone associated with the insurrection in MN?
Panelist:
Tyler O'Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center," and "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government."
https://www.dailysignal.com/author/tyler-oneil/
11:06
Segment Topic:
- Canada climbs into bed with Xi Jinping; continues to hammer the United States!
- Lines and lines of Albertans line up to sign petition to secede from Canada last weekend.
- A reporter for NewsNation traveled to the state of Maine and uncovered more possible fraud.
- He highlighted one particular building that is supposedly home to ten Somali-owned home healthcare companies, yet when he interviewed the landlord, he said that there is never anyone there.
- He then interviews a local newspaper reporter who points out various locations that are also supposedly home healthcare companies, which just so happen to be next door to businesses that can wire money to Somalia. (The Gateway Pundit/Mike LaChance)
- REPORT: The FCC is Going to Start Cracking Down on Partisan TV Shows That Exist Only to Bash One Side Every Single Day. (The Gateway Pundit/Mike LaChance)
- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is cracking down on partisan talk shows in both daytime and late night in an effort to provide equal treatment for political candidates.
- The FCC announced Wednesday it is providing guidance to the three broadcast networks to adhere to the “statutory equal opportunities requirement,” citing the Communications Act of 1934, “including their airing of late night and daytime talk shows.”
- “Under section 315, if a broadcast station permits any legally qualified candidate for public office to use its facilities, it shall provide an equal opportunity to all other legally qualified candidates for that office,” the FCC wrote in a press release.
- Do we really want to police the airwaves after the Dem-Com’s tried to silence Rush with the: Hush-Rush Act?”
Panelist:
Jim Hoft, Editor: The Gateway Pundit
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11:33
Segment Topic:
- President Trump’s trip to Davos began with an electrical failure aboard AF1, however, it ended with him claiming victory on Greenland and the EU looks like fools for sending 37 soldiers to repel a U.S. invasion which never occurred.
- This is the first year I can remember that an American president controlled the narrative at Davos and “CLIMATE CHANGE” was took a back seat.
- What are the economic aspects to the: Board of peace? Is it strictly foreign investment in Gaza?
- Even though we still await the SCOTUS decision on tariffs, there can be little doubt as to their leverage when you witnessed how Germany reacted to a Trump threat of additional tariffs.
Panelist:
Julia Cartwright, economist with the American Institute for Economic Research
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11:50 Salute the Troops
USAF 2nd Lt. Chavis Kendrick
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