America First Federalism: Fund the Cops, Crush the Cartels, Flip the Optics
900 Badges Activated — Trump Turns Local Cops Into ICE’s Forward Operating Units.”
This isn’t drift. Its design. The walls are closing on the cartel class, and the swamp just felt the ground shift. Tonight: enforcement becomes infrastructure.
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Trump’s DHS Locks In 287(g) Army — 900+ Departments, Paid to Hunt the Worst
The move is clean and lethal: DHS just scaled 287(g) from a niche tool to a national dragnet. From 135 agreements when Trump re-entered the Oval, the network now sits just shy of a thousand departments—sheriffs and city cops wired directly into ICE. That’s not a press release. That’s infrastructure.
Media spin says “controversial.” Translation: unstoppable. The money changed the geometry. Starting October 1, DHS will reimburse partner agencies for officers’ salaries, benefits, and overtime—then layer quarterly performance rewards on top. Hit the targets, get paid. Miss the targets, explain it to your voters. That flips city halls faster than any speech.
Kristi Noem’s shop framed it bluntly: powered by Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill—the muscle behind the surge in partnerships and ICE hiring. Deputy Director Madison Sheahan is selling it like wartime procurement: join up, get funded, help pull murderers, gangsters, rapists, terrorists, and pedophiles out of the rotation. It’s transactional federalism with teeth, and the left hates it because it works in places they thought they locked down.
Reality check for sanctuary mayors: this isn’t street theater. 287(g) deputizes your jail pipeline and patrol intel. When your officers scan, ICE moves, custody flips, planes fly. The previous regime tried to cripple this program; Trump just turned it into a budget-backed machine and dared blue jurisdictions to walk away from free manpower and safer streets. Watch who caves first.
Implications for the movement: morale spike for line cops, panic spike for cartel logisticians, and a message to every swing county—Trump pays for outcomes. The operational map expands, the deportation queue accelerates, and the “we can’t” chorus gets drowned out by direct deposits. This is what America First governance looks like: align incentives, crush crime, and sideline the nonprofit industrial complex. Next shoe to drop: more judges, more beds, faster removals. Stay frosty.
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CIRCLE OF POWER
Offshore Wind Money Pit Meets the Guillotine
Trump’s energy war room just tightened the vise: DOJ moved to vacate approval for Avangrid’s New England Wind off Massachusetts—another clean slice in a broader rollback that’s already hit Revolution Wind and yanked port cash in California. Translation: the donor-class turbine racket is losing federal air cover. The Hill flagged the latest strike; Reuters and WaPo map the legal kill box; San Francisco’s political class is screaming about lost subsidies. Result: billions in shaky green bets, rattled financiers, and a grid strategy that prioritizes reliability over rituals. The climate priesthood took the podium; Trump took the pen.
Vance at Ground Zero: Pray for Sophia. Remember Harper and Fletcher.
JD Vance went straight to Annunciation Catholic in Minneapolis, met grieving families, and delivered the ask: pray for Sophia, still fighting; honor the memory of Harper (10) and Fletcher (8). No theatrics. Just presence, names, and a call to keep the focus on victims over infamy. Local and national outlets confirm the toll and the aftermath; RedState captured Vance’s on-scene appeal in his own words. This is what leadership looks like under fire—attention on families, not the fame-starved killer. The Beltway snarks analyze optics; Vance carried water for the broken.
Senate GOP Sets the Trigger: En Bloc Confirmations Incoming
Clock’s out on Democrat slow-walks. Senate Republicans are lining up a rules change to confirm Trump nominees in large tranches, bypassing the blockade that’s jammed the executive branch and key boards. Cabinet and SCOTUS picks remain on their own track, but the rest could move fast—simple majority, within weeks. Call it the anti-filibuster for bureaucratic sabotage. Politico, AP, and Bloomberg all read the same tea leaves: the votes are there, the appetite is high, and the staff work is done. The permanent government just lost its favorite stalling tactic.
Stefanik Moves on the Woke Gatekeepers
Elise Stefanik dropped the Fairness in Higher Education Accreditation Act—the House companion to Sen. Jim Banks’ bill—to codify Trump’s accreditation EO and choke off accreditors who enforce DEI quotas by threat of recognition. Priorities: academic freedom, lawful standards, and competition among accreditors. The paper trail is clean: White House EO on April 23, Banks’ S.1569 text, Stefanik’s release, and Breitbart’s exclusive. This is how you dismantle soft power—starve the credential cartel of leverage, force neutrality, and let institutions teach instead of preach. The accreditation priesthood just met oversight with teeth.
New Orleans on Deck: Guard Surge if the City Can’t Hold
Trump signaled National Guard deployment to New Orleans if city leadership can’t stabilize streets—this time in a red-state framework where Gov. Jeff Landry is open to coordination. AP and WaPo frame the politics; local outlets capture the ground truth. The message is familiar: partner up, restore order, ignore the pearl-clutching. The left will cry “overreach” while residents just want nights without sirens. If NOLA invites backup, the model scales: state consent, rapid deployments, measurable calm. Crime czars and nonprofit apologists can write op-eds; Trump is writing timelines.
ENEMY FIRE
“Oh no, clean energy is collapsing!” say the climate alarmists
Cue the scenic sob‑fest from Northeast governors—and a who’s‑who of green groups—warning that dumping offshore wind jobs and projects (like Revolution Wind and New England Wind) is a catastrophic blow to climate goals and investor confidence. Their spin: Trump is sabotaging a $100 billion clean‑energy boom. Translation: they’re mad their subsidies are getting cut and the gravy train is being rerouted.
Democrats and legal activists: “Echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale!”
Legal hawks and the Left unleashed the court mobs—like this appeals court ruling slamming Trump’s misuse of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans—calling it “overreach” and “unconstitutional.” Democrats and groups like the ACLU hailed it as a sacred victory for due process. Cue the solemn opera: “Not in our democracy!”
“Trauma theater in Maryland!” Dems lament ICE’s humaneness deficit
Maryland lawmakers condemned ICE’s enforcement tactics—broken car windows, detaining non‑criminals, trauma in front of children—and demanded “respect and empathy.” No mention of public safety. Their framing: “authoritarian cruelty.” Their real message: make it stop—before it becomes popular with voters.
THE RECEIPTS
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BATTLE MAP
DHS isn’t slowing—expect Kristi Noem to dangle even richer reimbursement carrots to flip holdout sheriffs in blue counties. Senate GOP’s rules shift could break the dam and move dozens of Trump picks by mid-month, stacking agencies with loyalists. Offshore wind lawsuits are hitting federal courts fast, meaning energy fights shift from ribbon cuttings to injunction battles. And if New Orleans pulls the Guard trigger, other crime-plagued cities will test the model—Trump’s federal-state strike teams as the new standard.
Together with The Ledger
Trump isn’t just governing. He’s weaponizing the courts.
This issue drills into the judicial battlefield—how Trump’s bench picks, shadow-docket wins, and strategic alliances are reshaping the limits of executive power. From immigration crackdowns to regulatory rollbacks, the courtrooms are no longer neutral—they’re forward operating bases.
You’ll see:
Judges loyal to America First, locked in.
Supreme Court fast-tracks that bypass the old guard.
Blue-city mayors warning of “democracy in peril” while Trump stacks victories.
The Trump-Kennedy MAHA axis bending institutions to will.
The ruling class calls it a threat. We call it power.
The Ledger #016 - Trump, the Courts, and the Shadow State
Trump just nominated five new federal judges across Alabama and Mississippi — his twenty-first set of lifetime picks since January. These aren’t ceremonial appointments. They are the foundation of a power struggle between a president reclaiming the judiciary and a “shadow state” that has long bent courts, agencies, and administrative machinery to override elections.
The regime keeps screaming “threat to democracy.” Translation: their grip is slipping. Trump’s courts aren’t a sideshow—they’re the battlefield. Every ruling, every appointment, every shadow-docket strike redraws the map. The swamp thought checks and balances would save them. Instead, the balance just tipped.
~ Scott 🇺🇸
PS: The fight doesn’t pause. Tomorrow’s flashpoint could be a Senate rules vote, a Supreme Court midnight order, or a governor begging for Guard backup. Stay on channel. Stay armed with intel. This war isn’t theoretical—it’s live.
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Great post about what’s happening “behind the enemy lines” of Deep State and Woke Liberal Communism as Trump is rewiring the polarity of the motor that drives freedom in USA!