Greetings everyone, and Happy New Year. Welcome to a new year for our weekly constitutional briefs, meant to inspire thought and share perspectives and insights.

Boy howdy, are we off to a start in this new year, 2026, where we will celebrate 250 years of American independence. Unfortunately, our dear Marxist leftist friends would prefer our embracing the “warmth of collectivism” instead of honoring the “rugged individualism” that fought and built this great Nation. Delusional socialists like Zohran Mamdani need to read the Declaration of Independence and refresh themselves on the fact that America was established on the premise of individual sovereignty because our individual, not collective, rights emanate from the Judeo-Christian faith heritage God and Creator…not government. As well, government exists based upon the consent of the governed, rugged individuals, not collective mindless lemmings.

Speaking of NYC Mayor Mamdani, I found it interesting that in his first week in the job, he would think so highly of himself as to call President Trump to express his disagreement with the operation in Venezuela to bring a socialist dictator to justice. Then again, none of us should be surprised, since maniacal socialists tend to flock together, and they just don’t like it when one of their own gets their wings clipped. I am sure Mamdani will be expressing his support for the mullahs of Iran soon. But it is Mamdani, and the rest of the leftist gang, who are raising their voices in anger in reference to the impeccable military raid into Venezuela that highlights, once again, their hypocrisy.

Leftist outlets continue to ring out about the constitutionality of the operation to apprehend Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. I did find it interesting that the New York Times had an op-ed that actually agreed with Maduro being removed. Needless to say, we can go back to December 1989 and Operation Just Cause in Panama to apprehend one Manuel Noriega as a precedent. Truthfully, we can go even farther back to the early 1800s when the Barbary pirates were attacking and seizing American ships and citizens on the high seas. Thomas Jefferson was the President then and dispatched our US Navy and Marines against Pasha Karamanli as he demanded tribute from America.

Under Article II powers of the Constitution, the President, as Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces, is charged with the protection of our Country. This is something that Joe Biden did not do, and enabled one Nicolas Maduro to infiltrate criminal gangs, Tren de Aragua, and massive amounts of illicit drugs into our Nation. The result was the deaths, assaults, rapes, and crimes perpetrated against hundreds of thousands of Americans. At no time did we EVER hear voices from the left speaking out against the unconstitutional open borders policy of the Biden administration. And, to this day, we have leftists who are assailing and promoting the assault of our law enforcement officers who are enforcing the law and removing criminal illegal immigrants from our land.

Senator Chuck Schumer is ranting about the War Powers Act; he did no such thing, as Barack Hussein Obama was outsourcing our military to Islamic jihadist groups in Libya to oust Muammar Gaddafi. And, when those same groups attacked sovereign US territory, our Benghazi consulate, killing an American Ambassador, a State Department communications employee, and two former Navy SEALS…well, SecState Hillary Clinton said, “What difference at this point does it make?”

The military operation into Venezuela was indeed moral, just, and constitutional. Just a reminder, it was Joe Biden who issued an illegal, immoral, unlawful, and unconstitutional order to our men and women in uniform to be stuck in their arms with an experimental drug. The operation into Venezuela was a narrow, precise, strike operation, a raid, no different from the raid to kill Osama Bin Laden, or the failed raid, hostage rescue, operational debacle known as Desert One in the Carter administration. At no point has war been declared against Venezuela, and we are not advancing a force of occupation into Venezuela.

When the non-state, non-uniformed, unlawful combatant, Pancho Villa, launched an attack into the United States, Columbus, New Mexico, killing 16 Americans, Woodrow Wilson dispatched the US Army into Mexico on a “punitive raid” operation to capture Villa. Nicolas Maduro has done far worse to American citizens in his support and benefitting from alliances with narco-terrorists, and dispatching criminal gangs into our Country. Young, twelve-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray of Houston, Texas was killed by two Tren de Aragua members. Never forget that!

Leftists who are ranting about the constitutionality of the Venezuelan operation need to grasp the hypocrisy of which they speak. Of course, they will not, because Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro are of their own. Funny, the Marxist left parade about America chanting about “No Kings,” yet when America, the Trump administration, removes a brutal tyrant and dictator that they even quipped was illegitimate, they support the dictator.

That, my friends, should tell us all we need to know about the left, our Constitution, and what they truly embrace.

Steadfast and Loyal.

Republished from ACRU Action Fund.