There’s a reason JD Vance converted to Catholicism right before entering politics and it had nothing to do with God. This is the same man who once wrote an article calling Trump “America’s Hitler,” and in a 2016 interview, said he’d rather vote for his dog than for Trump.

Now he’s Vice President of the United States, and he is just one blood clot away from taking control. While the legacy media and influencers fixate on Trump’s swollen ankles, slurred words, bruised hands, and mental decline they’re missing the real threat. Something worse is coming, and it’s wearing a crucifix.

“Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.” — J.D. Vance.

“It’s about time,” was my first reaction when I saw the headline on Michelle Goldberg’s column saying “The Right is Furious with Liberal White Women.” This has been an uncontrollable thunderstorm steadily building in ferocity for years. Conservatives have known for a long time that this was a huge problem and have ignored it at their peril. Truthfully, it’s worse that just liberal white women, because they are losing women, one demographic at a time, on one issue after another. Let’s be honest. When you lose women, it’s just a matter of time before you lose everything.

I know something about liberal white women. I was raised by southern women, which is a whole different problem. If you combine that with politics, right or left, it’s “Katie, bar the door” and no surrender until it’s the last man standing. I’ve worked alongside women my whole career, both liberal and progressive, and there’s not much space between those poles, it just a matter of degree before something makes them explode. They never forget, and forgiving can be equally rare.

On a Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis, Patty O’Keefe and Brandon Siguenza, both U.S. citizens who live there, were taking part in an ICE watch. This is a legal activity where people observe and record law enforcement actions in public. It is an activity long protected by the First Amendment. That afternoon ended with them in cuffs after agents moved on them without warning.

The agents who moved on them didn’t knock or even shout orders. The first agent to reach Patty’s side jams a canister nozzle against the air intake vents near the windshield wipers. Inside the car, the air instantly turns caustic. A high-dose stream of pepper spray flooded directly into the sealed cabin, weaponizing the car’s own ventilation system.

This is a tactic that mirrors the times that DHS agents have used pepper spray on the air intake valves of inflatable costumes worn during protests.

GREEP Zoom #233 opens with HEDY TRIPP from St. Cloud, MN, & with a deeply disturbing report from the streets of Minneapolis as it’s assaulted by masked Hitlerian Gestapo storm troopers.

From Corvallis, Oregon, we hear a parallel report of the fascist invasion from Congressional candidate DR. MELISSA BIRD.

Dr. Bird’s report connects with the great JENNIE GAGE with her dire insider view of the MAGA cult & its fascist fanaticism for the Trump assault on public sanity & its abject hatred of all things empathetic.

Co-convenor MYLA RESON raises the vital issue of nuclear power, with an up close/personal eye on the aftermath of Chernobyl.

Atlanta-based organizer RAY MCCLENDON emphasizes the dire need for grassroots organizing in 2026, which could be the last set of elections ever in the US.

From the world of the internet we hear from Op Ed News creator ROB KALL on the need for courageous journalism in the face of fascist repression.

Co-convenor MIKE HERSH raises the issue of how MAGA men focus on trying to break strong women whom they fear to the core.