The MAGA Platform, January 2026

Let’s take stock of where things stand after a year of Trump in office:

• Neo-Nazi slogans are acceptable political discourse
• Invading sovereign nations without congressional authorization is fine
• CSAM is free speech
• The Second Amendment has terms and conditions

If you’d told a Republican in 2015 (or even twelve months ago) this would be the platform, they’d have called you hysterical.

And yet here we are, with receipts.

Neo-Nazi Slogans Are Acceptable Political Discourse

Two days after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, the Department of Homeland Security posted an ICE recruitment video featuring the phrase “We’ll Have Our Home Again”—the title of a white supremacist anthem favored by the Proud Boys, with lyrics evoking blood-and-soil nationalism.

The Department of Labor posted a video captioned “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American.” Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts called it out directly: “US Government posting a version of ‘Ein volk, ein reich, ein führer.’”

The White House posted “Which way, Greenland man?”—a reference to Which Way Western Man, a 1978 book by William Gayley Simpson, one of America’s most prominent Nazis, which argues Hitler was right and advocates violence against Jewish people.

The White House response to criticism? “This line of attack is boring and tired. Get a grip.”

These aren’t dog whistles anymore. They’re foghorns.

Invading Sovereign Nations Without Congressional Authorization Is Fine

On January 3, U.S. forces launched strikes across Venezuela, captured President Nicolás Maduro, and flew him to New York to face charges. Trump announced the United States would “run the country” until a transition could take place.

He did not seek congressional authorization. Article I, Section 8 is unambiguous: Congress declares war. They didn’t.

I wrote about the nine distinct legal justifications the administration has offered—some of which contradict each other, some of which contradict the administration’s own prior statements. The party of constitutional originalism has decided the Constitution is optional when the President wants to invade a country and seize its oil.

CSAM Is Free Speech

Grok—Elon Musk’s AI chatbot embedded in X—has been generating sexualized images of real women and children on request. According to Bloomberg, one analysis found Grok was generating approximately 6,700 sexually explicit or “undressing” images per hour. The Internet Watch Foundation confirmed finding criminal imagery of children aged 11 to 13 that dark web users attributed to Grok.

When the UK announced an investigation, Musk’s response was to call it censorship. “They want any excuse for censorship,” he posted. “Why is the U.K. government so fascist?”

The European Commission’s spokesperson was blunt: “Drawing a parallel between freedom of speech and an AI tool that generates child sexual abuse material is dangerous nonsense, especially when it comes from the owner of a tech company. Frankly speaking I cannot even believe we are speaking about this and engaging with this from the commission’s podium in 2026.”

The Trump administration’s response? The Justice Department indicated it was more inclined to prosecute individuals who request CSAM than the company whose bot creates it. Meanwhile, the Pentagon finalized a partnership with xAI to integrate Grok into military systems—announced the same week the CSAM scandal broke.

This is the same movement that built an entire political identity around “protecting the children” from drag queens and trans people. Now their closest ally runs a platform generating child sexual abuse material at scale, and the response is to call enforcement “fascist” while handing him a Pentagon contract.

The Second Amendment Has Terms and Conditions

On January 24, federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Pretti was a 37-year-old ICU nurse at the VA hospital with a valid concealed carry permit. Video shows him filming agents with his phone. When agents shoved a woman to the ground, he moved to help her. He was pepper-sprayed, pinned by six agents, and shot while on the ground—after video shows an agent removing his holstered firearm from his body.

I wrote about the details and the administration’s response, and about how conservatives have already handed gun control advocates everything they need for 2029.

The same people who spent thirty years insisting the Second Amendment exists to resist government tyranny pivoted in seventy-two hours to defending the government killing a legal gun owner. The NRA managed tepid criticism before blaming Tim Walz. Gun Owners of America pushed back harder. But the base didn’t flinch.

Apparently the principle was never the principle. The principle is “our team.”

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What gets me isn’t the hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is a constant.

It’s the speed.

Thirty years of “from my cold dead hands” to “well, he shouldn’t have been carrying” in seventy-two hours. No transition period. No uncomfortable silence. Just immediate, full-throated defense of the state killing a legal gun owner because he was at the wrong protest.

Nazi slogans. Illegal wars. A CSAM factory defended as free speech. Extrajudicial killing of a legal gun owner.

These aren’t edge cases. These are the headlines from just the last month.

This is what MAGA stands for now. If you’re still in, you’re not confused about what you’re supporting. You’ve made your choice.