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Two days ago, the DOJ charged 27 individuals associated with Tren de Aragua (“TdA”) with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking conspiracy, drug trafficking conspiracy, robbery, and firearms offenses. Six of them were alleged members of TdA — while 19 of them were alleged members of “Anti-Tren,” a splinter faction comprised of former TdA members. Twenty-one of the 27 are already in federal custody.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said: “As alleged, Tren de Aragua is not just a street gang — it is a highly structured terrorist organization that has destroyed American families with brutal violence, engaged in human trafficking, and spread deadly drugs through our communities. Today’s indictments and arrests span three states and will devastate TdA’s infrastructure as we work to completely dismantle and purge this organization from our country.”

Terry Newsome joined me today with exclusive details on the crimes that TdA members are committing in Chicago, and other parts of Illinois — and how these terrorists are avoiding arrest by ICE in our cities.

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Emerald’s Note: This guest article is the work of my friend Gray Delany who recounts the history of how China drove his family’s flourishing flush valve company out of business over several decades. It’s the story of how countless small business owners in America were ruined by the suicidal trade policies of its inept politicians. With President Trump in office again, will America finally end its suicidal addiction to artificially cheap imports, and start making things again? This article forms the introduction to the book Reshore: How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home + Revive the American Dream by Spencer Morrison.

My father began working in the family business soon after he graduated from Wharton in 1971. Born twenty years later, I grew up knowing little about the company beyond the basics. My dad was quiet by nature, but I understood the last thing he wanted was for me to envision my own future in the family business. After he died, I came to understand why.

The tragedy of Coyne and Delany mirrors the story of thousands of once great American companies. The business was founded in New York City in 1879 by my great-great-great-grandfather John J. Delany and his partner Thomas Coyne. Originally known for its cast iron tubs, brass plumbers trim, wooden flush tanks and fittings, it was one of many small businesses started in the Northeast by the wave of Irish immigrants who arrived to America escaping the potato famine.

After Thomas Coyne died in 1910 with no male heirs, John Delany bought out his share of the business, and the company came fully under Delany family ownership, and changed its name.

In 1927, Delany achieved a major innovation with the creation of a more powerful and reliable flush valve called the Flushboy. The Flushboy produced a more forceful flush, reducing clogging and allowing for greater quantities of waste to be moved more efficiently to sewage treatment facilities. But the Great Depression started two years later.

The period was tough for Delany, as it was also for many companies, but it survived, and then expanded dramatically during World War II, thanks to contracts from military bases. It grew from a regional Northeast business to an international business, but continued to operate from the same mid-sized factory in Brooklyn it had used since its inception, and with the same small but skilled workforce.

Delany at the same time was one of an estimated 37,000 small-to-medium-sized, predominantly family-owned manufacturers in the New York metropolitan area. Manufacturing then employed more than a million people in the region, and generated an additional several hundred thousand jobs in Northern New Jersey and Connecticut, running to nearly thirty percent of the working population.

From left to right: Jack Delany, John J. “Doc” Delany, Graham Delany and A.B. Delany on the land of Delany’s proposed new plant in Brooklyn, early 1960s.

During and immediately after the war, CEO John J. “Doc” Delany patented a number of breakthroughs including the first ever rubber sleeve Vacuum Breaker in 1943, and the Regulating Screw in 1948, which improved functionality and ease of maintenance — long a defining feature of all Delany valves. In 1956, Doc patented yet another innovative trademark: the Rubberflex handle, which still today remains the only non-spring-loaded handle on the market.

By the 1970s, like many small companies in the Northeast, Delany was declining. By 1975, manufacturing employment in New York was half of what it had been two decades earlier. Andrew Battle, in his dissertation, Runaway: A History of Postwar New York in Four Factories, describes how this exodus was the result of misguided – and ethically questionable – municipal policies in the 1940s and 1950s. City officials were:

Seduced by academics who dangled ‘monumental public buildings and splendid plazas to replace the small-scale manufacturing they assured civic leaders was passé.’ (But it is also true) that industrial New York was not merely permitted to die but actively ‘assassinated’ by a coalition of planners, bankers, and real estate interests who conspired to purge the city of factories in order to increase the value of their real estate holdings and create opportunities for further speculation.

There was another critical factor to industry’s flight from the Northeast: pressure from foreign competition, often underwritten by foreign governments.

The new international economic order that emerged (post-WWII) underpinned a resurgence of both international trade and foreign investment. The stability of the system was underwritten by the economic power of the United States, whose currency served as an international reserve pegged to gold. Moreover, the US actively pursued the rehabilitation of the European and Japanese economies via loans, direct aid, the transfer of technology, and the suppression of militant, left-wing trade unionism. This aid to the capitalist classes of their respective countries was undertaken not out of charity but as a matter of both economic and political strategy. Japanese firms, which flooded the United States with manufactured goods beginning in the 1950s, helped to jeopardize manufacturing profits in a cascading series of industries. During the ensuing decades, the US doubled down on this strategy by accepting an uneven playing field, tolerating protectionism, state support for and coordination of industry, and the consistent undervaluing of currencies on the part of its (foreign) rivals while eschewing these strategies for the US economy. In this way, writes Robert Brenner in the most comprehensive economic history of the period, the US government “helped to create the conditions for the secular decline of competitiveness of US domestic manufacturing.”

Between 1969 and 1973, manufacturing profitability in the United States collapsed, falling by 40%. As Spencer Morrison points out in his own book, Reshore: How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home and Revive the American Dream, this collapse coincided with the beginning of America’s chronic trade deficit, which further undermined workers, causing mass unemployment and lower wages. 1973 was the peak of the median wage in real terms. For American workers, it has been downhill for half of a century.

Manufacturers became desperate in the face of their declining financial position. Workforces were cut, pay was cut, and working conditions declined, as did investment in maintenance and quality assurance. Accordingly, union power in the Northern manufacturing states steadily grew.

In the case of Delany, the Teamsters Union, having failed to generate sufficient pro-union sentiment among the company’s cadre of workers, shifted strategy to disrupting shipment of its goods. In response, Delany looked to relocate to the South, with its friendlier labor climate and lower production costs. A local Teamster boss publicly boasted to company president Jack Delany that he wouldn’t “get even one paper clip out of this building,” and posted toughs outside the factory to enforce the threat. But in a legendary exploit, Delany managed to get its heavy machinery through underground tunnels, before hiring a Roanoke, Virginia-based shipping company (because union control of the area was so ironclad) to move the equipment out in the middle of the night. The destination: Charlottesville, Virginia.

“If only he knew that I had the last box of paper clips in my jacket pocket that day,” Jack later recalled. At the time, Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa was serving a thirteen-year prison sentence for jury tampering and wire fraud at the Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Federal Penitentiary, a facility with Delany valves. The office joke became that: “Hoffa had to stare at a Delany valve every time he took a piss.”

A few months ago, I reached out to Mike Farrish, one of Delany’s longest tenured employees, to learn the history that my dad never taught me. We met for lunch at the iconic Charlottesville establishment, El Puerto. A self-proclaimed country boy from Buckingham County, Farrish began his career with Delany Flush Valves in 1974 in the tool room, at $2.50 an hour. The pay wasn’t much even then, but the company offered him something far more important: a chance to climb the ladder and make it a career he could be proud of.

The company invested in his future by paying for his metal trade certification. By then, Delany’s Charlottesville plant was employing 50 workers, and producing about 400 flush valves a day. When, two decades later, Delany developed the first 1.6-gallon-per-flush valve that included an adjustable regulator (enabling the contractor to adjust the water flow on site and the first battery-operated sensor valve), business increased even more. By the mid-90’s the company was employing over 75 workers, and orders were beyond the plant’s capacity. The firm outsourced work to nearby companies, Shenandoah Valley-based Virginia Metalcrafters and Cerro Fabricated Products, known for manufacturing high-quality brass, iron, and other metal reproductions for historical sites, including Colonial Williamsburg.

But the boom was not to last. In the early 1990s, Zurn Plumbing entered the flush valve market. Zurn was the first company to offshore their flush valve production to China. They had the resources for their valve division to be a loss leader while the company increased market share. Zurn’s goal was to put Delany out of business. And that’s exactly what they did.

Many date the beginning of the offshoring of American manufacturing to China joining the World Trade Organization in 2001. But the trend really began in 1979 when President Carter granted China Most-Favored-Nation-Status, dramatically reducing the trade barriers and, even more importantly, the tariffs, between the United States and China. President Reagan renewed China’s most favored nation status every year of his administration. The “race to the bottom” had begun. Many other industries were already feeling the effects and it was only a matter of time before American flush valve manufacturing became a victim.

Zurn’s best-selling valve was virtually a carbon copy of Sloan’s (the market leader) bestselling valve, the Regal. Zurn priced its valve at $32, while Delany priced its hallmark valve, the Flushboy, at $65, which was Delany’s breakeven point. It didn’t matter that Delany used higher quality fittings or that Delany’s was the only valve that could be manually adjusted in the field. All that mattered was the price. As sales began dwindling, Delany was backed into a corner. In desperation, they matched Zurn’s price of $32. Farrish asked my dad how the math was possibly going to work and was told they had no choice. They hoped to make up the differe

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Political warfare (noun): a style of modern war that uses tactics such as propaganda, influence operations, lawfare, public corruption, targeted assassinations, extra-judicial killings, election fraud, and other nefarious activities to subvert the foundational institutions of enemy nations.

We can say with confidence that there is nothing personal about the 4/9/2025 Presidential Memorandum targeting fired CISA director Chris Krebs. President Trump is merely defending the Constitution.

How do we know this?

Because we are familiar with the evidence President Trump and the DOJ are operating with. This is much more than Chris Krebs illegally abusing his position by censoring and propagandizing Americans under the Color of Law. Krebs was likely advancing enemy information operations — the support of hostile foreign nuclear powers actively overthrowing the U.S. Government, which they did by stealing the 2020 election via massive election fraud perpetrated using a spectrum of techniques.

To be clear: the U.S. Government was overthrown in 2020 and an illegitimate Marxist regime (with a mentally unfit figurehead) was installed. An axis of hostile nations is at war with the United States. Congress — the only body with the constitutional power to declare war against an enemy to defend the Constitution — is unaware that we are in a real war. Because of its strategic incomprehension of our enemies’ tactics, Congress sat idly by in 2020 and let the U.S. Government get overthrown.

Our enemies are aware of America’s inability to recognize political warfare threats, which is why it is their primary tactic — not kinetic tactics. This strategic incomprehension was true during the Trump-45 Administration, and (except for a few signs of awakening) this is still the case.

Decades of enemy subversion breeds people like Chris Krebs, who President Trump accurately characterized in his Memorandum as “a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his Government authority.”

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Author’s Note: Now that former Trump Administration CISA chief Chris Krebs is being investigated by the DOJ on the orders of President Trump, it’s time to take a stroll through memory lane and examine America’s least secure cyber security expert — with a mash-up of several articles that I penned in 2022 and 2023.

Shortly after the 2020 election, CISA Director Chris Krebs publicly announced that the election was “the most secure” in history. He went on every news show in America to repeat that statement — even after he was fired by President Trump for making these “highly inaccurate” statements. Krebs put the entire credibility of CISA (which is a small office of the much larger Department of Homeland Security) on the line with his public statements.

President Trump fired Krebs almost immediately.

Krebs never explained the fact that vote counting in multiple swing states was halted for no apparent reason on Election Day. Nor has anyone explained why Trey Trainor, the chair of the Federal Election Commission, declared on TV on November 6th, 2020 that election "observers have not been allowed into the polling locations in a meaningful way" and that “if they're not, the law is not being followed, making this an illegitimate election.”

In the years that followed that stolen election (and long after 56% of America’s voters believed that cheating seriously tainted the results of the 2020 election), there remained one lonely figure who still insisted on TV that all election fraud is imaginary, and that Joe Biden legitimately received 81 million votes: Chris Krebs.

Krebs remains the world’s least secure cyber security expert — and that unfortunate title gets bestowed when you have no formal training in cybersecurity or computer science. It’s always hard to talk about that technical stuff for TV interviews — especially when you have an environmental science degree and you’re faking it.

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Myrmidon: myr·mi·don /ˈmərməˌdän,-mədən/ noun — follower or subordinate of a powerful person, typically one who is unscrupulous or carries out orders unquestioningly.

We ended our last Project Sentinel report reminding you that: “As we have said from the beginning, the Trump Administration must purge the entire federal bureaucracy to have operational control of the federal bureaucracy.”

We are not being facetious. There are thousands of people in important government positions (elected, appointed, or illegally placed as Schedule C holdovers) who need to be investigated for sedition and treason. Project Sentinel has thousands of names to offer the Administration.

There are tens of thousands of people who believe in political philosophies that are enemy threat doctrines to the Constitution, and who need to be disbarred from government service (and likely put on an FBI watch list as was done during the Cold War).

Why? Because they cannot honestly take an oath to defend the Constitution they seek to subvert.

There are hundreds of thousands of people (and perhaps millions) who believe politically correct fiction and need to be re-educated to reality if they are to continue in government service in any capacity. Why? Because enemy information operations have created what Josef Piper refers to as a pseudo-reality which these people believe, making them a threat to the Constitution.

It is not by coincidence that these politically correct fictions are in fact deliberate Marxist mass line narratives — which are initiated by foreign enemies of the Constitution to subvert and degrade a targeted country’s society.

Examples of these Marxist mass line narratives include:

• That CO2 is a pollutant (even though it’s one of the most important molecules of life whose increased atmospheric presence benefits mankind).

• That the only solution to global warming (or cooling) is the redistribution of trillions of dollars of wealth and the institution of global totalitarianism.

• That Islam/Shariah is a religion of peace (even though it’s a totalitarian political philosophy that seeks to impose a global tyranny under threat of death).

• That mutilating a person’s genitals will change gender.

• That embracing illegal open borders and multiculturalism makes America stronger.

As DOGE has revealed — billions of taxpayer dollars have been criminally misappropriated to finance Marxist revolutionary objectives in order to destroy liberty and create a global tyranny. Even if we completely cut off the spigot of taxpayer dollars, our enemies still have billions in foreign funding available to finance their revolutionary objectives. As we write this, billions are being laundered into the United States and financing revolutionary operations.

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EXCLUSIVE: I've obtained the leaked security briefing that's been provided to Trump national security officials in recent months regarding the criminal group Tren de Aragua and the Venezuela government.

President Trump designated Tren de Aragua as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on January 20th by Executive order because it's “conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions” inside the United States.

According to the order: “TdA operates in conjunction with Cártel de los Soles, the Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored, narco-terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela, and commits brutal crimes, including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human, drug, and weapons trafficking.”

It's not a street gang.

It's the paramilitary wing of Venezuela's narco-terrorist regime.

That's why President Trump ordered the deportation of TdA members using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

The group are actually foreign soldiers operating in our country in secret.

According to the briefing, the TdA members move from Venezuela through several foreign nations before entering the USA illegally and being spread out in safe houses in 20 different cities. For what reason? TdA members have come to the USA in large numbers to undermine our public safety and support “the Maduro regime’s goal of destabilizing democratic nations in the Americas, including the USA.”

How do you know it’s a hostile foreign army? Because TdA terrorists are supported by 300 military intelligence officers who train them to engage in “riots, sabotage, disinformation, espionage, social conflict, and armed aggression” inside the USA.

This is 21st century hybrid warfare.

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In one of the most improbable moments in the history of the National Security Council (NSC), President Trump fired a number of senior officials after a meeting last Wednesday with conservative journalist Laura Loomer. Concerning evidence was apparently presented to Trump regarding the loyalty and background of these suspect hires — a standard vetting practice that was apparently bypassed or ignored by the White House team.

Among the purged NSC officers were:

David Feith, the son of Doug Feith and a China specialist who oversaw national security issues.

Brian Walsh, who oversaw intelligence matters.

Maggie Dougherty, who led the international organizations portfolio.

Thomas Boodry, who worked on legislative affairs.

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