Greetings! Welcome to 2026. I guess Trump can say goodbye to his Nobel Peace Prize after invading Venezuela. And that FIFA Peace Prize he was awarded with last month has gone from a bad joke to a dark belly laugh….The pundit class across the political spectrum offered strong pro and con opinions regarding the Trump regime’s capture of Venezuelan president Nicholás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.  There was a surprising split between the editorial boards of the Washington Post, which supported the regime change operation, and the NY Times, which condemned it.  The conservative Washington Examiner called it “an act of war.” Even Sue Kientz of the Astrology News Service (a  Righting subscriber), reported that astrologers observed a celestial buildup last month and “sensed some critical event to be imminent”…Staffers from the embattled Heritage Foundation are jumping ship for Advancing American Freedom, another right-wing think tank founded by Mike Pence, according to the National Review. The Washington Free Beacon calls the Heritage Foundation mass exodus  a “reorganization of the conservative movement.” Worth noting: The Advancing American Freedom board of directors is all men….Actress Claire Foy (“The Crown”) is no longer a vocal Trump critic, per Hollywood in Toto…If you want a deep understanding of why a free press is essential for democracy, I recommend the documentary Cover-Up. It’s a riveting Netflix film about legendary investigative journo Seymour Hersh, famous for groundbreaking reporting on the Vietnam War My Lai massacre and horrific abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq War…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard