I spent the day watching Donald Trump do what he always does when his back is against the wall…lie brazenly, attack reporters, pretend reality does not exist… you know the pattern by now. And I’ve discussed his panicked actions today in earlier posts, so I won’t belabor the point here.
What I want to share with you now is the conversation I had today with Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The nation has finally reached its breaking point, and so has Democratic leadership.
Rep. Jeffries has now formally announced that Democrats are prepared to initiate impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem if she is not immediately fired.
Finally. Game. On.
This is the hopefully the beginning of a real accountability process aimed at stopping what Jeffries accurately described as government-sanctioned violence against the American people.
That call for impeachment comes as Donald Trump’s political standing continues to crater. New Reuters/Ipsos polling shows Trump’s overall approval rating falling to 38 percent, the lowest of his term. His approval on immigration, the issue he claims to “own,” has dropped to a record low of 39 percent. A majority of Americans now believe that ICE and DHS have gone too far.
In our conversation, Jeffries was candid. He said the American people are “appropriately dismayed, disturbed, and disgusted” by what they are seeing from their own government. He laid out the stark reality that taxpayer dollars are being used to kill American citizens, brutalize communities, and terrorize law-abiding immigrant families.
Jeffries made clear that Kristi Noem bears responsibility for what is happening. He described her as “corrupt,” a “pathological liar,” and someone who never should have been confirmed in the first place. Under her watch, DHS has unleashed violence that has no place in a democratic society.
The demand from House Democrats is straightforward. Fire Kristi Noem immediately, or impeachment proceedings will begin when the House returns to session.
This should not be political. It is about stopping the bloodshed.
The House is currently in recess, sent home yet again by Speaker Mike Johnson. He sure loves to take vacations. Johnson, who remained silent for nearly two days after Pretti was killed, appears more interested in avoiding accountability than governing. His decision to shut down the House now has serious consequences.
If the Senate makes changes to the appropriations package, particularly provisions that Democrats want to strip funding from ICE and Border Patrol, that bill must return to the House for approval. But the House is not in session. The result is a familiar and dangerous scenario: a potential government shutdown engineered by MAGA leadership to preserve a lawless system.
Jeffries pointed out the pattern. When Republicans face pressure, they flee. When accountability looms, they stall. And when violence occurs, they go silent.
What makes this moment different is that Democrats are tying funding, oversight, and impeachment together into a single demand for structural change.
Jeffries outlined what he believes accountability should look like. ICE and DHS must operate like every other law enforcement agency in the country. No masked agents. No secret-police tactics. No warrantless raids. No storming homes, smashing car windows, and dragging people away while they are going to work or dropping off their children.
These are not radical demands. They are the baseline standards of a free society.
Jeffries also connected Pretti’s killing to other recent deaths, including the killing of Renee Nicole Good, and to the callous and dishonest response from Kristi Noem. The Trump regime has defamed their victims “terrorists.”
“They’re American patriots,” Jeffries said. He’s right.
Under Noem’s leadership, Americans have been murdered in cold blood, and then smeared by their own government to justify the violence. That cannot be normalized. It cannot be explained away. And it cannot be ignored.
Republicans, as usual, are trying to hide behind Trump. Jeffries described GOP leadership accurately as a “wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump cartel.” But he also made clear that pressure works.
Impeachment, Jeffries explained, begins with hearings. Committees must lay out, in public and in detail, how DHS has strayed so far from its stated mission. Trump promised to go after violent felons. Instead, his administration is going after American citizens and law-abiding families.
Trump’s grip is weakening not because he changed, but because the consequences of his actions have become impossible to hide. Because you are speaking out, the tide is turning.
The lies are catching up. The violence is visible. And the American people are demanding accountability.
Impeachment is no longer hypothetical. It is now on the table. And now, finally, it feels like Trump has lost control and that the political system may finally be responding to the moral urgency of this moment.
Watch my interview with Leader Jeffries above. Like this post. Restack it. Keep making noise. Never let them gaslight or silence you. We’re all in this together. We’re all here to demand the truth and accountability. And we will never waver in our mission.
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