Best of the Program | 1/26/26

What It Covers

Glenn Beck analyzes escalating Minnesota immigration enforcement protests, the Alex Preddy shooting by Border Patrol, gold reaching $5,100 per ounce, and Japan's economic crisis. He examines law enforcement legitimacy, protest tactics versus Martin Luther King's nonviolent approach, and warns about civilization breakdown when laws apply selectively based on ideology.

Key Questions Answered

• •Law and Order Legitimacy: Minnesota's claim to support law and order rings hollow when the state failed to prosecute perpetrators of the largest fraud scheme in American history—$700 million stolen through daycare programs and funneled to Somalia through the airport—while releasing rioters who burned police precincts and neighborhoods. Law only works when people believe it applies equally to powerful, connected, activists, bureaucrats, and protesters alike.
• •Gold Price Signal: Gold hitting $5,100 per ounce reflects global consensus from the World Economic Forum that Western economic systems are failing. Smart money and central banks worldwide interpret this as a barometer of belief—billionaires are moving assets because the old system no longer works. Investors must think like billionaires managing billions and act accordingly at their own financial level.
• •Japan's Economic Tripwire: Japan holds $1.2 trillion in US treasuries as the largest foreign holder. Their forty-year government bond yields surged above 4 percent for the first time ever, threatening to unravel the yen carry trade where institutions borrowed at zero percent in Japan to invest in higher-yielding US assets. When this reverses, it pushes US interest rates up and destabilizes American markets.
• •Protest Coordination Tactics: Minnesota protesters use Signal to coordinate tracking federal agents through shadow networks, with databases marking suspected ICE personnel. One journalist was followed for over an hour and surrounded by protesters with whistles after appearing on a leftist ICE database. An ICE agent had his finger bitten off, another was bloodied outside a hotel with no ICE presence—demonstrating organized, violent escalation.
• •Alex Preddy Shooting Analysis: Video evidence shows Preddy carried a legally holstered nine-millimeter handgun while protesting, got between police and another person being pushed, was wrestled to ground with hands down, then an agent removed his gun and walked away. One second later, another agent yelled gun and shot Preddy. Both Preddy's right to carry and the officer's chaotic-situation response deserve consideration without prosecution.