26 JAN 2026: Protests, Death, and a Missing Finger: Minnesota Goes off the Rails // Global: Venezuelan Secret Weapon, Cuba Blockade, Mexico Oil Squeeze, Cambodia Good Vibes, China Purge Shocks the World
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he dives into today's top stories shaping America and the world. In this Monday Headline Brief of The Wright Report, Bryan details a shocking weekend in Minnesota that left one activist dead, a federal officer permanently injured, and the state spiraling toward open defiance of federal law.
Bryan walks listeners through the fatal shooting of activist Alex Pretti during an ICE and Border Patrol arrest, the discovery that Democrat-linked activists are organizing surveillance cells to track federal officers, and the revelation that one protestor later bit off the finger of a DHS agent. He explains the legal facts of the encounter, the role of Governor Tim Walz's campaign strategist in mobilizing protestors, and why federal investigations, lawsuits, and even a government shutdown may follow.
The episode then pivots globally. Bryan reveals new details about President Trump's capture of Nicolás Maduro, including a secret directed-energy-style weapon that disabled Russian and Chinese systems. He covers Trump's consideration of a naval blockade of Cuba, the pressure campaign squeezing Mexican oil shipments to Havana, and Washington's push to rapidly restart Venezuelan oil production while cutting China out.
Finally, Bryan reports encouraging news from Cambodia as U.S. naval access expands in the Gulf of Thailand, then closes with a stunning development inside China as President Xi purges a top general and boyhood friend amid allegations of corruption and espionage. He explains why the move weakens China's military readiness and could delay any action against Taiwan, while underscoring that Xi now rules China as an unchecked dictator.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
Keywords: January 26 2026 Wright Report, Minnesota ICE protest shooting Alex Pretti, DHS officer finger bitten protest, Tim Walz strategist activist Signal cells, Minnesota sanctuary state defiance, DHS funding shutdown threat, Trump Maduro secret weapon discombobulator, directed energy weapon Venezuela, Cuba naval blockade Helms-Burton, Mexico oil squeeze Sheinbaum, Venezuela oil restart China cut out, Cambodia Ream Naval Base U.S. Navy, Xi Jinping military purge general espionage, China Taiwan invasion delay
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| 0:00.0 | It's January 26th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey, good day to you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily News, podcast. |
| 0:22.3 | It's Monday's headline brief, heavy on news, lighter on analysis, launching us into a new week with events that, as ever, are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:31.3 | We begin with domestic news this morning, starting with a weekend of shock, death, and a Democrat activist in Minnesota who bit off |
| 0:40.0 | the finger of a federal law enforcement officer. Good Lord. More on that in a second. Let's start |
| 0:46.2 | first, though, with news of the death. It is of a man named Mr. Alex Peretti. But his story begins |
| 0:52.4 | in the hours before he was shot and killed in Minneapolis |
| 0:54.9 | over the weekend by Border Patrol officers. As the New York Post is reporting, DHS and DHS officers |
| 1:01.3 | were on the hunt for an illegal alien alienium named Mr. Jose Huerta Chuma from Ecuador. He was |
| 1:07.4 | wanted for a range of crimes, including domestic assault and driving without a license, which, of course, has led to the deaths of Americans on our roads and highways. |
| 1:16.4 | As DHS and Border Patrol were tracking him down on Saturday, they were being hunted as well by Democrats and leftists. |
| 1:23.8 | As the U.K.'s mirror, a local journalist named Cam Higby and others report, |
| 1:28.0 | Democrats have now organized their activists by dividing the city of Minneapolis into sections |
| 1:33.6 | that they both monitor and patrol. |
| 1:36.9 | These leftist groups or their cells, they share a database, folks, that is full of license plates, |
| 1:42.6 | vehicles, and photos of both known and |
| 1:45.6 | suspected DHS, ICE, and Border Patrol officers. Now, as we covered last week, those mere |
| 1:51.4 | suspicions by Democrats can be based on a person's car, like that guy who is driving a white |
| 1:56.2 | SUV at Costco. That's suspicious enough, apparently. Or it's based on somebody's physical build. |
| 2:01.8 | You may recall the two software engineers that we covered that were trying to have lunch, |
| 2:05.7 | but they were accosted by Democrats because they were kind of big and muscled up. That for |
| 2:09.9 | leftists in Minnesota is enough to both harass them and put them in their new databases. |
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