Without consequence, the Trump Administration began 2026 with a continued assault on the international and domestic norms that define our rights-based systems both at home and abroad. The Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and residents continue to be violated and has resulted in dozens of domestic deaths including two human rights defenders and the pursuit over 700 lawsuits according to Bloomberg News against the Trump Administration.
Beyond our borders, in the name of fighting narcoterrorists threats to U.S. national security, the U.S. has kidnapped a sitting president - Nicolas Maduro and his wife though the focus has been on Venezuela’s oil - and the U.S. has targeted alleged drug-carrying boats, committing over 130 extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific, without consequence, with the most recent strike occurring Monday, February 9th, marking the third deadly strike the U.S. has launched on Caribbean boats since the kidnapping of Maduro on January 3rd and the 39th vessel to be attacked by the U.S. since Operation Southern Spear was launched by the U.S. Defense Department in September 2025.
Trump is asserting a new world order. Coined the Donroe Doctrine, the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine (announced in a December 2025 Presidential Message) has signaled thus far an intended expansion of U.S. federal authority not only beyond our borders, but within our cities and states - all under the banner of defending U.S. national security.