Posts on Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Dozens of agitators packed the Minnesota Capitol on Tuesday, their chants echoing through the halls as tension over federal immigration enforcement boiled into a standoff just feet from Gov. Tim Walz’s office. The protest comes amid a broader wave of demonstrations following recent fatal encounters involving federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, with activists calling for accountability and changes to enforcement policies. On Tuesday afternoon, around 200 agitators gathered outside Walz’s office inside the Capitol building, shouting, "ICE out now!" and "Do your job!" Before the demonstration, organizers said they planned to slowly march toward the governor’s doors, a move that
The Saturday shooting death of anti-ICE protester Alex Pretti has roiled the city of Minneapolis and sent thousands of demonstrators to the streets night after night in the frigid cold. The inflammatory rhetoric from leftists continues even as not all the facts are known. President Trump, meanwhile, is sending Border Czar Tom Homan to the Twin Cities to manage the volatile situation, while U.S. Border Patrol Commander‑at-Large Gregory Bovino and a number of his agents will reportedly be leaving town.
However, according to DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, Bovino remains a valued member of the Trump administration:
Virginia is the epitome of a swing state, at least over the last few years. From far left Democrats to conservative Republicans and back again, the state seems to swing like an unlatched screen door in a hurricane.
Now the state has gone from Glenn Youngkin to Abigail Spanberger, and with her comes a litany of anti-gun proposals that Democrats in the Old Dominion State have long wanted to implement.
And as NRA executive director John Commerford notes, this marks a change in the Second Amendment in Virginia.
In a commentary article in the Financial Post on Tuesday, Bjørn Lomborg argues that Net Zero is “on its way out”, as politicians across the world face up to the high cost and tiny climate returns of raising energy prices. With voters “weary of soaring energy bills and annoyed by increasingly hysteric and patronising climate rhetoric”, governments from the US to UK, Germany to Australia are waking up to the “simple truth”: “aggressive Net Zero mandates are delivering economic pain for unmeasurable and far-off climate gain”. Lomborg senses “a new pragmatism” entering the climate debate
A Nation of Laws or Leftists
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Why are at least two people dead and multiple federal law enforcement officers injured?
What broader principle are Democrats, liberals and leftists rioting over in Minneapolis?
It certainly isn’t the idea that states can defy the federal government on immigration law. Obama took Arizona v. United States to the Supreme Court to prevent states from enforcing their own immigration laws. The Biden administration dispatched some of the same federal immigration law enforcement officers now being assaulted and booed to dismantle barriers and fencing put up by states like Arizona and Texas to control the mass invasion of millions of illegal aliens.
A striking digital billboard display in New York City’s Times Square is promoting Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer’s book The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, which reached #1 on Amazon the day before its January 20 release.
Displayed prominently above the New York Police Department’s Times Square substation, the billboard juxtaposes Schweizer’s book cover alongside the words: “NYC, did you know? Terror groups linked to 9/11 are funding and helping elect members of Congress.” The layout spans two panels: one side features the book cover, while the other presents a visual of the Twin Towers with the faces of
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday that it has charged 31 additional individuals in connection with a sprawling, multi-million dollar “ATM jackpotting” scheme linked to Tren de Aragua (TdA).
Fifty-six others have already been charged, and this latest round of indictments brings the total number of defendants in the case to 87, as federal authorities move to dismantle a financial pipeline purportedly used to fund the violent Venezuelan gang.
“Many of the defendants charged in this Homeland Security Task Force operation are Venezuelan and Colombian nationals including illegal alien Tren de Aragua (TdA) members,” the DOJ announced.
“Tren de Aragua is a complex terrorist organization that commits serious financial crimes
The White House said on Jan. 26 that President Donald Trump will not retreat from his demands for strict immigration enforcement in Minnesota, pressing state and city leaders to fully cooperate with federal authorities and laying out the president’s strategy to bring back law and order following unrest in Minneapolis.
At a briefing with reporters, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt outlined Trump’s plan, which directs Minnesota officials to turn over criminal illegal immigrants to federal custody and urges state and local police to assist federal agents in arresting and detaining those wanted for crimes.
You say you want a civil war?
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Three-quarters of a million people were killed in the American Civil War, and another half million were wounded – many grievously.
That was in a country with a population of less than a tenth of today’s America. The equivalent deaths in today’s America would be about eight million. That’s something like 20x the American deaths in WWII.
Much of Atlanta was burned to the ground in the Civil War, as were large sections of Charleston, Vicksburg and Richmond.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a southern sympathizer near the end of the war, five days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered the main Confederate army.
Some Republican leaders in Congress are finally catching on: When it comes to protecting their years-long project to import destitute foreigners for the purpose of beefing up their share of voters, Democrats are playing for keeps, fatally.
Another person was killed while interfering with immigration law enforcement operations in Minneapolis. Authorities on Saturday shot Alex Pretti, 37, after a struggle in the middle of a street, during which Pretti can be seen confronting and video recording ICE agents. He died on the scene, according to law enforcement, and he was found to have been in possession of a gun.
Stephen Hunter: Pretti’s pistol
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Our friend Stephen Hunter is the author of 20 novels, including the Bob Lee Swagger series, and is the retired chief film critic for the Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. His most recent novel is Gun Man Jackson Swagger. Late last night Steve wrote us that “this Alex Pretti thing has me all buzzed up. It’s SO familiar–the ‘victim’ instigated the event; the federal agents had about two seconds to respond; the backlash was immediate and well-planned; the media compliant as rent boys.” Steve sees the case as “the tragic but blameless police shooting of a dim liberal-dogooder driven by self-righteous vanity.”
BREAKING: Frey says Minneapolis won't
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey declared on Tuesday that his city "will not enforce federal immigration laws" in the wake of a meeting with border czar Tom Homan.
Frey wrote, "Today, Chief O'Hara and I met with Border Czar Homan and had a productive conversation. I reiterated that my main ask is for Operation Metro Surge to end as quickly as possible. Public safety works best when it's built on community trust, not tactics that create fear or division."
A Ripley woman was arrested following an investigation into “a social media recruitment of individuals to pursue and assassinate President Trump,” a Sunday Facebook post from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said.
Sheriff Ross Mellinger said in the post that Morgan L. Morrow, 39, of Ripley, was arrested and transported to South Central Regional Jail as part of the investigation by the Sheriff’s Office and the Jackson County Bureau of Investigations.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr announced Tuesday that the agency will vote next month on proposals to remove fraud from the Lifeline program, which provided taxpayer dollars to pay for phone and internet services for more than 116,000 dead people.
“If the government is going to spend your hard earned dollars, it must ensure that they go only to living and lawful Americans,” Carr wrote on X.
Carr’s announcement followed a report from the Federal Communications Commission Office of Inspector General (FCC OIG), which found startling levels of fraud in the program. Congress and the FCC established the Lifeline program to help low-income Americans receive affordable communications service,
A 21-year-old woman faces arson and burglary charges in New Braunfels, Texas, after she allegedly tried to burn down a county Republican Party headquarters.
Grace Carol Brown, 21, was arrested Thursday by the New Braunfels Police Department on suspicion of arson and burglary after employees at the Comal County Republican Party headquarters discovered the building had been broken into and a small fire had been set, according to a Friday release. Texas Republican Party Chairman Abraham George told the Daily Caller News Foundation the incident was “troubling” and praised authorities for their “swift response.”
Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said if President Donald Trump does not fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, they will “initiate” impeachment proceedings against her.
Jefferies said, “Kristi Noem is a despicable, corrupt, pathological liar. We’ve seen her slander, not just one, but two American citizens, patriotic Americans who were killed without justification on the streets of Minneapolis. In the last few weeks. She’s deeply unqualified. She never should have been confirmed to begin with by Senate Republicans and House Democrats have called for her to be fired immediately.
A snowplow driver in Cincinnati, Ohio, is being lavished with praise for his role in helping rescue a sick newborn during a harsh winter storm.
The incident happened Sunday when Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) driver Joe Estes got an important phone call, Fox 19 reported Monday.
An ambulance needed to get the sick infant, named Bryson, to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for care, but the roads were so bad the vehicle could not make it there.
Estes knew time was of the essence for baby Bryson and got to work clearing miles of roadway as the ambulance carrying the newborn followed him.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to expedite rebuilding in the Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon after wildfires ravaged the Los Angeles communities in January 2025.
According to a White House fact sheet, the order directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Karen Evans and the Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler to establish regulations preempting procedural permitting requirements at the state and local levels.
They are also directed to “enable builders to self-certify to a Federal agency designee that they have complied with State and local substantive health, safety, and building standards.”
Anti-ICE protesters got an eyeful on Monday night while protesting outside the SpringHill Suites in Maple Grove, Minnesota, where ICE agents were staying, when a man flashed them from inside the hotel.
This comes after President Trump said he had spoken with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who had agreed to send local police to deal with agitators impeding ICE operations in the wake of Alex Pretti’s death.
A group of individuals believed to be ICE agents could be seen mocking the protesters from inside the hotel as Minneapolis Police handled the crowd.
When you live in any community death happens. But when you live in one with tens of thousands of people, death happens pretty often. People die from heart attacks, strokes, aneurysms, complications of age, you name it. Emergency services respond, paperwork gets filled out, and that’s how records pile up. That’s just how life works. Except in some Somali communities…
And that’s why a lot of people are now asking a very uncomfortable question: what does it mean when those records are nowhere to be found?
The questions are coming from all corners… from Maine to Minnesota. People who work in and around emergency response, law enforcement, and local systems are
Joe Biden crawled out of his hole on Tuesday to bash the Trump Administration over the two fatal ICE-involved shootings in Minneapolis.
Biden accused the Trump Administration of trampling on 4th Amendment rights and gunning down citizens for exercising their constitutional rights.
ICE agents have warrants to enter homes and arrest criminal illegal aliens.
“What has unfolded in Minneapolis this past month betrays our most basic values as Americans. We are not a nation that guns down our citizens in the street. We are not a nation that allows our citizens to be brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights.
Former President Joe Biden has a heartfelt message for Americans.
“Slardumpfrinagle, man,” the former president said in between spoonfuls of tapioca pudding.
Meanwhile, in actual news, Tuesday on the social media platform X, Biden — or more likely the lunatic staffer who writes Biden’s posts — issued a deranged statement on the recent violence directed primarily against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota, a statement that prompted X users to remind the former president of his responsibility for the current illegal-immigration mess while at the same time reminding us all of the difficulty in co-existing with Democrats incapable of basic honesty or decency.
One of the more disturbing things to come out of the radical left’s anti-ICE behavior is the realization of how many people who are tasked with protecting people during their most vulnerable and critical moments, healthcare workers, fantasize about harming those they disagree with politically. (Snip) Melinda/Malinda, a healthcare worker in Virginia, shared a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with a temporary paralysis drug and spray poison on them. She also encouraged women to seek out ICE agents for dates and then drug their food.
Another Rioter Arrested for FBI Vehicle
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Federal authorities scored another significant victory in holding rioters accountable in a case involving a mob that broke into an FBI vehicle and allegedly stole equipment and a rifle. The incident was captured on video and shared across social media.
While the attack on a federal law enforcement vehicle sparked outrage, this latest arrest underscores the danger posed to agents themselves even after the attack.
Brenna Marie Doyle was arrested in Spokane, Washington, and charged with making chilling death threats against a Minnesota-based FBI agent and his family.
The threats stemmed directly from a mob scene on January 14th, where rioters vandalized and looted an FBI vehicle—destroying taxpayer-funded equipment
I have shared with RedState readers on several occasions my previous life in healthcare, more specifically as a Pharmacy Technician. While Techs don't usually get as up close and personal with patients as physicians and nurses, we see the people who do. I have been blessed that fellow healthcare workers have been among those whom I have called my closest friends. Maybe it is proof of just how much times and people have changed, but I could not fathom any of these people doing what people who now call themselves "healers" have done on that world stage known as social media.
In the wake of the ongoing ICE operations
Sen. Lindsey Graham’s, R-S.C., announcement on Saturday that he “fully” expects to be the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2027 swiftly triggered debate among conservatives.
“I fully expect to be Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2027 after Republicans retain control of the U.S. Senate,” Graham wrote. “As Chairman, my top priority will be to pass legislation that once and for all ends sanctuary city policies that lead to massive rip-offs of the taxpayer and much worse.”
But conservatives are questioning Graham’s previous voting record and his stance on President Donald Trump’s priorities.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's latest federal financial disclosures show millions of dollars in newly reported assets tied to her husband’s businesses, representing a massive increase compared to previous years' listings. The disclosures, filed as part of Congress’ annual financial reporting requirements, come as Omar has publicly denied being a millionaire, labeling such assertions "ridiculous."
Despite those denials, the sudden appearance of the assets at high valuations has raised questions about her husband’s business holdings and prompted President Donald Trump to call for a Department of Justice investigation into the couple’s shared wealth. Omar’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
President Trump said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will not step down despite growing calls for her resignation. “No,” he told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House when asked if she’d resign.“I think she’s doing a very good job.” Noem is facing criticism for her handling of the fallout after two people were killed in altercations with federal agents. She sought to portray Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old armed ICU nurse, and Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother, as domestic terrorists. The White House has distanced itself from that tough rhetoric but will keep Noem on the job
Last week, the House Oversight Committee announced it was opening an investigation into Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and the surge in her net worth. When Omar took office, herfinancial disclosure documents showed a negative net worth of $65,000. Now, she reports having a net worth anywhere between $6 and $30 million.
Speculation is that much of it comes from her husband's Obama-connected venture capital business, Rose Lake Capital, which was almost worthless in 2022 and now manages more than $60 billion in assets.
Yesterday, when President Trump announced that he was sending Tom Homan into Minnesota, and that Congress is looking into Omar's net worth, Omar responded,
We've all seen the viral videos of healthcare workers and teachers slamming ICE, attacking President Trump, and wishing harm on members of the Trump administration (including Second Lady Usha Vance and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt). Few of them face any real consequences for it.
But in West Chicago, a teacher is now on leave and faces termination after he posted two words on Facebook.
Those words?
"Go ICE."
The situation in Minneapolis is out of control, which is why President Trump took the reins and sent Tom Homan out there to clean things up. In the meantime, anti-ICE operations are being exposed after reporter Cam Higby infiltrated their Signal chat. The city is once again sitting on a powder keg after the shooting of Alex Pretti over the weekend. He was killed by Border Patrol agents while interfering in a federal law enforcement operation. He was armed, and things quickly turned south.
In the meantime, enjoy this anti-ICE protester who allegedly—get this—picked up a flashbang, and it exploded in his hand. The video is amazing.
What a disgrace the so-called mainstream media is, that it has done nothing but fan the flames of the insurrection currently burning white-hot in Minnesota. Never mind the fact that we are looking at a full-fledged, organized rebellion, which apparently includes massive fraud and money-laundering, state-level involvement, and international support. Never mind that U.S. federal assets are under attack and that the rebellion is getting people killed. No, no — the professional newsreaders want you to believe that a messy, chaotic, agent-involved shooting is a cold-blooded murder by Orangemanbad’s Gestapo. To hear them tell it, that’s the only story out of Minnesota.
Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was fatally shot Saturday morning by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis. (Snip)Pretti’s ex-wife, who spoke to the Associated Press, said she was not surprised he would have been involved in protesting Trump’s immigration crackdown. She said she had not spoken to him since they divorced more than two years ago and she moved to another state. She said he's a Democratic voter and had participated in protests following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020. (snip)He got a permit to carry a concealed firearm about three years ago, she (snip) He owned at least one semiautomatic handgun when they separated.
The FBI has launched a formal investigation into encrypted Signal group chats that anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement activists in Minneapolis allegedly used to track, identify, and interfere with federal law enforcement officers, FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday.
And it looks like some Minnesota state officials could face consequences.
The investigation was prompted by independent journalist Cam Higby’s viral X thread detailing coordinated efforts on the messaging app to share real-time information about ICE agents’ movements.
"We immediately opened up that investigation because that sort of Signal chat being coordinated with individuals, not just locally in Minnesota, but maybe even around the country —
Everything you see, read, and hear in the media is a means to an end — and nothing more. (Keep that in mind, because it’s the only way to make sense of the headlines.)
So, forget about the truth. Forget about right and wrong! Winning elections in the 2020s is all about leveraging the news to activate votes. That’s how the PR game is played.
And you don’t do that via faithful fidelity to reality.
Instead, you cherry-pick news items to advance your party’s political objectives. Which is why everything you read in the media is a Frankenstein’s monster of reassembled body parts,
A act of pure anti-Christian evil and animal cruelty happened over the weekend by a monster who almost certainly had no business being on the streets to begin with.
As KOMO News reported, a thug walked up and stabbed an innocent person and his dog at a nearby corner store after learning his victim was a Christian. The incident reported happened Sunday morning at nearby corner store in Parkland, Washington.
After being knifed, the victim called 911 at 6:24 a.m. to report the incident. Police discovered he and his dog were severely injured when they arrived on scene.
Here is more from KOMO News:
A federal appeals court on Monday declined to reimpose restrictions on federal agents at protests in Minnesota, refusing the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) plea to do so following this weekend’s fatal shooting.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel sided with the Trump administration, ruling that limits imposed by a judge earlier this month were too broad and vague. “A wrong call could end in contempt, yet there is little in the order that constrains the district court’s power to impose it,” the panel wrote in its unsigned opinion.
The ruling lasts until the 8th Circuit resolves the administration’s appeal in normal course, which will be expedited.
The Swedish government announced this week that it plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13-years-old as it seeks to confront the rampant use of youths by criminal gangs.
At a press conference on Monday, representatives of the governing Tidö coalition government said that the criminal age of responsibility for the most serious crimes, such as murder and attempted murder, will be gradually lowered over the next five years to 13, Aftonbladet reported.
They said the change would affect crimes with a minimum prison sentence of four years, as well as attempts or conspiracies to commit such crimes.
The planned legislation from the governing parties would also eliminate the lighter sentencing
The violence in Minneapolis erupted when the scale of financial fraud was discovered. The administration of President Trump has begun to highlight this non-pretending reality.
On the surface it seems like ICE enforcement is the issue; however, in reality Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey have been leading a criminal syndicate, with the entire region engaged in money laundering and financial fraud.
State political leadership are involved. The local Minneapolis police are involved; the Minneapolis municipal leaders are involved; a large and dedicated segment of the migrant population is involved; corrupt judges and officers of the courts are involved; public and private sector agencies involved in fraudulent exploitation
The violence in Minneapolis erupted when the scale of financial fraud was discovered. The administration of President Trump has begun to highlight this non-pretending reality.
On the surface it seems like ICE enforcement is the issue; however, in reality Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey have been leading a criminal syndicate, with the entire region engaged in money laundering and financial fraud.
State political leadership are involved. The local Minneapolis police are involved; the Minneapolis municipal leaders are involved; a large and dedicated segment of the migrant population is involved; corrupt judges and officers of the courts are involved; public and private sector agencies involved in fraudulent exploitation
NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte Delivers
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered a direct reminder to the EU in Brussels. Brushing aside criticism after Donald Trump published private messages between them and telling EU lawmakers, he did not mind the disclosure. Speaking directly to the EU nations at the European Parliament, Secretary Rutte defended Trump’s NATO record, warned Europe cannot defend itself alone, and rejected claims linking Greenland talks to Ukraine.
Rutte reminded the European assembly that without the United States there is “no way” for Europe to defend itself. WATCH: (video)
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The National Security Council whistleblower who triggered the first impeachment against Donald Trump is running for Senate.
Alexander Vindman announced on Tuesday he is running in the president's home state of Florida as a Democrat seeking to oust Republican Senator Ashley Moody.
In his two-minute announcement video, the Ukraine-born candidate leans into his anti-Trump sentiment, claiming: 'This president unleashed a reign of terror and retribution, not just against me and my family, but against all of us.'
'Today, our country is in chaos.'
Vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel and an NSC aide during Trump's first term, testified to Congress in October and November 2019 regarding
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In the early months of 2025, Donald Trump sensibly began to roll back burdensome regulations that had targeted modern conveniences. Now the House has codified a Trump executive order so that the next Democratic president can’t, with the stroke of an autopen, unwind the progress. Now it’s up to the Senate to match the House’s work and make the deregulatory directive law.
Still fresh into his second term in the White House, the Trump administration, in the words of Marc Oestreich that are so enjoyable to read that we have to repeat them here, “turned its chainsaws on the Department of Energy (DOE),
President Trump is considering a cap on state fuel tax that would offer serious relief to California’s long-suffering drivers.
In an exclusive interview with The California Post, the president said his plan could see drivers pay 40% less at the pump.
“Gasoline in California could be $2.50,” he said. Trump has made his attempts to drive down prices at the pump the centerpiece of his affordability messaging and said he wants to address the fact that the Golden State has the country’s highest gas tax.
The average cost of a gallon of gas in the US in January is $2.83 per gallon, but for California residents,
With Border Czar Tom Homan headed to take charge of Homeland Security efforts in Minneapolis and President Donald Trump finding some common ground with Gov. Tim Walz, a rapid reduction in tensions is thankfully well under way.
Alex Pretti’s death plainly prompted a sobering all around, as it should.
We’re glad to see Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem elbowed aside. Her performance in recent weeks as the situation in Minnesota escalated out of control did not serve the president or the country well.
Without anyone backing off on matters of principle, state and federal leaders now can find some accommodation —
They're Scattering: Anti-ICE Leftists
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Consider Fleeing Country After Signal
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They got exposed, but that doesn’t mean they’ve gone away or stopped. They’re a roach infestation. These leftists in Minneapolis, causing mayhem for our law enforcement, had their secret Anti-ICE chat on Signal exposed, but new ones have been established, and the older ones nuked from existence. Still, the chats revealed a coordinated system from which these psychopaths could engage in targeted harassment and assault of federal law enforcement. Reporter Cam Higby dropped this nuke over the weekend, and now they’re scattering. Some said they’re fleeing the country and going to Cuba, which was amusing:
The attorney wife of an elite Texas law-firm partner, an event planner and a pilot who joined the company less than a year ago were among six people killed when a private jet flipped over and burst into flames at a Maine airport over the weekend — just after a voice over the radio said, “Let there be light.’’ Tara Arnold — a 46-year-old powerhouse lawyer who lived with her two kids and mega-wealthy husband in a Houston mansion was on board the plane when it crashed. Kurt Arnold and his law partner, as well as their wives were known to make multimillion-dollar donations to Republican causes,