749 - Peace & Life: War on Holidays / Horror and Hope Events - January 9, 2026
- Peace & Life Connections
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Breaking News: The Killing of Renee Nicole Good
One thing that binds all our issues together is the danger to people protesting the violence. Those accustomed to committing violence, such as ICE agents, by having a violence-saturated understanding, may spread that violence from the initial targets to protesters and use similar justifications. But there is no valid justification for any of the violence.
War in Venezuela & War on Christmas & War on Hanukah
The MAGA movement in the U.S. doesn’t participate in the peace movement, but many of them say they strongly oppose wars that involve nation-building and have a good potential for being “forever wars.” While we oppose all wars, at least that MAGA belief can reduce how many wars happen.
Donald Trump strongly asserted during his presidential campaign he would put an end to such practices. Many people voted for him believing that.
Recent events in Venezuela show he didn’t mean it. Those who thought they were voting for that principle have been betrayed.
This is his pattern, as we pointed out in Trump Sabotaging the Pro-Life Movement.
Meanwhile, we had an actual war on Christmas in 2025. A war strike in northern Nigeria was done deliberately on Christmas Day.
It’s not that it would be a moral improvement to kill people and frighten nearby children on a different day instead. But for people who complain about a metaphorical “war on Christmas,” it’s astonishing if they aren’t angered by an actual war as a greater dishonoring of the day.
There was also a war-style mass shooting on Hanukah in 2025. Rachel MacNair added comments about this to her post, Reflections on Hanukkah.
Day of Action: Horror & Hope
(see events at the bottom of the page
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January 22 is the anniversary of both Roe v. Wade and the day the UN Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons went into effect. Highlights:
A White House Vigil from 4:00-5:30 PM, January 22
Actions also in Chicago and Richmond VA.
In Unity Brunch at the Capitol, January 22, 10:30 AM – noon. You must RSVP by January 16 since security needs names to let people in. You can request an invitation by emailing horrorandhopeday@gmail.com.
Other D.C. Events
Democrats for Life will have a March for Life Breakfast at the National Press Club, 9 - 11 AM. They’re intending to announce legislation we’ve endorsed and will offer more details on later.
Alt Pro-Lifers Meetup at the March for Life, 7th & Constitution,
11 AM. Speakers and camaraderie, then we can join the main march together as a contingent.
CLN and several of our member groups will have lit tables at the O’Connor Conference
January 22-23 D.C. Events
Our member group Rehumanize International offers this graphic for events in D.C.:
Social Media
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Latest on the Blog
In PITS and Operation Southern Spear, Christy Yao Pellicioni discusses the strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela.
For the holidays, with a comment on the mass shooting in Australia, Rachel MacNair offers Reflections on Hanukkah.
In Painful and Disorienting: The Shooter of Two National Guard Members, Brian Carroll considers his own experiences as they apply to the shooter in Washington D.C. last November 26.
Quote of the Week
Kathryn Jean Lopez
The Celebrity–Abortion Advocacy Complex
The National Review, December 5, 2025
I know Donald Trump says things, and who knows what he means and what he doesn’t, but words do actually still matter. And he ended by talking about a population of people as “garbage.” No human being is garbage . . . once you start determining that about classes and populations, where does it end? And it can’t start. If we don’t value life, we don’t value anything.
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