Days 1–3 — January 1–3, 2026 The Gate Before dawn in Caracas, the sky lit with strikes—explosions, aircraft, smoke, and outages—then the announcement: the United States says it took the sitting head of state of a sovereign nation into custody and removed him from the country. Trump
A Chronicle I. The Gate The year opened with violence. On the first day of January, a man drove a rented truck into crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Fourteen dead. He claimed allegiance to the Islamic State. On the seventh, fire came to Los Angeles. The Santa Ana
A Saga The year opened in fire and blood. A man drove into the crowds in New Orleans on the first day; fourteen died. Fire took Los Angeles for a month; thirty died, sixteen thousand structures burned. On the twentieth day of January, Trump returned to power—the second president