Three stories. One damning portrait of where this country is headed.First: Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee — a stateless Muslim minority from Myanmar, described by the UN as the most persecuted people on earth. He survived a military genocide the United States itself officially classified. He survived displacement, hunger, and statelessness. He arrived in Buffalo on Christmas Eve 2024, nearly blind and unable to speak English. He was arrested after wandering onto a porch during his first walk outside — using a curtain rod as a cane because he couldn't afford a real one. He was tased, beaten, charged with assault, and held in a county holding center for 13 months. When he was finally released, Border Patrol picked him up, held him briefly, determined he had legal refugee status — and then drove him to a Tim Hortons, five miles from his family, without calling anyone. His family searched for him for five days. His body was found Tuesday night. He had walked four miles in the cold before he died on an American street.Second: Kash Patel flew a $100,000 private jet to Milan to celebrate the US men's hockey gold — then called the president on the locker room phone, congratulated the men's team, and dismissed the women's team, which has won three gold medals since 1980. The FBI director wasted public money while a man was missing and dying on the street. But this story isn't really about Patel. It's about the grown adult men who stood in that room and said nothing. Five players skipped the White House visit. The women's team declined entirely. The men's team failed the simplest test: moral courage.Third: For the first time since 1935 — the Great Depression — more people left the United States than moved in. The Wall Street Journal analyzed data from 15 countries: 180,000 Americans emigrated in 2025 alone. Portugal saw a 500% jump in American residents. Ireland welcomed 10,000. There's currently a month-long backlog at the State Department of Americans trying to formally renounce their citizenship. The Trump administration is celebrating. But people are voting with their feet.Plus: A legal, effective, and deeply satisfying way to push back against Flock Safety surveillance cameras — the AI-powered network capturing 2 billion images a month. Stick around for the Rebel Radio challenge.Are you leaving? Or are you staying?The Ignition News — daily news for people who are still in the fight.