https://redstate.com/about/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usFri, 05 Jun 2026 18:01:19 -0400<![CDATA[On Thursday, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social and said to watch California as they take the next month to count the votes that were cast in their June 2 primary. As many know by now, California mails everyone a ballot. As long as these ballots are postmarked by election day, they can be received up to 7 days after the primary, and then they take 30 days from the end of that 7-day window to do the count. &nbsp; &nbsp;]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:45:19 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Rob Bonta]]><![CDATA[Voter ID]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/05/despite-newsoms-apologetics-and-excuses-californias-voting-laws-are-finally-under-scrutiny-n2203080<![CDATA[The Senate&nbsp;passed a $70 billion funding package for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection early Friday morning, and Democrats have nothing to show for the months they spent trying to stop it.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:10:46 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Border Patrol]]><![CDATA[Border Security]]><![CDATA[Chuck Schumer]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Jim Banks]]><![CDATA[Lisa Murkowski]]><![CDATA[Reconciliation]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/05/democrats-spent-months-trying-to-rein-in-ice-they-have-nothing-to-show-for-it-n2203082<![CDATA[Democrats have a real mess they've bought by embracing Graham Platner as their presumptive nominee for the Senate in Maine. They still haven't had the primary yet, and former Gov. Janet Mills is still on the ballot — as she reminded everyone this week. And the numbers for Platner are starting to slide away.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:30:21 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/05/platner-report-about-tattoo-and-what-he-knew-n2203075<![CDATA[This seems to be happening with horrifying regularity, even after a year and a half into President Trump's border crackdown: On Friday, Fox News' Bill Melugin, posting on X, informed us of a case in Modesto, California, in which an illegal alien from Mexico allegedly murdered a two-week-old infant, along with the baby's mother and grandmother.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:18:55 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Law & Order]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/05/sanctuary-outrage-in-modesto-illegal-immigrant-stabs-baby-mom-and-grandma-after-quick-release-n2203076<![CDATA[The story on Graham Platner that the New York Times dropped on Thursday painted the picture of a deeply sociopathic, controlling, and abusive man who shouldn't be elected dog catcher, much less to the United States Senate.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:02:30 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[The New York Times]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/06/05/did-the-ny-times-do-a-catch-and-kill-operatino-on-their-platner-abuse-story-n2203074<![CDATA[A privately built nuclear reactor went critical at Idaho National Laboratory on Thursday. It was the first time a private company has pulled that off in the United States in more than 40 years. The last time anything like this happened, Ronald Reagan was in his first term, and the Soviet Union still existed.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:49 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[DOE]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Idaho]]><![CDATA[Military]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/05/reagan-was-president-the-last-time-america-saw-a-nuclear-breakthrough-like-this-n2203068<![CDATA[The Iranian regime is a bit like Democrats. They have such a grandiose view of themselves that in no way matches their capability, or the results they deliver (or truly don't deliver).&nbsp;]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:00:23 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Oman]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/05/iran-gets-nailed-for-lying-again-about-strike-against-us-ships-n2203070<![CDATA[While China built 52 coal plants last year, the Biden administration spent four years trying to kill America's. Trump just spent $700 million to bring them back.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:45:28 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[DOE]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[EPA]]><![CDATA[Japan]]><![CDATA[Taiwan]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[West Virginia]]><![CDATA[Wyoming]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/05/trump-unveils-700-million-coal-initiative-says-it-will-cut-electricity-costs-n2203065<![CDATA[Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins testified before the House Committee on Agriculture on Thursday.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:25:52 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[JD Vance]]><![CDATA[SNAP]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[USDA]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/05/watch-sec-rollins-schools-dem-rep-on-fraud-in-snap-n2203066<![CDATA[Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (MI-12) latest attempt to tie Congress in knots over Israel ran into an awkward problem Thursday: Most House Democrats would not go along with it.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:00:21 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Israel]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/05/rashida-tlaibs-latest-anti-israel-push-ends-in-a-324-92-blowout-n2203063<![CDATA[Technology today seems to be taking us in directions a lot of us couldn't have imagined only a few years ago. One of those directions involves unmanned vehicles, and while most of us have digested news of aerial drones and even semi-autonomous ground-pounders with aplomb, the notion of an entire unmanned ship is raising a lot of eyebrows.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:49:35 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Big Tech]]><![CDATA[Military]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/05/force-multiplier-theodore-roosevelt-carrier-strike-group-gets-new-seahawk-drone-n2203071<![CDATA[Friday, June 5, 2026]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Susie Moore]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Eric Schmitt]]><![CDATA[Mazie Hirono]]><![CDATA[Morning Minute]]>https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/06/05/morning-minute-n2203041<![CDATA[Jobs, jobs, jobs. The American economy and American politics are all about jobs. President Trump has made jobs for American workers a priority of his second administration, and on the whole, he seems to be succeeding at that. The May jobs report is in, and overall, it's positive; the report reflects U.S. payrolls growing by 172,000 in May, more than expected, while unemployment remains steady.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:12:31 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Jobs]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/05/new-may-jobs-report-payrolls-jump-172k-unemployment-steady-n2203069<![CDATA[Unitree robots are already on the American market. The company has documented ties to the Chinese military and has never faced a federal restriction. Congress is moving to change that.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:50:42 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Tom Cotton]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/05/the-chinese-robots-are-already-here-congress-is-finally-responding-n2203061<![CDATA[The Trump administration has reduced illegal immigration into the United States lower than it's been in years, with strict enforcement of the borders, both land and sea. But that hasn't stopped people from trying to get in. In the latest large-scale attempt, 240 illegal immigrants from Haiti were intercepted and taken off an overcrowded, badly leaking boat by the United States Coast Guard, the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force (RTCIPF). Sharp work.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:25:20 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Haiti]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Military]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/05/coast-guard-stops-240-illegal-immigrants-on-overcrowded-vessel-n2203067<![CDATA[How long have the Democrats been throwing a wrench into the funding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)?&nbsp;]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:20:06 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Border Patrol]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Senate]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/05/finally-senate-passes-70b-icecbp-border-bill-n2203064<![CDATA[On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing titled "Protecting American Citizenship III: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits." &nbsp;]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[Eric Schmitt]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Mazie Hirono]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/05/eric-schmitt-takes-mazie-hirono-to-the-wood-shed-over-denaturalizing-fraudsters-n2203059<![CDATA[Eighteen House Republicans handed Democrats a gift Thursday, crossing over to pass a Ukraine aid bill that the White House has already promised Trump will veto. They did it knowing full well he would.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:50:40 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/05/eighteen-republicans-broke-with-trump-on-ukraine-democrats-could-not-be-happier-n2203062<![CDATA[Here we go again: Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the Democrats Thursday night to kill passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act. Requiring an ID to vote shouldn’t be a controversial issue — an overwhelming majority of Americans support the idea — and yet we seem to be right back where we started.]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Voter ID]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/05/tillis-murkowski-mcconnell-collins-the-4-republicans-who-helped-dems-shoot-down-the-save-act-again-n2203060<![CDATA[By Saul Anuzis&nbsp;]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[RedState Guest Editorial]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Iowa]]><![CDATA[Nebraska]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[West Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/redstate-guest-editorial/2026/06/05/the-corporate-gatekeepers-using-your-retirement-money-for-politics-n2203047