https://redstate.com/author/dennis_santiago/feedConservative News & Politicsen-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 19:54:49 -0400<![CDATA[The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is winding down due to lack of funding by Congress. In a live webcast on YouTube on March 13, 2024, the Commission detailed that the program had ceased accepting new applicants as of February 27, 2024 and that the last day of financial assistance will terminate on May 15, 2024.]]>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:52:27 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[broadband]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[FCC]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2024/03/14/digital-divide-gets-wider-as-fccs-acp-program-prepares-to-wind-down-n2171386<![CDATA[On Monday, March 20, District Judge Cormac Carney in Santa Ana, California struck down the state&#8217;s Handgun Roster gun control law finding it violated the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.]]>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 21:00:04 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2023/03/20/federal-judge-strikes-down-controversial-california-handgun-roster-law-on-2nd-amendment-grounds-n719231<![CDATA[The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.]]>Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:15:48 -0500<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[ESG]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2023/01/14/oped-government-should-fight-second-amendment-redlining-as-aggressively-as-it-fights-fair-housing-redlining-n688863<![CDATA[In the last hour of RedState’s election night coverage live stream, I congratulated the Washington establishment on successfully defending the status quo from the so-called Red Wave. The message of Tuesday night is that little has changed about the political culture of America. The country remains deeply divided.]]>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:00:03 -0500<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[red wave]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/11/14/bi-partisan-establishment-turned-a-red-wave-into-a-puddle-n658888<![CDATA[It is hard to find a town more exclusive than Arun Bhumitra’s hometown of Rolling Hill Estates. The 2,000-home gated community is a place where the average price of a home starts at $2.5 million, and properties are one to two acres in size. The community’s top-of-mind quality of life issues focus on low density and rural ambiance in a region known to be terrain at risk of fires. The most inconvenient aspect of living in this city in the middle of the Los Angeles metropolis is bad cell phone coverage.]]>Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:30:57 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[2022 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/10/30/video-meet-arun-bhumitra-running-for-rolling-hills-estates-california-city-council-n651616<![CDATA[Every town in America faces unique challenges when it comes to the public service issues it faces. Darin Selnick hopes to bring his experience in the military and in working with veterans to the city of Oceanside, which sits at the very northern edge of San Diego County. This picturesque surfing town is situated next to the US Marine Corps base Camp Pendleton, and is home to an amalgam of residents from surfers to military retirees.]]>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 14:30:11 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[2022 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[city council]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/10/29/video-meet-darin-selnick-running-for-oceanside-california-city-council-n651055<![CDATA[Against all odds, Kristina Irwin is on the November election ballot competing to win a seat in the California State Senate.  She was a write-in vote in the primary against an incumbent who was running unopposed.]]>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:30:09 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[2022 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/10/19/video-meet-california-senate-district-24-candidate-kristina-irwin-n645903<![CDATA[In 2020, the VERY red Legislative District 1 of Arizona elected first-generation Vietnamese immigrant Quang Nguyen to serve as its representative to the Arizona Legislature.  As a freshman Republican lawmaker, Quang saw six of the bills he worked on become law.]]>Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:00:12 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[2022 Elections]]><![CDATA[Arizona]]><![CDATA[Republicans]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/10/18/video-meet-arizona-legislative-district-one-incumbent-quang-nguyen-n645096<![CDATA[Interviewing a candidate for a City Council race in a small city of 43,000 people in the middle of Los Angeles County is about as granular as it gets in election coverage. But this interview turned out to be a lot more interesting than I thought it would be.]]>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:30:43 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[2022 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/10/13/video-meet-incumbent-rancho-palos-verdes-ca-city-council-candidate-barbara-ferraro-n642941<![CDATA[The best way to describe Lori Mills is as a modern-day Minuteman. Surveying California&#8217;s political landscape, she felt a deep call to action and filed her papers to run. Like many other Americans running for office for their first time this year, the native Californian made the decision to run motivated by wanting to restore balance to the State Legislature. She is part of a wave of outsiders intent on ending the one-party supermajority that describes California politics.]]>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 20:00:21 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[2022 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/10/13/video-meet-california-42nd-state-assembly-district-candidate-lori-mills-n642905<![CDATA[I have to admit that I really liked interviewing George Barks. Now in his 80s, the eclectic politics gentleman, who first served in public office in the 1970s as a city councilman for Hermosa Beach, California gave an excellent accounting of himself.  From fiscal policy to public infrastructure priorities, Mr. Barks has clearly been thinking about affairs of state impacting all Californians.  He&#8217;s a pragmatic man who looks at every issue on its merits and takes positions with little regard to the conventional alliances of political parties.]]>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 20:00:24 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[2022 Elections]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/10/12/video-meet-california-66th-state-assembly-district-candidate-george-barks-n642224<![CDATA[Constitutional attorney Mark Meuser is in a race against incumbent Alex Padilla to become the next US Senator from the State of California.  In this interview, we ask Mark about why he is running for office and what he hopes to achieve.]]>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:30:50 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[2022 Elections]]><![CDATA[Senate]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/10/12/video-meet-california-us-senate-candidate-mark-meuser-n642194<![CDATA[California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the gun control AB 160 trailer bill into law on September 29, 2022, amending AB 2571, which was passed in July, that made youth firearms education, including the State’s Youth Hunter Safety training program, illegal.]]>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:00:17 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[First Amendment]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/10/04/new-ab-160-gun-control-law-california-reverses-course-on-youth-firearms-training-n637571<![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s important that I revisit the sticky subject of gun control now and then. There were a couple of legal events that occurred in the last week on opposite coasts that warrant a serious review of the bidding on where America stands with respect to Second Amendment policy.]]>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 17:00:22 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/09/05/opinion-california-should-continue-to-reject-new-yorks-gun-control-war-against-ordinary-americans-n623014<![CDATA[Former Secretary General of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev passed away on the 30th of August of 2022 at the age of 91. In his lifetime, his bold decision in the 1980s to work with U.S. President Ronald Reagan to put an end to the Cold War altered the course of human history to a degree that had not been seen since the fall of the Roman Empire.]]>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 11:15:35 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[Cold War]]><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]><![CDATA[soviet union]]><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/08/31/a-personal-farewell-to-mikhail-gorbachev-n620492<![CDATA[Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in Nara City Friday morning while making a stump speech preceding this weekend&#8217;s upper house election, which is set for Sunday, July 10. One hundred twenty-five seats are up for grabs.]]>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 02:30:18 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Japan]]><![CDATA[nuclear power]]><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/07/08/this-weekends-japanese-upper-house-election-highlights-national-security-inflation-and-environmental-concerns-n590944<![CDATA[The European checkerboard grew increasingly complex over the weekend as economic sanctions over Ukraine continue to progress from talk to physical.  The latest round of EU sanctions bans the shipping of products such as coal, metals, construction materials, and advanced technology between EU territories and mainland Russia.]]>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:45:57 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[Lithuania]]><![CDATA[NATO]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Sanctions]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/06/21/us-should-be-cautious-as-russia-raises-tensions-over-lithuania-n581809<![CDATA[Tension begins to show as the war in Ukraine goes into day thirty-three. Both the Ukrainians and Russians are beginning to come to terms with the fact that neither one is going to get exactly what they want. Both sides are now searching for what they can declare as sufficient victory to end the conflict.]]>Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:15:11 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[NATO]]><![CDATA[Poland]]><![CDATA[Recep Tayyip Erdogan]]><![CDATA[Turkey]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]><![CDATA[Volodymyr Zelensky]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/03/28/ukraine-erdogan-hosts-talks-in-turkey-putin-and-zelenskyy-ponder-their-path-to-victory-n541981<![CDATA[He was a film producer and lawyer. Now he heads the Office of the President for Volodymyr Zelenskyy. As his boss makes the rounds speaking to the world to make the case to support Ukraine’s battle against Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Andriy Yermak fills the information gaps, giving interviews to news organizations.]]>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 14:30:16 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[Axios]]><![CDATA[Canada]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Crimea]]><![CDATA[Donbas]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[France]]><![CDATA[Germany]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Italy]]><![CDATA[NATO]]><![CDATA[soviet union]]><![CDATA[Turkey]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]><![CDATA[United States]]><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]><![CDATA[Volodymyr Zelensky]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/03/25/ukraine-official-andriy-yermak-cautiously-optimistic-about-negotiations-with-russia-n540854<![CDATA[As NATO meets in Brussels, the alliance remains paralyzed. The fear that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine continues to prevent the United States and NATO from acting on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine.  The Washington Examiner summarized the worry as “Allies see risk that Putin thinks he can win a nuclear war against NATO.” The article summarizes NATO’s concern with this quote,]]>Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:30:07 -0400<![CDATA[Dennis Santiago]]><![CDATA[NATO]]><![CDATA[Sanctions]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]><![CDATA[Washington Examiner]]>https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2022/03/24/opinion-us-and-nato-should-demand-russia-dismantle-tactical-nuke-arsenal-in-order-to-lift-sanctions-n540085