https://redstate.com/category/investigations/feedConservative News & Politicsen-usSat, 16 May 2026 01:13:45 -0400<![CDATA[Are we to be a nation of laws or not? That question is one I reflect on with far more frequency than one should feel compelled to in a nation begun as a republic. Despite the best intentions of those who wrote the guiding documents that serve as frames of order for the societies in which we live — federal to local — human beings are involved in how policy is implemented. That leaves us with the inevitability that even the best of laws and principles are dependent on whether or not those in power respect and abide by them. That’s true in capitols, courthouses, and city halls across the land. It’s also true in the corridors of small city school districts. We’re observing that reality in clear play in Lansing, Kansas, where a school board member who's also a professor at the nearby U.S. Army Command and General Staff College opposed efforts to comply with Trump Administration guidance to remove curriculum that advocates for a neo-Marxist worldview, and appears to have put a tactic contained within the parameters of military information operations to work against fellow elected school board members.]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[Chase Spears]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Kansas]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Parental Rights]]><![CDATA[Title IX]]>https://redstate.com/chase-spears/2025/11/07/army-professor-wages-information-war-on-school-board-conservatives-n2195801<![CDATA[There's been a lot of attention to an alleged plot by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to steal the state's election on Proposition 50, the Election Rigging Act, by using holes in mail ballot return envelopes to supposedly determine whether the envelope contains a "no" vote and then trashing that ballot.]]>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:50:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Gerrymandering]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/10/14/about-the-holes-on-some-of-californias-mail-in-ballots-n2195024<![CDATA[After Wednesday's arrest of Jonathan Rinderknecht in connection with the deadly Palisades Fire, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that there was finally "closure" for Pacific Palisades residents, but nothing could be further from the truth. The arrest provided answers about the fire's origin, but created a lot more questions.]]>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:30:55 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/10/09/sorry-newsom-palisades-fire-arrest-isnt-closure-its-just-the-beginning-of-a-terrible-reckoning-n2194893<![CDATA[This is the third installment in a series examining the role of taxpayer-funded NGO Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights-Los Angeles (CHIRLA) in politics and anti-government riots in California.]]>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:15:35 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Riots]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/08/18/chirla-investigation-california-redistricting-n2190874<![CDATA[It's been just over 100 days since the Palisades Fire utterly destroyed the coastal enclave of Pacific Palisades, California, and portions of neighboring Malibu, and it's time to hold an accountability check.]]>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:00:36 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Palisades Fire]]><![CDATA[Rick Caruso]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/04/28/karen-bass-hired-a-consulting-firm-to-rebuild-palisades-they-cant-say-what-theyve-done-for-10-million-n2187893<![CDATA[One big target for DOGE should be the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) and how it's used (or misused) federal dollars. RedState has exclusively learned that people within LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer's executive office attempted to force a financial analyst to approve a fraudulent invoice submitted for a CDC contract, then retaliated against her so aggressively that she ended up homeless and relying on food stamps to eat.]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:50:20 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[Barbara Ferrer]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[DOGE]]><![CDATA[LA County Department of Public Health]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles County]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/03/25/la-county-public-healths-ferrer-oversaw-retaliation-against-contract-fraud-whistleblower-n2187045<![CDATA[The press seems to be in a new cycle of self-debasement regarding the president, and it is getting tougher to keep up with the flailing. The amusement is in the reactionary claims being made that are devoid of accuracy, but the tedium arrives in the need to gather facts and collocate those with their claims. This is the environment created around our contemporary media complex - the rush to prove Trump wrong bypasses sound research, and we need to perform the cleanup.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:35:03 -0500<![CDATA[Brad Slager]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[journalism]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[Rolling Stone]]><![CDATA[Speech]]>https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/03/06/desperate-to-call-trump-a-liar-the-press-falls-down-a-rabbit-hole-concerning-transgendered-mice-n2186354<![CDATA[We saw the despicable behavior of the Democrats before, during, and after President Trump’s epic speech Tuesday night. They booed, they created disturbances, they held silly signs, and grossest of all, they refused to stand or clap for heart-warming American stories like the 13-year-old cancer survivor who was named a Secret Service agent or the news that we’d captured one of the “top terrorists” behind the tragic, 2021 Abbey Gate terror attack.]]>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:27:13 -0500<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Speech]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/03/05/berning-out-hysterical-sanders-embodies-everything-wrong-with-democrats-after-trump-speech-n2186317<![CDATA[A California "new energy" company formed in 2023 has drawn the attention of the House Armed Services Committee after a social media post inadvertently linked them to a Chinese military-owned entity on the U.S. government's sanctions list.]]>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:45:13 -0500<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[ccp]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Fiona Ma]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/02/10/ca-battery-company-claims-to-be-arm-of-ccp-military-owned-blacklisted-firm-state-treasurer-involved-n2185413<![CDATA[People who are fans of allowing men to compete in women's sports, thereby putting biological women at risk of physical harm and depriving them of their rightful spots on collegiate and Olympic teams among other harms, are pretty upset with the back-to-back-to-back losses their cause has seen since Donald Trump's re-election - and they're hitting back. Unsurprisingly, folks in California state government are spending their time looking for ways to subvert the common-sense and pro-women policies and related proposed legislation (H.R. 28) coming from this administration.]]>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:54:57 -0500<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[higher education]]><![CDATA[Title IX]]><![CDATA[transgender athletes]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/02/04/ca-leg-aide-claims-theyve-found-a-loophole-in-hr-28-aim-to-keep-biological-men-in-womens-sports-n2185159<![CDATA[Democrat Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes worked with the States United Democracy Center in what some have characterized as a targeted effort to "get Donald Trump." This left-leaning legal group collaborated with Mayes in 2023 on "election integrity" strategies, and shortly after, it provided advice on prosecuting supporters of Trump’s 2020 campaign.]]>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:55:35 -0500<![CDATA[Brittany Sheehan]]><![CDATA[Arizona]]><![CDATA[John Eastman]]><![CDATA[Kris Mayes]]><![CDATA[lawfare]]><![CDATA[rudy giuliani]]><![CDATA[Trump Indictment]]>https://redstate.com/brutalbrittany/2024/12/26/arizona-ag-n2183627<![CDATA[Los Angeles-based independent investigative journalist Cece Woods has been a thorn in the side of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department since at least 2018, when she exposed a law enforcement cover-up of a string of murders in and around Malibu Creek State Park. Since then she's also reported on corruption in LA County government, and her reporting on Biden FAA Administrator nominee Phil Washington's corruption when he was head of LA Metro was key to that nomination's failure.]]>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:55:16 -0500<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[lawfare]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles County Sheriff]]><![CDATA[Robert Luna]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/12/12/la-county-sheriff-targets-investigative-journalist-over-x-posts-n2183113<![CDATA[Forty U.S. Army soldiers who were in Israel as the advance team for what they thought was a routine training exercise last October 7 suddenly found themselves in the middle of a war, unarmed, and being forced to beg reluctant Pentagon officials to send an Air Force plane to extract them.]]>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:00:57 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Israel Hamas War]]><![CDATA[US Army]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/10/08/exclusive-40-us-soldiers-stuck-in-israel-on-october-7-n2180273<![CDATA[California Democrat Derek Tran is running for Congress as a “decorated Veteran” and proudly says that he enlisted at age 18 “to fight in Iraq, serving the country that had given him and his family so much." The son of Vietnamese refugees, Tran enlisted in the Army Reserve and says that "in 2003 [he] was called to active duty for the Iraqi conflict" and that he "served during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2003." The tagline for his logo reads, "Veteran for Congress," and in interviews and campaign materials Tran references his military service, saying his time in the Army taught him to be "mission-focused" and to work together to get a job done, regardless of one's political affiliation.]]>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:00:56 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[2024 Election]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Derek Tran]]><![CDATA[Michelle Steel]]><![CDATA[Stolen Valor]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/09/27/records-show-ca-dem-running-as-decorated-iraq-veteran-never-deployed-overseas-served-as-cook-n2179828<![CDATA[It's clear that for the Democrat party the unified message they're attempting to put out this election cycle is that they are the party of law-and-order, they support the military, and that their candidates are pragmatic and simply seek to bring unity and common sense to a divided and chaotic country instead of the radical leftists we know many of them to be. From Kamala Harris on down, that's the image, and if the candidate is a lawyer and they can claim that candidate is an attorney who ever worked as a prosecutor they'll claim that candidate is the most hard-nosed prosecutor you've ever seen.]]>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:00:37 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[2024 Election]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Will Rollins]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/09/13/yet-another-ca-democrat-caught-downplaying-radicalism-embellishing-prosecutorial-experience-n2179261<![CDATA[Democrat messaging in the 2024 election cycle is quite different from the 2020 messaging of Black Lives Matter, defunding the police, and reimagining justice. In 2020, the only use Democrats had for attorneys was in furtherance of their lawfare and weaponization aims, not actually putting away the bad guys.]]>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:12:19 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Kipp Mueller]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/09/03/like-kamala-democrat-candidate-making-up-prosecutorial-experience-n2178887<![CDATA[In the story that was hoped to be forgotten by many, reverberations continue in the controversy over Dr. Anthony Fauci’s medical outfit, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and their involvement in the infamous beagle experimentations. Investigators have obtained new documents that prove that Dr. Anthony had direct knowledge of the shady and questionable practice of forcing beagles to endure forced biting from sandflies for disease transmission.]]>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:00:26 -0400<![CDATA[Brad Slager]]><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci]]><![CDATA[journalism]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[pandemic]]><![CDATA[Washington Post]]>https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/08/24/additional-proof-emerges-implicating-dr-anthony-fauci-as-directly-involved-in-the-beagle-experiments-n2178484<![CDATA[[This is the second half of an exploration into the secretive press dealings of Steve Jobs’ widow, who is a longtime Kamala Harris supporter. The first half laying out her business dealings&nbsp;can be read here.]]]>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:45:05 -0400<![CDATA[Brad Slager]]><![CDATA[24DEMPOTUS]]><![CDATA[24Harris]]><![CDATA[24POTUSElection]]><![CDATA[Democrat corruption]]><![CDATA[Fake News]]><![CDATA[journalism]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]>https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/08/08/kamalas-billionaire-backer-pt-2-how-laurene-jobs-helped-launch-fake-democrat-propaganda-news-network-n2177896<![CDATA[As Kamala Harris rises to the top of the Democratic Party ticket she is gathering her share of big backers and donors. In particular, there will be a collective of Silicon Valley names with huge bank accounts and network assets for the offering. Harris hails from the Oakland, California region, in the shadow of Big Tech offices, and over the years she has cultivated numerous friendships with these titans.]]>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 09:51:00 -0400<![CDATA[Brad Slager]]><![CDATA[24DEMPOTUS]]><![CDATA[24Harris]]><![CDATA[Apple]]><![CDATA[journalism]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]>https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/08/06/kamalas-benevolent-billionaire-pt1-steve-jobs-widow-has-a-shadowy-media-network-to-help-promote-her-n2177792<![CDATA[In a new wrinkle exposed in the defamation lawsuit brought against CNN by a private contractor and former military veteran, a deposition filing was made with unredacted content that may expose the network further. As we covered recently, the news network is facing a lawsuit that may match – or exceed – the defamation settlement FoxNews reached with Dominion Voting Systems.]]>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:18:59 -0400<![CDATA[Brad Slager]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[defamation]]><![CDATA[Jake Tapper]]><![CDATA[journalism]]><![CDATA[Lawsuits]]>https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/07/23/cnn-defamation-suit-does-unredacted-deposition-show-journo-confirms-no-crime-was-found-in-report-n2177289