https://redstate.com/coldwarrior/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usThu, 04 Jun 2026 20:25:34 -0400<![CDATA[Donald Trump spoke to reporters Thursday from the Oval Office at an event touting the administration’s major new coal‑energy initiative, and, as is often the case, he had some brutal but pointed lines directed toward his political adversaries.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:12:54 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Hunter Biden]]><![CDATA[White House]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/04/trump-demolishes-hunter-talarico-and-basket-case-platner-all-in-one-hilarious-take-on-28-election-n2203058<![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took the Democrats to task on Wednesday when he testified before the Senate Finance Committee on President Donald Trump's 2027 budget.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:35:46 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Scott Bessent]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/04/bessent-house-testimony-n2203056<![CDATA[From Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo to his sexual predilections, with the help of the Democrat Party, Platner has been able to plaster over these crater-sized moral and personal holes or blame them on someone else.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:27:54 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Polling]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/04/the-latest-oppo-drop-on-graham-platner-shows-a-pattern-of-abuse-unbefitting-anyone-wanting-elected-office-n2203051<![CDATA[On Thursday in Ohio, Vice President JD Vance, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, Vice Chairman of the White House Task Force Andrew Ferguson, and other White House cabinet members, along with Ohio state officials, presented their plans to attack fraud in the state. As my colleague Ben Smith reported, around the same time in D.C., the new House Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses held its first hearing on the subject of $1.2 billion in fraud discovered in Ohio's Medicaid home-health program.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:15:41 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[House Oversight Committee]]><![CDATA[JD Vance]]><![CDATA[Medicaid]]><![CDATA[Medicare]]><![CDATA[Ohio]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/04/huzzah-thanks-to-vp-jd-vance-the-fbi-now-has-a-list-of-10-most-wanted-fraudsters-n2203040<![CDATA[Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has not made some of his fellow Democrats happy when he's been willing to call out their extreme positions. He's one of the few Democrats willing to sometimes honestly say what he thinks, regardless of whether it helps or hurts his party.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:00:46 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[John Fetterman]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/04/oh-my-fettermans-challenge-to-graham-platner-n2203042<![CDATA[Although farmer‑entrepreneur Zach Lahn did not receive the endorsement of President Trump, he managed to pull off a surprise victory in the GOP gubernatorial primary race Tuesday and is now headed to the general election in November against Democratic State Auditor Rob Sand. Trump had endorsed Rep. Randy Feenstra, who quickly supported Lahn after the numbers came in. RedState’s Ben Smith reports:]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:47:23 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/04/flashback-iowas-gop-gov-nominee-nuked-obama-and-affordable-care-act-and-rush-limbaugh-loved-it-n2203046<![CDATA[Back in January, President Donald Trump told the Iranian people, "Help is on the way." In February, he delivered on that help. Donald Trump did what presidents before him have not: told the brutal Iranian regime that, after 47 years, the American people have had enough. Iranians all over the world were ecstatic and took to the streets to celebrate. But since then, there has not been a lot of discussion of or messaging to the Iranian people, who continue to live under a violent, dictatorial regime.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:50:15 -0400<![CDATA[Becky Noble]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/06/04/in-new-video-trump-adm-tells-iranians-the-future-of-iran-should-be-shaped-by-its-people-n2203037<![CDATA[New York City’s democratic socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is everything we warned you about and more.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:12:18 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[LGBTQ+]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/04/a-bridge-too-far-mamdani-wants-to-erase-name-of-jewish-predecessor-from-iconic-overpass-n2203043<![CDATA[Steel is one of those things that is nearly omnipresent in our modern society, in our modern lifestyle. It's used in everything from can openers to cars, from airliners to zippers. We use a lot of steel, and until recently, we imported a lot of steel and downplayed American steel production. That's changing, thanks in part to President Trump's tariff programs. Imports are down, and American steel is rebounding.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:10:34 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Tariffs]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/04/winning-us-steel-imports-now-down-production-up-n2203039<![CDATA[We've been reporting on Jill Biden's book promotion and how it hasn't been going well, if she was trying to convince the American people that she didn't know about Joe Biden's cognitive issues.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:10:11 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Jill Biden]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/04/jill-biden-and-the-battle-with-the-former-biden-aides-n2203029<![CDATA[Do you remember when anti-ICE protesters stormed a Minnesota church in January? The group included former pretend CNN journalist and now left-wing advocate Don Lemon.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:53:23 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]><![CDATA[Riots]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/04/minnesota-gonna-minnesota-prosecutors-say-no-evidence-against-church-protesters-despite-the-videotape-n2203038<![CDATA[The media landscape continues to be roiled by the dismissal of longtime newsman Scott Pelley from “60 Minutes” and from CBS News entirely. Pelley’s tenure at the network has ended, but the collective wailing in the news industry continues. By the sounds from many, we are witnessing the demise of journalism, the keel-hauling of free expression, and democracy itself has become rendered like a treehouse in a wildfire. (Those claiming this is the oligarchal Orbanization of our press have been especially insufferable.)]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:50:53 -0400<![CDATA[Brad Slager]]><![CDATA[60 Minutes]]><![CDATA[Bari Weiss]]><![CDATA[Brian Stelter]]><![CDATA[CBS News]]><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]>https://redstate.com/bradslager/2026/06/04/the-damning-detail-proving-scott-pelley-was-fired-for-cause-and-not-ideology-revealed-by-pelley-himself-n2203034<![CDATA[The Great Sorting is still underway, with major corporations decamping from Democrat-controlled states for more business-friendly Republican states. That's anything but surprising, at least, to anyone with enough brains to pound sand, which apparently excludes most Democrats, at least where economic policy is concerned.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:24:36 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/04/red-states-crush-blue-states-incomes-now-up-40-percent-faster-since-2000-n2203036<![CDATA[If you haven't noticed, the anti-ICE protests in New Jersey have dropped from the headlines, despite the efforts of these Marxist agitators to create Minneapolis-style riots and more martyrs like Renee Good and Alex Pretti. This is in large part due to citizen journalists and media outlets in the know, exposing who is involved in these agitation networks and, more importantly, who is funding them.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[House Oversight Committee]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Marxism]]><![CDATA[Newark]]><![CDATA[New Jersey]]><![CDATA[Riots]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/06/04/to-no-ones-surprise-newark-anti-ice-rioters-coordinate-over-signal-chats-n2203031<![CDATA[Does Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) get some sort of perverse thrill from being smacked down by the courts, or does she truly believe that the constitutions of the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia don't actually apply to her? Either way, she's on one heck of a judicial losing streak, with the latest ruling out of Lynchburg putting her and every public official on shaky legal ground over universal background checks.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:48:40 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[Abigail Spanberger]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Gun Owners of America]]><![CDATA[Second Amendment]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/06/04/va-court-rules-against-spanberger-on-ubcs-n2203030<![CDATA[Former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump John Bolton, who served in the president's first term, has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified documents. He will pay a fine of over $2 million and could face up to five years in prison.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:31:33 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[National Security]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/04/guilty-john-bolton-takes-plea-deal-over-classified-docs-faces-huge-fine-and-possible-prison-time-n2203033<![CDATA[Time to recalibrate your sanity by partaking in the insanity in the 27th State. Let us once again check in on the populace in a perpetual plight of pandemonium. What better way to feel better about things than to see what it is we have to grapple with here in the heated tropics of sub-Dixie?]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:05:20 -0400<![CDATA[Brad Slager]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Entertainment]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Florida Man]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]>https://redstate.com/bradslager/2026/06/04/the-sunshine-state-psychosis-report-the-latest-dispatches-from-the-florida-man-frontlines-n2203026<![CDATA[CNN&nbsp;called it "an apparent shift." Rubio called it "a misunderstanding." At a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday, the Secretary of State&nbsp;explained how the U.S. facility at Kenya's Laikipia Air Base actually works: Americans exposed to Ebola go there for observation, and anyone who tests positive gets evacuated to Europe or the United States for treatment.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:40:14 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Africa]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/04/after-saying-ebola-wouldnt-enter-america-rubio-explains-what-happens-if-citizens-test-positive-n2203021<![CDATA[File this one under "unintended but entirely foreseeable consequences." In Wyoming, a group that monitors the populations of eagles and other raptors is sounding a warning: The Cowboy State's population of Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) is crashing, having dropped by a third. And that group, the Teton Raptor Center, thinks they know why.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:20:26 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[Green Energy]]><![CDATA[Wyoming]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/04/wyomings-golden-eagles-now-facing-extinction-risk-from-wind-farms-n2203028<![CDATA[As we move toward the midterms, we see Democrats seemingly in complete confusion.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Polling]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/06/04/data-on-dems-is-disastrous-n2203024