https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/feed/Stay updated with breaking conservative news and political insights on RedState. Get the latest articles from your favorite authors and trending topics.en-usTue, 01 Sep 2026 01:09:06 -0400Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, has his hypocrisy exposed as he gets hit with fines for skirting permitting laws for his home renovations. Managing Director of Americans For Prosperity Kent Strang joins Trish Regan to discuss. He also reveals what voters truly care about ahead of the 2026 midterms. Hint: It's not the socialist pipe dream of abolishing the U.S. Senate, Supreme Court, and presidency.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:29:36 -0400<![CDATA[RedState Video]]>https://redstate.com/videos/2026/08/31/democratic-socialist-hypocrisy-exposed-yet-again-n2206332<![CDATA[This is the third part of a three-part interview with Mark Joseph, producer of “Reagan,” the 2024 biopic starring Dennis Quaid. You can read the first part here and the second part here.]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:53:02 -0400<![CDATA[Jerry Wilson]]>https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2026/08/31/an-interview-with-reagan-producer-mark-joseph-part-three-of-three-n2206329The Democratic Socialists of America are trying to make affordability the key issue heading into the 2026 midterms, but their policies will make the affordability crisis even worse! Kent Strang, Managing Director of Americans for Prosperity, joins Mike Gallagher to discuss the socialists' failed Big Government ideas, Zohran Mamdani's disastrous rent-freeze policy in New York City, and AFP's new initiative, RemoveBarriers.com, which calls for removing regulations that hinder the American Dream and advocates for policies that will help people thrive.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:52:05 -0400<![CDATA[RedState Video]]>https://redstate.com/videos/2026/08/31/what-the-socialists-get-wrong-about-the-affordability-problem-is-everything-n2206330<![CDATA[Donald Trump has become an expert at setting Democrats up like bowling pins with his hilarious trolls, then watching them screech and hyperventilate and make fools out of themselves.]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:41:33 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/31/hot-takes-the-lake-america-memes-are-coming-in-fast-and-furious-and-they-are-laugh-out-loud-funny-n2206324<![CDATA[The Woke Left simply cannot let Americans enjoy their football.]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:15:38 -0400<![CDATA[Kyle Becker]]>https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/08/31/nfl-teams-are-showing-off-male-cheerleaders-and-fans-hot-takes-are-priceless-n2206320<![CDATA[The mainstream media has been busy trying to stir up the pot by claiming, without evidence (their favorite phrase), that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is plotting a 2028 presidential run to take over the top job after Donald Trump is termed out.]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:53:51 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/31/is-pete-hegseth-planning-a-run-for-president-in-2028-president-trump-weighs-in-n2206319<![CDATA[We've been pointing out some of the bad and bizarre things that Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El Sayed has said, and at this point, there's an ever-growing list.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:46:48 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/31/this-may-be-the-weirdest-thing-that-el-sayed-has-said-yet-n2206317<![CDATA[Last Thursday, RedState wrote about some curiously timed hit pieces from the mainstream media, including one from the New York Times that alleged Secretary of War Pete "Hegseth's purge has left the Army essentially rudderless as it struggles to deal with the threat posed by cheap, deadly drones and missiles that have pounded US bases in the Middle East."&nbsp;]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:27:03 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/08/31/army-secretary-dan-driscoll-resigns-n2206318<![CDATA[A former IT specialist with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) pleaded guilty to transmission of national defense information. Nathan Vilas Laatsch, a 29-year-old from Alexandria, VA, worked for the DIA since 2019 in the Insider Threats Division. Laatsch made himself a threat when he transcribed classified information, transferred it to a thumb drive, and began correspondence with a foreign contact who, in exchange for the information, was going to procure citizenship for him in that foreign country. According to court documents, Laatsch said he was “not opposed to other compensation.”]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:42:23 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/08/31/tds-riddled-it-guy-who-sold-classified-defense-data-pleads-guilty-n2206313<![CDATA[Polish prosecutors said Monday that they suspect arson by a foreign intelligence service in a fire at a WB Electronics plant in Skarżysko-Kamienna, calling the blaze a “terrorist crime” involving the “deliberate setting of a fire.”]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:34:00 -0400<![CDATA[streiff]]>https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/08/31/a-polish-drone-factory-hit-an-italian-ammo-plant-burns-this-is-the-warm-up-the-war-is-coming-n2206316<![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat running for the Michigan Senate seat against Republican Mike Rogers, has spent much of the summer taking increasingly personal shots at Vice President JD Vance and his family, and the vice president has apparently decided enough is enough.]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:32:54 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/31/vp-hits-back-at-el-sayed-over-weird-obsession-with-vance-family-n2206309<![CDATA[There were a lot of horrible things about the Biden years, but most rational people will agree that "wokeism" was in the top five. The ridiculous diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, pronouns, and all the other buffoonery that went along with it were a good argument for Americans to just remain in their homes after COVID. With the reelection in 2024 of President Trump and new policies, many believed that wokeism was on the way out. Well...not so fast.]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:30:56 -0400<![CDATA[Becky Noble]]>https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/08/31/major-corporations-think-they-are-sneaking-dei-under-the-rug-watchdog-group-says-think-again-n2206306<![CDATA[Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed spoke at a press conference for his campaign in Detroit on Monday.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:00:44 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/31/watch-woman-expressing-support-for-el-sayed-looks-like-she-wants-to-be-anywhere-else-n2206304<![CDATA[This is the second of a three-part interview with Mark Joseph, producer of “Reagan,” the 2024 biopic starring Dennis Quaid. You can read the first part here.]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:55:18 -0400<![CDATA[Jerry Wilson]]>https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2026/08/31/an-interview-with-reagan-producer-mark-joseph-part-two-of-three-n2206315<![CDATA[On Monday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for construction on the White House ballroom to proceed. The High Court granted the Trump administration's request to stay the injunction blocking above-ground construction of the new White House East Wing/ballroom project.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:40:20 -0400<![CDATA[Susie Moore]]>https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/08/31/breaking-scotus-clears-way-for-trumps-ballroom-while-roberts-leads-unusual-dissent-n2206312Nobody talks about the dogs who served their country after 9/11. 300 dogs searched the rubble for survivors and found none. Rescue workers started hiding in the debris so a dog could find someone. The dogs of 9/11 are American heroes.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:38:28 -0400<![CDATA[RedState Video]]>https://redstate.com/videos/2026/08/31/american-heroes-of-911-rescue-dogs-n2206314<![CDATA[Every war, everywhere, every when, has been won or lost by logistics. The side that can, as the saying goes, move the most beans and bullets the fastest and most efficiently wins. The Allies won World War II in large part because the United States was rolling bombers off assembly lines every 48 minutes and doing the 1944 equivalent of 3-D printing Sherman tanks; we may not have had the best, but we had the most. What's more, we could feed and clothe our fighting men, too.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:33:36 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/31/russia-now-hitting-ukrainians-where-it-hurts-in-the-belly-n2206311<![CDATA[We’ve seen this movie before.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:16:39 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/31/shocking-undercover-audio-shreds-ne-senate-candidate-dan-osborns-moderate-narrative-to-pieces-n2206310<![CDATA[Monday morning's press conference in Detroit, Michigan by Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and Vice Chairman of the White House Fraud Task Force Andrew Ferguson to announce their surge against commercial driver's license (CDL) schools which fraudulently issued CDLs to illegal aliens has not only exposed how much this issue urgently needed addressing, but how Democrats have worked to undermine American safety in every form possible and leave a multitude victims in their wake.]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:05:48 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/08/31/why-sectrans-sean-duffy-partnered-with-the-fraud-task-force-to-root-it-out-in-cdl-schools-n2206298<![CDATA[Nearly four months after two teenagers opened fire on a San Diego mosque, killing three men before taking their own lives, investigators have revealed a stunning new development: a woman nearly 2,500 miles away in North Carolina has now been indicted in connection with the massacre.]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:54:03 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/31/nc-woman-indicted-to-mass-shooting-at-sd-islamic-center-n2206307