https://redstate.com/e_pluribus_unum/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usThu, 20 Aug 2026 03:25:38 -0400<![CDATA[A single sentence pulled from Anthony Fauci's government cellphone may be the most damning line yet to emerge from the Biden administration's COVID inner circle: "I'm sending this via text messaging to avoid any FOIA issues."]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:27:21 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci]]><![CDATA[Chuck Grassley]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[HHS]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/08/19/biden-covid-adviser-put-his-foia-dodge-in-writing-on-faucis-phone-n2205827<![CDATA[On Tuesday, a United States Air Force C-17 cargo plane en route from New Zealand to Antarctica was forced to turn back and head to Christchurch due to a “potentially hazardous” space activity warning. The warning was due to a Russian missile launch.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:22:04 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/19/fail-media-hypes-routine-test-launch-as-russian-threat-to-usaf-flight-n2205826<![CDATA[The trial of the man accused of setting one of the most horrific fires in California history ended in a 10-2 mistrial in June.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:11:55 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Firearms]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/19/back-in-court-retrial-looms-as-la-fires-arson-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-for-the-second-time-n2205825<![CDATA[North Korea, that isolated Stalinist nation ruled by a stunted little gargoyle with bad hair from a long line of stunted little gargoyles with bad hair, has rejected what many saw as an overture from President Trump intended to thaw relations with the Norks and the United States. President Trump has announced he was scaling back on the 11-day Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises with South Korea, noting that the North Koreans found them to be provocative. Well, the North Koreans also think that the suggestion that they not run their entire country like a prison camp is provocative as well, so we should consider the source.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:10:14 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[North Korea]]><![CDATA[South Korea]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/19/kim-yo-jong-reduced-us-sk-drills-now-still-aggressive-and-hostile-n2205824<![CDATA[On Wednesday, President Trump announced his nominee for the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and there are already signs that this would be a welcome change, at least where conservatives are concerned.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:09:00 -0400<![CDATA[Becca Lower]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[FDA]]><![CDATA[HHS]]><![CDATA[Make America Healthy Again]]><![CDATA[Pro-Life]]>https://redstate.com/beccalower/2026/08/19/new-trump-nominee-for-the-top-spot-at-fda-just-received-a-warm-welcome-n2205820<![CDATA[It's been two weeks since Michigan Democrats decided who their Senate nominee was going to be, and, in a nailbiter, it ended up being DSA-backed former Wayne County health department director Abdul El-Sayed, who narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (MI-11) by less than 5,000 votes out of the over 1.5 million cast, despite polls showing him running away with it by double digits.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:53:26 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/08/19/el-sayed-proclaims-im-also-african-in-response-to-purported-heckler-and-i-smell-a-set-up-n2205821<![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has already enacted numerous sanctions and economic punishments against the Islamic Republic of Iran as the conflict with the U.S. grinds on, but President Trump took to Truth Social Wednesday evening to announce he’s taking things to a whole new level.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:32:43 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Scott Bessent]]><![CDATA[Truth Social]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/19/trump-announces-economic-d-day-against-iran-will-be-most-crushing-financial-operation-ever-n2205823<![CDATA[Way back in 1964, Ronald Reagan said, "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Even today, he could not have been more right. One of the things that our liberal friends are dangerously ignorant about is economics. If it's not the belief that the country can be taxed into prosperity, it is the notion that a $20-an-hour or more minimum wage will help working people. An economist is now warning about just how destructive high-dollar minimum wages would be to the nation's economy.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:48:00 -0400<![CDATA[Becky Noble]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Illinois]]><![CDATA[Inflation]]><![CDATA[Jobs]]>https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/08/19/economist-sounds-warning-25-hour-minimum-wage-sure-to-be-total-job-killer-mainly-in-the-sun-belt-n2205817<![CDATA[A scary situation is unfolding in the Tucson, Arizona, area as two suspects are on the loose following the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old Tucson police recruit and the wounding of his 23-year-old girlfriend. Authorities say the two were engaged and share a child.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:39:17 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Arizona]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Gun Violence]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/19/scary-situation-in-tucson-as-two-suspects-still-on-loose-after-fatal-shooting-of-police-recruit-n2205818<![CDATA[This is why good people don't want to get involved in politics.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:18:55 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Jon Ossoff]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/19/cnn-goes-full-psycho-over-natalie-harp-n2205813<![CDATA[That thing that Democrats claim rarely, if ever, happens has happened again, this time with a twist. This time it's a Chinese national living in Andover, Massachusetts, who voted fraudulently in the 2024 presidential election. He voted after impersonating another Chinese national, and then - get this - reported the other Chinese national for voting illegally.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:17:20 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]><![CDATA[Voter ID]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/19/voter-fraud-bust-chinese-national-framed-victim-for-illegal-voting-n2205812<![CDATA[Those who were old enough to be around when Robert Reich was Bill Clinton’s labor secretary know that he was a loudmouthed progressive with no formal economic training who was criticized for using emotion instead of logic in his leftist diatribes. He’s big on trashing corporations and rages against highly-paid CEOs, yet is all too happy to get rich himself on juicy speaking fees and book deals.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:09:54 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Scott Bessent]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/19/dont-poke-the-bear-scott-bessent-brutalizes-robert-reich-over-k-shaped-economy-n2205816<![CDATA[A new report out of Iran, if it's accurate, would represent yet another episode in Iran's recurring series, "Our Mouth is Writing Checks Our Butts Can't Cash." This time, regime insiders speaking to the Financial Times are indicating that what's left of Iran's military is looking into options to strike U.S. military assets in Europe, should President Trump choose to escalate the present conflict.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:02:02 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/19/new-report-iran-considering-striking-us-military-targets-in-europe-n2205815<![CDATA[It's been over a year of court battles as the Trump administration has sought to put immigration law back at the center of immigration enforcement, without the add-ons and extensions. The lower courts systematically blocked the Trump administration's decisions, while the higher courts read, interpreted, and, through a lot of back and forth, rendered decisions based on the Constitution and the law. The bottom line: Enforcement of the nation's immigration laws is largely the purview of the executive branch, and the executive branch and its designated agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), have broad authority to determine who gets to come into our country, under what circumstances, and whether they get to stay. The executive and its agents also get to determine whether a humanitarian program it established should be sunset or removed altogether.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:40:22 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/08/19/dhs-alerts-tps-recipients-the-days-of-defacto-amnesty-are-over-n2205800<![CDATA[As Americans are knee-deep in the 2026 midterm election primary season, the conventional wisdom surrounding the myriad polls they are treated to is that, as far as midterm elections go, most people don't start paying attention to candidate polls until after Labor Day. But what if that isn't true? And what if those polls are just not accurate? One Republican pollster decided to put the math to the test.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:15:18 -0400<![CDATA[Becky Noble]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Polling]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]>https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/08/19/in-latest-duh-moment-republican-pollster-finds-polls-favoring-dems-not-just-statistical-noise-n2205807<![CDATA[It seems like only yesterday that Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) was still trying to sell the idea that his troubles with the House Ethics Committee were no big deal.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:58:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rusty Weiss]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]>https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/08/19/democrat-rep-jimmy-gomez-sex-case-just-escalated-in-a-big-way-n2205811<![CDATA[As we’ve seen, Donald Trump likes to think big, so it’s hardly surprising that when it was time for a new White House helicopter landing spot, he pushed for a massive 100-foot granite helipad capable of landing the biggest choppers out there. On Wednesday, he gave reporters an impromptu look-see:]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:33:14 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[The New York Times]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Washington]]><![CDATA[White House]]><![CDATA[Xi Jinping]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/19/thats-a-hell-of-a-pad-trump-unveils-monster-new-wh-helipad-n2205810<![CDATA[One of the things I get asked about often by people following the North Carolina Senate race is how former Gov. Roy Cooper, the Democrat nominee, has lasted as long as he has in state politics.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:47:28 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[Michael Whatley]]><![CDATA[North Carolina]]><![CDATA[Roy Cooper]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/08/19/the-usual-suspects-line-up-to-do-roy-coopers-bidding-and-its-time-to-expose-them-again-n2205805<![CDATA[Sometimes you read about a crackdown on benefits received by illegal aliens and think to yourself, “Wait, how were they getting these things in the first place? I thought they were here illegally?”]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:18:28 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[IRS]]><![CDATA[Scott Bessent]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/19/why-were-they-getting-them-in-first-place-trump-admin-cracks-down-on-tax-credits-for-illegal-aliens-n2205806<![CDATA[Stop me if you've heard this one before.]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:14:53 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[El Salvador]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Sanctuary Cities]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/19/another-woman-dead-because-of-ffx-sanctuary-policies-n2205804