https://redstate.com/erick/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usFri, 10 Jul 2026 18:47:37 -0400<![CDATA[As we reported on Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were involved in an incident on Tuesday morning in Houston where an illegal alien was shot and killed.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:27:00 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/07/10/ice-shooting-dem-remarks-including-talarico-and-garcia-n2204197<![CDATA[All of you mean conservatives won't have Graham Platner to kick around anymore, as he's just officially dropped out of the Maine Senate race. He detailed his withdrawal in a letter dated Friday to Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (who, by the way, is running to replace him on the Democrat ticket), saying, “I write to formally withdraw my candidacy for United States Senate," adding that “my name may have been on the ballot, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine.”]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:49:08 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Susan Collins]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/07/10/platner-officially-exits-race-n2204200<![CDATA[On Friday, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) contributor Jack Posobiec, in an on-the-spot interview with Turning Point USA's Taylor Hansen, gave some vivid details of another video shown in the preliminary hearing of Tyler Robinson, who is accused of the murder of TPUSA's Charlie Kirk.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:20:47 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Law & Order]]><![CDATA[Utah]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/10/new-courtroom-video-allegedly-shows-charlie-kirks-killer-taking-the-shot-n2204198<![CDATA[Bored kids with nothing much to do this summer just got a big gift from Virginia Democrats – starting about 10 days ago, they've apparently been able to legally purchase marijuana. And that's because the Democrats who run the General Assembly, and the one who occupies the Governor's Mansion, passed and signed a budget last month that rescinded all criminal law pertaining to the sale of marijuana effective July 1, 2026. The only problem is the new laws they crafted regulating the weed market don't go into effect until July 1, 2027, per their budget. That leaves an entire year of marijuana mayhem in ye olde Commonwealth.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:21:04 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[Abigail Spanberger]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/07/10/kids-in-virginia-can-now-toke-up-thanks-to-a-boneheaded-blunder-by-democrats-n2204195<![CDATA[We've been paying a lot of attention lately to Iran, a rogue nation that is seeking to obtain nuclear weapons. Sometimes, in all the (deserved) fuss over Iran, we forget that there is already a rogue state that has nuclear weapons. North Korea is a communist state, rather than an Islamic theocracy, but that doesn't make it any less crazy. And North Korea's regime isn't just run-of-the-mill communist. It's a brutal, isolationist, Stalinist dictatorship that is inexplicably run as a hereditary monarchy.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:10:48 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[North Korea]]><![CDATA[South Korea]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/10/pyongyang-now-planning-nuclear-surge-and-aggressive-south-korea-spying-n2204196<![CDATA[It's been almost a month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced, out of the blue, that he and his wife are under criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. Newsom claimed that "federal agents have knocked on the doors of family, friends, and former employees, not because they found a crime, because they're simply trying to find one." He said the agents were "demanding records" and "abusing the grand jury process," but didn't name any of the people involved or the types of records supposedly demanded, and cast the investigation as a politically-motivated witch hunt.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:52:15 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Van Laar]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Jennifer Siebel Newsom]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[Dana Williamson]]>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2026/07/10/newsom-hires-attorney-cringey-response-on-tax-returns-n2204189<![CDATA[It's about time.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:49:20 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/10/no-more-fall-back-house-now-to-vote-on-permanent-daylight-saving-time-n2204193<![CDATA[President Donald Trump took decisive action Friday at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, firing the two Democratic members of the agency and forcing the resignation of its remaining Republican commissioner after the bipartisan panel repeatedly resisted efforts to require proof of U.S. citizenship on national voter registration forms.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rusty Weiss]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Voter ID]]>https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/07/10/trump-cleans-house-at-election-commission-for-resisting-citizenship-proof-for-voters-n2204191<![CDATA[There was no shortage of ridicule a couple of months back when the DNC released its post-mortem of the 2024 general election. The long-touted but then withheld document became a contentious item within the dysfunctional party, as party leader Ken Martin moved from bold assertions that it needed to be released to recanting and then steadfastly declaring it would not go public. It was only in the face of internal turmoil that Martin relented, and what came out was a deeply embarrassing and amateurish document that, in fact, should have been squelched.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:20:05 -0400<![CDATA[Brad Slager]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[DNC]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://redstate.com/bradslager/2026/07/10/another-autopsy-the-democrats-do-not-want-to-read-the-maine-debacle-was-entirely-their-own-creation-n2204192<![CDATA[The Trump administration has been slamming the doors on rampant fraud in the Medicare system. These fraudsters have ripped off the taxpayers to the tune of billions of dollars, but the tide is starting to turn.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:08:06 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[Law & Order]]><![CDATA[Medicare]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/10/new-medicare-anti-fraud-strategy-delivers-historic-42-billion-savings-n2204190<![CDATA[There's an old apocryphal saying, often attributed to Sir Winston Churchill, that goes "It's better to jaw, jaw, than to war, war." Whoever said it, it's a fair point. But leave it to President Donald Trump to do both at once. Iran, after being on the receiving end of yet another FO after they stupidly repeated the FA, now wants to talk again.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:18:14 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/10/trump-iran-ceasefire-is-now-over-but-will-keep-talking-n2204188<![CDATA[You really have to wonder what's going on in the mind of someone like Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).&nbsp;]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:45:47 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]><![CDATA[Tim Walz]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/07/10/rubio-steps-in-after-walz-pardons-sex-offender-n2204183<![CDATA[President Donald Trump has been on Iran's hit list since at least 2020, when he ordered the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military commander and source of support to terrorist groups. Now, after Operation Midnight Hammer removed much of Iran's nuclear capacity and Operation Epic Fury took out several layers of Iran's military and civil leadership, Iran has ratcheted up the threats.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:28:09 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[JD Vance]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Trump Assassination Attempt]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/10/trump-on-iran-hit-list-bomb-them-at-levels-theyve-never-seen-if-successful-n2204184<![CDATA[I don't understand how people can use a joyous and collaborative sporting event like the FIFA World Cup to coordinate the trafficking of humans. But the Department of Homeland Security Investigations arm (HSI) knew these networks would be hard at work during the championship games, and specifically targeted host cities in order to thwart the organized crime networks that take advantage of temporary personnel, stretched local law enforcement, disorganized crowds, and the extra distractions that seek to enhance the sporting event.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:10:49 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[Kansas]]><![CDATA[World Cup]]><![CDATA[Department of War]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/07/10/eight-children-saved-from-sex-trafficking-after-homeland-security-sweep-during-fifa-world-cup-n2204182<![CDATA[Eight South Carolina National Guard Apache helicopter pilots gave the crowds a lot to cheer about when they flew low over the beach during a July 4 Salute From the Shore flyover along the coastline.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:45:00 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]><![CDATA[South Carolina]]><![CDATA[Department of War]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/07/10/hegseth-comes-to-rescue-after-sc-apache-pilots-suspended-n2204181<![CDATA[Friday, July 10, 2026]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Susie Moore]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Morning Minute]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[White House]]><![CDATA[World Cup]]>https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/07/10/morning-minute-n2204178<![CDATA[While most of California’s top Democrats were busy handing out polite five-star Yelp reviews to local businesses over the years, Katie Porter was doing what she does best: lecturing and unloading on people.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:46:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rusty Weiss]]><![CDATA[Alex Padilla]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Katie Britt]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]>https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/07/10/katie-porters-raging-karen-yelp-meltdowns-are-exactly-what-youd-expect-horrible-experience-n2204180<![CDATA[A jokester on the internet posted the following prediction about the World Cup:]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[England]]><![CDATA[France]]><![CDATA[Riots]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]><![CDATA[World Cup]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/07/10/you-get-what-you-pay-for-london-descends-into-chaos-after-morrocco-loss-in-world-cup-n2204179<![CDATA[The September Republican midterm convention continues to take shape:]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:15:00 -0400<![CDATA[Adam Turner]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://redstate.com/adam-turner/2026/07/10/the-trumpapalooza-midterm-convention-will-be-a-very-different-beast-than-the-democrat-midterm-conventions-n2204173<![CDATA[President Donald Trump made a straightforward decision during his return from the NATO summit in Turkey: He flew partway home aboard the familiar older Air Force One rather than the new jet gifted by Qatar. The switch came amid renewed tensions with Iran, including fresh exchanges of strikes in the region. It was a measured choice that highlights a clear focus on presidential safety without unnecessary drama.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Brad Essex]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[NATO]]>https://redstate.com/brad-essex/2026/07/10/the-essex-files-trumps-air-force-one-swap-prioritizes-security-and-honors-our-troops-n2204145