https://redstate.com/feedConservative News & Politicsen-usTue, 11 Aug 2026 07:50:08 -0400<![CDATA[DiJonai Carrington seems determined to keep digging the hole deeper as she tries to explain away why she claimed "WHITE PRIVILEGE" in a social media post following her ejection Saturday from a WNBA game. The Chicago Sky player was kicked off the court after clotheslining Indiana Fever's Sophie Cunningham as Cunningham went in for a layup.]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[Chicago]]><![CDATA[Indiana]]><![CDATA[Sports]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/11/wnba-player-ejected-for-clotheslining-sophie-does-word-salady-flip-flop-on-white-privilege-claim-n2205454<![CDATA[As RedState reported back in May, five of the Indiana state senators who opposed redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms lost their primaries to Trump-backed challengers.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:48:37 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Indiana]]><![CDATA[Redistricting]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/08/10/trump-backed-challenger-takes-the-lead-in-the-too-close-to-call-indiana-state-senate-race-n2205455<![CDATA[Didn’t liberals tell us in 2022 that the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade would be a disaster for the pro-abortion crowd and would crush the freedoms of women all over the country?]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:43:30 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Abortion]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]><![CDATA[Pro-Life]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/10/cult-of-death-massachusetts-legalizes-abortion-right-up-until-birth-n2205457<![CDATA[For decades, people have asked the same half-joking, half-serious question: “Where are the flying cars we were promised?”]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:31:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rusty Weiss]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]><![CDATA[Science]]><![CDATA[Tesla]]>https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/08/10/real-life-jetsons-desantis-announces-flying-cars-are-coming-to-florida-sooner-than-you-think-n2205456<![CDATA[As RedState reported, GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards (NC-11) announced last Wednesday that he was dropping his reelection bid after the House Ethics Committee recommended he be censured following a review of "allegations that [he] may have created or fostered a hostile work environment and engaged in sexual harassment in violation of House Rules, laws, or other standards of conduct."&nbsp;]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:14:05 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[North Carolina]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/08/10/new-gop-nominee-in-nc-11-congressional-race-n2205453<![CDATA[California has really been putting forth some “special” politicians in the 21st century.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:25:45 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/10/these-two-so-deserve-each-other-pelosi-and-wieners-ugly-succession-war-explodes-n2205452<![CDATA[In his cowardly attempt to avoid answering questions about the role he played in pushing draconian COVID mandates on the American people, Anthony Fauci has instead opened the modern-day Pandora's box known as the "Streisand Effect."]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:40:56 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Vaccines]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/10/the-human-cost-to-faucis-fecklessness-n2205448<![CDATA[We are living in interesting times, indeed.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:33:09 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]><![CDATA[Protection Racket Media]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/10/veteran-democrat-attorney-blasts-media-for-ignoring-dem-civil-war-n2205450<![CDATA[Marijuana is certainly nothing new. From the hippies and counterculture of the '60s to Jeff Spicoli (played by Sean Penn) and his buddies falling out of a van in a cloud of smoke in the '80s movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," it has been young people, though not exclusively, who have been the chief indulgers.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:10:47 -0400<![CDATA[Becky Noble]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[Mental Health]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/08/10/young-americans-are-not-alright-as-marijuana-is-now-the-most-commonly-used-drug-n2205443<![CDATA[When New York's Cornell University was being set up and the people who were involved were deciding on the various rules, regulations and guidelines that students would have to live under, apparently nobody thought to say, "Hey, we should probably put something in here prohibiting these kids from butchering a wild bear in the dormitory kitchens."]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:55:04 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Hunting]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/10/cornell-bans-processing-wild-game-on-campus-and-these-students-cant-bear-it-n2205449<![CDATA[Some good news has finally come out of the Big Apple, at least for the short term. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been aggressively pushing his pied-à-terre tax on what he calls wealthy homeowners, but now a judge has stomped the brakes on that deal, at least temporarily. The temporary hold is the result of a lawsuit filed by homeowners (and taxpayers) against the city on precisely this issue.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:20:29 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/10/big-beautiful-win-judge-temporarily-stops-mamdanis-pied-a-terre-tax-n2205447<![CDATA[Following through counts for a lot.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:30:55 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Rand Paul]]><![CDATA[Senate]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/10/rand-paul-visits-fort-knox-the-gold-is-still-there-n2205446<![CDATA[The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have been in the spotlight a lot more in recent weeks thanks to several things. Among them are a wave of DSA House primary wins in states like New York and Colorado, the DSA-backed Abdul El-Sayed winning the Michigan Democrat Senate primary, and Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong, a DSA member, being the frontrunner in the state's Democrat gubernatorial primary race.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:01:27 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/08/10/new-democrat-talking-point-on-the-dsa-emerges-and-francesca-hong-demonstrates-why-it-wont-work-n2205441<![CDATA[Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) made a great point the other day about the strategy the right was using against the far-left/socialist surge: Operation Let Them Speak. The more you let them speak, the more people understand how unhinged their ideas are.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:50:07 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Border Security]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/10/dsa-officials-remarks-n2205433<![CDATA[Earl Walker Jackson, a Black church bishop, author, and political commentator, had some choice words about the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and its descent into anti-American, woke indoctrination that demonizes the American experience, particularly the Black American experience.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:35:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]><![CDATA[DOGE]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[White House]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/08/10/african-descendants-of-slaves-call-out-the-smithsonians-terrible-take-on-black-american-history-n2205422<![CDATA[President Trump signed an Executive Order Monday designed to increase the confidence of American families in the vaccine schedule recommended for their children.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:31:09 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[HHS]]><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Vaccines]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/10/trump-eo-on-vaccine-schedule-for-kids-n2205439<![CDATA[As the 2026 midterm elections approach, Democrats are doing their best to make the economy the central issue. Their current favorite word is "affordability," and they point to the fact that many young people cannot afford to buy their first home in today's housing market.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:22:29 -0400<![CDATA[Becky Noble]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[New Jersey]]>https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/08/10/whats-driving-americas-hottest-housing-markets-its-not-cheap-homes-n2205426<![CDATA[Terrifying — and heartbreaking — footage is coming out of Colombia after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the South American country on Monday. It comes on the heels of twin earthquakes in neighboring Venezuela in June that caused widespread damage and loss of life, although seismologists say the events are unrelated.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:59:08 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Colombia]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Venezuela]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/10/terrifying-video-of-apartment-building-collapse-emerges-as-74-quake-rocks-columbia-n2205442<![CDATA[For many American kids, college tuition is hard enough to swing already. The explosion of the educational bureaucracy and government meddling in financing have seen to that, but another factor is that some state governments have been rolling out the red carpet for students who aren't even in the country legally.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:40:45 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/10/new-justice-department-sues-to-end-illegal-alien-tuition-preferences-n2205440<![CDATA[Newly released text messages pulled from Anthony Fauci’s government phone are shining a harsh light on the shocking gap between what top health officials discussed privately and what they told the public.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:32:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rusty Weiss]]><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[Rand Paul]]><![CDATA[Ron Johnson]]><![CDATA[Vaccines]]>https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/08/10/faucis-secret-texts-show-he-flagged-covid-shots-miscarriage-risk-told-pregnant-women-to-get-it-n2205438