https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usSat, 11 Jul 2026 15:00:52 -0400<![CDATA[We've known for some time that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, was out of control. The system is rife with fraud and has been for years, although more recently the fraud seems to have achieved industrial levels. Now, though, a story arises that involves not necessarily fraud but "errors," those being overpayments or underpayments (guess which one's more common) by the SNAP program to recipients. The USDA sets a limit of 6 percent error, beyond which the state in question is in danger of having to repay the excess.&nbsp;]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:07:27 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Colorado]]><![CDATA[SNAP]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[USDA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/11/usda-california-must-now-repay-14-billion-in-snap-mistakes-n2204218<![CDATA[Once again, Iran's mysteriously invisible "Supreme Leader," Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late and unlamented Ali Khamenei, has issued another outpouring of bile. This time the supposed Supreme Leader is issuing threats against the United States, and again, those threats are delivered only in text form.]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:48:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/11/new-irans-supreme-leader-vows-revenge-on-trump-in-text-only-message-n2204215<![CDATA[If one wanted to assemble a laundry list of things you could do to destroy any confidence the public ever had in the election process, one could hardly do any better than to look to California for a model. The once-Golden State's elections are already a hot mess, approaching - never mind that, attaining banana republic level.&nbsp;]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:15:31 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[2028 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/11/madness-california-now-recruiting-noncitizen-teens-as-election-workers-n2204212<![CDATA[New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) caved to mounting pressure from Italian Americans and acknowledged that Little Italy deserves a spot on the city’s immigrant enclaves map.]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:38:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rusty Weiss]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Eric Adams]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/07/11/mamdani-caught-lyingblames-adams-for-little-italy-fiasco-then-vows-to-put-it-back-on-the-map-n2204211<![CDATA[The Trump administration is demanding that Iran say, out loud and in public, that the Strait of Hormuz is open and that its forces will stop firing on commercial ships, and it wants that admission by Saturday.]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:24:00 -0400<![CDATA[Joe Cunningham]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Oman]]>https://redstate.com/joesquire/2026/07/11/trump-admin-gives-iran-a-saturday-deadline-admit-the-strait-is-open-or-face-the-consequences-n2204206<![CDATA[As RedState’s Ward Clark reported Friday, Donald Trump has instructed the U.S. military to basically wipe out the Islamic Republic of Iran should they succeed in assassinating him.]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:15:54 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Trump Assassination Attempt]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/07/11/locked-and-loaded-trump-says-1000-missiles-will-drop-on-iran-if-they-keep-trying-to-kill-him-n2204205<![CDATA[Married men, be a little nicer to your wives this weekend — because this story could have been about any of us. Stuff happens.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:43:33 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Boeing]]><![CDATA[Germany]]><![CDATA[Greece]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/07/10/happy-wife-happy-life-woman-hangs-on-to-husband-as-hes-sucked-halfway-out-airplane-window-n2204203<![CDATA[There have been so many incredible stories that have come out of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and it still has nine more days before it's over. However, this particular story about a young man who chose to make a huge sacrifice in order to create unforgettable memories with his granddad, deserved the Feel-Good Friday treatment.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:21:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[England]]><![CDATA[Feel Good Friday]]><![CDATA[Sports]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[World Cup]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/07/10/feel-good-friday-young-man-uses-money-he-saved-for-a-house-to-give-his-granddad-a-world-cup-adventure-n2204201<![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