Dec 7, 2020 – Many pieces have been written about the importance of the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff, in which control of the chamber is at stake. It’s not hyperbole to say that many of our fundamental rights are in jeopardy should both Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue lose their contests, but the existential...

Dec 7, 2020 – What I did connect with is friends who do live in CA-25 (our Deputy Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar being one of them), and their…

Dec 22, 2020 – As we’ve covered thoroughly at RedState, Congress passed a pork-filled monstrosity Monday and called it COVID relief, believing that a $600 check would satiate most Americans and keep them from looking deeper into the bill’s contents. In most years that might be true, but during a year in which...

Dec 21, 2020 – Nearly $900 billion Covid-relief bill gets enough votes to pass Senate — Sean Langille (@SeanLangille) December 22, 2020 Our Jennifer … Van Laar asks the question of the hour: Why aren't they just focusing on, idk, economic relief? … https://t.co/9IRlXFs6vy — Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) December 21, 2020 UPDATE: via Manu Raju of CNN: #Breaking – In…

Dec 20, 2020 – After a week of getting hammered in the media, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon took the time to do a softball interview on (campaign supporter) Rev. Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show, PoliticsNation. Sharpton spent the first few minutes praising Gascon’s policy to essentially end cash bail for those accused...

Dec 19, 2020 – Turning Point USA, the conservative student action group founded by Charlie Kirk, is holding its annual Student Action Summit in Palm Beach County, Florida this weekend. Featuring speakers like Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr., and Mike Pence, the event sold out quickly – especially given the fact that county officials...

Dec 19, 2020 – The public relations nightmare continues for Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, who (fortunately) has an extremely difficult time keeping his true thoughts and feelings hidden. As I reported earlier, Gascon and his spokesperson both made retaliatory, threatening statements directed at Deputy DA Jonathan Hatami after Hatami publicly called...

Dec 18, 2020 – Los Angeles County Deputy DA Jonathan Hatami has been the voice of hundreds of his colleagues since George Gascon was sworn in as District Attorney on December 7, speaking out against Gascon’s Special Directives on numerous talk radio and television news shows. Appearing on Fox & Friends on Thursday, Hatami...

Dec 16, 2020 – As one of three members assigned to the LA County District Attorney’s complex child abuse unit Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami prosecutes the most heinous and heartbreaking cases that come into the office. Between 2013 and 2018 Hatami was the lead prosecutor for one of the most infamous child abuse...

Jan 4, 2021 – Back in December Hollywood boutique Kitson made headlines with their “Hypocrites of 2020” and sarcastic “People of the Year” shop windows, upon which they skewered Nancy Pelosi, Alyssa Milano, Chrissy Teigen, Gavin Newsom, Eric Garcetti, Anthony Fauci, and Hunter Biden. The shop, which lost at least $400,000 due to...

Jan 1, 2021 – On Thursday, December 31, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon sent a year-end email to his Deputy District Attorneys (DDAs), a type of “rally the troops” message. It didn’t go over very well, to say the least. RedState has been provided with an open letter replying to Gascon’s...

Dec 31, 2020 – Ahhh, what a year – as long as it’s in the rearview mirror. But, we must thank you, readers, for making 2020 an extremely successful one for RedState, where we’ve set site traffic records each and every month. This year we’ve also unfortunately seen unprecedented levels of censorship from...

Dec 30, 2020 – Last night I reported that, according to court transcripts from a December 15 proceeding, LA District Attorney George Gascon attempted, through his special advisor Mario Trujillo, to offer a “sweetheart” plea deal to Rudy Dominguez, a gang member charged with murdering one man and shooting another during a drive-by (neither...

Dec 29, 2020 – We’ve reported on the individual Deputy District Attorneys and judges in Los Angeles County who are fighting back against George Gascon’s nonsensical directives in which he decreed a number of misdemeanors that would no longer be prosecuted, instituted blanket, office-wide policies against charging juveniles as adults, against seeking even life...

Dec 29, 2020 – Every day it becomes more clear that George Gascon will do whatever it takes to force his insane directives and policies on unwilling Deputy DA’s, judges, and victims’ families. Now, apparently, he’s enlisted his Special Advisor, Deputy DA Mario Trujillo (whom he’s used in the past to bully wayward DDA’s)...

Dec 27, 2020 – On Saturday, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) posted a video wishing people a “Happy Kwanzaa” and recounting her childhood memories of the holiday. Her purported memories raised a few eyebrows because — well, you’ll catch on quickly. In the video, Harris said: Happy holidays, everyone. I wanted to take...

Sep 5, 2020 – FILE – In this Dec. 14, 1999 file photo, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown smiles while greeting friends for dinner at Fisherman’s wharf in San Francisco. Mayor Gavin Newsom is leaving his post early after winning election last week to serve as California’s next lieutenant governor. Newsom’s victory cut...

Sep 2, 2020 – As RedState exclusively exposed, Soros DA Diana Becton of Contra Costa County, California is involved in an effort to transform the criminal justice system in her county. One of her new policies is to require that both police officers and her own Deputy DA’s go through a complicated, subjective flowchart...

Sep 1, 2020 – FILE – In this Aug. 28, 2019, file photo, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, speaks at rally calling for passage of her measure to limit when companies can label workers as independent contractors at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. National groups representing freelance journalists and photographers on Tuesday, Dec. 17,...

Aug 30, 2020 – As a conservative Californian (native and proud of it!), I’m often told that efforts to turn the state around or turn it red are a waste of time, and that there’s no use because too many of my fellow Californians are liberal and dense. My usual reply is that there...

Aug 30, 2020 – In this Jan. 17, 2017 photo, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler speaks during a press conference in Portland, Ore. Wheeler is condemning the actions of some protesters after a May Day march took a violent turn in Portland Monday, May 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)   As my colleague Ship...

Aug 29, 2020 – Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, accompanied by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, of Lakewood, talks to reporters after the Assembly approved her bill to give new wage and benefit protections to the so-called gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. The bill now goes...

Aug 28, 2020 – My colleague Jennifer Van Laar covered the video earlier today of Sen.…

Aug 28, 2020 – As my colleague Jennifer Van Laar reported, they surrounded Sen.…

Sep 14, 2020 – This Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, still image taken from video released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, shows Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva taking questions at a late-night news conference about the condition of two Sheriff’s deputies in Compton, Calif. Authorities searched Sunday for a gunman who shot and...