Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Good morning, and welcome to RedState's "Morning Minute" — a brief glimpse at which stories are trending at the moment and a look ahead at what the day may bring. Consider this your one-stop shop for news to kickstart your day.
TOP O' THE MORNIN'
Red-Hot at RedState
This bombshell document release is narrative-busting stuff. Democrats, desperate to land a punch on President Trump with the Epstein files, have repeatedly attempted to tie the two together as close associates.
It's not hard to imagine how people in positions of power over others can use the combination of universal mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting for nefarious purposes. Say you're a union boss, and you know that all of the members of your local are receiving ballots to their home. Especially if some of those members are illegal aliens, you now have huge leverage and can force them to fill out their ballots in a particular way and turn them in right there at work.
How deep did the relationship between Epstein and Plaskett go, and what else did it involve? And why was she giving him so much influence as late as 2019, the same year he was arrested and charged (again) with various sex crimes? The American people deserve answers, and if Khanna isn't a complete hack, he'll work to provide them. Will that happen? Don't hold your breath.
Trending Across Townhall Media
Latest Liberal Laugher: Trump's 'Abolished the Second Amendment'
The real danger for Republicans is that Second Amendment supporters stay home this election cycle, and I think that is a legitimate concern.
Dems Doing an About Face on Body Cameras?
No doubt body cameras will catch some law enforcement officers abusing power, or at least losing their tempers, but the overwhelming evidence shows that body cams make the police look much better than Pravda and activists portray them to be.
Did You Catch All the MK-Ultra Moments at the Super Bowl?
Bad Bunny isn't an illegal immigrant. He is not-so cleverly equating illegal aliens with Puerto Ricans based on skin color, as the left loves to do.
FACT-O-RAMA! Puerto Ricans are American citizens. Bad Bunny is in no danger of getting arrested by ICE. I can see no way he can intelligently align himself with illegal immigrants other than to suck up to the globalist toilet people.
Yes, This Was the Best Response to John Kasich's Tweet About the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Former Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich, for reasons that escape us, decided to weigh in on the performance, which was, I’m being generous, mixed. I have no idea what this guy was saying; Levi’s Stadium was dead, but Kasich felt this was a “grand slam home run.” Why? Because MAGA folks might hate it?
He overstayed a visa, was told to leave, refused to leave even when offered a trip back to his home country and so he was detained, but this apparently is communism or something.
WHAT'S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill...
Tuesday looks to be a busy day on the Hill, with multiple hearings/meetings set, including:
- Senate Appropriations, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee — Hearings to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the Department of Commerce [Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify]
- House Foreign Affairs — Syria at a Crossroads: U.S. Policy Challenges Post-Assad
- House Homeland Security — “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE, CBP, and USCIS” [Witnesses include Rodney Scott, Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Joseph Edlow, Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Todd Lyons, Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]
- House Financial Services — Priced Out of the American Dream: Understanding the Policies Behind Rising Costs of Housing and Borrowing
- House Ways and Means — Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond
- House Committee on House Administration — Full Committee Hearing, “Make Elections Great Again: How to Restore Trust and Integrity in Federal Elections”
- House Education and Workforce, Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee — "Defending Faith and Families Against Government Overreach: Mahmoud v. Taylor"
- Senate Judiciary, Privacy, Technology, and the Law Subcommittee — Hearings to examine Arctic Frost accountability, focusing on oversight of telecommunications carriers.
- House Foreign Affairs, Europe Subcommittee — Weaponized Mass Migration: A Security Risk to Europe and the United States
- House Judiciary, Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee — “Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam & Sharia Law Are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution”
- Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census Subcommittee — Hearings to examine fraud and foreign influence in state and federal programs
- Senate Judiciary, Border Security and Immigration Subcommittee — Hearings to examine fraud in Minnesota
That's quite an interesting collection of topics — should be some interesting exchanges to come from them.
Meanwhile, the tussling over DHS funding continues apace. And the House Rules Committee may have an issue with tariff votes.
White House What's Up
President Trump has a busy Tuesday afternoon and evening. At 4:30 PM Eastern, he'll participate in "Signing Time" in the Oval Office. At 5:30 PM, he'll participate in a policy meeting in the Oval Office. Then, at 7:00 PM, he'll attend a private dinner at the White House.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will host a press briefing at 1:00 PM Eastern.
Keeping Up With the Cabinet
Dir. Federal Bureau of Investigations - Kash Patel — Patel highlighted the success the FBI had in 2025 in tackling drug trafficking and criminal networks.
Breaking the drug trafficking and criminal networks all across the country. We delivered a record year in 2025 and we’re not slowing down. pic.twitter.com/PLPW8vA9g1
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) February 9, 2026
Full Court Press...
We had a big ruling out of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday regarding Temporary Protected Status designations for Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal.
READ MORE: 9th Circuit Hands Trump Administration a Big Win With TPS Ruling
MORNING MUSING
Social media has created and/or encouraged plenty of less-than-admirable behavior over the years. I suspect virtue signaling predates it, but, boy, did social media make it a THING. And I'm no more immune to it than the next guy or gal, I realize. I don't have the time to delve deeper into the psychology that drives the virtue signal impulse at the moment, but I do think it is/would be a fascinating study. And either way, I started wondering about how one might call out virtue signaling without, in a sense at least, engaging in it themselves?
Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I think so much of what is driving our national discourse into the ditch of late has to do with the way we get locked into comparing our good deeds (or bad deeds) to those of others. And ultimately, where does that get us?
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away — Isaiah 64:6
LIGHTER FARE
Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of one of the funniest COVID-induced internet moments:
Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of the infamous #Lawyercat video, which I posted roughly thirty minutes after the start of the second impeachment trial. Who would have thought it would have such a lasting impact on the world! Happy Lawyercat Day for all who celebrate! pic.twitter.com/V1rXQfNqRw
— Judge Roy Ferguson (@JudgeFergusonTX) February 9, 2026
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