https://redstate.com/streiff/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usTue, 21 Jul 2026 00:02:00 -0400<![CDATA[Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., holding that states may reserve girls' and women's sports teams for biological females without violating Title IX or the Constitution, New Hampshire parents of transgender teenagers have dropped their lawsuits to allow their sons to play on the women's sports teams. One of the confused youth chose to stop playing on his soccer team because it was no longer fun. As our sister site Twitchy said, "That's as good as self-deporting."]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:27:14 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[Women's Sports]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/07/20/zero-fun-sir-boy-pretending-to-be-a-girl-drops-suit-to-join-girls-team-claims-bullying-n2204556<![CDATA[Fox Business correspondent Edward Lawrence recently reported on a big problem that the Biden administration left with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).&nbsp;]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:14:37 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/07/20/the-horrible-way-the-biden-admin-messed-up-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-n2204555<![CDATA[The Left is always claiming that the Right are fascists, yet doesn’t it always seem like they are the ones trying to force you to do things you don’t want to do?]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:25:47 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Catholicism]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[Kathy Hochul]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[New York]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/07/20/see-you-in-court-catholic-nuns-fight-back-fight-against-nys-culture-of-death-law-n2204559<![CDATA[Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) is facing some heat after a video clip from a recent campaign event circulated on X, showing him urging supporters to mobilize a large group of people who were not naturalized citizens during the last election cycle.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:18:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rusty Weiss]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Keith Ellison]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]><![CDATA[Voter ID]]>https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/07/20/shocking-clip-keith-ellison-brags-dems-will-get-em-all-people-who-werent-citizens-last-election-n2204557<![CDATA[During the Biden administration, being able to check as many diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) boxes on your resumé as possible was of utmost importance. It was a veiled way of saying, "Straight white men need not apply." But in the age of Trump, it is not about what you look like, but whether you can do the job. What was once almost a guarantee that you would be hired doesn't have the punch it once did. &nbsp;]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:55:38 -0400<![CDATA[Becky Noble]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Free Speech]]><![CDATA[Woke]]><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]><![CDATA[LGBTQ+]]>https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/07/20/pulling-the-gay-card-in-lieu-of-qualifications-not-as-lucrative-for-lgbt-professionals-as-it-once-was-n2204546<![CDATA[Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia spent nearly 40 years building the Sinaloa Cartel into a global drug operation. On Monday, a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced him to life in prison without parole.]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:52:14 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Cartels]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[DEA]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Fentanyl]]><![CDATA[Mexico]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/07/20/good-riddance-sinaloa-cartel-kingpin-el-mayo-will-die-behind-bars-n2204549<![CDATA[A federal judge on Monday stopped Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery from closing their proposed merger, handing California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 11 other Democratic state attorneys general their first win in overriding a deal the federal government had already cleared.]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:45:45 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[CBS News]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Entertainment]]><![CDATA[Hollywood]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/07/20/biden-appointed-judge-pauses-paramount-warner-bros-megamerger-n2204552<![CDATA[Alaska politics are more than a little weird. They always were, but ranked-choice voting (RCV) really screwed things up. That bad idea was almost certainly part of the cause of Mary Peltola winning one term as Alaska's at-large representative in the House, and for Senator Liza Murkowski (R-AK)'s continued presence in the Senate.]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:41:55 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[2028 Elections]]><![CDATA[Alaska]]><![CDATA[Dan Sullivan]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/20/polls-now-forecast-total-gop-domination-in-alaska-in-2026-n2204553<![CDATA[&nbsp;Some takedowns are worth watching, and once in a while, you see a really good one. Last January, we were treated to one such in a House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing, when Rep. Brandon Gill (TX-26) was questioning Democratic witness Brendan Ballou during hearings on the Minnesota welfare/fraud issues. What was said then was, well, revealing. Watch:]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:49:21 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]><![CDATA[SNAP]]><![CDATA[Brandon Gill]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/20/watch-brandon-gill-smashes-somali-welfare-stats-in-mn-n2204551<![CDATA[On Monday, President Donald Trump took action against what the administration calls "discriminatory treatment of American products" by Canada.]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:46:34 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[Canada]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Tariffs]]><![CDATA[Trade]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/07/20/trump-additional-tariffs-canada-n2204550<![CDATA[Joe Biden spent four years promising to cancel student loan debt. The Supreme Court said no. The courts said no. Now the bill has come due, and millions of working Americans are in default - but employees of lefty nonprofits like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), which openly work to subvert the law, can have their loans forgiven. For now.]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:40:42 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Student Loans]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/07/20/bidens-student-loan-fantasy-is-over-95-million-borrowers-are-paying-the-price-n2204547<![CDATA[Authorities have now identified the man allegedly behind the attack at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City this morning, the site of many federal agencies, including the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).&nbsp;]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:25:24 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/07/20/presser-on-anti-ice-attack-in-nyc-n2204542<![CDATA[As my colleague Nick Arama reported earlier Monday, a maniac allegedly set off an incendiary device at 26 Federal Plaza and threatened pedestrians in New York City and was promptly taken into custody. Luckily, there were only two minor injuries. 26 Federal Plaza houses many federal agencies, including the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the suspect was found to have anti-ICE messaging on his belongings.]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:05:06 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Tom Homan]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/07/20/homan-goes-ballistic-on-dems-for-anti-ice-rhetoric-after-nyc-attack-fake-stories-and-downright-lies-n2204544<![CDATA[Sometimes you have to wonder about the sheer gall demonstrated by some people. In one such case, we have Brandon Ortiz-Vite, a Mexican national who was in the United States illegally when he was arrested and convicted of murder. Ortiz-Vite is now serving a prison sentence of (at minimum) 39 years, but that hasn't stopped him from suing President Trump. Why? Because then-candidate Trump used Ortiz-Vite as an example in his campaign ads on illegal immigration, including displaying Ortiz-Vite's mug shot.]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:46:47 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/20/outrage-illegal-alien-convicted-killer-now-suing-trump-for-75m-and-citizenship-n2204543<![CDATA[It's hard to imagine what this past week has been like for Darline Graham Nordone. It started with the unexpected death of her big brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham – who had adopted her after the deaths of their parents while she was still a child – pivoting wildly when she was sworn in as the interim Senate replacement for her brother, and is ending with her making a big decision about her future in politics.]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:26:31 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[GOP]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[South Carolina]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/07/20/darline-graham-makes-a-decision-on-running-for-her-brothers-senate-seat-n2204541<![CDATA[Rumors spread quickly when President Trump departed the NATO summit in Turkey in early July aboard the old 747‑200B (VC‑25A) baby-blue-and-white Air Force One instead of the shiny new $400 million Qatari-donated jet that had recently been put in service. (After a stopover in England, he returned to the U.S. on the new plane.)]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:49:27 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Qatar]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/07/20/back-to-the-baby-blue-new-qatari-donated-af1-to-be-temporarily-taken-out-of-service-to-get-maxed-out-n2204540<![CDATA[The political left loves to protest. They seem to do a lot more protesting than people on the right do; people on the right, after all, have jobs. Now, though, we may see another round of protests and potentially riots, as Cuba is reportedly organizing far-left American activist groups to target American military bases, ICE facilities and other federal installations if there is any overt American action against Cuba.]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:44:11 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Cuba]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Riots]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/20/cuba-linked-activists-now-planning-protests-at-us-bases-ice-sites-n2204537<![CDATA[There are now more details about that&nbsp;"explosion"&nbsp;outside 26 Federal Plaza in New York City this morning.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:28:44 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/07/20/update-on-attack-on-nyc-fed-hqs-n2204532<![CDATA[Though Democratic Socialist candidates and others whose "values" align with the Democratic Socialists of America Party's (DSA) platform have enjoyed a wave of primary successes in recent weeks in states like New York and Colorado, one spectacular failure that comes to mind is Graham Platner.]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:23:25 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/07/20/liz-warren-announces-latest-senate-endorsement-and-the-candidate-might-wanna-run-away-from-this-one-n2204533<![CDATA[President Trump on Monday delivered a decisive verbal smackdown to New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, shutting down any notion of detaining Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on American soil.]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:59:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rusty Weiss]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[International Criminal Court]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[United Nations]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/07/20/president-trump-just-squashed-mamdanis-fever-dream-of-arresting-netanyahu-n2204536