https://redstate.com/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usFri, 21 Aug 2026 20:41:02 -0400<![CDATA[President Trump traveled to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Friday to stump for Sen. Darline Graham Nordine (R-SC), sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), with just days to go before the Republican runoff that will decide who carries the GOP banner into November. Graham Nordine, who is serving out the last few months of her brother's term, faces Rep. Ralph Norman (SC-05) in Tuesday's contest.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:32:56 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[South Carolina]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/21/trumps-greenville-speech-n2205917<![CDATA[FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday that the bureau has cleared a DNA processing backlog that once held nearly 2 million samples, ending a pileup that kept potentially useful profiles out of the national system used to help solve violent crimes.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:08:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Border Patrol]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[Kash Patel]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/08/21/another-biden-era-mess-disappears-as-kash-patel-cleans-house-at-the-fbi-n2205912<![CDATA[On Friday, a senior U.S. official delivered a blunt assessment of the Pentagon’s decision to terminate longtime Stars and Stripes publisher Max D. Lederer Jr., telling RedState exclusively: “Max was fired for insubordination, but he was also fired because he oversaw the massive decline of Stars and Stripes throughout his time as the publisher. He was lazy, terrible at his job, and lacked proper vision.”The remarks stand in contrast to the predictable media outrage over the separation notices issued Friday to Lederer, editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, and Middle East reporter Lara Korte. All three received notices citing insubordination after publicly resisting the Department of War’s modernization push under Secretary Pete Hegseth. Lederer had announced a Sept. 30 retirement earlier this week, citing “fundamental” differences with DoD leadership. The firings simply accelerated the timeline of change.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:41:00 -0400<![CDATA[RC Maxwell]]><![CDATA[Censorship]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]><![CDATA[Woke]]><![CDATA[Department of War]]>https://redstate.com/rc-maxwell/2026/08/21/exclusive-official-fired-stars-and-stripes-publisher-was-lazy-oversaw-massive-decline-n2205915<![CDATA[While "entertaining" might not be the first word that comes to mind for Californians who are not Democrats and endure living under one-party rule in the Golden State, for those on the outside looking in, it is often the only word that fits. After a questionable primary race between incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, LA Councilwoman and Democratic socialist Nithya Raman, and Spencer Pratt to be mayor of America's second-largest city, only Bass and Raman remained, and things have only gotten more curious.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:27:00 -0400<![CDATA[Becky Noble]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Homelessness]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]><![CDATA[Spencer Pratt]]>https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/08/21/nithya-raman-finds-out-its-never-good-when-your-fellow-dems-boo-your-answer-to-a-platner-question-n2205908<![CDATA[As my colleague and North Carolina girl Sister Toldjah has extensively covered, former governor and Democrat Senate candidate Roy Cooper has a decades-long political career which he has burnished by pretending to be an "Aww shucks," moderate Democrat, while governing as a far left ideologue. The man talks out of both sides of his mouth, and he is doing his utmost to talk his way into the U.S. Senate seat which RINO Republican Sen. Thom Tillis will vacate in January 2027.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:52:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[North Carolina]]><![CDATA[Roy Cooper]]><![CDATA[Sanctuary Cities]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/08/21/michael-whatley-hammers-home-roy-coopers-sanctuary-record-which-has-resulted-in-unnecessary-death-n2205904<![CDATA[Democrat Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens torched the Democratic National Committee (DNC) this week after the party cut his city from consideration for its 2028 convention. He accused his own party of ignoring the South, dismissing Georgia, and taking Black voters for granted.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:26:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[2028 Elections]]><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[DNC]]><![CDATA[Georgia]]><![CDATA[Raphael Warnock]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/08/21/the-dnc-has-a-black-voter-problem-and-atlantas-mayor-just-said-it-out-loud-n2205911<![CDATA[There's an old saying about welfare programs in general: Liberals measure the success of a social welfare program by how many people are enrolled, while conservatives measure that success by the number of people who no longer need it. That certainly applies to things like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which purports to put healthy food on the tables of Americans who are lower on the economic scale. It doesn't always work that way, though; like so many welfare programs, SNAP is subject to considerable abuse.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:37:46 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/21/work-requirements-are-now-taking-a-bite-out-of-snap-enrollments-n2205909<![CDATA[West Virginia watched Virginia collect billions in taxes from data centers, and then watched Virginia panic.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:26:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]><![CDATA[West Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/08/21/west-virginia-wants-data-center-billions-without-virginias-hangover-n2205910<![CDATA[It was such a pleasure this week to see the execrable Alexander Vindman go down to a crushing defeat in his primary race for the U.S. Senate in Florida against socialist state Rep. Angie Nixon.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:00:01 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Ashley Moody]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[GOP]]><![CDATA[Polling]]><![CDATA[Senate]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/21/data-analyst-drops-some-very-bad-news-for-dems-in-florida-not-only-in-senate-race-but-for-future-n2205899<![CDATA[We've got an update on a story RedState covered earlier this year about a Salvadoran illegal alien in – where else? – Fairfax County, Virginia, by the name of Israel Flores Ortiz.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:30:16 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[El Salvador]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/21/dhs-goes-to-war-with-spanberger-over-hs-pervert-n2205902<![CDATA[Three patients died in experimental clinical trials in China. Two of them were children. Now two House Republicans who help oversee FDA funding want the agency to stop taking China's word for it.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:25:52 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Big Pharma]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[FDA]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Science]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/08/21/after-3-trial-deaths-in-china-republicans-tell-fda-stop-taking-the-data-on-faith-n2205905<![CDATA[On the heels of Thursday's drop from the U.K. government, "Understanding Behaviours and Expectations in the UK: A Guide for Asylum Seekers," a nine-page guide for asylum seekers that gives instructions on public behavior and how to treat women, another rape was reported — this one of a 14-year-old girl who was simply riding the train to London. It's sickening.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:15:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/08/21/guess-these-uk-afghan-asylees-didnt-get-that-government-bulletin-n2205894<![CDATA[It might be too soon to strike up the band just yet, but President Trump scored a temporary win from the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon as the High Court waltzed into the ongoing battle over the ballroom being constructed in place of the old East Wing of the White House.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:55:40 -0400<![CDATA[Susie Moore]]><![CDATA[Chief Justice John Roberts]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/08/21/scotus-cuts-in-on-ballroom-battle-lets-construction-proceedfor-now-n2205903<![CDATA[When something's broken, you generally don't turn to the people who broke it to make things better. No, in a sane world, you dismiss the people who broke it and bring in someone who actually knows what they are doing. Unless, apparently, you are voters in the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (that's what passes for the Democrat Party in Minnesota), in which case, well, you're just fulfilling that old saying about the definition of insanity.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:50:38 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Amy Klobuchar]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Medicaid]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[Tim Walz]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/21/who-broke-minnesota-the-same-democrats-now-pretending-theyll-fix-it-n2205897<![CDATA[What a difference a president makes.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:55:51 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Cartels]]><![CDATA[Fentanyl]]><![CDATA[Law & Order]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/21/trumps-epic-border-win-hits-cartels-where-it-hurts-in-the-wallet-n2205895<![CDATA[President Donald Trump had already been trying to lower the prices of beef&nbsp;with some imports, and he just made another important announcement on Truth Social about a deal he's made.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:05:04 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Tariffs]]><![CDATA[Trade]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/21/trump-makes-important-announcement-to-reduce-prices-on-beef-n2205890<![CDATA[We all knew this was coming.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:00:11 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/21/dems-dont-like-shock-gloves-n2205891<![CDATA[Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, speaking to the General Assembly of the Islamic Association of the Medical Society of Iran, has called for an end to the ongoing conflict between Iran and the United States. He's claiming that Iran is in a "position of strength." That kind of dissembling is par for the course in Iran, but we might note that this is something new; calling for a peace deal when addressing a purely Iranian group. This isn't posturing aimed at the United States and Israel; this happened in a speech to an Iranian audience.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:43:56 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/21/irans-president-claims-position-of-strength-urges-end-to-us-conflict-n2205892<![CDATA[While we've all been paying attention to affairs in the Middle East, the Russo-Ukrainian War is still being contested, with no sign of a resolution anytime soon.]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:10:58 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[NATO]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/21/home-grown-ukraines-new-stand-off-weapon-n2205889<![CDATA[The White House is out Friday morning with a blockbuster statistic that proves good things happen when you seal the border and declare war on drug cartels.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:05:00 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fentanyl]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/21/plunge-in-fentanyl-deaths-n2205888