https://redstate.com/erick/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usMon, 17 Aug 2026 07:57:47 -0400<![CDATA[Redfin counted 966,752 active homebuyers nationwide in July, the lowest number in its records. Buyers dropped 2.5 percent from June. Sellers barely moved, falling just 0.3 percent. With 1,462,921 homes for sale, the market ended the month with nearly half a million more sellers than buyers. On paper, that's good news for buyers.]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:45:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Inflation]]><![CDATA[Newsom Real Estate]]><![CDATA[Tennessee]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/08/17/its-a-buyers-market-except-buyers-still-cant-afford-to-buy-n2205684<![CDATA[Jessica Walton says her eyebrow appointment at Karimi Brows in Alexandria ended when the owner, Fatana Karimi, told her to leave. Walton is Jewish and Israeli-American. Karimi later posted part of the argument herself.]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]><![CDATA[Gaza]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Judaism]]><![CDATA[Palestinians]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/08/17/virginia-salon-owner-boots-jewish-israeli-customer-then-her-own-video-makes-it-even-worse-n2205683<![CDATA[Vile left-wing streamer Hasan Piker has found himself an unlikely fan of Candace Owens and called her a “queen” for single-handedly undermining conservative efforts to martyrize Charlie Kirk after his assassination.]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:15:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rusty Weiss]]><![CDATA[Candace Owens]]><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/08/17/hasan-piker-cheers-candace-owens-as-queen-for-undermining-charlie-kirks-martyrdom-n2205686<![CDATA[We’re finally getting our house painted. It hasn’t been painted for, probably, 20 years or more, and the paint was in bad shape. Bear in mind that paint isn’t just decorative; it protects the building’s wood from rain, frost, snow and sun. We had the garage and machine shed painted last year, and the house and office this year. The job got delayed because a lot of the facing boards and some siding needed replacement, but it’s coming along now.]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Alaska]]><![CDATA[Science]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/17/alaska-man-monday-bears-and-owls-n2205664<![CDATA[The Michigan Senate race is heating up. If Democrats are going to have any chance to take back the Senate, they need to hold Michigan. But Republicans have a good chance to win with former Rep. Mike Rogers.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:05:50 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Mike Rogers]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Senate]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/16/el-sayed-tries-to-attack-rogers-in-michigan-senate-race-but-it-boomerangs-on-him-n2205679<![CDATA[Back in May, the FBI shared what it called "preliminary data" indicating that violent crime in 2025 was down a staggering 9.3 percent compared to what it was in 2024.]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:34:01 -0400<![CDATA[Sister Toldjah]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Kash Patel]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/08/16/violent-crime-down-media-at-a-loss-to-explain-why-n2205678<![CDATA[It happened on June 13 in Washington State, but the footage was just released Friday, and it’s incredible.]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:26:16 -0400<![CDATA[Bob Hoge]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Video]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/16/well-that-was-an-f-18-marine-pilot-calmly-greets-cops-after-surviving-67-million-jet-crash-n2205681<![CDATA[On the eve of joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea, President Trump has pulled an abrupt pivot and ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to "substantially reduce" the drills, citing both the costs and what he sees as an unnecessarily hostile signal to North Korea.]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:05:10 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[North Korea]]><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]><![CDATA[South Korea]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/16/trump-orders-hegseth-the-cut-back-on-joint-military-exercises-with-south-korea-n2205680<![CDATA[The left spread a fiction about the shooting death of Missouri resident Michael Brown back in August 2014 that helped spark the Black Lives Matter movement.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:51:55 -0400<![CDATA[Nick Arama]]><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Fake News]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[Missouri]]>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/08/16/rashida-tlaib-gets-nailed-for-huge-whopper-n2205677<![CDATA[When concerned McKinney, Texas, residents showed up in droves for a recent town council meeting where city leaders were considering the proposed expansion plan for the Islamic Association of McKinney, Republican Rep. Keith Self (TX-03) – who represents the area in Congress – was right there alongside his fellow outraged citizens.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:00:41 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Islam]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/16/rep-self-wants-to-give-boot-to-mckinney-town-council-n2205675<![CDATA[On Sunday, the new United States Attorney General, Todd Blanche, went into a figurative lion's den, that being NBC News' Meet the Press, where he faced host Kirsten Welker. And, the AG Blanche handled himself pretty well, including dropping a few metaphorical truth bombs on Welker when she questioned the new AG about the possibility of President Trump giving him illegal or unethical orders.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:33:43 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Kristen Welker]]><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]><![CDATA[Protection Racket Media]]><![CDATA[Todd Blanche]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/16/ag-blanche-on-meet-the-press-trump-never-has-and-never-will-ask-for-illegal-acts-n2205674<![CDATA[Where sex is concerned, human reproductive biology is pretty standard: Humans are sexually bipolar, with two sexes, male and female. This is determined genetically at conception; barring a few rare and usually debilitating genetic disorders, an XX chromosome pair results in a female, and an XY pair, a male.]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:00:58 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Sports]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]><![CDATA[Women's Sports]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/16/caitlyn-jenner-has-a-simple-answer-to-the-wnbas-transgender-player-problem-n2205672<![CDATA[Iran has been taking a pounding from the United States and Israel for some months now. The regime is battered; the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps now appears to be either in charge or angling to be, having already seized control of what's left of Iran's military. Their civil leadership has been reduced to the third level by American explosives. And, the country is broke, with inflation at astronomic levels and their ports blockaded by the United States Navy.]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:26:20 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/16/new-iran-now-offering-bounties-for-killed-or-captured-american-soldiers-n2205671<![CDATA[A “blinking red” email from Anthony Fauci's government account is raising another round of questions about what top federal health officials knew about potential COVID-19 vaccine side effects — and how far they may have gone to ignore them.]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:01:36 -0400<![CDATA[Kyle Becker]]><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[FDA]]><![CDATA[Vaccines]]>https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/08/16/we-cannot-ignore-her-fauci-resisted-studying-vaccine-side-effects-despite-fda-warning-n2205670<![CDATA[The financial markets, most particularly lenders, are beset with government interference at all levels. At the federal level, there are some constitutional issues involved that nobody in Washington seems to care much about - more on that in a moment. Of particular concern to a lot of politicians, most especially Democrats, are short-term lenders and other lenders specializing in high-risk clients; these lenders often charge high interest rates for short-term loans, including so-called "payday loans," as well as some of them dealing with people with issues like poor credit histories.]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:37:08 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/16/warrens-latest-power-play-block-fintech-lender-from-banking-charter-n2205669<![CDATA[House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (OH-04) joined Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," with guest host Jackie DeAngelis this morning to address newly declassified documents regarding the Russia Collusion hoax and the weaponization of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:15:31 -0400<![CDATA[Susie Moore]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Russian Collusion Hoax]]>https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/08/16/jordan-n2205668<![CDATA[It seems scarcely a day goes by anymore without some new fraud scheme being uncovered. In one way, that's good, because the perpetrators are being caught. In another, it's bad, because the systems, in this case Medicaid, are so poorly handled that the opportunities for fraud seem rampant.]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:37:13 -0400<![CDATA[Ward Clark]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Medicaid]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]>https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/16/minnesota-style-fraud-hits-pa-19-now-charged-in-home-care-scam-n2205667<![CDATA[UPDATE: Adm. Cooper issued a new statement Sunday saying Navy life is "unique" and "challenging" and isn't for everyone. He also noted the leadership of the USS Abraham Lincoln is addressing mental health issues that may arise from the long deployment, with particular praise for Chief Petty Officer's Mess staff.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:38:07 -0400<![CDATA[Teri Christoph]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/16/centcom-commander-visits-lincoln-n2205661<![CDATA[Happy Sunday, and welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. What do you suppose caught people's attention as we settle into mid-August? Grab a cup of coffee (or something stronger if you're so inclined) and sit down with this 21st-century Weekend Edition of your favorite (online) publication.]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:55:22 -0400<![CDATA[Susie Moore]]><![CDATA[Colorado]]><![CDATA[Jen Psaki]]><![CDATA[Karoline Leavitt]]><![CDATA[Weekly Briefing]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/08/16/redstate-weekly-briefing-n2205662<![CDATA[Mary Peltola built her Alaska Senate campaign around one simple message: She's not one of those Democrats. Her own campaign may have just blown that up.]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:20:27 -0400<![CDATA[Ben Smith]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Alaska]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]><![CDATA[Senate]]>https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/08/16/peltola-denied-knowing-about-harris-fundraising-email-report-says-her-campaign-asked-for-it-n2205660