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By Ward Clark Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin offered some testimony before members of Congress recently, and he proved that many of those elected officials were in way over their heads when trying to trip up the EPA chief on climate change. And Mr. Zeldon's replies, well, we have reported on some of the great lines right here on RedState. But his summary of the whole thing, from my thinking, was his real  piece de resistance  - especially the mic-drop moment at the end. Eric Daugherty, from RightLine News,  brings us this account : 🚨 EPA ADMIN LEE ZELDIN WITH THE ULTIMATE MIC DROP "I told Sen. Sheldon WhiteClub [Whitehouse] today that I won’t be listening to or caring about any of his lessons on 'MORALITY' knowing that he joined an all-white Rhode Island Country Club!" He just keeps PUMMELING these Dems!… pic.twitter.com/V5wQKV2PF6 — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 29, 2026 The post reads in full: "I told Sen. Sheldon...

By Ward Clark The Trump administration is going after people defrauding the federal government, bigly. And by defrauding the federal government, well, we can take that to mean "stealing from us, the taxpayers." The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a new branch, the National Fraud Enforcement Division, and they are already on the prowl, with a West Coast Task Force looking into  fraud accusations in Arizona, Nevada, and northern California . 📢 The Fraud Division launches West Coast Strike Force to target HEALTH CARE FRAUD SCHEMES across AZ, NV, and Northern CA “Driven by data showing a significant and accelerating increase in health care fraud across all three districts, the Strike Force builds on a foundation of… pic.twitter.com/oCHFixftjE — National Fraud Enforcement Division (@DOJFraudDiv) April 30, 2026 The X post states: The Fraud Division launches West Coast Strike Force to target HEALTH CARE FRAUD SCHEMES across AZ, NV, and Northern CA  “Driven by data sh...

By Matt Margolis The Maine Senate race just got a lot more interesting — and a lot more embarrassing for the Democratic Party. Gov. Janet Mills  announced  Thursday that she is suspending her campaign for the U.S. Senate, citing a lack of financial resources after falling further and further behind political newcomer Graham Platner in both polls and fundraising. Her exit leaves Democrats in an uncomfortable spot: their presumptive nominee is a self-described communist with a Nazi tattoo and a taste for racism and misogyny. Mills had been the establishment's golden ticket. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer recruited her personally, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee lined up behind her as the best shot to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins in one of the most-watched Senate races of the year. But Platner had the cash and the momentum; she didn’t. Now Democrats are left holding the bag — and what a bag it is. Platner has amassed a record so tox...

By Bob Hoge Could the long national nightmare be coming to an end? As we’ve  reported extensively , the Democrats in Congress have been throwing a months-long temper tantrum and have refused to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security unless the GOP bends its knee to their extreme demands to reform U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Their juvenile behavior has led to the ongoing partial government shutdown, which has now been going on for over 75 days. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his Republican lawmakers may have just found a way out of it, however, and we could see some of this failure theater nuked in the near future. That being said, the measure passed by the House on Thursday still doesn’t immediately solve the problem of funding ICE and Border Patrol: BREAKING: The House just passed the Senate DHS funding bill (funds all of DHS except ICE & CBP) via voice vote. There was no roll call vote requested. It now goes to President Trump's desk for...

By Sister Toldjah One of the worst things you can do as a politician trying to one-up your political opposition is to poke the wrong bear.  As RedState reported, Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) did this very recently when he tried to warn Florida off of redrawing their maps after Virginia voters narrowly approved a referendum that would pave the way for Virginia Democrats to go from a 6-5 advantage in the House of Representatives to possibly a 10-1 advantage if the new map holds. "If they go down the road of a DeSantis dummymander, the Florida Republicans are going to find themselves in the same situation as Texas Republicans, who are on the run right now," Jeffries  proclaimed  during an April 22nd presser. "The Republicans are dummymandering their way into the minority before a single vote is cast." "Our message to Florida Republicans is, ‘F around and find out,'" Jeffries added.  In response, DeSantis did two things: He  j...

By Sister Toldjah The Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated  ruling  in the  Louisiana v. Callais  case on Wednesday, striking down the state's congressional map on grounds that its second majority-black district ran afoul of the Equal Protection Clause. "The court held that the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to draw a second majority-minority district. Without that requirement, the state had no compelling reason to use race in drawing its lines," RedState's Joe Cunningham  reported . The hysterical and fanatical Democrat reactions were pretty predictable as the panic began to set in. I mean, almost immediately, you had some congressional Dems and leftist commentators screaming for Democrats to find ways around the ruling in extreme ways. Like this one: In wake of SCOTUS ruling on racial gerrymandering, Dem Rep. Terri Sewell says she’d like to see Republican seats wiped out in CA and IL: "I'd take 52 seats from California and 17 seats fro...

The 2nd Circuit's decision means this would be the second Carroll case to potentially reach the Supreme Court.   By Anders Hagstrom A federal appeals court declined to take up President  Donald Trump's  request to rehear his appeal of the $83 million judgment in the defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll on Wednesday. Trump had sought a hearing by the full 12-judge Second  Circuit Court  of Appeals, but a majority of the judges denied Trump's motion. The development now allows Trump to appeal the case directly to the Supreme Court. Lawyers for Trump argue he has presidential immunity from Carroll's accusations. Trump's  quest for appeals began  after a federal jury found that Trump defamed Carroll when he called her a liar for accusing him of sexually abusing her in the 1990s. If Trump appeals the $83 million case, it would be the second of his contests with E. Jean Carroll to appear before the justices. He also appealed a separate $5 millio...

By Ben Smith The receipts are in. If you are a teacher who has ever written a dues check and assumed it was going toward better pay, stronger benefits, or a decent contract, read carefully. A new report from Defending Education has blown the lid off one of the most brazen political money machines in American history, and your money is in it. Since August 2015, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have funneled a combined $669,324,912.33 in member dues and PAC funds into left-wing political entities, far-left nonprofits, and Democratic  campaigns . Fold in state and local affiliates, and the total surpasses $1 billion. Rhyen Staley of Defending Education put it  plainly : “Show me your budget and I will show you what you value; and what the teachers unions value is political power and advancing a left-wing, social justice agenda. Gone are the days of unions just advocating for higher wages, better working conditions, and goo...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell The United States Supreme  Court decision  in  Louisiana v. Callais  was good news for Louisiana. However, for other states whose redistricting maps have fallen under the specter of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the news is even better. The SCOTUS decision produced a domino effect where other cases that fell under Section 2's umbrella will either end up on the Supreme Court's docket or be recalibrated by SCOTUS and by the lower courts in light of this decision. The first domino to fall: Alabama. As RedState reported,  Alabama's congressional maps drawn after the 2020 census were found by SCOTUS to be in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The June 2023 5-4 ruling  concurred  with the lower court ruling in the United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama (Southern Division). As a result, Alabama was required to create a  new Black district, which, after a special election to ...