Thursday, January 15, 2026

Good morning! Welcome to RedState’s “Morning Minute,” your concise guide to the stories gaining traction right now, as well as a preview of today’s events. Think of this as your essential news roundup to jumpstart the day.

TOP O’ THE MORNIN’

What’s Heating Up at RedState

Nick Shirley is back in the spotlight, releasing a second explosive video that reveals extensive fraud in Minnesota.

Catch the moment when Raskin is silenced after Hageman debunks the ‘insurrection’ narrative during the latest January 6th Committee session.

Now, that’s a refreshing approach.

Hageman posted a clip of the xchange with Romano on X writing, “At the first @J6Select Subcommittee hearing, I demanded real answers, not political narratives.”

What a novel concept.

Trump Goes Nuclear on Walz: Stop the Violence Against ICE Now or I’ll Bring Out the Really Big Guns

Trump isn’t playing a game of chicken here, he means exactly what he’s telling Tim Walz – stop with the political theater and clean up your mess … or I will.

Trending Across Townhall Media

The Reality of Blumenthal’s Background Check Bill

With no mechanism in place to encourage proper staffing of NICS, future administrations could manage to stretch out delays indefinitely simply by reallocating resources within the FBI. Instead of maintaining sufficient personnel to meet the needs, they could strip the entire staff bare until it’s too much work for them to ever get done in a reasonable time.

Let’s Engage in Baseless Speculation for a Moment, Shall We? The Skies Over Iran Have Emptied MORE

The thing is with Trump, you don’t know, and the Iranians may have jumped the gun with what could turn out to be a very premature ‘everything is under control here, now’ statement.

Federal DHS Employee Doxxes Identities of Thousands of ICE and Border Patrol Agents and the Search Is ON

When did we begin hiring such unthinking, ignorant, mental-midget-aspiring, woke dopes into public service? Stupidity is a choice, people. 

Cea Weaver Identifies the ‘Huge Problem’ Obstructing Her Communist Housing Agenda, and Guess What It Is

Has Weaver’s mother sold her $1.6 million Tennessee home yet? Has Weaver herself moved out of Crown Heights after complaining about gentrification?

BUFFOON! Scott Jennings ROASTS Insurrection-y Tim Walz for Preaching Peace While Sharing WARPED Fantasy

If a Republican was saying the things Walz is saying, the mainstream media would report breathlessly and ENDLESSLY about their being an insurrectionist while screeching about how we must DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY. But since it’s dillhole Walz, crickets.

WHAT’S ON TAP?

Today on Capitol Hill…

We had some fascinating moments on the Hill on Wednesday.