I Know You Are, but What Am I? – RedState

Friday, August 14, 2026

Good morning, and welcome to RedState’s “Morning Minute” — a temporary glimpse at which tales are trending at the second and a look forward at what the day could carry. Consider this your one-stop store for news to kickstart your day. 

TOP O’ THE MORNIN’

Red-Hot at RedState 

Candace Owens’ Contempt of Court

Candace Owens’ contempt of courts is no shock. Her reckless smear campaigns will soon be litigated in courtrooms.

Colorado Woman Finds Out the Hard Way Why You Never Want a ‘Smart’ Thermostat in Your House

The thought of CA Gov. Gavin Newsom controlling how often I use my home equipment makes me nauseous. And consider me, he would.

Another ‘Fake Electors’ Case From 2020 Presidential Election Collapses

Even the remaining instances elsewhere look shaky at best. To summarize, none of the 5 states that introduced prices have totally and efficiently prosecuted the core “fake elector” instances to conviction without major setbacks or dismissals of the main prices.

And it is 2026.

Trending Across Townhall Media

Bearing Arms — One City, One Day, Two Armed Citizens in Two Separate Incidents

Granted, a lot is lacking from this report that makes it clear these are justified, but then again, this is the media. Either they know what they’re doing right here, which is to make it appear to be the shootings had been sketchy, or they do not know what they’re doing and assume that verbal altercations are enough.

HotAir — Insurance Fraud Enabled ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

In Plato’s Republic, the character Polemarchus argues that Justice is nothing more than serving to your folks and harming your enemies, and that is the view of the Left. There is no increased justice; just energy. So if we wish earthly justice as properly as the justice that comes from God’s final judgment, we need to see these medical doctors and hospital directors punished now. 

PJ Media — The Gentleman’s Guide to Destroying the DSA, Humiliating El-Sayed, and Saving America!

And we already know where they’re most susceptible, because they told us when they lied. We heard it straight from the camel’s mouth: It’s what terrifies them the most.

To “other” them is to kill their candidacy. It’s their biggest legal responsibility.

Townhall — Here’s the Opposition File the GOP Had on Francesca Hong If She’d Won the Wisconsin Primary

If she couldn’t do harm control about her hatred for Thanksgiving, think about what may’ve occurred right here if she had been the nominee. But that’s hypothetical. She might need employed new political weapons, modified her tone and messaging, and retooled. Who is aware of?

Twitchy — ‘I Have Somewhere to Be, Man’: Enjoy This Video of an Ultra-Karen Getting Pulled Over and Arrested

Bodycams for the win once again. Until they issue the police shock GLOVEs (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters) as properly as ICE.

WHAT’S ON TAP?

Today on Capitol Hill…

Okay, I have a confession: Even though I notice the critters are most likely inflicting less hurt while they’re out on recess, I hate not having hearings and such to write about. I guess we have got two-plus long weeks forward of us until the House returns. In the meantime, come crittercentric coverage:

DSA Rage May Be Causing Elderly Dem Swamp Creatures to Get the Boot Faster Than Republicans

Radical Overhaul: Hakeem Jeffries Vows to Nuke the Supreme Court As We Know It

White House What’s Up

Here’s what Friday appears to be like like for President Trump:

• 8:00 AM — THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time — The White House
• 11:00 AM — THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting — Oval Office
• 12:00 PM — THE PRESIDENT participates in Signing Time — Oval Office
• 3:00 PM — THE PRESIDENT departs the White House en route to Garden City, New York — The White House
• — THE PRESIDENT arrives in Garden City, New York — Garden City, New York
• — THE PRESIDENT delivers Remarks — David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence
• — THE PRESIDENT departs Garden City, New York en route to Bedminster, New Jersey — Garden City, New York
• — THE PRESIDENT arrives in Bedminster, New Jersey — Bedminster, New Jersey

On Saturday, he’ll be at Bedminster, where he is slated to have “Executive Time” in the morning, and then has a Policy Meeting in the afternoon. More Executive Time on Sunday, and then he’ll return to the White House in the night. 

Keeping Up With the Cabinet

Dir. Office of Management and Budget – Russ Vought — Vought retains a pretty low profile on social media, though he is continued to hammer home the significance of accountability in the grant determination course of.

People like Fauci are who the Left believes must be making every grant determination instead of the appointees that the President selects—whether or not it’s gain of operate research or pure graft. They will not be for science; they’re for corruption without accountability. https://t.co/dIlDVLyEYN

— Russ Vought (@russvought) July 26, 2026

Meanwhile, Democrat Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) is calling for his impeachment, so he is clearly doing one thing proper. 

Full Court Press…

We had a number of notable court selections on Thursday, including:

• ❌ In U.S. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (Title VI), Judge Richard Stearns (Massachusetts) DISMISSES case for failure to state a declare.
• ✅ In W.M.M. v. Trump (habeas/AEA/TdA removals), fifth Circuit Court of Appeals DISMISSES appeal for lack of jurisdiction (mootness).
• ✅ In Doe v. Blanche (housing of TG inmates), Judge Royce Lamberth DENIES plaintiffs’ movement to implement preliminary injunction or, in the choice, for non permanent restraining order/preliminary injunction.

If you would like to read more about those first two:

Judge Tosses Trump Admin’s Harvard Case Over Key Title VI Requirement

After All That, fifth Circuit’s Trump Alien Enemies Act Case Goes Poof

COMING ATTRACTIONS

I’m at the purpose of drumming my fingertips on the desk, ready for SCOTUS to weigh in on the applying for keep in the election integrity/USPS govt order matter. Any day now…

We’ve obtained primaries next Tuesday in Alaska, Florida, and Wyoming. 

MORNING MUSING

We’re all acquainted with the idea of projection — accusing others of your own flaws or misdeeds. Even as children, we perceive it — “I know you are, but what am I?” fairly properly encapsulates it. 

Victor Davis Hanson, as he so often does, summed the idea up completely in an article on Thursday: “Who’s Destroying Norms?”

One of the more surreal issues about the new Democratic Party is its behavior of charging Trump with legal and moral transgressions that Democrats themselves normalized years in the past. The result’s a unusual type of projection, in which the Left’s prices often reveal its own prior…

— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) August 13, 2026

Succinct and straight on level. 

LIGHTER FARE 

I notice these aren’t cute little animals, but this is so foolish it did truly make me snicker — possibly it is going to do the same for you. 

Idk why, but sometimes absolutely the dumbest issues crack me up, with this being among them😆😆 pic.twitter.com/u2DnsYaUaJ

— Marie Isabella (@MarieIsabellaB) August 13, 2026

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