Johnson, Steil Push Proof-of-Citizenship and Voter ID Through Reconciliation

By Tommy Flynn

Speaker Mike Johnson and House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil are moving to pass two core pieces of the SAVE America Act — documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections and a nationwide photo ID requirement to vote — through the budget...

Zeldin Repeals Biden Power-Plant Carbon Rules, Projects $310 Billion in Savings

By Tommy Flynn

September 15, 2026 EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Monday in Houston that the agency has finalized repeal of most of the Biden administration’s 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards for fossil-fuel power plants, a move the agency projects will save $310 billion. Zeldin made the...

Supreme Court Blocks Trump Mail-Ballot Rules Before Midterms; Alito and Thomas Dissent

By Tommy Flynn

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to let the U.S. Postal Service enforce new mail-ballot handling rules before the Nov. 3 midterms, leaving a nationwide injunction intact less than two months before Election Day. The unsigned order denied the Justice Department’s emergency...

McConnell Returns to Senate After Three-Month Absence, Casts First Vote Since June Fall

By Tommy Flynn

Sen. Mitch McConnell, the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican and former majority leader, returned to the Senate floor Monday for the first time in more than three months, arriving in a wheelchair for an evening vote on a federal appeals court nominee. It was his first recorded...

Vance: 870,000 Borrowers Tied to $39 Billion in Suspected SBA Fraud Cut Off From Future Loans

By Tommy Flynn

Vice President JD Vance announced Monday in Kansas City that the Small Business Administration has suspended nearly 870,000 borrowers linked to an estimated $39 billion in suspected fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program and COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program,...

Charlie Kirk Statue Defaced With Red Paint Three Days After Unveiling at TPUSA Headquarters

By Tommy Flynn

An eight-foot bronze statue of Charlie Kirk, unveiled Thursday at Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix to mark one year since his killing, was found Sunday morning smeared with red paint. Phoenix police said calls came in about 8:09 a.m. reporting vandalism at the memorial...

NSA Begins Biggest Reorganization in a Decade — Five Mission Centers, China and AI First

By Tommy Flynn

The National Security Agency is heading into its largest internal overhaul in at least a decade, a redesign built around China and artificial intelligence rather than the directorates that have defined Fort Meade for years. The Washington Post first reported the plan Sunday,...

Johnson Says $5,000 “Trump Dividend” Needs a Vote; President Says It Happens “100%”

By Tommy Flynn

House Speaker Mike Johnson spent Sunday explaining a midterm promise the president made last week without clearing it through the people who write spending bills. At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, President Donald Trump told the hall he would “issue a dividend to...

Trump Tells Zelenskyy to Stop Hitting Russian Diesel as U.S. Prices Hit Records

By Tommy Flynn

President Donald Trump used a stop at the Irish Open on Sunday to put a public marker on Ukraine’s campaign against Russian refineries. “Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing: He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters at Trump International Golf Links...

Trump Says China “Spies on Us” After Report Ties Chinese Imagery to Iran Strike That Killed Three U.S. Troops

By Tommy Flynn

President Donald Trump on Sunday declined to treat a Wall Street Journal account of Chinese satellite support for a deadly Iranian strike as a crisis in the run-up to his Sept. 24 meeting with Xi Jinping. “You know what they say? That China spies on us. I say you’re right, and...

9/11 in My Own Words

By Rick Hallman

Twenty-Five Years Later, Just Remembering the Day Is Not Enough. We Must Remember the People, The Destruction and Who and Why It Was Done.

Flock Cameras: A Government Tool to Stop Crime or an Abdication of Liberty

By Rick Hallman

The fact that government can track Americans doesn't mean government should—and history warns us what happens when extraordinary powers become ordinary.

Blood Shed on Main Street. The story of Lee’s Summit and Communities across America.

By Rick Hallman

They explained it more like oh you know how little friends fight sometimes. When your local police department explains a high-profile daytime shootout in the middle of a busy street and tells you, you have nothing to fear…..There is your sign! Special to Red, White, and True News edition