UPDATE 5/23/2025: Governor Sanders announced that the State will cover up to 35% of county and local governments’ cleanup and rebuilding costs after the March storms. UPDATE 05/15/25: After what she calls a “productive” phone call with President Trump, Governor Sanders announced that Trump has now approved federal disaster assistance for Green, Hot Spring, Independence, […]
Over the years, Arkansas Democrats have always played a strong role in national politics, from influential Senator William Fulbright (longest-serving Chair of Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee) to former Ways & Means Chairman Wilbur Mills (“the most powerful man in Washington”) and, oh yes, don’t forget former President Bill Clinton. However, in 2025 Arkansas’ role is
If you’re an American citizen who believes in America and her future, who in their right mind can argue with this? Elon Musk and seven DOGE team members appeared Thursday on Bret Baier’s “Special Report” to highlight some of their findings in a two-part interview. These are true American heroes not just because of the
Republished from RedWingPost.Substack.com Elbridge Colby, President Trump’s nominee as the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for policy, begins a questionable confirmation process today with a confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Senator Tom Cotton, the Senate Republican Conference Chairman, has repeatedly expressed suspicions about Colby’s defense views. Cotton — along with other Republican Senators
It’s that time of year when those cookies begin to pop up around our neighborhoods like early spring daffodils. You know the ones — those peanut butter patties and thin mints Girl Scout cookies. Did you know those annual treats contain potentially toxic ingredients? Consumer groups, GMOScience, and Moms Across America (“MAA”), all part of
President Trump on Friday called out Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders by name during his remarks to the bipartisan Governors Working Session at the White House during The National Governors Association winter meetings. Getting top billing from the speech was the clash between President Trump and Maine Governor Janet Mills over her state’s insistence
Arkansas Republican Party power struggles continue into 2025 as Governor Sanders, GOP lawmakers, and legacy donors who shut out the properly conducted, largest-ever Republican State Convention last June continue to choke down and shut out MAGA voters, those Republican party members who put our state’s Republican trifecta government and President Donald J. Trump into office.
Arkansans are eagerly looking for major changes in our government promised by President Donald Trump as he takes office on January 20. Of course, border security and bringing down inflation are the most fiery topics, but where are Congressional Democrats when it comes to so-called mandatory spending? For several years Democrats (and some Republicans) have
As Governor Sarah Sanders’ secret prison land purchase deal is becoming unraveled —thanks in part to our state’s strong FOIA, we might add — at least one leading Arkansas lawmaker continues to follow Sanders’ lead. Instead of responding to the pleas of Franklin County citizens and elected officials who were blindsided by how Sanders’ administrative
Political activism in Arkansas crosses all the lines you can imagine: Republican, grassroots, Democratic, libertarian, and so forth. But, at its basic level political activism is all the same: it’s all about getting the attention of the public and stakeholders in order to bring about a change you desire. We’re always open to hints that
Listen to this post: 50 states, 100 Senators. Republicans hold a slim majority in the 119th Congress that begins January 3. In the Senate, that’s 53 Republican Senators. Even with plenty of committee assignments to spread around — the Senate has 21 working committees — our Arkansas Senators figure quite prominently in the 119th
Republican voters’ insistence on following the Republican platform is a critical inflection point that predicts the direction the Republican Party of Arkansas will take as it continues to wage war against its own Party members. For America First/Arkansas First voters, it’s inter-related to the “any R is better than a D“ argument that sparked this
Yesterday’s public outcry from voters, “the DOGE brothers,” and President Donald Trump against the woke, bloated, Christmas tree CR Speaker Mike Johnson was pushing has forced Johnson back to the drawing board to cobble something together Congress can put in place before the December 20 government shutdown deadline. Why has Congress waited till this week
It didn’t take long for the public to learn that Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s Congress planned to give itself a $6,000/year raise, as social media users found a mess of other gems hidden in the failed, 1,550-page “Christmas omnibus” package that went down in flames on Wednesday. Johnson’s current efforts are now focused on keeping
From the day of the 2024 Republican State Convention, the RPA Chair and staff have refused to talk to or accept appropriate elector and Convention documentation from the elected Convention Chair, nor have they provided the delegate lists as requested. The RPA not only refused to distribute the newly passed Rules and platform, Republican Party of
Nationwide injunction leaves small businesses hanging for now
As Chair, will oversee cryptocurrency regulation in the U.S.
UPDATE: Now, financial filings are NOT due by January 1
Senator Boozman meets with Pete Hegseth
“Give Trump His Cabinet” tour to “encourage” red state Senators
