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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Good morning, and welcome to RedState's "Morning Minute" — a brief glimpse at which stories are trending at the moment and a look ahead at what the day may bring. Consider this your one-stop shop for news to kickstart your day. 

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TOP O' THE MORNIN'

Red-Hot at RedState 

Video Shows Another MN Woman Attempting to Block ICE With Her Car, and She Gets Yolked Up in a Hurry

Undeterred by the attempted sympathy campaign on social media for this woman is Marcos Charles, ICE ERO acting executive associate director, who told Fox News' host Martha MacCallum that they will continue to arrest people who interfere in their operations unabated.

The Democrats' Irrational Exuberance in the U.S. Senate

But the Democrats' problem is – still is – that they don’t have enough plausible targets to win the chamber in 2026. Maine and North Carolina are both very winnable, but where do the Democrats go after?  Every other state held by the GOP is solidly Republican. Not even a “blue wave” would guarantee Democrats control, and there is still not much evidence of such a wave.

Hidden Cam Reveals Secret Service Breach: JD Vance Detail Compromised

An ordinary breach of trust is bad enough. But if these allegations are accurate, this isn't just an ordinary breach of trust. This is a breach at the highest level, from an agent on whom the highest elected officials in the country rely for their safety and the safety of those around them.

Trending Across Townhall Media

Florida Gun Parts Dealer Defiant In Face of New York Prosecution

The process is the punishment in far too many cases, and I can't help but see this as New York trying to bully someone who won't make life difficult for his customers, most of whom did nothing wrong, just to cover his own backside.

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Anti-ICE Types Enjoy Their Alternate Reality Heroics Until They're Not MORE, CBS EDIT BUSTED

The deluded denizens of Left World are a danger unto themselves and others.

As Expected, Justice Jackson Humiliated Herself During Today’s Oral Arguments

The argument was a dizzying tangle of “uhs” and qualifying phrases, leaving Idaho Solicitor General Alan Hurst unable to understand what she was even asking.

Here's the Anti-Trump FBI Agent Who Launched the Surveillance Probe of the Entire Conservative Movement

If the Russian collusion hoax, Crossfire Hurricane, and, on a lesser note, the creepy visits to those who posted anti-Biden memes weren’t evidence enough, that’s how the Arctic Frost probe began. It was an agent on a reported vendetta that spurred a mass surveillance operation that eventually covered the entire conservative movement. 

History Teacher to Minnesota Republicans: Good Luck Winning... A State You Haven't Won Since Nixon

Republicans will have to figure a way to cobble together national wins without Minnesota. Such is life.

WHAT'S ON TAP?

Today on Capitol Hill...

Wednesday looks to be another busy day on the Hill, with multiple hearings/meetings set, including:

  • House Foreign Affairs — Winning the AI Arms Race Against the Chinese Communist Party
  • House Judiciary, Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee — “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Protecting the U.S. Stone Slab Industry from Lawfare”
  • House Financial Services, National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee — Evaluating the Operations of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
  • Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Hearings to examine chemical abortion drugs
  • House Energy and Commerce, Communications and Technology Subcommittee — Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission [FCC Chair Brendan Carr to testify]
  • House Judiciary, Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021 — “Examining the Investigation into the DNC and RNC Pipe Bombs”
  • Senate Judiciary, Border Security and Immigration Subcommittee — Hearings to examine Biden's Afghan parolee program

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    And don't look now, but...Congress is actually making some significant progress on the appropriations front (as the January 30 deadline looms).

    One thing we do know for sure is that Hillary Clinton won't be showing up for her deposition before the House Oversight Committee, despite being subpoenaed for it. 

    READ MORE: Clintons in Big Trouble on Epstein Subpoenas - Their Response Is Something Else

    White House What's Up

    President Trump is scheduled to participate in a signing ceremony in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon. (But I suspect we'll see/hear more from him today than just that.)

    Vice President JD Vance continues to affirm that the administration stands with ICE.

    Keeping Up With the Cabinet

    Dir. Office of Management and Budget - Russ Vought — Vought recently highlighted the OMB wins for 2025:

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    Full Court Press...

    Tuesday was a fascinating Supreme Court day in terms of the oral argument on transgender athletics. There are two more consolidated cases teed up for argument on Wednesday:

  • Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corp. — Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation is entitled to interstate sovereignimmunity under the Federal Constitution, as held by the highest court of Pennsylvania in square conflict with the highest court of New York.
  • New Jersey Transit Corp. v. Colt — (1) Whether a State's formal financial liability for a judgment against a state-created entity carries more weight in assessing whether that entity is an arm of the State than other factors, including the State's own characterization of that entity. (2) Whether NJ Transit is an arm of the State of New Jersey for interstate sovereign immunity purposes.

    • And...the Court is expected to hand down more opinions today beginning at 10:00 AM Eastern. (We'll be watching!)

    COMING ATTRACTIONS

    See above — it's another Opinion Day at SCOTUS.

    Also: Keep an eye on Iran...and Greenland

    MORNING MUSING

    President Trump sits for enough interviews that it's hard to keep up with them all, so I often miss them or just see clips of them. But I did happen to watch his interview with CBS News' Tony Dokoupil Tuesday evening — next to a Ford assembly line. It runs just shy of 13 minutes, and I highly recommend it.

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    Not because of anything particularly earth-shattering in what Trump said, though our Teri Christoph did highlight his response regarding the shooting of Renee Nicole Good last Wednesday.

    READ MORE: President Trump Strikes Exact Right Tone, Reveals What He Would Say to Renee Nicole Good's Father

    Rather, what I found fascinating was that Dokoupil asked a number of pointed questions and pressed the president in follow-up, but he did so respectfully. He let the president speak, though he jumped in at times. Overall, it was a solid example of a good, give-and-take interview — something that's been in short supply in recent years. In other words, we got to see actual journalism. 

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