Monday, September 15, 2025

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. 

TOP O’ THE MORNIN’

Red-Hot at RedState 

Former Tonight Show Host Jay Leno Has Dire Prediction About Free Speech After Charlie Kirk Killing

“I mean, we’re at a point in this country where, if you don’t agree with everybody on everything, you take out a gun and you shoot them?”

US Senator Endorses Extra-Constitutional Means to Block Populist Candidates From Taking Office

This kind of might-makes-right operation has no place in American politics or even in America. If our higher education system was anything but a sinecure for leftwing midwits, these two guys would be out of a job.

Former MSNBC Analyst Pulls Cover Off ‘Shocking’ Media Reaction to Erika Kirk’s Remarks

Halperin also hit on something else I found very powerful in this discussion of the assassination and twisted people cheering, losing their decency, and effectively trying to deny Kirk’s humanity. 

Trending Across Townhall Media

Expert Claims Kirk’s Assassination Probably Won’t Be the Last

Unless things de-escalate quick, fast, and in a hurry, I fear we’re going to see this happen again. And again. And again.

It’s the Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, and Academics Who Scare Me

We’re not in the mood to be lectured at the moment. The smartest thing the left could do right now is shut up, but it’s not in their nature.

Okay, Now Leftists Are Posting Hit Lists of the People They Want to Murder Next

If we cower in fear, we will end up being enslaved and face death anyway. If we stand up against evil, we will prevail against it.

The Left’s Narrative on Charlie Kirk Imploded Over the Weekend…and They’re Crashing Out

The addiction to propping up the manufactured narrative is the new mental health crisis, and it afflicts only left-wingers.

We don’t remember many ‘fascists’ handing people who hated them a microphone and offering to let them share their ideas. We don’t remember many ‘fascists’ who prayed for people who hated them.

WHAT’S ON TAP?

Today on Capitol Hill…

The critters have two meetings/hearings set for Monday: 

• House Veterans’ Affairs, Technology Modernization Subcommittee — Oversight: Advancing VA Care Through Artificial Intelligence
• House Rules — H.R. 1047 – Guaranteeing Reliability through the Interconnection of Dispatchable Power Act; H.R. 3062 – Promoting Cross-border Energy Infrastructure Act; H.R. 3015 – National Coal Council Reestablishment Act; H.R. 4922 – DC CRIMES Act of 2025; H.R. 5143 – District of Columbia Policing Protection Act of 2025; H.R. 5140 – To lower the age at which a minor may be tried as an adult for certain criminal offenses in the District of Columbia to 14 years of age.; H.R. 5125 – District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act of 2025

And…we’re back to shutdown/CR talk. (Lather, rinse, repeat.)

The House Republican leadership plans to put a bill on the floor this week to keep the federal government open through Nov. 20, a strategy aimed at giving appropriators another seven weeks to hash out a broader spending deal for the FY2026 bills.

Republicans are saying the CR will be “clean” — free of partisan policy riders.

But as we’ve reported, the GOP proposal doesn’t include any of the Democrats’ demands. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have said they can’t vote for any CR unless it includes health care-related provisions.

I could be wrong, but something tells me this isn’t going to go down the way it usually does. I don’t think there’s going to be much patience/tolerance for politics as usual, but I guess we’ll see.

White House What’s Up

Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump will participate in a meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (of Constantinople). Later in the afternoon, he’ll sign a presidential memorandum.

Vice President JD Vance, meanwhile, will host Charlie Kirk’s show on Monday.