Aug 28, 2026
This week on Red State Update, Jackie and Dunlap wail in grief about:
Dolly Parton, the only person left who could bring this country together, and her work with the oppressed, the underprivileged, and Porter Wagoner. Plus her movies, her songs, Tim Curry, and why Dolly’s legacy goes beyond singin, actin, Dollywood, and Straight Talk. Plus Whorehouse, Jim Nabors, and how everyone’s Mom’s kitchen used to look like the Trio album cover.
- Friendships with Canada never last, but Lake America is forever
- Supreme Court don’t seem to mind what Trump does with mail-in ballots, elections, democracy. DOJ hires a lawyer once convicted of election-site hacking
- Wild horses couldn’t keep Trump away — Protected wild horses are sold for slaughter while Trump lets beef imports come in from wherever, American farmers be damned, even if we got to do a Beef recall — 30,000 pounds of Argentine beef recalled after sale in Florida and Texas.
- ABC / Rosie / FCC — ABC is airing Rosie O’Donnell and suing Trump’s FCC after previously kissin trump ass
- Secret Service is reportedly alarmed by Natalie Harp’s letters.
- Trump will tear down the Kennedy Center if they don’t put his name on it.
- Michael Cohen: still terrible
- Our health and what’s left of it:
- RURAL Michigan hospitals closing or cutting services after Medicaid cuts.
o Measles — U.S. measles cases are at their highest level since 1991, with two deaths reported. RFK Jr. is tied to conspiracy-tinged comments about measles deaths. Byron Donalds blames spread on illegal immigration.
- ICE arrests — ICE arrests surged—they’re arrestin people with no criminal convictions to make their dumb damn quotas.
- More folks in immigrant camps than ATL population
- Deaf migrants — Deaf migrants deported without sign-language interpreters
- A mile of border infrastructure in Big Bend reportedly costs more than the park’s annual budget.
- Asylum visas — Administration actions include revoking visas for asylum seekers.
- Texas / Musk / Paxton — Elon Musk reportedly plans to spend $200 million to help Ken Paxton in Texas.
- Ohio Sleazebag Max Miller threatens his father-in-law with blackmail
- Georgia / Mike Collins — Mike Collins has another aide linked to racist stuff
- Alabama / Tuberville — Tuberville says he will not debate Doug Jones because he don’t understand what debates are
- Gary / Memphis power
- Hegseth / Pentagon Hegseth hires trolls to go after enemies & critics while firing Stars and Stripes staff
- USS Doris Miller — They may name a carrier after Trump instead of Black WWII hero Doris Miller.
- USS Lincoln finally returning after a nine-month deployment.
- A sailor who jumped from a ship is reportedly facing discipline.
- Hegseth fired Gen. Randy George after Kid Rock flyover investigation.
- Sean Duffy show — nobody watchin this youtube crap. Finally something I identify with Sean Duffy about
- Spider-Man vs. Jake Lang in Minnesota.
- Jeffries / Kushner get together. These are the only two people left who will get along now that Dolly is gone.
- Trump approval — Trump approval stands at 35%, disapproval at 61%, net -26. That’s real bad and yet should be worse.
- Darlene Graham, IRAN vs Economic D-Day, Mad Farmers
Kehinde Wiley painting: State Dept takes down a painting of Dominicans in the Dominican embassy by the artist of Obama’s presidential portrait. They called the paining “very woke” and “aesthetically terrifying.” They took it down but first they hid it behind a tarp with a US flag on it. Leah Campos, Rachel Campos-Duffy’s sister and Sean Duffy’s sis-in-law, is the U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, called it an example of “globalist and woke ideologies.” What is woke ideology? I know it when I see it.
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Art by Yoni Limor
Photos by Robyn von Swank
Music by William Sherry Jr.
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