RedState is owned by the Salem Media Group, a conservative media company.
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18 Facts About RedState
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RedState was founded in 2004 as a 527 group by conservative bloggers Joshua Trevino, Ben Domenech, and Mike Krempasky.
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RedState took a leave of absence from RedState at the time, to which he returned in July 2006.
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On December 20,2006, RedState announced its sale to Eagle Publishing, Inc, effective January 2,2007.
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On July 12,2008, RedState launched a new version of its site, called RS3, introducing new features such as the ability to organize contributor and user diaries by state; action centers allowing users to take action related to emerging political issues; links to share posts via other networking sites such as Facebook, Digg, and MySpace; and easier searching between related content on the Internet.
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RedState has created numerous offshoot blogs on specific political topics, including a site opposed to then Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Arlen Specter and a site supporting the judicial nominees of President George W Bush.
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In 2007, RedState banned new contributors who were posting in support of libertarian Ron Paul.
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RedState was then one of the main centers of conservative opposition to Trump's campaign for the Presidency, with most of its writers and editors vocally opposing Trump.
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In March 2018, a RedState contributor posted a story questioning whether David Hogg, a 17-year-old survivor in the Parkland school shooting, was actually in the school during the time of the shooting.
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RedState backtracked later and the writer of the story apologized.
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RedState added an "update" to the story, but did not provide a "correction".
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The false RedState story was shared widely by prominent conservatives, including Erick Erickson.
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The RedState article said that Tammy Duckworth "really doesn't have a leg to stand on"; Duckworth is a veteran who lost both her legs in Iraq in 2004.
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In January 2019, three senior contributors for RedState resigned, after they noticed that articles for RedState critical about President Trump were not promoted via social media.
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In June 2019, RedState published an article that promoted murder of Seth Rich conspiracy theories.
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In October 2019, RedState published nude photographs of California politician Katie Hill and alleged that she engaged in two extramarital affairs.
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On February 3,2021 RedState published an article stating that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was not inside the United States Capitol but the Cannon House Office Building during the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
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The RedState article caused wide-ranging accusations against AOC on social media.
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