An Interview with RedState's Jennifer Van Laar - The California Corruption Edition!

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🎙️ This Week on the So, Does It Matter? Podcast — Jennifer Van Laar, Managing Editor of RedState

Welcome back to So, Does It Matter? The Podcast — where we sit down with the people who are actually shaping the political reality of California. I’m Jon Fleischman, publisher of So Does It Matter, and today’s guest is someone who has spent years on the front lines of accountability journalism: Jennifer Van Laar, managing editor of RedState.

Jennifer’s path into political reporting is anything but conventional. Before entering the media world, she spent nearly two decades as a court reporter, sitting through criminal and civil trials — including more than two dozen first-degree murder cases — gaining a rare, unfiltered view of how power, law, and justice really operate. That courtroom experience forged the instincts that now define her work as a fearless political journalist.

Today, she brings that same precision and tenacity to her coverage at RedState, where she has become one of California’s most relentless watchdogs — chronicling government overreach, political hypocrisy, and the steady erosion of common sense in a one-party state. In our conversation, we talk about the political “burning of Rome,” the realities behind the headlines, and why so many Californians feel voiceless in a system stacked against them.

It’s a candid, fast-moving discussion with one of the most unflinching reporters covering California politics today — and one you won’t want to miss.

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Links mentioned in the show…

Jennifer Van Laar’s Author Page on RedState

Jennifer Van Laar’s X Feed

One-On-One Interview with State Senator Tony Strickland

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