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    Virginia Republican Wins Big Upset After Muslim Democrat Busted for Racist Tweets

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A Republican won a deep-blue Northern Virginia county-level seat in a major upset Tuesday after revelations that her Democratic opponent made racist social media posts more than 10 years ago. Republican Jeannie LaCroix, 64, won a special election for a Prince William County Board of Supervisors seat, defeating Democrat nominee Muhammed Sufiyan…
    Anthony Iafrate
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    Mike DeWine Gives Last State of the State as Ohio’s Governor

    On Tuesday, term-limited Gov. Mike DeWine gave his last State of the State address, calling to mind his role as a “servant” to Ohioans. The Republican governor often brought up the well-being of children in his remarks, highlighting efforts to implement the science of reading in schools, banning cellphones in classrooms, and reaching the lowest…
    Rebecca Downs
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    The Politicking of Barack Obama

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to comment recently on the politicking of Barack Obama. He’s been in the news recently,…
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    Why the Real Fight Over Virginia’s Partisan Map to Reshape Congress May Come After Referendum

    An upcoming referendum on whether to allow the Democrat majority in the Virginia Legislature to redraw congressional maps may not be the end of the matter.  Voters in the commonwealth on April 21 will consider a state constitutional amendment to temporarily suspend the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission until after the 2030 census, allowing for partisan…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘AMERICA HATERS’: Republican Slams Democrats For Unwillingness to Criticize Islam Amid New York, Texas Terror Attacks

    A House Republican cast aspersions at Democrats’ motives for downplaying the threat of radical Islamic terrorism even after recent attacks. A Senegalese immigrant wearing a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt and an undershirt with the Iranian flag shot 16 people at a bar near Austin, Texas, last week, killing three. In New York City on Saturday,…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    DOJ Review of Voter Rolls Uncovers Alarming Names—and It’s Only the Beginning

    The Justice Department is finding thousands of noncitizens and dead people on voter rolls as it pursues more state election records, said Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, in an interview.  “We’re finding tens of thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls, hundreds of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls,…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘MOCKERY OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT’: Cities Church Attorney Slams Catholic University for Honoring Don Lemon

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An attorney for Cities Church, the St. Paul, Minnesota, church that faced an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement invasion in January, condemned a private Catholic university for hosting former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who stands accused of interfering with the First Amendment rights of churchgoers, as a headliner for its “First Amendment…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Virginia Democrats Join the War on the Electoral College

    The year is just getting started, but the 2026 Virginia legislative session has already been nothing short of mind-boggling. Democrats are shamelessly moving a bevy of far-left fantasy bills through the Legislature. HB 1245 provides taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries, HB 256 mandates “environmental justice” planning, SB 22 forces racial bias training on nurses, and HB 111 bans cleaning voter rolls. But…
    Harry Roth
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    Republican Senators Grow Frustrated With Filibuster

    Senate Republicans appear to be warming to an extreme measure to overcome Democrat obstruction—the “nuclear option” of overriding the 60-vote threshold required to bring a bill to a final vote. “My fellow conservatives and I have proudly used the 60-vote threshold to protect the country from all sorts of bad ideas and dangerous policies,” Sen….
    George Caldwell
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    What to Know About Connecticut’s Push to Limit Homeschooling

    Connecticut lawmakers are concerned about child abuse. Good, that issue should be a priority for parents and policymakers alike. But stripping rights away from all parents in the hope that the state will do a better job raising children is wishful thinking. State lawmakers are considering a proposal that would severely constrict the state’s homeschool…
    Jonathan Butcher
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    Reversing Biden’s Child Care Fraud Loopholes

    Many news reports are swirling around asking whether Congress may consider another reconciliation package and what may be in it. Regardless of whether Congress chooses to advance such a package, one area that needs immediate attention is stopping fraud in the welfare system. The fraud the country has witnessed in Minnesota recently shows how vulnerable…
    Rachel Sheffield
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    Are Transgender Activists Holding Democrats Hostage?

    Have all Democrats gone insane? I can’t help but wonder as James Talarico says God’s “gender identity” is “nonbinary,” as 106 Democrats oppose the Trump administration’s commonsense limits on Medicaid funding for sex-rejecting procedures, and as 104 Democrats co-sponsor a “Transgender Bill of Rights.” All this happens while Americans increasingly want to prevent men who…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    First Grader’s ‘Any Life’ Message Sparks Major First Amendment Ruling

    The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an elementary school student’s First Amendment rights after she was punished for adding the words “any life” to a picture of “Black Lives Matter.” The student, with the initials B.B., said she added the message while in first grade in 2021, inspired by a…
    Fred Lucas
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    Georgia’s Runoff Leaves GOP Seat Open

    Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat remains open after a special election to fill the vacancy moved to a runoff on Tuesday.  The GOP has a razor-thin House majority of just four seats, and the Democrats could narrow that further by flipping this typically Republican seat.   The crowded Tuesday night ballot featured 17 candidates, with 12 Republicans and five Democrats. Since no candidate won a majority of the vote outright, the two top candidates will…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Put Patients First and Fix Medicare Advantage

    Medicare Advantage—a popular system of competitive private health plans—can be greatly improved. Congress can do so by expanding benefit options for patients and enhancing the quality of patient care. Working closely with the White House and foregoing partisan bickering, bipartisan cooperation can make that happen. Most Medicare patients are enrolled in Medicare Advantage for obvious…
    Robert Moffit
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    ‘SHOW VOTE’: Conservatives Outraged at Thune’s Decision to Vote on SAVE America Act Without Talking Filibuster

    A source familiar with the matter has confirmed to The Daily Signal that Senate Majority Leader John Thune will bring the SAVE America Act to a vote next week without moving forward with a talking filibuster. The suspected vote was previously reported by Politico and the Washington Examiner.  “I can confirm, it looks like Thune…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Why Chinese Communist Media Is Touting the US Constitution

    The Chinese Communist Party oddly found a reason to promote the U.S. Constitution, or at least an interpretation of it, journalist and author Peter Schweizer noted before a Senate panel Tuesday.  At a hearing on birthright citizenship, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., asked Schweizer if the Chinese government promotes exploiting the concept.  “They have run articles…
    Fred Lucas
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    Leavitt Responds to Thune’s Hesitancy to Prioritize SAVE America Act

    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reacted to Senate Majority Leader John Thune saying the math doesn’t add up to pass President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act. “I think the urgency behind his need to pass the SAVE America Act and his desire to get this country- saving legislation passed have been made quite clear,”…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Ignore Democrat Lies; Birth Certificates Are Easy to Attain

    While battling the SAVE America Act, Democrats’ go-to grenade has exploded in their faces. “Photo ID = Jim Crow 2.0!” has proven to be patently prejudiced. It is downright bigoted to claim that blacks and other voters of color are too dazed and confused to acquire photo ID, especially when 50 states already have issued licenses to an estimated 31 million black…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Could SCOTUS Rule to Hold Those Who Hire Illegal Immigrant Truck Drivers Accountable?

    As President Donald Trump and Congress look to hold illegal immigrant truckers accountable, a future United States Supreme Court decision could modify a federal law that could allow victims of commercial vehicle crashes to hold those responsible for hiring the driver behind the crash accountable. The ruling, which is expected before June, could overturn a…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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