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    ‘California Is Broken’: Elaine Culotti Launches Run for Governor
    Elaine Culotti, a California-based entrepreneur and reality TV personality, is running for governor of the Golden State. “California is broken, but it can be fixed,” Culotti says in her announcement video, which aired Thursday on “The Adam Carolla Show.” Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom is term limited and cannot run for reelection in 2026. Culotti says,…
    George Caldwell
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    Spanberger to Respond to the State of the Union Despite Sewage Crisis
    Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ran her gubernatorial campaign last year as a moderate Democrat. Now that she’s sworn in, however, Virginia Democrats are pushing for a slew of new taxes as the state struggles to respond to winter storms and the massive Potomac sewage spill. Nevertheless, her performance seems good enough for national Democrats to…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Cancer Update, ‘Your Prayers Work, Folks’
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Victor was also up at three or four o’clock his time. And he sent a…
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    Judge in Kirk Assassination Case Denies Defense Motion on Prosecutor
    A Utah judge on Tuesday denied a motion from the defense of the accused killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to disqualify a prosecutor in the case.   District Court Judge Tony Graf held a hearing earlier this month regarding a motion by defendant Tyler Robinson’s lawyers to disqualify Chad Grunander, a deputy state prosecutor in…
    Fred Lucas
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    Who Are the President’s State of the Union Guests?
    First lady Melania Trump’s box will be filled with special guests during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night.  Trump’s honored guests include men and women of the U.S. military and “everyday Americans who have benefited” from Trump’s policies, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Pennsylvania wife and mother Megan Hemhauser is…
    Virginia Allen | Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    What Supermajorities of Likely Voters in Battleground States Say About SAVE America Act
    While the SAVE America Act is being hotly debated within the Senate, well over two-thirds of likely voters across five battleground states support proof of citizenship to register to vote, a core element of the proposal. The Heritage Action poll was done in Alaska, Georgia, Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio, all expected to have competitive…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: White House Takes Stand Against DeSantis AI Bill
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The White House is engaging against a Florida bill that would establish limits on artificial intelligence, including protections for minors, sources familiar with the matter tell The Daily Signal.  The White House has contacted Florida Speaker of the House Daniel Perez and his staff members about opposing Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Artificial…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Environmentalists Put Left-Wing Partisanship Before Restoration
    Environmental protection is long, hard work, and it usually involves managing complex systems. If politics takes center stage—as it did at this year’s Everglades Coalition conference—then communication breaks down, and systems begin to suffer. Unlike in previous years, several agencies and state officials that have historically participated in the conference chose not to attend in…
    Chadwick Hagan
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    Columbus Legislation on ICE Represents a ‘Dangerous Direction’
    The Columbus, Ohio, City Council unveiled legislation last Tuesday, sparking heated debate on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s role as well as what constitutes sanctuary city policies. One proposal would prohibit Columbus police from entering into enforcement agreements with ICE, as ABC 6 highlighted. Regarding such a provision, a representative from Councilmember Lourdes Barroso de Padilla’s…
    Rebecca Downs
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    New Poll Shows What Virginians Think About Redistricting
    Virginia voters are more likely to oppose than support Democrats’ push for congressional redistricting, a newly released poll suggests. Virginia’s Democrat-controlled Legislature has approved legislation that would likely make 10 of the state’s 11 House districts favorable for Democrats. The state’s U.S. House delegation is currently made up of six Democrats and five Republicans. In…
    George Caldwell
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    ‘You Owe Us’ Is the Mantra of the Left
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Two things that came together for me. One was [New York City Mayor Zohran] Mamdani’s…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump’s Health Revolution Is Moving Faster Than Washington Expected
    “Make America Healthy Again.” That simple slogan might sound difficult to disagree with, but President Donald Trump’s critics always find a way.   Yet Trump is delivering on its promise.   This month, his administration struck a deal with the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager to bring $7 billion in cost savings on prescription drugs to the American people over the next 10 years.   Then, that same week, the president launched Trump Rx, an online portal to ensure…
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    The Elephants in the Room at Trump’s SOTU
    During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump will celebrate his first year in office and lay out a vision for the next three in front of a Congress stuck in a partisan stalemate on multiple issues. In Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s invitation to Trump, he appeared to anticipate an optimistic…
    George Caldwell
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    Voter ID Is Perfectly Normal Worldwide
    Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer of New York relentlessly smears the GOP-sponsored SAVE Act as “Jim Crow 2.0.” This bill requires that citizens show photo ID to vote in federal elections. Schumer mendaciously decries this as the Republicans’ freshest flavor of hate, aimed chiefly at blacks. The GOP, Schumer insinuates, stole this idea from Bull Connor,…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Laken Riley’s Mother Gives Emotional Message to Trump
    The mother of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student killed by an illegal immigrant in 2024, thanked President Donald Trump for honoring her daughter. “You have said, from the beginning, literally the day after this happened, that you would not forget about Laken,” Allyson Phillips said on Monday at the White House. “You weren’t…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Transparency in Coverage Can Help American Mothers Now, Not Later
    American families have long made the commonsense argument that we must know the price of health care before we receive it. Nowhere is the lack of price transparency more evident than in childbirth, and the months leading up to it, where millions of women and families make life-altering medical decisions without any clear understanding of what those…
    Alleigh Marré
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    Markets Offer Unusual Bets on State of the Union
    Ahead of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, online prediction markets are offering bets on a host of questions. Prediction markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket, have exploded in popularity in recent years, raising legal and regulatory questions. Here are some of the unusual wagers these services are offering when Trump takes the…
    George Caldwell
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    EXCLUSIVE: Johnson Reveals State of the Union Special Guest
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will bring pro-life advocate Pastor Damon Magee, of Shreveport, Louisiana’s Kings Temple UPC, as a special guest to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. “I am honored to welcome Damon Magee to the U.S. Capitol as my guest for the president’s…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Noem Uses Unique Tool to Pressure Democrats on DHS Funding Deal 
    President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security announced that, effective Sunday, members of Congress will no longer receive courtesy escorts to their flights at U.S. airports during the partial government shutdown. “Shutdowns have real-world consequences,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose agency oversees the Transportation Security Administration, which provides the escorts. “The American people…
    Virginia Allen
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    Judge Slams Jack Smith, Blocks His Report on Trump
    A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked the Justice Department from releasing former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.  Smith’s report was set to become public on Tuesday without the court order. Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida had dismissed the classified documents case…
    Fred Lucas
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