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opinion
Democrats’ Radical Changing of the Guard
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. I’d like to talk today, if I could, about the changing of the Democratic guard. There was some news lately… -
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HILARIOUS: Trump Trolls Fake News With 100 Days of Media ‘Hoaxes’ List
It’s 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, and his administration has continued to move at “Trump speed.” The president has signed a record-breaking 142 executive orders, taking actions such as ending the “catch and release” policy on illegal immigration, declaring a national energy emergency, cutting DEI-related funding and policies, and downsizing the federal… -
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‘We Are Just Getting Started’: Trump Hails His First 100 Days
President Donald Trump declared it the “most successful 100 days” in American history. “They all want to come back to Michigan and build cars again. You know why, because of our tax and tariff policy,” Trump said in his remarks at the Macomb County Community College Sports and Expo Center in Warren, Michigan, to mark his… -
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Amazon Won’t Display Tariff Costs Next to Product Prices
Amazon said Tuesday it would not be displaying the cost of tariffs right next to products’ total prices on any of the company’s websites, contrary to a news report that said the company was planning to do so. During a press briefing Tuesday, White House spokeswoman Karoline Levitt pushed back hard against the news article,… -
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Republican Slams Dem’s ‘Disgustingly Ignorant’ Holocaust Comparison in Battle Over Immigration Bill
A Republican Colorado state representative who came to the U.S. legally and is descended from a Holocaust survivor slammed his Democrat colleague for comparing President Donald Trump’s recent deportations of illegal aliens to the Nazis rounding up Jews. State Rep. Lorena Garcia, a sponsor of the immigration bill SB 25-276, spoke in a hearing on… -
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Pritzker’s Calls for ‘Disruption’ to ‘Punish’ Republicans
Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker is intensifying his anti-Trump rhetoric, calling for “disruption” in order to “castigate” and “punish” Republicans, and he’s drawing GOP pushback for it. “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now,” said Pritzker at a New Hampshire Democrat fundraiser on… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Why Elon Musk’s Lawyer Thinks He Is Allowed to Continue Running DOGE
After Elon Musk’s 130-day term as a special government employee ends on May 30, the billionaire entrepreneur’s attorney says he expects Musk to continue to play a “critical role” in the Trump administration. “Obviously, Elon’s played a critical role leading up to the 2024 election, just even preparing for the transition of this administration,” lawyer… -
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Governor’s Surprise Veto Sinks School Choice Opportunity for North Dakota
Last week, North Dakota was poised to become the 17th state to make every K-12 student eligible for school choice. Instead, the failure of Gov. Kelly Armstrong and state legislators to reach a compromise has left North Dakota families in the cold. The North Dakota Legislature passed House Bill 1540, a bill to create a… -
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The Making of a Golden Age
Editor’s note: Emily Johnson is a senior at Xavier University and a student ambassador for the Network of enlightened Women. During his 1984 presidential campaign, President Ronald Reagan famously claimed, “It’s morning again in America.” These words remain strikingly true over 40 years later with the dawn of the second Trump administration. The feeling of… -
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Shocking Data Shows Far Higher Risks of Mifepristone Than FDA Claimed
During the Biden administration, abortion advocates tried mightily to cover up the corruption and political maneuvering at the Food and Drug Administration that has promoted the drug mifepristone, which now causes nearly two-thirds of all abortions. A lawsuit seeking to expose how the FDA unlawfully approved and pushed this dangerous drug was cut short, with… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Transportation Department Cut $9.5B of Waste in 100 Days
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Secretary Sean Duffy is celebrating 100 days of prioritizing safety and efficiency at the Department of Transportation. “The Department of Transportation is focused on its core mission of safety and efficiency,” Duffy said in a statement shared with The Daily Signal. “Under this administration, America is building again—forging a future with… -
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Trump Border Czar Tom Homan to Illegal Immigrants: Go Home
WASHINGTON—In all my years of covering immigration politics, I’ve never seen this kind of clarity. During a White House press briefing Monday morning, Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, had a message to migrants living illegally in the United States: Go home. If you don’t, he explained, we’ll find you, we’ll prosecute you, and… -
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Court Upholds Majority of Trump’s Executive Order on Election Integrity
If you thought from news coverage that a federal judge had completely knocked out President Donald Trump’s March 25 executive order, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” you’ve been misled (as usual) by the mainstream media. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia only issued a preliminary… -
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Trump to Sign Executive Order Providing Automakers Tariff Relief
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday relaxing some of his 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts. The directive is the result of conversations directly with domestic auto manufacturers, a senior Commerce Department official said on a call with reporters. The order “will go substantially toward reassuring American auto manufacturing,” Treasury… -
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Oklahoma Case Offers Supreme Court Chance to Benefit Families
A great many of the cases heard by our nation’s courts, at every level, require the delicate parsing of subtly contradictory facts and opinions leading to a decision that, almost inevitably, will greatly benefit some people while frustrating the lives and purposes of others. Happily, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond is not one… -
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Ballot-Counting Case Could Be On Way to Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court could decide a case regarding whether voters’ ballots rolling in days or weeks after Election Day still can be counted. Just weeks before last November’s election, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case from Mississippi that federal law requires mail-in ballots to arrive by Election Day. Mississippi… -
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States May Have to Adjust to Medicaid Reforms, Speaker Johnson Says
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said Tuesday that states will have to figure out on their own how to adjust to proposed reforms to food stamps and health care programs in the congressional Republicans’ “big, beautiful” budget bill. “We’re going to be good stewards of the taxpayers' resources,” Johnson, R-La., said to The Daily… -
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Who Is Mark Carney, the Newly Elected Liberal Prime Minister of Canada?
The Liberal Party of Canada won a narrow victory on Monday night, catapulting its leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney, to his first general election win. The win is a fourth consecutive term for the party, and a remarkable reversal of fortune for Carney, who had originally faced a nearly 30-point deficit in polling to Conservative… -
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Leavitt Slams Amazon for ‘Hostile and Political’ Attack on Tariffs
Amazon’s decision to display a number next to the price of each product on its website that shows how much President Donald Trump’s recent tariffs are adding to the cost is “hostile and political,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon,” she said. “Why didn’t… -
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Canadian Election Results Portend America, Canada Likely to Remain at Odds
After a topsy-turvy election cycle in which the Conservatives started up 25 points before trade tensions with the United States and a Liberal leadership change, Canadian voters have given the Liberal Party another mandate in Ottawa. This is a big win for Mark Carney, the newly installed Canadian prime minister who had spent a career…