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Harris, Walz, Schumer Gear Up to Nuke Filibuster If Dems Win Big
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic heavyweights Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and Chuck Schumer are all indicating that they will try to weaken or kill the Senate filibuster if their party wins big on Election Day. Harris and Walz, who are at the top of the Democratic ticket for the 2024 election cycle, have each indicated they… -
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What Does It Mean to Be ‘Woke’?
“Woke.” You keep using that word, but I don’t think it means what you think it means. A new survey shows that while most Americans think they know what “woke” means, they don’t actually have a firm grasp of the concept behind the term. I’d argue that the definition in my forthcoming book, “The Woketopus:… -
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Is FBI Still Colluding With Big Tech to Interfere in Our Elections?
Four years ago this month, the FBI worked with Facebook and Twitter to suppress a New York Post story detailing the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, just weeks before the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Today, on the eve of another contentious election, America could see a repeat of what federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty… -
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3 Big Takeaways From Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally
With nine days until the 2024 election, Donald Trump kicked off the final full week of his campaign for president in front of a packed arena at the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York City. The rally started at 5 p.m. with an A-lister lineup including Tucker Carlson, Dr. Phil McGraw, Robert F…. -
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Pollster Scott Rasmussen’s Predictions for 2024 Election
With just eight days until Election Day, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are making their final sprint to win over voters in the seven crucial swing states. According to the latest RealClearPolitics polling average, Trump holds a razor-thin lead in each of those states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and… -
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The University of Michigan Dug Its Own DEI Grave
The head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Michigan is incensed with The New York Times and with The Heritage Foundation (something that rarely happens simultaneously). The newspaper published an article making it clear that diversity, equity, and inclusion has been a flop at Ann Arbor, and it cited Heritage. That was enough for… -
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We Need a Congress That Will Stop Borrowing Money
With the Nov. 5 election approaching, much attention is focused on the presidential contest—but at least as significant are the contests that will determine who controls Congress. That is because Congress controls federal taxing and spending. “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and… -
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The Left’s New Approach: Hide the Science
Forget following the science. Now it’s about hiding the science—at least when it comes to experimental gender transition medical procedures for children. “U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says,” blares a New York Times headline earlier this week. This study, which involved putting 95 children struggling with gender dysphoria on… -
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‘Every Issue Must Be Understood First as a Family Issue’
“The fight for our nation is ultimately a fight for our families,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts says. A culture besieged by anti-family elite institutions drives Americans who are raising kids to the political right, he said. Roberts made his remarks in a speech aired on this week’s episode of his podcast, “The Kevin Roberts… -
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Swing-State Republicans Are Leaning Into Ballot Harvesting—and It Seems to Be Working
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—LAS VEGAS—For thousands of attendees at a Trump rally Thursday in Las Vegas, volunteers stood ready to collect mail-in ballots on-site. The strategy is a major shift for Nevada Republicans, who opposed the legalization of ballot harvesting in 2020. Now, conservative activists and GOP operatives are leaning into the new rules, asking voters to bring ballots to rallies… -
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How to Strengthen Media Integrity Through Collaboration
Uri Berliner’s exposure of National Public Radio, James Bennet’s truth-telling about The New York Times, and the recent outrage at CBS News over the editing of a Kamala Harris interview are just the latest signs of something we’ve all been seeing for over a decade. Online newspapers and other electronic outlets that used to speak… -
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FEMA Needs a Fact-Check: Here It Is
At every turn, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have used the Federal Emergency Management Agency to facilitate mass illegal migration rather than preparing the agency to fulfill its mission of disaster response. Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on communities in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas in September. Since then, the pain and suffering… -
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Donald Trump, Class Traitor Par Excellence
If there is one data point above all that suggests Donald Trump and JD Vance are headed for a resounding victory on Nov. 5, it is this: By a nearly 40-point margin in the polling average, Americans are more inclined to believe the country is currently on the wrong track than the right track. There… -
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Who Requested 30,084 Mail-In Ballots From Fishy Addresses in Wisconsin?
In what remains a nail-bitingly close presidential race, fewer than 25,000 votes could decide Wisconsin and its 10 Electoral College votes. Donald Trump won the Badger State in 2016 by 22,748 ballots. In 2020, he lost it by 20,982 votes. Given these low numbers and high stakes, this week’s findings by CommonSense Elections/StopBogusBallots.com are deeply… -
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Democrats Nervous as Kamala’s Poll Numbers Dive
Was it just a coincidence that Vice President Kamala Harris showed up, 15 minutes late, to be interviewed by Fox News anchor Bret Baier a day before Nate Silver’s poll aggregation website showed her chances of winning the election slipping below 50%? Probably not. What may link Harris’ slide in the polls and her tardy… -
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1 Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish, Coup Fish: The 200th Episode of ‘The Tony Kinnett Cast’
I’m going to risk the wrath of my editors to write something a touch more familiar than usual for this episode: Thank you so much for your support of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” and the work we’ve been able to do providing you daily news and analysis with the Hoosier snark so many “flyover country”… -
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Harris Is the Bigger Threat to the Constitutional Order
Vote. Don’t vote. I don’t care. Just stop telling me that Vice President Kamala Harris is going to save democracy. Do I wish Republicans had nominated a more coherent, principled, competent candidate for the presidency? Of course. But if anyone is under the impression Democrats tapped such a person, I have news. Spend some time… -
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The Myth of Underfunded Public Schools
Do you know how much you spend per student in your local public school? Surveys find that most Americans cannot answer this question. And public education interest groups such as teachers unions benefit from this knowledge gap because then they can ask for more spending and few, if any, taxpayers and voters know what the… -
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Hillary Clinton’s Nazi-Rally Rhetoric Is ‘Insulting’ and ‘Disrespectful,’ Republicans Say
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is likening former President Donald Trump’s upcoming weekend campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York to an infamous February 1939 Nazi rally held in a previous New York City arena bearing the same name, but Republican leaders are firing back, calling the comparison “disrespectful” and “insulting.” … -
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Why Kamala Struggles to Be Credible
As Vice President Kamala Harris slips in the polls, the Democratic National Committee/Harris campaign/mainstream media fusion talking points become even more absurd. Claiming that JD Vance and Donald Trump were “weird” did not work—especially given the genuinely odd behavior of vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and would-be first gentleman Doug Emhoff. Nor was the next…