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How Many Times Have Democrats Disrupted a Trump State of the Union Address?
As Americans tune in to President Donald Trump’s fourth official State of the Union address Tuesday, they may expect Democrats to make a scene of one sort or another. Twelve Democrats have announced they will boycott the speech and instead attend the “People’s State of the Union,” an event organized by the leftist group MoveOn.org…. -
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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… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: The Pros and Cons of America’s Strike on Iran
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from Monday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Please note that it was recorded before Saturday’s strike against Iran began. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Hello, this is Victor Davis… -
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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… -
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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… -
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More Democrats to Ditch Trump’s SOTU Address
More Democrats are joining a boycott of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Sens. Adam Schiff and Ruben Gallego recently joined the ranks of Democrat lawmakers over the weekend. “I am not going to the State of the Union,” Gallego said in a video posted to social media on Saturday. “There’s… -
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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… -
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$1 Billion on the Line as Supreme Court Could Rewrite US-Cuba Lawsuits
Justices heard arguments Monday in two disputes involving U.S.-Cuba relations that could be worth more than $1 billion. Oil giant ExxonMobil is a plaintiff in one of the cases, while major cruise lines, led by Royal Caribbean, are defendants in the other. A majority of justices seemed poised to side with ExxonMobil, while both conservative… -
opinion
‘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… -
opinion
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… -
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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,… -
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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… -
opinion
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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
opinion
The Media Lie About Trans Shooters
We just saw another tragic shooting in Rhode Island, this time at a high school hockey game. What people want to know in the immediate aftermath of such tragedies is who did it, where, and why—and how many people were injured or died. We instinctively want to know how close it was to us, if… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Celebrates Milestone in Serving Veterans
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—For the first time in nearly six years, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that the backlog of disability compensation and pension benefit claims is consistently below 100,000. The VA has not reached this milestone since May 2020. It reported an average backlog of more than 200,000 claims from 2021 to 2024….