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‘PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL MACHINE’: America’s 4 Largest Unions Fund Politics Using Members’ Dues, Report Says
America’s four largest public sector unions spent more of their members’ dues on politics and activism than they did on the traditional “representational activities” for which unions exist (such as bargaining for higher wages and better benefits), according to a new report. The National Education Association; the Service Employees Industrial Union; the American Federation of… -
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Exposing Biden’s ‘Afghan Vetting Fiasco’
America failed to establish a democracy in Afghanistan and then failed to properly vet many of the 200,000 Afghans taken into the U.S. after the fall of Kabul in 2021, according to Simon Hankinson. After Afghanistan fell to the Taliban under President Joe Biden, the U.S. scrambled to evacuate nationals who had served the U.S. government and military. What ensued was an “Afghan vetting fiasco,” says Hankinson, who served as a Foreign Service Officer… -
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Pence-Connected Group Releases Report on Obamacare Funding Abortions
As Republicans in Congress debate whether to extend COVID-19-era health care premium tax credits, a prominent conservative organization is warning lawmakers not to abandon pro-life priorities. The Advancing American Freedom Foundation memorandum, titled “How Obamacare Subsidies Pay for Abortions,” lays out a loophole in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare,… -
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This Anti-Christian Group May Be Out of Power Now, But Its Popularity Among Dems Bodes Ill for the Future
Even a year later, it’s hard to wrap your head around the upside-down world of the Biden administration: The White House celebrated transgender ideology on Easter Sunday, your tax dollars funded the settlement of immigrants who broke the law to come here, and authorities turned to an Antifa-linked group whose “hate map” inspired an act… -
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Last Thing on Democrats’ Agenda—Telling the Truth to Americans
Recently in The Wall Street Journal, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, a major foghorn in our nation’s capital for America’s Left, explained “Why Democrats Won the Shutdown.” The most accurate declaration in the article is “fights tell the country a lot about what—and who—the fighters care about.” And, indeed, there should… -
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Meet 5 Radicals (Among Many More) in Mamdani’s Transition Team
Speculation swirls over New York City’s incoming socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani and whether he will be “rational” or a radical once he’s in office. While that matter is yet to be settled, a review of Mamdani’s transition team indicates that, at the moment, it may be best to bet on radical or maybe just wildly… -
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Tim Walz Pivots to Attacking White Men When Asked If Somalis Will Be Held Accountable for Fraud
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz started criticizing white men on Friday in response to whether Somalis will be held accountable for a massive fraud scandal. Somalis in Minnesota have been involved in several fraudulent schemes, including dozens of Somalis who have been charged for stealing $1 billion in taxpayer money for state… -
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The Number of Democrats Backing Trump Impeachment Vote Has Nearly Doubled
A Democrat member’s effort to impeach President Donald Trump failed on Thursday, but Democrats’ votes shed light on who exactly is willing to assist in putting Trump on trial again. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, introduced the resolution—which is not his first of the Congress, accusing Trump of “calling for the execution of six Democratic lawmakers.”… -
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How Obama, Biden Regulations Slowed Technology Growth in Health Care
Regulations from Obamacare and under the Biden administration not only increased the cost of health care, they also made it more difficult to advance artificial intelligence and other technology in medicine, experts told a House panel Wednesday. The regulations amount to “layers of permission” for health data, said Dr. Ziad Obermeyer, Blue Cross of California… -
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Biden’s Immigration Debacle Is the Media’s, Too
The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting—covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter. At the tail end of 2025, the Times has freshly broken the news that the Biden administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants, partly for ideological and partisan reasons, partly out of… -
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Trump Accuses Ilhan Omar of Marrying Her Brother
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump accused Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota of marrying her brother during an interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns released Tuesday. Questions about whether Omar committed immigration fraud have dogged the Somali-born Minnesota congresswoman since she was elected to Congress in 2018, with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune uncovering inconsistencies regarding her marital… -
Democrat Elected Miami Mayor for First Time in Nearly Three Decades
REUTERS—Democrat Eileen Higgins became the first member of her party in nearly three decades elected mayor of Miami on Tuesday, defeating a Republican backed by President Donald Trump in a Hispanic-majority city in the heart of his Florida stronghold. CNN and the Associated Press called the election for Higgins less than an hour after polls… -
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Fetterman Breaks Ranks: Dems ‘Need to Own the Shutdown’
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., openly criticized his own party‘s refusal to reopen the government on CNN’s “State of the Union,” stating that Democrats “really need to own the shutdown.“ “Fundamentally, I’m deeply distressing that 42 million Americans are going to lose their SNAP benefits. And now that’s one of the big reasons why I refuse… -
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Fetterman Criticizes Kamala Harris for Calling Trump a Fascist
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., made headlines this week by chastising his party’s 2024 presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, over her campaign rhetoric. “When Vice President Harris referred to President [Donald] Trump as a ‘fascist,’ and I knew, absolutely, we lost the plot at that point,” Fetterman told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday. The senator,… -
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Fetterman: Here’s Why the Shutdown Is ‘Fundamentally Wrong’
Although his party on Friday once again denied Republicans the votes necessary to reopen the government, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has been slamming his fellow Democrats for their shutdown gambit from the beginning. “We shouldn’t be having this conversation. You shouldn’t be shutting our government down,” Fetterman told The Daily Signal on Friday. “When… -
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Fetterman Distances Himself From Democrat Rhetoric
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is distancing himself from the name-calling rhetoric associated with America’s enemies during World War II. “If you want a Democrat that’s going to call people Nazis or fascists or all these kinds of thing, well, I’m not going to be that guy,” the Pennsylvania senator told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo… -
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Fetterman Warns Against Shutdown as Storms Threaten East Coast
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., warned his Democrat colleagues to not let the government shut down as two storms potentially threaten the East Coast. Fetterman said he’s concerned that pausing government funding could harm response efforts to Hurricane Humberto and Tropical Storm Imelda, according to the New York Post. “If you have a Cat 5 storm… -
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Bernie Sanders’ War on Free Speech Could Make Patients Sicker
Calling pharmaceutical ads an “embarrassment,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ and Maine Sen. Angus King’s self-righteousness is on full display. More importantly, the two demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of the benefits enabled by the drug advertisements we have all become accustomed to seeing. If implemented, their bill to ban such ads in print and on TV,… -
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Sanders Slams Harris Over Failed Campaign
In a CNN interview that aired on Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders criticized 2024 Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris for what he said was her prioritizing the interests of the wealthy over the working class during her campaign last year. Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, lambasted the former vice president for being out… -
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Netanyahu, Fetterman Respond to Horrific Hamas Video Showing Starving Hostage Digging Grave
Hamas released on Friday a horrifying propaganda video depicting a starving Israeli hostage digging his own grave. The images have sparking outrage around the world. In the five-minute video, the emaciated Evyatar David is seen inside a narrow, claustrophobic tunnel, digging his own grave while crossing off the days on a calendar. “I haven’t eaten…