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House Oversight Committee Asks Ethics Committee to Probe Ilhan Omar
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—After investigating Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and her husband over alleged financial concerns, the House Oversight Committee is now asking the House Ethics panel to step in. A letter sent by the House Oversight Committee to Timothy Mynett, Omar’s husband, in February, and shared with The Daily Signal, expresses… -
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SHAMELESS: Democrats Suggest Nuking a State Supreme Court in Mad Pursuit of Redistricting Power
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Democrats are scheming to pack a court after justices clearly upheld the law in opposition to their agenda. No, it isn’t the U.S. Supreme Court, for once. Instead, it’s Virginia’s highest court—and Democrats’ lawless scheme is positively Machiavellian. When the Virginia Supreme Court rightly struck down Old… -
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Why Won’t Barack Obama Go Away?
In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital his permanent home after leaving office. In very mild defense of the man who did more than any other to establish the administrative state and thus pervert America’s carefully constructed… -
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Mamdani’s Tax Day Vid Backfires as Businesses Look to Escape New York
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already having success in redistributing wealth, right out of his city. It seems the socialist mayor’s creepy video celebrating Tax Day and directly calling out billionaire CEO Ken Griffin as a target for a new pied-à-terre tax may have backfired. While the slickly produced video—where he gleefully spoke about taxing… -
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The Race-Obsessed Left Complains When the Supreme Court Issues a Colorblind Ruling
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, in the recent case that restricted the use of race in designing a Louisiana congressional district. Thomas wrote: “This Court should never have interpreted [Section)] 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to effectively give racial groups ‘an entitlement to… -
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‘HYPOCRITES’: Top Ed Official Slams Democrats for Opposing Rule to Lower College Costs
Undersecretary of Education Nicholas Kent slammed congressional Democrats for attempting to block a rule that would lower higher education costs for Americans. “Democrats are hypocrites,” Kent told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview. “For years, they have purported to care about student debt, but now they’ve reaffirmed what we’ve all been saying, which is,… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats Lose Next Phase in the Gerrymandering Wars
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 for The Daily Signal. Gerrymandering, or the protocol where states allot congressional seats by population, is in the news recently, and some states… -
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Ed Markey, Dem Politician of 50 Years, Narrowly Leads Primary Foe in Poll
Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Ed Markey is narrowly leading his primary challenger, Rep. Seth Moulton, in a Bay State brawl over the future of the party, new polling suggests. A May poll from Emerson College shows Markey leading Moulton 37% to 32% among likely Democrat primary voters. The survey, which sampled 451 voters on May 3-4,… -
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Dem Accused of Violating Federal Law in Stunt to Aid Communist Regime With Mexico
A top House Democrat is being accused of breaking federal law after she admitted to meeting with foreign ambassadors about getting oil to Cuba’s communist regime despite U.S. sanctions, defending the outreach as “literally our right and responsibility.” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D‑Wash., made the remarks during a recent briefing in Seattle following a congressional delegation… -
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Spirit Airlines and the Government’s Antitrust Follies
Ronald Reagan had a saying about how government works: “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” His point was that bureaucrats love to “solve” problems, which inevitably creates new problems that they then “solve” again. There are few better examples of this than how… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats Do a 180 on Age of Consent Laws
This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Victor, let’s conclude with a couple of crime [stories]. I think crime was just mentioned before, and I have a bevy of things here, but… -
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The Deep State Strikes Back
Last month, the Justice Department targeted a central hub of the Left’s cancel culture machine that weaponized the federal government under President Joe Biden. Just over a week later, Democrats received a “whistleblower” report claiming that the DOJ rushed the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. To my eyes, this looks like a deep… -
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Mamdani Uses Taxpayer Money to Build a City-Funded Activist Army
New York City may be broker than a barista with a college degree but that isn’t stopping socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani from funding his activist army. On Wednesday, the mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement rolled out a program called “Organize NYC” that’s billed as a “long-term initiative to bring mass public participation into the work of governing.”… -
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Mehek Cooke Warns Ideological Decisions Are Hurting American Consumers
Mehek Cooke, senior national security and legal analyst at The Daily Signal, warned that the shutdown of Spirit Airlines exposes a broader failure by the Biden administration and Democrat leaders to think through the real-world consequences of ideologically driven policy decisions, which she says are now directly hurting American consumers. Appearing on NewsNation over the… -
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Democrats Target Catholics, but Bishops Comfort Oppressors
Senior Biden Department of Justice attorneys fantasized about prosecuting Catholic nuns as they reviewed the events of the Jan. 6, 2021, protest and Capitol riot in Washington, D.C. Realizing that there were nuns present at the peaceful rally on the National Mall that day, DOJ federal prosecutor Molly Gaston wrote that she “would like to… -
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Nazi Tattoo? Hamas Defender? No Problem, Says Chuck Schumer
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has suspended her Senate campaign after failing to raise enough money to compete with socialist Graham Platner, who will now almost certainly face the perpetual centrist Republican Susan Collins in the general. Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Kirsten Gillibrand immediately backed Platner, proving that there’s virtually nothing a… -
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The Elitist Media Despise Black Conservatives
Black conservatives perennially face the slur that they’re “not really black” if they aren’t on the left. Not only that, they are tools of white racists if they dissent from the NAACP hard line. When the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturn a racially gerrymandered congressional district in Louisiana, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, was outraged… -
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Newsom’s Fatal Flaw: A Wife Who Radiates Coastal Contempt
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is positioning himself with characteristic flair for a national run in 2028, but at least one major obstacle stands in his way: his radical wife. Movie-star good looks, smooth delivery, and nearly a decade as California’s governor have made Newsom the early Democrat front-runner. He has spent the Trump years delivering fierce… -
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Mamdani Has Already Run Out of Other People’s Money
New York City’s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has already run out of other people’s money, and he’s only been in office for four months. Color me shocked. Mamdani announced in a press conference Wednesday that New York City faces a financial “crisis of historic magnitude” and asked the City Council for extended time to… -
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Senate Dems Claim Victory Over Thune on SAVE America Act
Senior Democrat senators told The Daily Signal that voter citizenship and identification legislation backed by President Donald Trump—the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act—has stalled amid unified Democrat opposition. “I haven’t heard officially that it is dead, but it shows no signs of life,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D‑Conn., told The Daily Signal. Democrats have repeatedly…