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    ‘Historic Relief for Americans’: Trump to Showcase Economy in State of the Union Address
    President Donald Trump is expected to highlight his economic accomplishments in the 2026 State of the Union address. The official theme of the speech is reportedly “America at 250: Strong, Prosperous and Respected.” Trump will showcase the economy by highlighting working-family guests and a data-driven case on affordability, Fox News Digital first reported. For instance,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    How Trump Administration Is Holding New Jersey Accountable for Blocking Immigration Enforcement
    The Trump administration is suing the state of New Jersey for obstructing immigration enforcement.  Earlier this month, Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed New Jersey’s new Executive Order No. 12 to block the federal government’s enforcement of its immigration laws, primarily by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.  The governor’s order prevents ICE and other federal immigration officials…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Could Further His Pro-Life US Foreign Policy by Enforcing Existing Law
    The Trump administration has taken many steps—some of them truly unprecedented—to advance pro-life policies, both domestically and abroad. President Donald Trump could do one thing to protect life and send a powerful pro-life message internationally, simply by enforcing an existing law you may have never heard of. It’s called the Siljander Amendment and dates to…
    Rebecca Oas
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    3 Reasons Democrat State of the Union Stunts Will Likely Fail
    Abraham Lincoln never delivered a public State of the Union address. However, he does know something about drama-loving Democrats spoiling a president’s good night out. On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump will not be at Ford’s Theater. But he will be walking into a theatrical production staged by theater kids wearing congressional pins, shouting not…
    Al Perrotta
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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….
    Tyler O’Neil
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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…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    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…
    George Caldwell
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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…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    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…
    Alleigh Marré
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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…
    George Caldwell
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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…
    Fred Lucas
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    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…
    Simon Hankinson
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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….
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Scott Bessent Lays Out Future of Trump’s Tariffs, Trade Deals
    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that revenue from tariffs would not drop, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling against the authority President Donald Trump’ invoked to levy his “Liberation Day” tariffs. The high court decided Trump exceeded his powers under the International Emergency Economic…
    Harold Hutchison
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    How Trump Should Respond to Political Violence in the State of the Union
    President Donald Trump will deliver the first State of the Union address of his second term this week, and his speech will set the priorities of his administration and much of the Republican Party in this tumultuous midterm election year, already plagued by political violence. The speech comes amid rising tensions abroad, cultural divisions at…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Law Enforcement Kills Armed Man Seeking to Enter Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Resort, Officials Say
    U.S. Secret Service agents shot and killed a man in his 20s after he tried to unlawfully enter a secure perimeter at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Secret Service said Sunday morning. Trump, who is currently in Washington, was not at the site at the time. The man in…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    At Olympics, Alysa Liu’s American Dream Comes True Against Wishes of CCP
    Alysa Liu is living the American dream, and not just because the figure skater won two gold medals for Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Liu represented the red, white, and blue with pride in Milan, but her father grew up under the hammer and sickle of communist China. Her father, Arthur Liu, was born and raised in…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Most Memorable Moments of Trump’s Previous State of the Union Addresses
    President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address is on Tuesday night. Here are some of the most memorable moments of his previous State of the Union addresses and joint addresses to Congress.  2025: Trump Swears in 13-Year-Old Cancer Survivor as Honorary Secret Service Agent In Trump’s 2025 Joint Address to Congress, he introduced DJ…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Why Are US Citizens Proud of America? New Study Reveals 2 Key Reasons
    A new Pew Research Center study set out to learn why citizens of 25 different countries, including the United States, are proud of their nation. The study surveyed more than 30,000 people from various countries and found that “freedoms and liberties” were the two most common factors for why Americans said they are proud of…
    Virginia Allen
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