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    More States Moving to Close Election Funding Loophole Few Voters Knew Existed
    As many as two dozen states could enact legislation this year to ban foreign funding of ballot measures, a trend that gained bipartisan support last year.  This follows nine states that have already enacted bans in the last 18 months.  While it’s already illegal for foreign nationals or foreign entities to contribute to candidates, ballot…
    Fred Lucas
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    Is the Government About to Shut Down Over ICE Funding?
    Congress is likely about to trigger a shutdown as Democrat leaders, responding to pressure from their base, demand restraints on immigration law enforcement in exchange for funding the Department of Homeland Security. On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., laid his demands out on the table. The House has sent the Senate the final…
    George Caldwell
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    Senate Dems Could Freeze ICE Funding, Trigger Shutdown
    Amid debate over Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota, it appears Congress is frozen in a standoff that could lead to another government shutdown. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed on Saturday to “vote no” on an upcoming funding package if a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security…
    George Caldwell
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    Soros-Funded DA Staffer Praises Anti-ICE Agitators Invading Church
    A key staffer for Minneapolis’ left-leaning district attorney praised the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators who invaded a church service Sunday, and suggested he was present at the incident. Jamael Lundy, the intergovernmental affairs coordinator for the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, posted on Facebook that he “met up with a group of protesters and got…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Who’s Funding the Aggressive Anti-ICE Tactics Used by Activists Like Renee Nicole Good?
    Renee Nicole Good, the activist shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis last week after the vehicle she was operating made contact with the agent, appears to have been following aggressive tactics promoted by the leftist-funded organizing group Defend the 612. Good, 37, had joined ICE Watch, a loose network of activists…
    Tyler O’Neil
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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…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Ohio Dem Tries to Pin Shutdown on GOP Opponent Who Voted to Fund Government 16 Times
    After weeks of noncommittal responses during the nation’s longest federal government shutdown, former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who is now looking to unseat Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, has proclaimed the deal to end the government shutdown is “a bad deal for Ohioans.” Brown took to X to express his displeasure with his fellow Democrats: “Half…
    Rebecca Downs
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    What to Know About Trump’s Proposed Terms to Give Top Universities Preferential Funding
    The Trump administration is currently listening to feedback from colleges and universities asked to sign a compact to adhere to the administration’s education agenda in exchange for preferential funding, a White House official told The Daily Signal. Education experts say President Donald Trump’s offer to expand the compact to any institution “willing to help bring…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    DNC Allocates Additional Funds to Support Gubernatorial Candidates in Critical States
    Democrat gubernatorial candidates Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey launched their campaigns with strong polling numbers suggesting inevitable success. But now, just a week away from Election Day, their leads have begun to shrink.   On Wednesday, the two will join a virtual rally via Zoom organized by the Democratic National Committee. According…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    New Report Exposes Billions in Funding for the ‘Homeless Industrial Complex’
    Americans spend billions of dollars to combat homelessness, through donations and taxpayer funding, but the “Homeless Industrial Complex” uses this money for political activism that actually demonizes the policies more likely to solve the crisis, according to a new report. “Fringe groups in the Homeless Industrial Complex like to characterize homelessness as a symptom of…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Scalise Accuses Dem Sen. Ossoff of Using Shutdown to Fundraise
    House Majority Leader Steve Scalise put Sen. Jon Ossoff on blast at a press conference Tuesday, accusing him and fellow Senate Democrats of refusing to reopen the government as a campaign fundraising tool and out of fear of their base of support. “It truly is fear, fear of their own party’s base that has driven…
    George Caldwell
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    Three Fundamental Differences That Are Dividing Americans
    Americans don’t just disagree on policies. In three key areas, they disagree on the principles that lead to the creation of those policies. The first is truth. Some people believe that absolute truth exists—a shared reality outside of ourselves. We may not like the truth, but attempting to deny it will only cause confusion, frustration,…
    Victor Joecks
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    Clintons to Help Raise Funds for Spanberger in Virginia Governor’s Race
    Bill and Hillary Clinton have found a new candidate for office to support—Virginia Democrat gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger. Spanberger, a former three-term member of Congress, is set to attend a fundraiser on Monday afternoon in McLean, Virginia. The event will be hosted by former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his wife, Dorothy, along with former…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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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…
    George Caldwell
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    Nine Line’s Bold Move: Crowdfunding Over Corporate Investors
    SAVANNAH, Georgia—Tyler Merritt understands the power of community, belonging, and purpose. It’s what drew him toward the military as a high school senior, not long after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. This service eventually led him to become an Apache helicopter pilot in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, one of the most heavily deployed…
    Salena Zito
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    Professor Who Said She ‘Loved’ Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Takes to GoFundMe for Cash After Losing Her Job
    The crowdfunding platform GoFundMe is reviewing fundraising campaigns to remove any fundraiser that celebrates political violence in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. While most Americans seem to have reacted to Kirk’s death at Utah Valley University with shock and dismay, some on the Left celebrated it, including Bernadette “Bird” Bowen, a professor who…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Treasury Secretary Bessent Tells Miranda Devine Why Soros Funds Rogue Prosecutors, Sort Of
    If no one supports crime, why do activists fund candidates for office who, once elected, implement policies that enable it? If anyone would know the answer, it should be Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who, earlier in his impressive career, worked closely with George Soros, the notorious funder of the rogue prosecutor movement.  Over the past…
    Cully Stimson | Patrick McDonald
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    Obama Judges’ War on Trump Continues in Harvard Funding Case
    A federal judge Wednesday struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze nearly $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard. That funding freeze was part of the administration’s effort to combat antisemitism at universities that failed to protect their students and faculty. But U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs said Wednesday that the halt on…
    Mary Mobley
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    Left-Wing Nonprofits Lose Massive Funding Partner
    This summer, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation secretly began the process of withdrawing from its longstanding partnership with Arabella Advisors, a central hub of the Left’s dark money network. This news, first reported by The New York Times, may seem irrelevant or esoteric, but it will likely send shockwaves through the political world. The…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Your Money, Their Agenda: The Left’s Taxpayer-Funded War on Trump
    What if I told you that your tax dollars helped prop up a massive left-wing political influence campaign that fed staff and policy ideas into the Biden administration and is now working to oppose President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration and his reforms to the bureaucracy? My book “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating…
    Tyler O’Neil
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