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House Election Provides Needed Vote for Epstein Files Bill
After a Democrat special election victory in Arizona, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky is declaring victory in his push to force a vote on the release of additional files on the now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Democrat Adelita Grijalva emerged triumphant in the Arizona’s 7th Congressional District special election to fill the vacancy… -
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Key Seats Virginia GOP Hopes to Flip to Take Back State House
As the 45-day early voting period has recently begun in Virginia—the second longest after the 46 days of Minnesota and South Dakota—I was reminded of a quote that former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli shared with me from an election official about the strain it puts on them: “Someone forgot that election officials need to do… -
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What Biden Chief of Staff Reveals to House Panel on Jill and Hunter
Former President Joe Biden’s White House chief of staff told a congressional panel Thursday that he asked the White House physician about a full medical and cognitive exam after Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate with Donald Trump. Jeff Zients is the last scheduled witness to take questions from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee… -
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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… -
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5 Takeaways From FBI Director Patel’s Senate Panel Hearing
FBI Director Kash Patel’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday was testy at times, as topics of the Charlie Kirk assassination, the Jeffrey Epstein case, and other matters came up. The fireworks came primarily when the director sparred with Democrat senators. Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, also made a major announcement. Here… -
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The House Loses a Major Foreign Policy Hawk
Soon, the House of Representatives will lose one of its fiercest foreign policy and homeland security hawks when Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas retires. “It’s been an honor to serve for over two decades in the Congress. I’m looking now for a new challenge,” McCaul said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” as he discussed his intention… -
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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… -
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Senate Republicans Took the Easy Way Out
Why are unprecedented successes in the Senate reserved for Senate Democrats? For eight months, Senate Democrats successfully obstructed dozens upon dozens of President Donald Trump’s political nominees. Senate Republicans let them do it. The Democrat obstruction will now likely come to an end because the Senate deployed the “nuclear option” on Thursday afternoon. By a… -
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‘Donald Trump Wouldn’t Be in the White House Without Charlie Kirk’
Conservative youth organizer Charlie Kirk laid the groundwork for President Donald Trump’s historic presidential victories, supporters recalled in the wake of his tragic assassination on Wednesday. “There is no question that Charlie’s work and his voice helped my father win the presidency,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote on the social media platform X of the 31-year-old… -
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The Poll Numbers Are Changing in Virginia’s Race for Governor, Lieutenant Governor
So much of the media coverage of a political cycle revolves around (or devolves into) stories about polls and fundraising totals, and this story is no different. Well, … it’s a little different. >>> Sign up for our Virginia email newsletter In a poll of 512 Virginia likely voters conducted Sept. 3-5, Winsome Earle-Sears, the… -
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Maine Governor Ponders Senate Bid Against Collins
Democrat Maine Gov. Janet Mills is reportedly interviewing people to staff a possible Senate campaign challenge against five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins in 2026. Mills, 77, is expected to make a final decision about attempting to unseat Collins by November. She has had a long career in Maine politics, including serving as governor since 2019…. -
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‘Infuriating, Heartbreaking’: House Speaker Calls for Crime Crackdown After NC Light-Rail Slaying
In the wake of the release of video footage of the fatal stabbing of a young Ukrainian refugee woman in a Charlotte, North Carolina, light-rail car, House Speaker Mike Johnson is renewing his call for a national crime crackdown. “This 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee was brutally murdered in cold blood on a train in Charlotte, North… -
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Democrat Texas State Rep Launches Bid for Cornyn’s Senate Seat
Texas state Rep. James Talarico on Tuesday announced his bid for the Democrat nomination for the 2026 U.S. Senate election in the Lone Star State. Talarico has gone from a once relatively unknown Texas state representative to a bona fide media darling for Democrats since appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast and becoming a spokesman for… -
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Special House Election Set in Blue Northern Virginia
Democrats are expected to hold a safe blue seat in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington in Tuesday’s special congressional election. The open seat is in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, formerly held by longtime Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., who died in May after a battle with esophageal cancer. The Northern Virginia congressional district, one of… -
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South Carolina Rep Explains Why He’s Exiting Congress to Run for Governor
Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina will have to leave Capitol Hill behind to run for governor in his home state, but he says the work he would do in the state capital, Columbia, would build off his conservative record in Congress. “I see the challenges coming to South Carolina … . We need to… -
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Republicans Debate Extension of Biden’s Enhanced Obamacare Tax Credits
Nearly a decade after Donald Trump first became president vowing to repeal and replace it, Obamacare is once again becoming one of Congress’ most high-stakes debates. At the end of 2025, enhanced premium tax credits for former President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act are set to expire. Those enhanced credits were introduced during President… -
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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… -
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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… -
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White House Lays Out Key to Winning Messaging War on Republican Megabill
Senior White House officials told House Republicans to break down the Republican megabill to young voters on new media platforms, like comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast, sources familiar with the meeting told The Daily Signal. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt, deputy chief of staff James Blair, and Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio held two meetings Wednesday morning at…