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    Vicious Attacks Look to Turn the Tide in Texas Primaries
    New attack ads from candidates in the race for Texas’ Senate seat, along with recent polling, have brought the race to a boiling point. Republican Candidates Get Vicious On Wednesday, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, released an ad against his primary opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, for “cheating on his wife” and “now sleeping around…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Cuba Says It Killed 4, Wounded 6 Others Aboard Speedboat, Including Wanted Cubans Who Came From US
    REUTERS–Cuban forces killed four people and wounded six others aboard a Florida-registered speedboat that entered Cuban waters on Wednesday and opened fire on a Cuban patrol, the Cuban government said at a time of heightened tensions with the United States. Cuba’s Interior Ministry said the group was comprised of anti-government Cubans, some of whom were previously wanted in Cuba. It said the group…
    Daniel Trotta
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    The Climate Fox in the Judicial Henhouse
    For decades, judicial education has served a narrow but vital purpose: helping judges understand complex technical issues without telling them how to rule. That boundary matters. Once judicial education becomes advocacy, courts stop acting as neutral arbiters and begin functioning as instruments of policy enforcement. The Federal Judicial Center crossed that line. In endorsing the…
    Jason Isaac
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    Elias-Backed Coalition Sues Trump Over Ouster of LGBTQ, Climate Exhibits at Federal Parks, Museums
    A coalition is suing over President Donald Trump’s executive order to remove language and exhibits at federal parks and museums that “disparage” America.  The 60-page complaint in the case, filed by Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias’s group Democracy Forward, asserts, “Telling a more complete and accurate history, including that of African Americans, women, Indigenous people,…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Removes Barriers to Building Infrastructure in States
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Interior on Thursday oversaw agreements with Republican governors to speed up the permitting process for building infrastructure. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed memorandums of understanding with Permitting Council Executive Director Emily Domenech at the Department of the Interior, hosted by Secretary Doug Burgum….
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Jeremy Carl Joins ‘The Signal Sitdown’ Following Tense Senate Hearing
    The following is a preview of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Jeremy Carl, President Donald Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs at the State Department, on “The Signal Sitdown.” The full interview premieres on The Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. Eastern on Feb. 18. Last…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Pro-Corn Congressmen Fight to Put E15 Fuel on Market
    A congressional task force soon plans to release a compromise between corn farmer and oil refinery interests that could reshape the American energy industry. “They’re going great,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told The Daily Signal on Wednesday of talks to secure nationwide authorization for the year-round sale of E15, a gasoline whose composition is…
    George Caldwell
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    MONUMENTAL: Trump Admin Unleashes American Energy With Key Regulatory Move
    It’s hard to wrap your head around the massive news President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Thursday. Trump and Zeldin estimated that the EPA will save taxpayers over $1.3 trillion by eliminating the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, which served as the bedrock for a host of greenhouse gas emissions…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Rep. Balderson Discusses Ohio’s Key Role in Energy
    While Victor Davis Hanson recovers, his show goes on, and with a connection to Ohio. In the latest episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” co-host Jack Fowler speaks with Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, on Ohio’s energy boom and the future of America’s energy industry. Fowler explains that Balderson’s role as chairman of…
    Rebecca Downs
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    The Supreme Court’s Golden Opportunity to Eviscerate Climate Lawfare
    Climate alarmism has lost at the ballot box time and time again, and last year, even Bill Gates significantly dialed down his support for it. However, enterprising lawyers on the Left are still trying to smuggle in an effective carbon tax through the courts—and the Supreme Court should put an end to it. It works…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    As US Competes With China, Critical Mining Bill Heads to Senate
    The House passed new legislation to accelerate permitting and domestic hard rock mining on federal land as America looks to compete with China on mining critical minerals. The Critical Mineral Dominance Act passed on Wednesday and now heads to the Senate. “In order for our domestic mining industry to grow, the industry needs policy, regulatory, and permitting…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    SEISMIC: A Detransitioner’s $2M Jury Verdict Threatens Child Mutilation Pipeline
    A recent jury verdict marks the first tremor in a building earthquake that may sever the transgender child mutilation pipeline, setting the stage for a host of lawsuits that threaten to end the medical establishment’s promotion of “gender-affirming care.” Transgender activists push gender confusion and child mutilation in the name of “civil rights,” but we…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    The United States Must Maintain Oil Investment Amid Global Instability
    Serious crises in oil-producing countries are pushing markets to finally price in geopolitical risk. As of Jan. 21, West Texas Intermediate crude is over $60 per barrel, reflecting only the faintest acknowledgement of unrest in Iran despite weeks of escalating protests, estimates of 3,000 to 20,000 people dead, and a complete internet blackout. Recognizing geopolitical risk cannot…
    Trisha Curtis
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    The Real Reason Democrats Are Threatening Noem Impeachment, One Member Says
    Americans should not be surprised by the House Democrat leader’s threat to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, says the chair of the House border security subcommittee. “If you remember, just two years ago, Republicans conducted a very thorough investigation, and we impeached [Homeland Security] Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failure to perform his duties,” Rep….
    Virginia Allen
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    Democrats Celebrate Their Earmarks
    In the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, which ended on New Year’s Eve, the federal government spent $1,827,134,000,000—and, according to the Treasury Department, ran a deficit of $602,376,000,000. The federal debt closed the calendar year at $38,514,009,184,232.72. That equaled approximately $285,733 for each of the 134,790,000 households there were in the United States in…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    Trump Banning Wall Street Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis
    President Donald Trump flexed his populist muscles earlier in January when he promised to ban Wall Street from buying up single-family homes. “For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American Dream,” Trump posted to Truth Social. “It was the reward for working hard, and doing the right thing,…
    Murray Sabrin
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    Is the Climate Scare Narrative Headed for Bankruptcy?
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Writing at Axios, energy writer Amy Harder says, “The climate agenda’s fall from grace over the past year has been stunning—in speed, scale and scope.” Harder quotes oil historian and S&P Global vice-chairman Dan Yergin as saying, “There’s no handwaving about how ‘We want to cooperate on climate.’ It’s, ‘We’re slamming the door…
    David Blackmon
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    The Perpetual Climate Panic Machine ‘Collapses’
    Global warming has gone cold as an issue. Despite decades of panicked predictions of doom, it’s never been a high priority for voters, and Preident Donald Trump’s bold expressions of “climate denial” went unpunished by voters. The media still sound allied with the Green New Deal pushers, but the thrill is gone. Last November, leftists…
    Tim Graham
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    Bill Aims to Take Concrete Steps to Combat Fraud in Ohio
    As fraud scandals rattle the American Midwest, Republican Ohio state Rep. Josh Williams has announced that he and fellow Republican Ohio state Rep. DJ Swearingen have introduced legislation to prevent fraud at daycare centers receiving state taxpayer dollars. “If you are taking taxpayer money, you will provide attendance, prove services, improve compliance, or you will…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Maduro Gets His Just Desert
    It was almost six years ago—during the COVID-19 pandemic—that then-Attorney General Bill Barr called a “virtual press conference” to announce that the Justice Department was taking action against Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela. “Today, I am here to talk about the former Maduro regime and its direct participation in narco-terrorism, corruption, money laundering, and drug trafficking,”…
    Terence Jeffrey
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