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6-Figure Ad Buy Calls on Trump to Send This Message to China on AI Threats
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Alliance for a Better Future will run a six-figure ad campaign urging President Donald Trump to discuss artificial intelligence safety with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during Thursday’s state visit. The ad will encourage Trump to continue “beating China on AI without becoming China.” “President Trump knows America wins by building AI… -
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Network of State Conservatives Advance SAVE Laws
Ensuring America has secure elections might be the largest and most consequential fight for conservatives ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections. Requiring identification and proof of citizenship to vote is an 80-20 issue for Americans, and conservatives are fighting to deliver it. The SAVE Act, which would establish a requirement for voter ID and… -
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What to Expect From Trump’s Summit With Xi
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinpeng will likely confront China’s ties to Iran, the artificial intelligence race, Chinese prisoners, and Taiwan policy in their meeting in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 24. Adam Savit, director for China Policy at America First Policy Institute, said the summit should be viewed as a follow-up to Trump’s May… -
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Early Voting Underway in Virginia With Senate Race, 11 House Seats on Ballot
As of Friday, early voting is underway in Virginia, and voters can cast ballots in person through Halloween ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. Among other key races in the commonwealth, Democrat Sen. Mark Warner is seeking a fourth term against Republican Bert Mizusawa, a retired U.S. Army major general. In addition, all 11 congressional… -
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Virginians, Don’t Fall for the Abortion Amendment Deception
When Virginia’s political version of that now-infamous Hyrox endurance race begins on the 18th, the question will not be whether we will push ourselves to the point of losing control over our bodily functions. It will be whether voters are turning out because of the congressional races or the constitutional amendments. There is an interesting… -
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Secret Ballot at Risk: Unpacking Technology’s Hidden Dangers
Researchers are warning that rapid growth in artificial intelligence is making it essential to properly respond to a flaw in the state of Georgia’s voting equipment that makes it possible for voters to be tied to their ballots after voting. This vulnerability is especially important as ballot privacy is a right under the state’s constitution…. -
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Watchdog Exposes Hidden Academic Pipeline Behind Left-Wing Election Litigation
Left-leaning law schools are directly affecting elections, according to a new study by a legal watchdog group. The Public Interest Legal Foundation released a new report Thursday titled “Dangerous Imbalance: Why Law Schools Graduate an Army of Activist Election Lawyers.” The report focuses on the disparity in election law course offerings and the overwhelming number… -
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Dominion Energy Merger Under Scrutiny on Final Stop of ‘Listening Tour’
Virginia Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi will host her final meeting next week in Roanoke to discuss the purchase of Richmond-based utility Dominion Energy by Florida-based NextEra Energy. Hashmi, who scheduled five total sessions for her “Energy Costs Listening Tour,” has already held meetings in Loudoun, Norfolk, Richmond, and Charlottesville. Opponents of the merger want to… -
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Russian National Sentenced to 6 Years in Voter Fraud, ID Theft Scheme
A Russian national was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday for his involvement in a voter registration conspiracy. Dmitry Shushlebin, 45, a Russian citizen living in Miami Beach, Florida, was also given three additional years of supervised release after the six years in prison. He was charged with organizing an identity theft fraud… -
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Ballot Harvesting Concerns in Nursing Homes Spur New Push to Protect Vulnerable Seniors
As the Trump administration seeks to crack down on potential voter fraud in nursing homes, an election watchdog group is providing additional information to long-term care facilities, citing several past criminal cases involving political operatives and staff who took advantage of vulnerable elderly residents. A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services memo from late July… -
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Congress Hears Pleas for Release of God-Fearing Chinese Democracy Advocate
A top congressional panel on Wednesday examined the imprisonment of Chinese media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai and the state of press freedom and judicial independence in China. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing, titled “A Son and Daughter’s Appeal to Xi Jinping to Release Their Dad, Jimmy Lai,” comes a week before the Chinese Communist Party… -
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Trump Slams Supreme Court Mail-In Voting Decision
President Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court for rejecting his bid to restrict mail-in ballots before the midterm elections. “Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally… -
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Citizenship Verification Laws Among Factors Propelling Tennessee, Arkansas to Top Election Integrity Scorecard
Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida are the leading states in The Heritage Foundation’s 2026 Election Integrity Scorecard, which was released on Tuesday. The key drivers behind the rankings this year were stronger citizenship-verification laws and state laws protecting against foreign funding of elections or ballot initiatives. The scorecard ranks states based on the strength… -
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Warner’s Opponent Is No Murkowski on the SAVE America Act
In a master class on controlling the narrative, the American Left has so convincingly gaslit the political class into believing that the SAVE America Act would be viewed by their constituents as voter suppression that more GOP leaders are creating increasingly convoluted stories to justify why they oppose making sure that only U.S. citizens vote… -
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Rep. Beyer Seeks September Hearings About AI Regulation
Rep. Don Beyer, a Democrat who is seeking a seventh term in Virginia’s 8th Congressional District, is warning that lawmakers should act quickly to maintain control over the growth of artificial intelligence. “Far too often Congress reacts AFTER a disaster. We must not only be reactive with artificial intelligence, we can’t wait for an AI… -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules on Trump Mail-In Ballot Rules
The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot rules to go into effect Monday, upholding a federal judge’s preliminary injunction blocking them. “The government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the district court’s preliminary injunction,” the court ruled in an unsigned order. The court ruled that “the equitable factors… -
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Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks USPS Mail-Ballot Rule in Major Election Case
A Donald Trump-appointed judge blocked the mail-in ballot rule issued by the U.S. Postal Service last month, asserting the USPS likely exceeded its authority. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols of the District of Columbia issued an opinion late Sunday night that found the Postal Service rule would “exceed any conception of the outer bounds” of… -
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3 People Convicted of $11M Medicaid Fraud in Virginia
A federal jury in Richmond convicted three people this week on charges that they defrauded Medicaid out of more than $11 million. The charges relate to billing by their company, Divine Youth Counseling LLC. The three people, 31-year-old twin sisters E’mon and Armone’ Ambers, as well as 32-year-old Traquan Brown, billed Medicaid for a service… -
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From Dance Floor to War: China Readies Humanoid Robots for Combat
BEIJING, Sept 7 (Reuters)—At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, robots jumped, boxed and danced. Some fleet-footed bots ran faster than Usain Bolt over 100 meters. Spectators cheered the machines’ improving capabilities and their meme-worthy stumbles. Two days after the Games ended, the People’s Liberation Army‘s official newspaper drew its own conclusions… -
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Here’s How Many Noncitizens Trump DOJ Has Charged in Election Fraud Cases
In less than two years, federal prosecutors in the Trump administration charged about four times as many noncitizens with election fraud crimes as the Biden administration’s Justice Department in the entirety of the four-year term. Since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, charges have been brought against 50 noncitizen defendants for alleged…
