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AOC Blasts Jeffries, Schumer for Reluctance to Endorse NYC Socialist Mamdani
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., blasted party leadership on Wednesday for largely failing to get behind avowed socialist and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City mayoral race. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both D-N.Y., have yet to endorse Mamdani’s campaign for mayor in… -
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Banks Urges GOP to Be Working Class Party
Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., declared his support for the Republican Party “as the party of the working class” on Thursday at the National Conservatism Conference. “Rising GDP and a soaring stock market are great, but real success is what ordinary people care about the most is measured by the strength of our families and what… -
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The Barbarians Within
This week, anti-American and pro-Hamas advocates gathered in Detroit at a “People’s Conference for Palestine.” There, they expressed radical solidarity with terrorism, celebrated the achievements of Hamas, and denigrated the United States. “The average American will never understand the plight of the Palestinian person because the state of Israel is a carbon copy of the… -
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Russia and China Are Working Together to Expand Nuclear Power
Russia says it will help China grow its nuclear power capacity and overtake the U.S. as a leading producer of nuclear energy. The U.S. currently has 94 nuclear reactors, the most in the world, followed by France and China, tied with 57 each, according to the Power Reactor Information System database. China is… -
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Why Liberalism Failed, and What Is Already Succeeding It
This is a preview of this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown.” Don’t miss politics editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with professor Patrick Deneen by turning on YouTube notifications for the premiere at 6:30 a.m. EST on Sept. 4. Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen’s book, “Why Liberalism Failed,” was not a project undertaken to explain the… -
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Democrat Leaders Refuse to Tell the Truth About Minnesota Catholic School Shooting
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s been another shooting, mass shooting, this time in Minneapolis at Annunciation, a private Catholic school…. -
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Congressional Stock Ban Backed by Republicans and Democrats Alike
A bipartisan group of House members, including the chamber’s most conservative and most liberal members, said at a press conference Wednesday that it has a bill to end the problem of insider trading of stocks by members of Congress. Introducing the Restore Trust in Congress Act, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said it “takes the best… -
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Border Czar Homan: This One Part of My Job Remains Very Tough
Border czar Tom Homan says he wakes up “every day like a kid in a candy shop” because U.S. border and immigrations law are being enforced under the leadership of President Donald Trump. “We’re finally enforcing laws in this country, and we’re going to do it without apology,” Homan said in a speech Wednesday… -
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Push for House Vote on Epstein Files Release Seen as Losing Momentum
House lawmakers backing a petition to advance a vote on releasing additional files on now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein gathered Wednesday at the Capitol—alongside several of his accusers. The petition’s support among Republican lawmakers has appeared to falter in recent days. “I hope my colleagues are watching this press conference. I want them to… -
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Fireworks Erupt at House Judiciary Hearing as Jordan, Raskin, and Nigel Farage Scorch Europe—and Each Other
Fierce invective flew back and forth at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, with Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md.; and Nigel Farage putting on the gloves and removing the restraints. The hearing, titled “Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation,” was held to discuss EU and U.K. censorship, including acts… -
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Trump’s Not Dead. There’s Little Evidence He Even Sleeps
Those afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome are no longer just wishing the president were dead, they’re actually starting to hallucinate it. While the rest of us were hitting the grocery store for Labor Day weekend goodies, the Never Trump-types were hitting resend on posts questioning whether President Donald Trump had died. It seems a whole… -
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House Passes Bill to Hold China Accountable for Its Role in Fentanyl Crisis
The House passed a bill Tuesday aimed at holding China accountable for its role in the fentanyl crisis. Fentanyl is the leading cause of death in America for people between the age of 18 and 45. “The Chinese Communist Party has played a key part in the deadly fentanyl crisis plaguing Kentucky and… -
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WATCH: Speedboat Said to Be Carrying Venezuelan ‘Narcoterrorists’ in Caribbean Destroyed on Trump’s Order
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. had carried out a strike against a speedboat said to be carrying narcotics in the southern Caribbean. “Earlier this morning, on my orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump wrote on… -
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Trump Doesn’t Need to Stage a Coup in Iran, Just Give It Time
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There is going to be an eruption in Iran, I think, maybe within a year or… -
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14,000 Migrants Turn Back Amid News of Closed Border, Report Finds
In a trend known as “reverse flow,” about 14,000 migrants, who had sought to reach the U.S. border, have turned around since the start of the Trump administration, according to an estimate in a recent report. A large percent of the migrants who have turned back are from Venezuela, according to the report from… -
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West Virginia Lawmaker Outlines What It Will Take to Credibly Deter China
“We cannot deter China in this state of industrial atrophy,” Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., declared on Tuesday at the fifth National Conservatism Conference in Washington. The West Virginia lawmaker, who some see as a rising star in the Republican Party, outlined how it would take U.S. reindustrialization to credibly deter China in an age of… -
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House Duo Resurrects Epstein Discharge Petition Effort
As lawmakers return to the Capitol after the long August recess, it appears the Jeffrey Epstein controversy just won’t die. On Monday, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., announced he would file a petition to force a House vote on a bill introduced by him and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., to compel the Justice Department to release… -
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WATCH: Aerial View of Southern Border Confirms Reports
EL PASO, Texas—Two Border Patrol vehicles stopped for a moment as they drove along the southern border, the only activity that could be seen from along the wall dividing Mexico and El Paso, Texas. The border wall stretched far into the desert from the view of the helicopter. There has been a decline in activity along… -
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Yet Another Veteran Democrat Announces Retirement From Congress
New York Democrat Rep. Jerrold Nadler has announced that he will not be seeking reelection, passing on the torch to younger Democrats after over three decades in Congress. Nadler, a 78-year-old who previously chaired the House Judiciary Committee, revealed his intentions to The New York Times in an article published Monday. He explained that the… -
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Who Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and Why Does He Matter?
Salvadoran citizen and “Maryland man” Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has become the Joan of Arc of the American Left—their poster child for opposing President Donald Trump’s campaign of enforcing immigration laws. Why? At first glance, Abrego Garcia seems a lousy pick. Two immigration judges found it credible that he was a member of MS-13, the vicious Salvadoran gang. Indeed, when he finally…
