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    Another Schumer Shutdown? Top Dem Vows Senate Dems Won’t Support DHS Funding Bill

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Hours after Border Patrol fatally shot an armed man Saturday in Minneapolis, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he and other Democrats will not back a legislative package including a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), potentially risking a partial government shutdown. The Senate has until Jan. 30 to pass…
    Anthony Iafrate
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    ‘War Was Visited Upon These People’: Play About Oct. 7 Comes to DC

    After his first interview of a survivor of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, playwright Phelim McAleer says he knew he had to write a play telling the true story of that day. Following performances in New York City, the play “OCTOBER 7” will be performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 28….
    Virginia Allen
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    The Warmth of Collectivism

    “Replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism!” says my new socialist mayor. Sounds so nice … No more greedy capitalists hoarding wealth. People share. It’s the socialist dream. What will replace capitalism and individualism? One model is the commune—that socialist system where people share, rather than greedily chasing money. In my…
    John Stossel
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    Mace Warns Walz and Omar to ‘Be Afraid’ of MN Fraud Probe

    On Wednesday’s night’s episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said elected officials, such as Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz should “be afraid” of the Treasury Department’s investigation into recently reported fraud in Minnesota. During her interview, Mace added that she “is deeply frustrated” over the “lack…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    ‘No Idea’ of Threat Posed by Afghan Parole Program, Senator Warns  

    The U.S. has “no idea” of the possible threat posed by some Afghan nationals admitted to the U.S. during the Biden administration, according to Sen. Josh Hawley.   About 200,000 Afghans were allowed into the U.S. during and after the U.S. withdrawal from the country in 2021 under President Joe Biden. Among those paroled, “we have no idea of their potential terrorist…
    Virginia Allen
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    Heritage Report Warns: Family Decline Threatens America’s Next 250

    The Heritage Foundation released a new report last week outlining a plan to save the American family. The report, titled “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,” encapsulates how policy and culture can solve what the organization expects will be a bipartisan issue: saving the deteriorating American family. On…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Venezuelan Warns His Country ‘Isn’t Free Yet’

    Franklin Camargo was only six years old when he stood in a Florida grocery store and stared at the variety of Oreo cookies. In that moment, he says he began to understand that the U.S. was very different from his home country of Venezuela.   When a child “can tell the differences, the huge differences, when it comes to prosperity, happiness, [and] safety between a country and the other one, that’s…
    Virginia Allen
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    Vance Announces New Plan to Combat Nationwide Welfare Fraud

    Vice President JD Vance announced that the Trump administration has created a new assistant attorney general position to crack down on fraud nationwide. The new official will have “nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” Vance said at Thursday’s White House press briefing. “Unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way,”…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    How the US Military Demonstrates It’s Tactically Flawless

    From the botched Afghanistan withdrawal to plummeting recruitment levels, the reputation of the U.S. military suffered greatly in recent years, leading many—including our adversaries—to believe that its capabilities were dramatically and irreversible dulled. This led to a renewed wave of global insecurity with war breaking out in Europe and the Middle East, as dictators launched…
    Robert Peters
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    Hilton’s Swift Response to DHS Snub Shows How the Left’s Institutional Power Has Faded

    The swift response of Hilton Hotels to one of its locations booting ICE agents shows just how dramatically the political and cultural environment has changed in just a few years. That change is very much for the better. On Monday, reports came out that a Minneapolis hotel associated with Hilton Hotels & Resorts had refused to allow…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Not in My Own Words, But in AI’s

    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. This content was recorded by Victor Davis Hanson prior to his Dec. 30 medical operation. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    The ‘Swamp Fox’ Who Put the British Lion on the Run and Changed War for a Century

    A quarter of a millennium ago, a “Swamp Fox” and his rag-tag group of compatriots put the lion of the British Empire on the run—and changed how wars were fought on the North American continent for a century. This Swamp Fox was Francis Marion. Marion was born in Berkeley County, South Carolina, during the 1730s….
    George Caldwell
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    The War on White Men Is Real—Here’s the Proof

    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 quite a controversial article by one Jacob Savage in the conservative magazine Compact. In…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Recruitment Up Across 5 Branches of the Military

    The military reported its best recruitment numbers in more than 15 years in 2025, according to the Pentagon.   “In 2025, the department exceeded our annual active-duty recruitment accession goals across all five services,” Undersecretary of War for Personnel and Readiness Anthony J. Tata said Monday.  Tata credited President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth with the influx of new recruits.  …
    Virginia Allen
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    DHS Encourages Illegal Aliens to Go ‘Home for the Holidays’ With $3,000 Stipend

    Illegal aliens who choose to self-deport “home for the holidays” will be given $3,000.   “During the Christmas Season, the U.S. taxpayer is so generously TRIPLING the incentive to leave voluntarily for those in this country illegally, offering a $3,000 exit bonus, but just until the end of the year,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement Monday…
    Virginia Allen
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    Why Conservatives Should Oppose the Netflix-Warner Bros. Merger

    Conservatives don’t reflexively oppose corporate mergers. We believe in free markets, in the power of competition, and in the freedom of businesses to grow when they win on merit. But we also believe in limits, especially when a single company seeks to consolidate cultural and economic power in ways that threaten the marketplace itself. This…
    Joel Thayer
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    EXCLUSIVE: DHS Expands ‘Worst of the Worst’ Searchable Website

    The Department of Homeland Security’s “Worst of the Worst” website is growing. DHS has added the names, photos, and criminal backgrounds of an additional 5,000 illegal aliens to the searchable platform, bringing the number of listed criminals to 15,000.   “This new update represents just a small sample of the total number of arrests we’ve made—70% of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]…
    Virginia Allen
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    Maduro’s Narco-Terrorism Plot Against America Unraveled by Defectors

    One by one, they are singing, the men who used to do dirty deeds for the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro. Nobody knows what’s going to happen, whether the United States will attack, and whether Maduro will fall. But these Venezuelans sniff change in the air. As more countries exit Venezuela’s…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Why Shrinking the US Army Undermines Peace Through Strength

    The United States continuously monitors and engages with global conflicts and peacekeeping efforts in regions such as Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, and Venezuela. The U.S Army in particular is instrumental in such efforts. Unfortunately, the world faces increasing instability and adversarial actions. America has recently deepened its involvement with Venezuela, as evidenced…
    Rep. Brad Wenstrup
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    EXCLUSIVE: How Transportation Secretary Will Help Trump Defund Woke Universities

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is expected to revamp the agency’s university grant program after axing requirements that the schools fund diversity, equity, and inclusion and environmental initiatives, The Daily Signal can first report. Duffy plans to announce $33 million in grants to universities to “unleash American innovation.” This comes after the Department…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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