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Victor Davis Hanson: The Strange Alliance Between Islam and Socialism
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. One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance or absorption of Islam and Marxism-socialism-communism. In other… -
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Report: Violent Antisemitic Attacks on the Rise Worldwide
On Sydney’s Bondi Beach last December, two gunmen opened fire on Jews gathered for the first night of Hanukkah, killing 15 and wounding more than 40. It was no random, isolated incident, an alarming new report says. The year 2025 was the deadliest for antisemitic attacks since 1994 in the seven nations outside Israel that… -
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‘Pontiac Platner’: Fetterman Responds to El-Sayed ‘Ogre on a Pike’ Remark
“I’d rather be Senator Shrek than Pontiac Platner any day,” Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said in response to Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed telling donors he’d be happy to see Fetterman primaried, putting one “ogre on a pike.” Fetterman’s response tied the radical El-Sayed to the Nazi-tattooed Graham Platner, who had been Maine’s Democratic nominee… -
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Trump Returns to White House Correspondents’ Dinner After Foiled Assassination Attempt
President Donald Trump will address the White House Correspondents’ Association at a rescheduled dinner on Friday, nearly three months after a shooting at the Washington Hilton hotel interrupted the event. The black-tie gathering of journalists, politicians, and administration officials was called off on April 25 after a man tried to force his way through a… -
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Maine Democrat Troy Jackson Under Fire for Reported Outburst, Mortgage Fraud Claims
Troy Jackson, a progressive Democrat, has effectively clinched the nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine after Graham Platner dropped out earlier this month following allegations of sexual assault. Now, Jackson is facing accusations of violence with a female colleague. Allegations of Jackson throwing a water bottle at a female colleague have been widely reported this… -
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Marco Rubio Exposes the Threat of Leftist Terrorism and the Institutions That Covered for It
Winston Churchill warned about the threat of Nazi Germany before Britain’s establishment was willing to listen. Ronald Reagan horrified the foreign policy establishment by plainly calling Soviet Communism evil. This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio challenged a similarly entrenched dogma that leftist terrorism isn’t a serious threat. Speaking to leaders from more than 60… -
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‘YOU COULD HEAR THE SOBS OF A WIDOW’: Inside Charlie Kirk’s Murder Trial
The following is an excerpt of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Ryan Helfenbein, a friend of Charlie Kirk who attended the preliminary hearings in the case against the accused assassin Tyler Robinson, for the “Signal Sitdown,” which premieres on the Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. EDT on July 16. This… -
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Video Shows Suspect in Sniper Position as Charlie Kirk Shot, Utah Prosecutors Say
PROVO, Utah, July 7 (Reuters)—Utah prosecutors showed a video on Tuesday that an investigator said showed the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk last year in a sniper’s position on the roof of a university campus building from which the prominent conservative activist was shot. The evidence was presented during the second day of a… -
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Utah Prosecutors Present Case Against Man Accused of Charlie Kirk’s Murder
PROVO, Utah, July 6 (Reuters)—A police officer at the university where prominent conservative U.S. activist Charlie Kirk was killed last year testified on Monday that he observed what looked like a “sniper pad” atop the building from which the fatal shot was fired, as prosecutors began laying out their case that a Utah man should… -
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Antifa Mob Gathers Outside TPUSA Event, Violence and Arrests Quickly Unfold
SAN ANTONIO—A violent Antifa protest erupted outside the Turning Point Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday. After protesters attempted, but failed, to storm into the event through a police blockade, the violence escalated. One man, who had been pepper-sprayed for storming police, was seen washing his eyes with water from a plastic… -
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Protester on Trial for Pepper-Spraying Police at ‘Fascist’ Heritage Foundation Makes His Defense in Court
This article has been updated with a comment from Nathaniel Wetter Taylor. Nathaniel Wetter Taylor, the protester who allegedly pepper-sprayed two special police officers outside of the Heritage Foundation last year, delivered his own opening statement before a jury Thursday, attacking Heritage as “fascist” and claiming that the officers violated his rights. Appearing in the D.C. Superior Court,… -
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‘We Refuse to Be Silenced’: Turning Point Event Continues After Bomb Threat
SAN ANTONIO—Despite a bomb threat, Turning Point USA is bringing together thousands of conservative women this weekend to hear from the movement’s leading female speakers at its 11th annual Women’s Leadership Summit—and the Daily Signal is on the ground reporting live. Running today through Sunday, the summit aims to equip women to “strengthen their minds,… -
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The Real Victims of Biden’s Border Crisis
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: This Antifa punk, who was caught on video yelling at an [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] officer, said,… -
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Trump to Attend Rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Reuters—U.S. President Donald Trump will attend the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on July 24, he said in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, nearly three months after the annual event was postponed following a shooting. The black-tie gathering of journalists and politicians in Washington was postponed after a suspect stormed a security checkpoint and fired a… -
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New Jersey Governor Blames Out-Of-State Agitators for Inflaming Newark ICE Detention Protests
NEWARK, New Jersey, May 31 (Reuters) – Out-of-state agitators have escalated tensions at protests outside a Newark immigrant detention center, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill said on Saturday, as the city imposed an overnight curfew around the embattled Delaney Hall facility. Sherrill, who had ordered state police to take control outside the facility, said five… -
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Here’s How the IRS Is Taking on the Networks Potentially Funding Antifa
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters Thursday that the Internal Revenue Service and the FBI have made substantial progress on investigating the networks funding Antifa leftist agitators, and he mentioned one concrete policy change that could undermine nonprofits’ ability to prop up the violent movement. “In October, the Treasury Department started working with the FBI… -
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‘Who Are These Masked Men?’
Mark Twain is credited with saying, “History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.” Such is the case with several semi-related incidents in Virginia Beach. First, as I have testified to in earlier columns, not only was I there for what are called the “Unite the Right” riots in Charlottesville, but for the years leading up to… -
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When Political Violence Becomes Acceptable, It Becomes Inevitable
A society that begins to excuse political violence should not be surprised when political violence multiplies. Once you create a moral framework in which violence is not merely understandable but righteous—once you argue that certain institutions are so corrupt, so “murderous,” that the people who participate in them deserve to be killed—you are no longer… -
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‘DANGEROUS’: SPLC Hearing Witness Slams Charlie Kirk Statements
Maya Wiley, the Democrat witness for the House Judiciary Committee, testified before members of Congress that Charlie Kirk made “dangerous” statements preceding his assassination. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday to address allegations of fraud against the left-leaning nonprofit titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate.” The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil, who… -
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Pro-Mangione NYC ‘Journalists’ Gloating Over Murder Demonstrate That Assassination Culture Is No Longer Fringe
Sometimes evil isn’t just banal. It’s direct, open, and unrepentant. That was the case on Monday afternoon as three “credentialed” journalists showed up to cover the Luigi Mangione trial in New York and revealed that they were happy he allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. The self-described “Mangionistas”—and dedicated fans of democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani—were unrepentant in…