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More Democrats Want a More Moderate Party, Poll Says
THE CENTER SQUARE—A new Gallup survey suggests that close to half of Democrats want their party to move more toward the middle, while more than 40% of Republicans are happy with their party. Today, 45% of Democrats and left-leaning independents surveyed indicated they would prefer a more moderate Democratic Party, up 11% from 2021, according…Morgan Sweeney -
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Fact-Checking the Left’s New Attack: SAVE Act Stops Married Women From Voting
Legacy media outlets and liberal interest groups have recently claimed that a proposal requiring proof of citizenship to vote could actually prevent married women citizens from voting. At least two major outlets, Newsweek and the USA Today network, carried headlines in news stories—not opinion pieces—warning of such a threat to married women. The claim is…Fred Lucas -
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Musk Exposing Waste, RFK Jr. Confirmed, Criminals Deported—and Everything Else We’re Swiping Right For
“There’s no time like the present” is an adage President Donald Trump appears to have taken to heart. Trump has been in office for less than a month and has successfully managed to keep every political journalist in America working overtime. Open Google Maps on your phone and zoom out. The Gulf of Mexico is…Virginia Allen -
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Pro-Life Advocacy Groups Optimistic After RFK Jr. Confirmed as Health Secretary
Pro-life advocacy groups are saying they see Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a man who changed his mind. The newly confirmed secretary of health and human services has apparently shifted to align with President Donald Trump’s pro-life agenda during his Senate confirmation hearings after openly supporting abortion policies for most of his public life. The…Moira Gleason -
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The Left Can’t Stop Creating Drama
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. A long time ago, the French foreign secretary, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, once remarked of the…Victor Davis Hanson -
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The Daily Signal Is Back at White House
The Daily Signal announced Thursday the appointment of Elizabeth Mitchell as its White House correspondent. Mitchell, who joined The Daily Signal in June 2024, will lead the news organization’s coverage of the White House and executive branch. She will cover press briefings, presidential events, and policy initiatives, while continuing to provide analysis of executive branch…Rob Bluey -
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Trump’s Blanket Tariff Plan Praised by Rust Belt Lawmakers
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on “reciprocal trade and tariffs” in the Oval Office Thursday, calling on his Cabinet members to draw up a plan to respond to foreign tariffs on American goods. “On trade, I have decided for purposes of fairness that I will charge a reciprocal tariff—meaning, whatever countries charge the United…George Caldwell -
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Foreign Aid Agencies Awarded $27 Million to Groups Helping Leftist Protesters Avoid Jail
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Federal agencies tasked with giving out foreign aid have allocated more than $27 million for activist groups that also support legal defense efforts for leftist protesters in the U.S. The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development awarded the funds to the left-wing Tides Foundation and Tides Center across several presidencies, federal spending…Hudson Crozier -
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Trump’s Dark New Deal
Every so many decades, American politics goes through a soft revolution. Some of these moments are more dramatic in scope than others, but they represent a pivot point when one consensus dies and another emerges. It’s hard to deny that we are going through one of these transitions now. What President Donald Trump is doing in his return…Jarrett Stepman -
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New Advisory Service Ensures Investments Don’t Undermine Clients’ Values
Conservatives across the country unwittingly might be supporting leftist causes through their investments, but have no idea they are doing so. A new investment services consulting company is working to change this. “Prospr Aligned is committed to equipping institutional investors with the tools, insights, and partnerships necessary to ensure their investments deliver reliable returns…Virginia Allen -
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Elon Musk Is Far More Popular Than George Soros, New Poll Finds
Many on the Left seem to be having a conniption about President Donald Trump tapping Elon Musk to root out fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government, but they seem not to worry that another billionaire has been pulling the strings in Washington far longer than the owner of X. As my book, “The…Tyler O’Neil -
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Out of Touch or Highly Qualified? The Truth About Trump’s Wealthy Nominees
Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Kelly Loeffler, and Linda McMahon all share two things in common. First, they were nominated by President Donald Trump to serve in his new administration. Second, they are all exceptionally wealthy entrepreneurs—having made their fortunes by generating broad-based prosperity and contributing to creation or distribution of goods and services available to…Alexander Frei -
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Democrats Plan State-Level ‘Resistance’ to Federal GOP Trifecta
Democrats started planning their opposition to President Donald Trump’s agenda just days after he was reelected last year, according to a new report, and are also preparing to combat his policies at the state level. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reported this week that a coalition of 23 Democrat attorneys general signed a “secret agreement,” starting Nov….S.A. McCarthy -
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Trojan Horse of Gender Ideology Threatens African Treaty on Protecting Women, Girls From Violence
Member states at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are poised to adopt an "African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls." Its goal is laudable, but as the African Bar Association has revealed, a number of the provisions of the draft treaty reflect an entirely different purpose: radical gender ideology….Laura Bryant Hanford -
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BREAKING: RFK Jr. Confirmed as HHS Chief
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services by the Senate in a mostly party-line 52-48 vote Thursday morning. All 45 Senate Democrats and the two nominal independents who caucus with them voted “no.” They were joined by one Republican, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who also…George Caldwell -
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Ernst Seeks to Crack Down on Government Employees Doing Union Activities During Work Hours
Republican lawmakers want to rein in the amount of time federal employees spend on union time—including activities such as lobbying Congress and negotiating more benefits—during taxpayer-paid worktime. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus, recently introduced the Protecting Taxpayers’ Wallets Act, and Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. introduced companion legislation in the…Fred Lucas -
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Here’s Why the Left Can’t Quit the Deep State
The deep state is sinking, and the Left has decided to go down with the ship. That’s one of the realities that’s perplexing some political commentators in the early days of the second Trump White House stint. One would think that after an electoral shellacking combined with the popularity of President Donald Trump’s policies in the early days…Jarrett Stepman -
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DHS ‘Clawed Back’ $59 Million FEMA Allocated to House Illegal Aliens
The Trump administration has retrieved the $59 million the Federal Emergency Management Agency allocated last week to house illegal aliens in hotels in New York City. “I have clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X on Wednesday. …Virginia Allen -
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Germany Is Self-Imploding
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. Hi, I’m Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Today I’d like to talk about the crisis facing Europe, specifically its self-implosion across the spectrum—energy,…Victor Davis Hanson -
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House DOGE Panel Fires Its First Salvo in ‘War on Waste’
The House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency held its first hearing Tuesday as part of an investigation into the “war on waste” in the federal government. Referred to as the DOGE Subcommittee, an arm of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, it is meant to run parallel to President Donald Trump's and Elon…George Caldwell