Political Commentary & Opinion
Analysis, commentary, and opinion essays on politics and policy from The Daily Signal’s contributors and experts.
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opinion
Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’
The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic. Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that former President Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic. That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two… -
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Backstabbing Behind the Scenes at the Democratic Convention
No one is buying what Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party are selling these days. Earlier this week, on the opening night of the demonic confab in Chicago that Democrats call their national convention, the outgoing commander in chief explicitly denied that he was “angry at all those people” who said he should… -
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Back in the Air: Resumed F-35 Deliveries Help in Indo-Pacific
The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin recently announced resumed deliveries of F-35 aircraft configured with software called Technology Refresh-3, or TR-3. Although a truncated version of the TR-3 software is part of the package, this resumption is a milestone that comes after a yearlong freeze in which undelivered F-35s accumulated and collected dust. The TR-3… -
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‘Politically Captured Agency’: Why a Former FBI Agent Wants to Defund the Bureau
The FBI shouldn’t be weaponized to pick winners and losers, which is exactly what it has done by targeting pro-lifers and failing to investigate pro-abortion vandals, former FBI agent Steve Friend says. “What we’re seeing is a politically captured agency that is not only interested in the results,” Friend told The Daily Signal. “They want… -
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Kamala Harris Ducks 3 Things as She Accepts Dems’ Nomination
Before Vice President Kamala Harris hit the stage to accept her party’s nomination for president Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, her campaign told reporters what to expect. Harris campaign officials leaked to the press that the sitting vice president would reintroduce herself to Americans, despite being the second most powerful person… -
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10 Takeaways From Final Night of Democratic National Convention
Democrats gathered Thursday night in Chicago to hear a bevy of speakers followed by Vice President Kamala Harris’ formal acceptance of their nomination for president to close out the party’s convention. The weeklong coronation of Harris, who replaced President Joe Biden as Democrats’ presidential nominee just one month ago, commenced with a party-like atmosphere that… -
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Land Acknowledgments Are Democratic Party’s New Pledge of Allegiance
The Democratic Party has fully embraced the far-left’s ideological framework of America. Democrats released their 2024 party platform this week during the Democratic National Convention. It was a sloppy mess in many places with frequent references to President Joe Biden’s “second term”—21 references by my count. Though as I’ve written previously, we are probably headed… -
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5 Massive Lies at the Democratic National Convention
As Democrats nominated Vice President Kamala Harris in Chicago this week, speakers repeated multiple blatant falsehoods. The legacy media seems unlikely to expose these lies, so The Daily Signal will break them down here. Each lie framed former President Donald Trump—the Republican nominee—and his party as more radical than they really are, or shifted responsibility… -
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Harris Had Record of Pushing Left-Wing Positions on Biggest Legal Issues as California AG
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—More than a dozen briefs signed by Vice President Kamala Harris during her time as California attorney general highlight her left-wing stances on several contentious legal issues of the past decade. Harris filed briefs with the Supreme Court in favor of affirmative action, backing buffer zones that prevent pro-life counseling outside abortion… -
opinion
All Theater, No Class at National Conventions
The 2024 Democratic National Convention is a theatrical political gathering that spans four days and attracts the highest-ranking elected officials from across the nation. These include President Joe Biden, Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris, as well as just about every major political personality you can think of. When I say that it is… -
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Report Challenges Harris’ Assertion Higher Food Prices Equal Corporate Greed
THE CENTER SQUARE—Rising grocery store prices over the last few years aren’t the fault of farmers or “greedy” corporations, a conservative North Carolina research organization concludes in a new documentary series and report. Instead, higher energy prices and more regulations are the culprit, according to the John Locke Foundation documentary series “Sowing Resilience.” It recommends a… -
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Where Is the Money Funding ActBlue Coming From?
Paging Dr. Adrienne Young, M.D. The good doctor is listed online as an “internist” in McKees Rocks, a borough in western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, known locally as “the Rocks.” Campaign finance filings report Young’s practice is located on Heckel Road in McKees and list a 412 area code phone number. But her office does not… -
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7 Takeaways From Night 3 of Democratic National Convention
On the third night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, delegates looked forward to hearing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accept his party’s nomination for vice president. When he finally did so, it was with a brisk, 17-minute speech that ended just before midnight EDT as Democrats continued to struggle with running late despite a… -
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California Proposal to Give Home Loans to Illegal Aliens Comes Under Fire
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—California lawmakers are one step closer to making hundreds of millions of taxpayer-funded home loans available to residents living in the country illegally. Democrats on the California Senate Appropriations Committee late last week unanimously approved AB 1840 to move forward, according to an official vote tally for the legislation. The bill has one last… -
opinion
Young Americans Are ‘Spiraling’ Downward
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. America’s Hometown Newspaper finally noticed young Americans are screwed. A few days ago, USA Today wrote an article asking why millennials and Gen Z are “spiraling, partying hard, and blowing their savings.” I’ve mentioned in previous videos how… -
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America: A Nation Committing Suicide
Over the years 1934-1961, British historian Arnold Toynbee published his 12-volume “A Study of History.” Toynbee studied the rise and fall of 23 civilizations. His conclusion was that great civilizations die not from external causes but from internal causes. They commit suicide. Toynbee concluded, in the words of one journalist, that “civilizations start to decay… -
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Kamala Harris’ Authoritarian ‘Joy’
We’ve been told, over and over and over again, that Kamala Harris is the candidate of “joy.” Tim Walz, upon accepting his vice presidential nomination, thanked her for “bringing back the joy.” Rolling Stone gushed that Harris’ “new politics of joy is the best way to fight fascism.” The New York Times headlined, “Harris used… -
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Rand Paul Wants Answers From TSA About Alleged Surveillance Abuses
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is attempting to get to the bottom of the Transportation Security Administration’s watchlist and blacklist programs following several high-profile cases and whistleblowers scrutinizing these TSA systems. “Recent disclosures from whistleblowers raise serious concerns that these mechanisms may have been improperly employed to target individuals based on their political views and… -
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Harley-Davidson’s Retreat on Woke Policy Revs Up the Grassroots
If there’s one name CEOs don’t want to hear right now, it’s Robby Starbuck. The filmmaker-turned-culture warrior has become a one-man wrecking ball on corporate activism—exposing major brands who think their liberal activism will go undetected. But there’s no such thing as secret wokeism, as Tractor Supply Co. and John Deere both learned after being hauled into the spotlight… -
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Shrouded in Secrecy, Facing Litigation, ‘Bidenbucks’ Celebrated in Democrats’ Platform
The Democratic Party platform praises President Joe Biden’s controversial “all-of government” executive order to get out the vote, which some critics call “Bidenbucks.” As The Daily Signal has reported, Executive Order 14019—signed by Biden in March 2021—puts the power of federal agencies behind registering and turning out voters. Federal agencies partnered with numerous left-leaning nonprofits…