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‘Precisely the Problem’: Immigration Advocates Want Asylum Hearings Scheduled ‘Years’ Ahead
In a lawsuit against the Trump administration, immigration advocates insist that an asylum case should take “years” to conclude and want “at least a year” to prepare while applicants remain in the United States. The lawyers claim that the administration is unfairly singling out their clients, Somali asylum-seekers, in a “Somali Fast-Track Policy,” giving them…Fred Lucas -
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EXCLUSIVE: Poll Finds Virginia Voters Reject Democrats’ Redistricting Push
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Democrats are attempting to redraw the Virginia congressional map to put four of the commonwealth’s five Republican-held seats in their hands. However, new polling finds that Virginia voters, across party lines, largely oppose their efforts. The Daily Signal obtained a Heritage Action poll that found that 70% of Virginia Democrat voters think that electoral maps favoring one political party should not be allowed. However, Democrats in the…Virginia Grace McKinnon -
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Democrats Are Back to ‘Defund the Police,’ GOP Leadership Claims
House Republican leadership says Democrat politics bears some of the blame for the murder of an 18-year-old university student in Chicago. Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University, was murdered by Jose Medina, an illegal alien from Venezuela who entered the country in 2023 and was released by law enforcement shortly after. Medina was then…Pedro Rodriguez -
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China’s Military Went Silent Around Taiwan for First Time in Years. Why?
In recent years, China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force has kept a near-constant presence around Taiwan. However, from Feb. 28 to March 6, there were no PLAAF sorties near the island for seven days. This was the first time there had been over four consecutive days without PLAAF activity near Taiwan since seven consecutive days…Josiah Guajardo -
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WATCH: Colombia’s Sweet Strategy to Defeat the Cocaine Trade
MIAMI—Colombian officials are working to eliminate the nation’s illicit cocaine trade and replace it with chocolate. “We say to the world, ‘Please buy cocoa, not coca,’” Defense Minister Pedro Arnulfo Sanchez told The Daily Signal at the Miami Security Forum. Thousands of acres of farmland in Colombia have been converted from growing coca crops, the…Virginia Allen -
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Supreme Court Could Decide If ‘Election Day’ Lasts One Day
Under our Constitution, state legislatures retain primary authority for setting the rules and procedures governing elections—even federal ones. This is true for both congressional and presidential elections. But Congress can step in and alter those default state-level rules. And it has chosen to do so in several important ways. For example, it has fixed by…Zack Smith -
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Vance Anti-Fraud Effort Adds Major Enforcer
The Senate confirmed an experienced federal prosecutor, Colin McDonald, Tuesday afternoon to act as the Justice Department’s anti-fraud division lead. In a party-line vote, McDonald was confirmed 52-47 to be the first assistant attorney general for national fraud enforcement at the DOJ. McDonald will work with Vice President JD Vance, whom President Donald Trump named the White House “fraud czar” to lead a new task force…Virginia Grace McKinnon -
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Proposed ‘Trump Wildlife Preserve’ Draws Strong Reactions
A wildlife preserve in Ohio could be the latest government-run facility to bear the president’s name, but not in the way one might expect. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources recently unveiled a proposed rule to rename the “Charles O. Trump Wildlife Preserve” to the “Trump Wildlife Preserve.” The 128-acre area located in Pickaway County…Rebecca Downs -
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Consent Decree Marks Final Defeat of ‘Orwellian’ Biden ‘Censorship Regime’
During the COVID-19 pandemic, federal health agencies and the White House under President Joe Biden pressured social media companies to censor speech that contradicted the federal government’s narrative, but two Republican attorneys general secured a consent decree Tuesday that will prevent the government from returning to that “Orwellian” strategy. “It was absolutely Orwellian,” Louisiana Attorney…Tyler O’Neil -
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Trump Demands More From NATO as Gulf States ‘Hit So Hard’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued his call for more NATO assistance in the Middle East. When asked by The Daily Signal’s White House Correspondent Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell if he wanted the Gulf States to be more involved in the ongoing operation against Iran, Trump said, “A little bit, but more—more NATO.” “I think our Gulf allies have been pretty good, to be honest with…Reagan Campbell -
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South Carolina Lawmakers Must Protect Parent Rights. Here’s What Families Need to Know.
It happened again: A parent, this one in South Carolina, has accused teachers at her child’s school of hiding information about him from his family. Fortunately, state lawmakers are considering a proposal to protect parents from educators who insert a wedge between them and their children. Members of the state’s House of Representatives have advanced…Jonathan Butcher -
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White House Reveals New Strategy to Require Voter ID
The Trump administration wants to use the process of reconciliation to move the SAVE America Act through the Senate, new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said in response to a question from The Daily Signal. “There’s a framework that we can do through reconciliation, paying for, putting some of the policies that cost money…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Pesticides and the Fight for America’s Health
“You cannot have human health until you first have soil health,” says Rick Clark, a fifth-generation regenerative farmer. Clark joined public health and public policy experts Monday at The Heritage Foundation to discuss “Feeding America Safely: A Practical Path Forward on Pesticides.” The discussion focused on the importance of openness and transparency, the negative effects of pesticide residues in…Paul Nguyen -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The New Democratic Party
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 all practical purposes, there is no longer a Democratic Party, at least as we’ve known it for 50 to 100 years….Victor Davis Hanson -
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Heartland Polling: Iran War Is Unpopular, But Not Hurting Trump
Fresh new polling from the key battleground state of Wisconsin reveals that Midwestern voters take a skeptical view of the Iran war, with 40% approval and 50% disapproval. Right now, the split is very partisan with Democrat voters at net -71% approve, GOP voters at +60%—while independents come in at -19%. Seventeen percent of Republican voters against…Steve Cortes -
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EXCLUSIVE: Critical Swing State Poll Shows Trump Retains High Support Among Base
Ahead of the 2026 midterms, polling from a critical swing state found that President Donald Trump is retaining a vast majority of his voting base. A new League of American Workers survey showed that 85% of Wisconsin voters who voted for Trump in 2024 remain favorable of the president after he announced the commencement of…Pedro Rodriguez -
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Republicans Pitch Trump on Funding All of DHS But Deportations
A group of Republican senators is pitching President Donald Trump on a plan to fund part of the currently shutdown Department of Homeland Security, while allowing for a future party-line budget bill to cover deportations later. Republicans already acceded to Democrat demands in February, when they agreed to separate the DHS funding bill from a…George Caldwell -
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Pentagon to Deploy 82nd Airborne to Middle East
The Pentagon is expected to send a combat team from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, according to multiple reports. The elite 82nd Airborne Division is known for its rapid deployment, and “secures key objectives for follow-on military operations in support of U.S. national interests,” the Army states. The move follows…Virginia Allen -
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Champagne Socialists Descend on Cuba to Virtue Signal Solidarity With Tyrants
The sputtering Castro-ist regime in Cuba has managed to stick to its communist roots. It’s doing this by ensuring that while everyone is “equal,” foreign stooges and social influencers willing to spread propaganda for the regime are treated more equally than others. That’s a time-honored, socialist tradition. Over the weekend a junket of various activists…Jarrett Stepman -
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Democrat Governor Celebrates Ramadan at Hamas-Linked Mosque
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, celebrated Ramadan at a mosque whose co-founder was convicted of funneling money to Hamas and with an imam who faced deportation proceedings over alleged Hamas ties. This imam also called for a “new intifada.” “Thank you to the Islamic Center of Passaic County for welcoming me to join…Tyler O’Neil