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Trump Must Avoid These 3 ‘Civilization Killers’ When Tackling the National Debt
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. I’d like to talk about debt, debt, debt. All during the last few days, we’ve heard… -
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Illegal Alien Squatters Turned Her Home Purchase into a Nightmare
Cathy Lindberg Jarosz drove down the street of her newly purchased home but could not find her house. Lindberg, a lawyer from Maryland, had purchased the home in Destin, Florida, in April 2023 to be closer to her daughter who had just had a baby. She turned the house over to contractors for a couple… -
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Docs Reveal Biden Admin Cover-Up of COVID-19 Vaccine Dangers as MAHA Report Calls for Safety Tests
In the wake of an explosive Senate investigative report revealing that the Biden administration intentionally hid data from the public showing that the COVID vaccine was associated with serious health risks that resulted in hundreds of deaths, a new report from the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again Commission is calling for more robust safety… -
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‘Make the Changes They Want’: Trump Gives Senate Go-Ahead to Take Red Pen to ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump gave Senate Republicans permission to make major changes to the House-passed “one big, beautiful bill” Sunday evening, throwing a wrench in Speaker Mike Johnson’s efforts to persuade his upper chamber colleagues to refrain from significantly rewriting the legislation. Trump’s approval of Senate Republicans making “the changes they want” in… -
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Ron Johnson Predicts GOP Senators Will Put Up Roadblock To ‘Stop the Process’ On Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said Sunday on CNN that he believes there will be enough GOP members to halt President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” until their concerns are addressed. Despite Trump pushing Republicans to pass his budget reconciliation package, some GOP lawmakers have remained unconvinced. While on “State of the… -
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Is House Republicans’ Victory Lap on Big, Beautiful Bill Premature?
House Republicans are riding high—and with good reason. After months of negotiations and 48 straight hours of work, they successfully passed the ‘big, beautiful’ budget reconciliation bill. But will this era of good feeling come crashing down all too soon? On Thursday morning, the House passed the budget reconciliation bill that secures a number of… -
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A Memorial Day Song for the Ages: How ‘I Drive Your Truck’ Honored a Gold Star Father’s Memory of His Fallen Hero Son
It’s a day Paul Monti would never forget. The day he got the news military parents dread: His 30-year-old son Jared was killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan. Paul instantly joined the ranks of a club no one chooses to be a part: he was a Gold Star parent. Paul didn’t know what… -
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Texans to Vote on Constitutional Amendment Banning Noncitizen Voting
Texans will decide in November whether to add an amendment to their state constitution banning noncitizens from voting. If approved, the amendment would be added to the constitution’s language prohibiting voting by anyone under the age of 18, for anyone deemed mentally incompetent by a court, and convicted felons, according to Ballotpedia. In a bipartisan… -
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The Democrats: Leadership Discredited, Party Off Kilter
How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose just about everything across the board? The Biden administration has been repudiated… -
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The School Choice Tide Lifts All Students
Now that Texas and South Carolina have passed school choice bills, parents will be able to choose the best school for their kids in 17 states. Why not all states? After all, competition improves services. The Post Office couldn’t get it there overnight. Then FedEx showed it can be done. Quickly, UPS and DHL did it, too,… -
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The New Cold War With China
The threat to the United States from China is multifaceted, long-term, and aggressive. Whether it’s from military modernization to economic coercion, cyberwarfare to space competition, China’s national security challenge is global, and it targets U.S. interests, values, security, and standing in the world. While much of the focus of U.S. policymakers has been on the… -
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The West’s Assault on the African Family
In 1900, there were an estimated 9.6 million Christians in Africa. As of 2025, there are more than 754 million. That alone is a staggering figure. But it’s even more significant as we examine it in relation to Christianity in other regions of the globe. With just under 552 million Christians in Europe, just under 417 million… -
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Chris LaCivita’s Homecoming
McKEESPORT, Pennsylvania—Take the left off of Nessley Avenue after climbing the switchback up from this city’s once-thriving downtown business district. For the next three blocks, you’ll find yourself on the brick-paved portion of Jefferson Street. Despite the impact weather has had on the bricks, giving them a wavy appearance, it adds a unique charm and… -
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Foreign Money Bans for Ballot Measures Could Be Headed to Supreme Court
Kansas will be the first legal battleground in 2025 to decide whether the national trend of banning foreign money from bankrolling ballot measures is legal—a matter that could be on its way to the Supreme Court. Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias’ firm is taking the lead in the litigation against the state bans on foreign… -
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Why Jews Need Their Christian Allies More Than Ever
The Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to terminate $60 million in federal grants to Harvard University for failing to address antisemitic harassment is a move that will finally stop Jew-hatred in its tracks. This victory didn’t come out of nowhere. Behind the scenes, one institution deserves credit for this masterstroke against evil: The… -
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‘BAD RELIGION’: Effort to Cancel This Defender of the British Empire Reveals the Left’s ‘Repressive’ Ideology
Lord Nigel Biggar had the audacity to defend the British empire, and the Left’s cancel culture against him revealed a “repressive” desire to silence “anyone who disagrees” with its narrative. “I’ve noticed it’s not just that we have points of view that disagree with me on colonialism or race or gender or whatever—that’s acceptable in… -
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The Big, Beautiful Bill Targets University Endowments—As It Should
President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” passed by the House Thursday contains numerous, needed policy changes, including something that should have happened ages ago: taxes on large, private university endowments. Many universities have been engaging in numerous assaults on America’s social fabric, including targeting and unfairly gaslighting conservative students, professors, and would-be professors. They’ve also… -
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Anti-Union Group Says LA Lost 11K Hotel Jobs in 2024
THE CENTER SQUARE—The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union advocacy group, ran a full-page ad imploring the Los Angeles City Council to not adopt a $30 hotel minimum wage, citing state data showing the city lost 11,000 hotel jobs in 2024 despite a growing population. The $30 minimum wage would apply to hotels with 60… -
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The SPLC’s Head-Scratching Conspiracy Theory About ‘Christian Supremacy’ in Investing
Beware: The effort to get woke activism out of investing is really a secret plot to force Christian supremacy and theocracy on the nation! Don’t believe me? Just ask the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC has a knack for finding the secret racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-immigrant motive behind anything, and its reporter is on… -
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4 Times Mike Johnson Has Beaten the Odds
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has consistently beaten the odds throughout the first five months of the 119th Congress, settling seemingly irreconcilable disagreements within the fractious House Republican Conference to advance President Donald Trump’s highest priorities. And Johnson, R-La., hasn’t forgotten to remind the public. “I know some of y’all smiled and probably mocked…