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Pfizer COVID-19 Bombshell Puts 2020 Election Into Context
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 don’t want to go back and look at the 2020 elections, especially, but there’s some…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Illegal Alien Accused of Raping, Killing Maryland Mother Gets Pretrial Hearing
The illegal alien accused of killing Maryland mother Rachel Morin walked, shackled, into the Harford County, Maryland, courthouse on Monday for a pretrial hearing. Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez faces a number of charges in Morin's death, including first-degree murder and first-degree rape. “Rachel Morin is another victim of the failed policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” Rep. Michael…Virginia Allen -
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Congressional Republicans Seek to Slap Down Activist Judges, Curtail Universal Injunctions
Activist judges have courted disaster with abusive nationwide injunctions to stop policies they don’t like. Unlike the executive and legislative branches, the courts have only their reputation to give them power. With the recent spate of overzealous universal injunctions, some prominent members of Congress are threatening to intervene. It was only a matter of time….Jarrett Stepman -
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Nominally Nonpartisan, Wisconsin High Court Election Likely to Set Ideological Direction of Bench
Voters in Wisconsin head to the polls on Tuesday to decide the ideological majority and direction of their state Supreme Court. The race involves who will replace outgoing left-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. Republicans are supporting Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel, while Democrats are backing Dane County Circuit Court Judge…Jacob Adams -
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Pete Hegseth Announces He Is Ordering Equal Standards for Men and Women in Combat Roles
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will issue a memo setting equal standards for men and women in combat roles across the armed services, he announced on X Monday. The memo aims to implement the same set of standards for all service members involved in combat, regardless of sex, Hegseth said on X. Hegseth said the…Wallace White -
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Florida Special Elections for House Seen as Barometer on Trump Policies
Two special elections Tuesday for House seats from Florida will be a test of the popularity of the first 70 days of President Donald Trump’s second term and will decide whether or not Republicans can maintain their already slender margin of control in the House of Representatives. The stakes are high. With four seats currently…George Caldwell -
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School Choice Soon Available to Half of US Kids, But How It’s Designed Is Critical
School choice will soon hit a tipping point. If Texas enacts a universal school choice bill, as seems very likely, then more than half of K-12 students nationwide will be eligible for private school choice. Already this year, three states—Idaho, Tennessee, and Wyoming—have enacted new universal education choice policies or expanded existing ones to make…Jason Bedrick -
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Left-Wing Groups Call on Federal Election Agency to Defy Trump Executive Order
A coalition of left-leaning organizations is urging the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to defy President Donald Trump’s executive order on election integrity. Trump on Tuesday issued the order that, among other things, requires federal voter registration forms require proof of citizenship and would cut federal funding to states that count mail-in ballots arriving after Election…Fred Lucas -
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House to Take Up Bill to Secure American Elections
The House of Representatives is set to vote on election-integrity legislation, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, on Thursday. The SAVE Act would bar states from registering people to vote in federal elections unless they provide documentary proof of American citizenship. To that end, it would also make it a crime to register an individual who…Jacob Adams -
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Oversight Project Announces Independence From Heritage Foundation
The flagship investigative and oversight department of The Heritage Foundation is breaking off from the conservative think tank to become its own entity. With “strong support, partnership, and backing of The Heritage Foundation,” The Oversight Project will now be its own 501(c)(4) organization, according to a statement Monday from the Washington-based think tank. “The…Virginia Allen -
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Euro-Lawfare? France Bans Nationalist Candidate From Running for Office
A French court banned the leader of France’s conservative nationalist party—Marine Le Pen—from running for public office for the next five years after her embezzlement conviction. Le Pen lost the 2022 French presidential election to current President Emmanuel Macron. The sentence, which also includes a partially suspended four-year prison sentence, disqualifies her from running for…Fred Lucas -
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Trump’s America First Trade Revolution Is a Win for Working Families
President Donald Trump is ending outdated trade policies that harm hard-working Americans. Naturally, globalist elites are spitting mad that the United States is finally putting the interests of American workers, families, and communities over the pocketbooks of self-anointed “citizens of the world.” Here are four ways Trump’s trade policies are restoring respect for America: 1) Demanding…Kevin Roberts -
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Georgia Democrat Senator Lives Rent-Free in $1M Home: Report
Sen. Raphael Warnock lives rent-free in a tax-exempt $1 million home, the Free Beacon reported Monday. The article raises ethical questions about Warnock, as a senator, receiving numerous benefits from an outside organization. Warnock, D-Ga., who serves as pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church—where Martin Luther King Jr. served in the 1960s—has often backed left-wing causes…George Caldwell -
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MAHA: FDA Must Address Influx of Dangerous Illicit Chinese Electronic Cigarettes
The Trump administration received some good news when the Senate confirmed Dr. Marty Makary as head of the Food and Drug Administration. This is a critical nomination to get through because the FDA will play an integral role in executing the president’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. Without a doubt, we need him at his…Joel Thayer -
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EXCLUSIVE: Kristen Clarke Met With the Southern Poverty Law Center
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Kristen Clarke, who headed up the Justice Department office that prosecuted pro-lifers for protesting abortion clinics, met with leaders at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which compares mainstream conservative and Christian groups to the Ku Klux Klan, documents suggest. The meeting may shed light on the animus that Clarke—then the DOJ's…Tyler O’Neil -
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Hamas Agrees to Deal That Includes Release of American Hostage Edan Alexander
Hamas says it will accept a ceasefire deal that includes the release of American Israeli hostage Edan Alexander. Over the weekend, Hamas announced it would agree to a proposal from mediator states Egypt and Qatar. The deal includes the release of five hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, a pause in…Virginia Allen -
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‘NOT JOKING’: Trump Outlines Potential Road to Third Term
President Donald Trump is “not joking” about seeking a third term in the Oval Office, he told NBC News Sunday morning. “There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a phone interview from Mar-a-Lago. One of those methods, he said, is having Vice President JD Vance run for president with Trump as…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Problems and Solutions: Illegal Immigration and the Construction Industry
There might be less incentive for migrants to enter the country illegally if clearer U.S. visa work programs were in place, says Ben Brubeck, vice president of regulatory, labor, and state affairs for Associated Builders and Contractors. Associated Builders and Contractors, a construction industry trade association, “is clear that there’s no place in our country…Virginia Allen -
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How Major American Law Firms Became a Tool of the Left
Judge James Ho of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently charged that the nation’s major law firms are infested with the woke ideology of the Left, infusing them with “institutional bias” and leading them to provide pro bono and other assistance on only one side of the political divide. After more than two decades in…Hans von Spakovsky -
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What Made America Great in the Gilded Age
“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he’s not wrong. But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax competition. That economy boomed. From 1870 to 1913, America’s gross domestic product grew…Mario Loyola