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Experts Predict Up to 2.7M Votes Will Be Cast by Illegal Immigrants
Do you plan to vote this November? You’re not alone. Experts say somewhere between 1.5 million and 2.7 million illegal immigrants are likely to cast a ballot in the 2024 elections, affecting races from dogcatcher to president of the United States. The historic flood of illegal immigrants during the Biden-Harris administration has also padded voter… -
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Shocking Number of Democrats Say US Would Be ‘Better Off’ If Trump Had Been Killed
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—More than 1 in 4 Democrats believe America would be better off if former President Donald Trump had been assassinated, according to a poll released Wednesday. Veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen’s national survey of 1,000 registered voters, conducted by RMG Research for the Napolitan News Service, asked Americans about Sunday’s second assassination… -
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‘Car Insurance’ for Cancel Culture: Here’s What to Do If You Get Smeared Like Nick Sandmann
Todd McMurtry was a lawyer, but he had never practiced defamation law before legacy media outlets demonized 16-year-old Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann for the crime of “smirking” while wearing a Make America Great Again hat. Now, McMurtry has published a book about defamation law—a book he recommends as a kind of “car… -
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Shoplifting and Vehicle Thefts Soared as Haitian Migrants Poured Into Ohio Town, Police Data Shows
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Reports of shoplifting and vehicle theft increased considerably in Springfield, Ohio, following the arrival of thousands of Haitian refugees, according to data obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation through a records request. The town, which had a population of 58,622 in 2020, has taken in between 12,000 and 20,000 Haitian refugees over the past three years, marking a… -
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Hezbollah Members Targeted With Explosive Pagers
At least nine people were killed Tuesday when pagers that were used by hundreds of members of the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon and Syria exploded in what appeared to be a simultaneously planned attack, The Associated Press reported. CNN estimated that 2,800 were wounded in the attack that occurred at about 3:30 p.m. local… -
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WATCH: Pager? I Hardly Know Her!
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we discuss pagers in Lebanon and examine the complete failure of two separate interviews with Vice President Kamala Harris and what they mean for both the Biden-Harris administration and the Harris-Walz campaign. Speaking of the campaign, where is the bump in polls after the debate, and… -
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Trump Issues ‘Cease and Desist’ Warning to Election Cheaters
As early voting begins this week in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump posted another warning to cheaters on Truth Social. “CEASE & DESIST,” the 45th president posted Tuesday. “I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better… -
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Conservative Think Tank Debunks Harris’ Claim That Late-Term Abortions Don’t Happen
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Late-term abortion is happening all the time, despite Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris' denial at last week's debate, according to a memo from a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence. Thousands of babies who could survive outside the womb are aborted every year, the memo from Advancing… -
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Why Does Big Tech Oppose the Kids Online Safety Act?
Imagine driving your kids through a city plastered with graphic, inappropriate billboards—images that assault their innocence at every turn. You’d try everything to protect them: blacking out car windows, taking detours. But no matter how hard you try, you can’t shield them entirely. Now, imagine families petitioning their city council to restrict public obscenity, simply… -
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EXCLUSIVE: McConnell Focuses on Raising Taxes, Not Trump Assassination Attempt, at Senate Luncheon
Time is running out for lawmakers on Capitol Hill to address a number of pressing issues before the session ends and they leave Washington until after the Nov. 5 election. The government will run out of funding come Sept. 30 without a continuing resolution; House Republicans are putting a full-court press on the Harris-Walz ticket… -
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Hillary Clinton Condemns Media for Their Coverage of Trump
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday condemned the media for not sufficiently covering the peril she believes former President Donald Trump poses to the planet while calling on Americans to be “outraged by what he represents.” Clinton’s remarks follow federal and local officials confirming Sunday the arrest of 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh for allegedly… -
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Taylor Swift’s Endorsement of Harris Has Had Minimal Effect, Poll Finds
The night of the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, pop star Taylor Swift decided to use her platform to endorse the Democratic nominee. But as some have pointed out, it did not seem to have the impact the Left thought it would. The singer, widely known for her catchy tunes… -
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Matt Walsh Exposes ‘Anti-Racist’ Grift Industry in Film ‘Am I Racist?’
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s movie “Am I Racist?” is a hybrid of mockumentary in the tradition of “Spinal Tap” and his signature ironic take on the inanities of our age. Walsh’s message in “Am I Racist?” is simple: Although racism in America is a faint ghost of its historic self—as professor Wilfred Reilly told Walsh,… -
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Given Its Past, Oppose the United Nations’ ‘Pact for the Future’
Every September, world leaders travel to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. While the floor speeches garner the most attention, most often the real action happens in meetings between the leaders and high-level meetings where governments finalize and agree to various statements and agreements. This year, the Summit of the Future is… -
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House to Vote on Stopgap Spending Bill With SAVE Act Wednesday
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Tuesday morning that the House will move forward with a vote on Wednesday on a continuing resolution to fund the government beyond the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. The continuing resolution would fund the government for six months and avert the looming government shutdown. Johnson has also… -
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NYT Column Omits Fact That China’s ‘Green Transition’ Is Built on Backs of Slaves
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The New York Times ran a column Monday applauding China’s green energy transition without mentioning that slave labor has played a massive role in the country’s progress on that front. The column—written by David Wallace-Wells under the headline “What Happens if China Stops Trying to Save the World?”—gives China great credit for scaling up green… -
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Trump Is Ultimately Responsible for Assassination Attempts Against Him, Alexander Vindman Says
Alexander Vindman, the retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel of Ukrainian descent whose testimony led the House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump in 2019, blamed Trump after a second gunman reportedly attempted to assassinate the former president on Sunday. Vindman's brother, Yevgeny who goes by Eugene, is running for Congress as a Democrat in… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Undercover Video Gives the Lie to Kamala Harris’ Narrative on Late-Term Abortion
The former chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party was caught on camera advocating that abortion take place "all the way to the end" of pregnancy in an undercover recording made at last month's Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The video was provided to The Daily Signal last week after Vice President Kamala Harris said during… -
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Don’t Jail Parents for School Shootings. Arm Teachers.
Understandably, we want to blame someone besides the 14-year-old who murdered four people Sept. 5 at Apalachee High School in Georgia. People are shocked and upset that the father taught the boy to shoot and hunt, and bought the boy a rifle for Christmas. But that doesn’t mean it made any sense for police to… -
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More Good News for Trump in Fani Willis’ Case Against Him
The second attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend came just after the dismissal by a Georgia judge of more lawfare charges against the former president and other defendants in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ partisan prosecution. But on Friday, two days before Sunday’s second shocking attempt to kill Trump, another dismissal occurred….