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DOGGONE: Reports of Missing Pets True or Not, Ohio City Suffers From Huge Haitian Migrant Influx
A small city in western Ohio has become a focal point of discussions about the mass immigration policies of the Biden-Harris administration. At Tuesday night’s presidential debate on ABC, former President Donald Trump mentioned how the city of Springfield, Ohio, was being overrun by Haitian migrants and that people have reported their dogs, cats, ducks,… -
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The Roots of American Prosperity
Do native-born Americans have higher household incomes than naturalized citizens? It is a simple question the Census Bureau answered this week. The answer? No. Do native-born Americans have higher household incomes than noncitizens? Yes. In fact, when it comes to ranking household incomes by the nativity of the householder, according to the Census Bureau, households… -
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Defensive Gun Use Shows Second Amendment Remains Necessary, Even After Tragedies
A 14-year-old boy with a history of troubling behavior used a semiautomatic rifle to shoot and kill two fellow students and two teachers Sept. 6 at a high school in Georgia, police say. The teen faces criminal charges, as does his father—who police say recklessly gave his son “unfettered access” to the gun despite knowing… -
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Trump Wins Over Majority of Independent and Undecided Voters Postdebate
Tuesday night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump has been touted as either a draw or a Harris victory by mainstream media pundits, but independent and undecided voters saw the evening differently. Multiple polls are showing that a majority of undecided voters either decided on backing Trump or leaned toward… -
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Why Election Integrity Is a Dead Letter With Mail-In Ballots
Wisconsin election officials have until Sept. 19 to distribute requested absentee ballots. That’s when the bad news begins. North Carolina authorities planned to ship ballots on Sept. 6. That's been postponed indefinitely, to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as an option. Absent that wrinkle, North Carolinians would have started to vote four days before Sept. 10’s Kamala Harris-versus-Donald Trump… -
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DOJ Charges Illegal Immigrant With Voting in Multiple Elections
Amid debate in Congress over requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, federal prosecutors in Alabama charged an illegal immigrant with obtaining a false identity in 2011 and voting unlawfully in multiple elections, including two presidential contests. The Justice Department announced that the illegal immigrant from Guatemala agreed to a guilty plea after… -
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The Cipher and Her Praetorian Guard
In the lead-up to this week’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the polls showed a dead heat, both nationally and in seven swing states. The 2024 race is, by all measures, the closest presidential race we have seen in our lifetimes. But the usual presidential math applies: The person upon whom the… -
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‘Reagan’ Is a Simple, Powerful, and Timely Film for Our Cultural Moment
The verdict is beginning to settle in on the new Ronald Reagan biopic, and, like RR himself, the jury is split. For the pundits and the critics who find everything about the 40th president cloying and simplistic, the movie is irritatingly pat. Look as closely as one can, they say, there isn’t a single nuance… -
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Founder of Congressional Family Caucus Stresses Importance of Marriage, Children
“Faith and family is what’s made our country not only great but good,” Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., tells The Daily Signal. “We need to restore that,” Miller says. “A stable home life causes kids to be secure and safe and successful, and we need to do what we can to entice young people to want… -
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Good Guys With Guns
Do you carry a gun? Bad idea, says Hollywood. Civilians with guns are fools. You are more likely to hurt yourself than the bad guy. “Leave it to a good guy with a gun to really screw things up,” says a cop on ABC’s “The Rookie.” Liberal politicians agree. “A good guy with a gun… -
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6 Secretaries of State Testify to Congress on Reliability of Elections. Here Are 4 Takeaways.
Six secretaries of state from across America fielded questions in congressional testimony Wednesday about increasing public confidence in elections. House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., was among committee members who pushed the top state election officials on campaign finance, noncitizen voting, and other election security issues. The secretaries of state who testified were from both… -
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South Carolina Court Strips Families of Educational Freedom
South Carolina dad David Warner is afraid to tell his sixth-grade son that he will have to leave his school, teachers, and friends because the state Supreme Court struck down the Palmetto State’s school voucher program. “Today definitely felt like a kick in the stomach,” Warner said. The Warner family was using an education savings… -
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Late-Term Abortion: 5 Facts Harris, Liberal Media Want to Conceal
Predictably, the issue of abortion was one of the first to come up during Tuesday night’s presidential debate on ABC. And predictably, both the moderators and Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn’t let pesky facts get in the way of their shared agenda. Harris refused to identify a single limit on abortion that she would support…. -
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NO CONFIDENCE: Far-Left Smear Factory’s Union Votes by 90% to Oust President After Mass Layoffs
The Left eats its own, and it seems the Southern Poverty Law Center is no exception. The SPLC—a far-left smear factory notorious for demonizing conservatives and Christians as being as hateful as the KKK and for spreading woke dogma in schools—has its own labor union, and members of that union overwhelmingly cast a vote of… -
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Speaker Johnson Pulls Spending Bill Vote Amid GOP Opposition
House Speaker Mike Johnson has deferred the vote on a bill to fund the government through March. The temporary government-funding mechanism, called a continuing resolution, would have included the SAVE Act, an election-integrity measure meant to prevent illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections. Johnson has pulled the bill until next week in hopes of… -
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Why Won’t This Swing State Clear 4 Million Ineligible Names From Voter Rolls?
One of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds in this fall’s presidential race won’t remove more than 4 million ineligible names from its voter rolls. “Wisconsin’s population is a little less than 6 million, with 3.5 million active voters,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told The Daily Signal in a written statement. “So why do election officials… -
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Taylor Swift’s Endorsement of Harris and Other Big Debate Night Moments
Moments after the end of the first presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift issued her endorsement. “I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election,” Swift wrote in a post on Instagram Tuesday night. “I think she is a… -
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In Pennsylvania, Trump Vows to Hold Harris Accountable and Take Country to Better Place
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania—Former President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner that his message to undecided voters in Pennsylvania ahead of the Nov. 5 general election is that his second administration would bring prosperity to Pennsylvanians through commonsense approaches to energy, border security, and strengthening manufacturing. “We are going to bring the cost… -
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Victor Davis Hanson Rips Goldman Sachs for Propping Up Harris
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson called out Goldman Sachs on Tuesday for suggesting the economy under Vice President Kamala Harris could be more beneficial, arguing the group and others like it are pushing an agenda that could “destroy” middle-class Americans. Last week, Goldman Sachs economists released a note suggesting Harris’ policies might… -
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Priced Out of the American Dream: A Would-Be Homebuyer’s View From Wisconsin
EAU CLAIRE, Wis.—Craig Ervin, a skilled welder from my hometown of Eau Claire, is forced to rent. “I always wanted my own place, but I don't even bother looking anymore. Gets my hopes up, then I see the prices. It's just depressing how expensive it's gotten,” he said. Like many Wisconsinites, Ervin is wondering how…