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opinion
Biden Executive Order Enables Illegal Aliens to Vote, Election Expert Says
A 2021 Biden administration executive order constitutes unlawful and potentially partisan interference in the election process, according to a new report from Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation. President Joe Biden’s 2021 Executive Order 14019 directs executive branch departments and federal employees to use federal resources to get out the… -
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Detroit Faces GOP Lawsuit Over Poll Worker Imbalance
DETROIT (Michigan News Source)—The Republican National Committee is raising alarms, accusing Detroit of failing to ensure a balanced hiring of Republican election inspectors. The RNC’s lawsuit claims that during the August primaries, Detroit’s Election Commission appointed a whopping 2,337 Democratic inspectors, while only assigning 310 Republicans. Election inspectors—also known as poll workers—are hired, trained, and… -
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WATCH: Escaping Joe Biden
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine the bizarre goal of Vice President Kamala Harris to distance herself from her role in the Biden-Harris administration while claiming responsibility for what she considers to be its successes. How can a vice president be both the insider and the outsider in the race… -
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This Report Exposes Influential DEI Author as a Plagiarist and a Fraud
Robin DiAngelo, the pro-DEI author of the bestselling book “White Fragility,” is a fraud. She’s also been accused of rampantly plagiarizing minority scholars in a scathing new report by The Washington Free Beacon. “According to a complaint filed last week with the University of Washington, where DiAngelo received her Ph.D. in multicultural education, she plagiarized… -
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Fact-Checking RFK Jr.
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign last week and endorsed former President Donald Trump. I disagree with Kennedy about a lot. But at least he was willing to talk to people who disagree with him. In my newest video, we debate. Kennedy complains that mainstream media won’t have him on—even to argue… -
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Kamala Unveils $5 Trillion Tax in Hikes Targeting Small Businesses, Employees, More
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Kamala Harris’ economic plan is taking shape, starting with $5 trillion in new taxes—because Washington clearly does not have enough money to spend. In the past fortnight alone, Harris has promised to hike taxes on small businesses to… -
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Biden Climate Czar, CCP Official to Discuss Climate Cooperation Amid Chinese Coal Binge
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—White House senior adviser John Podesta is set to meet with Chinese Communist Party officials to expand U.S.-China collaboration on climate change, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Podesta and China’s special envoy for climate change Liu Zhenmin are slated to meet during the first week of September to discuss reducing greenhouse gas emissions and… -
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Biden’s Executive Amnesty Hits Roadblock
The Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to extend amnesty to a half-million illegal immigrants has hit a roadblock, as a Trump-appointed federal judge ordered the program temporarily halted. In June, the Biden-Harris administration announced an executive action that would grant an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens and who have lived in America for 10… -
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CNN’s Credibility on Line in What Bash Asks VP Harris in Interview
CNN’s Dana Bash will either toss softballs to Vice President Kamala Harris in her interview on Thursday—or she will ask tough questions. Her decision will either galvanize, or diminish, the perception that CNN is leftist propaganda. Here are three questions Bash should ask the would-be president: 1) "Why have you ignored the millions of migrant… -
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A Harris Campaign Stop That Shrugs Off Voters
PITTSBURGH—Billed as a kickoff bus tour on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, instead spent Aug. 18 in Beaver County in tightly controlled stops before heading to Chicago. Harris held a short rally at a private airport hangar surrounded by supporters—mostly members… -
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Harris’ Strategy? Avoid Serious Scrutiny as Long as Possible. Will It Work?
To call the past eight weeks in presidential politics unprecedented would be a wild understatement. It was just over two months ago when President Joe Biden—a man deemed highly successful and mentally sharp by our legacy media—took to the stage to debate his predecessor, Donald Trump, and promptly expired. It took another month for Biden… -
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Is Kamala Harris Lying About Backing EV Mandates?
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign team said Tuesday it’s a “lie” that she supports electric vehicle mandates, but her record on the issue suggests the opposite. The Harris campaign blasted out an email ahead of Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s Tuesday visit to Michigan, with campaign communications official Ammar Moussa writing that Vance would… -
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Why Special Counsel Jack Smith Filed a New Trump Indictment
Special counsel Jack Smith has had a busy week. He filed his brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit asking that court to overturn Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of his indictment in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. Cannon dismissed that indictment because she found that Smith had… -
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Massive Void Emerges in Pacific as US Shuffles Warships to Middle East
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The recent departure of U.S. warships from the Pacific leaves a strategic void in the crucial region as forces turn their attention to the Middle East. The USS Lincoln Strike Group, which consists of a fleet of warships and fighter jets led by an aircraft carrier, arrived last week at the U.S. Central Command,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Gaetz and Crane Demand Answers From Coast Guard About DEI Trainings
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Has the Biden-Harris administration’s focus on so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion undermined the U.S. Coast Guard’s readiness? Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Eli Crane, R-Ariz., believe it may have and are demanding answers from top Biden-Harris administration officials. In a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and… -
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Almost Half of NYC Bus Riders Don’t Pay. Blame Progressivism.
This is the headline of an article published Aug. 26 in The New York Times: “Fare Evasion Surges on N.Y.C. Buses, Where 48% of Riders Fail to Pay.” The article begins: “Every weekday in New York City, close to 1 million bus riders—roughly one out of every two passengers—board without paying. “Fare evasion has led… -
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Biden-Harris Admin Uses Loopholes to Expand Welfare Benefits, Again
It seems reasonable that a program designed to assist those with low incomes should go only to low-income households. But the Biden-Harris administration is using a dubious mechanism to get around that expectation in a program designed to help low-income families pay for broadband internet service. Congress created the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program in 2020,… -
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A Year After Hawaii Fire, Rebuilding Has Barely Begun
Cleanup after wildfires is inherently more difficult than recovery from other natural disasters, according to Brian Cavanaugh, a visiting fellow for cybersecurity, intelligence, and homeland security at The Heritage Foundation. Unlike a hurricane, which mainly creates wind and water damage, Cavanaugh says, fires damage the structural integrity of buildings and often leave dangerous chemicals behind. … -
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Kamala Harris Used to Think Border Wall Was ‘Un-American.’ Now She Supports It.
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Vice President Kamala Harris has reversed her position on spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build a wall along the southern border, Axios reported Tuesday. Harris is now in favor of building a wall after being attacked repeatedly by former President Donald Trump for presiding over an unprecedented surge in illegal immigration to… -
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Dark Night of Tyranny Descends on Europe. Could We Be Next?
“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States, and yet lands only in Europe.” That was author Tom Wolfe way back in the 1970s. He was talking about this curious dynamic in which we hear repeatedly from left-wing commentators and media that America is on the precipice of fascism—but tyranny ends…