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    Inside the GOP’s Campaign to Stop Socialist Candidates
    Communism is on the ballot this November. That’s the message coming from GOP leaders who spoke at the 2026 Republican National Committee’s Midterm Convention this week. At the event, nearly every speaker touched on the radical Left and the socialist candidates that, they say, want communism in America. “This is an election between common sense…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Victor Davis Hanson: True Democratic Socialists Can’t Run on Their Real Platform
    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 the current rise of the Democratic Socialists of America and the idea…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • opinion

    The Promise of Socialism Is Misery for All
    THE WASHINGTON STAND—Earlier this week, the House of Representatives voted 220-192 to approve a resolution condemning socialism. Only eight Democrats joined the Republicans in voting for the measure. The resolution read in part: Whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has, time and time again, collapsed into communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and repressive…
    Tony Perkins
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    Piker & El-Sayed: Comedy Gold
    Hasan Piker & Abdul El-Sayed have become the greatest comedy duo since Abbott & Costello.  Bud Abbott and Lou Costello thrived from 1935 to 1957 in burlesque, radio, motion pictures, and TV—from their beloved “Who’s on First?” routine to their “7 x 13 = 28” sketch. Abbott & Costello intended to be funny. They worked hard at it and became legends….
    Deroy Murdock
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  • opinion

    The DSA Wants to Win the Presidency–and Replace It
    The Democratic Socialists of America has an unusual plan for the highest office in the land. It is preparing for a possible presidential campaign in 2028 even though its own program calls for replacing the presidency as Americans know it. In its revised national political program, “Workers Deserve More,” formally launched on July 14, the DSA says America needs…
    Michael Freund
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Is Dragging America Back to the Dark Ages
    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.  The more you look around us today, I think a good description of 2026, culturally, economically, socially,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Whom Do Democratic Socialists of America Politicians Represent?
    The Democratic Socialists of America has made no secret of how it views elected office. The remarkable thing is that almost no one seems to have noticed. At its 2025 national convention, the DSA passed a package of electoral measures drafted by members of the organization’s National Electoral Commission. One of those measures, called “Focused National…
    Michael Freund
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    JD Vance Says Abdul El-Sayed Represents an Evil Plaguing America
    At a Monday rally in Michigan, Vice President JD Vance warned that Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed represents an “evil” taking over the Democrat party that seeks to divide Americans. Vance was in Michigan campaigning on behalf of the Republican nominee, former Rep. Mike Rogers, telling the crowd that El-Sayed is a symptom of…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Hasan Piker to Dems: Don’t Quit Me
    Hasan Piker, two weeks ago, delivered this message: “Democrats, listen to me, I know we don’t always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point—I know you don’t want to do this—defend me. Not because you love what I have to say, not because I’m part…
    Larry Elder
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    Mamdani Turns Rikers Murderer Into Victim in Larger Plot to Abolish Prisons
    New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani demonstrated yet again this week how much of his ideology ultimately leads to mass mercy to the guilty and cruelty to the innocent. On Tuesday, he posted a tribute on X to an unnamed prisoner at the Rikers Island facility. “I am deeply saddened by the death of a…
    Jarrett Stepman
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  • opinion

    Florida Is the New Ground Zero for Both Political Parties’ Civil Wars
    Florida, you might have heard, is no longer a swing state. Since Ron DeSantis became governor, Republicans have gained nearly 2 million registered voters on Democrats in the Sunshine State. It is an astonishing change in partisanship for the state that famously decided the 2000 presidential election by 537 votes. The outcome of the statewide…
    Josh Hammer
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  • opinion

    Why Hasan Piker Mocks the Murdered Charlie Kirk
    Hasan Piker is deeply envious of Charlie Kirk. The hard-left influencer debated Kirk in 2017 and was set to do so again before Kirk was murdered last year. Yet now Piker is going around mocking Kirk’s assassination, leading a crowd last weekend, during his live podcast tour, in a sarcastic singalong of an AI-generated song…
    Daniel McCarthy
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  • opinion

    ‘A Slap in the Face’: Murder Victim’s Family Outraged as Mamdani Expresses Sorrow at the Death of Accused Killer
    On Aug. 8, 2024, Jose Miranda was randomly, brutally hacked to death with a meat cleaver at a Bronx laundromat, leaving behind two children. His accused killer, Clarence Woodward, who owned a rap sheet nearly 30 arrests long, was set to stand trial but was found dead in his cell Tuesday morning at Rikers Island….
    Al Perrotta
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    Jesse Watters’ Contentious Interview Delivers Fox News a Huge Ratings Win
    Abdul El-Sayed’s politics may not resonate with many Fox News viewers, but his appearance on Jesse Watters’ program proved to be a ratings winner. Watters’ interview with the Michigan Senate candidate drew 3.3 million viewers Monday night, making it the most-watched program in primetime television. It outperformed every show on ABC, NBC, and CBS. Nearly…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Housing Affordability Crisis Results From ‘Too Much Socialism,’ Not Too Little: Report
    America’s housing affordability crisis isn’t a result of too little government intervention or socialism, but a tragic consequence of massive federal intervention gone awry, a new Heritage Foundation report argues. “When it comes to housing, our problem isn’t a lack of socialism but too much socialism,” John Gibbs, Heritage’s economics director, told the Daily Signal….
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Victor Davis Hanson: We Need to Stop Letting in Ungrateful Immigrants
    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.  All Americans support legal immigration, especially legal immigration that is diverse, as I said, measured in numbers…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • opinion

    Why the DSA Wants to Abolish Prisons
    When Fox News’ Shannon Bream interviewed Megan Romer, the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, about the DSA’s extremist manifesto, Romer confirmed that it includes abolishing the presidency, the Senate, the Supreme Court, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Pentagon, private ownership of companies, and national borders. It also includes abolishing prisons, a goal that started in…
    Cully Stimson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Radical Left Wants to Destroy America and Rebuild It
    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.   We often associate leftist movements, anarchists of the 19th century, Jacobins of the 18th century, Marxists,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • opinion

    DSA: ‘Our Goal Is Communism’
    This country’s three most powerful Republicans have called the ascendant Democratic Socialists of America and its triumphant primary-election nominees “communists” who peddle “communism.”  “These are not social Democrats,” President Donald Trump said on June 26. “These are hardcore, godless Communists.” “I, unfortunately, fear that’s the direction the Democrats are headed. And it is communism,” Vice President JD Vance…
    Deroy Murdock
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  • news

    Mamdani’s Grocery Store Plan Lands NYC in Major Court Battle
    New York City on Monday was named in a lawsuit over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to open multiple taxpayer-funded grocery stores in the city next year, which could put mom-and-pop grocery stores out of business. A coalition representing immigrant-run grocery stores brought the suit. “These grocery stores and bodegas are right to be concerned about…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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