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    Victor Davis Hanson: California Is Becoming a Warning for America
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Thursday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Let’s turn to California, and California seems to be a petri dish of all those ideas that the Democrats have…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Democratic Socialists Reveal Their Plan to Reshape America
    The Democratic Socialists of America are not hiding their plan to reshape America. On Sunday, their co-chair joined Fox News and openly confirmed that their long-term goals ahead of the midterm elections include abolishing parts of the U.S. government. Megan Romer appeared on Shannon Bream’s “Fox News Sunday,” saying the organization’s goals include abolishing the…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    100 Days From Election Day, New Ad ‘Holds the Line’ Against Socialism
    One hundred days away from the midterm elections, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is launching a new ad highlighting the rise of socialism across the country. The ad, titled “Hold the Line,” will run across North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, Michigan, Georgia, and New Hampshire. These are their key Senate races that could keep Republicans…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    The Right Cannot Defeat the Left by Abandoning Its Own Principles
    The ideological excesses of the American Left are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Political commentator Hasan Piker recently appeared in a Mao jacket—a conspicuous tribute to the Chinese dictator whose regime was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people—before addressing college students. Around the same time, Melat Kiros, a Democratic Socialists of…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Left-Wing Unicorn Hunt for the White Male Working-Class Voter
    The last Democrat candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was former President Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50% of the popular vote because of Ross Perot’s third-party candidacy.  Since then, the Democrat brand has lost the white working-class vote in…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    The Cold War Never Ended. It Just Came Home.
    Under President Ronald Reagan, Americans understood communism for what it was. We knew it wasn’t an ambitious social program or a compassionate alternative to capitalism. Everyone knew—without question—that it crushed faith, confiscated property, silenced dissent, and turned citizens into subjects of the state. Then the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. We defeated…
    Rep. Lisa McClain
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    Victor Davis Hanson: President Trump Sparked the Counterrevolution to End the Destruction of America
    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. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   I’d like to speak today about revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries. Whether we realize it or not, we’ve been in a progressive revolutionary cycle for about…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    ‘They Don’t Know What It’s Like’: Communism Survivors Question Why Americans Like Marxism
    As American support for Marxism rises across the country, House Republican leadership held a roundtable with survivors of communism to warn the American public of the true horrors of the communist and socialist ideologies. Chair of the House Republican Conference Lisa McClain, R-Mich., questioned the new Democratic Socialists of America agenda while emphasizing that American…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Want to Rebuild Higher Education? Here Is the Guidebook
    The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America—a boom in its boom-and-bust cycle, as my colleague Robert Stilson calls it—has many political observers on the right and the left analyzing the conditions that led to an embrace of that group’s radicalism. And it is radical. As Stilson points out, “[i]n its newly updated platform, the DSA…
    Sarah Lee
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    Democratic Socialists Think America Is Somehow Worse Than Mass Murderer Mao Zedong
    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. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   We’re hearing more and more from the Democratic Socialists of America about all of the sins of America and very…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The ‘Performance Art Joke’ at the Heart of the Democratic Socialist Movement 
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Thursday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Everyone should notice, if you’re watching this on YouTube or Rumble, that over Victor’s right shoulder are the galleys…
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    How Cuba Became the Nerve Center of the Anti-American Left
    If you want to know where a good deal of the modern rise of socialism is coming from, look no further than 90 miles off the coast of Florida, to Cuba. That’s certainly where American leftists have been looking for a long time. The State Department released a thorough and perhaps, to many, startling report…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘Nutty. Moronic. Dangerous. Bigoted’: Major Democrat Figures Slam the Democratic Socialists Taking Over Their Party
    Van Jones, the proudly progressive CNN pundit, has a message for the Democratic Socialists of America candidates who have crashed his party: “Stop pooping in the punch bowl and telling us the turds are ice cubes,” he declared on X. After sharing his progressive bona fides, Jones took on some of the “terrible” ideas pushed…
    Al Perrotta
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    Democrats’ Communism Might Drive Bill Maher to Vote for Vance
    A long-time Democrat said he might vote for Vice President JD Vance in the 2028 election because he doesn’t want to live in “communist America.” Comedian and HBO show host Bill Maher sat down for an interview with ABC News on Sunday following his reception of the 2026 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and…
    Francesca Cella
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    Socialism, Federalism, and the Future of the Electoral College
    In the early 20th century, two of England’s intellectual giants engaged in a series of debates. Playwright George Bernard Shaw was the resident apologist for income redistribution and central planning. G.K. Chesterton, a Catholic writer, argued in favor of property rights and the decentralization of political power. “I found they were utterly insensate and grotesque,” Shaw…
    Lee Habeeb
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    The Democratic Party Is Turning Into a Bunch of Middle-Class Phonies
    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. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   Have you noticed this phenomenon of the Democrat-socialist party trying to create fake or false or pseudo middle-class candidates?  We…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Islamic Terrorism and Socialism Ramp Up Democrat Infighting, Dem Reps Say
    A longtime Democrat congressman sounded the alarm on the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party, adding that his party’s leadership is only making room for the extreme wing of Democrats. “I just found it to be not the same caucus I joined in 2007,” Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., told CNN regarding the House Progressive Caucus….
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    El-Sayed Points to Dead American Soldiers When Pressed by CNN on Ayatollah Comment
    Democrat Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed dodged a question about his past comment on the death of the former Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after being pressed on the issue by CNN host Jake Tapper. According to a video obtained by The Washington Free Beacon, El-Sayed told campaign staff the day after Khamenei’s death that he…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    DSA’s Dark Triumph: Socialism Surges as America Turns 250 
    On the very day America marked its 250th birthday—a celebration of liberty, enterprise, and individual rights—the Democratic Socialists of America notched a grim milestone. With more than 120,000 members and chapters in all 50 states, DSA is now the largest socialist organization in U.S. history. While fireworks lit the skies, radical progressive Democrats were busy burying the republic’s founding principles…
    Rep. Randy Fine
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    Colonial America Already Ran the Socialist Experiment. It Failed.
    New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told ABC’s Jonathan Karl last month that a democratic socialist can win any office in the country. He may be right about the contemporary politics, but he is dead wrong about the underlying economics, and Colonial America proved it four centuries before he took the oath of office. The…
    Jay Rogers
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