RFK Jr & MAHA News
Tracking RFK Jr.’s independent campaign and its effect on both major parties, The Daily Signal brings readers conservative analysis of his positions and influence.
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Texas Republicans Weigh Ramping Up Consequences for Runaway Dems
Texas state House Democrats again failed to show up to vote on Friday, putting on hold the special session to redistrict the Lone Star State and add potentially five more Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats fled the state on Aug. 3 in order to deny a quorum—the number of representatives required… -
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Illegal Chinese Vapes Are a National Emergency
Tensions with China have never been more … well, tense. While President Donald Trump has led tough tariff negotiations with the Chinese government, recent signs suggest China is coming to the table and a deal may be imminent. So, wouldn’t Chinese manufacturers—with ties to the Chinese Communist Party—sidestepping tariffs to flood our markets with poisonous… -
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Red States Now Lead the Charge Toward Healthier Living
Ever since Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, a political and cultural realignment has been underway in America, culminating in his second presidential victory. Many issues once considered the domain of the Left seem to have been adopted by the new, right-leaning populist movement. Nowhere is this more apparent… -
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Grading the Second Trump Presidency, 6 Months In
Over the course of four years’ banishment to America’s political wilderness while subjected to both a would-be assassin’s bullets and the humiliating and unprecedented spectacle of criminal prosecution by his political opponents, Donald Trump seems to have intuited a key life lesson: Time is of the essence. Carpe diem, seize the day. And so it… -
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Bipartisan Bill Aims to Codify Trump’s Health Care Pricing Transparency Directive
With the new Patients Deserve Price Tags Act, a bipartisan group of senators is pushing to effectively codify President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring price transparency from health care providers. The bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo. Republicans Sens. Tim Sheehy of Montana, Chuck Grassley, and Joni Ernst of… -
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Vance: Here’s How Mamdani Won the New York Mayoral Primary
Vice President JD Vance is criticizing New York City Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, accusing him of building a coalition of what Vance called “downwardly mobile, college-educated people,” and carved-out ethnic blocs by pandering to shared hatreds. “This is a guy who won high-income and college-educated New Yorkers, and especially both young [and] highly educated… -
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Republicans Lose Another Strong Contender to Help Keep House Majority
Congressional Republicans have lost a strong contender to help them retain their majority in the House of Representatives with the announcement of the retirement of Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. According to the House Press Gallery, Republicans currently hold a 220-to-212 majority in the House. There are currently three vacancies in the chamber due to three… -
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Big Pharma Lobbying Group Takes Surprising Stand on MAHA Agenda After Memo Leak
A Big Pharma lobbying group has stated that it is “aligned” with President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to “Make America Healthy Again” after a leaked document suggested the group schemed to oust Kennedy and separate him from Trump’s Make America Great Again movement. “It’s time to go to the Hill and… -
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The Keys to Trump’s Middle East Triumph
If you blinked, you just missed World War III. President Donald Trump on June 23 announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. That came two days after Trump sent B-2 stealth bombers to drop bunker-buster bombs on the Fordow nuclear enrichment plant. Only the United States had the capability to obliterate the deeply buried site…. -
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Achieving Sea Superiority Through AUKUS
Whoever rules the waves rules the world. This argument, made famous by American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan, rings just as true today as it did over a century ago. But today, the contest for maritime dominance is no longer just about destroyers and battleships—it’s about data, autonomy, and dominance beneath the surface. In the… -
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Republican State Legislators Defying Trump’s Efforts to Lower Health Care Costs
President Donald Trump was swept into office last November with a promise to lower prices for Americans who had suffered under 40-year-high inflation under President Joe Biden. Why, then, are red states defying the president’s efforts to lower prices by passing laws that only feed growing health care costs? Trump is delivering on his campaign… -
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In Face of Terrorist Sleeper Cell Threat, DHS Secretary Pledges to ‘Go After Them Before They Do Anything’
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va.—Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sought Monday to reassure the American people that the Trump administration is actively working to protect the homeland following the U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear sites. “We are continuing to evaluate every single threat and to proactively go after them before they do anything or take any… -
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Analysis: Blue-Collar Wages Rise as Illegal Immigration Declines
As President Donald Trump and his administration work on expanding deportation operations, the White House is reporting that blue-collar workers have seen the most significant growth in wages in over half a century. “In President Donald Trump’s first five months in office, real wages for hourly workers have seen their largest increase under any administration… -
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Operation Midnight Hammer Successfully ‘Obliterated’ Iranian Nuclear Facilities, Hegseth Says at Sunday Press Briefing
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held a press briefing with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine at the Pentagon early Sunday morning, detailing the U.S. military’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. “It was an incredible and overwhelming success,” Hegseth said at the Pentagon. “Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been obliterated.” At… -
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Foreign Students Who Hate America Don’t Deserve Visas—and We Have Tools to Stop Them
Would you let absolutely anyone in your house, with no conditions? Of course not. If even an invited guest got rowdy, trashed your kitchen, took over your bathroom, insulted your religion, or invited their friends to set up tents on your lawn, you’d send them packing. By the same token, no nation should be forced… -
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RFK Jr. Shares How Faith Healed His Heroin Addiction. Could Faith Redeem US Mental Health Care?
Months before he became health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared his moving conversion story, expressing that belief in God helped break his longtime heroin addiction that began when he was a boy, the year after his father’s tragic murder. “We grow through pain,” Kennedy told podcast host Sage Steele. “Pain is… -
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Happy MAHA Christmas: RFK and America’s Health Movement
Crunchy moms who have spent years telling their child’s pediatrician they want to limit the vaccines their child receives may soon have an advocate in Washington, D.C. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to head the Department of Health and Human Services, is spending the week before Christmas meeting with senators on… -
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Lobbyists Mobilize Against Kennedy’s Healthy Eating Agenda
America’s most famous fast-food fan may be an unlikely candidate to make America healthy again, but President Donald Trump seems willing to tackle the eating habits that have led to skyrocketing rates of obesity. The junk food industry is not lovin’ it. RealClearInvestigations has learned that representatives of companies that make snack foods, sugary beverages,… -
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What Does It Mean to ‘Make America Healthy Again’?
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The recent vow from Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to tackle public health issues together could signal a major shift in Republican priorities if the former president prevails on Election Day. Trump has called for creation of an independent commission with the input of Kennedy, the former independent presidential candidate…. -
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On Reparations: John F. Kennedy vs. Robert F. Kennedy
When did the civil rights movement go off the rails? The answer is when proponents went from justly demanding equal rights to unjustly demanding equal results. As to exactly when this occurred, that’s more difficult to answer. But consider statements, made five years apart, from the Kennedy brothers, John F. and Robert F. Neither brother…