State Politics & News
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Election Watchdog Pushes Back on New York’s Mail-In Voting Law
A watchdog group on election law with success opposing mail-in voting provisions has joined two key congressional Republicans from New York in a case before the state’s highest court. The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a friend of the court brief Tuesday in the New York Court of Appeals supporting Reps. Elise Stefanik, chair of…Fred Lucas -
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Virginia Lawmaker Good to Seek Recount in Narrow GOP Primary Loss
Rep. Bob Good has lost his GOP primary bid in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District against state Sen. John McGuire, a fellow Republican who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, two weeks after the polls closed on June 18, The Associated Press reported. The Virginia Board of Elections certified the election results on Tuesday, with…Rebeka Zeljko -
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Poll: Economic Issues Top Voter Concerns in This Swing State
Economic issues dominate the list of top concerns for Pennsylvania voters ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election, a new poll finds. A quarter of voters in the swing state ranked “inflation/cost of living” as the No. 1 issue facing Pennsylvanians in a survey released Tuesday from the Commonwealth Foundation, a conservative-libertarian think tank in…Hudson Crozier -
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Pennsylvania Lawmaker Proposes Tax Fairness for Faith-Based Health Care Sharing
A House Republican has introduced a bill designed to achieve tax fairness for ministries that share health care costs. A member of the House Ways and Means health subcommittee, Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., is the sponsor of the Health Care Sharing Ministry Tax Parity Act, which he introduced last Monday. Kelly’s bill would allow members…Olivia Pero -
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When Washington Spends, You’re on the Hook. You Deserve to Know for How Much.
Maybe you’ve heard that our national debt has topped $34.7 trillion. But what does that really mean for you and your family? The number is somewhat incomprehensible. To spell it out, that’s thirty-four trillion, seven hundred and twenty-five billion, eight hundred and fifty million, three hundred and twenty-three thousand, six hundred and eight dollars. That…Rep. Ron Estes -
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Montana Judge Strikes Down Law Clarifying There Are Only 2 Sexes
A Montana judge is striking down a state law defining “sex” as either male or female, claiming that the law violates the Montana State Constitution. In an order issued on Tuesday, Montana District Court Judge Shane Vannatta, the first Montana judge to openly identify as homosexual, declared Senate Bill 458 to be facially unconstitutional according to Montana state…S.A. McCarthy -
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DeSantis: Sneaky Ballot Measure Would Transform Florida Into ‘One of the Most Liberal Abortion Regimes Anywhere in the World’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is warning that abortion proponents in the state are preparing to smuggle a radical ballot measure across the finish line in November. “Because all of the Southeast has various forms of pro-life legislation, Florida would become the abortion mecca of this region—and maybe one of the abortion meccas of the entire…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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EXCLUSIVE: Miss Maryland Contestants Push Back After Male Winner Steals Their Crown
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Miss Maryland USA professes to celebrate both the beauty and confidence of young women, promising a “fair environment in which young women have the opportunity to develop skills that will help them win in life by being their personal best in everything they do.” But on June 1, when the…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Accidental Release Reveals Forthcoming Supreme Court Ruling on Idaho Abortion Law
The Supreme Court appears prepared to allow emergency room doctors in Idaho to perform abortions in certain situations, according to a copy of a forthcoming court ruling accidentally posted Wednesday. The apparent 6-3 decision reinstates a lower court’s order that required Idaho hospitals to perform emergency abortions to protect the health of the mother. The…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Biden’s Title IX Rewrite Would ‘Erase Truth,’ Says Florida Education Chief Manny Diaz
As women’s sports enthusiasts celebrate the 52nd anniversary of Title IX, the Biden administration seeks to reinterpret the federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs to allow males who identify as girls and women in female spaces. “This is clearly part of an overarching agenda, in which they’re trying to erase truth,”…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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New York Voters Pull the Lever to Oust ‘Squad’ Member Jamaal Bowman
Socialist New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman lost in a Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District on Tuesday to county executive George Latimer. Bowman is a member of “the Squad,” an informal group of far-Left Democrat House members. He was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America. Fellow Squad member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., appeared at a…Jarrett Stepman -
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‘ABUSE OF POWER’: Texas Dad Suing for Retaliatory Arrest Reveals New Evidence of Corruption
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Jeremy Story, a dad in the Austin, Texas, area, who is suing his local school board and superintendent after police arrested him for speaking out at a board meeting in 2021, has uncovered what he claims to be more evidence that bolsters his case. Round Rock Independent School District has its…Tyler O’Neil -
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How California’s Paradise Became Our Purgatory
California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly. How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Manhattan DA Proves Left-Wing Activists Are Above the Law in New York
Nobody is above the law in America, we’ve been informed. That is, nobody is above the law unless he breaks the law on behalf of left-wing causes. Then it doesn’t count. That’s what was revealed Friday when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg dropped charges against 30 anti-Israel protesters who ransacked Hamilton Hall at Columbia University…Jarrett Stepman -
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Empathize With Insects? University of Arizona DEI Urges Students to Treat Bugs Like ‘Marginalized’ Groups
In perhaps one of the strangest applications of diversity, equity, and inclusion in curriculums I’ve ever seen, the University of Arizona now incorporates a class in which students are told to “live like a bug” in order to understand “marginalized” groups. According to a new report from Timothy Minella at the Goldwater Institute, a Phoenix-based…Tony Kinnett -
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‘Abuse of Power’: Louisiana Officials Urge Legal Challenges to Biden’s Title IX Change
The Biden administration’s new Title IX rule allowing males to participate in women’s sports and share women-only spaces is an “abuse of power” violating the safety and order of society, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says. “I choose to stand for girls and women in our state, as discrimination has no home under…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Louisiana Expands Education Choice to All
Education freedom is on the march. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday signed legislation making the Pelican State the 19th state in the nation to enact K-12 Education Savings Accounts or an ESA-style policy, and the 11th to offer education choice to every K-12 student, following Alabama earlier this year. The legislation creates the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity…Jason Bedrick -
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Virginia GOP Primary Race Between Trump Endorsee and House Conservative Too Close to Call
It’s still to close to call the winner in a Republican primary contest in Virginia that garnered national attention, featuring a challenger endorsed by former President Donald Trump running against an incumbent congressman and chairman of the House Freedom Caucus At 11 p.m. Tuesday, McGuire held a lead of 50.3% of the vote to Good’s…Fred Lucas -
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Hung Cao Wins Virginia Republican Senate Primary
Hung Cao, a Vietnamese immigrant and career U.S. Navy veteran, prevailed Tuesday in a five-candidate race to become the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat from Virginia. Endorsed by former President Donald Trump, Cao won with 67% of the vote and will take on Sen. Tim Kaine, the two-term Democratic incumbent, in November. “My…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Maryland Sheriff Blames Biden Border Policies for Local Mother’s Murder
The Biden administration’s open-border policies allowed an illegal alien to rape and kill Maryland resident Rachel Morin, a mother of five, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told The Daily Signal. “The vast majority of people who are trying to get into this country, or who are flowing into this country, are not criminals but good…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell