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Death Threats Against ICE Officers Up by 8,000%, DHS Says
THE CENTER SQUARE—Death threats against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are up by 8,000% compared to the same time frame last year, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. Assaults against ICE officers remain at a 1,000% increase, The Center Square first reported. Targeted removal efforts prioritizing arresting violent offenders are ongoing as ICE… -
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Fetterman Breaks Ranks: Dems ‘Need to Own the Shutdown’
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., openly criticized his own party‘s refusal to reopen the government on CNN’s “State of the Union,” stating that Democrats “really need to own the shutdown.“ “Fundamentally, I’m deeply distressing that 42 million Americans are going to lose their SNAP benefits. And now that’s one of the big reasons why I refuse… -
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Strip Clubs, Sex Changes, Rental Aid: What One Lawmaker Found in Medicaid Spending Shocked Him
Oregon state Rep. Dwayne Yunker began asking questions when he discovered the state was using tax dollars to bring developmentally disabled clients to a strip club this past summer. Yunker—a Republican lawmaker in a very blue state with a Democrat super majority in the legislature—has exposed this and other controversial Medicaid spending in the state… -
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Reversing a Decades’ Long Trend, Men Are Returning to Church
For the past several decades, church attendance has become an increasingly female-oriented activity. Church leaders have either given into that fact and no longer try to find a way to get men back to church, or they have spent untold amounts of money on focus groups to find out why men no longer attend, or… -
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How AI Programming Threatens to Erase Reality
Winston Churchill once said, “History is written by the victors.” In today’s world, history is being rewritten by the coders, the censors, and the corporate overlords who believe they have the moral authority to decide what truth means. Artificial intelligence was sold to us as the dawn of a new age of freedom designed to… -
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Call to End Filibuster Is a Reflection of the President’s Anger, Says Mike Johnson
President Donald Trump’s frustration over Democrats’ determination to keep the government shut down led to the president’s call to end the filibuster, House Speaker Mike Johnson explained on “Fox News Sunday.” “I think what you’re seeing there is a reflection of his anger—his real frustration—that the government is closed,” Johnson stated. “He is a big-hearted… -
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Bill Gates’ New Priorities May Trigger a Seismic Shift in Climate Activism
The world of climate realism just won a massive victory thanks to Bill Gates, and the long-term results are likely to be seismic. Gates isn’t just the founder of Microsoft, he’s one of the most influential philanthropists alive today. This past week, he firmly rejected the climate alarmism that’s been so pervasive on the Left…. -
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Forget Rs or Ds: This Is What the 2025 Elections Can Tell Us About the Midterms
The 2026 midterm elections will undoubtedly be consequential—hence the redistricting scramble in both red and blue states—for the end of President Donald Trump’s second term. In anticipation of those midterms, however, some in Washington have looked past Tuesday’s elections, even though they will set the tone for future elections in the era of Trump. In… -
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‘Lewis & Tolkien’: Show Chronicles Their Friendship, Falling Out
Ron Crews traveled more than 500 miles to see the East Coast premiere of the new stage production “Lewis & Tolkien.” “Absolutely, it was worth it,” Crews said of making the trip from his home in Georgia to Washington, D.C., to watch the production in celebration of his 77th birthday. For roughly an hour and… -
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Republican Senators React to Calls to Abolish the Filibuster
Republican senators weighed in this week on calls to end the filibuster following the continued failure by the Senate to open the government. In an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said, “[H]ere’s the other thing I’d say, if the Democrats aren’t willing to negotiate, and we can’t get anywhere on… -
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Megan Basham Weighs in on America’s Potential Religious Revival
As part of an ongoing series discussing the question of religious revival in America, The Daily Signal reached out to Megan Basham, an author and culture reporter for The Daily Wire, to discuss what she is observing about religion in the United States. The Daily Signal asked Basham about what she was seeing on the… -
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Marxism’s Comeback: Why Young Voters Are Embracing Failed Ideology
The Democratic Socialists of America just wrapped up a Hajj to their Mecca: Havana, a city so buried in detritus after decades of communism that it’s a wonder why any politician would want to be associated with it. Comparing photos of the Cuban capital today with those from the 1950s is an anti-socialist campaign ad that writes itself. And yet, to Cuba,… -
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Californians Said ‘Hands Off Our Maps.’ Newsom Didn’t Listen.
California’s elections are already rigged overwhelmingly against Republicans—but apparently not enough for Gov. Gavin Newsom. With $10 million from George Soros and tens of millions more from labor unions and other wealthy liberals, he’s gearing up to convince California voters to approve Proposition 50 in a special election on Nov. 4. Prop. 50 would redraw… -
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Defining Conservative Leadership: Heritage’s Dr. Kevin Roberts on Policy, Politics, and 2025 Virginia Elections
From the campus of Virginia Tech where he earned his master’s degree in history, to the presidency of the Texas Public Policy Foundation where he shepherded work in energy policy and criminal justice to help the first Trump administration change the nation’s perceptions of those sectors, to the influential presidency of The Heritage Foundation, Dr…. -
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Reject Radical Mamdani: NYC Mayor Race Has National Ramifications
In just a few days, a Karl Marx-quoting communist who has struggled to disavow Hamas is likely to be elected the next mayor of the nation’s financial and cultural epicenter. Thirty-three-year-old New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has surged to the front of the race. He leads by double digits in virtually every public poll,… -
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Democrats Want Open Borders; Most Americans Don’t
Who said this? “If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation.” The speaker went on, “Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn’t do it.” It was Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, in characteristic candor. If, as… -
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Foreign Journalists Asked Kamala the Questions Americans Wouldn’t
Last month, former Vice President Kamala Harris made the rounds of supportive liberal networks to promote her campaign book “107 Days.” The title implied it was impossible for her to beat that allegedly despised dictator Donald Trump with so little time. No one expected much of the interviewers, starting with ABC’s “The View,” which could… -
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Are Americans Better or Worse Off Since January?
The left wing and media rage hysterically from one Trump psychodrama to the next, while President Donald Trump trolls both on social media. But all that is verbiage. What matters is the data and facts of Trump’s first nine months since Jan. 20, 2025, in comparison to either former President Joe Biden’s prior year or… -
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What to Know About Trump’s Proposed Terms to Give Top Universities Preferential Funding
The Trump administration is currently listening to feedback from colleges and universities asked to sign a compact to adhere to the administration’s education agenda in exchange for preferential funding, a White House official told The Daily Signal. Education experts say President Donald Trump’s offer to expand the compact to any institution “willing to help bring… -
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Republicans’ Surprising Performances in Key Governor Races
Virginia’s and New Jersey’s gubernatorial races show the Republican candidates currently matching or beating Donald Trump’s past presidential margins. This is big for these state races and for gauging the overall country’s mood. It could be bigger still if it presages a Republican threat to Democrats’ “second blue wall” in 2026 and 2028. In Virginia,…
