Tag: Eric Swalwell

  • news

    Homan Spars With CNN’s Bash Over ‘Deadly Mistakes’ By ICE

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—White House Border Czar Tom Homan insisted Sunday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will keep conducting vehicle stops. The stops were briefly paused after agents were involved in two fatal shootings. President Donald Trump reversed the directive roughly a day after it was issued, Axios reported. While a broader review…
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    After Trump Pauses Bombing, Iran Signals It Will Halts Strikes as Well

    DUBAI/WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters)—Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the United States maintains its latest pause on airstrikes, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday, after President Donald Trump abruptly called off his two-week-old bombing campaign.   After 13 nights of intensifying U.S. airstrikes on Iran, the Pentagon abruptly suspended the campaign…
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  • opinion

    AP Report on ‘LGBT’ USAID Workers in Nepal Reveals True Agenda of the Shuttered Program

    Remember how the Left said that eliminating USAID would lead to “devastating” consequences? It certainly did, but for their global cultural aspirations, not for our country. The Associated Press published a lengthy report on Thursday—and I can’t believe this is real—highlighting how shutting down USAID in Nepal led to “around 100 LGBTQ+” now-unemployed workers to…
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  • opinion

    The Trump Administration’s Best Healthcare Idea Isn’t the One Getting Attention 

    One reason pharmaceuticals cost so much: The Food and Drug Administration’s approval process takes up to 12 years to bring a new drug to market. The Trump administration has launched Operation Trialblazer to shorten that timeline.  It’s one of Trump’s best healthcare proposals so far, one that reduces the government’s footprint in U.S. healthcare. It is a welcome departure from some of the Trump…
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    DeWine Takes Action on Data Centers

    Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, on Thursday joined nearly half of the governors in the country in signing onto President Donald Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge. The pledge would require AI companies and data center operators pay the utility and infrastructure costs of data centers, not consumers. “America’s continued economic and technological leadership depends on reliable, large-scale…
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  • opinion

    Trump’s America Involves ‘the Same Arguments’ as the Historical Period That Gave Birth to the Klan, Barack Obama Says

    Former President Barack Obama recently gave America another reminder of how his presidency—once expected to bring the country together—left us more divided on race. Obama compared America under President Donald Trump to the tumultuous period after the Civil War that gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan. He said the U.S. is “having the same…
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  • analysis

    How Ken Paxton Built His Border Security Record Through Court Battles

    As Election Day nears, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s record shows repeated support for efforts to secure the southern border. Paxton has served as attorney general since 2015. Since then, he has consistently supported measures related to the Texas-Mexico border. He launched legal efforts to defend state laws related to crime and illegal immigration, and…
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  • exclusive

    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…
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  • opinion

    Great Seal of Virginia Turns 250

    Virginians were busy 250 years ago this month. In Philadelphia, of course, Virginians were leading the 13 Colonies into the war that would free them from the British Empire. But others remained in Williamsburg, where the Virginia Convention was hard at work shaping what an independent state would look like. It ratified the Virginia Declaration…
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  • opinion

    Trump’s VA Reforms Are Working. Now Finish the Job.

    Since President Donald Trump returned to office, his administration has continued advancing reforms that have strengthened performance across the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA has reduced the disability claims backlog by roughly 70%, opened 35 new health care facilities, completed more than 82 million appointments in fiscal year 2025, and permanently housed more than…
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  • opinion

    Why Democrats Can’t Do Better Than Kamala Harris in 2028

    There are only two lanes to the Democrat presidential nomination two years from now, and one of them is already blocked—by Kamala Harris. Get ready for the Kamala comeback, followed, in all likelihood, by a replay of her crushing defeat by the Republican nominee. Believe it or not, the ex-VP occupies what counts as the…
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  • opinion

    Daniel Oliver Understood That the Liberty Tree Demands an Offense

    America lost a great patriot just as she prepared to celebrate her 250th birthday. Daniel Oliver died on June 26, 2026, after a life spent in the vineyards of the conservative movement—as a lawyer, editor, public servant, Reagan administration official, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, chairman of National Review, leader and trustee of conservative…
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  • Voter ID, Citizenship Verification Measures Head to Ballots Across America

    As Congress struggles to pass the SAVE America Act, voters in states across the nation will decide this November on election procedures such as photo ID requirements, citizenship verification, and other election security matters. Two states feature ballot initiatives with both voter ID requirements and calls for some form of citizenship verification and voter list…
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  • opinion

    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…
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  • opinion

    New York’s Attack on the Free Exercise of Religion 

    Seven members of the Little Sisters of the Poor left their order’s motherhouse in La Tour Saint-Joseph, France, on Aug. 28, 1868, and headed for the coast. Three days later, they boarded the Napoleon III steamship and began a trip across the Atlantic.  Two weeks later, they arrived in New York.  Then, a few days after…
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  • opinion

    Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Shows Education Can Be Fixed 

    Amid celebrations of our nation’s 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation’s core institutions.  “Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low,” reports Gallup.   Of 14 core institutions—banks, big business, labor, the presidency, Congress, schools, health care, etc.—only 27% say they have “a great deal/quite a lot of…
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  • Inside VP Vance’s Behind-the-Scenes Role in Passing Massive Iran Spending, Voter ID Package

    Speaker Mike Johnson pulled off another unlikely feat getting a divided Republican conference to pass a bill providing Iran war funding and supporting state voter ID requirements. This time, he had a hand from Vice President JD Vance, who worked the phones behind the scenes to get skeptical conservative members on board, sources familiar with…
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  • opinion

    The SPLC’s ‘Hate Map’ Is Still Used to Limit Giving to Conservative Organizations

    The Southern Poverty Law Center’s descent from its once-vaunted role as a sentinel against extremism has been precipitous and ironic. An organization whose “hate map” promiscuously equates parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty with neo-Nazi organizations now stands indicted by the Department of Justice on charges of wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy…
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  • opinion

    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…
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  • opinion

    ‘The Odyssey’s’ Lesson for America’s Schools

    Hollywood has rediscovered Homer. It is time America’s schools did the same. Christopher Nolan’s film “The Odyssey” opened with ticket sales of $264.1 million worldwide, including $124.5 million in the United States and Canada. Half its domestic audience was between 18 and 34 years old. That’s no small achievement for a story composed nearly 3,000 years ago….
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