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    Hasan Piker to Dems: Don’t Quit Me
    Hasan Piker, two weeks ago, delivered this message: “Democrats, listen to me, I know we don’t always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point—I know you don’t want to do this—defend me. Not because you love what I have to say, not because I’m part…
    Larry Elder
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  • opinion

    Why Hasan Piker Mocks the Murdered Charlie Kirk
    Hasan Piker is deeply envious of Charlie Kirk. The hard-left influencer debated Kirk in 2017 and was set to do so again before Kirk was murdered last year. Yet now Piker is going around mocking Kirk’s assassination, leading a crowd last weekend, during his live podcast tour, in a sarcastic singalong of an AI-generated song…
    Daniel McCarthy
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  • news

    Trump Admin Links Jane’s Revenge to Foreign Network Supporting Antifa Violence
    An Italy-based organization provided key infrastructure for violent leftist movements in the U.S., including Antifa and Jane’s Revenge, the Trump administration announced this week. The State Department and the Treasury Department exposed how Autistici/Inventati, also referred to as the A/I Collective, provided key online services for Rose City Antifa in Portland, the Stop Cop City…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    CAIR Asks DOJ to Reject Abbott’s Investigation Into Muslim Facilities at Texas Airports
    Earlier this week, the Council on American-Islamic Relations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice asking officials to reject Gov. Greg Abbott’s request for an investigation into Texas airports. CAIR’s letter comes after Abbott sent a letter referring Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and the George Bush Intercontinental Airport to the DOJ for an investigation…
    Emily Medeiros
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  • news

    ‘JUNK REPORT’: Human Rights Campaign Fires Back at HHS Transgender Political-Violence Study
    The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest LGBTQ+ activist group, condemned as “junk” a report finding a correlation between support for transgender medical procedures and left-wing authoritarianism, along with justifications for political violence. The Department of Health and Human Services commissioned the study, in which researchers with Rutgers University, the Manhattan Institute, and the Network Contagion…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • opinion

    Victor Davis Hanson: The Atomic Bombs Dropped in Japan Were Not Satanic
    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. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  It’s August, so we have the annual debate over the dropping of two atomic bombs, one on…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • news

    Recent Threats Against President’s Family Get Limited Media Coverage, Watchdog Says
    A media watchdog is sounding the alarm about the lack of media coverage of threats against the president’s family’s lives. An intruder found at President Donald Trump’s California golf resort in early August carried detailed schedules of Melania Trump’s activities. Iran put a bounty on Trump’s college-aged son Barron’s head. And the president himself has…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    China-Made Voting Machine Parts Under Scrutiny as DHS Links Funding to Election Audits
    The Department of Homeland Security will deny grants to states that do not conduct post-election audits, as the department notes growing concerns about China-made parts in voting machines. “The Homeland Security Grant Program requires states to trust but verify the results produced by the voting machines,” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a memo…
    Fred Lucas
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    Americans Who Support Transgender Interventions More Likely to Justify Political Violence: HHS Study
    A new study commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services has found a correlation between people who believe in radical gender ideology and a greater willingness to justify political violence. The preregistered survey of 1,208 U.S. adults, obtained by the Daily Signal, found that stronger endorsement of so-called gender-affirming care was substantially associated…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EU Decarbonization Is a Security Threat for the West
    The Dutch Ministry of Defense has published its Energy Security Roadmap, a national strategy to ensure that its armed forces have reliable energy supplies. While produced by a single NATO member, the document reflects a broader reality: Energy security is inseparable from military power. The “roadmap” defines energy security as the continuous availability of reliable and…
    Samuele Furfari
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  • opinion

    Victor Davis Hanson: The Radical Left Wants to Destroy America and Rebuild It
    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. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   We often associate leftist movements, anarchists of the 19th century, Jacobins of the 18th century, Marxists,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • news

    Woman Charged With Planning ISIS-Inspired Attack on New York State Capitol Building
    REUTERS—U.S. authorities arrested and charged a New York woman with planning to carry out an Islamic State-inspired attack on the state’s Capitol building in Albany, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany, was charged with planning to deploy an explosive device at the state capitol with the intention of killing public officials and destroying “as…
    Reuters
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  • analysis

    3rd State Strikes Latest Blow Against Media Blacklists
    South Carolina is the latest state to push back against media-rating organizations that have helped blacklist conservative news outlets. In the 2026-27 state budget, lawmakers included a provision barring state agencies from spending taxpayer dollars with advertising companies that use media-monitoring systems to determine which news outlets receive advertising dollars. Gov. Henry McMaster signed the…
    Robert B. Bluey
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  • news

    TRANS POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Man Confessed He Planned to Assassinate Trump Official
    A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a man who confessed to planning the assassination of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Judge Rudolph Contreras, an appointee of President Barack Obama, sentenced 24-year-old Ryan Michael English to 73 months in prison, far short of the 121 months prosecutors sought. English, who identifies as transgender and uses female pronouns…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • opinion

    Victor Davis Hanson: Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Destroyed American Deterrence
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest 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: It is five years since, I don’t know if it’s today or yesterday or the…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • opinion

    Victor Davis Hanson: What Is Actually Happening in Iran
    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. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   What’s going on with Iran, or rather, what’s next with Iran? We’ve gone through six or…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • opinion

    ‘Sharia Takeover’? What Conservatives Miss in the Debate Over Airport Foot Washing
    Conservatives who are serious about combatting the threat of Islamism need to be very careful not to undermine our case by attacking reasonable accommodations for peaceful Muslims. Muslim reformer M. Zuhdi Jasser has long warned against the threat of Islamism, the political approach to Islam that aims at conquest and subjugation. However, he also has…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • news

    One Year After Trump Sent National Guard to DC, Homicides Plunge 41%, Overall Crime Stats Mixed
    Murder rates, carjackings, and other crimes dropped significantly in the nation’s capital a year after President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops in the city, but crime stats still show a mixed picture. Tuesday marks one year since Trump announced he would deploy National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., to combat crime as part of…
    Fred Lucas
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  • opinion

    Time for a Renaissance of American Public Service
    America has no shortage of critics. What it increasingly lacks are American citizens willing to step forward and serve.  A republic cannot survive indefinitely as a spectator sport, with millions of people shouting from the sidelines while expecting someone else to defend the country, administer justice, strengthen the community, and preserve the institutions on which freedom depends.  Self-government requires…
    Michael Freund
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  • opinion

    Pope Leo, AI, and Just War Theory
    Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnifica Humanitas” warns that just war theory has too often been used to justify any kind of war and, in light of modern weapons and artificial intelligence, may be outdated. But is he correct? From Homer’s “Iliad” to our own constitutional order, civilization has understood that war is never morally self-authenticating. The…
    Cully Stimson
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