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analysis
10,000 Swing-State Voters Were Asked About Socialism. Here’s What They Said.
Summary A growing number of socialist candidates are running for Congress this year, promising to bring radical changes to Washington, D.C. They’ve embraced a nickname, “The Bloc,” and an ambitious agenda of far-left policies aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America. Fortunately, a majority of voters in America’s swing states hold an unfavorable opinion of… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats’ Dirty Midterm Tricks Are Backfiring—and the Media Are Looking Away
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: So Victor, we have the midterms coming up very soon and lots of things going on. I was wondering, before you… -
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Pretending the Justice Department Was Never Partisan Under Democrats
The most obnoxious lie that erupts routinely in the “independent media” is that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is weaponized in a way that no Democrat has ever contemplated. It’s like they all observed everything that the Biden Justice Department did to put Trump and his allies in jail and considered it to be… -
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Senate Dems Up Demand for Oz to Drop Anti-Ballot Harvesting Efforts in Nursing Homes Before Election Day
Days before the midterm elections, Senate Democrats are pushing for the Trump administration to drop guidance aimed at preventing ballot harvesting or coercive voting practices in nursing homes. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Alex Padilla, D-Calif., along with six others, wrote to Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, asking him… -
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Election Day Voters Will Determine Midterms Outcome, Poll Says
The fight for control of Congress will come down to Election Day voter turnout, a new Cygnal poll has found. “Democrats have banked their early votes,” Brent Buchanan, founder and CEO of Cygnal, said, “so this election now comes down to who shows up on Election Day.” According to the company’s Oct. 23 and 24… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Latest Attacks on Trump Backfire Spectacularly
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Victor, [former President] Barack Obama, in all his arrogant glory, is out there on the stump in Michigan. I think he… -
analysis
SOCIALISM ON THE BALLOT: Races to Watch in the DSA Orbit as the ‘Squad’ May Expand
Summary Socialism is on the ballot in the midterm elections, and not just in high-profile congressional races. The Democratic Socialists of America has endorsed 255 candidates and ballot initiatives, according to the DSA’s national tracker. The candidates from around the country are running for a variety of local, state, and congressional offices. Eleven of the… -
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Tim Moore Questions Democrat Opponent’s Fitness for Congress After Felony Summons
Summary A Democrat nominee for Congress in North Carolina, LaKesha Womack, was served with a felony criminal summons at her own campaign rally last week. Her opponent, incumbent Republican Tim Moore, is now questioning her ability to serve the people of their district. The inciting incident occurred seven years ago, when Womack allegedly failed to… -
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Former Rep. Tom Perriello Pledges to ‘End War,’ Remove Trump’s Tariff Authority If Elected
Former Rep. Tom Perriello, a Democrat who is seeking to return to Congress to represent Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, is focusing on domestic economic issues as the campaign moves through its final week. If elected, he promises to work to roll back President Donald Trump’s agenda right away. “We’re going to bring costs down by… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: Christopher Wray Knew What He Was Doing When He Downplayed Antifa
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Two former FBI officials are charged with making false statements about Hunter Biden’s laptop. That’s a headline from The Epoch Times…. -
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Former Heritage Foundation Intern Breaks the Sen. Slotkin Intimidate Young Conservatives Story
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., drew national attention and outrage last week after suggesting her party target Republican leaders for prosecution to intimidate young conservatives from serving their country. The story was broken by Michael Bicksel, a former summer intern at The Heritage Foundation. Bicksel published multiple op-eds about the issue in the Chicago Thinker, Fox News,… -
opinion
This Is the New York Crime Problem Mamdani Can’t Keep Ignoring
Summary America has seen a significant turnaround on crime. But some statistics hide the continued, and often growing, problems many cities face. Urban chaos in deep-blue cities is still a major, unresolved issue that’s rightly driving the perception that crime is unacceptably high and mostly the product of bad policies. National crime trends are generally… -
opinion
This Campaign Is ‘Relatively’ Crazy
Summary ‘Tis the season for pumpkin spice, candy corn, and election tomfoolery. With only days to go before the midterms, the political world has turned the outrageous up to 11, with seemingly each hour bringing Monty Pythonesque absurdity. You can say it’s been relatively crazy. Cue Sly and the Family Stone’s “Family Affair.” After years… -
analysis
The Raised Eyebrow and the Closed Account
Summary In Washington, power is most potent when it’s least visible. A statute can be read, a regulation challenged, an order defied in court. But a regulator’s arched eyebrow leaves no paper trail, invites no judicial review, and is, for a bank that must face the same examiners year after year, every bit as persuasive… -
opinion
November’s Stark Choice: 2 Visions for Justice and the Rule of Law
Summary Democrats, suffering from denial and delusion, tend to think of themselves as the guardians of the rule of law. Back in reality, nothing could be further from the case. Consider Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who fancies herself a rule-of-law-championing model immigrant despite the fact that she literally conceded to her fellow Somalis that she… -
opinion
Schiff’s Telling Shift on Taxes
A family in Ohio has worked hard and sacrificed for three generations to keep their small-town grocery store in business, serving a community they live in and love. A billionaire in California who invests some of his money in the movie industry lives in a beachside mansion in Malibu. For which of these two entrepreneurs… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Iran War Is Not an ‘Endless War’
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Victor Davis Hanson: I get really tired of the Left and some of the Right because they… -
opinion
Don’t Hire the Arsonists to Fight the Affordability Fire
Voters are angry about the cost of living, and they have every right to be. With Republicans in full control of Washington, they expect a fast reversal of the Biden years. But voters’ anger should not be mistaken for amnesia. Americans clearly remember who started the affordability fire burning through families’ wallets. My new League… -
opinion
Ilhan Omar Investigation Draws Attention to Broad Immigration Fraud and National Security
The Trump administration’s ongoing fraud probe into the refugee and U.S. citizenship approvals of Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., carries much more importance than many Americans realize as this political theater unfolds. The Omar affair highlights an underlying homeland security problem about the other 150,000 Somali refugees let in before President Donald Trump mostly closed… -
news
Sen. Louise Lucas Indicted on Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering Charges
State Sen. L. Louise Lucas and six other people were charged Thursday with federal crimes involving an alleged conspiracy to sell marijuana and launder the resulting profits. Lucas, the president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, was indicted by a grand jury on charges of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana, and conspiracy…