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GOP Leadership Derails Massie’s Push to Impeach Hegseth
On Tuesday night, the House of Representatives voted to send Rep. Thomas Massie’s articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to committee, effectively killing the legislation. In a 211-204 vote, the articles of impeachment were sent to the Judiciary Committee. Republican leadership was able to rally members to show up and vote, while 11… -
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How DSA-Backed Candidates and Propositions Fared in Texas Elections
Summary On Election Day, the Democratic Socialists of America scored numerous victories in the Lone Star State involving local propositions and candidates. The DSA supported two major propositions that voters approved in Corpus Christi and Houston, and it opposed a Dallas proposition that voters rejected. Corpus Christi’s Proposition B, also known as the Fair Water Amendment, was approved… -
opinion
Veterans Day Asks Something of Civilians
Summary Military service has always been close enough for me to admire, but it has never been mine to claim. Members of my family have served during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Others graduated from West Point or joined the Navy. Their stories have never felt distant to me. Their experiences, however, still… -
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Scouting America Unveils Military Service & Veterans Merit Badge on Veterans Day
Summary Scouting America will introduce its new Military Service & Veterans Badge on Veterans Day. The Military Service & Veterans Badge is meant to inspire Scouts while also encouraging them to honor and understand the armed forces. The Scouting America website states that the badge is “designed to deepen understanding and foster respect, this badge connects Scouts with… -
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Senate Republican Walks Out as GOP Leadership Fight Comes to a Head
Senate Majority Leader John Thune was reelected as the top GOP senator for the 120th Congress as Republicans head into the minority. Not only did the conference choose to keep Thune in charge, but it also reelected his entire leadership team. Current Senate records identify Thune as majority leader, and current reporting confirms he was… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: It’s Time to Clean Up Washington’s Corruption
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 all talk about waste, fraud and abuse, or corruption in politics. It’s kind of a… -
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Inside the Race to Get Trump’s Judicial Nominees Confirmed Before Democrat Takeover
Senate Republicans have less than 20 days to confirm President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, a crucial move to ensure that his legacy extends beyond his term. “Very important for the U.S. Senate to confirm all of our pending 161 Nominations, including 25 Federal Judges,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday. He made official announcements for the… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Midterm Is Not the Endterm
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: Very briefly here, let me just say that Victor has written a significant post on X. You’ll find it there. His… -
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Ohio Student Facing Felony Charge After Allegedly Threatening Pro-Life Students With ‘Kirk’ Reference
An incident late last month at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has garnered attention on social media as a student faces a felony charge for allegedly threatening pro-life students with a reference to the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September of last year. Screenshots of the Miami Ohio page on the Yik Yak social media… -
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Conservative Justices Seem to Balk as Trump Admin Seeks Immigration Authority on Employers
Conservative justices seemed reluctant to grant the Trump administration sweeping authority to penalize employers importing immigrant workers. The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that could have broader implications for the Trump administration’s immigration-enforcement agenda. While the administration argues that it can oversee all employer-related cases involving immigration, justices questioned the scope of… -
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DOJ Backs Down on 20,000 Disputed California Voters, but the Legal War Isn’t Over
Summary While Democrats celebrate the Department of Justice’s decision last Friday to drop its lawsuit involving suspected noncitizen voters in California, another lawsuit remains ongoing, keeping the legal battle over election security in the Golden State far from over. One day before the election, the Supreme Court rejected the DOJ’s emergency appeal seeking to require… -
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Republicans Choose Their Next Leaders
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio will be the next House minority leader after a conference-wide election Tuesday afternoon. Jordan beat Rep. Steve Scalise, the current House majority leader, 106-73, according to multiple reports. The two announced their candidacies last week in competing “Dear Colleague” letters after Speaker Mike Johnson decided against running for the… -
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Did Houston’s Mayor Just Reveal Texas Democrats’ Immigration Plans?
Summary AUSTIN, Texas—When Houston Mayor John Whitmire announced last week that he would scale back police collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations, he seems to have inadvertently disclosed the approach the state’s newly elected Democrat leadership will be taking on immigration. Whitmire signaled that Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa, Lt. Gov.-elect Vikki Goodwin, and Attorney General-elect… -
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Epstein’s Crimes Could Have Been Prevented, House Oversight Report Says
A new House report details the federal government’s decades-long failure to hold convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein accountable. The report, released Tuesday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says that crimes committed by Epstein after 2005 could have been prevented if not for failures by federal investigators and prosecutors, and it specifically faulted… -
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Hegseth Says GOP Has His Back During Impeachment Efforts
War Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Daily Signal he has a “ton of support” in Congress as outgoing GOP Rep. Thomas Massie leads an effort to impeach him. Hegseth defended himself against the impeachment articles at a Tuesday press conference, his first since May. The secretary told the Daily Signal that his legislative affairs team… -
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What Trump’s Newest Plan to Help Some Illegal Immigrants Really Means for America
After President Donald Trump said he’d work with Democrats on a deal to give some aliens legal status, conservative immigration hawks fear the move will inspire caravans of border crossers. “You’re rewarding people for illegally entering,” Todd Bensman, former senior adviser to border czar Tom Homan, told the Daily Signal. “The message that it sends to… -
opinion
The King Still Has One More Move
I get it. All this talk of the “blue wave” makes you want to kick the nearest Smurf. Many midterm victors seem to believe that killers are better than cops, men in women’s sports are better than women in women’s sports, toilet paper is better than the U.S. Constitution, and the Lord is not the… -
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Are We Affordable Yet?
Summary There is a real battle in the halls of power over what will be the next global health crisis that we can use to enact all the controls we learned about from COVID-19. It used to be a two-sided battle between gun violence and man-made climate change. Gun violence always seemed to be the… -
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Vance Is Right: The Iran War Lost Republicans the Midterms
Summary The morning after Republicans suffered the most devastating midterm loss in recent memory, Vice President JD Vance posted his response to the election results on X. Vance’s poignant diagnosis has garnered over 72 million views and widespread support from both the administration and voters on the right. To riff off a famous line from… -
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Democrats Won Elections, but Voters Said ‘No’ to Higher Taxes
Summary Voters in Iowa and North Carolina gave Democrats plenty to celebrate on Nov. 3. But on the same ballots, they also approved constitutional limits on future tax increases, making clear that winning an election does not give politicians a blank check to raise taxes. In Iowa, Democrat Rob Sand defeated Republican Zach Lahn to…
